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Natural. Handcrafted. Choice.

For more than 50 years, Carlton Farms has crafted the very finest and freshest natural meats for select restaurants, gourmet markets, and discerning families throughout the Pacific Northwest.

While it's an ambitious project, we take pride in every step — and it shows.

  • Our hand-picked local and national growers raise genetically superior animals that meet our exacting standards for natural excellence.
  • Our processing is done almost entirely by hand. So when we say handcrafted, we mean it.
  • We meet all USDA requirements
  • We achieve excellence the old-fashioned way — with time-honored techniques. We never use artificial flavors or chemicals while cutting, curing, or aging our meats.

We invite you to have a look around Carlton Farms. Read our story. Sample a recipe. Find a restaurant or market that offers our meats. Once you do we think you'll agree that Carlton Farms' natural, handcrafted meats are the freshest and finest around.

Did You Know?

Pork Fat: The Bad Cholesterol Fighter?

"Pork fat is not only useful, but it is also good for us," says my new hero, Jennifer McLagan. She’s the author of the James Beard Award–winning "Fat: An Appreciation of a Misunderstood Ingredient". To back up her claim, McLagan's book includes a chart showing that 45 percent of pork fat is monounsaturated, which can help raise your HDL, or good cholesterol, and also can help lower your LDL, or bad cholesterol.

She also extols the benefits of frying in lard, because food absorbs less fat than if you fry it in oil. Lagan piles on the good news, arguing that "Diets low in fat, it turns out, leave people hungry, depressed and prone to weight gain and illness." To ensure readers' happiness, she includes recipes in "Fat", including one for euphoria-inducing bacon fat mayonnaise.

*From CNN Food & Wine, authored by Kate Krader.
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