Locally Grown Beef: 10% Off Mother Earth News Fair Week Sale!

The Mother Earth News Fair is in Asheville, NC this weekend and seems like everyone is talking about growing their own food or buying locally grown food. Locally grown meat is on the forefront this year. Much of that has to do with the success of the book, The Ethical Meat Handbook, by my friend Meredith Leigh. She will be speaking at the event and I am sure many people will be inspired by her presentation to try a new recipe with locally grown meat.

That inspired Glen and me to offer a Mother Earth News Fair week sale on our pasture-raised, Black Angus beef.

Mention Mother Earth News Fair when you order and you will receive 10% off our regular prices. Offer good through April 17.

The sale prices are:

Quarters (average weight of 89 lbs) for $7.65 per pound

20 lbs of ground beef (1 lb packages) for $6.52 per pound

Liver for $2.70 per pound

(plus 2% sales tax)

The quarters are sold by finished, packaged weight and do not include dog bones, soup bones, or ribs (so more meat!). An average quarter contains 6 ribeye steaks, 8 NY strip steaks, 6 filets, 1 round steak, 1 sirloin steak, 2 sirloin tip roasts, 1 London broil, 2 chuck roasts, 2 arm roasts, 6 stew beef (1 lb pkgs), and 50 ground beef (1 lb pkgs).

We raise a few Black Angus steers at a time on Our Tiny Farm in Etowah, NC. They eat the grass on their pastures and locally grown hay in the winter. The steers were harvested late last fall; dry-aged for two weeks, butchered, vacuum-packed and frozen at a local USDA inspected facility. The beef is boxed and being held in commercial deep freezers at a local facility.

For more information or to order email jeaninedavisnc@gmail.com or visit our beef blog page. You can pick up at the farm or we will meet you in Hendersonville or the Asheville Airport area.

Spring Sale on Our Pasture Raised Black Angus Beef!

Our steers were gently raised on Our Tiny Farm in Etowah, NC. They lived on our pastures for two years eating the fresh grass growing there. In the winter we also fed them locally grown hay, carefully selected to not contain persistent herbicides. The meat was dry-aged for several weeks, butchered, vacuumed packed, and frozen at a USDA inspected facility in Forest City, NC. The beef is boxed and being held in deep freezers at a local commercial packing house.

These steers were harvested late last fall, but because of family health issues, we had to halt our beef sales this past winter, so now we are offering the following spring specials:
Quarters (average weight of 89 lbs) for $8.50 per pound
20 lbs of ground beef (1 lb packages) for $7.25 per pound
Liver for $3 per pound
(plus 2% sales tax)

New York Strip Steak

We sell our meat as finished, packaged weight; just like you would buy meat in a butcher shop or supermarket. (Many farmers sell their beef as "hanging weight" which includes the bone and excess fat. The way we sell it, you know exactly how much meat you are getting). An average quarter contains 6 ribeye steaks, 8 NY strip steaks, 6 filets, 1 round steak, 1 sirloin steak, 2 sirloin tip roasts, 1 London broil, 2 chuck roasts, 2 arm roasts, 6 stew beef (1 lb pkgs), and 50 ground beef (1 lb pkgs)  (this will, of course, vary slightly from quarter to quarter). We don't sell a front or back quarter but make an even assortment for each. We do not include soup bones or ribs in our quarters, i.e., you get more meat and less bone.

If 89 pounds of beef sounds like a lot, you can always split it with another family, but it also holds in a home freezer for a very long time. We are still eating some of our beef from November 2013 that we store in a chest freezer and it tastes as fresh and juicy as it did over two years ago. The vacuum packaging is what does it. If you plan to store the meat for a long time, to maintain the best quality we recommend you store it in a chest or upright freezer and not in the freezer compartment of your refrigerator. We also like the vacuum packaging because you can quickly thaw ground beef, stew beef, and steaks by putting them in a sink full of water for 20 to 30 minutes. We do not recommend thawing pasture raised or grass-fed beef in the microwave.

A quarter of beef takes up about 5 to 6 cubic feet of freezer space.  Our small chest freezer will hold a quarter with room to spare. The meat will be frozen solid and packed in two sturdy boxes. Please come prepared to transport frozen meat. If you don't have far to travel, you can just wrap blankets around the boxes. But if you have to travel for an hour or so, bring some large coolers or something to keep your beef frozen solid.

Why don't we call our beef "grass-fed"?  The term "grass-fed" is a legal term for beef that has ONLY been fed fresh grass and hay. Fresh grass and locally grown hay make up more than 99% of our steers' diet, but we do give them a cupful of sweet feed (grain and molasses) once in awhile to keep them "trained to a bucket". That means if they ever get out of the fenced pasture, they will come running to us when they hear us shake the buckets. So technically, we can't call our steers "grass-fed". We do not feed our steers hormones or antibiotics. We do not fertilize or spray herbicides on our pastures and we use fly predators (tiny wasps) as the basis for our fly control program. We are NC licensed meat handlers and are certified Appalachian Grown by ASAP.

