Growing chickens has been quite the adventure since the first group came to the farm in June of 2021. Broilers are fast growing "meat chickens" only intended for slaughter, completely different from the "egg layer" chickens. Join me for a behind-the-scenes look at how they're raised on our farm.

Straight from my no-fuss kitchen, I'm bringing you a simple recipe using the affordable and under appreciated Smoked & Cured Ham Hocks. A low-input, budget-friendly recipe, you can tweak and customize it to make it your own. Perfect for a potluck, as a make-ahead-side dish or stash it in the freezer for later.

Often folks will ask if we butcher our own animals. "Nope, we drop off the live animal and pick up the frozen cuts," I tell them. Here's a quick look into how much ready-to-eat cuts a beef animal yields.

We believe that ordering a beef side to feed your family shouldn't be hard or confusing. Read this to understand the whole booking process from choosing the best side size for your family to having it delivered to your home.

Find our Farm Store a short 25 minute drive West of Springfield, MO, right in the heart of the Ozarks. We welcome the public to shop and see where our beef is grown when we're open. Driving directions and current hours are always updated on Google.

We're right in the thick of "roast season" so let me help you make the right choice so the next roast you prepare is the best roast you've ever made. I've got some helpful tips for choosing the right roast and a comparison between the different pot roast-style roasts that we carry.

Just in time for the holidays, we now offer our popular Beef Snack Stick in a 10 Pack Bundle and our signature 5 Pack Gift Box, available for local pick up or shipping in the contiguous USA. Deadline to order for Christmas is December 17!

Curious how our beef gets to your table? It's a 2 year process to bring the retail-ready beef cuts into our Farm Store & ultimately, into your home and it all happens within 60 miles of Springfield, MO.

What happens when a pandemic strikes, beef demand skyrockets and all of a sudden I'm at home all day teaching and wrangling children full-time? In my case, I turned to Maddy our nanny/babysitter and said, "hey do you want to start working for Blue Silo helping me process orders?" Maddy has been working behind the scenes for the last few months, and now's the time for you to see how she helps us bring our beef to your dinnertable!

We're seeing an influx of new customers looking for local beef at a time where grocery store shelves are nearly empty. Here's a story about how we pivoted in this unprecedented time to make sure our shelves remain stocked, now and throughout the rest of 2020.

From a steaming pot of soup to boosting the flavor of rice, there are so many ways to use beef stock in the kitchen. I don't have lots of time to spend watching over a simmering pot of beef stock, so I got creative & developed this process for making my own homemade stock using the convenience of my freezer and the hands-off cooking of my slow cooker.

The idea to start Blue Silo Beef all started with a fence and a pen of bulls. Asking "What if" and choosing to buck the normal cow-calf ranch business model in favor of selling direct-to-consumer started us down the path of running Blue Silo Beef as a component of our ranch operation.