FARMSTEAD MEAT

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Our customers enjoy coming to the farm to make their purchases so that they can watch the animals whose pastures surround the store. These are the same animals from which we get the milk to make the cheese, Goat-La-To and soap and the meat for our freezers. Visitors often bring friends and family to show off where they shop locally.

Quality, thoughtfully-raised meat has seen a huge surge in demand lately. Along with our farming neighbors, we have known about great-tasting homegrown meat all along. With the addition on the Farm Store, we are now able to share the opportunity for cooking farmstead meats with our local customers.

What is Farmstead Meat?

Farmstead meat is meat which comes from our own herd.

We process two to three pastured lambs and goats at a time and do NOT sell goat or lamb whole, by the half or by the quarter. All of our meat is sold by the cut and the meat is rotated using FIFO (First In – First Out) procedures to keep the best meat available for our customers. Since we sell what we raise and carry limited amounts of meat, we encourage you to email or call for the availability of particular cuts before coming to the Farm Store. 

Our goats and lambs are taken to a local meat processor, M. L. Mitchell & Son Meat Processing in Walnut Cove, NC, for processing. The meat is USDA inspected and it is available for purchase in our Farm Store. It is vacuum sealed, labeled and frozen by our processor in portion quantities per package. For example, our ground goat and ground lamb are in one pound packages. Packages are sold by weight and package weight will vary slightly.

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What Happened To Our Farmstead Beef?

In 2018, during Hurricane Michael, our farm’s pastures flooded. Our cattle pasture, was completely underwater and all our fencing was lost. After the water receded enough that we could cross Buffalo Creek, our cattle were corralled and hauled to be sold as we had no way to contain them. Our fencing was replaced in early 2023 and new heifers have arrived. Look for our beef to be back in the Farm Store in 2026. (The picture below depicts our goat pasture. Our cattle pasture on the opposite side of Buffalo Creek was much worse.)

Since then, we have purchased beef from a local area farm, Hannah Family Farm in Tobaccoville, NC, which utilizes our same practices – – – grass fed grass finished Angus-X beef. Their beef is a comparable product to what we were raising.

What is grass fed grass finished beef? It comes from cattle that ate nothing but grass and forage for their entire lives. Their diet of natural grasses and vegetation contributes to full-flavored beef that is rich in healthful Omega-3 fatty acids.

Why is beef raised on grass more costly than conventionally raised beef? Cattle raised on pasture require more space, more time to grow out and more labor.

Hannah Family Farm’s beef is harvested and USDA inspected at Piedmont Custom Meats in Gibsonville, NC and is available for purchase in our Farm Store. It is vacuum sealed, labeled and frozen by their processor in portion quantities per package. For example, ground beef is in one pound packages and stew meat is in one and one-half pound packages. Packages are sold by weight and package weight will vary slightly.

Check out our freezer for beef, goat and lamb!

Johnny and Robin Blakley (owners of Buffalo Creek Farm and Creamery, LLC) are both certified Poultry and Meat Handlers through the Meat and Poultry Inspection Division of the North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services as of December 6, 2011 and are inspected yearly.

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MeAT PRICES

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***NO EXCHANGES OR REFUNDS ***

Cash, MasterCard, Visa, Discover, and American Express (debit or credit) accepted for Farm Store purchases with a $10 minimum purchase. No checks accepted.

***CASH IS PREFERRED TO REDUCE OUR CARD PROCESSING FEES***