Cow – Icon of nutrient cycles – we need the poop!

Cattle are key to a healthy ecosystem, that is if we manage cattle in natures image.  Nature provides examples of how herds such as the bison of North America or the buffalo and wildebeest of Africa work as keystone species.  An important feature of these…

2016 Pasture Grazed (Grassfed) Beef

An update on our 2016 Beef Offering.  Here are a couple of photos of steers that we will be offering in September as custom processed beef.  These steers have just turned two years old and we look for them to gain well, over the…

Prairie Gains – Guest Post

We are really excited about the post below.  I recently had the opportunity to meet Daniel and Allyson of Lovegrass Beef.  Daniel has a passion for prairies!  Enjoy Daniel’s guest post: Prairie Gains By Daniel Frank – Lovegrass Beef With spring finally here, and plants…

Grass Type Cattle

This month we started a farm email newsletter to keep our customers up to date.  Feel free to subscribe by using the form on our Contact page. Among other items in this past email newsletter we asked the question, can cows live on grass alone? Most cattle…

Gamey Flavor equals Nutrient Density

In our previous post we described how complex pastures create complex flavors in our beef.  We discussed a number of other factors that play into the “beefy” flavor of our pasture grazed animals compared to the simple flavor of conventional beef.  When people first taste grass-fed…