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The following farms and ranches have certified that they meet Eatwild's criteria for producing grassfed meat, eggs and dairy products. Contact them directly for additional information or to buy their products: Adams Blackland Prairie Farm is a family farm established in 1986 on the rich, deep blacklands of Northeast Texas, about 65 miles east of Dallas. We raise beef on polyculture pastures consisting of native and introduced annual and perennial grasses and legumes providing year-round forage. The unique blackland soil provides for the special quality and full flavor of our beef. We believe healthy soil is the basis of animal and plant health, and ultimately, human health. All animals in our grazing program are raised on grass from birth. Key factors we use in the production of well marbled, grass fattened beef are high quality forage, stress reducing techniques and animal maturity. It is our goal to be humane, responsible, environmentally sustainable farmers. This is the beef we raise for our family—we love it and you will, too. Beef is available throughout the year, pre-ordered, as whole, halves, and split halves. Also available are fresh eggs and raw vetch honey from our farm. Adams Blackland Prairie Farm, Kelly and Wesley Adams, 921
CR 3690, Ladonia TX 75449. (903) 367-7405. Akin Sustainable Farm, located seven miles from the intersection of Hwy 171 and Hwy 31 in Central Texas, humanely raises grass-fed and -finished Angus beef. It is processed by our local abattoir and priced competitively with meat of similar quality. Frozen individual cuts are priced by the pound. A full half beef is priced by hanging/carcass weight and can be cut to your specifications if ordered ahead. On this special order a deposit will be deducted from the total when paid. Delivery can be arranged, or a discount on your purchase is available if you pick up at the farm. Please e-mail or call ahead. Our family has been in the Texas cattle business since the Civil War. Starting in 1866, our great-grandfather drove wild Longhorns from south Central Texas north to the markets/railroad, as far as Salt Lake City. Much has changed since then, but our cattle are still 100% grass-fed and pasture-raised, as nature intended, with no growth hormones or antibiotics which must be used on grain/corn-fed beef in crowded feedlots. Pastures are pesticide and herbicide free. Aerated compost tea made from the natural products is sprayed and natural pest control such as Trichagramma wasp is used. Akin Sustainable Farm, Pat Akin, 877 HCR
3345, Hubbard TX 76648. (254) 707-3277. Alexander Family Farm, located in Garfield, Texas, raises pastured poultry (broilers, layers, Peking ducks, pheasants, and turkeys) Joel Salatin-style and sells them fresh in large quantities in the spring and fall by subscription. The poultry is available frozen the rest of the year. Brown eggs are sold year round. In addition, pastured beef is processed in the fall and sold by the half, whole, or by individual cuts. Select cuts are available frozen throughout the year. (Shipping is not available at this time.) We raise our animals on pasture because we live, work, and play here, and we want our food, farm, and family to be clean and healthy. We believe that diverse, small-scale agriculture that is environmentally friendly and does not use antibiotics, chemicals, or pesticides can heal our land. And the best place to raise a family is on the farm! The Alexander Family Farm is located just 5 miles east of the new Austin/Bergstrom International Airport. Alexander Family Farm, Kim Alexander, 3700 Victorine
Lane, Garfield TX
78617. (512) 247-4455. Always Grass-Fed Beef, LLC. is located on our family farm 45 miles east of Austin, TX. Our mission is to produce the best tasting, most tender, most nutritious dry aged beef available, through carefully selected genetics, pampered handling, and the feeding of animals from birth to market on nutrient dense grasses and legumes. Using NO pesticides or herbicides on our forages results in a flourishing diversity of soil microbes which improve nutrient cycling and deliver more trace minerals through the food chain to you. Research indicates that grass finished meat has superior ratios of Omega 3 to Omega 6 fatty acids, linked to reduced risk of heart disease, and superior levels of CLA, linked to reduced cancer risk. Animal health and well being are further enhanced through soil and forage testing, organic amendments, and daily moving animals to fresh, clean paddocks. Every animal marketed is free of hormones, steroids, chemical wormers and antibiotics. We sell whole, halves, or quarters. See our website pricing page for more details. Make an appointment for a farm tour. You will become a believer in the meat we’ve raised to feed our grandchildren. Always Grass-Fed Beef, LLC., Mike and Linda Wright, 1340
CR 307, McDade TX. 78650. (512) 273-2731 or cell: (512) 431-6578. American Criollo Beef Alliance presents grass-fed, pasture raised Criollo beef. Criollo beef is exceptionally tender and very lean. Criollo has been proven in DNA testing to rival Kobe beef (from Wagyu cattle) for tenderness and Angus beef for quality. ACBA has each animal DNA tested for tenderness and meat quality (marbling) before entering the Certified Criollo Beef Program and sold to the consumer, thus ensuring consistent quality. Criollo cattle were brought to the “New World” from the high desert plains of Andalusia in Southern Spain on Columbus’s second voyage. Superbly adapted for survival in the hostile environments of the North American southwest, these hardy cattle thrive on available forage. They are renowned for their hardiness, fertility, gentle nature and longevity. They are easy on the land, tending to improve a pasture, rather than destroy it. Criollo cattle naturally self-rotate through a pasture, utilizing every square foot of acreage, rather than concentrating on any one area. Our cattle spend their entire lives roaming spacious pastures in Central Texas. With their foraging efficiency, they get fat easily on natural grasses with no supplementation, only needing high quality hay in the winter months. ACBA uses no hormones or antibiotics. Ranch visits are welcome. American Criollo Beef Alliance, Dale Price,
PO Box 426, Winters,
TX 79567.
(325) 201-3201. Anala Goat Company provides raw goat's milk, raw cow's milk, raw goat's milk chevre, feta, kefir and whey. Member only pre-orders delivered to seven Houston area farmers' markets weekly. Anala Goat Company, Roy and Linda Atkinson, 6631
River Road, Richmond TX 77469. (281) 343-5991. Ann and Weldon Warren's Holy Cow Beef, Pasture-Raised & Pasture-Finished Dry-Aged Beef. We operate an Angus cow/calf operation that produces the highest quality “home-grown, pasture-raised & pasture-finished” beef available to your dinner table. We are located some 70 miles west of Ft. Worth. Our goal is to continue as a sustainable steward of God’s natural resources. We raise our animals from birth to finishing for retail consumption by family, friends and savvy consumers. We harvest each animal when it develops adequate back fat and intramuscular marbling; this is normally achieved before 30 months of age. We are continually improving our genetics to produce bigger rib eyes, better marbling, and natural tasting beef. Our management style avoids grain, corn feeding, stress, and the feedlot environment. We employ rotational pasture grazing on native Texas grasses, winter annuals and select introduced grasses. Fortunately, our animals benefit from the distinctive flavoring provided by the high mineral content of the rocky soils of the Palo Pinto hill country of Young County, Texas. We use NO growth hormones, antibiotics or pesticides. These animals are “finished” in the most natural and low stress conditions possible. Our beef is Dry Aged (hanging in a freezer before processing) for 14–21 days to provide a hearty, brown-roasted beefy flavor, then vacuum packed for optimal storage and “wet aging” in your own fridge by you if desired. Savor the healthier flavor and enjoy the wholesome and nutritional advantages of Holy Cow Beef’s naturally finished beef. We sell by the cut with a 10-pound minimum order when delivered within 30 miles of Graham and a 20-pound order (multiple 10-pound group orders work well) within 75 miles of Graham, TX. Shipping is available; contact us for details. Farm fresh eggs are available when supplies are adequate. Our beef is sold at the Sunshine Natural Living Market and Abundant Health Naturally health food stores, and through the Debbie Seelig and Cross Timbers Food Co-ops. (See Texas–Beyond the Farm for details.) Ann and Weldon Warren's Holy Cow Beef, 2491 Finis
Road, Graham
TX 76450. (940) 521-0595. Aquilla Hill Angus Farm is a working cattle ranch located in Covington, Texas about 40 minutes south of Fort Worth. We specialize in producing registered Angus cattle on natural grasslands without using growth hormones, antibiotics, pesticides or commercially produced fertilizers and feeds. We offer home delivery of our product to the DFW metroplex area and south along I–35 towards Austin. We breed Angus for its superior marbling characteristics, then raise these animals on grass pastures to insure a heart-healthy product chalked full of CLA, Omega-3-Fatty Acids, Vitamin E, HDL and Beta-Carotene. Our natural approach to raising cattle consists of open range feeding on Bermuda and wild rye grasses, all natural fertilizers such as compost teas, humate and molasses applications as well as humane treatment of our cattle to lower stress and stress-related diseases. This method of cattle farming is safer for the environment, animals and our customers. We complete the beef experience by dry aging our carcasses 21 days and delivering whole or half sides to those who want a healthy cut of beef on hand when they need it. Aquilla Hill Angus Farm, Bill Morgan or Blaine Morgan,
465 HCR 1450 N, Covington
TX 76636, (254) 854-3086. Here at AY RAAM Farms, we are working to
establish the finest in all AY RAAM Farms, Rachel Pierson, Aaron Pierson, Kingsbury,
TX (mailing address: PO Box 1882, Wimberley TX 78676). (512)
644-7652. Bandera Grassland produces grassfed Texas Longhorn beef. Cattle are raised on our sustainable family farm and seasonally finished on lush grass and legume pasture. We supplement with alfalfa hay during dormant seasons.
Nutritional analyses rank Bandera Grassland beef lower in cholesterol and fat than salmon and chicken. Our beef is dry-aged 21 days for tenderness and robust flavor. Whole carcasses, sides, quarters and eighths are available. Please visit our website for more information. To arrange a ranch tour, contact Debbie Davis at beef@banderagrassland.com. Don Davis operates the Grassfed Livestock Alliance (GLA). The GLA supplies locally produced grassfed meats to the Southwest Region of Whole Foods Market. Its goal is to provide a fair market for family owned and operated farms that put their reputation into the quality of beef they produce. Animals marketed by the GLA are raised using the American Grassfed Association protocol. The GLA requires traceability from birth to harvest without administering antibiotics or growth hormones. Confinement and feeding animal by-products are also prohibited. Cattle are handled with utmost care using the highest standards of animal husbandry and humane treatment to insure a consistent, tender and healthy product. For information about joining the GLA, email info@grassfedlivestockalliance.com or call (830) 562-BEEF / (830) 562-2333. Bandera Grassland, Debbie Davis, PO Box 122, Tarpley
TX 78883. (830) 562-3650. Bard Farms raises miniature Hereford and Lowline Angus grass-fed cattle. Breeding stock and meat are available (meat in late spring). Animals are grass-fed—no chemicals or drugs. Miniatures are best on grass of all cattle—most marbling, most tender, and bred to do well on grass. Bard Farms, Robert Bard, 3059 West Line Road, Whitesboro TX 76273.
