Priddy Acres is a small farm on the outskirts of Salem, Oregon.  We pride ourselves on our outstanding customer service, fast shipping times, and dedication to producing high-quality handmade products.  Every consumable item (for people or not) we sell is made with all natural ingredients, so you will never have a hard time pronouncing them when you tell your friends about the great things you found here.  The farm is owned by two awesome individuals: Joel and Michelle Priddy.

Michelle (aka Mik’ele) handles the cooking, shipping, product development, beekeeping, and social media advertising. Yes, if you bought it and it was cooked, she cooked it within the last few days (often the same day), packed it, and shipped it (which sometimes means 11:00 PM trips to the post office) as fast as she can. Michelle is an avid gamer (Hearthstone is her favorite right now), puzzle aficionado, and shipping guru.

Joel (aka T-Dub) handles the web design, graphics design, photos, blogs, blacksmithing, beekeeping, and product development…and Harley riding. Joel is an avid gamer (WoW since 2004), “dirty” biker, and software engineer by trade.

We are currently developing our apiary (i.e. we keep bees for honey) so we can provide our community with fresh raw honey collected right in their own backyard…or just outside their backyard…unless they want us harvesting our honey in their backyard, but that would require that they provide steak and beer. Not to worry, we are low-class Bud Light people. We sell all natural bee fondant (aka bee candy), which helps beehives survive when food stores and availability is low. The fondant is available on Amazon via the links on the products page (contact us by email to buy direct).

We also run a small blacksmith shop where we drink beer and make custom knives, swords, tools, pendants, and other hand forged items…really anything that we think looks cool or would be useful.  If you have a specific request, please contact us using the contact page and we will see if we can accommodate it.  Who knows. If we want to try making your item, but we aren’t sure how it will turn out, you may get a discount of just material costs.

UPDATE: Apparently, we have customers who have noticed that our product says it ships from Oregon, on Amazon, but is actually shipping from Ohio. We have tried to change that multiple times and have not been able to figure out how to fix it yet. To put all of your minds at ease, no, we have not outsourced anything. Michelle is still out there cooking, cleaning, and replacing things that have been lost in transit.

Due to the cost of leasing or buying a commercial building in Oregon (which is significant), we decided to look elsewhere to find a suitable facility to expand into. As the bulk of our customers are ordering from the Eastern half of the United States, we decided to look for a facility in that region so we could save on shipping costs and further delay having to increase the price of our fondant. We landed on a commercial building in Caldwell, Ohio. It is a nice rural community in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains and we absolutely love it here. The environment is nice, we now have access to commercial suppliers (because it’s a commercial address), there is a commercial gas stove which really speeds things up, and we can use LTL (less than a truck load) shipping for our pallets. I hope everyone understands that we didn’t want to leave Oregon, but the cost of commercial space there is prohibitively expensive.