Closings

Northern California’s Soul Food Farm Goes Out of Business

Buh-bye, tasty chicken.
Buh-bye, tasty chicken. Photo: Courtesy of Soul Food Farms

The supplier of excellent, organic, pasture-raised chickens to some of San Francisco’s finest restaurants, Soul Food Farms, is calling it quits after six years. The Vacaville farm, which sold chickens and eggs to places like Chez Panisse, Quince, and Coi, was owned and operated by just two people, husband and wife Eric and Alexis Koefoed, on land that they’ve owned since 1998. Eater caught the news on Twitter, and in a letter to their CSA members yesterday, the Koefoeds said that the rising cost of chicken feed, as well as the physical toll of working the farm alone and trying to keep the price of their product accessible to all people, has ceased to be sustainable. “It couldn’t pencil out anymore,” says Alexis to the Scoop. (This may reflect badly on the local-organic movement in general, but don’t tell Alice.) Get whatever Soul Food Farms chickens or eggs you may see left at Bi-Rite in the next two months, because as of the end of September, they will be gone. [Eater, Scoop]

Northern California’s Soul Food Farm Goes Out of Business