(903) 564-7878. Betsy Ross Grass-fed Beef, located 1-hour northeast of Austin in Granger, uses no hormones, no antibiotics, and no grain feed. Ever. We select from the best performing breeds, manage them daily from birth to market, and test regularly for the presence of CLA's and Omega-3's. And we have them! What makes Betsy Ross Beef unique is our focus on maintaining balance in our soil biology and growing a healthy variety of high-quality grasses and forage for our beeves. We start right at the soil, strategically applying compost teas (www.compostteatexas.com) to restore the natural balance of microbes, bacteria, protozoa, fungi, nematodes, and other biological components to our soil. This ensures that our forages are of the highest quality, delivering all the nutrients to the beeves, and ultimately on to you, our customer. Remember, healthy soil = healthy forage = healthy livestock = healthy people! Betsy Ross Beef is guaranteed to be tasty and tender and is supplied year-round, state-inspected, and frozen fresh. We deliver weekly to the Austin and Georgetown areas, sell over the Internet to any location in-state, and are carried by several retailer locations in the area. (See Texas–Beyond the Farm for details.) Try us - it is an experience you won't want to miss. Betsy Ross Grass-Fed Beef, Betsy, Kathryn and Joe
David Ross, 410
CR 493, Granger TX 76530. (512) 862-3240. Big Oaks Ranch runs a small herd (13) of Black Brangus and Black Angus mama cows. The bull is a registered Black Angus bull. Calves are born in the late Fall, weaned in the Summer and finished on grass for slaughter at 21–26 months of age. Our target goal is to produce and market INTEGRITY BEEF, grass-fed for healthy, tender, tasty meat that is free of supplemental hormones, antibiotics, or any grain or grain products whatsoever. This requires a good team and close on site management of genetics, health, quality grasses and legumes. We are achieving this goal through the organic planning; genetic testing, selective breeding, and grass farming. INTEGRITY BEEF means organically raised grass-fed beef that is consigned, slaughtered and custom packaged. The beef is slaughtered at Mineola Meat Packers, a USDA inspected facility. They deliver the halves to Texas Meat Packers of Henderson TX (formerly Gentry Farms Processing.) We counsel and discuss the cut order with the customer, so we are familiar with the customer’s family, eating and cooking habits. After 21+ days of aging, the owner-producer, Danny Burrows, observes, directs, and helps Texas Meat Packers cut and package each calf. The beef is vacuum packaged in clear packages and after 3 days the customer picks up their order of frozen beef. The Big Oaks Ranch Goat herd has grown to over 75 head. They eat weeds, briars, and brush; they keep the trees pruned, and provide organic fertilizer everywhere they graze. Customers came to buy the goats for breeding and meat. This led to the target goal of Grass Fed Boer/Nubian Cross Goats. The cross breeding was accomplished through using registered Boer and Nubian bucks. They graze free-range and are ready for sale by private treaty purchase or consignment by the head or by the pound. Big Oaks Ranch began raising chickens in the fall of 2001. Soon we were receiving calls requesting "yard eggs," laid by free-range/pastured hens that graze the pastures and fields freely. The eggs are of superior quality and free from added hormones, feed fillers, antibiotics, herbicides and pesticides. The hens roost and lay the eggs in mobile coops with laying boxes that are cleaned every day. The chicken litter is recycled through the ranch compost pile. The coops are moved every 2–3 days. This maintains a clean and healthy environment for the animals and is a natural and organic means of fertilization. Big Oaks Ranch, Danny and Carletta Burrows, 6001
CR 267-D, Kilgore
TX 75662. (903) 643-0530 (ranch); (903) 557-1016 cell Danny;
(903) 557-1018 cell Carletta. Broken Arrow Ranch is a family-owned, artisanal producer of high quality free-range venison, antelope, and wild boar meat. We field harvest these truly wild animals by partnering with ranchers in Central and South Texas as an integral part of their population management programs. This practice provides a humane life and harvest for the animals, maintains a sustainable animal population for the rancher, and produces wild game meats of legendary quality. Located in the heart of the Texas Hill Country, Broken Arrow Ranch harvests axis deer, fallow deer, sika deer, and South Texas (nilgai) antelope using highly refined field harvesting techniques that avoid stress, and utilizes a unique field processing facility to allow immediate processing of the meat in a sanitary environment. The animals we harvest are truly free-ranging and subsist on a natural diet of native grasses, forbs, and browse. All products are harvested and processed under full government inspection. Our customers are America's finest restaurants and discriminating consumers who really care about the quality and safety of the meat they consume. We ship directly from our processing facilities to your kitchen and guarantee safe arrival. Broken Arrow Ranch, Inc., Chris Hughes, 3296 Junction
Highway, Ingram TX 78025.
(830) 367-5875. Burgundy Pasture Beef is a dry-aged gourmet beef that is 100% pasture-raised — without the use of hormones, antibiotics or grain feeding. Cultivated rye grass and alfalfa is used for winter feeding for a year-round supply of fresh beef. Beef artisans and ranchers Jon and Wendy Taggart home deliver beef to the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex and surrounding areas. All products are sold by the individual cut. Now open— "The Burgundy Boucherie"—a pastured meats butcher market in Grandview, Texas, offering pastured beef, pork and lamb, free-range chicken and eggs, and raw milk aged cheeses. All available for home delivery in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area, Express frozen shipment packages, or in-store shopping. Burgundy Pasture Beef, Jon and Wendy Taggart, 800 McDuff Avenue, Grandview TX 76050. (817) 866-2247. E-mail: burgundy@alltel.net Website: www.burgundypasturebeef.com Cherokee Point Ranch is family owned and operated. Our all natural grass-fed beef are born and raised on our ranch. They are raised on mother's milk, native and improved grasses for their entire life, from birth to processing. Our cattle are rotationally grazed on 240 plus acres of pastureland. This rotational grazing assures that they are always foraging on fresh tender grasses. They are always on pasture—never penned or in a feed lot. A diatomaceous earth, kelp and sea salt mix is fed free-choice as a dewormer/mineral mix to insure all micro-nutrients are available for them to have a clean healthy digestive system. Maintaining healthy soil is the primary key to insuring healthy grasses and livestock. The use of natural fertilizers—compost teas, humate and natural molasses applications—is our method of soil enrichment. We manage the grazing pattern of our livestock to enhance the growth of the pasture, the health of the land, and the nutritional value of our product. "We do it the Natural Way" Cherokee Point Ranch, Brian and Dorothy Spaniel, 310
Frank Holy Road, Ennis TX 75119. (214) 991-2418 or (972)
921-7888.
Coyote Creek Farm - Certified USDA Organic - offers grassfed beef, organic eggs, and Coyote Creek Organic Feed Mill is offering organic poultry feed. We start with our soil. We are stewards of 90 acres of rolling black prairie land which is certified USDA Organic. To our piece of earth we spray high quality aereted compost tea 4–6 times per year to keep a healthy herd of micro-organisims growing to cycle the precious nutrients into our grasses. Then we feed the biology in the soil with hydrolyzed fish, molasses and humic acid twice each year. From that point on Mother Nature takes over. We harvest our grass with South Poll cattle. See our website for more information on this breed. They are high in conjugated lineolic acids (CLA) and Omega-3, both of which are known to help prevent cancer and heart disease. We sell our limited production of beef by subscription. You may purchase a half or whole beef. Some customers join with neighbors to buy their beef. We deliver the steer to the processing plant where you pick it up after it has been fully dry aged, cut and wrapped in cryovac packaging. Our cattle are never fed any hormones, antibiotics or steroids. We practice humane treatment of all our animals. We now have Coyote Creek Organic Feed Mill. We will be offering organic poultry feeds to the public in January of 2007. We will custom grind bulk orders, and we will also place 50 lb babs of our organic poultry feeds in your local feed store or farm co-op. You will find our organic eggs at Whole Foods Market in April of 2007. We are proud of our family farm and dedicated to developing the highest quality meats and eggs. We raise "solar-powered" animals as opposed to feedlot petroleum based animals which take about 30 barrels of petroleum products to get to your table, and often travel over 2,000 miles to get there. We are serious about getting food to tables within 100 miles of our farm. Call us and come by for a visit. Coyote Creek Farm, Jerry, Amy or Rob Cunningham, 13431
Klaus Lane, Elgin TX 78621, Jerry: (512) 940-5663; Amy: (512)
626-5538; Rob: (512) 567-6865. Cross Creek Cattle Company raises Beefmaster cattle on the rolling hills of Plantersville, Texas in Grimes County. We are only 45 minutes from Houston, Conroe, The Woodlands, Hempstead, Bryan/College Station, Brenham, and Madisonville, Our location enables us to supply families from very populous areas with lean, flavorful grassfed and grass-finished beef. If you are looking to fill your freezer with healthy beef, Cross Creek Cattle Company is your answer. We are a family-owned and operated cattle ranch. At this time, we offer pre-ordered whole, halves, and split sides. The charge is $3.50 lb. based on the hanging carcass weight. The cost of processing the animal is not covered, but the delivery of the animal to our local processing plant is included in the price. From birth our cattle thrive on our native and introduced grasses and legumes. Through intense pasture rotation, our cattle maintain great condition. We supplement the cattle's diet with kelp meal, alfalfa, and hay during the winter. We handle our cattle with low-stress methods and only raise docile, calm animals. At Cross Creek Cattle Company, we believe in raising cows the natural way: no antibiotics, no hormones, no synthetic fertilizers. We fully support groups wanting to co-op our beef. Please visit our website for more information or contact us by telephone or e-mail. Better yet, call for directions and come visit us. We would be happy to have you. Cross Creek Cattle Company, Kenton and Cathey Holliday,
6512 CR 207 B, Plantersville
TX 77363. (936) 825-5921. Cross Timbers Ranch is a small ranch located in Robertson County, Texas. We grow our food and animals in a synthetic chemical-free and environmentally responsible manner. Our beef is pasture raised and finished. They are moved frequently for good grazing of a fresh grass/legume mix. A DE, kelp and salt mix is fed free choice as a de-wormer/mineral mix. No growth hormones, antibiotics, chemicals, pesticides or animal by-products are used. Our beef is sold frozen by the split half (1/4),
half, whole or variety pack (on a limited basis). We only sell what we
breed and raise on the ranch. Cross Timbers Ranch, Don Hobart, PO Box 1072, Franklin
