Central Florida · From the farm · Raw
Raw beef and chicken for dogs, made and sold by Freedom Range Farms: butchered, blended, portioned and frozen at the farm's own processing station.
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
Raw only, never cooked, and always supervised. Hard weight-bearing bone can crack a tooth, so it isn't right for every dog. Sold as they come off the animal, while the farm has them.
The farm
A working family farm based in Osteen, Florida, running cattle alongside pork, 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 uses a mobile butchering method: the butcher comes to the animals, which significantly reduces their stress at harvest.
Freedom Range Farms butchers, blends, portions and freezes the food at its own processing station, so the people who butcher it are the people who sell it to you.
Pasture to Paw is the online store that brings it to your door.
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
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.
Because they travel in a box that's already going out, they ride along with a beef order at no added delivery cost.
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: the cutting, the freezing, and the cold chain from the farm to your door. 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.
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.
Order
Delivery is limited by how long a frozen box stays frozen in a car. Enter your address and we'll tell you straight away whether we can bring it to you, and what the driver costs.
Orders, delivery and anything about this site come to us, not to the farm: pasturetopaw@empireoaks.estate. Tell us roughly how often your dog goes through a box and we'll check in before you run out.