My family and I highly recommend Four Mile River Farm's pasture-raised beef, pork, chicken and eggs. We have never tasted more delicious meats. Nunzio and Irene Corsino have been humanely raising animals without antibiotics or hormones for 30 years. Nunzio actually sows food crops on pastures for his cows to eat, supplemented with CT grown corn. We've been buying meat from Nunzio for at least 25 years. We started off buying steaks and pork chops from him at various farmers markets in the area, and when we discovered how incredibly flavorful the meat is, we started ordering 1/4 of a cow or 1/2 of a cow at a time. The ground beef is to die for!! The words luscious and decadent (while not often used to describe meat) come to mind. Four Mile River Farm's meats are so consistently good that Whole Foods approached Nunzio several years ago to grow for them. He turned them down because he didn't want to grow that big. Besides local markets, he also sells to fine dining restaurants and the occasional famous French chef.
The beef is dry-aged for three weeks and then cut to your specifications, frozen in cryovac and labeled with the cut of meat and the weight. When you buy in such quantity as we do, the meat is actually affordable and cheaper than grocery store meats. 1/2 cow will last us nine months to a year for a family of two and you will be spoiled by how many incredible prime steaks you get.
The pork is grain fed and supplemented with Brewers grains leftover from beer brewing. When you buy a whole pig, you can choose to have some of the meat made into sausage, smoked hams and bacon. We're not big fans of ham so we choose chops, pork belly, and ground pork. You can specify how you want the pork cut. I don't mind repeating that the pork is delicious, juicy and very flavorful!!
When we moved to Florida five years ago, we bought beef from a local farmer and it was like shoe leather. So now we bring the meat home with dry ice when we come up to visit family and friends. When family dies off, we will still come up for Nunzio's meats, a 21 hour drive from home, one way.
You can trust that every word I've written in this review is God's honest truth. I am one of his most loyal customers for a very simple reason. Very high quality at an affordable price. read more