TX 77856-1072, 979-777-1877. Dalusa Ranch is an 80 acre ranch located about 70 miles east of Dallas near Emory, TX. We are a small operation, but offer 100% organic grass-fed beef that is raised just as God intended: no hormones, antibiotics, pesticides or chemicals are used on the property. We rotate pasture grazing on native Texas grasses. We have two natural ponds for water use. We feel our cows are the most content cows in east Texas! Our start in organic grass-fed beef came from necessity due to illness, and we want to help others to eat healthily. We understand firsthand the importance of chemical-free, natural fresh foods. Our beef is dry aged for 21 days to provide tender tasty beef, and wrapped in cellophane to help avoid contamination of beef with dioxins and phthalates from plastic wrapping. People with severe allergies can appreciate the benefit of our cellophane use. We are now selling beef pre-ordered as whole, halves, and split halves. We sell by the cut on site or can offer pick-up in Dallas at a site near Walnut Hill Lane and North Central Expressway. Our cuts of beef are now also available at Roy's Natural Market at 130 Preston Royal Village in Dallas. We also have two organic grass-fed bull calves and one organic grass-fed heifer for sale; they are Hereford mix. Pictures are available by e-mail. Dalusa Ranch and Gardens, Stephanie McCarter, 2755 Rains
County Road 1490, Point TX 75472. (903) 598-6822. Darby Farms is an East Texas based beef and dairy farm located near Gilmer Texas, which is approximately 100 miles east of Dallas. Cody and Rachelle Darby, along with girls Brynn and Josey, run approximately 200 beef cows that are all bred to registered Black Angus bulls. The beef cow herd is rotated on Bermuda/Bahai grass-based pastures. Their high quality diet results in an incredibly healthy and nutritious beef. We are committed to raising our animals humanely and naturally. We never implant our cattle with hormones and none of the animals are ever fed animal by-products or given antibiotics. This is our promise to you and we feel you should have a choice. Our beef is processed and vacuum packed at a local USDA inspected facility and the resulting beef is all natural, minimally processed with no artificial ingredients. We are proud of our natural beef and are honored to be able to offer it to our customers. The beef can be purchased by the whole, half or quarter. We also have some smaller packages available for those who have limited freezer space. Shipping or delivery is available. Darby Farms Natural Beef, Cody and Rachelle Darby, 9713
Giraffe Road, Gilmer TX 75644. (903) 725-7051. The ranchers of Davis Mountains Organic Beef L.L.C., located in Fort Davis, TX, rely on specific breed selection, strict land management practices, and a carefully monitored finishing process to produce great tasting beef. Our beef is certified 100% organic—free of hormones, antibiotics or preservatives. Everything that goes into our beef is "organic"—the grassland, the water, the feed, etc. Independent agents certify our land, animals, processes and packaging facility and certification inspections are performed annually. To order the best tasting beef you're likely to come across, visit us at our website or a Texas Central Market. Davis Mountains Organics Beef, Jackie Romano, PO
Box 1095, Fort
Davis TX 79734. Dewberry Hills Farm—the Omnivore's
Delight! From birth to processing, we take responsibility for every step of our broilers' lives. Our birds are raised on fresh green grass in movable chicken pens. They are never fed hormones or antibiotics or anything we would be afraid to eat ourselves. The taste and nutritional value of both our boilers and our eggs is absolutely wonderful. Our clients tell us that our birds are the best chickens that they've ever had the pleasure of eating. We feature a select number of ducks and
heritage turkeys seasonally. Please contact us soon if you are
interested in a 'real' turkey for the 2008 holiday season. Located just 50 miles from Austin and Bastrop, we have a home delivery service with a minimum order. We invite our clients and friends to visit us by
appointment on our farm to see how their food is raised. Warning: all
drop-in visitors will be put to work! Dewberry Hills Farm, Jane or Terry Levan, 5619
FM 1624, Lexington TX 78947. (512) 253-0008. DFW Grass Fed Beef provides free hand delivery to Dallas, Tarrant, Rockwall, Kaufman, Denton and Collin Counties. Your local resource for grass fed beef, we are a co-op of local ranchers determined to provide lean, healthy beef to the families of DFW at affordable prices. Since the days of the cattle drive, the quality of beef raised on Texas grass has been well documented. Our cattle are born, raised and finished on open grass pastures in the lush plains of Northeast Texas. We raise these animals on grass pastures to ensure a heart-healthy product chock-full of CLA, Omega-3-Fatty Acids, Vitamin E, HDL and Beta-Carotene. Our natural approach to raising cattle consists of open range feeding on native as well as improved grasslands. This method of cattle farming is safer for the environment, animals and our customers. Our animals are never held in confinement, are never fed antibiotics and never receive synthetic growth hormones or grain. Our cattle are finished on the highest quality forage available. This practice insures the best quality grass fed beef possible that is consistent in its clean flavor and tenderness. Our cattle are harvested locally in small facilities. This helps to ensure that each individual animal is treated humanely and without stress. Our grass fed beef is dry aged for 10-14 days to concentrate the meaty flavor and tenderize the beef. We are passionate about providing our customers with the healthiest, safest, highest quality, and most affordable beef in the DFW area. DFW Grass Fed Beef, David Hinkley, 155
Pole Bridge Road, Combine TX 75159. (214) 384-5179. Dominion Farms is a family owned and operated farm and is based on the Biblical principle of stewardship. We are located 75 miles north of Dallas in Denison, Texas. We raise the area's healthiest pasture raised beef, pork, chicken, and eggs. Our animals have a choice of many fresh grasses. Chemicals, antibiotics,preservatives and hormones are never used while raising our livestock. Our animals are always assured the healthiest growing environment with lots of sunshine, free space to roam, and fresh forages, and water. Our chickens produce full flavored eggs that are high in Omega 3 fatty acid and CLA, yet are low in cholesterol. Our broilers are lean and tasty and offer a healthy alternative to commercially grown poultry. The taste and tenderness of the meat is second only to the healthfulness of the product Our meats are low in saturated fat and free from unhealthy byproducts. We raise all our animals as stress free as possible. Dominion Farms, Jerry Bynum, 813
Well Road, Denison TX 75020. Double Bar A Ranch. Rolling hills, friendly faces, wide-open spaces. Camping, permanent access easements, grass feed. Your family will become a part of the Ranch with visits and e-mail updates. You may also own animals at the ranch. Chickens, beef, hogs, vegetables, pecans, pralines, pecan pies. Come join our family. Double Bar A Ranch, Jon Gammon, PO Box 557, Ben
Franklin TX 75415. (903) 325-4448. Drop Horn Cattle Company is owned and operated by the Homeyer family. We are located 60 miles south of San Antonio. We raise and buy commercial cattle for breeding and for selling grass fed beef. We have been practicing Holistic management since 1982, the practice that uses pasture rotation, monitoring, tools such as fire, herd impact, and just working with nature. We also have had the opportunity to learn first hand from Bud Williams the low stress handling techniques of moving cattle. Our feeders are fed only on grasses and forages and are vaccinated only for black leg and brucellosis. We also feed a mixture of mineral, salt and diatomaceous earth (for de-worming). If we have to treat a feeder for an illness, they are taken from the feeder herd. We feed our animals until around 22-24 months of age. We sell whole, halves, and quarters and will deliver within a 60 mile radius of Karnes City. We believe we have been given the talents from God to raise animals that are chemical free, pasture fed, and unstressed. We invite visitors to the ranch. Drop Horn Cattle Company, Bil, Cam and Lee Homeyer,
PO Box 596, Karnes
City TX 78118. (830) 780-3421. Edelen Farm, 3 E Brand Beef, produces grassfed beef, pastured poultry and honey. The beef and honey are available year round, and the poultry will be available starting in the spring of 2000. Edelen Farm, Greg and Lauren Edelen, RT 1, Box 228A, Alice TX 78332. (361) 668-8615. (409) 774-4307 (in Bryan, TX). Everything Jesus! Ranch is a 114 acre natural ranch that uses exclusively organic processes to raise and care for our milk and meat livestock. We have a licensed raw milk dairy and pastured meats of all kinds. Of course we use no pesticides, hormones, GMO feed, antibiotics or herbicides. We are God-certified, and are not certified by any government or private organizations. Our pastured beef is exclusively grass fed. We sell beef and pork in bulk as well as individual cut, one- to two-pound packages. We also sell chickens, eggs, raw milk, raw butter, raw cheese, raw yogurt (everybody says our yogurt is the best in the world!), a wide variety of familiar and rare heirloom salad greens and other vegetables, and homemade body and bath gels, laundry detergents and cleaners that are sodium laureth sulfate and paraben free. We also operate RawJesus! Living Foods Café here on the ranch! Come hungry! Sample farm-to-table cuisine while enjoying a five course meal including raw milk, butter, yogurt, cheeses, raw flaxseed crackers, smoothies, incredible salads with fruit infused balsamic/ranch dressing and, of course, our grass-fed meat, fresh off of the grill. The restaurant and dairy are open to the general public on Saturdays, all day. You can come and tour the dairy, milk a cow, harvest or plant in the gardens, ride horses or drive a horse and buggy, camp on our riverfront campsites, or stay in a guest cottage. Our regular customers come all through the week for meals, dairy products, fishing, camping…you name it! If you want to schedule a first-time visit on a day other than Saturday, please give me a call at the number listed above. Please visit our website to find out more about our ministry, school, summer camp and ministry opportunities for volunteers. God Bless You! Gina Everything Jesus! Ranch/MooJesus! Dairy, Gina Tillman-Young,
12061
FM 466, Seguin TX 78155. (830) 491-8557.
Family Farms Naturally – it's not just a name, it's our lifestyle and philosophy. We have always used organic and natural methods (composted manures, cover crops) to produce some of the finest quality, healthy, grass-fed beef and chevon in Texas – naturally! No Mystery Meat Zone! Our beef stock is from closed herds, no imports, no auctions, no mystery beef on the ranch or mixed in with our processing; each order is custom processed, TDA inspected and numbered. When you order BeefNaturally, ChevonNaturally, or NaturalSteakBurger, you can be assured it's fresh, inspected and processed humanely in an ultra-clean environment. We're custom growers for the professional chef and now for the backyard grill maestro as well as for families who enjoy healthy (ideal Omega ratio), nutritious and delicious gourmet quality meats and produce – naturally. Family Farms Naturally, J.R. (Jim) Suda, 407 Old
Srpingtown Road, Suite 120-301 (package/mailing address), Springtown
TX 76082.
(817) 550-3660 (FOOD). Farm To Market Beef are born and raised in south Texas and our headquarters about 40 miles south of San Antonio where they are grazed on south Texas native and improved grasses. Farm To Market Beef was founded because of our desire to spend more time with our family while doing something we are passionate about and believe in: sustainable locally grown food and high quality beef. Our cattle are raised in a sustainable manner without
the use of any hormones, antibiotics or grain. Our cattle are processed
at a locally owned Texas Department of Agriculture inspected facility.
