A rocky place where nothing much grows.  Except some of the world’s finest grasses.

Mettenburg Farm, operated by Al & Roxanne Mettenburg near Princeton, Kansas, is a place of green grasses, rolling hills, and happy animals (human and otherwise).  The Mettenburgs have been living organic, natural, free-range and local for years.  Turns out, now they are at the forefront of a global food movement.

As in the Kansas Flint Hills, the farm sits on a pile of Kansas limestone.  Which means it’s a premium location for growing one thing: native prairie grasses.  Tired of fighting the rock and burning fossil fuels to do so, the Mettenburgs returned their crop ground to the grasses years ago (much of the farm had always been native grass).  Then they realized that their herd of premium, carefully managed Simmental cattle didn’t put them in the beef business ... it put them in the grass business.

By marketing premium grass-fed beef, they are providing mother nature’s goodness direct to consumers, in a product that’s free of chemicals, added hormones and antibiotics, and born and raised right on the farm.  This beef is just about the healthiest on the planet, for the planet ... and it’s good to eat, too.  At a price that’s cheaper than you’ll find in the supermarket.

As Al says: “We raise good cattle here. At a profit if we can, at a loss if we must, but always good cattle.”

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