Earning Farmgirl Sisterhood Merit Badges

Garden Gate

7. What’s Your Beef?

Beginner

• Research the difference between grass-fed beef and that which is corporately raised.
• Write down what you learned and how, if at all, it has changed your mind about the meat you eat.

Intermediate

• Read the book BEEF: The untold Story of How Milk, Meat, and Muscle Shaped the World by Andrew Rimas and Evan D.G. Fraser.
• Find a local rancher who sells locally raised meats to help in your search.

Expert

• Raise a beef cow of your own. When it comes time to harvest it share it with someone along with the information you have learned.



OR

• Find a local rancher and buy direct from him/her.
• Contact the rancher you located in the above search and ask if you can come out and interview him and tour his/her ranch.
• Share what you have learned on our Farmgirl Connection chatroom under Merit Badge Chit Chat.

(The book required for this badge is available on loan from MaryJanesFarm; e-mail library@maryjanesfarm.org.)

April, 2024 Edition