I hadn’t really known until recently, but the best reason to purchase grassfed beef over conventional may be pot roast.
This big piece of chuck was delivered from our dairy, South Mountain Creamery in Middletown, Maryland, which keeps a herd of beef cattle in addition to its dairy cows. The first thing you notice is the [...]
Entries Tagged as 'grassfed'
Grassfed Pot Roast
December 18th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Recipes, Sustainability
Grassfed Beef: A Cosmic Convergence
November 8th, 2009 · 2 Comments · food news
How’s this for coincidence: I walked down to the Whole Foods yesterday to buy some pork tenderloin for a dinner party and who do I run into in front of the meat counter but Will Harris, beef farmer extraordinaire.
You might recall Harris from the terrific videoI linked to recently in which a camera crew followed [...]
Kids Love Grass-Fed Beef
October 28th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Sustainability, kids
One way to improve school meals is to include more locally grown food, and apparently that doesn’t mean just local fruits and vegetables. In one school district in Oregon, they decided to switch out the commodity USDA burgers in the cafeterias with local, grass-fed beef and the results are now in: The kids loved it.
In [...]
Say Yes To Meat
October 4th, 2009 · No Comments · Sustainability
With pollanistas everywhere urging the public to stop eating meat as a way of slowing global warming, it’s refreshing to see people who know a thing or two about raising meat sustainably speak out in defense of one of our most nutritious foods.
Not long ago, Eliot Coleman, the acclaimed produce farmer, was roused to argue [...]
Tags: global warming·grassfed·meat
Too Much Beef
May 16th, 2008 · No Comments · Uncategorized
Devora Kimelman-Block has a problem some of us might like to take on: more beef than she can handle.
Kimelman-Block operates a meat trade out of Takoma Park, MD, that specializes in grass-fed, kosher meats. Why kosher? Because “Jews should not have to choose between eating according to their values and keeping kosher,” declares her [...]
Tags: beef·grassfed·kosher·lamb·local foods
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