Everything went smoothly at last month’s debut of Home Farm, Sandy Lerner’s high-end butcher shop in Middleburg. Lerner, co-founder of Cisco Systems Inc., an animal-rights activist and philanthropist, showcased the cuts of meat from her humanely raised and slaughtered, rare-breed cattle, pigs and poultry that she produces from her 800-acre Ayrshire Farm estate in nearby Upperville.
On a tour of her farm, it is obvious that Lerner is an animal lover. One minute she is hugging and affectionately addressing a Gloucester Old Spot piglet and the next, softly stroking the feathers of an American Bronze turkey poult. A new project is the humane raising of young, dairy-born cattle for veal production, in small groups, without confinement and on a wholesome diet. Calves are fed roughage by five weeks of age, and their foods are free from antibiotics and growth-promoting hormones.
Last month, Ayrshire was certified as the first producer of young dairy calves to meet the standards of the Herndon-based, nonprofit Humane Farm Animal Care. The organization previously certified the farm’s beef, pork, eggs and poultry, which carry the label: “Certified Humane Raised & Handled.” All are available at Home Farm and Hunter’s Head Tavern, co-owned with Lerner by businessman Don Roden.
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Everything went smoothly at last month’s debut of Home Farm, Sandy Lerner’s high-end butcher shop in Middleburg. Lerner, co-founder of Cisco Systems Inc., an animal-rights activist and philanthropist, showcased the cuts of meat from her humanely raised and slaughtered, rare-breed cattle, pigs and poultry that she produces from her 800-acre Ayrshire Farm estate in nearby Upperville.
On a tour of her farm, it is obvious that Lerner is an animal lover. One minute she is hugging and affectionately addressing a Gloucester Old Spot piglet and the next, softly stroking the feathers of an American Bronze turkey poult. A new project is the humane raising of young, dairy-born cattle for veal production, in small groups, without confinement and on a wholesome diet. Calves are fed roughage by five weeks of age, and their foods are free from antibiotics and growth-promoting hormones.
Last month, Ayrshire was certified as the first producer of young dairy calves to meet the standards of the Herndon-based, nonprofit Humane Farm Animal Care. The organization previously certified the farm’s beef, pork, eggs and poultry, which carry the label: “Certified Humane Raised & Handled.” All are available at Home Farm and Hunter’s Head Tavern, co-owned with Lerner by businessman Don Roden.
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