Which came first the Pickle or the Egg? The Pickle Patch started 25 years ago, growing quality pickling cucumbers for consumers to make their own pickles. In the years to follow, my husband Larry with his business Big Rock Simmentals (cow/calf Purebred cattle) we purchased land in the Creston Valley. We are blessed to live in such a beautiful productive valley, our goal on our farm is to provide top quality products and doing so, not wasting the bounty.

In 2008, we decided to add a pickle cannery to pickle vegetables and hens to produce fresh eggs that can be sold year round. With this diversity we accomplished our goal in finding that everything worked together; the vegetable scraps from the pickle cannery is fed to the chickens as treats, the manure from the cattle and chickens are placed on the land as fertilizer to build up the soil, and the soil is where we grow the delicious fresh vegetables for the pickles and hay for feed for our cattle.