Organic Beef
Our organic beef comes from the free-range farms where our partners raise herds of the following breeds of cows; Vianesas, Frieiresas, Cachenas y Limianas as well as “Rubias Gallegas”. Since time immemorial these breeds have been adapted to the local climate due to their special qualities;
-They are resistant and hardy, prolific breeder and excellent mothers… They have the benefit of a strong intrinsic immune systems that are fortified by the organic husbandry techniques (Lack of stress, low intensity farming, access to a large variety of wild flora with therapeutic qualities…) and permit us to use practically no medicines.
-They raise healthy calves that feed on their mothers´ milk until they are seven months old and are then “finished of” on a mixture of organic cereals, legumes and hay for three months. -Although they don't have ideal morphological characteristics they do produce meat that has excellent organoléptic properties.
• Colour: instead of a lighter pink colour it has a darker, purple hue when cut.
• Texture: tender and juice “like silk on your tongue”.
• Taste: intense.
• Flavour: (Aroma- Smell) uniquely different from other meats. Our clients tell us that they “re-live the tastes of the good old days”
-The concepts that marks us as different aren't based in quantity (net meat production per calf) but in the distinctive attributes of our meat: the quality of the meat and a complete absence of chemical residues, health and safety excellence, conservation of biodiversity, conservation of the environment, tractability, etc.
CENSUS
We can count on sixteen farms that raise free-range herds of local breeds of cattle.
Together they have fifteen hundred reproductive heads of cattle that are raised on a total area of approximately 2500 Hectares and that produce 750 calves a year.
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