Grass Fed Beef from the Shenandoah Valley Virginia

Grass Fed Products from the Shenandoah Valley - The Good is in the Green

Briarmead

Pasture Raised Beef, lamb, pork and cabrito

Grass Fed	Pastured	Artisan
Beef Lamb Cabrito Milk	Chicken Pork Rabbit Eggs	Honey Cheese Sausage Paté

Quantities are
often limited --
be the first in line!

9/3/2010 - NVPG
Egg Industry damage control (published in USA Today): "The chickens live in 27.7-inch-by-22.6-inch cages, eight to a cage. The cages are 19 inches tall, says [redacted], the farm's founder. "I made them extra tall because I wanted them to have more room." The six rows of cages are stacked on top of each other, in lines 277 cages long."

NVPG: The fact that eight (8) chickens live in 4 sqft their entire lives, does not seem to occur to these folks. This "farm" exploits 1M chickens. The article also reports that caged birds are 400% more likely to have salmonella infections than cage-free birds.

9/3/2010 - Briarmead
It was butchering day for our summer flock of Pekin ducks last Friday, August 27th. Our free-ranging ducks looked well-fattened and filled out nicely, weighing in at 4 1/2-5 1/2 pounds each. We have a limited number of fresh-frozen ducks available for purchase at $4.50/lb.; liver and heart for making duck pate is included in this weight and price. Contact Briarmead Farm to reserve your succulent whole Pekin duck now!

8/31/2010 - NVPG
Egg Recall reaches half-BILLION. Salmonella is transmitted via rodent feces in chicken feed; does it surprise you to learn that the mega producer responsible for the outbreak had an _exemption_ from the FDA to require the vertically integrated feed operation to be inspected?

7/21/2010 - NVPG
Stumbled on this good Mainstream Media primer on the "High Cost of Cheap Food" - good to pass along to your skeptical friends.

7/5/2010 - Beatrix Farm
Hello Everyone, Our next On Farm Day 2010 for picking up fresh chickens will be Saturday, July 17th from noon till 5pm. Place your orders now to reserve your chickens. Dave & Regina Farinholt Beatrix Farm

6/1/2010 - NVPG
"Label Rouge" method pastured Chickens are the traditional way to grow poultry so that the birds are healthy and the meat is more flavorful and finer grained. These birds are available in limited quantities from Second Wind and Notting Hill.

5/17/2010 - NVPG
Relatively low-level exposure to common pesticides -- probably from residues on foods -- doubles kids' risk of ADHD, Harvard researchers find.

Kids with higher-than-average levels of pesticide metabolites were about twice as likely to have ADHD as kids with undetectable levels of pesticide metabolites, find Marc C. Weisskopf, PhD, ScD, associate professor of environmental health and epidemiology at Harvard School of Public Health, and colleagues.

"This raises concerns that ubiquitous pesticides may be contributing to the national burden of ADHD, which already is quite high,"

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Grass fed beef from the Shenandoah valley in Front Royal VA Northern Valley Pastoral Guild beef is grass fed and grass finished in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley.

NVPG Beef is available by the side.

One side of beef is approximately 225 lbs. Hanging weight and will yield approximately 135 lbs. of finished product.

Please click here to see an estimate of the distribution of cuts.

Pick-up locations:

Briarmead Farm - Front Royal
Tom’s Brook Butcher - Toms Brook
Warrenton Butcher - Bealton
Front Royal Butcher - Middletown

Whole (2 sides) is $3.09 per pound of hanging weight, or approximately $1,435.00.
Half (1 side) is $3.19 per pound of hanging weight, or approximately $717.00.

NVPG Beef is a Premium Grass-Finished Product offered at Industrial Beef prices.

When you order, please indicate in the 'Special Comments' section, when you would like your beef. The process is simple:

Tell us who you are (we will never sell your contact information).
Select the quantity of Beef you would like (Whole or Half).
Continue through the Cut Selection Process.
Note in Special Comments preferred pick-up timeframe.
NVPG will collect a deposit of $35 per side plus transaction fee.
Member Farm will notify you via email of the pick-up date 2 weeks in advance.
Member Farm will notify you of the location of the butcher.
The balance will be billed according to weight prior to pick-up.
Enjoy

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grass fed lamb We recognize that most of us wonder what to expect when ordering a whole side of beef. Click Here for a Beef Estimator and Cost Comparison (Excel Spreadsheet download)

Beef Facts

When ordering your beef, you will have a choice of Small, Medium, or Large. This approximates 200 lbs, 225 lbs, or 250 lbs per side hanging weight respectively.

The average American eats an estimated 65 lbs of beef per year.

A side of beef will require approximately 5 cu feet of freezer space, the size of a freezer on an average refrigerator.

An increasing body of scientific evidence points to the fact that a major benefit of raising and finishing animals on well managed pasture is a healthier product. Compared with industrial feedlot animals, meat from grass-fed beef has less total fat, less saturated fat, reduced cholesterol, and fewer calories; it also has more vitamin E, beta-carotene, vitamin C, and a number of health-promoting fats, including omega-3 fatty acids and “conjugated linoleic acid,” or CLA. These studies also confirm that the health benefits come directly from the grass eaten by the cows on pasture. Substituting “organic” grain for an “organic” product does not translate into similar results. The good is in the green.