Our Natural Lamb
Locust Grove produces natural lamb you can believe in! At Locust Grove Farm we raise the kind of lamb you can believe in. That's the reason we never use antibiotics, artificial growth hormones, animal by-products, or genetically modified feeds (GMO's). The result? You and your family will thoroughly enjoy our totally natural, great tasting lamb. And unlike most conventional lamb, our natural lamb is dry aged one to two weeks prior to processing. Dry aging creates a rich, mature flavor and improved tenderness.
You'll taste the difference immediately. A rich tender flavor unlike anything you've experienced before. Even people who would hesitate to order lamb in the best restaurants love the taste of our lamb. Our lamb is sold directly to the customer - no feedlots, shipping, or grocery chains. It's farm fresh.
We sell to individuals interested in the best quality and healthiest of foods. Ours is a small farm but that allows us absolute quality control over our product. Raising quality-tasting lamb doesn't come easy. The unique flavor of Locust Grove Farm lamb is the result of careful attention to the diet, breeding, and growing conditions of our sheep.
Over the past 30 years especially, we have seen a trend towards larger and larger farms, more confinement of animals, a higher usage of antibiotics and growth hormones, and an increased dependence on all-grain or grain based diets. Often lambs are in high-stress confinement facilities and are unable to breathe the fresh air, bathe in sunshine or eat the fresh green grass that God designed for them to enjoy.
Many people are searching for a healthy alternative. And they buy from a farmer that is local, not a faceless company based hundreds or thousands of miles away. We are striving to produce the best tasting, healthiest, safest and highest quality meat raised the way God intended.
Healthy Lamb From Our Family to Yours
We raise our lamb out on pasture rather than in factory feed lots. Pasture-raising lamb with managed intensive grazing preserves the soil, protects ground water, and recycles nutrients back into the earth. Studies prove pasture-raised livestock have less stress, less e.coli bacteria, and less saturated fats and more nutrients than their conventional counterparts. Supporting pasture-raised lamb production is a sure way to improve the environment, protect your health, and conserve the natural landscape.
Grass fed animal fat has higher levels of essential omega-3 fatty acids than animals fed high grain diets thereby leading us to believe that grass fed animals are nutritionally superior to those raised on high grain diets. Livestock raised on pasture have significantly higher levels of the antioxidant beta-carotene than animals finished in a feedlot and research found that the Beta-carotene content was twice as high as conventionally raised animals.
We now know that lambs raised on pasture are high in CLA, a naturally occurring fatty acid that may help the body prevent cancer. So pasture-raised meat is not just leaner than conventionally raised meat, its fat is actually much healthier. According to research, pasture-raised meat has a third less saturated fat than conventional meat. In addition, pasture-raised meat is also lower in calories. Lamb grazed on rich green pasture is rich in easily absorbed minerals and B vitamins - particularly B6 and B12.