Premium Grass-fed 1/2 Beef
Grass-Fed Half Cow For Sale
Our beef is grass fattened. That is a very important distinction from grass-fed. Grass-fed literally just means that the animal ate grass. It tells you *nothing* about the quality of the grass that animal ate, nor whether they were properly "finished" (aka fat) when they were harvested. This very important distinction is why "grass-fed" often and rightly gets a bad wrap. Some it is frankly not good.
We are very careful to *fatten* our animals on high-quality forage with sufficient sugars to produce a "finish" that while not the same as a grain-fed fat, is actually superior. Grass fat is different fat. It's not artery-clogging fat. It has a different melting point even! It's literally a whole different animal for your body. And that fat is really important for flavor and for tenderness. (What most people call tenderness is actually interstitial fat that provides moisture during the cooking process...)
Technically, tenderness comes from the fineness of the fibers, and that is where our breed selection comes in. Jerseys have the finest meat fibers in the world (along with the NZ Red Devon). The only reason Jerseys aren't conventionally raised for beef is because they do not produce a lot of beef per animal (so the farmer doesn't get paid well at the sale barn — but one of our founding principles is no sale barn, EVER!). Well-finished Jersey beef is quite excellent.
By buying this beef, you are participating in a new kind of dual-purpose dairy of old, where the dairy cows are allowed to be mothers and raise their own young, even as they produce milk for us, as well. It's a revolutionary system, and we are grateful you are willing to participate in it by buying this outstanding, marbled beef.
After you order, you will be sent a cut sheet to choose your desired steak thickness, ground and roast amounts, etc. We will help you fill it out.
If you don't get bones or fat, then your total poundage will go down, but the price doesn't, because you are paying for 1/2 of an animal, and that animal had to stand up and walk... And remember, this isn't a brickyard, and these are living beings. Not every one is the same size. We will arrange a pickup date that works for you. You will NOT be paying for any processing costs!
You are buying a true half of an animal, processed and packaged into retail cuts. You will be paying $11/lb for the hanging weight of the animal (what is left after hide, blood, guts, head, feet, etc. are off), cut to your specifications. The price includes bones and organs. If you don't want the organs or bones, we will happily accept them back (your loss because bone stock will change.your.life!), but that doesn't change the price per pound of your product because you are literally buying 1/2 of an animal, just custom cut. You will receive an email with a custom cut sheet, and we will help you fill it out. You will NOT pay the processing costs, we do that for you.
You will be charged immediately $1500 for a deposit. You will pay the balance at pickup, or we will charge your card on file, up to you. Seventy-five percent is the average cut-out weight of one of our animals if you cut it into standard bone-in cuts and kept the soup bones and the organs.
If you are wondering, "what happens to the remaining 25% of the hanging weight and why doesn't it end up in my packages?" The answer is that it's mostly water that evaporates as the carcass "hangs" to tenderize and make cutting it into neat steaks possible.
We are a small, family farm. When you place an order, we then schedule and harvest the animal. We do our best to be as expedient as possible, but real food is sometimes slow food. The best we can tell you is what season we will harvest your meat. We recognize that we are taking payment up front. We started the expenses for this animal three years ago. Real food is not always convenient.
We do our very best to make you happy and nourish your family with food you can’t get elsewhere. You can buy “grass-fed” in the grocery store or online. We don’t think it’s the same food. But if you want immediate turnaround, there are better options for you. If you want meat loaded with phytonutrients and soul that can’t be injected in any factory, you’ve come to the right place.
We will happily accept the soup bones and organs back as a donation to the livestock guardian dogs (they will thank you!!) but you have to buy all of those things as one package because you are not buying meat, but half of an animal that we are processing for you as a service.
*all deposits are non-refundable*