Why Grass Fed?

We’ve all heard that we need to eat more omega-3 fats and less omega-6 fats. We’ve been told to be careful of oils like corn oil because they are high in omega-6 and eat more cold water fish like salmon and herring because they have more omega-3. We can also get omega-3 from grass fed animal products. Most of the meat that you get at the grocery store is confinement fed – the animals are fed lots of grain to fatten up fast and are fed little if any hay or grass. The fat in corn, from which corn oil is made, is omega-6, so those animals are high in omega-6, and we are too if that’s what we eat. Surprisingly, there is fat in grass and it’s omega-3. With as much grass as a pastured cow eats, the grass fed animals end up having omega-3 fats. None of the animals on the farms we work with are exclusively grass fed, they all get some grain but they do get a lot of grass. We offer the following grass fed products to our CSA customers:

Snafu Acres Chicken; Caldwell Farms Beef and Butter; Bowden Farm Eggs; Sonnental Dairy Cheese; and York Hill Goat Cheese.