Chileno Beef

Grass Fed is Best!

About Our Beef

Chileno Valley Natural Beef is a grass-fed product that offers a tasty and healthy alternative to the chemical and hormone-laden corn-fed beef you buy in your local supermarket. Our beef is hormone-free, high in cancer-fighting fatty acids, betacarotene and vitamin E, low in bad cholesterol, and great tasting. Our animals live their whole lives on the ranch and are never stressed by trucking, moving to several locations en route to staughter, or crowding into smelly feedlots. We offer a product that is good for you, good for the animails, and good for the planet as a whole.

The reason grass-fed is best is because that is the way mother nature intended things to be. Cows are not adapted to grains, especially corn, as a feed, and they need a lot of chemicals to keep them healthy when fed that kind of a diet. Corn became popular right after the 2nd world war because a surplus made it a cheap feed for cattle. With government subsidies, this trend has continued, and clever marketing has created a demand for corn-fed beef. We believe, however, that grass-fed beef is not only better for the enviornment, but that it tastes better. My husband, Mike, and I, were raised on corn-fed beef, and are amazed at how much better our healthier, leaned beef tastes.

About Our Ranch

Chileno Valley Ranch is a 600 acre ranch located in beautiful Marin County, just over the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco. When Sally's ancestors first started ranching in West Marin, all of Marin County was ranchland. Now it is a well delineated combination of park land, residential land and private agriculture, but it is still one of the most beautiful areas of the world. Located near the coast so that it gets ocean breezes, Marin's grasslands are especially well suited to enabling cows to convert sun energy into the protein needed for healthy bodies. Chileno Valley Ranch was purchased in 1862 by Carlo Martinioya (Charles Martin), who bought it from Henry Halleck, President Abraham Lincoln's Chief of Staff. This ranch has been in the same family for 5 generations. It originally was a dairy, producing butter, cheese, and then whole milk. In the 1950s there was a conversion from dairying to beef production. Originally a traditional beef operation in which fall-calving cows produce calves which are sold to a broker in the early summer, Chileno Valley Ranch converted to a grass-fed beef operation 3 years ago.

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