We harvest our cattle at a fairly young age so a side of grass fed beef yields
around 130 pounds of boneless retail cuts, and a whole carcass usually
yields about 260 pounds. Please keep in mind that these weights are averages
and will vary, as each animal is different. Farm To Market Beef, Bob Meeks, 610
Aransas Street, Kenedy TX 78119. (830) 299-9814. Georgia’s Texas GrassFed Beef and Natural Meats is located on a farm and ranch just minutes north of downtown Houston. We are a sustainable operation with areas of the farm Certified Organic by the Texas Department of Agriculture. We own a meat processing facility in Bellville, Texas allowing us to control the quality of meat from birth to your table. Several other GrassFed Beef operations utilize our processing plant to process their beef. In addition to our GrassFed Beef operation we offer GrassFed Lamb, GrassFed Goat, Natural Pork, Pastured Poultry, and Certified Organic Turkey. We practice paddock rotation, grazing our animals on a particular pasture for no more than three days, then allow the pasture to recover for a minimum of three days before the next herd is rotated onto the pasture. Our pastureland is organically fertilized once a year providing our herd a luscious pastureland all year long. We never bring any cattle feedstock onto the farm, instead we bale our own hay providing us with adequate supply of feed should our pasturelands not be yielding enough grass during the winter months or draught. In 1992, Georgia Bost and her husband Richard Bost, along with a few of their friends, founded Texans for Urban Sustainability, a regional organization for organic technology for sustainability (TexUS ROOTS) in order to share their knowledge with farmers, ranchers, landscapers, nurseries, and landscape architects, and those who then created Green Movement Houston. Georgia's Texas GrassFed Beef & Natural Meats,
Charlie Hester, 14182 Cochran
Road, Waller TX 77484. (979) 921-0000. Glory Farms converted to the “simple” way of raising cattle and selling beef in the late 1990’s. We started “finishing” our animals on grass only and not subjecting them to man made chemicals by way of their feed. We let our pastures lay dormant for three years without any manmade fertilizers of insecticides added. In 2002, we moved locations, however, we continued the same philosophy. Our new pastures are ready and we are back in the grass finished business. Our next beef should be ready in November 2009. We will continue to furnish angus/angus cross steers, but we have changed direction a little. We are seeing the importance of smaller serving sizes and the need to produce smaller “finished” animals. We have entered into the mini Hereford business. These are smaller animals that reflect the size of animals my dad and grandfather raised. Our philosophy can be summed up very easily. We believe the old ways are better. Animals need to be raised naturally; they need to go a minimum of 6 months without medication before being sold for beef; they need to be “finished”; they need to have clean water and lots of grass; and they need to reflect and participate in the slow pace simple life we enjoy here at Glory Farms. Glory Farms, Robert Shipley or Kyle Shipley, 110
County Road 503, Fairfield TX 75840. (903) 389-2676 or (903)
879-4703. Glueck Farms raises predominately Black Angus calves that are low-stress weaned and then placed on good pasture. Cattle are always handled slowly and led by voice command to prevent stress. Less stress means better producing animals. Pastures of bermuda and native grasses are rotated frequently to provide good grazing. Fields are planted in hybrid sudan, redtop cane, wheat, oats, peanuts, or turnips to provide a variety of supplemental grazing. Sometimes fields are allowed to grow up in native crabgrass which makes excellent grazing for calves. When grazing is not good, calves are fed alfalfa hay and natural processed cottonseed pellets as supplements. Meat is processed in an inspected plant and then frozen. Grass-fed beef is available by the side or whole. Cisco, Texas is located 90 miles west of Ft. Worth and 50 miles east of Abilene on I–20. Highways 6, 206, and 183 intersect in Cisco. Glueck Farms, Herman Glueck, 918 County Road 169, Cisco TX 76437
(254) 442-1975. Good Earth Organic Farm is located in Northeast Texas, about an hour from the Dallas area. We offer organically grown produce, grass-fed lamb and free-range eggs. Our sheep and lambs are raised on pasture. We use no pesticides,no herbicides, no hormones, no cages/feedlots, etc.—see our website for complete details on the care we take in producing our products. We participate in local farmer's markets (updated on website) and deliver whole lambs to the Dallas area. You may also pickup at the farm. Co-op orders welcome. Good Earth Organic Farm, Paul Magedson, Lynn Magedson,
8629 FM 272, Celeste TX
75423. (903) 496-2070. Goodgrass Lamb offers lamb and mutton raised exclusively on forage and available only in season. Lambs are born in November and raised over winter on clovers, brassicas and hay, fattened in the spring on cool-season grasses and clovers, and usually ready for harvest starting in May and available until July or early August. Healthy ewes that fail to raise a lamb are taken out in March for mutton; there are never very many of these. We feed no supplements or grain, we do not medicate or implant our sheep. We do not use herbicides or pesticides. We use some conventional phosphorous fertilizer each year and are not organic. Whole lamb or mutton are available for custom slaughter. The rest of the crop is processed and available in retail cuts at local farmers markets or at the kitchen door. Call us. Goodgrass Lamb, John and Camille Bock, between Willis and
New Waverly in Montgomery County, TX. (936) 344-6450. GrassRoots Meats is committed to supplying all natural, grass-finished, hormone and antibiotic-free beef and lamb to health and quality conscious individuals who desire an enjoyable and flavorful alternative to standard commodity meat products. From birth until market our animals breathe fresh clean air, graze on lush green grass, and drink crystal clear water. Our business is built on the foundation of placing God and family first, and maintaining honesty and integrity throughout all phases of our operation. We like to think of our customers as friends and partners, and we want you to feel comfortable about buying your meat from someone you know and trust. Your comments and questions are welcome. GrassRoots Meats is located in the San Juan Mountains of southwestern Colorado, but we also have grazing leases in Oklahoma and New Mexico. Our meat is available year round, and is shipped in thermal lined freezer boxes. We can ship quite reasonably throughout the entire United States. Your meat will arrive still frozen and ready to put into your freezer. Our meat is dry-aged and USDA inspected. Select the individual retail cuts that you want or choose from one of our many packages. The meat is vacuum packaged, in stock and ready to ship, but halves and wholes are available by advanced order only. For more information, or to order our delicious meat, visit our website or e-mail us. For references be sure to check out the testimonials posted on our website. GrassRoots Meats, PO Box 429, Pagosa
Springs CO 81147.
(970) 731-1471 or toll-free (800) 681-2260. Green Cattle, LLC is an independent, family-owned and operated grass farm located just North of Lubbock, TX. We raise delicious grass-fed beef in a manner that is beneficial to the environment and humane for our livestock. Our beef is available in seasonal 10-lb shares that are available for purchase on farm or via quarterly delivery to Dallas, TX. We are raising a flock of laying hens and plan to begin selling pastured eggs in the Spring of 2011. Please see our website for additional details. Green Cattle Farm, Brian or Leslie Lohrding, 3522
CR 6100, Lubbock
TX 79415. (806) 744-0858. Greener Vision Farms would like to share our vision with you: farm fresh eggs from well-loved chickens, and local fresh produce and honey. We are located in downtown Kempner, Texas and convenient to the Killeen, Copperas Cove, and Lampasas areas (less than an hour from Temple, Leander, or Georgetown). Our signature product is farm fresh eggs. Our chickens are encouraged to roam free on 30 acres. Their houses are towed to new locations every six months to minimize impact on the land. They are fed scratch grains, non-medicated vegetarian chicken feed, and day-old-bread. No routine antibiotics are used. Our store is a separate property with 2 acres cultivated
and organically managed, though not certified organic. We use no chemical
fertilizers or poisons. We hope to produce as much as possible of what
we sell. We only sell produce from other growers if we can tell you exactly
who grew it and how it was grown. The store will be open seasonally (check
website for days and hours), but eggs are available year-round. Just
call or email and we’ll arrange to meet you with some. Greener Vision Farms, Michael and Heidi Phillips, 115 Peach Street, Kempner TX 76539. (254) 630-8494. E-mail: produce@greenervisionfarms.com. Website: http://www.greenervisionfarms.com. The Greer Farm practices sustainable agricultural practices. We are not organic, but are as close to it as we can practicably be. We have large, lush blackberries and wonderful blueberries. Our cattle are grass-fed Maine-Anjou. We raise the original French fullblood red and white cattle. We sell beef by the split quarter. Our cattle are raised in a stress free environment on lush pastures. We strive for our cattle to have good pasture year-round. We use a local butcher and the beef is dry aged for a minimum of 21 days. Our website has more detail. We have free range chickens and have farm fresh eggs available. We also have fresh vegetables in season. Greer Farm, Sid and Eva Greer, 1444
County Road 1125, Daingerfield TX 76538. (903) 645-3232. Harold Koehn Grass-fed Beef is located along the Texas-New Mexico state line south of Texline, Texas. We are in the business of raising grass-fed and fully finished (which means fully fattened) beef on our irrigated farm which includes winter annuals, cool season grasses and warm season grasses with legumes in the mix. On our farm we use cattle that are of a gentle disposition. We go to great length to keep them calm and handle them quietly. Our cattle are hearty and content, thriving on the best of environment, thus avoiding the use of harmful additives like hormones and antibiotics. Neither do we use artificial pesticides or other unnatural chemicals. Although there are many factors that can influence the flavor and tenderness of meat, marbling is the best indicator of flavorful, juicy meat. Grass fed beef has a uniquely robust flavor that brings back the memory of what beef is supposed to taste like: rich in taste and texture. Some people may have to learn to appreciate the difference from grain-fed to grass-fed beef. That shouldn't be difficult when you know it is much healthier for your body. Our goal is to have healthy soils that produce healthy plants that produce healthy beef that makes healthy people! Our beef is dry-aged and processed at a USDA inspected plant in Dalhart, Texas. The beef is available by the whole, half, quarter (ordered in advance, with a deposit), or by individual cuts. Harold Koehn Grass-fed Beef, Harold Koehn, 13034
FM 296, Texline, Texas 79087. (806) 377-6263. Homestead Healthy Foods has a number of products available, including pastured beef and chicken, smoked beef, and summer sausage. Beef is available in individual cuts. The chickens are fed a supplemental feed ration that contains organic flax oil, a source of omega-3 fatty acids. They also forage on grass. Meat is delivered to Austin, Texas, once a week, and shipping to other locations is also available. Call for details. We have a Cooking Guide that includes some of our favorite recipes for grassfed beef. Homestead Healthy Foods, Richard and Peggy Sechrist,
1313 West Live Oak Street, Fredericksburg TX
78624. (830) 997-2508 or toll free (888) 861-5670.
