In winter months, during times when when grass is not plentiful, our cattle have hay that’s been harvested and sun-dried from our fields during the summer. As live-food enthusiasts know, sun-drying maintains the enzymes in grass. It is a nutritious supplement to our winter pastures, so our cattle can continue to graze, but also have plentiful food supplies year-round. Our hay field is all prepped and planted for next year. We...
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You can cook meat a number of different ways, from roasting to pan-searing to barbecuing. However, there are five basic principles that apply to the vast majority of techniques when it comes to meat and poultry. Here’s what we’ve found after years of cooking. This post originally appeared on The Feed by America’s Test Kitchen. 1. Use High Heat to Develop Flavor Browning creates a tremendous amount of flavor and is a...
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Wikipedia says that “The Paleolithic diet…is a modern nutritional diet designed to emulate, insofar as possible using modern foods, the diet of wild plants and animals eaten by humans during the Paleolithic era.” But “eating a Paleolithic diet is not about historical re-enactment,” John Durant writes in The Paleo Manifesto. “It is about mimicking the effect of such a diet on the metabolism with foods available at the...
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You can improve the quality of meat if you pay attention to the rule often voiced by old-time cattle ranchers: Know your pasture. We graze our cattle on open grasslands made up of hundreds of different species of grasses. Native perennial grasses are nutrient-dense because they have root systems that can penetrate up to six feet deep, pulling up a wide variety of rich nutrients. Historically, our grasslands have fed much more than...
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Our Summit Creek Ranch is made up of 690 acres of grasslands supporting our grass-fed beef. Additionally, we lease over a thousand acres of open range. We’ve been selling 100% grass-fed beef for 13 years, and this year we’re offering both beef by the cut at our local farmer’s markets, and through a customer-requested monthly club. Americans have only recently “discovered” the health benefits of grass-fed beef, even though that was the...
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Trinity High School sisters, Tess and Shae Johnston, recently bought two Polled Hereford–Angus cross steers from our Summit Creek Ranch. The sisters plan to raise the steers, also known as “Black Baldys”, as Trinity River 4-H projects this summer. Tess and Shae have been raising animals for the Trinity County Fair since they were children, beginning with lambs and pigs, then eventually working their way up to steers. They are...
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