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Raw milk • Creamery • Pasture-raised meats • Fresh produce • Farmstead provisions

Beautifully raised, thoughtfully made, and deeply rooted in Northwest Montana.

We’ve been busy as bees, quietly working on something behind the scenes at Meadowvale.For a long time, many of you have ...
08/26/2026

We’ve been busy as bees, quietly working on something behind the scenes at Meadowvale.

For a long time, many of you have known us first for our raw milk. But this farm produces so much more than milk! We raise beef and pork, poultry, eggs, fruits and vegetables, cream, yogurt, cheese, honey, herbs, and a lot of beautiful little things that come and go with the seasonal rhythm of a farmstead.

And yet, we’ve known for a while that actually buying all of that from us hasn’t always been as simple and straightforward as it should be.

So we’ve been rebuilding the way Meadowvale works for our customers.

A better way to shop the farm.
More of Meadowvale in one place.
More flexibility.
And, for some households, a much easier way to get it home.

We’re still a few weeks away, but the pieces are coming together, and we’re very excited to start showing you what’s next.

More soon. 🌿

I went down a bit of a rabbit hole this morning after seeing the Administration’s announcement that, for the next 90 day...
08/24/2026

I went down a bit of a rabbit hole this morning after seeing the Administration’s announcement that, for the next 90 days, the United States will allow up to 300,000 metric tons of “product for ground beef” to enter the country without the normal out-of-quota tariff.

First question: what exactly is “product for ground beef”?

Mostly lean beef trimmings, sometimes called manufacturing beef. It isn’t necessarily a package of finished hamburger arriving at the dock. American beef production generates a lot of fattier trim, and processors blend that with very lean beef (often imported) to make hamburger at a desired fat percentage.

So, for example, very lean 90/10 trim can be mixed with fattier domestic trim to produce the 80/20 ground beef you buy at the grocery store.

And here is where the story gets uncomfortable.

The Administration has not yet disclosed which countries will supply this new 300,000 metric tons. But earlier this year, the United States specifically increased Argentina’s tariff-free quota by another 80,000 metric tons of lean beef trimmings for ground-beef production.

Meanwhile, Argentina has been dealing with some troubling export-food-safety incidents.

In March, China suspended imports from one of Argentina’s major beef processors, ArreBeef, after chloramphenicol was detected in a beef shipment.

Chloramphenicol is not some harmless antibiotic residue.

It is a broad-spectrum antibiotic that has been prohibited for use in food-producing animals in the United States for decades because exposure can cause bone-marrow suppression and aplastic anemia; a rare but potentially fatal failure of the bone marrow to make blood cells.

The FDA has stated that it has not been possible to establish a safe level of human exposure to chloramphenicol residue because the reaction can be unpredictable.

Russia has also imposed enhanced testing or temporary restrictions on Argentine meat plants this year after finding other food-safety problems, including antibiotic residues and Salmonella.

None of this means that “Argentine beef is bad.”

And it certainly doesn’t mean that every piece of imported beef is unsafe.

It means something much simpler:

The farther your food gets from you, the harder it becomes to know its story.

Where was the animal born?

Who raised it?

What drugs was it given?

How long were the withdrawal periods?

Where was it slaughtered?

How many companies handled that meat before it reached you?

What country did it come from?

And when it becomes anonymous “product for ground beef,” would you ever know?

This is one of the reasons I believe so deeply in local agriculture.

When you buy beef from a farmer or rancher in your own community, food stops being an anonymous global commodity.

You can ask what the cattle ate.

You can ask how they were raised.

You can ask what medications are used.

You can see the pastures.

You can know where they were processed.

And, perhaps most importantly, you know who is accountable for putting that food on your family’s table.

That relationship has value that doesn’t show up on a grocery-store price tag.

We can argue endlessly about tariffs, trade policy and whether importing cheaper beef is good or bad economic policy.

