Grow and Behold

A few weeks ago, Mark and I attended a lecture sponsored by our Solivita club, HEAL, Healthy Eating Active Living.  The lecturer lives here in Solivita, but he still owns a family farm in northern Baltimore County, MD.  His farm is family operated, pays his workers a living wage, and allows his animals to live full, happy lives grazing on natural pastures.  He talked at some length about this type of farming in general, not just his farm.  Mark and I came away committed to finding a kosher farmer like him.  And we found it.  It is in Pennsylvania and is called Grow and Behold.

They ship anywhere from their website at www.growandbehold.com.

They claim that their meat tastes better because of the life of the animal.  We have now ordered 4 Rib Eye steaks, beef bacon, and 4 chicken legs to try.  Yesterday morning Mark fried up some of the beef bacon with whole wheat toast and scrambled eggs.  AMAZING!!  Mark is going to use the rest of the "bacon" as a BLT for lunch today.  He has never had a BLT!  How cool for him.

Is it cheap?  NO!!!!  Of course, kosher meat is never cheap.  This costs even more than regular kosher meat plus shipping.  We have been paying to ship kosher meat from New York now and then already, so we don't mind the shipping charges.  The charges were essentially the same for both companies. The other company, Avi Glatt, sends absolutely delicious meat, usually overnight, in a refrigerated FedEx box, not frozen.  Glow and Behold shipped it in a few days, frozen.  We shall see which one tastes better, but we KNOW which one treats its animals in a humane and ethical way.

We are sold on it.  I can't wait to eat those steaks!

Now I must eat breakfast and be ready to leave in a half hour for our first read-through for the play, The Trial of Ebeneezer Scrooge.  Should be a lot of fun to hear it all the way through for the first time.