Though many beef breeds exist, we have settled on Black Angus as the breed of choice for our farm. These animals are capable of supporting themselves entirely on pasture without any grain. Our certified Black Angus have been tailor bred to exceed on our pastures; with or without grains. For over six months of every year the Angus graze the legume and cool grass species of our pastures, putting on well marbled, top quality weight. Moved in an aggressive rotational grazing program once a day, our Angus have access to the finest quality organic grazing pastures. The end result is beef that is tender, juicy, healthy and disease free. This beef is top steak house quality.
We started our flock off with some of the top Icelandic sheep in North America. This breed with a lineage traced back over 1,200 years, is a tremendous animal. It can withstand intense cold, and thrives on high quality pasture. Our lamb is pasture raised, never grain fed. The meat is top gourmet quality, clean, delicate tasting and very tender. If you think lamb has too strong a taste, we implore you to try our lamb. The odds are you will be putting lamb on the dinner table quite often after trying pasture based Icelandic lamb.
Perhaps our piece de resistance. We start off with old world, heritage pigs: Glouchestershire Old Spots and Large Black pigs. These two are known for their gourmet quality pork. They are pasture based, which means not only do our pigs browse the lush pastures, they are also free to wander around through many acres of grass enabling them to exercise at will. The pigs are free to do what pigs do, namely root through the soil searching for tasty morsels of food. We do no use nose rings nor do we dock their tales. The pigs live out their entire lives on pasture. They are never confined as per typical factory farm fashion. When it is raining or snowing or, they just want to take a nap, their shelter is waiting for them, bedded down with clean straw. Our pigs are indeed happy pigs. The resultant pork is firm, rosy colored and speckled, juicy and tender. It is, as such, an incomparable product which the most discriminating chef will take notice of.