When given the opportunity to review the fresh dog food delivery from The Farmer’s Dog, how could we say no? They had us at the name!
Farm Dog Luke thinks this food is made just for him. Why wouldn’t he? Each batch is freshly made, and his name is right on the bag! He literally is a Farmer’s Dog. How could it be a more perfect fit for us?
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Back when our beagle Cricket was still with us, we tried a different fresh dog food delivery. While we liked it, and it helped Cricket to eat better, the cost put us off. At the time, unemployment was looming for both the Dadz and I, and we had to start watching our spending. While having fresh food delivered to our door made us all happy, we simply couldn’t keep it up.
Now we are a one dog family, so it was worth reconsidering. I was already adding some of our own fresh and human grade foods to Luke’s breakfasts, on top of a freeze-dried food. My preference would be to feed him nothing but homemade foods, but the time to do the research that would need to be done to be sure it was nutritionally balanced, along with preparation, is off-putting for me.
The Farmer’s Dog is the next best thing, and it’s also less costly than the other brand we tried. I’m not going to tell you it’s cheap, but compared to other fresh food delivery it is less expensive. For us at this point it’s worth a bit of extra money to try to keep Luke as healthy as possible. I’ve said it before: with his fear issues, taking him to the vet is not a good experience for any of us. It’s my hope to keep him healthier by putting only healthy things into his body, avoiding processed foods, chemicals, and pesticides as much as possible.
That’s part of the reason we started our own little organic farm. Harvest time is wonderful around here with fresh veggies to add to Luke’s meals, and raising chickens gives us fresh eggs as well. However, we live in New England, so our own fresh produce is limited to this time of year, other than what we can store for the winter (canning is not a project I feel up for at this point either!). As regular readers know, the farm keeps us quite busy too, so just adding extras to Luke’s meals is what had worked best for us.
What could be easier than just opening up a bag of food and dumping it in the bowl? That makes it as simple as dry kibble, but without the processing that goes into that, and you don’t have to measure it either! Each bag of The Farmer’s Dog food is perfectly portioned for one day’s meal, and it can be split up however you need for your dog. Luke still gets a few extras in the mornings, so he gets less then and more for his supper.
Our 2-week trial delivery came with complete instructions for transitioning Luke to new food (which is easy for us since Luke is already used to getting a variety of foods), a biodegradable container to put the bag into for storing in your fridge after opening, and a wonderful insulated bag which you can use if you travel with your dog. The ingredients are also listed on the back of that feeding guide, so you know what you are getting in the beef, pork, and turkey dinners.
What do we like best about The Farmer’s Dog?
- Luke is more anxious for supper, he pushes me instead of just waiting patiently if I’m running late. The other evening I couldn’t believe it when I was involved in something on my computer, and he started whining at me, letting me know it was supper time! Also, while I was serving up the food, I saw him drooling, which I’ve never seen him do before other than when waiting for special treats!
- Speaking of waiting, he loves not having to wait that few minutes for re-hydration of the freeze-dried food we’d been feeding him!
- That also makes it easier for the humans, and my hubby is happy with the simplicity of it too. I do most of the feeding around here, but if I’m busy or have to go somewhere, the Dadz fills in. It’s much easier for me when I don’t have to give him instructions and remind him of how much food to give Luke. Just dump out what’s in the bag!
- The only tool you need is a pair of scissors to open the bag in the morning. We also learned a little trick of adding some water to the bag and shaking it up when you’ve emptied it. Luke wants to be sure he gets every bite that he can, and it’s good for him to get extra water too!
What other features of this fresh dog food are important to me?
- The food is “tested on humans”! It is made with human-grade, USDA approved ingredients. The recipe is customized for your dog (when you sign up you’ll fill out details about your dog’s age, weight, and any health concerns) with the proper number of calories per day. Each meal is complete and balanced.
- Each bag shows the date it was prepared “with love” (just like you would do). It is made fresh, then quickly frozen for transport. They’ll let you know when it’s shipping, and ours has always arrived promptly after that.
- The packaging in the box is biodegradable. The insulated liner will dissolve when run under water!
If you would like to try The Farmer’s Dog for your dog, you can receive 50% off a 2-week trial by using our special link below (just click on the photo, or click here). If you and your dog are happy, you can get boxes of freshly made food delivered right to your door on a regular schedule. If you sign up for longer periods, you can save money that way as well.
