Safe, healthy, quality foods responsibly provided
Deep Creek Ranch, Inc.
This photograph is of a registered Angus T-bone. Please note the marbling and the deep rich color of the steak. Our superior, premium forage finished beef is rich in flavor, texture, moisture and satisfaction.
We sell lamb and grass fed and finished beef, cared for on our own land and harvested from it. Seasonally, we provide grain-supplemented beef ("steakhouse flavor") reared and finished by 4H and FFA highschool kids. We do not use hormones or other growth stimulants or routine antibiotic treatment, and we manage our pastures cleanly, with an eye toward healthy land and the best lives for our livestock.
To order please call Trisha Strwn at 1-386-216-2442. If she's not available, call Fran Strawn aat 407-921-1111. If you wish, just email
Our customers include many of Florida's top chefs and restaurants. For example, Zach Bell at Cafe Boloud, Palm Beach. Dean Max, 3030 Ocean, Ft. Lauderdale. Michael's Genuine Food, Miami. Ravenous Pig, Winter Park. Primos, the Ritz Carlton (Palm Beach) and more.
We believe that pastured beef is significantly healthier beef, and is more beneficial as food than confinement beef. To understand why, please visit our grassfed page. It also tastes delicious! Our grain supplemented beef, should you prefer it, has more of the "steakhouse" flavor. But all our animals are true, free range, open pastured beeves with some having a partial grain diet when they were younger. You can specify which you want.
If an animal receives an antibiotic, it is for a specific, transitory condition. The animal's record is noted, and it will not be sold during the period required for complete elimination of the drug from the animal's system. We very rarely have to treat our livestock. Their diet is what nature designed them for, and they stay healthy. We can identify any animal treated with an antibiotic at any time, and will inform you if an animal you have chosen has been treated. We never use growth hormones or any pharmaceuticals that persist in the animal.
Herd nutrition is the bedrock of good health, and receives our constant attention. We know the history of every animal, and record every significant health event in each one's life. We believe in humane and kind treatment of our livestock, at all times. We generally follow organic practices for our soil and our livestock.
Beef and lamb are sold by the piece or by live weight. We'll talk about bulk purchases, then about purchases by the piece at retail prices.
Live weight means that you and other purchasers of a steer or lamb will share the price calculated with its weight just before harvest. The price for the beef is $3.50, per pound, live weight for a split half, $3.25 per pound, live weight for a half and $3.00 per pound, live weight for a whole steer. A steer will probably weigh in at 800 - 1100 pounds.
Lambs are sold as a half or a whole. A lamb is $3.99 per pound, live weight. A lamb will weigh from 25 to 100 pounds, depending on your order and the time of year.
Bulk beef is sold by the whole, and by halves and "split halves". A split half is created by dividing all the cuts from a half into two equal portions. That way, each purchaser of a split half will receive some of the fore and hind quarter cuts. Everything from burger and chuck roasts to great steaks! Whatever you buy can be further subdivided with friends, as you see fit after we deliver.
The final packages of meat will be about 30% steaks, 32% roasts and 38% ground beef and stew. You can request dog bones, shanks, heart, tongue, liver (sliced) and kidneys as well. If more than one buyer of the steer wants these items, we will divide them.
Here is some additional information about beef yield. Expect the weight of the packages delivered to you to be from 32 per cent to 38 per cent of the live weight of the steer. Variation results from any number of factors in processing. Relative fattyness (how much had to be trimmed (which lowers the per cent of packaged yield)) whether the steer had taken on water and food just before harvest (lowers the per cent of packaged yield), and whether you take organ meats and the heart (increases the per cent of packaged yield).
Please contact the distributor, General Synergy, LLC, for details about buying beef and lamb. Be sure to discuss delivery and payment terms with them. Email them, or call 386-216-2442.
We don't use growth hormones to promote the growth of animals born on the Ranch. But we sometimes buy steers from other producers and 4H Club kids, as well as grow those born on the Ranch. We don't think the animals brought in from our producers have any hormones present in the meat at a higher level than the animal produces for itself, or that there are any residues of antibiotics which might have been used to treat an illness. But, click here if you want to pursue these issues for a bit.
