Somebody should be able to tell you where dinner came from.
You're standing in the meat aisle.
Natural. Farm-raised. Family farm. The package says a lot of things, and none of them tell you what the animal ate, where it lived, who raised it, or how the soil was tended.
The label won't answer you.
It isn't built to. By the time meat reaches that shelf it has passed through so many hands that nobody left in the building could tell you where it started. So you put it in the cart and go home, because dinner has to get on the table.
We're Mike and Emily Nash, and we will.
We farm in Sparks, Maryland, on ground our family has worked for more than 135 years. We grow the feed, raise every animal from birth, and can hand you the package ourselves. That's why we can answer the question: we were there for all of it.
Everything we raise, our daughters eat.
The same beef, the same chicken, the same pork that goes in your meals. We care about what's on their plates, and we know you care just as much about what's on your family's.
We're an open book.
How the animals are raised, what they eat, where it's processed. It's all right here on this site, no digging required. And if there's something we didn't cover, just ask.
Three steps to a better dinner.
How the animals are raised, what they eat, where it's processed. We've got all the info right here on our site, before you spend a dollar. And, if you have any other questions, you can always ask us anything!
We can deliver to your door every Thursday. Order online and pick it up at the farm any day. Our self-serve farm store is open daily, 7am to 7pm. And we're at the Bel Air Farmers Market every Saturday.
Pull it out of the freezer and feed your family food you can account for, start to finish. Raised by people you can name, on ground we're working to hand our grandchildren in better shape than we found it.
Raised here. All of it.
Beef, pork, and chicken from animals raised on this farm, plus tallow made from our own cattle.
Straight answers about how we farm.
Are you certified organic?
No. We'd rather tell you exactly how we farm and let you decide than pay for a label.
Do you use antibiotics?
Not routinely. In the rare chance an animal gets sick, we treat it. An animal's welfare comes first. Any animal that's been treated is removed from the meat supply.
Is your beef grass-fed?
Our cattle have pasture access and also eat hay and grain we grow ourselves.
Do you use added vaccines?
No.
Do you use added hormones?
No.
None of this is a compromise. Every one of these is a choice we made on purpose, for the land, for the animals, and for the families who eat what we raise.
→ LEARN MORE ON OUR FARMING PRACTICES PAGE.
Four ways to get it.
All of them close to home.
★ Local delivery
We bring your order to your door every Thursday. No need to be home, and no need to rearrange your day around us. Just leave a cooler outside and we'll take care of the rest.
★ ★ Local pickup
Order online and pick it up at the farm in Sparks, or grab it from us Saturday mornings at the Bel Air Farmers Market. Whichever is easier for you that week.
★ Shop the farm store
Our self-serve farm store is open every day. No order ahead, no minimum, nobody hovering. Come see what's in the freezer, take what you need, and pay on the spot.
★ Visit us at the Bel Air Farmers Market
We're there every Saturday morning. Come say hello, see everything in person, and ask us whatever you've been wondering about.
We deliver about as far as we can drive and still be home for dinner. Twenty miles. If you're outside that, we're not your farm.
Months of meals from one animal you can name the source of.
A quarter, half, or whole beef, or a half or whole hog, priced by hanging weight. You choose your cuts on a cut sheet, and we'll walk you through every option. Most of our bulk customers are doing this for the first time.
– We'll help you fill out the cut sheet.
– Split a share with family or friends.
– Vacuum sealed and frozen, good for about a year.
Five generations on the same ground.
Watson & William is named for Mike's great-grandfather, Watson Giddings Nash, and his grandfather, Carl William Nash. Our family has farmed here in Baltimore County for more than 135 years. It started as a dairy. Today it's beef, pork, chicken, and the corn, soybeans, and alfalfa we plant as the weather allows.
We farm like our grandchildren are counting on it: keeping the soil covered, keeping living roots in it, moving livestock across it, minimizing what we put on it and how much we disturb it, and encouraging diversity in what grows here.
We're not certified anything. We're just trying to leave this ground better than we found it, and raise our daughters knowing how.
Every meal is a decision about who raises your food. We'd like it to be us.
Since 1890.
Meat you can trace to one family and one farm.
16548 Cedar Grove Rd, Sparks Glencoe, MD 21152
443-377-6283
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