Hat Creek Grown

 
Whether you live in Burney, Idylwild, San Francisco, Sacramento or Hartford, you and your family can enjoy superb quality beef that is raised sustainably and ethically. Please explore our website and do not hesitate to drop us an email with any questions you may have. We are currently forming buying clubs and also ship nationwide or deliver locally. With our grass fed and grass finished beef, you never need to wonder where it's from, we know!

Hat Creek Grown
41363 Opdyke Lane
Hat Creek, CA.  96040
(530) 335-7016




Delicious
Over the years, we consistently hear from our repeat customers that our grass fed beef is, “quite frankly, the best beef we have ever eaten”. A new customer just dropped us a note, “simply superb”!
Local
We are northern California’s source of truly premium, natural grass finished beef. Our cattle are borne here, are raised and cared for everyday of their happy life.
Natural
Our cattle are beyond organic, they are extreme natural. Our beef never receive any type of hormone, growth promotant, or unnecessary antibiotic. The grass they graze is completely natural.
Grass Raised and Finished
Our beef are born (calved) on native pastures and grow at their mother's side until they are seven to eight months of age.  Then they are weaned where we separate them from their mothers and put them together with all the calves their age.  There we feed them just a little bit of hay, that we raise ourselves, to teach them to want to come to us and to gentle them for easier handling.  Then, they go back out onto our pastures and rangelands where they spend another nine to 17 months eating native grass. It takes a long time of eating only grass to finish (fatten) them to the perfect condition in order to create that succulent, tender and tasty steak or roast. We work hard to ensure that each cut of beef you get is perfectly finished that takes a fine balancing act of art and science to combine our cattle genetics, their age and the proper grass maturity

Sustainable
1903. That’s the year our family started ranching here. Before the Forest Service. Before most of the neighbors. Our lands have improved over the years with careful stewardship and love. Our cattle and land respond to our care. The neighbors often comment on how beautiful the ranch or our cattle look. Feels good.
Beyond Organic
We haven’t jumped through the government hoops to be “certified organic”. We think that’s an unnecessary cost with silliness that makes no sense. We invite any customer to come a take a look at what we are doing with our land and our cattle. Henry and I stopped any fossil fuel or chemical use on our home ranch in 2002. Most of the ranches we lease are either native ranges or the owners agree with our philosophy and let us manage their property with the same ethic of no fossil fuel inputs. We make our own compost that we apply to our fields and we graze the cattle to accumulate the appropriate amount of manure that we then work in the spring.
Humane
We love our cattle. Our horses and our dogs. And our Kitties. Silly we know, but we do. We attended a joint workshop many years back with Temple Grandin. We have since read much of her philosophies and agree with her.
Customer Relationships
Whatever you need, we try to provide. Whether it is a specific cut of beef for a special event, or a delivery place, talk to us. We are not a corporate retail outlet, we truly are just us, the Giacomini’s selling the delicious beef we and our customers love one package at a time.
Buy Local
We encourage you to call or email with an order. If you buy from us, versus a Midwest box of beef, you support a local family, who in turn hires local people, who in turn spend money at the local grocery store, gas station and maybe your local business. Ask where your food comes from if you don’t buy from us. It’s important. We also offer eggs, vegetables and more. Just give us a call and ask.
Convenient Payment Options
Now you can pay using PayPal! Once you submit your order, and we have it packed up and ready to deliver or ship, I will create an invoice using PayPal. They will send you the invoice and you can pay using either your PayPal account or a credit card right off of the invoice that will be emailed to you! How convenient is that?



Select cuts of beef will now be available at Country Organics new store in Redding.
Country Organics hours are Monday through Friday, 9:30 am to 6:30 pm. They are closed Saturday and Sunday.. Bob and Mandy’s store is located at 915 Merchant Street, # 5 (across from the Churn Creek Post Office). Look for the sandwich board out on Churn Creek that says, “local, grass finished beef for sale”. Then follow the signs!

We also may be able to arrange to deliver custom orders there so folks can go by and pick them up at their convenience.



In The News
Featured in Edible Shasta-Butte Magazine
Ranchers win range management honor

                                  Tim Hearden/Capital Press
Henry and Pam Giacomini sit in a field on a leased ranch near Oak Run, Calif. They recently won an award for their management of public and private grazing land
OAK RUN, Calif. -- Henry and Pam Giacomini know the benefits that cattle can have on rangelands if they're managed properly. The Giacominis, owners of the Hat Creek Grown hay and livestock operation in northeastern California, sustain their operation largely through access to public and leased private grazing lands
Read the complete story by clicking here


Carcass of Merit Award presented to Robyn Garner for the Steer purchased from
Hat Creek Grown for competition in the 2009 Inter-Mountain Fair Labor Day weekend




You can purchase our grass fed beef at these locations:

Burney: Hearthstone Health Foods
Hat Creek: Fireside Village Store, Hat Creek Hereford Ranch RV Park Store (seasonal)     
Redding: Country Organics
Or, by calling us to set up an order you can pick up right at our ranch

You can enjoy our grass fed beef served to you at these locations:

Old Station: JJ’s Café and Bakery (Seasonal – but go for the BEST BURGER!!)
Fall River Mills: Sportsman
Mt. Shasta City: Andaman’s Healthy Cuisine
Redding:  Nipa’s Thai, Churn Creek Rd
Shingletown: Anselmo’s (limited basis … ask for our beef!)

Our Beef Snack Sticks can be purchased at:

Burney: Hearthstone Health Foods
Fall River Mills: Sportsman
McArthur: McArthur Farm Supply

Or by calling us for delivery!

Buying Club deliveries to Folsom and Sacramento. Deliveries are scheduled for January, March, May, or as necessary if enough volume is purchased.
Deliveries to Redding on an as requested basis.


Hat Creek Grown



Henry@hatcreekgrown.com

Pam@hatcreekgrown.com



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