Mountain View Cattle Company

 The Farm

(360) 732-4446

The farm is located on eighteen beautiful acres on the Olympic Peninsula in NW Washington in the small town of Chimacum, about 40 miles NW of Seattle. The property is flat grassland where purebred Polled Hereford cattle are raised and grass hay grown.   

Environmentally sound agriculture is practiced. The farm uses its "natural" fertilizer (courtesy of the cattle) and a minimum amount of commercial fertilizer to produce pasture that is nutritionally sound for the livestock. Hormones are not used. The cattle produced here must grow on grass. Those that don't meet the standards are shipped to the auction yard. The goal is tasty nutritious beef as close to organic as possible.  

The farm has a creek running through it, and local conservation district awards have been received in years past for work in preserving and enhancing the creek.  The cattle have been completely fenced out of the creek since 1985 (when the land was purchased).  Cattle, tractors and equipment cross the creek over a plank and timber bridge.  Hundreds of deciduous and evergreen trees, both in many varieties, have been planted on the property. The trees provide birds with shelter and food, as well as shade for the creek and the cattle.  The shade provided by trees on the creek also helps smother out the canary grass naturally, which clogs many local streams to the point that there is no water flow, resulting in flooding during the winter.  And the limited water flow means no fish either!  Also two tree lines have been established running the length of our fields to the creek, forming a corridor for birds to travel down off the ridge behind the farm to the creek. Because of the road between the farm and the ridge, a real corridor for wildlife has deliberately not been developed to avoid luring local critters to their deaths.  The tree lines also provide windbreaks and shade for the cattle in their pastures, and help to keep mud and standing water under control by absorbing rainwater.   The creek is now lined on both sides with trees, and the plantings extend to the west along a natural swale into one field.

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