Seller note
Read before ordering
Beef page states Gray Dog's Farm does not raise its own beef cattle -- it 'buys in' beef from partner farms (Sunrise Farms in Colrain, Gordon Farms in NY) when needed. Homepage inventory-sale copy is dated 'May 2016' and separately states 'We have only pork available' -- content is stale/inconsisten
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A fixed assortment sold as a share. Priced by packaged weight or as a flat total, so its per-pound figure is not comparable with a hanging-weight share.
Published price
$2.50 farm-published / lb · Site explicitly distinguishes 'live weight' vs 'hanging weight' (~60% of live for beef) vs 'cut weight' (65-80% of hanging weight, what actually goes in the freezer). For the 1/16 BEEF membership specifically, the per-lb charge ($2.50) is stated as being on 'box weight delivered to you', i.e. cut/take-home weight, NOT hanging weight -- distinct from how the site prices whole/half pork and lamb animals, which it says are charged by hanging weight.
Farm-published rate; not used in the comparison.
Best fit
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How you get it
Structured as a cooperative CSA: yearly share purchase with monthly delivery or pickup; also sold as bulk shares (beef in 1/16 shares, ~25 lb). Historically worked a Farmers Market ('working the Farmers Market') but none is currently named as active.
Ordering details
Phone Ross Hackerson at (413) 210-3739, or email graydogsfarm@comcast.net; no online store found. CSA participation requires contacting Ross, potentially joining a steering committee per a linked PDF.
Price
Farm’s published rate: $2.50 / lb · Site explicitly distinguishes 'live weight' vs 'hanging weight' (~60% of live for beef) vs 'cut weight' (65-80% of hanging weight, what actually goes in the freezer). For the 1/16 BEEF membership specifically, the per-lb charge ($2.50) is stated as being on 'box weight delivered to you', i.e. cut/take-home weight, NOT hanging weight -- distinct from how the site prices whole/half pork and lamb animals, which it says are charged by hanging weight.
“Our Beef Membership starts at $210.00. This purchases you 1/16 percent of a grass pastured animal ... Once your meat is delivered, you will pay Gray Dogs Farm $2.50 per pound of the box weight delivered top you. A single membership averages 25 lbs. of dry aged savory beef!”
This farm doesn’t publish a bulk price we can compare
Box of selected cuts. A fixed assortment sold as a share. Priced by packaged weight or as a flat total, so its per-pound figure is not comparable with a hanging-weight share.
Published basis: Site explicitly distinguishes 'live weight' vs 'hanging weight' (~60% of live for beef) vs 'cut weight' (65-80% of hanging weight, what actually goes in the freezer). For the 1/16 BEEF membership specifically, the per-lb charge ($2.50) is stated as being on 'box weight delivered to you', i.e. cut/take-home weight, NOT hanging weight -- distinct from how the site prices whole/half pork and lamb animals, which it says are charged by hanging weight.
Price check date not recorded against the published source.
Buying details
- What they sell
- Box of selected cuts
- Town
- Huntington, MA
- Website
- Visit website
In their words
“Ross & Alicia Hackerson grew Gray Dog's Farm from a mom-and-pop operation into a viable grass-fed meat CSA. We started small with fifty broiler (meat) chickens, fifty laying hens for eggs and eight sheep.”
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