• Cows graze pastures and eat hay exclusively, the food that best suits their ruminant stomachs.

• Cows range across open pasture from birth to market, rather than live in confinement. This helps them stay healthy; they do not need, nor receive, antibiotics.

• Cows grow naturally, at nature's pace, without growth-producing hormones.

Sustainably Grazed: means taking care of the land.

• Our farm is a mixture of rolling upland pastures and woods, and bottom land ("lowland") along Pochuck Creek, part of the Walkill River system, which flows north into the Hudson River. It is bordered by a large area of undeveloped land that stretches south to the Appalachian Trail and Wawayanda Park, and is home to a wide range of wildlife in addition to our cattle.

• We rotationally graze our rolling pastures, which keeps them healthy and minimizes the need for tillage and risk of erosion and silting of Pochuck Creek.

• We fence the cows back from streams and wetlands to further protect these important resources.

• We hay the bottom land to provide winter feed.

• Grass-fed beef costs a bit more because the cows take more time to grow and "finish."

• Growing beef locally and processing it in a small plant costs more than industrial-sized operations.

• While our meat costs more than supermarket beef, we try to keep the differential as small as possible.

• The result is uncommon value.