Kentucky Beef From Family Farms
Our Home Place Meat is an initiative of The Berry Center – putting Wendell Berry’s writings to work by advocating for farmers, land-conserving communities, and healthy regional economies.
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On this rolling ground, we are farming the way it the land is supposed to be farmed. The focus is on the community.
Investing in an equitable and ecological farming future
The Berry Center established Our Home Place Meat in 2017 as a cooperative for small-to-midsize livestock farmers to sell grass-fed meat to regional markets. Beginning in our home place – Henry County, KY – we are building a healthy food and farm model that can be replicated in communities throughout the country.
Rethinking the possibilities of grass-fed beef
Believing that food should reflect local culture, Our Home Place Meat brings you a taste of a Kentucky tradition – Rose Beef.
Rose Beef is our designation for milk-fed, grass-fed yearling cattle. Our farmers use traditional farming methods, raising animals on a natural diet that eliminates industrial feedlots.
The result is our signature rose-colored meat – a tender, flavorful alternative to conventional veal and beef.
Our practice of processing cattle at a younger age was the regional tradition before the encroachment of industrial meat production. Under industrial systems, most calves are sent to distant feedlots where they live in crowded, unsanitary conditions. In contrast, Our Home Place Meat livestock are raised on grass and are ASH-free (no antibiotics, steroids, or hormones).
Our cattle are always free to roam verdant pastures with unlimited access to their mothers’ milk. All the while, our farmers are working to protect the land, strengthen the local economy, and provide your family with exceptional grass-fed Kentucky beef.
“It all turns on affection,” said Wendell Berry in his famous 2012 Jefferson Lecture. Affection for creatures, for people, and for the planet. That’s Our Home Place Meat.
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Our Partners And Customers
“I just love that I can call and ask for specific cuts and Our Home Place can provide them typically within a few days. I can’t tell you how many cuts I’ve made from their veal. It is really excellent meat.”
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Years Of History
Preserved in The Archive Of The Berry Center, informing agrarian thought and practice, helping to chart a way forward for sustainable farming and rural prosperity.
Farmers & Community Members
As participants in the Farm & Forest Institute‘s field days, workshops, and courses that provide an agricultural education combining nature and culture, land and people.
Agrarian Books
Distributed by the Agrarian Literary League, a nationally recognized adult rural reading program from the Agrarian Culture Center and Bookstore at The Berry Center
Acres conserved
By Our Home Place Meat farmers, raising and processing the best livestock locally and humanely in a program based on the Burley tobacco cooperative model.
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