Heritage Breed Ground Goat Meat

GROUND GOAT

Three 1lb packs — a lighter and leaner alternative — Shannon Creek Farm

$69
Product

Ground Goat
Three 1lb packs
Shannon Creek Farm, Kansas Flint Hills

Goatober is 16 years old! October is the natural season for goat, and we are proud to bring in nose-to-tail goat every October as part of our effort to celebrate delicious, lean, and woodsy goat meat.

Anne Saxelby was America’s first all domestic cheesemonger. Her lovely shop connected the New York City public to rural communities and dairies where she learned about a predicament for goat cheese makers — since females are the milk producers there is hardly any need for males. Thus, Anne conceived Goatober and wove a virtuous web of farmers and chefs to make it happen – a seasonal celebration of goat meat from male goats who spent happy lives foraging in the woods! Sixteen years later the project continues thanks to the rolling hilly pastures of Shannon Creek Farm in the Flint Hills of Kansas. Shop goat in its natural season — goats are traditionally born in the Spring and ready for harvest in October! Every nose-to-tail cut is juicy, earthy, clean, nourishing and fulfilling.

Ground goat is simply one of the most versatile and tasty treats in the meat world, prepared as burgers, meatballs, or as a rustic ragu for pasta, not to mention the main ingredient in the best chili we have ever tasted. As an alternative to beef or lamb, it simply cannot be beat —  goat is a savory, lean, red meat with a clean, herbaceous finish, and an unexpected depth of flavor.

Although leaner than beef or lamb, goat meat is rich and flavorful and boasts light floral notes in every bite. Because goat meat has less fat, it lends itself to slow and low cooking including braises and barbecue — see our Cooking Tab for more information!

Since 2010 Goatober has grown to become a celebration of all things goat, the most widely consumed protein on the planet!

  • 100% antibiotic free
  • Humanely raised on pasture by independent family farms

 

Farm
Shannon Creek Farm – Manhattan, Kansas

Joseph Hubbard is one of the youngest farmers in the Heritage Foods network. Joseph learned the art of farming from his family and raises sheep and goats on the vast Flint Hill pastures around Manhattan, Kansas.

The Flint Hills, a band of hills in eastern Kansas stretching into North Central Oklahoma, is a region that is not good for plant agriculture, but ideal for pasture raised animals. This ecological region is where the most dense coverage of intact tallgrass prairie can be found in North America including Big Bluestem, Little Bluestem, Indiangrass, Switchgrass, Prairie Dropseed, and Sideoats Grama. These tallgrass varieties are responsible for producing the tastiest grass fed animals on the planet.

Joseph raises multiple breeds of lamb for different reasons: Katahdin for their multiple birth and high growth rate, St. Croix for the natural tannin in their gut that wards off parasites and White Dorper for their muscling. Joseph is also a major producer for our Goatober Project and has been growing meat goats for Heritage Foods for almost a decade! His primary breed is the Boer goat. The Boer or Boerbok is a South African breed of meat goat. It was selectively bred in the Eastern Cape from about 1920. It has been exported to many countries, and has been used to improve the meat qualities of other breeds.
Cooking

How to Prepare

1. Drain the excess liquid from the package over the sink, remove the ground meat from the packaging, and pat dry.

2. Season with salt and pepper right before you begin cooking.

3. Heat canola oil in a hot pan. Once the pan is lightly smoking, carefully place the ground meat in the middle and begin breaking the meat apart. Continue to break the meat apart and allow the meat to brown on one side. Some ground meat is fattier — like pork and lamb — and may require some fat to be drained off as it's cooking.

4. Stir the ground meat carefully in the pan until it is cooked through. Drain and serve!