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The short answer is yes, but I’ll explain, I promise! Unfortunately the idea of “hormone free” meat, like many other labeled claims commonly seen on meat sold at the grocery store, has become yet another buzzword and an incorrect one at that. But it’s not hard to see how it can easily be misconstrued; hormone […]

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If you’ve ever looked at a package of bacon you may have noticed the words “nitrate-free” or something similar. Over the last few years nitrates have been the subject of a lot of controversy because of their possible link to carcinogenic compounds but I’m here to dissect what it really means to be nitrate-free when […]

Butchery

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Remember when I shared more about buying beef in bulk and the differences between live weight, hanging weight and packaged weight? Now I want to dive a little deeper and shed some light on the way that beef is broken down from carcass to cuts. The Eight Primals After harvesting and after the head, hide […]

Butchery, Farm Store

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Not many people know this about me but I used to be vegan. It’s a looooong story but aside from believing in a lot of the health claims surrounding plant based foods, I found myself being sucked into a lot of the rhetoric shared on social media and blogs regarding things like antibiotics in meat […]

Butchery, Farm Store

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I think that dry aging has become a bit of a buzzword lately. You commonly see it associated with steak and always with beef (I’ll get into why in this post!) and it usually commands a higher price tag, especially at high end steakhouses. But why? And what does it really mean? Let’s dive in: […]

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There’s nothing we love more than being able to fill our customer’s freezers with delicious and premium regeneratively-raised meats, straight from our ranch. In addition to offering our dry aged Angus beef and heritage pork by the cut, we’re also excited to give our customers the opportunity to purchase beef and pork shares, where they […]

Butchery, Farm Store

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As many of you know, in 2021, our chicken season came to a grinding halt when our processor decided to close mid season. We were left scratching our head and wondering, what’s next? Our hardest pill to swallow? We had purchased thousands of dollars in equipment to scale up our poultry production without any way […]

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