If you are interested in buying or want to learn more, use the contact form on the right sidebar (if you are on a smartphone or tablet and don't see a sidebar, scroll to the bottom of this page and click on "View Web Version" and it will show up). You can make an appointment to pick up the beef at our farm in Etowah or we can arrange to meet you near the Asheville airport. We accept cash and credit cards or you can pay through Paypal.

Helping Another Local Farm Sell Their Beef!

Several of our customers have asked if we have beef for sale yet. We won't have any of our pasture raised Black Angus beef for sale until late spring or early summer. BUT, another local farm does!

Janet helped me sell our beef last time so I would like to promote what she has available starting next week. From Janet Peterson at Cloud 9 Farm in Fletcher, NC:

Know where your beef comes from!

Bulk Sales for the best price. Order now. Beef will be here week of February 9^th, 2015

Cloud 9 Black Angus Beef are raised here from birth with TLC and rotated on green pastures of fescue, orchard grass and clover. They drink fresh well water in fountains and freely choose to lick a winter mineral protein supplement. They are offered a scoop of mixed grains routinely. This keeps them tame so we can handle them in the barn. There is no need for antibiotics or hormones because they are unstressed and we let them grow naturally. The beef is processed at a NC USDA facility, aged for 2 weeks without preservatives or additives and vacuumed sealed in see-through wrap that lasts up to 2 years. It’s the way we like it.  

Cloud 9 has meat of one and a half steers for sale. It will be on a first come, first served basis. They will inform you about pick up at 137 Bob Barnwell Rd. closer to pick up day. Make checks to “Cloud 9 Farm.”

Some of the details:

20 lbs Beef by the Box ECONOMY Cuts $140 = $7/lb

6 lbs Steaks:Sirloin, Round, Flat Iron, Hanger, Sirloin tips, Cubed Round

6 lbs Roasts and 1 stew package: assorted: London Broil, Chuck, Rump, Shoulder, Arm, Eye of Round, Bottom Round; Shank or Stew (meaty marrow bones or beef stew)

8 lbs Ground Beef

20 lbs Beef by the Box –PRIME Cuts $170 = $8.50/lb

6 lbs of Steak: Filet Mignon, NY Strip, Ribeye (1” thick), Sirloin

6 lbs Roasts and 1 stew package assorted: London Broil, Chuck, Rump, Shoulder, Arm, Eye of Round, Bottom Round; Shank or Stew (meaty marrow bones or beef stew)

8 lbs Ground Beef

8 lbs of GROUND BEEF $52 = $6.50/lb comes in 1 lb vacuum sealed cylinders

60 lbs Beef by the Box Sampling of Each Quarter (Prime Cuts and Variety) $480 = $8.00/lb

18 lbs of Steak: (Will put in a variety) Filet Mignon, NY Strip, Ribeye, Sirloin, Eye of Round, Flat Iron, Flank, Hanger

18 lbs of Roasts: London Broil, Chuck, Shoulder, Rump, Sirloin Tip, Kabob plus (meaty marrow bones or beef stew)

24 lbs of Ground Beef

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60 lbs is about 1/8 Beef needing 3 ½ cubic feet freezer space

20 lbs is a taste of various cuts 

Other parts upon request: (at half or less than $3/lb) Liver, Tongue, Heart, Kidney

Or Buy by the piece AFTER our Bulk Sale

Per pound prices

$7.00                    Ground Beef                              

$19.00                   Filet Mignon

$15.00                   New York Strip or Ribeye Steak

$12.00                   Sirloin Steak

$11.00                   Flat Iron Steak 

$9.00                     Hanger Steak

$8.00                     London Broil or Kabobs

$7.50                     Roasts; Bottom Round Roast, Rump, Arm, Sirloin Tip Roast

$7.00                     Brisket, Cubed steak, Chuck Roast (bone in), Stew Beef

$6.50                     Round Steak

$4.00                     Marrow Bones/Shank, Neck Bones with meat, Ox tail

$3.50                     Heart whole

$3.00                     Liver, Kidney

$1.75                     Fat for Tallow

Other Sale items  (Call for a complete list!)

Freezer Beef from 2014 (vacuum sealed and in fine condition) 15% off 

Whole and Half Cornish Cross Chickens $3.75/lb

Whole and Half Stew Chicken $2-3/lb)

Chestnuts (frozen fresh from fall harvest) 

Mixed Peppers (frozen sweet) red, green, yellow