About Us
The beef produced under this label are raised on perennial and annual forage
and hay with free choice of salt and minerals. They will free range and never
be confined. No hormones, no growth stimulants and no antibiotics will be given
throughout their lifetime.
These products are only minimally processed with no additives during processing.
Histororical Overview of the Land
Grassy Creek Ranch
is located near Navasoto, TX in the county of Grimes. Below is a topographical
view of our land on Grassy Creek.
The establishing of the H & TC railroad in
Navasota in 1859 transformed this frontier village into the commercial hub
of inland Texas. Navasota became the shipping and cotton processing center
of the region, and today, three railroads serve Navasota industries. After
the Civil War, yellow fever, and two town burnings, Navasota survived to become
an important retail center for central Texas. Grimes County is known as the
final resting place for the French explorer and trader, LaSalle, Sara Dodson,
the "Betsy Ross of Texas," and Mance Lipscomb, the famous Texas
Blues guitarist, who we celebrate every year at the Navasota Blues Festival.
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GRASSY
CREEK (Grimes County). Grassy Creek, a perennial stream, rises four miles
south of Anderson in southern Grimes County
(at 30°26' N, 95°58' W) and flows southwest for sixteen miles to its
mouth on the Brazos River, six miles south of Navasota (at 30°17' N, 96°05'
W). It traverses gently sloping to nearly level terrain, surfaced by sandy
and clay loams that support stands of post oak, blackjack oak, water oak,
elm, and pecan along the creek's banks. Settlement in the vicinity began
in 1827
when Jesse
Grimes moved his family onto the grassland east of the creek,
an area which became known as Grimes Prairie. About 1830 Tandy Walker took
up a league of land on the western edge of Grimes Prairie on the banks of the
middle creek, originally called Walker Creek. Settlement on the upper creek
was underway by 1859 when the Harmony community, still extant in the early
1980s, was established in the blackjack oak woods on the west bank.
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Grimes County Historical Commission, History of Grimes County, Land of Heritage
and Progress (Dallas: Taylor, 1982).
Click Here for more historical information on Grimes County
Environmentally Friendly
New studies show that raising animals on pasture is not only less
harmful to the ecosystem than raising animals in confinement—it may
offer net benefits. In fact, natural grasslands can be just as effective
at sequestering
carbon dioxide as forests.
http://www.eatwild.com/environment.html
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Pasture reduces topsoil erosion by 93 percent.
Currently, the United States is losing three billion tons of nutrient-rich
topsoil each year. Growing corn and soy for animal feed using conventional
methods causes a significant amount of this soil loss. Compared with row crops,
pasture reduces soil loss by as much as 93 percent.
(Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food, Robert P. Stone and Neil Moore, Fact Sheet 95-089 )
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