HooFin Wings Ranch is located in the Texas panhandle near Wichita Falls on the Red River. We farm wheat and raise purebred Murray Grey cattle. Murray Grey's are a breed that originated in Australia and are known for their high meat to bone ratio. This means more of the animal you buy is meat and not bone. Murray Grey's are a medium-framed breed cow that finishes well on grass. They don't need copious amounts of grain to finish such as the larger feed lot cows. Our cattle are never put into feed lots to finish them. They stay on natural pasture grasses so you get NATURALLY BETTER BEEF. Our beef animals have NO growth hormones or antibiotics. They are all pasture raised on native and winter grasses and are usually harvested in the winter/spring of the year. Our rotational grazing program assures they are always getting fresh tender grasses. Any of our beef animals that may need doctoring are taken out of our beef program and sold in the sale barn or used in our herd. Only hormone and antibiotic-free animals make it into our beef program. You won't be eating these chemicals if you buy our animals. We sell by the quarter, half, and whole animal. Your beef is vacuum packaged and ready for your freezer. If you are interested in purchasing purebred registered Murray Grey's, we have those also. For more information about these cattle, the meat packages, or detail on our operation, please check our web site. HooFin Wings Ranch, Jay Biedenharn, PO Box 136268,
Ft. Worth TX 76136. Ranch address: Near Burkburnett & Wichita
Falls, TX.
(817) 750-2468. Mobile/Ranch phone: (940) 632-9446. Jolie Vue Farms is the Boudreaux family farm nestled in the rolling hills of Washington County, Texas, 80 miles northwest of the state's largest city, Houston. Jolie Vue has many exceptional features made possible by the family's dedication to restoring it to a completely natural environment. Those features include the rejuvenation of 15 Texas native grasses throughout its meadows, and the preservation of its old wood forests which border the creek that bisects the farm. Our cattle enjoy the wide variety of native grasses and our pigs grow fat and happy in the fruits of the forest. Jolie Vue's primary marketing program is its Farm-to-Table CSA which provides a cooler of beef, pork and chicken each month to happy families in the Houston Metropolitan area. See our web site for details and contact us to join in the good health and pleasure of Eating Real Food, Naturally. Jolie Vue Farms, Glenn and HoniAnn Boudreaux, 11000
Tappe Road, Brenham TX 77833.
Farm mailing address: 3320 Sunset Boulevard, Houston TX 77005.
(713) 839-8610. JR Cattle Company produces purebred registered Texas Longhorn without hormones or antibiotics on a family ranch with native pastures. The cattle are all raised on the ranch in a humane, non-crowded manner. Texas Longhorns produce an extra lean meat since the cattle do not put on fat in the muscle as do the English breeds. Extra lean ground beef is available in one pound packages at $5.00 per package. Butcher calves are available for delivery to your packer at $2.50 per pound hanging weight. The goal of the management of the ranch is to provide an environment that will produce and maintain the maximum diversity of native plants and animals on the ranch while providing income and enjoyment for the owners and family. We have a strong belief that customers needs to know their food suppliers and the producers methods and practices so we encourage visits by potential customers. JR Cattle Company, Jeff McSpadden, Jr., PO Box 1551, Marble
Falls TX 78654. (830) 693-8822.
The Lazy A Ranch is located about one hour from Houston between Bellvilleand Hempstead. We use the highest standards and are certified by the American Grassfed Association and are Animal Welfare Approved. That ensures that our beef has had no hormones, no antibiotics, is grass fed with no grain, and is handled in a humane and gentle manner. Our beef is from the historic British White breed along with some Santa Gertrudis and Star 5 (Hereford cross) cattle. Our pastures are fertilized with organic liquid fertilizer and compost teas. Our production is scheduled to begin in the summer of 2010, with generic quarters, halves, or whole beef, as well as hamburger. The beef is dry-aged. Your British White beef is a precious commodity produced with care. For more information about the breed, see Britishwhite.com/cut_above.htm. For information on preparing your new beef, consult grassfedcooking.com. We also offer eggs from free-range pastured Plymouth Barred Rock and Rhode Island Red chickens and Mallard duck eggs in season. Pre-orders will reserve your product with a deposit. Please email your quantity and product desired for more information. Quantities are limited. Pickup will be available in Bellville and Houston. One free tour of the poultry and beef sections of the ranch is available to customers. Lazy A Ranch, Margot or Bill Heard, 1059
Kurt Road, Bellville TX 77418. Lovejoy Farm is located in Bosque County near Lake Whitney in central Texas. We raise clean, pasture finished beef. Our pastures are free of chemical fertilizers and toxic sprays and have been for the past 7 years. We use a natural dry fertilizer and supplement by foliar feeding with liquid molasses and active soil amendments. We have selected Senepol as our beef breed for their well known resistance to flies and parasites, tolerance to heat, calm nature and tender meat. Our animals are raised on grasses, legumes, water and minerals. The mineral mixture contains diatomaceous earth to insure all micro-nutrients are available and the animal has a clean healthy digestive system. No growth hormones, antibiotics, or chemical wormers are used, ever! Our pasture finished beef is custom processed at a local USDA-inspected facility and cut and wrapped to your specifications. Our beef is sold by hanging weight in halves. Prices vary somewhat, so please call for a current price. Our clean grassfed hamburger is also available at Nature's Health Nook, Tin Top Village, HWY 22, Whitney, TX 76692. Lovejoy Farm, George and Henrietta Lovejoy, 465
County Road 3635, Clifton TX 76634.
(254) 622-8836. LT Beef is named for our brand, LT. This stands for Lauren and Tom, the cattle raisers, handlers and owners of our cows, for Lean and Tender, which accurately describes the beef we sell, and for Lindenau, Texas, where our cows live. We serve the San Antonio and South Texas market. We offer grass-fed, young, tender beef for sale by the quarter or the side. Our beef is raised naturally, never fed grain or other non-ruminant feed, free of growth hormones, synthetic parasiticides and antibiotics. Our cows and calves are always on pasture, never penned or in a feed lot and have good grass to graze through knowledgeable pasture management and rotational grazing. We can coordinate and sell a quarter, half, or whole beef to individuals, a group of family and friends, or a buying club. Our primary purpose is to make nutritious and delicious grass-fed beef available to our friends and neighbors in South Texas at a price that is fair and covers the costs of growing unsubsidized, sustainable beef. We also believe that it’s the right thing to do for the animals in our care. Visit our website for more information or to order. LT Beef, Lauren Bartholomew, San
Antonio TX. McClatchy Ranch is located 25 miles southwest of Brownwood, Texas near the historic town of Trickham which was the last stop before Kansas on the John Chisum cattle drive trail. The steers bedded down for the night in a horseshoe loop of the creek where we now raise grass-fed and grass-finished beef. The McClatchy family has been Hereford breeders for three generations and have won awards for the high quality of our registered breeding stock. Every cow dreams of life on the McClatchy Ranch and a few special ones have enjoyed this idyllic setting for generations. We begin with the right genetics add grass and tender loving care. Our cattle have been tested and shown to have high levels of the tenderness genes and sonogram muscle density tests have shown our entire herd to be tender. Our cowboys have been trained in gentle handling techniques to assure that the herd stays placid and content. Our cattle are not your ordinary commercial herd, they're something special and almost pampered but still hardy enough to thrive in our ever changing heart of Texas environment. No grain. No feedlot. No antibiotics. No added hormones. No pesticides. We offer beef by the whole, half and split-quarter cut to your order. McClatchy Ranch, Merridee McClatchy and Jeanie McClatchy, 12300
FM 1176, Bangs TX 76823. (325) 348-3049. Mule Creek Farm is a family owned farm that has been in business since 2002. We specialize in Heritage Breed Turkeys, Heritage Breed Chickens and Hereford Hogs. Our farm maintains a large flock of free range Delaware chickens for egg production, turkey eggs are available (very seasonal) for those wanting something less traditional. Free range Grass Fed turkeys are available in the fall and free range chickens are available winter, spring and fall. There is a limited number available each season, so advance reservations are appreciated. Frozen products maybe available year around. We offer garden fresh naturally grown vegetables in season. In our garden we use no pesticides and only natural fertilizer. Grass fed Pork will be available starting February 2008, arrangements can be made for custom processing (advance notice is required). We use Hereford hogs in our pastured pork operation. Mule Creek Farm never uses feed that has growth hormones, antibiotics or steroid. We feed our poultry and pork a well balanced specially blended feed along with fresh air, sunshine, grass and bugs. We pride ourselves on offering an excellent product a reasonable price. Shipping on all our products will be available soon. Mule Creek Farm, William Blevins, PO Box 1581, Hawkins
TX 75765. (903) 521-4150.
“My Rancher” Meats retail store is located approximately 45 minutes east ofDallas on I-30. We specialize in grass finished beef, dry-aged for enderness. We are also excited to offer a variety of other natural products including: all natural uncured bacon and sausages, pasture raised chicken, hand-made cheeses and yogurts, tamales, a wide variety of beef and exotic jerky, and canned goods. In order to ensure quality, My Rancher grass-finished beef is USDA processed and certified E. coli free by an independent lab. It is then dry aged for tenderness and flavor. My Rancher offers a variety of cuts to fit every household, including a full selection of premium grilling steaks, ground steak and whole and split sides of beef for bulk orders. We also do specialty cuts and are known for our SteakBurger, available in one pound packages or in ½ or ¼ pound patties. CryoVac airtight packaging provides flash-frozen freshness. We can ship directly to you or if you are in the area, consider stopping by our store at 2393 I-30 East, Greenville, TX to see the variety of products we carry. Additionally, we offer delivery to a limited area – call to see if we deliver to your area. My Rancher 100% grass-finished beef is raised from birth on our own pastures. We can therefore certify our product as natural and free of hormones or antibiotics. Our animals are pampered with the utmost care and attention. We are certified by the American Grassfed Association and Animal Welfare Approved. We welcome you to visit our ranch and see for yourself how a stress free environment grows fabulous beef. Call for a personal tour of the ranch to put your mind at ease about where your food comes from. My Rancher, 2393
East I-30, Greenville TX 75402. (903) 455-4040. Mustang Creek Farm is the name of our place in North-East Texas. We grow a variety of plants which nourish our cattle, sheep and goats. With rotational grazing as a pasture management tool it’s the animals who take care of the pastures. Naturally, we have to decide which one of the over 70 paddocks needs to be grazed at what time, for how long and by which species or combination of species. This gives us good control on our pastures without using pesticides or commercial fertilizers. At weaning time, the calves, lambs and goat kids form their own herds which are given first choice when it comes to pasture selection. That’s the key to good growth, tenderness and marbling in beef. Knowing that everything on our farm grows from what nature provides, without the help of the chemical or pharmaceutical industry, gives us the assurance that the meat from our animals can only be very healthy. All meat which we sell as “grass-fed” meat, comes from our animals which were born and raised on our farm. We do not buy stocker calves or lambs to feed them grass and hay for a period of time and sell them as grassfeds! Mustang Creek Farm, Myriam or Luis Frick, 11776 FR
