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Sassafras River Beef (SRB) is owned and operated by Brick House Farm Cecilton, Maryland. Brick House Farm is a 700 acre grain and livestock farm in Cecil County on Maryland’s upper Eastern Shore. The farm produces corn, wheat, soybeans, hay, straw and Angus cattle.

Farm families have been enjoying the goodness of “home grown” food items for generations. Beef, pork, poultry, fruits and vegetables are some of the wholesome farm raised products enjoyed by folks in the country. Recently the availability of “locally grown” food to a larger section of the population has become a reality. SRB has developed a simple process for all our customers to enjoy the taste of locally raised beef!

Our farm is named after St. Brigid, the patron saint of dairymaids and scholars who was renowned for her compassion and often featured with cows at her feet. She perfectly represents the pairing of Judy, the dairymaid and Bob, the scholar.

When we established St. Brigid’s Farm in 1996, we started with 69 registered Jersey heifers. Our herd has grown to 160 head consisting of milking cows, replacement heifers, steers and veal calves. Every year we sell surplus dairy cows as well as Jersey beef and veal.

The 55 acre farm, located on the scenic eastern shore of Maryland, is planted in permanent pasture, comprised predominantly of perennial rye grass and clover. The seasonally calved herd intensively grazes from April through November.

At Cedar Run Cattle Company we raise our own beef cattle and sell USDA inspected, naturally fed, dry aged beef to retail customers, neighbors and friends. Our family eats the same meat we sell to consumers everyday. Our beef is raised in fresh air, on native pasture, with salt, mineral and fresh water. Our product is also finished on pasture (grass fed) to give it that flavor we have come to enjoy. We do not use growth hormones, growth stimulants, artificial or antibiotic feed additives.

Vegetables and Berries
Alternative Phone #: 302 238-7067

For three generations, the Holland family has been bringing consumers Grade "A" milk - meeting the highest quality and standards in the milk industry. In the last 20 years, large corporate mega dairies have been overwhelming the milk market and as a direct result, the small family dairy farms are almost extinct. Currently, our farm is the last remaining dairy in Worcester county.Danny and Ken Holland have adapted to changing technology on the farm. In the early days of the farm, Marion Lee (father to Ken and Grandfather to Dan) raised his herd on corn. Today, our 250 cow herd is fed by corn raised on our farm but supplemented with grazing from our lush pastures of rye and sorghum, cotton seed and other grains to meet a regimented diet created by a nutritional specialist. Our farm uses cutting edge technology such as embryo transplanting and semen importation to ensure we produce the finest offspring. We also have a technologically advanced system to allow us to milk 16 cows at a time.

Organic growing is everything to me.

I started my journey with organic growing four years ago. It is a full-time passion, hobby, exercise, lifestyle, mindset; and part time job. My produce has been purchased by restaurants, a health food store, traded to restaurants, used as landscape and interior decoration, bartered to a commercial fisherman for seafood, given to friends, and it feeds my ducks and chickens on occasion.

Our gardens are the foundation for our business. We began over 25 years ago, modestly in our then large backyard, attempting to produce vigorous quality plants in our small greenhouse to place into our garden and enjoy. These plants provided us with nutritious food for our growing family and riots of beautiful color for our eyes. Shortly thereafter, we discovered organic gardening and came to embrace it as a philosophy and implement the systems into our planting space. From those humble beginnings, we experimented with cultural practices geared toward ecological balance.

We were surprised when friends and neighbors began to seek our plants. This began our journey which continues to this day.