{"id":4487,"date":"2015-10-12T12:02:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-12T16:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=4487"},"modified":"2015-10-12T12:03:39","modified_gmt":"2015-10-12T16:03:39","slug":"behind-the-scenes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/behind-the-scenes\/","title":{"rendered":"Behind the scenes….."},"content":{"rendered":"

….many, though probably not most, consumers of grass fed beef know the right questions to ask a farmer to be sure they’re getting the “real thing”.\u00a0 The problem is most consumers don’t know their farmer, which is why we think buying “local” is just as important as buying “grass fed”.<\/p>\n

Simply put:\u00a0 a good deal of what passes for grass fed is really finished on grain, and that destroys all the benefits of a pure, natural product.<\/p>\n

But the farmer is only half the story.\u00a0 The butcher has just as much to do with the quality and purity of the meat you buy.\u00a0 That’s why we surveyed a number of butchers before deciding on Blue Ridge Meats in Front Royal.\u00a0 They come closer to all the rules of not only producing the finest meat….and they do it in the most humane, stress free way we know of.<\/p>\n

Doug and Lois Aylestock and the people at Blue Ridge are as much a part of our team as our farm manager Duane Ard and our herdsman Church Humpheys.<\/p>\n

For a look at grass fed beef from the inside out we thought we’d post this article from the Weston Price Foundation.\u00a0 Warning:\u00a0 it may tell some more than they want to know but here are the things you ought to know when you purchase grass fed beef!<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.westonaprice.org\/health-topics\/cutting-the-cold-hard-fat<\/a>\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

….many, though probably not most, consumers of grass fed beef know the right questions to ask a farmer to be sure they’re getting the “real thing”.\u00a0 The problem is most consumers don’t know their farmer, which is why we think buying “local” is just as important as buying “grass fed”. Simply put:\u00a0 a good deal of what passes for grass fed is really finished on grain, and that destroys all the benefits of a pure, natural product. But the farmer is only half the story.\u00a0 The butcher has just as much to do with the quality and purity of the meat you buy.\u00a0 That’s why we surveyed a number of butchers before deciding on Blue Ridge Meats in Front Royal.\u00a0 They come closer to all the rules of not only producing the finest meat….and they do it in the most humane, stress free way we know of. Doug and Lois Aylestock and the people at Blue Ridge are as much a part of our team as our farm manager Duane Ard and our herdsman Church Humpheys. For a look at grass fed beef from the inside out we thought we’d post this article from the Weston Price Foundation.\u00a0 Warning:\u00a0 it may tell some more than they want to know but here are the things you ought to know when you purchase grass fed beef! http:\/\/www.westonaprice.org\/health-topics\/cutting-the-cold-hard-fat\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,35,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-meat","category-on-the-soap-box"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4487"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4489,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4487\/revisions\/4489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}