Best place to buy organic free range beef?!


Question: in bulk like a side of beef....We would like to purchase enough to last a while with our income tax has anyone done this I googled the subject and there are a lot of places to choose from I'd like to hear from someone who did this personally was the shipping unbelievable or did you drive and pick it up? I didn't see a ranch really close by so picking it up would be quite an ordeal keeping it cold etc.... I don't have the means to raise my own cow or I would we do get some venison but it dosen't last all year. My local grocer carries organic beef but only ground beef and it is very expensive so I thought we could save by buying in bulk. We have a deep chest freezer . Thanks oh sorry this is so long!


Answers: in bulk like a side of beef....We would like to purchase enough to last a while with our income tax has anyone done this I googled the subject and there are a lot of places to choose from I'd like to hear from someone who did this personally was the shipping unbelievable or did you drive and pick it up? I didn't see a ranch really close by so picking it up would be quite an ordeal keeping it cold etc.... I don't have the means to raise my own cow or I would we do get some venison but it dosen't last all year. My local grocer carries organic beef but only ground beef and it is very expensive so I thought we could save by buying in bulk. We have a deep chest freezer . Thanks oh sorry this is so long!

Some organic groceries have links to organic beef herds/marketing co-ops. you arrange for purchase with others from the rancher of a whole beef to be split among purchasers, the organic co-op arranges butchering , cutting and delivers to store- you pick up your share from store. Usually prepay your share of the beef and butcher bill, store pickup shipping costs now paid on delivery. Some states picky about buying beef from butchers- here in Wisconsin the drill for organic or close to organic meats is you purchase the animal live from farmer and local butcher then slaughters and cuts meat, you pickup or arrange pickup from butcher of your critters meat. Technically your not buying meat from 'not Interstate transport/USDA inspected' butcher- you are contracting the state inspected slaughter and cut butcher shop to process your privately owned animal- you had bought it live on farm prior to butchering. Beware of taking kids to farm to select lamb or calf to butcher- if kids name the critter you may not be able to get it away from children for butcher to process- you now have a 4H project to graze the back yard. Check your local area for farms that may offer private sale and butcher arrangements. If you are near a Amish area could find some marketing co-op groups already working with beef shares and could join.

We buy Highland Cattle free-ranged on The Isle of Orkney here in Scotland, and we take venison from the cull on The Isle of Seil. Both are simply world beaters and we find it astonishing that the Scots don't eat it...it's all exported mostly to Paris, as is the local seafood.
Whereever you are you should investigate not the food markets, but the game shoots. Very often they are so involved in their outdoors killing that they don't have a good market for the meat, which is to your advantage. Good luck!





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