410 S, Bogata TX 75417.
(903) 632-4865 (home) or (903) 249-2411 (cell). Nature's Way Family Farm is located in central east Texas. We raise some of our own food and have some left over for sale. We raise pastured pigs, and they have access to the wood lot, too. We also sell pastured broiler chickens, and pastured eggs. Our chickens (and pigs) have access to sunshine, bugs, and grass at all times. I also hand milk our grass fed milk Jersey cows and make butter and yogurt. I plant a large garden in the spring. I use compost, and other organic amendments, but I am not certified organic. We sell our products right from the farm and occasionally go to farmers markets in the surrounding area (Palestine, Corsicana, Tyler, Waco). We do not use any chemicals on our animals, or our soil. I add compost and other organic amendments to the pasture, for the use of our own animals, and usually use our own hay. We use apple cider vinegar, Basic H, DE, and rotational grazing to combat parasites. Our products may or may not be available all year round. We mainly farm for family use, so please call if you are in our area to see what is available. Nature's Way Family Farm, Chris Ludwick, 104 CR 523, Fairfield
TX 75840. (903) 389-4806. Nitschke Natural Beef is produced from cattle raised from birth on our family
ranch, the Circle N, near the DFW Metroplex in Jefferson
County, OK. Our mostly-Angus herds graze their entire lives on large,
rolling prairie pastures. We sell frozen beef in 40-lb bulk packages,
mixed quarters, sides and wholes in southern Oklahoma and North Texas
through our website, but do not ship at this time. Delivery can be arranged
by appointment. Nitschke Natural Beef, LLC., Lauren and Gary Nitschke,
Ranch: The Circle N Ranch, Waurika,
Jefferson County, OK, Office: 1217
N Tyler Street, Dallas TX 75208. (214) 942-0518 (office), (214)
207-5573 (cell). Olde World Farms is a family farm owned and operated by John and Karla McLaughlin. Olde World Farms raises Grassfed Beef and Lamb and Pastured Chicken and Pork. All our animals spend their lives on pasture. Our beef and lamb only receive hay and natural minerals as supplements to their grass-based diet and are never fed grain. In addition to pasture, our chickens and pigs only receive our own blend of feed and minerals. None of our animals ever receive antibiotics, artificial hormones or steroids or animal by-products of any kind. Our animals are humanely raised, and are never kept penned or in confined, unsanitary conditions. For our beef, we select only medium-framed British breeds. The cattle are ultrasounded to determine tenderness before harvesting to ensure the cuts are of the highest possible quality. Our beef is dry-aged for 14 to 21 days, producing a tender and richly-flavored meat. For our lamb program, we raise Katahdins. Katahdins, a type of “hair sheep,” do not produce wool and since they don’t produce wool, they lack lanolin glands in their skin, resulting in a mild, delicately flavored meat which is generally preferred by our customers. Our Tamworth pigs are a heritage breed known for their ability to survive and prosper on pasture. Their red skin gives them an advantage in the heat and humidity of Southeast Texas. Their affinity for acorns gives them a unique flavor that can’t be matched. The laying hens and broilers are raised on pasture in portable coops that are moved throughout the pasture to provide access to fresh grass and tasty insects. Our meats are available at the farm by appointment or at the Houston Bayou City Farmers Market which operates every Saturday ("rain or Shine") from 8am to noon. Olde World Farms, John or Karla McLaughlin, 25040
Gay Lake Road, Montgomery TX 77356, (936) 597-3999. At Open Range Cattle Co., we are committed to producing our beef at a higher level of safety. Our goal is to provide a safe, healthy, great-tasting beef for our customers. Using methods of our grandfathers, we are proud of the beef we produce. We do not use chemicals of any kind, no growth hormones, or antibiotics. We only feed fine quality pasture, hay we produce, and hay produced for us, adhering to our strict guidelines. We realize you can purchase grass fed beef from many local producers, but at Open Range Cattle Co. we believe our pride in our product, commitment to customer care, and great value will keep you coming back time and again. We invite you to check us out. Located in Paradise, Texas, we are only a short drive from the DFW Metroplex. Come see for yourself why Open Range Cattle Co. is your choice for natural grass fed beef. Open Range Cattle Co., Mike Brewer, 1913 FM 2123, Paradise
TX.
(817) 247-3381. PaiDom strives to grow and market the finest quality, drug-free and grass-finished meats. In their fourth year of operation, PaiDom provides pastured lamb, beef, poultry. Shipment via UPS 2-day air is available for orders of 50 pounds. Variety packs are available that combine different types of meat. Visit our website or call for more information. PaiDom, Alan Birkenfield, HCR 1, Box 56, Nazareth TX
79063. (806) 945-2218. Pendleton Ranch, Gainesville, TX breeds and raises grass fed Texas Longhorn beef. No steroids, pesticides, growth hormones are used at our ranch. The meat is processed at one of two excellent USDA meat processors in our county. The meat is available through our local Gainesville, TX health food store, The Nutrition Cupboard. Pendleton Ranch, Craig & Vicki Morrow, 3200
CR 218, Gainesville, TX 76240. (940) 665-9943. Prairie Oasis Farm is a family farm located 6 miles west of Weatherford in Parker County, approximately 30 minutes from Fort Worth. We have raised grassfed products since 1994. We offer pastured poultry—Chickens and Holiday Turkeys—and Grassfed (not grainfed) Gourmet Beef and Lamb that all graze in native prairie grasses. There are no chemicals on our pastures and we do not give our animals any medications/antibiotics/hormones. Pastured poultry is sold fresh from the farm in the spring and fall. (Call for availability between seasons.) holiday turkeys are also fresh from the farm in November (just before Thanksgiving). Grassfed gourmet ground beef is sold by the pound and the grassfed lamb is sold by the half and whole in late spring and late summer. Prairie Oasis, Allen Boone, 1020
Fox Road, Millsap TX 76066.
(817) 341-1412.
Re-creation Ranch. Our all-natural lean beef is the product of 20 years of development by crossing Limousin, a beef bred in Europe for its tenderness, leanness, and carcass weight, and the Texas Longhorn, which by natural selection provides excellent maternal instincts and foraging habits of natural vegetation. This combination produces a more nutritious, tasty, lean and wholesome beef. We raise our beef on our rotationally grazed pastures for their entire life, from birth to processing. While not certified organic, we raise them in a manner that exceeds organic standards. We use no growth stimulants, antibiotics or feed supplements. Our animals are selected for processing as they mature to a preferred age and size. We sell our beef directly to the consumer, working from a list of buyers on a first come first served basis. Processing is done by a local custom processor to our specifications and sold by the portion of the processed animal, i.e., 1/2,1/4,1/8, etc. Yield is normally 300 to 350 pounds carcass weight. Example: If a carcass produces 80 pounds. of ground beef and customer orders ¼ beef, they receive 20 pounds of ground beef. Prices range from $4.50 per ¼ to $4.95 per 1/16. Plus shipping and handling if desired. We also sell animals live for those who wish to buy and handle processing themselves. We encourage customers to visit our ranch and see how our animals are raised. Re-creation Ranch, Jim or Rosanne Smalley, 1090
FM 1534, Peoria/ Hillsboro, TX, 76645. (254) 580-9668. E-mail: farmerjim@hillsboro.net Rehoboth Ranch is located 45 miles northeast of Dallas. We raise beef, lamb and poultry on pastures untainted by pesticides, herbicides, and synthetic chemical fertilizer. No hormones/steroids or antibiotics are given to the animals. Beef and lamb are raised and finished on grass—no feedlots or grain. Chickens and turkeys are raised on pasture in moveable pens, free-ranging during daylight hours. Ground beef and chicken are available year-round at the ranch. Beef and lamb cuts are available seasonally. Turkeys are available for Thanksgiving. Call for availability. Rehoboth Ranch, Robert Hutchins Family, 2238 County
Road 1081, Greenville TX
75401. (903) 450-8145. Rockin L Dorpers. We started raising sheep in northeast Texas about one and a half years ago. We chose Dorpers because they are hair sheep and shed, therefore no shearing. They lamb every 8 months, the meat is better with no strong "lamb taste." Carcass weight is 57– 58% compared to 51% for most other breeds. They grow very fast.The Dorpers raise good lambs on forage where most sheep barely exist. We raise our lambs on grass and sometimes have to feed a little hay. we supplement with a mineral mix of Sea Salt, Sea kelp and Diatomaceous earth. We worm with Garlic Barrier. We believe Grass Fed to be much better than "Organic" as organic tells you what they don't use, nothing about what they do use. We leave the rams in year round so usually have butcher lambs for sale. We have breeding stock for sale also. Fullblood rams, percentage & purebred rams. We usually have ewe lambs for sale, both percentage and purebred. Our ewe lambs are at least 6 months old and ready to breed. Or possibly bred. Visit our website or give us a call. We are at Mt Vernon, on Interstate 30, 100 miles east of Dallas. Rockin L Dorpers, Art & Linda Fredrickson, 2724
Hwy 37 N, Mount
Vernon TX 75457. (903) 537-3194. Rockin L Lowlines. When I was diagnosed with CIDP and was not able to work much we looked for an alternative to our Dorper sheep. We found that for small acreages the Lowline beef cattle are perfect. Lowlines require much less work than the sheep and are very easy to manage. They are more like pets than cattle, and kids love them. They don't require a lot of feed and they return much higher profits than full size cattle or sheep. They are also more ecologically friendly because they are easier on the pastures than full size cattle. Lowlines finish well on grass and they are great for natural, health conscious programs. We sell our Lowline cross steers for meat. Do you have a small acreage? Lowlines qualify you for an agricultural tax exemption if you only have 3 or 4 acres. This alone will save you enough to pay for them. Along with feed efficiency and ease of handling you get the advantages of premium prices. At the 2006 national lowline sale 54 head, (40 fullbloods and 14 percentage females and 3 percentage bulls) averaged over $5500 per head! Lowlines are a joy to work with and very rewarding financially, and the fact that they are the best beef on the market helps. Rockin L Lowlines, Art & Linda Fredrickson,
2724 Hwy 37 N, Mount
Vernon TX 75457. (903) 537-3194. The Rocking S.O.B. Ranch—oh, that stands for Sandy or Billye—is located in Eastland County. Our animals are all grass fed; of course, with no antibiotics or hormones. We sell beef by whole or half or have individual cuts available. We also have free-range eggs. Contact us by e-mail or phone. Some of our products are also available through Owens' Organic, Nature's Medicine Shoppe, and Honey Bee Natural Foods, all in Brownwood TX. See Texas–Beyond the Farm for details. Rocking S.O.B. Ranch, Sandy Doss, PO Box 617, Rising
Star TX 76471. (254) 643-3700. Ross Valley Ranch, members of the American Grassfed Association, features
certified Red Angus cattle with pasture to plate genetics. Our dry-aged beef is offered as split halves, halves, or whole, processed to your order. It is priced under "Preferred Angus" at retail stores and available year-round. We only sell what we breed and raise. Ross Valley Ranch, Lloyd and Marie Robinson, PO Box
1, Bryson TX 76427.
