Posts in Local Brands
Tender N Tastes Good

Steak could be better.

There isn’t a food source that’s been more simplified than beef. Thus, the greatest potential for a food revolution lies in the chucks, ribs, loins, and rumps of beef cattle across the country.

Imagine, as I do, a trip to the farm: “We’re having guests over for a tasting.  I’ll take a t-bone from the 2 year old grassfed Canadienne heifer, another from the yearling Holstein/Angus cross steer that was fattened on corn, and one more from the six year old Devon cow raised on grass and fattened on barley for a summer.”  This is the stuff I dream about.

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GOOOOOOOOOD MORNING, PITTSBURGH!!!!!

It’s Saturday, and that means I’m headed to your city with coolers full of BEEF, glorious beef. Find me beside the extraordinary Bar Marco at 2216 Penn Avenue from 9am-Noon. Look for the blue tent, and that’s where you’ll find excellent beef from Clarion.

Did you see the map of America’s food supply chain that was featured by Fast Company?

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A Pittsburgh getaway, Clarion style.

A person could have a darn good weekend by visiting each restaurant that buys beef from our farm. In fact, that could be a mini-vacation: catch a few shows and cruise around Pittsburgh with the intent of visiting and appreciating every establishment that serves Clarion Farms Beef on their menu.

You should try it.

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Local beef solves global trade tensions.

Headlines 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.

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