Collection: Pasture Raised Free Range Beef
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Pasture Raised Beef - Mixed Pack
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Pasture Raised Beef - Grilling Pack
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Pasture Raised Beef - Roasting and Slow Cooking Pack
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Pasture Raised Beef - Fancy Pack
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Pasture raised free range beef
Angus cattle
We have a small herd of black Angus cattle that graze our land on a quick rotation basis to guarantee access to good pasture all year round.
Even when our pastures are lush and green, we supplement the herd’s diet with local grass bales and a natural mineral mix that we make ourselves to keep them healthy and ensure a very good quality and nutritional pasture raised beef. The dry grass bales are great for balancing the pH in the rumens of our cattle. It helps them better utilise the nutrients in the pasture.
We have grown our herd considerably in the past few years, thanks to our generous neighbours who agreed to the agistment of our cattle on their pasture. Last year, our cows gave birth to beautiful calves from a Murray Grey x Simmental x Angus bull named Coco.
However, as we no longer have access to additional pasture, we are in the process of reducing our herd numbers to 16 to be in tune with the regenerative grazing practices and not overgraze our land. This means we have a bigger beef supply until we get to the desired number of cattle on our land..
Regenerative agriculture
Our cattle are a complete part of our regenerative agriculture project as they provide manure, participate in diversifying the pasture and improving the soil.
Every year, we protect the young trees growing in the middle of the paddocks and plant more trees along them, like acacias and tagasastes, as part of our agroforestry strategy. These trees are growing fast and provide shelter and great nutritious foliage to the cattle as well as nitrogen fixing organic matter for the soil. They are allowing us to increase our capacity and improve our farm’s health and the taste of our beef.
We’ve also worked on improving their pasture, sowing a mix of seeds that we’ve saved and transplanting some plants from our garden. The dry grass bales we feed to our cattle also adds biodiversity from the seeds and organic matter for the soil.
From the farm to your house
We decided to sell our beef in packs, so you can get the beef directly from the farm to your house, and in an assortment of different cuts. This way, everything from the animal is used.
We reached our capacity in terms of CSA memberships. You can still apply to our CSA waiting list. In the meanwhile, we have extra beef packs you can choose from:
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Tree Planting Campaign
A bushfire hit our farm last summer, burning 2000 young trees in our wildlife corridor. Contribute to our reforestation efforts.