It's BBQ Time at Sickles Market

In its quest to procure the finest quality products, Sickles Market will celebrate the launch of its new line of Silver Fern Farms’ Grass Fed Angus Beef with a Barbecue on Saturday, April 26 and Sunday April 27 from 12-4.
The Sickles Market BBQ will include demonstrations with tips on how to best prepare the many various cuts from burgers to filet mignon. Live music will be performed by Quincy Mumford on Saturday and Koka, a steel drum band on Sunday. 
Silver Fern Farms’ Angus Beef is 100% grass-fed & finished, raised on wide open pastures.  No hormone or antibiotic growth promotants are ever used, and the beef is produced in New Zealand, where GMOs are illegal.  The Angus breed is renowned for its superior marbling, which helps contribute to this beef’s superb flavor and tenderness.  Only the highest quality Silver Fern Farms’ beef is sent to the U.S. in this program, ensuring consistent high quality cuts. 

So why is New Zealand beef so good?

The animals are reared as nature intended, on the lush, green pastures of free-range farms in one of the purest lands in the world.  All Silver Fern Farms’ beef is grass-fed and raised with care by a selected collective of passionate New Zealand farmers.

And why is it said that grass fed beef better for you?

Grass-fed beef may have some heart-healthy benefits that other types of beef don't have.* Cows are ruminants, a type of animal with multiple stomachs, built to eat grass and process the nutrition offered in that grass, nutrition that benefits us when we eat the meat of these animals. Compared to grain-fed, grass-fed beef has:

·       Less total fat

·       More heart-healthy, omega-3 fatty acids

·       Twice the conjugated linoleic acid (CLA), a type of fat that's thought to reduce heart disease and cancer risks

·       More antioxidant vitamins A and E

Additional benefits of grass-fed beef:

·      The animals are pasture-raised in a more humane fashion.

·      The cattle do not have the digestion problems associated with eating corn and grain and generally live a longer, healthier life.

·      They are not typically given hormones or antibiotics.