Our beef cattle are raised on pasture and 100% of their diet is grass. We rotate them through fresh pasture on a daily basis. We do not spray our pastures with chemicals or synthetic fertilizers and we do not treat our cattle with chemical dewormers or fly control. Some of our beef are born on Mirror Image Farms and are raised their entire life here. For others, we purchase the cattle as stockers in the spring, when they are about a year old and raise them to finish weight on Mirror Image Farms. The farmers we purchase our stockers from also raise their herds on 100% grass, rotate them through pasture in the growing season and feed hay during the winter.
Order Your Grass-fed Beef
Now taking reservations for 2024 beef.
Available in whole, halves, quarters, and 1/6 beef. We also offer the very popular 30lb Box of Beef. Reserve your beef by emailing us your intention and sending us a deposit. Checks are payable and mailed to Mirror Image Farms at 2365 River Road, Bainbridge, PA 17502. Also accepting venmo @mirror-image-farms-1 We’ll connect with you again closer to the expected time frame your beef will be available. We may have several beeves available mid-summer, and the majority will be ready late fall.
You may opt to have your beef cut differently than what is listed in our standard beef order form. Additional butcher fees may apply.
Contact us with your questions and beef reservations.
- Whole beef: $8.50/lb
- estimated 400lb of retail cuts for a total of $3,400
- deposit check of $700
- Standard Beef cuts expected from a whole beef
- Half beef: $8.75/lb
- estimated 200lb of retail cuts for a total of $1,750
- deposit check of $400.
- Standard Beef cuts expected from a half beef
- Quarter beef: $9.00/lb
- estimated 100lb of retail cuts for a total of $900
- deposit check of $250.
- Standard Beef cuts expected from a quarter beef
- 1/6 Beef: $9.75/lb
- estimated 70lb of retail cuts for a total of $682
- deposit check of $150
- Standard Beef cuts expected from a sixth beef
- 30lb Box of Beef, BOB: $9.95/lb
- Total price for the box is $298
- No deposit required. Payment at pick-up.
- Mixture of beef cuts
- The 30lb box of grassfed beef is comprised of:
- 2 filet mignon
- 2 delmonico or rib steaks
- 2 New York strip steaks
- 2 beef roasts (1 chuck roast; 1 brisket, or London Broil)
- 2lb beef franks
- 3lb chipsteak
- 3lb beef cubes
- 3lb hamburger patties
- 12lb ground beef
Want to purchase beef by the cut?
Click here for our retail price list on beef
Our animals are processed by Smucker’s Meats. Smucker’s is a USDA certified facility, and process nitrate free. When your order is ready, we’ll contact you and schedule a time for you to pick up your meat at Mirror Image Farms. Delivery is available for $2.50/mile (one way). The balance of your bill is due at time of pick up or delivery.
Our Cattle Breed
We began our Mirror Image Farms cattle herd with a combination of Black Angus and Red Devon breeds. Both come from excellent grass-fed herds. We bred three of the heifers in our original group to be the foundation mothers for our future cow-calf herd. In December 2017 we had the opportunity to buy another small 100% grass-fed herd of about 15 head, which have a lot of short horn breed influence. As we continue with our herd, we observe how different cows perform in our context, and select for genetics that give birth well and recover quickly, are easy to manage, are not susceptible to illness and disease, and grow well on the forage growing on our land. While specific cattle breeds are interesting, we’re more interested in developing a herd that fits our specific context.
Join us on our journey of developing our herd while using their animal impact to develop and restore our lands.
Importance of Rotating Pastures
It’s important to rotate animals often on pasture.
The movement of animals from one pasture to the next, allows a pasture to rest and regrow after being grazed and trampled. This produces the effect of bruising the land followed by rest periods which is beneficial for the land and animals and overall helps build a stable and healthy ecosystem.
The hoof action of a heavy animal helps to trod leftover grass stalks and manure into the ground surface, where it decomposes more easily. Any seeds are trampled into the ground also, planting them. Rotational grazing, creating this pulsing effect, parallels the movement of the great buffalo herds which created the deep, nutrient-rich topsoils of the Mid-western United States.