GreenSpace: Hard for beef lover to swallow
By Sandy Bauers
Inquirer GreenSpace Columnist
Larry Herr, one of several area farmers raising grass-fed cattle, sells his beef at the Chester County farmers' market at Anselma Mills:
Without corn, the beef is leaner, which proponents say has dietary benefits. And a national advocacy Web site, Eat Wild, ascribes myriad eco-virtues to grass-fed beef compared with factory farms, saying pastures reduce topsoil erosion and absorb scads of carbon dioxide.
Plus, cattle grazed on grass produce 20 percent less methane. (Weber concurs.)
Herr's 60-acre farm southeast of Lancaster has been in his family for six generations. On his family farms here and in New York he's planted 1,000 trees as stream buffers and hosts a wind generator.
My husband met Herr at - yes! - a Chester County farmers' market at Anselma Mills.
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