But one thing has become increasingly clear to me:

🥩 Know your farmer. Know your rancher. Know your food. 🥩

Whenever you have the opportunity, buy food from people whose hands you can shake.

That is one of the most meaningful forms of food security we have.

Our produce boxes have been wildly popular this summer! These are perfect if you don't have time to get to the farmer's ...
08/23/2026

Our produce boxes have been wildly popular this summer!

These are perfect if you don't have time to get to the farmer's market, or don't want to commit to a full season CSA.

Order online when you need a produce restock, or set up a subscription to get one every week until the season is done!

This week's boxes include some combination of the following:

- Vine ripened heirloom tomatoes
- A colorful variety of peppers
- Huckleberry gold and red potatoes
- Rainbow chard
- Kale
- Cucumbers
- Broccoli florets
- Baby carrots
- Squash
- Melons
- Fresh culinary herbs

Add a beef, pork, or combo box and some fresh dairy to your order, for a full fridge restock.

Shopping for the week: Done ✅

Get yours here: https://meadowvalefarmstead.com/store/dairy

Congratulations to our Milkmaid Kallie and our Normande heifer, Chantilly, on a job well done at the fair! 🐄🏅Kallie brou...
08/22/2026

Congratulations to our Milkmaid Kallie and our Normande heifer, Chantilly, on a job well done at the fair! 🐄🏅

Kallie brought home the blue for showmanship, and Chantilly won the purple Grand for breed/conformation. The judge had high praise for both of these gals in the ring!

We’re unbelievably proud of these two young ladies. Kallie put so much time, care, and hard work into getting Chantilly ready for her fair debut. 💚

There’s something pretty special about seeing one of our Meadowvale heifers out there representing the farm, alongside one of the young people from our amazing team.

Way to go, Kallie & Chantilly! You made us proud! 🥰🐄

We do regenerative grazing…but with a tech twist. 🐄📍🌱If you’ve noticed some of our cows sporting strange futuristic-look...
08/22/2026

We do regenerative grazing…but with a tech twist. 🐄📍🌱

If you’ve noticed some of our cows sporting strange futuristic-looking orange collars, you're not imagining things. It's our eShepherd GPS fencing system at work!

And yes. It is every bit as cool as it sounds.

Instead of dividing our pastures into permanent little squares with miles of posts and wire, eShepherd lets us draw grazing boundaries digitally. Each cow wears a GPS collar and learns where those invisible boundaries are, which means we can create a new paddock, adjust its shape, or move the herd onto fresh grass right from our phone.

For a regenerative grazing operation, that kind of precision is insanely useful.

Good grazing management means we don't just turn cows out onto a big field and leave them there until the grass is gone. We need to control where they graze, how intensely they graze it, and, just as importantly, how long that ground gets to rest afterward.

With eShepherd, we can make our paddocks fit the grass instead of making the grass fit the fence.

It allows us to:

🌱 Give cows a carefully measured section of fresh forage
🌱 Move them frequently, at the exact moment the forage has been grazed enough.
🌱 Leave the perfect amount of residual behind
🌱 Give previously grazed ground a long recovery period
🌱 Keep animals away from areas we want to protect or allow to recover (hellooooo, berry bushes I planted this spring!)
🌱 Adjust our grazing plan as conditions change throughout the season

That level of control is an amazing tool when your goal is healthier pasture, better soil structure and biology, stronger root systems, and more productive land over time.

But we also have to point out this bit:

👀 We can move a whole herd of cows by drawing a line on a satellite map, on a smartphone, while sipping coffee in the morning. In our jammies.

That is just ridiculously cool. 😂

There’s something we kinda love about using modern technology in service of a very old idea: animals, grass, soil, sunlight, and time; managed carefully enough that the land becomes better because the cows were here.

Ranching doesn’t always look old-fashioned these days, although the old-timey cowboy aesthetic is still cool as all getout. At least over here, it sometimes looks like a cow wearing a GPS collar and a grazing heatmap on a MacBook.

