EIGHTH (2 Year Old) Custom Beef=~50 lbs Ground, Roast, Steak, Rib, Bone, Organ

After placing your Live Animal Custom Beef Share, you will receive an order confirmation e-mail and Foothill Frolic Farm will be in communication closer to On Farm Pick Up Time. 

Close to your Beefs harvest date you will receive a Custom Beef Shareholder Informative Note.  This Note will let you know Name and Stories about your Harvested Beef.  It will also give you important dates of your up and coming on farm pick up.  

 

Eventually, an On Farm Pick Up will need to be arranged when the processing, dry aged hanging,  and butchering of your beef animal is completed.   This date will generally be about 2 & 1/2 weeks after the intial harvest date.    

 

As a shareholder/customer you will receive all needed On Farm Pick Up Information through Foothill Frolic Farm's e-mail farm post.  

 

Shareholders will receive a final Text announcement that will include Pictures and a Final Cost Spreadsheet letting you know your Final Amount Due and when exactly your On Farm Pick Up starts for your particular harvest group.   You then will have approximately 10 days to pick up your frozen custom beef share.   We generally have 3 time slots per day, within the 10 day period, for sharholders to choose from. 

 

Farm address is 232 Minga Rd; Kingsport, TN 37663

 

We are located in an easy location near the Tri Cities Airport just a quarter mile off of HWY 75 on the Corner of Hamilton Rd. & Minga Rd. There is a farm sign...Foothill Frolic Farm on Gammon Creek... at the Farm Entrance. 

 

For On Farm Pick Ups you will drive up to the white Farmhouse Homeplace,  and there one of us here on the farm will have your custom beef share/shares packaged and ready.  As the beef is coming straight out of the freezer it is a good idea for you to bring a cooler or cooler bag to keep your share frozen until it ends up in your freezer or refrigerator.  

 

Thanks!

Here at Foothill Frolic Farm we have decided that we LOVE grinding in the Organs  (Liver, Kidney, Heart, & Tongue), into the ground beef.  We have done this now with over 30 Whole Beefs.  Up to this point there have been many families that have tried the ground this way and it is a WIN WIN.  We as well did our last 2 beefs this way as well and our whole family loves it too.  More often than not, a family decides this concept is not the best idea for them generally because there is a split in between husband and wife, as for example one side is excited about it, but the other side cannot mentally grasp trying it.  When a detailed analysis is done on taste and smell, often a hint of difference from our regular ground beef to our ground beef + vitals blend can be picked up, but this difference is still very delicious, and this difference can mostly be picked up when the ground beef is cooked plain and one is trying the regular grind to the vitals blend back to back.   The great thing about this concept, which is a current trending product in most high end markets/grocery stores, is that it adds the dense nutrients from the organs into the regular ground beef, without changing the flavor of the ground beef too much.  It works out to be approximately an 8-10% vitals to ground beef blend. 

The alternative for not grinding the organs in with the ground beef is that each shareholder will receive the amount of packages of sliced organs that are appropriate for your share size.  I know some of you have perhaps wonderful recipes that you like to use specifically for your organs, but if you do not they might just sit in your freezer staring back at you for a while until you rise to the occasion and make the extra effort to use.  

Part of why I think the grinding of the organs into the ground is a great option to say yes to, is to avoid what I mention above along with knowing every part of these custom beefs get eaten, and moreover one does not even realize the organs are in the ground.   On the other hand, it is perfectly fine if you are not interested in having organs ground into ground beef.

If one was purchasing this qty of Premium REGENERATIVE-100% GRASSFED and GRASSFINISHED-ORGANICALLY RAISED Beef by the cut at a retail market one could expect to pay AT LEAST $612.50 (all cut categories for a whole beef, if averaged out, end up being approximately $12.25/lb)   SHOP examples .... Organic Prarie, Force of Nature, which are both very large scaled CO-OP farmer companies, or if one looks into Locally Owned Farms througout the country with practices SLIGHTLY like ours, prices per pound of cuts and custom beefs will often be even higher priced than the above!!

