Proffitt Family Farms Mission
Our mission is to produce high quality beef grown in a natural way.  To provide our animals with an
environment that lets them  live their entire lives as nature intended, by allowing them to forage exclusively
on pasture.  On our farm we let the cows and pasture land sustain each other with only rain and sunshine.
Our animals are never given hormones or antibiotics.
Proffitt Family Farms Grass Fed Beef
Your ranch direct source for pasture finished,
dry-aged, 100% grass fed beef.
USDA processed, 100% grass finished, no hormones, no antibiotics. Beef
From Kings Mountain, North Carolina.
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Farm News Blog from Shelley:
In September 2009 the USDA certified two of our pastures
(260 acres) organic and one pasture (200 acres) transitional
(to be certified organic in September 2010).  In about 2 years
we will be able to provide you with USDA certified organic,
100% grass fed beef.  At this time we are offering 100% grass
fed, no hormones, no antibiotics, never penned, beef that
spent their complete lifetime grazing on local pastures.
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Balloons in the pasture, duck eating hawks, what will be next?
Hot air balloons traditionally float very early in the morning because the wind
is minimal and they can use their tanks of propane to float, if the wind is as
they predict, to be carried to a planned location.  It's an inexact science.  They
can't really steer, they just float and have to know the wind patterns of their
area.  This desired location was not one of our pastures here in Kings
Mountain.  Early Monday morning the cows were gathered, staring upward,
and visibly nervous, as they were gazing in the direction of where we have a
known coyote den.  We thought they had seen one of these predators who
commonly hunt in the early mornings.  Following their stare lead to the real
distraction, a hot air balloon was bouncing across the east pasture. Mom
jumped onto the 4-wheeler to inspect the situation.  We found a local
balloonist flustered, although not at all apologetic, about his unplanned
landing in our pasture! Thankfully, the cows were not grazing in that same
field or it would have sent them running, possibly through the meager step in
posts that we use to keep them on a certain swath of grass!  Brian and I
loaded the kids into the farm truck to help with the lifting of the balloon into
their chase vehicle.  By this time, it was parked nearby on our organic pasture,
which we do not commonly drive trucks through.  I got a few pics of the kids
and we guided him out so they would not drive over our irrigation heads in
the pasture.                             That was Monday in a nutshell!

Today we had a predator visit and graze upon our pet ducks!  We have a
Great Pyrenees dog that has clearly spent too much time indoors escaping
the heat of summer.  The large hawk, who is a familiar face around our farm,
had just ripped the head off of one of our 7 ducks when Brian caught him
while he was outside playing frisbee with Zoe, our daughter.  This was a large
duck, not one of those small female mallards!  He was happily gorging himself
while the other, ever so intelligent ducks, stood nearby.  Doubtless, they were
wondering who this new member of the flock was eating one of their recent
friends!  For the love of God fly away!  Save yourselves!  Brian alerted the
household and Granny, Mom, grabbed the nearest weapon.  This was one of
Dewi's precious sticks.  She tried to beat the hawk off the duck but he stood
his ground and splayed his feathers daring her to come closer.  He would not
leave his meal.  Our ducks are literally ' sitting ducks'.  They are free range and
hide up under many trees to escape the heat but there is no real way to allow
them this freedom and protect them from the predators from above.  There are
rats and rabbits a plenty this year, but the hawk has crossed the line now!  
Angel, the livestock guardian angel, has offcially clocked in!  Bring it Hawk!       
                                                            Angel will be ready...
"ATTACKS FROM ABOVE"
FRESH GROUND BEEF CHUCK
Joe, the meat man at Healthy
Home Market on South Blvd, is
grinding our grass fed chuck
fresh every  day in the fresh
meat counter! Ask for it by
name, Proffitt Family Farms
grass fed beef.
            PROFFITT FAMILY FARMS
This year we will be a featured farm on the2nd Annual Charlotte
Area Farm Tour  . The Know Your Farms   Charlotte Area Farm
Tour will take place the weekend of September 18-19, 2010
from 1:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. both days and highlights 27 local
farms.  The Charlotte Area Farm Tour is self-guided, and farms
are located in clusters all around the Charlotte region for easy
touring. To take the tour, get a map and purchase a vehicle
pass online. Load up your vehicle with friends and family, pack
a cooler in the trunk for all the farm-fresh goodies you’ll want
to take home, then use the map to plot your course! The
Proffitt Family looks forward to hosting your family as our
guests.