July 25, 2017
Connecticut Grass Fed Beef
Connecticut Grass Fed Beef
Sunset Valley Farms – Grass Fed Beef
Grass Fed Beef is widely acknowledged as a more healthy food than grain fed beef. Cattle feed used in conventional beef farming may contain a mixture of hay with up to 75-85% high-energy grains and grain by-products. Grains include oats, barley, sorghum, distillers (brewers) grains, and by-products.
What your beef cattle are fed directly affects the nutritive value as well as the taste. The diet of the cattle actually changes the nutrients and fats you get from eating beef. Grass-fed beef may have some heart-health benefits that other types of beef don’t have.
To directly quote Rekha Mankad, M.D., ‘when compared with other types of beef, grass-fed beef may have:
• Less total fat
• More heart-healthy omega-3 fatty acids
• More conjugated linoleic acid, a type of fat that’s thought to reduce heart disease and cancer risks
• More antioxidant vitamins, such as vitamin E‘
Sunset Valley Farms is located in Ellington, CT in the northeastern region of Connecticut. We are a family farm and we are proud of our products. For more information about our beef and pork products, please call us at 860-670-0495.
Grass Fed Beef | Connecticut | Sunset Valley Farms
July 24, 2017
Grass Fed Beef Eastern CT
Grass Fed Beef Eastern CT
Sunset Valley Farms Provides Local Grass Fed Beef in Eastern Connecticut
Sunset Valley Farms raises local grass fed beef for sale in Eastern CT. We are located in Ellington, CT and raise healthful beef and pork products on our pristine grassy acres. Our beef cattle enjoy grazing the open fields on our farm, enjoying fresh air and freedom of movement in a lush environment. Grass-fed beef tastes best, and local farms like ours are your best source of healthy local meats. Discover the superior quality of fresh local meat sourced from a responsible farm: discover Sunset Valley Farms. We provide local grass fed beef. Our local service area includes Ellington, Tolland, Vernon, Broad Brook, South Windsor, Enfield, and Windsor Locks as well as the rest of Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Raising grass fed beef for the local market begins with the breeding, and continues with the feeding. The Sunset Valley Farms Grass Fed beef frolic outdoors, enjoying fresh air and a healthful life.
Our beef are grass fed year round from our own lush pastures. In the summer months they graze on our pastures, and in the winter they eat hay directly from our farm. Healthy grass fed beef from Sunset Valley Farms yields the tastiest and most healthful beef around. We bring natural, fresh, healthful hormone free beef products from our Farm to your table. Please contact us if you are interested in purchasing a 1/4 beef. We butcher locally at a USDA approved butcher shop. Sunset Valley Farms is your local source for grass fed beef, grass fed ground beef, with half and quarter beef purchasing options available. We are also offering smaller portions for your convenience. If you have not tasted our healthful, hormone-free beef, you owe it to your family to try it today! Please give us a call: 860-670-0495. We will be happy to explain our beef cut options, and smaller portions which are now available!
Grass Fed Beef | Eastern CT | Sunset Valley Farms LLC
June 23, 2017
The Piglets Have Arrived!
The Piglets Have Arrived!
We have been anticipating getting our piglets this year. The piglets stayed at the farm with the sow until they were 6 weeks old, We brought them home this week! They were bred and born here in Ellington and are a Berkshire / Tamworth cross piglet. We will be raising and feeding them for the next 6 months, until we butcher in November. We will be feeding them grain and fruits and vegetables from a nearby market.
June 16, 2017
Local Farm Raised Pork Ellington CT
Local Farm Raised Pork Ellington CT
Quality Pork Begins With Quality Feeding – Local Farm Raised Pork Near Ellington CT
Sunset Valley Farms in Broad Brook CT is your best source of high quality fresh local pork. We are a family farm and take the quality of our beef and pork very seriously. Sunset Valley Farms pork is bred and fed well to produce high quality healthful meat. We have been fine-tuning our beef and pork farming since 2009. The end product we offer is healthful and flavorful. At Sunset Valley Farms, we are focused on providing products with the highest level of customer satisfaction – we will do everything we can to meet your expectations.
As small family farmers, we invest time and effort into our high quality products to provide the best of the best for our customers! Sunset Valley Farm pigs taste better because they are fed fruits, veggies, food scraps and grain. As with our beef, a high quality diet yields meat with great flavor. We only want the best for our customers! Please contact us if you are interested in purchasing a 1/2 pig butchered at a local butcher and smoked only by the best!
