| When you buy your meat direct from a local family | | | | fresh-frozen, which keeps it safe from bacteria. And |
| farm, you're choosing an option that's healthy, natural | | | | the ground beef is made from prime offcuts of only |
| and safe. Plus your food tastes amazing, and comes | | | | one animal at a time. |
| at a great price. | | | | LOCALLY-GROWN FOODS ARE GOOD FOR THE |
| Buying locally-grown foods helps your local economy, | | | | ENVIRONMENT |
| and reduces greenhouse gases by keeping | | | | Buying locally-grown food is a great way to help the |
| transportation to a minimum. And when you get to | | | | environment. The less distance it has to cover to get |
| know your local family farmer, it gives you the trust | | | | to you, the less fuel gets burned, and the less carbon |
| that you're getting the freshest, healthiest meats - | | | | dioxide goes into our atmosphere. |
| direct from the source. | | | | If you get to know your farmer, you can also find |
| LOCAL MEATS HELP YOU TRUST YOUR FOOD | | | | out about their attitude towards the treatment of |
| SAFETY | | | | their fields. At our farm, the pastures are free from |
| When it comes to buying meat, stocking your fridge | | | | any herbicides, fungicides or insecticides, so there is |
| directly from the farm means you know exactly | | | | no possibility of any residues of these substances |
| where your food comes from, and how it's treated | | | | appearing in your food. Just high-quality, great tasting |
| on the way from the fields to your plate. | | | | beef, like our grandparents used to eat. |
| Most large-scale factory-farming operations use | | | | BUILD A RELATIONSHIP WITH YOUR FARMER! |
| synthetic growth hormones, antibiotics, and | | | | Customer-oriented farmers are always delighted to |
| high-protein feeds - and raise their animals in confined | | | | get to know the people who are eating their |
| pens - to get the fastest growth rates and the | | | | produce, and are usually happy to show you around |
| biggest profits. And supermarket products like ground | | | | their farm. They genuinely want you to see how |
| beef can contain the meat of up to a thousand | | | | much care and love goes into raising your food. |
| cattle. | | | | When you have a good relationship with the people |
| With increasing concerns being raised over food | | | | who grow your meat, you can trust the quality of |
| safety, farm-direct food sourcing is becoming a | | | | what you're eating, and know that everything that |
| growing trend. If you know your farmer, you can | | | | goes into it is healthy and natural. So no matter what |
| trust the way your food is raised and prepared. | | | | happens, you have a safe, reliable source of food |
| At our own farm, our beef is processed at a local, | | | | nearby. |
| family owned and government-inspected butcher | | | | Farmers are friendly people. Finding a local farm |
| shop. Our butcher is a long-time family friend who | | | | source for your meat is not only good for the |
| knows exactly how to give you the best cuts out of | | | | environment and your family, it may even make you |
| a side of beef. Immediately after cutting, the meat is | | | | a new friend. |