Have you ever tried fresh food for your dog(s)?
The perfect food for Luke!
And he really does love it!!
Now if Luke could only learn how to prepare those yummy meals for himself. No waiting!
That would definitely be the ultimate!! 🙂
I LOVE the personal touch with Luke’s name right on his meal pouches! What exactly is in his meals?
I know, isn’t that sweet? The meals consist of meats, vegetables (different ones depending on the recipe), fish oil, tricalcium phosphate, and vitamins.
Yay for yummy, good food for Luke, that is easy on the Momz and Dadz too!! Win win!
That’s the truth!!
We are also LOVING this food – I signed up Bruiser to also receive the beef meal plan as the turkey plan has been our main go to now for weeks. Have you all tried pork or beef? Hope you are well – I saw some Guineas and thought of you.
We have tried all three, and right now we are receiving both the turkey and beef for Luke. He did like all three though, I just thought the pork was a little messier.
Oh, did you learn the trick of putting a little water in the bag to get the last of it out? Don’t know if you saw that part.
Whoa…looks great. We’d love to try this food out!
We are SO happy with it!
We feed the boys fresh food and they love it. Pierre licks my legs will I add the protein and Bentley drools. If I run out and pick up some kibble to hold me over, Pierre won’t even come into the kitchen. Bahaha!
Hahaha, I love the leg licking!! I bet, like me, you just enjoy feeding time so much more too! I look forward to putting Luke’s meals together and making him happy. There would probably be a mutiny if I tried to go back to kibble now! LOL
I wish I could afford something like this for all my cats 🙂
I’m surprised they don’t have something like this for cats yet (not that I know of anyway), but that could be tough with your large crew! 🙂
Luke looks pretty happy, doesn’t he? What’s more important than that?!
Absolutely nothing! 🙂
We’re glad to hear Luke likes that food. It sounds like it’s pretty healthy, too.
The ingredients list is not super long, and that’s always a good sign in our book!
I’ve added real food I’ve prepared to my dogs’ kibble, but I’ve never tried a fresh food made for dogs.
Your title caught my eye, because we have been getting ourbcollies certified as Farm Dogs, by taking the AKC test. I was thinking, after reading your title, I should get some of this food for my Farm Dogs! 🙂
BTW – Clicking on the picture didn’t work.
Oh no! I’ll have to fix that as soon as I get home today. Thanks for letting me know.
It should be fixed now!
Your dogs are certainly busy! I’ll have to look into that certification, just out of curiosity, to see what it involves. Luke’s fear of strangers pretty much makes anything like that impossible, so he’ll also just be our honorary farm dog! 🙂
That sounds wonderful! We’ve still not found anything like that for kitties, at least nothing that sounds pleasing. Have a fun weekend and enjoy that yum Luke!
I imagine it might come for kitties soon! I’m not sure if that would be good or bad for our fussy Sam though!
That sounds super good! I’m glad that Luke is so happy with it. He looks so happy!
He really is. He licks that bowl until there is not a drop left!
If Shadow weren’t still with us, I would probably try it for Ducky…her “system” could probably handle the transition…but there’s no way I could afford it for both girls. I’d absolutely LOVE getting them both off their current food; but Shadow’s tummy just can’t handle change, even done slowly.
Enjoy your new food, Luke! It sounds like you already do! 😃❤️
Luke has a cast iron stomach, I believe. We fast-tracked the transition and he had no issues at all! 🙂
Great review, sounds like Luke really loves it.
He is definitely a happy boy! Thank you!
Well that’s pretty kool! It does look very healthy.
Commercial dog food has certainly come a long way!
that looks fantabulous!!! and I like that I’m not the only one who has a slow down bone in da bowl…that’s all the fauld of da Nelly he started with that speed eating and now we are boned…
When one dog is a speedy eater, it affects all of the dogs! We had to switch our girls to the slow feeders becaues they were so competitive, and then Luke joined in on that too. Luke might not need it now that he’s the only dog, but we figure better safe than sorry. Plus the bowl fits perfectly in his stand! 🙂
It is super tasty and healthy food, but for our lifestyle, traveling a lot keeping the food cold would be challenging. It is still in our minds because our food snob totally loves this. We definitely recommend it for any pups out there. Enjoy, Luke.
I can totally understand that. At least you know the option is out there if Madison ever needs it!