Meadow Brook Farms
Springtown, PA
Product Types
Free Range Grass Finished Black Angus.
About
Meadow Brook Farms’ mission is to balance modern agriculture with Mother Nature and to provide a healthy environment for the animals we raise and the people we employ. Serving as good stewards of the land while providing healthy, high-quality beef to our customers.
A family farm in beautiful Upper Bucks County. The Meases are proud to bring you locally grown, all natural, quality beef from the Black Angus cattle they raise on 140 acres of rolling hillside and woods, bordered by Cook’s Creek and within walking distance of the Knecht’s Covered Bridge, just outside of Springtown, PA.
Like the historic area it calls home, the farm has quite a history as well. The land that is now Meadow Brook Farms has been a working family farm since William Penn received his charter in 1681 for the region that would become Pennsylvania. Families raised chickens, ducks and dairy cows and produced eggs, milk and a variety crops. For generations, people have come to the farm for local, natural food.
In 2002 Jeff, Cheyenne and Nevada Mease began raising and selling quality, natural Black Angus beef. The cattle are free-range, vegetarian-fed and grass-finished. Raised without antibiotics or added hormones their beef is also Pennsylvania Beef Quality Assurance (BQA) Certified – only the finest – from their family to yours. For more photos, more, and recipes please visit our website.
Practices – Standards for raising or making our products
Sustainable Farming: what it is, why we do it At Meadow Brook Farms.
We are committed to achieving the balance between sustainable farm production and the protection of our natural resources. We use rotational grazing and good manure management — two conservation practices that help us attain this balance. Rotational grazing is a natural, sustainable system that balances animal production needs with grassland capability. It is a delicate system where we move cattle in and out of pastures based on grass height. Once a pasture is grazed low, we move our cattle into the next pasture, so that we maintain good grass cover at all times.
Maintaining good grass cover has many environmental benefits, which include reduced soil erosion, improved soil quality and soil structure, improved water quality, and will even enhance air quality. To use rotational grazing, you have to have a stable area to confine the cattle during the winter, times of drought or heavy rain, when grass is not actively growing or when pastures are unfit for the cattle. Not all farmers do this, however at Meadow Brook Farms, we installed a concrete barnyard where we use dry bedding for the animals’ comfort. Cattle are fed farm-grown hay until the pastures are suitable for grazing.
We have gone to this extra effort in order to prevent negative side effects of barnyard manure and runoff to local water sources while providing a clean comfortable dry space for the animals. Barnyard manure and runoff is collected and stored, preventing manure from contaminating local groundwater and surface water. Having adequate manure storage allows us to time manure spreading to when the crops are actively taking up nutrients, reducing the potential for manure nutrient leaching and runoff. A rotational grazing system can also protect environmentally sensitive areas, such as stream and riparian areas. Because we only allow cattle into the riparian area for a few hours several times a month, we can protect the stream bank from accelerated erosion and prevent excess nutrients from entering the stream.
Meadow Brook Farms is in the Cooks Creek Watershed, which has been designated an Exceptional Value (EV) Watershed, the highest water quality rating. We hope that by having a holistic approach to beef production, we may preserve both the productivity of our family farm and the health of the environment.