 

AND Really, Our Custom Beefs are really not comparable to other custom beefs or larger scaled farmer CO-OP companies, as we have 11 PRODUCT PREMIUMS THAT SET US APART...click here

 

By choosing to purchase a LOCAL EIGHTH BEEF from Foothill Frolic Farm you are saving AT MINIMUM about $137.50!!  

 

Plus when you purchase an EIGHTH BEEF locally from our farm, you are helping to keep cattle out of the conventional industrialized food system, which in turn creates a more vibrant and clean ecosystem for humanity and allows for the most ethical and humane life for our beautiful bovine animals!

 

When all these are compiled, we as humans can feel OK & GOOD about the choice to eat beef protein, which is a powerful and necessary component to most people's diets.   

Good day to all 13 Foothill Frolic Farm Custom Beef Shareholders for our 15th harvest date of the season that happened this past Monday Nov. 25th, a bright and brisk morning.    

 

The exciting news is that your custom beefs were comfortably and respectfully harvested and are now dry age hanging for a couple of weeks until they will be butchered.  I ESTIMATE On Farm Pick Ups will start around Wednesday Dec. 11th  and go through Sunday Dec 22nd, but the EXACT DATES will be given in quick text closer to time, along with an inventory spreadsheet of Custom Beef Shares, Final Amounts Due, and a few photos.  

 

The 3 Steers that we took were "Continental Divide" 249S,  "Thanksgiving At Last" 251S, & "Rudolf" 253S.  All of these steers were right around the 2 year old mark, and were Fall Born calves in 2022.   All three were stellar and are going to make for some absolutely delicious 100% grassfed/grassfinished-regenerative-organically raised custom beef.  As we do with every beef harvest, we like to express how thankful we are for these three wonderful beef cattle and the beautiful time and life they were able to live right up to their harvest. 

 

"Continental Divide" 249S was born to one of our tried and true old time Hereford cows, G12, and was the first birth to start off our fall calving season in 2022.  I remember seeing his Mamma down by the creek and could tell she had already given birth.  She was looking straight down into the creek.  I remember my heart skipped a beat and I took off running, because based on her stance, there was a possibility that her calf had fallen down the bank of the creek.  Nope, no calf was there, so then I started covering all the thick grass in the proximity trying to spot the black ball that I had yet to notice upon my approach.  I had to look for a while and finally with a huge sigh of relief I found this little one curled up resting in the thick grass. The calf was a very unique baldy (black body and white face), as it had a mostly black face with brushed strips of white scattered upon the face in such designer fashion.  The name Continental Divide was perfect as the unique markings reminded me of continents amidst the oceans.  He has always been one of our favorites because to go along with his beauty, he had such a calm and mystifying type presence.  He would approach and just gaze and look.  

 

"Thanksgiving At Last "251S came to be just as his name implies.  He arrived on Thanksgiving back in 2022.  He had a very sweet and mindful personality, never pushy or impatient. He came from our prized heifer "Veggie Girl".  She was huge, large framed with always a full belly and he was built very similarly and took on her sweet face.  He was all black and always had a thicker coat of fur than some of his other companions.  

 

"Rudolf" 253S came from our Angus Mamma cow, G37 and she raised him to be large and strong.  He from a young age had quicker growth attributes than others in the herd and was always very handsome.  He was born during the Christmas holiday and he would prance and run with full on energy like Rudolf flying through the sky!  He always ran at a higher energy level and grew with leaps and bounds into a very nice looking steer.  

 

All 3 were VERY SPECIAL and like all of the 2022 born steers have grown out to be PRIME Custom Beefs! 

 

These three harvested steer beefs stayed right in with their steer herd as we took the extra effort to load up by means of portable corral, which is what we do every time we harvest our custom beef cattle.  

