Buying Local: More Than Just Beef

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Purchasing products from local farmers and artisan producers keeps more money in the
community.  

Eating local food (food grown within 250 miles) assures you the freshest products possible and greatly reduces the consumption of fossil fuels and wasteful packing materials.  The average American dinner travels 1,500 miles before reaching your dinner plate.

We sell more than our healthy Solar Beef.  We also sell pasture pork, lamb, chicken, Holiday turkey, eggs and lots of garden-fresh produce.

Some other products are: Highlander floor rugs made from the thick hides, polished horns and traditional, western style skulls.  We try to use everything these wonderful animals have to offer.

To learn about the Top 10 Reasons To Eat Grass-fed Meat... click here.

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For Sale - Click here for pricelist

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Award Winning, 100% Pastured, Highland Premium Beef

We sell some of the best meat available.  Our beef is raised naturally - on grass, without hormones or unnecessary medications.  It is low on fat and wonderfully marbled.  Chef Kirk Bratrud, of The Boathouse, in Superior, WI refers to Highlander beef as a "very lean, but tender piece of meat."  This is the same breed of cattle raised by the British royal family for its own consumption. 

The fat is marbled throughout the meat, which ensures that it cooks in its own juices and stays moist and tender. This is what gives it it's unique flavor. It appears to have more fat than other types of beef, but does not.
 

 

Grass-fed Highland Premium Beef is high in Omega-3 and Beta Carotene.  Recent studies in both North America and the UK have shown that Highland Beef is consistently much lower in fat content and cholesterol than other breeds. It is so lean that it compares with chicken and fish fat content.

The marbling of the beef gives the same tenderness and tastiness as the other larger breeds. Studies in the US have verified that Highland Premium Beef is 38% lower in fat content and 4% lower in cholesterol than steaks from local supermarkets. LEARN MORE

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Holiday Turkey For Sale

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Moist & Tender - Rated #2 For Taste

We raise Kentucky Red Bourbons.  Our birds are raised as free-range - never penned, never caged. We also raise and sell broad-breasted white - these birds are pastured.  If/when you drive past our farm, you can see them in our vineyard.  They are fed wheat and forage, not corn and soy.
 

The Kentucky Red Bourbon is one of the most flavorful heritage turkeys you can find anywhere.  According to an article written by Don Schrider, of the American Livestock Breeds Conservancy, the Kentucky Bourbon turkey finished 2nd in a February 25, 2008 taste test, with a Butterball™ turkey finishing last. 

This is what one of our customers said about the turkey they bought from us - "The turkey was FABULOUS!  We received rave reviews, it was moist and tender... it truly made our Thanksgiving dinner a feast."

Our Bourbons usually range in size from 17 lbs to 25 lbs and dress-out at 12-16 lbs.  They have more great flavor than you think a turkey should have.  Once you try one of our heritage turkeys, you'll want to order more.  Our white birds range in size from 30-35lbs, giving you a delicious 20-25lb Thanksgiving-day bird for your table.

If you are even slightly interested in purchasing turkey from us for this year's holiday season, feel free to contact us now.  At the very least, we can send you an email when it comes time to do so.

We have turkey poults for sale.. contact us if interested

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Lamb, Pork, Chicken & Eggs For Sale

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Delicious Processed Chicken

Our farm is well known in the area for its excellent processed, pastured chicken.  We sell skinless and skin-on, and we can sell you whole birds, quartered or cut-up.  Heck, if you want your chickens alive, we'll sell you them that way.

For you homesteading beginners, you can pick our your own live chickens and if you want to learn how to butcher, we'll teach you how we do it and some of the tricks we've learned.

Please remember, our chickens are hormone-free, medication-free, and soy-free.  When they are old enough to do so, they live their lives in an outdoor pen.  They chase bugs, eat grass and enjoy the sun light.

Soy-free Pastured Hogs -  Order Now!

Our hogs are pastured.  During the winter months (when fresh grass is not available) they get fed our organically, non-GMO grains - mostly wheat, but still get hay.  Our pigs are healthy as well as happy.  Just like my grandfather did in the olden days, we try to raise our pigs seasonally and process the pork in the fall and winter.

We have pork available now.  Supplies are limited.

Free-Range & Soy-Free Eggs

Our eggs come from healthy, happy chickens - no cages, no medications and no hormones.  If you have never eaten these types of eggs, you are missing out!

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White & Red Wine Grapes

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Wine Makers

If you enjoy home wine making, start with the best ingredients possible... start with the grapes.  Buy local... buy fresh.  If you can, why not hand pick your own grapes... there has to be bragging rights in that!

Beer Makers & Bread Bakers

We also grow organic hops, barley, wheat and oats.

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Benefits Of Grass-fed Highland Premium Beef

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Scottish Agricultural College, Dept. of Food Science and Technology published by McCance & Widdowson, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food.

Today's market is demanding premium meat, yet leaner and lower in cholesterol. The Highland carcass is ideally suited to meet this challenge. Highland beef is meat that is lean, well marbled and flavorful, with little outside waste fat (the Highland is insulated by long hair rather than a thick layer of fat).

For over 20 years, the Highland and Highland crosses have graded in the top of their respective classes at the prestigious National Western Stock Show in Denver, Colorado. In the British Isles, Highland beef is recognized as the finest available and fetches premium prices. The British Royal family keeps a large herd of Highlands at Balmoral Castle, near Braemar, Scotland, and considers them their beef animal of choice.

Cooking hints

Remember that grass-fed beef/meat is leaner and needs to be cooked at lower temperatures for longer times — "lower and slower" is the motto!  Steaks should be cooked only to medium rare and taken off the grill to finish "cooking".  Marinating steaks before grilling is always a good idea and here is one of the best marinades: low-sodium Kikkoman's soy sauce, splash of brandy, fresh crushed garlic and a few shakes of oregano.

For more cooking tips & recipes for grass fed beef click here

Need a bearskin rug?  Try a floor rug made of Scottish Highlander hide.

Hides from these magnificent animals can be sold for almost as much as the meat, making Scottish Highlanders more than your average cattle.

The hides make luxurious rugs with hair about 4 - 6 inches long and can be found in colors from white through yellow to reds and on to black.  Highlander skin rugs average in size of approx. 5'x7'.

Other unique items.

Polished horns - $20/each or $35/pair
Horned skulls w/forelock hair - $150 - w/o forelock - $110

Interested In Pasture?

We are offering professional grazing services in 2012.  Click here for more info...