They are wonderful: intelligent, hardy, hard-working, easy to handle. We have known most of them since their births and can usually tell you who their grandmothers were - it's an incredible relationship. In fact, it's the relationship that makes it all work: the tie between humans and their animals is ancient and inexplicable, born of trust, mutual need, and reverence.

We feel ourselves to be part of an ancient cycle, part of a pattern woven long ago, and our hope is to be true to this Plan, we humans and the creatures in our care.

The cattle of Waterfall Hollow Farm are raised on organically-managed pastures filled with native and naturalized grasses, clovers, and herbs, drinking pure Ozark Mountain spring water. They never receive sub-therapeutic doses of antibiotics, synthetic hormones, animal source feeds, nor feed additives. The cattle move to fresh pasture every day or two during the growing season, which gives them the highest quality forage available and keeps them naturally healthy, happy, and calm.

Studies show that beef from pasture-finished cattle, those who stay on the farm and eat fresh green plants all their lives, is not only rich in zinc, B-vitamins, iron, and the other usual nutrients beef is famous for, it is an excellent source of beta carotene and vitamin E, as well as heart-healthy Omega-3 essential fatty acids (EFA's), higher levels of which have recently been linked to decreases in depression and other chronic physical conditions, and contains the most potent naturally-occurring anti-carcinogen currently known, conjugated linoleic acid (CLA), in its most available form. Pasture-finished beef is lower in saturated fats and cholesterol than its confinement-finished cousin. Best of all, the texture and flavor of pasture-grown beef is delicious and deeply satisfying--your taste-buds will recognize it as what you've been hungry for! The taste-testers at Organic Style magazine agreed--Waterfall Hollow Farm's beef won their beef taste test, published in the March 2004 issue.

Quality of life for our Beefmaster cattle as well as the quality of our beef is uppermost in our minds, that's why they graze organic pastures and drink pure spring water. Here’s what we do to further ensure their health and well-being: above all, we treat them humanely and with honest affection; they get all their immunizations, which are encouraged in organic production; we deworm the calves at weaning, around nine months of age, with an effective product allowed in organic dairy cattle. We feed a small amount of grain to them during the cold wet winters, as well. The steers are usually 2 to 3 years old at harvest (summer - fall) after a long spell of fresh green grazing, so the steaks are super-tender and richly flavorful. Our cattle never receive sub-therapeutic doses of antibiotics nor synthetic hormones, animal-source feeds, medicated feed additives, and are never confined. We give them one or two full years longer than conventional beef producers; cattle just grow more slowly in their native environment than when they're pushed.

Waterfall Naturalsä Pasture-Finished Beef is an Arkansas product. Our USDA-inspected processor selects the most tender cuts for our steaks and roasts. The beef is packed in clear heavy poly with our custom USDA-approved label, then is vacuum-sealed so the contents can be seen at a glance and the bags cut open with scissors. All beef is dry-aged and expertly hand-cut, and the hand-packaged beef is frozen immediately to ensure the highest quality. Each package contains 100% beef. Prices listed are per package in US Dollars.