Summer marches along and the hollyhocks greeted Tully on his way to cut some hay in one of our fields this week. Holly does an amazing job of tending the flowers and perennials around the farm, which you’ll notice when you stop into our farm store. Rain was kind to us this week and the grass and other plants on the farm are bursting with green and life from the summer rain.
After a long wait we finally got beef back from our processor and we now have all beef cuts back in stock.
I don’t know about you but we have missed having our popular Delmonico Steak, Sandwich Steaks and other cuts. For those of you with keen eye you will also want to stock up on those items that go quickly like our Marrow Bones, Flat Iron Steaks, Hanger Steaks and Oxtail.
New Beef Items to Try
We also have a few new beef items for you to try.
Like many new items that come during the summer months we don’t yet have photos:) However, I think these products speak for themselves
We tried this with our Chicken Bacon Burger and it was so delicious we thought: let’s do with with our 100% grass fed beef. So we took our no-nitrate bacon and mixed with our beef. We played with different mixes, and found that 2:1 beef to bacon was a good mix. We end up with about a 80/20 grind which is great for burgers. Packaged in 1 lb packages, you can make your own patties for grilling, or mix into a stir fry or try throwing some in a pasta sauce.
Tired of those chewy and tough beef kabobs? So we thought let’s try something crazy: what if we cut kabob cubes from our 100% grass fed beef tenderloin. Yep, that’s right, the most tender muscle on the beef animal. We have a limited supply of these so give them a try and let us know what you think!
Packaged in convenient 1 lb packages, these kebabs will impress the most discerning audience.
Farm Updates
There is always more than one way to see the world. We are a livestock farm and the juxtaposition between domesticated animals and the wild animals who also live on the farm is both hilarious and infuriating. Our job as animal farmers is to facilitate healthy and symbiotic lifestyles for our animals. (Writing that down makes me want someone to do that for us humans.☺︎ One of the ways we do this is to keep lots of tasty organic food around, which is also appealing to the wild animals.
Some days I get frustrated when the birds and other critters find their way into our maybe-not-so-secure grain storage and transport vessels. We’ve had a family of raccoons who have been persistently getting into the “grain cube” which we use to transport grain to the field. The trouble is that they can get into the cube, but then cannot get out!
Racey and Lovett took this great video of how we had to tilt the cube so they can jump out!
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