About Our beef

There’s a lot of difference between small farm raised beef and supermarkets meat. It has to do with the quality of life of the animals, respecting your food, and making conscious decisions.

Here at the farm we raise Holstein cows – the familiar black and white cows that are often associated with the dairy industry. Why Holsteins, instead of the bigger, specialty beef cattle? Well, Holsteins are dairy cattle but in order to have dairy, you need to have calves. So every year thousands of bull calves are born, some get culled and far too many of them are sold for veal. And the life of a veal calf is terrible.  

Until the time when we no longer dairy we will always have surplus in bull calves. But we don’t have to give these animals a terrible life.  As a small farm we can bottle feed our calves, give them names, and even wrap them in blankets if they get cold. We can let them run and eat what grass they like, feed them treats like apples and carrots, we can let them grow their horns.

We can give them a lot of good days and just one bad day. We can give them names and be sad and  be thankful.