Mitchell Grass Meats

Well for some parts of Queensland the current rains are causing flooding, inconvenience and in some cases distress. Our hearts go out to those who are suffering hardship due to flooding.Here at our property in western Queensland though, the joy we have, from the bountiful falls of rain can not be described! Our country has needed a really good soaking and that’s what it got this past week. For 100% grass fed meat producers, the sight of our animals wading through a sea of fresh green grass with dams & waterholes full to the brim, is quite simply - a true blessing. Our cattle and sheep have so much choice they don’t know what to eat first! The downside is that the ground is so wet, we can’t get out to muster or truck them to fill orders we have for our meat packs. Oh well…such is life on the land…we go from one extreme to the other.To introduce ourselves - My husband and I, together with our daughters, aged 9 & 7 run this small part of Australia in western Qld where we produce wool, beef and lamb. We homeschool our girls, in between running the property, establising our little meat venture and trying to instill the value of traditional foods in our children.We have a large veggie garden, an orchard, chooks, our chemical free meat and several milking cows. It keeps us very busy!! Both our girls are learning about traditional foods and are a great help. Our youngest tells me that she plans to be them main milking person as soon as she is strong enough to work the lever on the headbale! She has been coming down to help me milk since she was about four and has suprisingly strong hands. Our eldest loves cooking and anything to do with animals. We are teaching her healthful recipes and encouraging her to develop her own.We are both from families who have run sheep and cattle properties for generations in this area. We often draw on the wisdom of those who have grazed this land before us. My beloved parents-in-law help us a lot with stock work too - which they love. Its often a real family affair, with three generations down in the yards, working together.One of the attractive features of country out here is the absence of spraying, croping, superphosphates etc. Our country is natural undulating mitchell grass downs country. It has never been cleared. The main native grasses are mitchell & flinders grasses and there is also some buffel grass. We have a diverse selction of wild herbages native to this area too. Our animals mostly drink artesian water which we pipe around to troughs throughout the property. They also drink from waterholes and dams when we have plenty of surface water.My health started to steadily go downhill a number of years ago and I was later diagnosed with mercury poisoning, chemical poisoning (from a mouth full of amalgams and chemical exposure from helping on the farm where I grew up - sheep dips etc) fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, haemochromotosis, candida, leaky gut etc etc.This prompted many years of looking, learning, researching which led us to where we are now. We discovered the Weston A Price Foundation and others, whose ideas and information we have adopted. We’re not perfect with it all yet, but we strive in that direction! As we studied, we realised that the meat we have produced for a long time is perfect for those of us who believe in grass fed, chemical free, traditional foods, no grain feeding, no trimming the fat, lots of bone broths, organ meats, slow baking etc etc.The idea of providing our meat directly to such people soon became a passion. Bulk meat packs soon emerged as the most ecomomical and environmentally responsible (only the meat ordered is processed - no wastage) way to do so. Our focus became clear - excellent quality meat direct the consumer at a mutually attractive price.So here we are, a year later, flooded bound with green grass, water, healthly animals in the paddocks, healthy children in the school room - with Dad as their teacher today while I write this. Our customers have been very gracious in their patience, while they wait for our country to dry out enough for us to deliver their meat packs. Meanwhile their lambs and cattle just get bigger!We look forward to being a part of the Nourished Magazine community, to pass on what we know and most importantly to learn from you all.Until next tim, God BlessAnna, George & Family