Recipe | 30 Minute Dinner - Lemon Garlic Lamb Chops

Lemon Garlic Lamb Chops & Roasted Vegetables

Lamb chops are such an easy, delicous and quick way to serve dinner.

This recipe is designed to get dinner on the table in 30 minutes. So the next time you're looking for something quick that your family will love, be sure to try this recipe.

***Recipe is for 2 people. double as necessary.

Roasted Potatoes

4 thinly sliced red potatoes 
1/2 head of broccoli sliced
4 tablespoons olive oil
1 tablespoon garlic salt (or more to taste)

How to Cook

Heat your oven to 350 degrees
Chop potatoes and broccoli and place on a baking sheet
Drizzle olive oil and add garlic salt
With your hands lightly mix to coat the vegetables with olive oil and garlic salt
Put in the oven for 30 minutes.

While your vegetables are roasting get the lamb chops ready, start them 15 minutes after putting vegetables in the oven.

Lamb Chops

4 Homestead lamb chops, serve 2 per person
2 tbsp olive oil
juice of 1 lemon, approximately 3-4 tablespoons
2-3 tsp dried oregano
1 tsp red pepper flakes
2 tsp thyme leaves
4 garlic cloves crushed
1 tsp salt
pepper to taste

How to Cook

Pre-heat a cast-iron/stainless steel pan over high heat.

Drizzle the lamb chops with the olive oil and lemon juice, generously season with the herbs and spices on both sides. 

Place the lamb chops in the hot pan then sear for 2 minutes per side, do not cook longer or your chops will be over-cooked.

Flip the lamb chops onto the fat side and allow to sear for 1 minute, until the fat has started to render and caramelized.

Remove from the pan and allow to rest for five minutes before serving.


Remove your roasted vegetables when they can be easily pierced with a fork. Serve lamb chops with roasted vegetables and a lemon wedge. Enjoy!

Farm | Food Inc.

Food Inc.

THE VIDEO THAT CHANGED THE WAY I EAT

Most would argue that I was born a farmer, and they would be mostly right. But my passion to farm was given purpose because of one class during my final year of college.

I was sitting in one of the classes that I would have initially written off as ‘a waste of time’, it was a non-degree filler course and I definitely looked at it that way.

However, one day, I sat down in that class unprepared for what I was about to be confronted with. The title ‘Food Inc.’ splashed up on the big screen and my curiosity sparked for the first time. Then, as the film began rolling I became incredibly uneasy. What was flashing before my eyes was the incredibly inhumane treatment of livestock in the ‘modernized’ food system.

It was down right horrifying to watch cattle being drug off trucks with skid steers, ALIVE, because their legs had broken in transit. To watch female pigs give birth and not to have room to even lay down comfortably, and to watch chickens being de-beaked and living in their own waste.

What was as equally horrifying is the unhealthy levels of antibiotics in our food, the tasteless, fattening substitutes that have been made in the effort to keep things ‘cheap and quick’.

It changed me and it dramatically changed the way I looked at the meat on my table.

WATCH THE TRAILER FOR FOOD INC.

I HAD TO BE PART OF THE CHANGE

The only way I could see myself continuing to eat meat, was if I could be certain that it was harvested from livestock who live natural and comfortable lives. Which quickly lead me to the conclusion, I had to be a farmer that helps others make a change at their own dinner tables.

I had to make my ‘dream farm’ a farm that brought people in who had also been confronted with the horrors of our modern livestock systems. People that want healthier, tastier meat that was raised the right way, with the animal’s welfare at the forefront.

YOU CAN be part of the change

You can choose what your food dollar supports and I believe there is great power for change in your choice. You can choose to eat your meat with the confidence of knowing how it was raised and harvested. You can buy from local farmers so that you can get all your questions answered.

You have a choice and you have the power to change the way you and your family eat. I’m here to help you make that change.

Farm | Why We Decided to Farm

Why we farm

we wanted to know how our meat was raised

During our final semester of college farmer Brit was exposed to the documentary Food Inc., which is quite frankly horrific. Food Inc. documents some of the practices in the modern food industry, particularly the meat industry in America. After being confronted in such a dramatic way we had to face the harsh reality that we didn’t know where the pork on our table was raised, how our chicken was fed, or how our burger was processed. The scariest part for us was that we had not even questioned it before.

Flash-forward to our post-college life and we knew we wanted to make a change in our eating and purchasing - of meat products in particular. So we started raising our own cattle, just for us, and put our dollar to work in our local community with our purchases from local farmers. But, our own necessity for knowing how our meat was raised grew into a burning passion to make a bigger impact.

we’re passionate about connecting you with your food

Which leads us to today. We’re raising beef and lamb for dozens of families in our community and keep an open door policy. Our passion is sharing our farm, our livestock and all aspects of of raising beef and lamb with you. From babies we bring home or birth right here on the farm, to their ‘one bad day’, to how we actually feel about the meat industry, we’re open to sharing it all with you. We believe that what you eat shouldn’t be a secret and your farmer shouldn’t be a corporation.

Our promise is to do our best to answer all your questions so you can dine with the confidence that your meat was raised in the manner you expect.

Know Your Farmer | How Do I Do It?

get to know your farmer

How do I do it? How do I raise an animal knowing in the end it is headed to someone's dinner plate? I get asked this all the time...

Well, I am going to be real honest with all of you, it is hard. I, the ‘cattle mama’, have a very hard time saying goodbye. Our cattle stay on the farm for upwards of two years. I see them every day, multiple times a day. They all have names and they all have their own cow-sonalities (Matt hates when I use personality when speaking about them). They follow me everywhere I go, and mooo as soon as they see my face. There is a very special bond that I create with them without even trying.

Yes, it is hard, and yes there are tears when they leave. I chose to raise them anyway because it is important to me to be a conscious consumer. This choice of being an educated meat consumer was made in college when I attended a class that pushed me to become mindful of my consumption choices. One of the topics was food consumption. I heard many people during that class say that they didn’t want to think of it as an animal on their plate, that it was just meat. I was challenged by this as I had grown up loving livestock, but myself included never really made the full connection. For me accepting that it is an animal on my plate became part of being a conscious consumer. I believe everyone should know where their meat comes from because steaks don’t just fall from the sky.

The second piece to this was not just knowing that it was raised on a 'farm'. I wanted to know who raised it, their methods to raising it, and their passion for raising it. It became a connection of more than knowing where it comes from, but also the kind of life the animal lived.

Since the very beginning of our farm venture my desire has been for you to KNOW me, the one raising your steak. So yes, I fall in love with each and every calf that comes to our farm, I can’t help it. So when you ask how I do it, I do it with love and tears. It is actually easier for me to know these animals live happy, healthy lives on our farm than not knowing anything at all. I also chose to do it so you can become a conscious consumer and know where your steak comes from.