Protocols

At Chapel Hill Farm in Berryville, VA, we raise our animals without the use of routine antibiotics and never add antibiotics to their food. From start to finish, our beef is raised naturally, supporting stronger animals and cleaner food. This means a healthier choice for your family and helps reduce the risk of antibiotic resistance. It’s all part of our mission to provide food you can feel good about, straight from our farm to your table.

Our Randall Lineback cattle live outside from the day they’re born until the day they leave our farm. You’ll often see them moving across lush pastures, eating a diverse mix of grasses and legumes. This natural diet keeps them healthy and lets the breed’s rich, clean flavor shine. It’s the way cattle were meant to live — and you can taste the difference in every bite.

At Chapel Hill Farm, VA, our Randall Lineback calves stay right by their mothers on pasture, nursing for months instead of being weaned early. That extended time gives them strong immunity and calm, steady growth. You can almost feel how low-stress and natural it is when you watch them graze beside their moms. We believe that a gentle start makes for happier animals and better beef.

Our Randall Linebacks live their entire lives out on open pasture with plenty of room to roam. They breathe fresh air, soak up sunshine, and graze on diverse forage every single day. This creates calmer, healthier animals and nourishes our land at the same time. When you enjoy our beef, you’re tasting the quality of that landscape.

Caring for animals kindly is at the heart of what we do at Chapel Hill Farm. We move our cattle gently, keep calves on their mothers, and practice gentle weaning. We keep their environment calm and follow humane standards to the best of our ability. That respect shows in the animals’ behavior and in the quality of the beef. It’s simply the right thing to do.

At Chapel Hill Farm, VA, we manage our pastures with regenerative principles that build soil health, increase biodiversity, and improve water retention. By rotating our Randall Linebacks through diverse paddocks, we mimic natural grazing patterns that restore the land rather than deplete it. You can actually see more birds, pollinators, and wildflowers every season because of this approach. We have even set aside 250 acres that are managed for wildlife rehabilitation and preservation. We believe strongly in leaving this place off better than we found it. It’s a cycle that nourishes the earth and produces beef you can feel good about.

Randall Linebacks date back to the 1600s and are one of only two remaining American Landrace cattle breeds. They were never altered to fit the demands of industrial agriculture, which demands big, fast growing, fat, highly corn-tolerant animals. Randalls are smaller, slower to grow, and live their lives outside eating grass. Their genetics are designed for outdoor living, from the coldest winters to the hottest summers. They are a true time capsule, with unchanged genetics dating back 400 years.

Randall Lineback beef is worlds away from fatty conventional beef. Conventional beef has been altered to tolerate huge amounts of corn and soy. Because cattle are ruminants, built to primarily eat grass, this leads to unhealthy loads of fat threading through their muscle fibers. The industry labels this "marbling" and has convinced consumers it indicates the highest quality beef when, in fact, this is the sign of excess fat and poor diets. Randalls never learned how to marble. They store their fat around the outside of their muscles and boast extremely flavorful, lean, luscious meat, built from healthy grazing and outdoor living.

All of our processed Randall Lineback products are crafted in partnership with small, local businesses. They focus on small batches, quality ingredients, and traditional processes. We do not use synthetic additives or any ingredients you can't pronounce. And we are honest about what is in them (for instance, our tallow is 100% suet, not the beef fat trimmings often marketed as tallow). Our products are made by the hands of real people in small quantities, the traditional way. You can taste the difference (and feel it, too).

This product, and all products marked gluten free on our storefront do NOT contain gluten. We do not use gluten as an additive or a filler, so you can consume Randall Lineback products marked "gluten free" with confidence.

Randall Linebacks are not a large cattle breed, and they do not grow very quickly, especially when compared to conventional breeds. Given their heritage genetics, they were never altered to fit the fast/ fatty requirements of industrial beef production. We never use growth hormones or steroids to grow bigger, fatter cows. We like them just the way they are. They are America's original slow food-- the natural way is the best way. It makes for happier, healthier cows, and better beef.