On a recent excursion to Eden Creek Farms I had the rare treat to enjoy some beef brisket, a garden fresh salad, tree ripened persimmons and clean spring water, and all of it was 100% organic! No pesticides, chemical fertilizers or sprays are used in any of their gardening operations. The garden itself is supplemented with fresh clean spring water directly from their own well during dry times, and it is kept pest free by the natural protectors of the earth, the beneficial insects, birds, worms and good organic mulch. This in conjunction with a very large crop variety and specially selected seed have come together to produce some of the finest tasting herbs and greens and garden produce a person could ever wish to find!
The owners, Kris and Steve Orth, took me on a tour of their wonderful farm where on our walk we sampled fresh ripened persimmons from the tree that tasted like honeyed apricots and some of the vast selection of garden greens & herbs directly from the plant.
I was so completely overwhelmed with the freshness and flavor of the hand picked garden greens and salads!
When we ended the tour Kris had prepared a wonderful salad topped with sliced boiled eggs from their own flock of hens and a tasty beef brisket with a tall glass of cold well water! As we sat outside in the cool afternoon and enjoying our meal they told me the story of their organic beef they have just started offering for sale to restaurants and the public. The beef comes from locally raised cows on grass pasture that has never been treated with anything other than what nature provided! The cows are raised on the mothers milk until they are old enough to begin to graze on the pasture. At no time are the cows given any shots or additives or hormones. After a time the cows are individually selected and taken by the rancher to a local processor and butchered and delivered, packaged and ready to cook!
In today's world of processed food it is a very rare treat to be able to once again taste beef the way nature intended, fresh, organic and without additives. Just go into any market and look carefully at the packaged steak and you will most likely see the words "Flavor Added" or "Water Added", or some such disclosure. And I ask yourself the obvious question, why? The answer is simple, and frightening at the same time, why this is done. A few of the following reasons answer that question, to add weight to the meat, cover up some distasteful flavor from the "additives" such as brine, hormones, antibiotics, insecticides and fertilizer from the feed and of course the ever present corn syrup. None of which is supposed to be in our beef to begin with!
Now with many large suppliers of beef having only the concern of weight production versus quality, they have turned to artificial feeds using corn that has been blended with transgenic grain crops. Sometimes it is intentional and sometime it is accidental but the result is the same. You are eating the product of a laboratory instead of a product of nature.
When you eat Eden Creek Farms beef you know you are tasting for the first time the true taste of beef as our parents and grandparents had growing up on a small ranch in the last century. With a return to tried and true methods of beef production Eden Creek Farms is now able to provide a quality of beef rarely ever tasted!
What struck me first about the beef was that it is lighter in color, cooks quicker, extremely tender and the taste itself is indescribable!
Now I must tell you an honest truth. Most of my life I have been a vegetarian but since having the rare treat of eating fresh Eden Creek Farms 100% Organic Beef my wife and I have decided to abandon our vegetarian lifestyle and add a monthly purchase of this wonderful product to our diet, and so have several of our friends we have introduced it to!
We currently buy as much of our food from organic growers in Texas within a 200 mile radius of our home. This lowers our carbon footprint, invest capital directly into the market at its source and benefits ourselves with a more balanced and healthy diet. But their many other reason to purchase Eden Creek Farms produce and beef. You are supporting your neighbors, your community and providing the highest quality food available to those whom you love and cherish the most, your family. What more could a person do than to show their love of their family than by preparing a meal with the best ingredients, having the satisfaction of knowing what good you are doing to provide them with food grown by nature and with the love of Kris and Steve Orth!
Grown by nature, cared for with love and delivered with trust, Eden Creek Farms Produce and Beef.
To your health!
James Cameron Wyatt