(940) 392-2123. Physical address: 1167 Ross Valley Road. Sand Creek Farm & Dairy is a family farm nestled in the rolling hills near Cameron, TX. We milk Jersey and jersey cross cows on a grass based, grain-free, rotational grazing system. Our cows are tested and free of BLV (bovine leukemia virus), TB, Brucellosis, BVD (bovine viral diarrhea) for your protection and ours. Our pastures are organically managed for forage quality and mineral content to provide nutrient dense milk. Dairy Items: Whole Milk, Skim Milk, Raw Milk Cheeses, Ice Cream, Yogurt+, Butter, Whey. All dairy products are raw, non-pasteurized, non-homogenized, pastured, grass fed diet, hormone-free, antibiotic-free, humanely raised. + Note: yogurt is pasteurized by process Meat Items: Pastured Broilers and Pastured Pork—Soy-free, mixed whole grain non-certified organic feed, hormone-free, antibiotic-free, humanely raised. Pastured Lamb and Beef—Hormone-free, antibiotic-free, humanely raised. Other Items: Pastured Eggs—Soy-free, mixed whole grain non-certified organic feed, hormone-free, antibiotic-free, humanely raised. Honey— Filtered and bottled, no added ingredients, all natural. By Texas law, raw milk products must be picked up on the farm under threat of prosecution from the State. Therefore many families around the State have formed groups to come to the farm to pick up their items. They come weekly, monthly and every other month. Ask us if there is a group near you. A limited number of Farm Memberships are offered each year giving members a discounted price on milk and eggs at the farm. Meat items can be purchase by the quarter, half or whole for discounted prices. Sand Creek Farm, Ben and Alysha Godfrey, 1552
CR 267, Cameron TX 76520. (254) 697-2927. Shades of Green Farm, located near Bastrop in the Austin area, began raising pastured meat chickens in early 2008. We began farming to produce food that meet our needs for healthy nutrition, our values for the humane treatment of animals and our goal to support sustainable agriculture. We believe it is possible to feed the people without killing the planet. Eat local! Healthy food comes from healthy land. We enhance the biology of the fields by composting, rotating pastures, growing the farm slowly, allowing the land to ‘rest’, and living small and gently in our home. While not yet certified organic, our fields have not received chemical treatment for years. Our chicken feed comes from Coyote Creek Organic Feed Mill in Elgin. We raise strong birds from French breeding stock, who take full advantage of the open-door, free ranging life they have out on our fields. Chicks are raised with great care and appreciation, from the baby brooder through each pasturing stage—their health and happiness matter. They have a pretty fun life here—come and visit! Our USDA-certified meat chickens are offered via direct farm to consumer sales, at Bastrop Farmers' Market, through stores and restaurants—folks love the texture and flavor! Sold live or dressed (fresh only within 24 hours of processing, fresh-frozen thereafter). Some deliveries may be arranged. Call or email for more information. Shades of Green Farm, Julie Assata, Susan Beckwith,
PO Box 866, Bastrop
TX 78602. (314) 623-9428. Shudde Ranch Beef is natural beef, 100% grassfed on oats, summer grazer and Bermuda grass. We use no pesticides, no antibiotics, no hormones or steroids—All Natural!! We sell and ship directly to our customers in variety boxes or halves and quarters. Our beef is from breeding stock that is naturally low fat and low cholesterol. It is tested tender, processed at a local USDA inspected plant, and packaged in convenient boneless cuts. We focus on the nutrition of our beef—of our grasses—of our soil. Shudde Ranch Beef, Gerry or Janelle Shudde, PO Box
415, Highway 187 South 10894, Sabinal TX 78881.
(830) 988-2155. Slanker's is the nation's Internet Store for grass-fed meats. Meat offerings include: 100% Grass-Fed Beef, 100% Grass-Fed Lamb, 100% Grass-Fed Goat, 100% Grass-Fed Pork, 100% Grass-Fed Bison, Wild Ocean Caught Alaskan Salmon, Raw Milk 100% Grass-Fed Cheeses, Pastured Butter, Pastured Chicken and Pastured Heritage Turkey. Also available are Condiments, Macadamia Nut Cooking Oils, Walnut Oil, Steak Dance, Real Salt, and more, much more. All orders are custom built (you pick and choose exactly the cuts and products you want in each order) starting at 15 pounds. Volume price discounts kick in at 67 pounds, 134 pounds, and over 201 pounds. Meats are shipped 52 weeks a year to a clientele in all 50 states and beyond. Slanker's Web site is loaded with outstanding essays covering a wide range of topics involving health and real foods. Plus it hosts an outstanding Science Links Page that is educational and practical. Voted the most informative web site on the Web that markets grass-fed meats by Internet Surfers. In addition, Slanker's offers a free newsletter that is a real newsletter with a no holds barred approach. Slanker's Grass-fed Meats, Ted Slanker, 3255 CR
45400, Powderly TX
75473. (866)-SLANKER (752-6537) or (903) 732-4653. Sloans Creek Farm is a family farm located in Northeast Texas at the northern edge of the rolling Blackland Prairie. We have gone from a typical, conventional Angus beef cattle and horse farm to a Non-Certified Organic, Sustainable, Grass-based Family Farm. We focus on quality grassfed meats in the form of Grainless Red Poll Beef, Salad Bar St. Croix Hair Sheep, and Grainless Myotonic Goat, all of which are heritage livestock breeds produced strictly on grass. We don't use Hormone Implants, Routine Antibiotics, or Chemical Dewormers in our livestock production. We are trying to take care of God’s Creation, the way we believe He would like, sustainably and organically. We market thru on farm private treaty sales of livestock and hay. We also market our grainless meats in the form of wholes, halves, and quarters from the point of slaughter. Currently, meat shipping isn’t an option. Animals are purchased with a purchase deposit fee of $100 for beeves and $50 each for sheep and goats. We then transport the animal to the point of slaughter. For more information, availability, current pricing, and accepted forms of payment contact us. Promoting Heritage Livestock Thru Good Eating!! Sloans Creek Farm, Cathy and Nathan Melson, 3385
E State Highway 56, Dodd
City TX 75438. (903) 583-4951. SMS Ranch, located in the beautiful Texas Hill Country near Fredericksburg, is family owned and operated. Our cattle are primarily Hereford and Angus cross. We strive to produce a black calf. We have learned that an important factor in producing tender meat is having gentle, docile cows. As we select replacement heifers, disposition is as important as confirmation. Working with gentle stock is safer for the livestock and easier for us. We operate on organic principles, but have not yet achieved organic certification. Our pastures have not seen herbicides or fertilizers for over 15 years. Herd health is maintained by frequent pasture rotation. We do not use any antibiotics or hormones. We do use preventative vaccines for our calves at 30 to 60 days of age. This herd has been wholly owned by our family. Many of the cows have lineage back to the first cows brought to the ranch by our parents over 50 years ago, and the lineage actually begins with our grandfather's herd, which was established in the early 1900s. We know where these cows have been all their lives: they are Texan born and raised. Calves are available for slaughter beginning in May. This is dependent upon the weather. We do not supplement our slaughters with grain, they are raised and finished in the same native pastures in which they were born. This means that the animals feed on a broad variety of plants, which in turn produces a healthier animal and a more flavorful meat. In 2004 we began offering 24-month-old calves for slaughter. These animals have a higher degree of marbling than calves in the 14 to 18 month old range. We have USDA labeling and are able to offer packages with assorted cuts of meat. SMS Ranch, Chuck Schmidt, 110
East Highway Street, Fredericksburg TX 78624. Star Haven Farms is owned and operated by Ray and Karen Hadaway, and has been in our family since the 1930s. We are located 35 miles east of Bryan College Station, TX (home of Texas A & M University) near Iola. We raise grassfed beef, Boer meat goats, and eggs from pastured chickens. At Star Haven Farms our cattle are rotationally grazed on 40 acres of pastureland, and are raised on mother's milk, grasses, alfalfa and clover. They do not receive grain, hormones, antibiotics, or other chemicals. Our hens roam the pastures dining on all the green grass, bugs, frogs and lizards they can eat, but we do supplement with natural hen scratch. Our beef is processed at Readfield's Meat Market in Bryan, a locally owned and operated Texas State inspected meat cutter. We sell our beef by the side, split quarter (evenly divided cuts from both the fore and hind quarters), and in small and large variety packs for those with limited freezer space. Shipping is available within Texas. We are also making monthly deliveries to Katy and Brenham. We also offer a limited number of Boer show wethers for FFA and 4H projects and quality Fullblood and Percentage Boer breeding stock throughout the year. Star Haven Farms, Ray and Karen Hadaway,
17754 CR 124, Iola
TX 77831. (936) 394-9072. SteakBurger is 100% grassfed beef from the Johnson Ranch near Dallas, TX. We don't feed any grain. No hormones, no antibiotics, nothing but grass. Our product is unique because it is actually all the cuts of beef, including the steaks, ground up. It is true "SteakBurger"—and that's not just marketing hype. Our SteakBurger patties may very well be the best grilled burgers you will ever taste. We ship all over the US. SteakBurger, Andrew Johnson, 1002 Sevier Road, Milford TX 76670.
(972) 493-4777. Stephenson Farms is a grassfed farm. We raise chickens ("pastured poultry") for meat & eggs and a have few cattle for "grassfed beef". The term "Grassfed" means all of our livestock are raised on pasture with constant access to grass to forage on. We do not feed antibiotics, medicated feeds, animal byproducts, or growth hormones. We produce rich tasting gourmet quality food that is a healthier alternative to conventionally grown livestock products. It's all about the grass! We're located in Santa Fe, Texas in Galveston County. We serve individuals, gourmet restaurants, and health food stores in the Houston/Galveston area. Beef and meat birds are seasonal. We have eggs year round. Please visit our website for price and availability. Stephenson Farms, Deb and Steve Stephenson, 11607
29th Street, Santa
Fe TX 77510. (409) 925-1815. Talltex Beef. "Tender and good for the Heart," is our motto. We achieve this through cross breeding of Angus, Belgian Blue, and Wagyu. Check out BelgianBlue.org for more information on meat quality. We sell our genetically tender beef in halves, quarters, or eighths of beef, and ground beef. We have our beef processed at two family owned butchers where it is aged for true beef flavor. Processing is included in our price so you get "natural beef at unnatural prices." Call and we can meet you, or we can deliver to your house or you can stop by Dalhart Processing in Dalhart, or Brown's Meat Locker in Stratford. We also sell our beef at the Amarillo Farmers Market on Saturday mornings during the summer, or at the Dixon Co-op in Dixon, New Mexico. Our brand, Talltex on the Valentine, is based on land that was originally owned by Mrs. Valentine. She was born on Valentines and lived to be 104 years old. Talltex Beef, David and Christine Meyer, 824 E 8th, Dumas,
TX 79029.
