Here is the impending predicament: Expectations and reality are going to collide as local-food-loving families inherit land managed by farmers they claim to support.
Read MoreAsk just about any outdoor enthusiast, environmental geek, or suburban homeowner for the best method to improve a specific piece of land and the answer will ring clear: get people off of it!
There are significant problems with this approach.
Read MoreWhen the world seems a little too urgent and way too rigid, our customers find relief in the reality of farm life. We find new world perspectives because of our customers. The relationship is symbiotic.
Read MoreThe supply of goods from food manufacturers to consumers is seemingly inexhaustible. It appears that the goal is to maintain an inventory of everything, all the time, in every nook and cranny market in every town.
As living beings, this reality presents a problem: for most of human history, people didn’t have unlimited access to food.
Read MoreWhat we DO have is excellent: chipped steak can make a good ground beef substitute, and we have plenty of sirloin steaks that are versatile: grill them whole, slice and sear for fajitas, make steak salad...the list is long. There is a pile of grassfed filet remaining (seriously - grassfed filet), several ribeyes (Delmonico), tip roasts, rolled rump roasts, London Broil, and briskets. You'll also find chuck eye steaks, petite tender steaks, and some cubed steak. Options abound.
Read MoreWe sell beef. That we raise. On our farm. In Clarion. From calves to finish. There are even options: grainfed and grassfed. So when you buy something from us, there is no question about authenticity. Friends, this is the kind of food traceability the food world is aching to achieve, and you have it neatly situated on a piece of beautiful property right outside of town. How cool is that?
Read MoreI submit that the official definition of farmland is misleading. If farmland is accepted as simply ‘land for farming’, non-farmers, naturally, needn’t concern themselves with it. Changing the definition has profound effects on the value of terrain proximate to our homes: Farmland is FOOD.
Read MorePeople my age find it nearly impossible to get on in the field of agriculture without encountering the subject of money. Our elders tell us we need a lot to get started, we’ll never make any while we’re working, and we better get out while we still have some.
Read MoreIt’s restock day at the Beef Barn!
This is it, friends: THE day to find exactly what you’re craving for dinner this week, sourced straight from the farm. It’s a shopping reality that is coveted by all and impossible to replicate.
Read MorePeople value specific points of origin over reckless mass production, yet supply and demand for authentic food remains off balance. As a result, middlemen selling forgeries of real beef destroy the integrity of farm-to-table when customers purchase knockoff steaks advertised as ‘local’.
The best method to ensure the integrity of your sustenance is to purchase it directly from the people who raise it.
Read MoreWednesdays are my favorite, because this is the day we pile in all of your favorite cuts that will enhance your meals later this week. Grainfed, grassfed, you name it, we raise it.
Read MoreThis actually is Rib Steak day, by the way. We have a small pile of coveted bone-in ribeyes that are begging for a hot cast iron. You better get here quickly, because they’ll be gone just as fast.
Read MoreDo you…
- Possess a gleeful interest in restoring the landscape around Clarion?
- Submit to nature, accepting that natural laws of diversity, thriftiness, conservation, and wholeness are more important than on-demand inventory and next-day delivery?
Read MoreA small business reflects ownership. No two businesses are the same, and a collection of local commerce centers creates a regional landscape that’s as inimitable as a gigantic fingerprint; it cannot be duplicated.
Read MoreHeadlines mentioning what we all ‘need to know’ about various countries around the world clog up nearly every artery of agricultural media I encounter. The global publicity fits, I suppose, considering farmers today are told they need to be as proficient at world-wide economics as they are at fixing equipment with baler twine and a scrap of metal salvaged from the road ditch.
Read MoreThe whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
That's a mantra we live around here. Every individual has remarkable talent, but that talent is worthless in the absence of other people.
Read MoreWe WILL have some tremendous Strip Steaks, Ribeyes, Sirloins, Flat Irons, Flanks, Filets, Chuck Eyes, Stew Meat, various roasts, ground beef, and more!
Read MoreIT'S WEDNESDAY!! The unequivocal BEST day to live in Clarion, because Wednesdays are the day we re-stock the Beef Barn with all of your favorite cuts.
We're honored to have an influx of new followers who're interested in this bustling farm community we call home. If you're new, welcome! We think you'll love being a part of the family as much as we do.
Let's go over a few details to make sure old friends and new fans alike are on the same page (this is a little lengthy, but worth the read):
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