Enjoy beef and eggs that are delicious and healthy from free-ranged animals. No more worries about antibiotics, crowded feedlots or bad feed supplies! Located in Washington County in Western Maryland, Knob Hall Farm provides free-range chicken and duck eggs and grass fed Black Angus beef.

Black Angus Beef

Tired of worrying about contaminated beef? Many supermarkets purchase beef from cattle that are fattened in "feed lots". These steers never leave a confined area. When you purchase a typical pound of ground beef at a supermarket, it may contain meat from as many as 15 different animals, as these steers are processed in large facilities.

At Knob Hall Farm, our cattle enjoy lush, green pastures. In winter, we give the cattle hay from our farm, or other local farms. We never give our cattle growth hormones or other growth enhancers. Taste the difference of grass-fed beef!

We sell “sides” (1/2) and/or quarters (1/4) of the beef.You can tell the butcher exactly how you like your beef cut. (Do you like your steaks thick?How large do you want your roasts?)

Our beef is 100% Black Angus.

Free-Range Chicken and Duck Eggs

The Dept. of Agriculture is very generous to poultry producers in their definition of "free range." But at Knob Hall Farm, our chickens and ducks truly are free range -- almost too much so --- as they often dig through flower beds to get the best worms and bugs. We have Rhode Island Reds, Buff Lace Polish Lace and Wyandottes.

We do not give our chickens or ducks growth enhancers or steroids. Nor do we medicate our poultry - when chickens and ducks are truly free range, they are a lot happier and healthier. (One of our hens even likes to ride around in our tractor and has been known to try to ride in cars or trucks!)

Free range eggs are different. Their yolks are a bright orange, not the dull color you so often see from supermarket-purchased eggs. They are also thought to contain less "bad" cholesterol and contain more vitamins and nutrients, especially beta-carotene.

Duck eggs are, of course, larger than chicken eggs. They taste richer and are great for making omelets, quiche, and baking.

Unlike those you may purchase in a supermarket, our eggs come to you fresh.  (If you are really attached to the taste of your typicalsupermarket quality eggs, put our eggs in the back of your refrigerator and forget about them for a month or so.)

Eggs are available for pickup at the farm or we can ship them to you.

Know Where Your Food is Produced

In these days of food recalls, it is more important than ever to know where your food is produced. You are welcome to visit our farm and see our animals first hand.

Buy Locally

On average, food travels 1,200 miles to get to your dinner table. With increasing concerns about global climate change and the use (and waste) of petroleum products, doesn't it make sense to buy your food products locally?

Quality

Open up the advertisements in your food section of your local newspaper and you will find that their food is marketed almost exclusively based on price. What happen to the quality of the food? When you buy a computer, you do not buy the least expensive you can - your criteria for purchase is base on how fast is the computer? How much memory does it have? How large is the monitor? But with food - possibly the most important thing we continually purchase -- we have been taught to ignore quality and look only at its price. No wonder Americans are facing so many health problems!

Interesting Books to Read on Food:

In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan

The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan

Visit Michael Pollan on the web at: www.michaelpollan.com 

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