To begin with, every single one of Our Live Animal Custom Beef Shares have a rare Accolade of 11 BEEF Product PREMIUMS...

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ORGANICALLY RAISED (no synthetic chemicals used on land or animal)

 

100% BORN ON FARM, SINGLE SOURCED

 

100% GRASSFED & GRASSFINISHED

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FREE CHOICE SUPPLY OF CERTIFIED ORGANIC THORVIN ICELANDIC KELP

& REDMOND ANCIENT SALT

 

BLACK HIDE

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LOCALLY GROWN

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NO VACCINES

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MOON SIGN HARVESTED

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HOLISTICALLY & HUMANELY TREATED WITH LOVE and RESPECT

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OPTION of CHOOSING A GROUND BEEF + VITALS (organs) BLEND GRIND

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SHAREHOLDERS GET TO KNOW THEIR CUSTOM BEEF DOWN TO THEIR NAME, NUMBER, PICTURE, AND PERSONAL STORY

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Often, a few of these will be met, but it is unique to find a farm offering a live animal custom beef with all 10.  

Foothill Frolic Farm does not farm the way we do to be able to offer a high end niche product. 

We set out to farm custom beefs the way we farm because we know ecosystems: (a community of living organisms and their physical environment that interact with each other.) need to be resilient and to be resilient all parts of the ecosystem need to be able to be pure as possible.  We want the best for all parts of ecosystems and farming the way we do is the only way we can foresee farming!!

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We have always been inspired by the environmental pioneer, Aldo Leopold's Land Ethic and I like to think that Foothill Frolic Farm embodies the Land Ethic principles.....

 

Aldo Leopold's environmental stance, known as the land ethic, is a philosophy that prioritizes the well-being of the Earth's biotic community. It encourages people to care for the land as much as they care for people. 

Key tenets of the land ethic:

• Respect the community: Humans are part of the biotic community, not its conqueror. 

• Consider the whole: The land ethic considers the relationships between soil, water, plants, animals, and people. 

• Limit actions: To achieve an ecological ethic, people must limit their actions to benefit coexistence between humans and the natural world. 

• Use the land responsibly: Use the land with love and respect. 

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GOOD TO KNOW INFO ABOUT OUR CUSTOM BEEF SHARES

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When customers become shareholder of an animal from Foothill Frolic Farm this allows the most direct relationship in between farmer and consumer.  Our custom beef shares also allows our shareholders to obtain the best whole foods price value by volume and weight, without compromising key factors of quality control, packaging, or farmer to consumer to butcher relations.  All too often these key factors become defunct when outfits offer a custom beef concept without specializing in the process like Foothill Frolic Farm does. 

 

Prior to our current custom beef shareholders finding us, we have heard countless stories  about their horrific experiences of purchasing a custom beef share and all the things that can go wrong when there is a breakdown in between the farmer the consumer and the processor/butcher.   Hence why we have had so many customers let us know how thrilled and pleased they have been when working with us throughout the whole process of raising, harvesting, and picking up their custom beef on farm.  Many even stating that they will hope to be "CUSTOMERS FOR LIFE".  Shareholders have learned that we are very meticulous, conscientious, and trustworthy about every step of our custom beef animals from birth all the way to their harvest and then to the shareholders' freezers.  

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The main gist of purchasing a live animal custom beef share, as opposed to buying meat cuts by the pound, is so customers become owners/shareholders of the live animal that Foothill Frolic Farm on Gammon Creek has farm raised before it leaves the farm for slaughter/processing/butcher. 

Once you place an order for however many live animal custom beef shares, you have that portion of ownership.

Therefore, when the beef animal is being processed by Russell Meat Packing they are processing/butchering the shareholders beef animal. 

Hence, custom beef shareholders are contracting us to transport the beef animal to Russell Meat Packing and to bring the shareholders custom beef share/shares back to Foothill Frolic Farm for On Farm scheduled Pick Up.  

So, when you see the words, Live Animal Custom Beef Share, please don't let it make you think that you are going to end up with a real live beef animal in your yard.  Your end product will be your ordered custom beef share of Frozen Edible and Delicious Beef that Foothill Frolic Farm raised specifically for our custom beef shareholders! 

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​Interestingly enough, one of our 1000 lb,  Top-Notch 2 year old, live beef animals that has a hanging weight of anywhere from about 550 to 625 lbs, ends up packing the freezer with about 400 lbs of edible end product, which includes steaks, roasts, ground beef, ribs, organs, and stock/soup bones.  

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We encourage customers to work towards purchasing the largest custom beef share you can in order to accommodate your families needs for months at a time, even a year.   It always feels good to have a freezer full of beef.  A freezer full of our high quality, premium custom beef is like having a butcher shop right in the convenience of your own kitchen quarters. 

Moreover,  the concept of local custom/freezer beef is priceless if talking about topics of time management, effective meal planning,  and supply chain efficiencies on obtaining high value products. 

  With all this mentioned, we hope that customers feel informed, empowered, and excited to be able to purchase a live animal custom beef share that is suiting to their families needs.   

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Important Ancillary Benefits of Becoming a Foothill Frolic Farm Custom Beef Shareholder

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By becoming a custom beef shareholder, you are connecting your family directly with us, a LOCAL Family Farm, and with that, you are playing an active role in creating a viable and sustainable agricultural community. 

 

You are choosing to put high quality, organically raised food on your families table that improves your families health and quality of life instantly and into the future.  Are custom beef provides a truly nourishing beef that has higher key nutrients like omega 3's, vitamins, amino acids, and minerals.   Also this high quality food is  raised in such proximity that you could drive and see exactly where your custom beef share is coming from, which in turn develops life long core connections between the food your family eats and where it comes from.  

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You get to love, show your due respect, and pay tribute to the marvelous COW genus specie, that throughout time has forged great ancestral relations in the culture of civilization and anthropology.  Our cattle herds get to roam amidst natural environments and eat from diverse East TN pastures.  They get to have the highest quality o life so they can produce the highest quality clean beef for you the shareholder. 

 

You get to purchase a beef directly out of our fields instead of out of the grocery store. 

Because remember...generally, when one buys beef from a grocery store, that animal has passed though about 8 different outfits and has possibly been transported through at least 10 states...absolutely illogical right!!  

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You are maximizing your food dollars towards a densely nutritious and tasty whole food beef product that makes cooking delicious and hardy meals a breeze. 

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You get to play a key role in helping to keep family farms economically viable and working for patrons within the local communities, which then in turn encourages generational passing of farming operations as opposed to contributing to the selling off of beautiful TN farm land for development.

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Most importantly you are participating in our current generations obligations to support our future generations natural resources and health by supporting our farm and our practices to uphold our communities ecosystems and specific Land Ethic principals.  

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Lastly, you are actually SAVING $$money$$. 

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TN Regulatory Considerations for selling Custom Beef off the Farm​

 

As we are selling our Live Beef Animals as Custom Beef Shares from our farm to your freezer/table, certain regulatory protocols have been set up by the TDA and USDA that allow us to do this.  There is an informative publication that has been put together by UT extension and TN center for profitable agriculture that explains these basic regulatory considerations for farmers in TN involved in the non retail sell of meat off the farm.  If you would like to know more of why we offer our beef cattle in share form and why the animal's shares need to be pre-sold while they are still alive and before slaughter/processing, then please refer to this link and read under the topic "Custom Harvest and Processing Facilities" p.8-9.  

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