Excuse us. This outfit is unapologetically run by a millennial and a techy Gen X’er. 🌱🐄🛰️

This week, one of our very own Meadowvale girls is trading the pasture for the show ring. 🐄✨MVF Chantilly of Banjo 2K is...
08/18/2026

This week, one of our very own Meadowvale girls is trading the pasture for the show ring. 🐄✨

MVF Chantilly of Banjo 2K is making her county fair debut in the dairy class, proudly shown by our wonderful milkmaid, Kallie Flanagan!

We’re awfully proud of both of them, but this week is about something even bigger than one heifer and her milkmaid.

It’s about 4-H. 💚🍀

If you have a chance to make it to the county fair this week, GO.

Go watch these kids walk into the ring with animals they’ve spent months feeding, training, grooming, worrying over, learning from, and caring for.

Cheer when they enter the ring.

Tell them their animal looks fantastic.

Ask them what they learned.

And if you’re able, show up for the livestock auction and BID.

Buying a 4-H animal isn’t simply buying beef, pork, lamb, or another freezer-full of locally raised food. You’re putting money directly behind a young person who has learned responsibility, animal husbandry, perseverance, record keeping, sportsmanship, and the very real lesson that good things require a whole lot of work.

These are the kids who will become our future farmers, ranchers, veterinarians, ag professionals, business owners, and community leaders, and having a packed set of bleachers and enthusiastic bidders tells them that the work they’re doing is worth it.

So while we’ll certainly be cheering extra loudly when Kallie and Chantilly step into that dairy ring this week, we’ll be cheering for every one of these hardworking kids, too.

Come to the fair. Walk through the barns. Cheer them on. Bid if you can.

And most importantly, tell these kids:

You did a fantastic job. We see how hard you worked. Keep going. 💚

Good luck to Kallie, Chantilly, and ALL of our local 4-H exhibitors this week! 🐄🐖🐑🐓🌾

08/16/2026

Ohhh this makes our hearts so happy 🥹🤎 Fresh Meadowvale cream turned into homemade tiramisu! Does it get any more decadent than this?!

We’ve been absolutely thrilled with how popular our weekly Harvest Boxes have become, and even more excited by the rave ...
08/14/2026

We’ve been absolutely thrilled with how popular our weekly Harvest Boxes have become, and even more excited by the rave reviews, beautiful unboxing reels, and recipe photos coming back from you guys. There’s something pretty special about opening a box packed with beautiful vegetables that were growing in the garden only hours before. 🌿

And now the garden is changing gears.

The cool-weather crops are beginning to move out, while our heat-loving summer crops are coming on strong. That means the next few boxes will start looking a little different: colorful heirloom peppers, beautiful vine-ripened tomatoes, fresh herbs, potatoes… and a few really special surprises that are just about to reach their peak. 👀

This is one of our favorite things about eating seasonally: you get to experience the year as it actually unfolds.

Instead of expecting every vegetable, every week, all year long (and most of them mediocre, because they spent weeks in warehouses and trucks!), you eat things when the land is ready to give them to you. You look forward to the first tomatoes. You make the most of the broccoli before it’s gone. And just when one season begins to wind down, something you’ve been waiting all summer for finally ripens.

There’s anticipation in it. Variety. A little bit of surprise.

And food that tastes the way it does because this is exactly when it was meant to be eaten.

That’s what our Harvest Boxes are really about.

Every box is hand-picked and curated around what’s freshest, most abundant, and best in the garden right now. No two boxes are exactly alike (and that’s not a bug, it’s the whole idea!).

If you’ve been thinking about trying one, late-summer abundance is a pretty wonderful time to start. 🍅🌶️🥒

🌿 Fresh from our garden. Grown right here at Meadowvale. Packed with the best of the season.

Order your Harvest Box here:
https://meadowvalefarmstead.com/store/dairy

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4988 Airport Road
Eureka, MT
59917

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