Steve Normanton Grass-Fed Beef

We sell delicious, healthful 100% grass-fed beef.

We do not treat our cattle with hormones or antibiotics or feed them growth-promoting additives.

Our cattle have never tasted soy, corn, corn silage, brewer’s grain, or any other kind of concentrated grain. We do not even use grain for “handling” them. In the spring, summer, and fall we move our cattle every day to a fresh pasture, where they eat the grasses, legumes and forbs that grow there. During the winter, we feed them dry hay and wrapped bales of high-moisture hay.

The result is a product you’ll feel so good about, you’ll never go back to buying supermarket beef!

Better for You

Compared with the corn-fed or grain-fed meat you find in the supermarket, our grass-fed beef has less total fat, saturated fat, cholesterol, and calories. It also has more vitamin E, beta-carotene, vitamin C, and a number of health-promoting fats, including omega-3 fatty acids and “conjugated linoleic acid,” or CLA. Our beef contains no added hormones, antibiotics, or growth-promoting additives.

Better for the Cattle

Free from the unhealthy confinement and the unnatural diet of the industrial feedlot system, our grass-fed animals live low-stress lives and are so healthy, there is no reason to treat them with antibiotics or other drugs.

Better for the Planet

Instead of a farmer tilling the soil, planting corn, harvesting it, and feeding it to the cattle, our cattle harvest their own food: pasture. This minimizes the use of non-renewable energy, minimizes erosion, and builds rather than depletes soil fertility. We use no synthetic chemical fertilizers, pesticides or soil amendments. Our pastures are certified organic by the State of New Hampshire.

Steve Normanton has been farming since the age of eight. He grew up in South Africa, where he learned the livestock trade from his mentor, Ian Blackwood. Steve worked throughout his school years in Ian’s 16,000 acre operation raising antelope, giraffe, rhinocerous, buffalo and other African game in addition to cattle. After serving his country in the military and a stint in agricultural college, Steve quickly climbed the agribusiness ladder, ending up as a Farm Manager for the Mentz Brothers. The Mentz Brothers operation grew from 8,000 acres to 34,000 acres during Steve’s two-year tenure there, with a 200 cow dairy, a 120 sow pig-breeding unit, and a 500-head beef operation, plus corn and peanuts, and a butchering facility. After that, an extended walkabout (including a year of safari guiding) led Steve around the world and eventually to the U.S., where he married and settled. While working as a carpenter to support himself and his new family, Steve immediately scraped together some cattle, grazed them on borrowed land, and searched for an opportunity to establish himself as a full-time farmer on his own place.

Omar Khudari is a retired computer software entrepreneur. Since starting his first company in 1987 and selling it in 1995, Omar has helped start over 20 companies as an investor, board member, and advisor. In 2008, Omar’s interest in sustainable agriculture and a healthier alternative to feedlot beef led him to Steve Normanton—first as a customer and then as a business partner.