(806) 934-4118. Terrell Ranch is located north of Commerce, Texas, surrounded by crop fields and beautiful country side. The 185-acre farm changed to organic production in 2000 and has specialized in high quality (non-certified) organic beef production. The size of the farm limits the number of animals produced in any one year to about 50, and our carefully nurtured product can be likened to an exclusive wine. Our beef is raised guilt free! Our cattle live on grass in large fields 24/7/365 as they are supposed to. We do not administer antibiotics in the feed (a standard feedlot approach) or growth hormones. No artificial fertilizers, genetically modified feed or growth promoting agents are used. You can purchase beef by the side or by the whole. Our meat dry ages for 14 days and our butcher will help you choose how you want your meat cut and wrapped. All of our meat is delivered frozen and shrink wrapped, and labeled with the cut of meat and the weight on each package. Visit our website for all the information you'll
need to place your order for Terrell USDA inspected organic beef. Texas Criollo Beef. Warren Ranch produces 100% grass-fed, pasture raised Criollo beef under our brand “Texas Criollo Beef.” Criollo beef is exceptionally lean, tender and flavorful with all of the health benefits people have come to expect from grass-fed beef. Criollo beef has been proven in DNA testing to rival Kobe beef (from Wagyu cattle) for tenderness and Angus beef for quality, yet is family affordable. Criollo beef is 50% leaner than “feed lot” beef and our customers tell us there is no comparison on taste. Criollo are superbly adapted for the environments of the North American southwest. Renowned for their hardiness, fertility, gentle nature and longevity, the animals themselves can reduce the beef industry’s environmental impact. Our cattle spend their entire lives roaming spacious pastures in Central Texas. We use no hormones or antibiotics. Our beef may be ordered online at our website. We provide free delivery in the Dallas/Fort Worth area and sell at the Dallas Farmers Market on Fridays & Saturdays. Or your order can be shipped for a nominal fee or you can pick up at our ranch in Whitney, Texas. Texas Criollo Beef, Kenneth Woodell, PO Box 1649,
Whitney
TX 76692. (254) 337-0263. Texas Longhorn Cooperative raises grass-fed Texas Longhorn beef. The Texas Longhorn is high in taste, and low in calories, fat and cholesterol. It is in fact lower in all these categories than white chicken meat. Longhorn beef is naturally lean; no trimming is necessary to make our ground beef and steaks all 98% lean, and our sausages 85–88% lean.
Please visit our website www.txlonghorncoop.org to see the great variety of the leanest meat available anywhere.You will love the taste, texture and even the aroma of genuine Longhorn beef. Our animals are 100% grass fed from birth to processing, raised free roaming on pastures their entire life, have never been confined to a feed lot, and are never fed or injected with any steroids or hormones. Our beef is available through our online store and at the Dallas Farmers Market (Thursday-Sunday) Waxahachie Farmers Market, the Hillsboro Farmers Market, and the Van Alstyne Farmers Market, and the Garden Harvests Organic Farm, FM 1387, Waxahachie, TX. Shipping is available. Texas Longhorn Cooperative, George Slayton or Gary
Kudrna, PO Box 452, Rice
TX 75155. (903) 326-4069 or (214) 893-1770. Texas Ranch Beef produces grass fed Longhorn and Longhorn-cross Charolais beef pastured on its three ranches known as Texas Ranch Life, totaling 4,000 acres of rich pasture country in Austin County. Our 600 Longhorn cows have exceptional vigor, good frames, muscle structure, hardiness, and are naturally resistant to disease and travel exceptionally well—this makes them the best mama cows for raising calves on grass range conditions without grain-based supplemental feeds. Texas Longhorn cows crossed with Charolais bulls produce an extra lean meat with good muscle size showing no fat in the muscle. We also produce pure Longhorn calves for beef. Our cattle are high in Omega-3 and CLA and tenderness is good. All beef is raised from calves born on the ranch and we certify our meat to be 100% natural grass fed beef free of hormones and antibiotics. We have been in the cattle ranching business for over 40 years. The native grass pastures are managed through rotational grazing, holistic practices and seasonal use to enhance good grasses and forage for the cattle. Yearling cattle are grown out to 600–700 pounds on native prairie grass pastures, some of which are overseeded with rye grass in the winter. Cattle are raised in large pastures about 400-plus acres each. They are handled quietly by horseback and in a low stress manner to avoid sickness and the need for antibiotics and other medicines. Unstressed cattle on good native grass pastures means beef that is healthy, hormone and antibiotic free, and in prime condition for harvest. Texas Ranch Beef is processed and inspected in a USDA approved facility, vacuum packaged, fresh-frozen and supplied year-round. We offer a variety of cuts including steaks, ground meat, hamburger in 2-pound packages. We sell over the internet and have a ranch retail store on Main Street in Bellville, Texas. Texas Ranch Life LLC & Texas Ranch Beed LLC, John and Taunia Elick, 310 East Main, Bellville TX 77418. E-mail: grassbeef@yahoo.com. Website: http://www.texasranchbeef.com. 3M Eggs is a family-run farm that believes in the natural care and maintenance of our land. Our three home-schooled children participate daily in helping to care for the livestock. We sell pasture-raised eggs from healthy chickens that are raised out of doors year round. Based on Robert Palmadon's model of moveable electric fencing and houses, the chickens are outside from the time they can withstand the climate, and they are allowed to eat whatever they can find outside. They are offered feed and oyster shell at all times, which enables them to choose what their bodies need. Also, come spring, we will be able to offer raw goats milk. 3MEggs, Lisa Simmons, 190 CR
45650, Blossom TX 75416. (903) 785-9323. Truth Hill Farm offers tender, loving green-fed beef by the whole, half, and quarter. Ground beef and steak are sold by the pound. The beef is available from late spring to early summer. In addition to the beef, free-range eggs are available at the end of the summer. Work is underway to provide chicken and pork on a small scale. The beef calves are rotated daily on paddocks of high energy grasses in the spring. They are not treated with hormones or medications, and the pasture is fertilized with organic soil amendments only. We feed diatomaceous earth and kelp for worming and mineral supplements. We invite people to come out to our farm and see how we raise our animals. We also offer hiking, fishing, picnicking, and playing with the baby animals. Our farm is located one hour northeast of Dallas so families can easily come for an afternoon at the farm. Truth Hill Farm, Terry L. Pillard, 17953 CR 618, Farmersville TX 75442.
(903) 776-2173.
At Vital Farms we pride ourselves in producing the finest egg possible,which for us means pasture-raised and certified organic. Allowing our girls to be outside all the time means they live a natural existence and enjoy their lives. Their days include plenty of fresh air, sunshine,
and fun, while foraging in plenty of space on native grasses. We think all this translates into the
eggs they produce. Vital Farms, Jason Jones, 4507
Brandt Road, Austin TX 78744. (877) 455-3063. Walking W Ranch is in beautiful East Texas, where we raise all-natural grassfed beef for your table that is safe, healthy, delicious and tender. We believe in sustainable farming. The lush green condition of our pasture reflects the health of the land and the animals on it. Our cattle are treated with respect and kindness. They live on grass and hay—no corn, no hormones, no fed antibiotics, no steroids, no by-products of any kind. Steers are finished on alfalfa hay in the fall and new grass in the spring. DNA testing of each animal allows us to selectively breed for tenderness traits, so that we know our beef will be tender without overfattening. Our all-natural grassfed beef is sold by the side (half)—cut, wrapped and delivered to your home freezer. There is a $100 deposit required when you order. The beef is finished to order, so order early! Visa and Mastercard accepted. Walking W Ranch, Sue WIlliams, 5482 FM
225 South, Henderson
TX 75654. (903) 863-5635. Warren Ranch – See Texas Criollo Beef above. Wild Type Ranch is a family ranch located in Milam County Texas. Ralph and Sara, with their young boys Alex and Eric, raise registered Red Angus and Black Angus cattle. Our guiding principle is respect for all life. We believe in working with nature to produce a high quality, sustainable product. Ten percent of the net proceeds from our beef sales are donated to local family and domestic violence assistance programs. Wild Type Ranch Beef is pasture-raised, natural beef, from top quality breeding stock. Our beef is raised without hormones, routine antibiotics or confinement. Our cattle spend their life eating grass and hay. Each animal is individually managed and treated humanely and with respect. After harvest, our beef is aged 14-21 days, vacuum-packaged as individual cuts and frozen. We sell our beef by halves, quarters, eighths, small packs and individual cuts. Our beef is available at the Georgetown Farmer’s Markets, and at monthly pickup points in Cedar Park and North Austin. We do custom pickups by arrangement. We have a limited supply of 100% grass-fed, organically raised (not certified) beef available. We also sell (non-organic) pasture-raised beef that is minimally supplemented with small amount of a grain ration containing Omega-3 oils. Wild Type Ranch, Sara Faivre-Davis, 2039 CR 140, Cameron
TX 76520.
(512) 826-2218. Windy Meadows Family Farm is located about an hour northeast of Dallas in Hunt County. The Mike Hale Family raises and processes pastured chicken for health-conscious families and discriminating Dallas-area restaurants. We have an on-site state-inspected poultry processing facility and can custom process home grown pastured broilers for home freezers. Call to receive an informational brochure and schedule a processing date. We also raise grass-fed beef and lamb. Boneless skinless chicken breasts, leg quarters, chicken livers, and bulk chicken sausage are also available. Windy Meadows Family Farm, Mike and Connie Hale, 8045 CR 4209, Campbell TX 75422. (903) 886-7723. E-mail: mhale@worldlogon.com Website: http://www.windymeadowschicken.com Yonder Way Farm is nestled amongst the rolling bluebonnet hills of Washington County a few miles outside of Brenham, Texas. We provide 100% grass-fed and grass-finished beef, pastured pork, free-range eggs, and pastured poultry. From the moment you arrive at Yonder Way Farm, you will visually see chickens pecking at the grass, cows grazing in the pasture, and pigs rooting in the ground. We have a passion to re-establish the lost art of grass-farming. Our animals are never treated with antibiotics, growth hormones, or vaccines. Our cows are rotated daily on fresh grass using managed intensive grazing (MIG). We have fully irrigated pastures to ensure green grass year around. Our cows are birthed into a closed herd and finished on our farm on fresh green grass. Our pigs are raised strictly on pasture and are never confined. Their diet is supplemented with 100% USDA Certified Organic feed specifically formulated for a pigs dietary needs. Our chickens are true free-range birds allowed to roam pastures freely. They are never confined. We also supplement their diet by feeding them 100% USDA Certified Organic Grains. Visit our website for a more in depth look at our products and scenes from our farm. Please contact us to see if drop-off locations are available in your area. Yonder Way Farm, Lynsey Kramer, 5500
Highway 105, Brenham TX 77833. (979) 530-4444. |
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