Carolina Beef & Lamb Shares

Fill your freezer with North Carolina pasture-raised beef and lamb and support our remarkable network of independent beef and sheep producers.

Our Carolina Beef & Lamb Shares are a great fit for families, avid home cooks, and Paleo/Keto diet enthusiasts. Firsthand Foods beef and lamb is:

Totally delicious and preferred by the Triangle’s finest chefs for its tenderness and full flavor
Produced 100% outdoors on pasture, without growth promoting antibiotics or added hormones
Raised on a diverse mixture of grasses and forages and fed an all vegetarian, high fiber supplement to help ensure consistent marbling
Beef is dry-aged a minimum of 12 days
Beef and lamb is processed at Chaudhry’s Halal Meats, a small-scale, family-run, USDA-Inspected, Halal & Animal Welfare Approved Slaughter facility in Siler City.

Save up to $100 (15% off retail pricing) when you buy direct, in bulk.

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1/8th Beef Shares

Each beef share is approximately 65 pounds of beef, including bones for making stock. A share includes an assortment of steaks, roasts, ground beef, premium stir fry beef and more! Shop here.

Warm Season Share (April-September): 8 premium steaks, 10 mid-range steaks, 2 lbs of beef kebab, 2 lbs of premium stir fry strips, 2 roasts, 8 packs of hamburger patties, 25-1 lb packs of ground beef, and about 8 lbs of beef stock bones and/or marrow bones.

Cool Season Share (October-March): 8 premium steaks, 10 mid-range steaks, 2 lbs stew beef, 2 lbs of premium stir fry strips, 2 roasts, 30-1 lb packs of ground beef, and about 8 lbs of beef stock bones and/or marrow bones.

1/2 Lamb Shares

Lamb shares are around 20 lbs of meat and you have the option to select a “warm season” or “cool season” share. Warm season shares include: leg steaks, loin chops, rib chops, lamb kebab, ground Lamb, and stock bones. Cool season shares include: leg roasts (boneless), loin chips, half rib racks, lamb stew, ground lamb and stock bones. Shop here.

How does it work?

Purchase your shares here on-line. Once we receive your order, we coordinate with our farm partners, and schedule fabrication of your Carolina Cow & Lamb Shares. Your order will be ready for pick-up at our warehouse in Durham approximately 2 weeks later. We’ll contact you to set up a convenient time for you to come by and get it (M – F, 9am – 5pm). We’ll bring it to your car for contactless pick up. Your meat will be frozen solid at pick up. If you have a long drive home, you can choose to have your order packed in insulated boxes, or bring coolers to keep everything cold for the journey.

Will I have space in my freezer?

For a Cow Share, you’re talking 65 pounds of meat, which is going to take up about as much space as 13 (5 lb) bags of sugar. You MIGHT be able to fit all this in your refrigerator freezer but only if you have nothing else in there and how likely is that? So, we suggest purchasing a small chest freezer or going in on a share with a friend or neighbor. It’s easy to divide a share two-ways. The 20 pounds of meat in a lamb share is much easier to fit in your refrigerator freezer.