Local Flavor

A Concord produce institution expands to the livestock business.

Ten head of Belted Galloway, Angus, and Hereford cattle grazed last summer in a pasture in Concord, part of the land Steve Verrill has farmed for 50 years. The lean and tasty beef is now for sale – the Delmonico steak, pictured, costs $19.95 per pound – and it's frozen and in short supply but also local, natural, and raised without hormones, antibiotics, or additives. (For those who distinguish degrees of "grass-fed," these cattle were fed corn as well as grass for 50 days before they were slaughtered in November.) From tenderloin to strip steak, it's all there – until Verrill runs out.

VERRILL FARM 11 Wheeler Road, Concord, 978-369-4494, verrillfarm.com

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