Osteen, Florida · One farm · Raw
Raw beef and pastured chicken for dogs, made and sold by Freedom Range Farms. Grass-fed, grass-finished, and no antibiotics or hormones — either animal, ever.
How it works
The food
Muscle · organ · fat
Labeled for intermittent or supplemental feeding only. Guaranteed analysis is printed on every lot.
Raw meaty bone · whole or ground
Feed raw only — never cooked. Cooking makes poultry bone brittle and splintery. Size the neck to the dog.
Recreational chew · not a meal
Not on sale yet — we're working out supply with the farm. When they land: raw only, never cooked, and always supervised. Hard weight-bearing bone can crack a tooth, so it isn't right for every dog.
Single source
A working family farm based in Osteen, Florida, running grass-fed cattle alongside pastured pork, pastured chickens, laying hens and dairy goats. It sells direct — a farm store, quarter cow shares, and its own processing station on the Osteen site.
The farm has additional acreage in North Central Florida, where the animals are raised and harvested — open country, with the room to run small groups on grass. A mobile butcher drives out to the herd and works on the ground the animal grazed. Processing then takes place on the Osteen campus, where the quarters are cut, blended, portioned and frozen.
That order matters more than it sounds. Conventional slaughter means loading a live animal onto a truck and hauling it to a plant, which is the most stressful hour of its life. Here the truck comes to the animal, and nothing travels until it is already meat.
Pasture to Paw is the online store that brings it to your door.
A commodity supply chain can't tell you which animal. This one can — one farm, one herd, one butcher who works on the pasture, and a lot number on your label that goes back to a single animal.
Delivery
Our radius is limited by how long a frozen box stays frozen in a car. We would rather say no than send you a thawed box.
Orlando, Sorrento, Mount Dora and points west: not yet. Tell us where you are and we'll open the next zone where enough dogs are waiting.
Feeding & handling
Store at 0°F. Thaw one portion at a time in the refrigerator, never at room temperature. Use within 3 days of thawing. Don't refreeze.
Hands, bowls, counters, utensils — hot soapy water after every meal. Same rules you'd use for raw chicken in your own kitchen.
If anyone in the home is pregnant, elderly, an infant, or immunocompromised — or if your dog is — talk to your veterinarian before feeding any raw diet.
Swap in about a quarter of the new food for a few days, then half, then all of it over a week or two. Going all at once is the usual cause of a bad first week.
This is a meat, organ and fat blend — it contains no bone, is not formulated to meet a complete nutrient profile and is not intended as a sole diet. Feed it as part of a diet your veterinarian has signed off on.
Questions
No, and the gap is where most beef marketing lives. Nearly all cattle eat grass for the first year; "grass-fed" alone doesn't rule out a grain finishing period in a feedlot at the end, which is where most of the weight goes on. Grass-finished means it never happened. This beef is both — in the farm's words, "Grass fed, grass finished… Pure beef!" No grain finishing period at all.
One farm, two places. Freedom Range Farms has additional acreage in North Central Florida, where the animals are raised and harvested — open country, with room to run them on grass. The butcher drives out to them, and only the finished meat travels. Processing then takes place on the Osteen campus: cut, blended, portioned and frozen.
The chickens are on that same pasture as the cattle — unvaccinated, and never fed GMO grain.
No. The farm describes this herd as "unvaccinated", against a conventional herd it calls "multi vaccinated." That is the farm's own characterisation of the difference, and it's one of the reasons the herd is kept small.
Neither, ever — not routine, not in feed, and no implants or growth promoters. In place of routine antibiotics the farm uses "probiotics for stimulated immune system." An animal that gets sick still gets treated; what doesn't happen is dosing a whole healthy herd as a matter of course.
They're run in "small groups (fewer than 100)" — the farm's comparison point is "large confinement (10,000+)." That's part of why the cattle are up north rather than on the Osteen site: it's where the acreage is.
At harvest the animals are hand eviscerated, with no chlorine baths. The mobile butcher comes to the pasture, so there's no live haul to a plant at the end.
Because a whole raw meaty bone is the one thing a dog's teeth are actually built for, and it's the simplest product we sell — one ingredient, one bird, no blend and no formulation to argue about. The beef is the meal; the neck is the work.
They come from the same farm's pastured, unvaccinated birds, raised on grass without GMO feed. And because they travel in a box that's already going out, adding them to a beef order costs nothing extra in delivery.
Raw meat can carry Salmonella and Listeria, for dogs and for the humans handling the bowl. The handling section above covers how to manage it.
What we control: a single-farm supply traceable to a lot, cold chain from the farm to your door, no co-mingling. What you control: cold storage, clean surfaces, and a conversation with your vet.
No. Frozen raw meat needs an insulated box, dry ice and a one-to-two day service, and even then it can arrive soft. At small order sizes the shipping costs as much as the food. We deliver locally, frozen, in under an hour — or we don't sell to you yet.
Chewing a raw neck is mechanically abrasive, and dogs plainly enjoy the work. Whether that adds up to cleaner teeth or a better coat for your dog is a question for your veterinarian.
Because certification is a paid annual audit, and a farm this size hasn't bought one. It also wouldn't change the animal — on grass finishing, vaccination and herd size this farm is stricter than the organic rule. What it differs on is documentation, not practice.
Two names, one box. Freedom Range Farms raises the animals, makes the food and sells it — it is the seller on your order and the name on the label. Pasture to Paw is the online store, operated by Empire Oaks Estate, LLC of Orlando, Florida. We run this site, take your order, work out your delivery and answer your questions.
So: anything about the animal — how it was raised, what's in the blend — is the farm's answer, and we'll get it for you. Anything about your order — pricing, delivery, a missed box, when your area opens — comes straight to us at pasturetopaw@empireoaks.estate. Please don't call the farm about an order placed here; it won't be in front of them.
Yes — we were customers of the farm before we were a store. We're a family on acreage in Central Florida with two Anatolian Shepherds and a Chocolate Lab. The Anatolians are working dogs, not pets with a job title: they cover dozens of acres a day, guard the house and the flock, and see off predators — black bears included, and more often than we'd like. They come in hungry at the end of it. This is what they eat.
One thing we do that isn't on the label: we'll sometimes take the chill off the beef blend and serve it barely warm, closer to medium-rare than to frozen. Ours plainly prefer it. Do that with the beef blend only — never the chicken necks. A neck is a raw meaty bone, and the rule there doesn't bend: raw only, never cooked.
Yes, and you should if you're near Osteen — Freedom Range Farms has a store and sells beef, pork, chicken, eggs, raw milk and quarter cow shares. What we add is the part the farm doesn't do: a consistent blend, portioning and labeling, and delivery to your door.
If you order through this site, though, we're the ones looking after it end to end — come to us and not the farm store.
Get started
If you're inside the delivery zone we'll get you on the next run. If you're not, we'll tell you — and let you know when your area opens.
Email us your address and we'll tell you:
pasturetopaw@empireoaks.estate
Orders, delivery and anything about this site come to us,
not to the farm.
Order minimum — 10 lb on the beef blend.
Delivery — Deltona, Enterprise, Sanford, DeBary. Farm pickup in Osteen.
Reordering — tell us roughly how often your dog goes through a box and we'll check in before you run out.