We let them all know they were much loved and that we as farmer's of beef cattle did the absolute best we could for them all the way up till their harvest time.  As a farm, it is so important for us to uphold the ethic of single source birth to beef practices as this keeps the farmer, the cattle, and the consumer/shareholder most innermost connected, which captures the true essence of what farming food should be about.     

 

We thank you all for making the effort to purchase a custom beef share from us and we know that once you have, you will never want to purchase beef from anyone else...TASTE, QUALITY, TRANSPARENCY & PRACTICES will keep you coming back, we know!!  Hence, the shareholders in this 15th round, who are already Returning Shareholder Customers, of course we thank you for continuing to place custom beef PreOrders. 

 

For our '25-'26 custom beef season, we are offering a 5% Discount from the EIGHTH BEEF Live Animal Flat Cost of  $413.50  for any shareholders who PreOrder and would choose to Prepay In Full, by or at, our first annual Custom Beef Shareholder Spring Fair and Preview Day.  The exact date TBA but will be on either, Friday April 25th, Saturday April 26th, or Sunday April 27th 

$413.50 x 5% = $20.68

$413.50 - $20.68 = $392.82

OR

Prepay in even distributed Monthly payments prior to your selected On Farm Pick Up Date.  Or Pick Another Payment Distribution as long as amount is payed In Full Prior to Pick Up.  

Example...

Shareholder picks Early August Pick Up

$413.50 x 5% = $20.68

$413.50 - $20.68 = $392.82 divided by 5 months = $78.57/month 

So there would be a March, April, May, June, July mailed in Payment of $78.57

 

CHECKS Payable to Foothill Frolic Farm

CHECKS mailed to:

232 Minga Road

Kingsport, TN 37663

 

This offering is a representative model of the Community Supported Agriculture Concept.  Community Supported Agriculture (CSA), one type of direct marketing, consists of a community of individuals who pledge support to a farm operation so that the farmland becomes, inspirit, the community's farm; with the growers and consumers providing mutual support and sharing the risks and benefits of food production.

 

Consumers become CSA members by paying an agreed amount at the beginning of the farm's season, either in one lump sum or in installments.  This upfront payment helps support the farm, the farmers work and all the input cost while they are raising and HAVE BEEN RAISING the shareholders' beef FOR THE LAST TWO YEARS and provides the farmer an immediate income to begin the season. By paying at the beginning of the season, CSA members share in the risk of production and relieve the farmer of shouldering all the risk in producing high quality premium products, especially in the current times of such extreme weather!  This allows the farmer to concentrate on good land stewardship and growing high quality food, knowing that the farm is backed by a group of loyal local supporters!  

 

For our '25-'26 Custom Beef Season, we are going to kick off the season with a special CUSTOM BEEF SHAREHOLDER SPRING FAIR, PREVIEW DAY.  This is to acknowledge the "In-Spirit" relationships amidst our Land/Farms, we the Farmers, you the Consumers/Shareholders, the lovely and respected Cattle Herds, and everyone's  forever and all combined LOCAL Ecosystem.  This will be an Exclusive Day for our shareholders to come out and get Tour and Tastings and Group Connections just because we want our shareholders to know how important they are and how much they are appreciated!  

 

During our tour, WHOLE AND HALF SHARE custom beef shareholders will have the opportunity to personally select the beef animal of their choice.  For ties in beef animal selections, an end drawing will take place for fun to see who wins the beef of their choice.   

 

Shareholders who do not want to personally select your beef animal, this is just fine, at least you can see and view the beautiful herds and learn faces and names if you wish.  This on farm day can be a very special and enriching time for families wanting to connect directly with the source of their Premium Beef from Foothill Frolic Farm!! 

 

Currently we are planning for this Special Day to be held on the weekend of Friday afternoon April 25th, or Saturday afternoon April 26th, or Sunday Afternoon Sunday 27th.  So please mark your calendars.  We will pick the actual date out of the 3, closer to time and let all shareholders know.