Two years and two weeks of waiting. How was the first grassfed bite?

Glory, glory, friends. It's a winner. That steak was tremendous. I didn't eat anything else; steak ruled the evening. And the evening was good.

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TODAY IS A CLARION FARMS GRASSFED BEEF RELEASE.

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Desystemized

When tension exists in the production of food, discomfort jumps to the end user. Nobody can eat contentedly from a platform that’s hanging on the edge of catastrophe, yet that’s exactly where we find ourselves today.

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We Love Local (as long as it isn't too close)

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.

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Earth Day and Hands-off Environmentalism

Ask 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.

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Another update among lots of updates...

We're VERY busy. Be open minded and sympathetic: we're doing our best to make sure everyone can get a little bit of source-verified beef. You may not get the exact cut you were thinking of, but, hey, since the world closed you'll have time to look up a new recipe.

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Opportunity Bombs and 'Ah-Ha' Landmines

Here is my problem: nobody can do everything well. Plenty of people with a do-it-all-myself attitude accomplish a lot of tasks poorly.

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Restock Day at the Beef Barn!

The fact is, Wednesday called and it wants you to eat well.

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IT'S RESTOCK DAY AT THE BEEF BARN!!

The 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.

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Henry's Farm Update

Guess what? WE WENT SLEDDING!! Mom has been telling me about sliding along the snow, and her descriptions made me curious. This week the snow came down and the sleds came out of the shed at Grammy and Grandpa’s house. Of course, when they asked if I wanted to go for a ride, my response was a definite ‘yes’!

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The Clarion Farms Grassfed Update

What 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.

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Yeah, it's real beef.

We 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?

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Money

People 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.

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IT'S RESTOCK DAY AT THE BEEF BARN!!

Wednesday is the pulse of the week in Clarion: we refill our store, you refill your fridge, and we all eat like kings until next Wednesday when the cycle restarts.

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Today is restock day at the Beef Barn!

It’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.

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Restock Day at the Beef Barn!

People 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.

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Gift ideas that bridge the gap between local food and provincial style.

Perfect for the food lover in your life, Clarion Farms hats and shirts are stocking stuffers that create a local style. Represent real beef and promote our wondrous region at the same time!

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R-E-S-T-O-C-K D-A-Y is the way we spell Wednesday on the farm!

If you pull in the driveway today and notice a migration of cattle walking through the yard, fear not: the grassfed herd will be moving directly past the Beef Barn and across the road to new pasture today. Maybe you'll get to watch the action!

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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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IT'S RESTOCK DAY AT THE BEEF BARN!!

Wednesdays 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.

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