Shop Like a Chef: Creekstone Farms Beef

One of our favorite long-standing partners is Creekstone Farms, who provides us with our Signature USDA Choice and Prime Beef. From strip steaks and filets to rib-eyes and more, Creekstone is where many of the Twin Cities' best steakhouses and restaurants source their beef, including James Beard award-winning chef Isaac Becker's Burch Steak – and Kowalski's is the only retail grocer in the Twin Cities where you can buy it.

Steakhouse chefs agree that while the product is more expensive to produce than other beef, the difference is extremely notable, particularly when it comes to taste. Great taste and consistent quality are the result of Creekstone's unique beef program, which combines superior Black Angus genetics, exceptional cattle management practices, carefully controlled high-quality feeding and state-of-the-art processing.

While many beef producers can legally claim their products are natural, they often raise their cattle using antibiotics, hormones and growth-promoting drugs. Creekstone Farms' products come from animals born and bred in the USA and raised in a truly natural manner, consistent with Kowalski's Naturally Raised standards. Creekstone cattle never, ever receive antibiotics, hormones or growth promotants. They're also fed a 100% vegetarian diet and are source verified to ranch of birth.

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Every step of the way, from birth to processing, Creekstone ensures their animals are handled compassionately and humanely. Animals are hand-selected, pasture grazed in the Midwest and processed in a plant designed with animal welfare top of mind by none other than Dr. Temple Grandin, one of the world’s preeminent experts on animal behavior and humane animal treatment practices. Creekstone Farms Natural Beef is also Certified Humane by the Humane Animal Care Organization.