Campfire Farms
Farmer
About
Our mission is to create a replicable model for regional, carbon-neutral livestock production. Founded in 2015 by Christina and Zach Menchini, Campfire Farms raised 20 pigs and 10 chickens in our first year. In 2023, we will produce 200 hogs (all born on our farm), 5000 chickens, and 1000 ducks. We sell value-added meat products like sausages, hot dogs, salamis and a variety of cuts.
Programs and Partners
Production Practices
Pastured Free Range Non Gmo Cover Crops
Our animals are "pasture raised," which means that they spend their entire lives outside and in an environment as close to their natural habitat as possible. Expression of their natural instincts leads to a healthier, happier animal, and a more nutritious and higher quality product than animals confined in modern meat factories.
We care for our soil and water, and seek to improve it every year through quick rotation of animals, which spreads out their manure and improves growth of forage and cover crops that we seed continuously.
Animal Welfare Approved certification is in progress and expect by end of 2023.
Location
Mulino, OR
Manager
We lived in New York City in our twenties and spent all of our free time and money learning about food, starting with dollar slices and restaurant jobs, finding our favorite farmers markets and halal carts and saving up for wine classes and fancy restaurants. Along the way, we started learning about the problems in modern agriculture and left our lives in New York to explore the world and see if we could be part of a solution.
We worked in vineyards and restaurants in New Zealand, on a large organic dairy in Spain, and a season-long apprenticeship at Fickle Creek Farm in North Carolina, trying to find our place in food and farming. The farmers' market and the dinner table have always been at the heart of what we do. They’re where we started our journey, where we connect with friends, learn and celebrate.
We moved to Oregon in 2014 and worked in restaurants and on local farms before starting Campfire the following year.
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