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Benne’s Best Meat

Feb 11, 2008 groceries, sustainable agriculture

I’ve mentioned this farm before, but I thawed out a sirloin tip roast I’ve had in my freezer over the past couple days, and I just wanted to comment about them again because the meat is a bit cheaper than many of the other spots people are buying “happy meat” from locally

The cost reduction is partly because the Benne’s family does grain-finish their beef as the Benne family themselves prefer the taste, but their animals are pastured.

They sell at the St. Charles Lions Club Farmers’ Market every other week during the growing season, and you can buy from their farm during limited hours Monday-Saturday year round.

It’s really interesting when you visit their farm because you are literally driving down Highway 94 in St. Charles before making a turn onto what is basically a sub-division entrance. You then drive off that road onto a dirt road, cruise past their lake surrounded by wading cows, and up to their home where the chickens scramble out of the way as you park your car..

When you stand outside their door, with all its billboards you can literally see highway 94 less than a mile away and to me it’s a bit surreal to know that right in the middle of St. Charles their is a farm tucked away holding onto what all that land once was.

Here’s a brief cost breakdown for a Sirloin Tip Roast for comparison:

And of course here’s the finished roast…

Benne’s Best Sirloin Tip Roast, Berger Bluff Farms Celeriac, Carrots, Yukon Gold Potatoes, Vegetable Gravy

Tags: American Grass Fed Beef, Benne's Best Meat, carrots, celeriac, grain finshed beef, Hinkebein Hills Farm, pot roast, sirloin tip roast, yukon gold potatoes