Local Farm Raised Pork | Ellington CT | Sunset Valley Farms LLC
May 24, 2017
Grass Fed Beef Ellington CT
Grass Fed Beef Ellington CT
Local Grass Fed Beef Near Ellington CT
Raising grass fed beef for the local market begins with the breeding, and continues with the feeding. The Sunset Valley Farms Grass Fed beef frolic outdoors, enjoying the fresh spring air and lush green grass in our pristine fields.
Sunset Valley Farm steer range in size and color, bred mainly from angus crossed with white face or charolais. We find the mixture of breeds keeps our product lean and quality high. At Sunset Valley Farms, we are serious about the quality of the beef and pork we produce for our local clientele.
Our beef are Grass fed year round from our own lush pastures. Healthy grass and hay fed beef from Sunset Valley Farms yields the tastiest and most healthful beef around. We bring natural, fresh, healthful hormone free beef products from our Farm to your table. Please contact us if you are interested in purchasing a 1/4 beef. We butcher locally at a USDA approved butcher shop. Sunset Valley Farms is your local source for grass fed beef, grass fed ground beef, with half and quarter beef purchasing options available. If you have not tasted our healthful, hormone-free beef, you owe it to your family to try it today!
Grass Fed Beef | Ellington CT | Sunset Valley Farms LLC
May 20, 2017
Garlic Tomatoes
Garlic Tomatoes
What could be more delicious than grass-fed burger with garlic roasted tomatoes? We got the tomato recipe from attending a evening cooking class at FIG Cooking School in Hamden, CT. What a great evening that was! The cooking class is a great bonding opportunity with family or friends. The foods you get to enjoy are amazing! See the recipe below for the tomatoes!
Roasted Tomatoes with Stilton
- Ingredients:
- 18 medium Plum Tomatoes (about 3 1/2 pounds)
- 3/4 teaspoon Ground Black Pepper
- 1 1/2 teaspoons Fine Kosher Salt
- 1/2 teaspoon dried or 1 – 2 teaspoons fresh Rosemary (optional – I leave that one out :))
- 1/2 cup Olive or Canola oil
- 6 large Garlic Cloves, minced or finely chopped
- 1 4-ounce package Stilton Cheese, crumbled (Blue cheese or gorganzola works too)
- Cut the tomatoes lengthwise in half, and remove seeds and membranes. Place in a large bowl.
- Pour oil and garlic in a food processor or small chopper and blend.
- Add pepper, salt and rosemary. Blend well.
- Pour over tomatoes halves and toss to coat.
- Let them marinate for 15 minutes.
- Preheat oven to 350°
- Line baking sheet with parchment paper. (Easy cleanup!)
- Arrange tomatoes halves, cut side up, on baking sheet.
- Drizzle any remaining mixture over tomatoes.
- Roast until tomatoes are slightly softened and browned on the bottom, about 65 minutes.
- Arrange tomatoes on serving platter and sprinkle with crumbled cheese.
- Serve warm and Enjoy!
May 2, 2017
Green Pastures
Green Pastures
Enjoying the cool spring weather, the cows are finally released on the lush green pastures. Sunset Valley Farms produced the highest quality, healthful grass fed beef in the region. Superior quality meat starts with breeding. As you can see our steers range in size and color. We stagger the purchases of our steers so we can stagger our butchering time frames. We do not want to keep our cows for extensive periods of time as it reduces the quality of our meat. As for the different breeds we raise a mixture of different breeds. Our steers our mainly angus crossed with white face or charolais. We find the mixture keeps a good level of leanness to our beef without the taste of grass fed animals overpowering the taste of the beef.
April 19, 2017
Our Name
Our Name
As is evident to our family many days of the week, you may be wondering where our farm name comes from. We are blessed with beautiful sunsets most nights of the week no matter what season is upon us. Hope you can enjoy them too!
April 11, 2017
Spring on the Farm
Spring on the Farm
Cows are enjoying the spring sunshine as they pick at the winter grasses. For the next couple weeks, our cows are penned with hay bales and prevented from roaming the pastures due to over seeding our fields in preparation for summer. The hay is from last years harvest and has been the steers food for the winter. Over seeding our fields is a necessity as our farm is still growing and we are trying to have the most luscious green fields with healthy grass for our animals. Many hours are spent during the summer mowing the weeds and letting the grass grow to provide the most nutrient rich area for our cows to graze as the grass is their sole food source.
