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We Deliver Grass Fed Beef to all of Long Island

  • Real, unprocessed food from our New York farm straight to your doorstep
  • Grass fed beef, pastured, organic fed chicken, and more
  • Building a more resilient, healthy food system

What is Cairncrest Farm?

My names Garth, and my wife Alanna and I lived in Orient, Long Island for several years. A lack of available land prevented us from starting a farm on the Island itself, but we've always loved Long Island, and one of our hopes is to increase the easy access to grass fed beef and other real food. From the first one of our goals was to connect our central New York farm directly with our customers. When you buy grass fed beef, pastured pork, or grass fed lamb from us, you can do so in confidence that we raised it. The organic, truly pastured chicken we sell is raised by good friends on their farm.

Lots to learn

Curious about the small farm difference, the definition of grass fed, or anything else?

If you want to get shopping you can browse everything we sell on the shop page, but we hope you'll take a minute to look around the site. The Grass Fed Field Guide has a lot to say about the details of what separates good grass fed beef from the stuff you can get in the supermarket, while the blog has recipes as well as regular posts about all sorts of small farm issues.

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Once upon a time...

Once a month we used to have in person meetups on the north from Roslyn to Greenport, and on the south from Sag Harbor to Malverne. This was a lot of fun, but it also proved to be a huge amount of work - days away from the farm, and lots of effort coordination with customers. Beginning in 2020 we shifted to home delivery using FedEx and UPS. Because of our proximity to Long Island this means next-day service, and insulated liners along with dry ice assure that all the meat we ship arrives frozen and in good shape.

A better way to serve Long Island

Grass fed shipped from my farm in central New York on Tuesday arrives on your doorstep on Wednesday. Instead of going to Long Island once a month, we can now ship to it every single week. Figuring out the best way to connect Long Island to the rest of New York state is tricky, but this is the best solution I've found so far. We may start up occasional in person meetups on Long Island in the future, particularly to get people exceptionally large orders, like whole and half cows or half pigs. In the meantime, ordering from the online store is the best way to get real, farm raised grass fed beef.

We really believe in the value of supporting local farms. If you want to explore other options, I've made this handy guide to finding a local source of grass fed beef. It tells you where to look, what to watch out for, and questions you might consider asking.

Thanks for stopping by, and I hope you'll take a minute to look around the site!

The Latest from the Farm

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    Lunchables and Microplastics

    The Focus on Lead A recent study by Consumer Reports found elevated, though not illegal, levels of lead and cadmium in prepackaged lunch meals. Lunchables is the most famous version,...

    Garth Brown |

  • Bringing Down The Industrial Food System

    Bringing Down The Industrial Food System

    The story of food for the past hundred years has been one of industrialization. This is true of farming — we’ve gone from horses to 600 horsepower tractors — but...

    Garth Brown |

  • New York is Losing Small Farms

    New York is Losing Small Farms

    Between 2017 and 2022 New York lost 2788 farms, a more than 8% decline. It was concentrated in small farms; the number of operations with over 500 acres actually increased....

    Garth Brown |

  • Beef Rice: An Examination of a Very Silly Idea

    Beef Rice: An Examination of a Very Silly Idea

    By taking standard rice, coating it in a layer of fish gelatin and microbial transglutimase, immersing the grains in a nutrient bath seeded with beef muscle and fat cells, waiting...

    Garth Brown |

  • Thin sliced beef served with rice, topped with chili oil and scallion

    Thin-Sliced Beef with Scallion and Crunchy Chili Oil

    Growing up outside of Philadelphia, I always associated thinly shaved beef with cheesesteaks. Perhaps I would have assented on some abstract level that it could be used for other dishes,...

    Garth Brown |

  • How to Think About Microplastics

    How to Think About Microplastics

    I have a strong intuition that consuming thousands or hundreds of thousands or millions of microscopic beads of plastic, some unknown number of which doubtless become lodged within my body,...

    Garth Brown |

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