Birchwood Ridge BeefFarmgate beef · Kamloops, BC
Black cattle grazing dry golden rangeland on the ranch, hills and pines behind them

Farmgate beef · Kamloops, BC

Raised on our land. Cut for your freezer.

Birchwood Ridge is a family cattle ranch south of Kamloops. We raise the animals, a local butcher cuts and wraps them, and you pick up at the gate or we deliver around town on Fridays.

Shop the beef How a share works

Pickup Thursday and Saturday at the gate. Friday delivery around Kamloops. Order by Tuesday 21:00.

Black and white-faced cattle eating hay from a wooden feeder on a frosty morning

This lot

Lot
26-10, four head
Breed
Angus and Hereford cross
Raised
Born here, on pasture May to October
Finished
At home on our own hay
Aged
Dry, 14 days
Cut by
Provincially inspected butcher

Freezer boxes

The cheapest way to buy our beef, per pound.

Each box is a share of one animal, cut to a standard sheet, frozen and ready to carry. We price the box, not the pound, so the number you see is the number you pay.

Compare the four boxes

By the cut

Steaks, roasts and ground, by the pack.

What is left after the boxes from each lot are packed. When a cut runs out it comes back with the next animal.

All 16 cuts

One animal, nine cuts

Everything comes off the same steer.

The boxes are the whole animal, split. The steaks, roasts and ground are what is left over. Tap a part of the chart to see what it becomes.

Open the shop
Chart Nº 1 CHUCK RIB LOIN SIRLOIN ROUND BRISKET PLATE FLANK SHANK
Tap a cut to shop what comes from it.Side of beef · 9 primals · sample chart
  1. 1Chuck$9.50 to $39Chuck roasts, stew, most of the ground
  2. 2Rib$46.50 to $168Ribeye, prime rib, short ribs
  3. 3Short loin$41 to $44Striploin, tenderloin
  4. 4Sirloinin boxesSirloin steaks, sirloin tip
  5. 5Roundin boxesRump and round roasts, lean ground
  6. 6Brisket$14.50 to $65Brisket flat, smokies
  7. 7Platein boxesShort ribs, skirt, ground
  8. 8Flank$27Flank steak, ground
  9. 9Shank$8 to $9Soup bones, marrow bones

How ordering works

Order by Tuesday night. Beef by the weekend.

  1. Order and pay online

    Pick your box or your cuts. Orders in by Tuesday 21:00 go out that same week; later ones roll to the next.

  2. Boxes: we confirm the cut sheet

    For a quarter or a half we phone you before the butcher starts. Steak thickness, roast size, how much goes to ground. Ten minutes.

  3. Packed frozen on Wednesday

    Everything is pulled from the farm freezer the day before, counted against your order and packed in an insulated liner with ice packs.

  4. Gate pickup or Friday delivery

    Thursday 15:00 to 18:00 or Saturday 10:00 to 14:00 at the farm. Or a Friday window if you are in one of our four delivery zones.

Pickup and delivery

Two pickup days. One delivery day.

The farm gate is on Lac Le Jeune Road, about twenty minutes south of Kamloops. Pull in, tell us your name, and the box comes out of the walk-in freezer.

Delivery runs Fridays in four zones around Kamloops. There is a $150 minimum and the fee drops to nothing over $300 in the city zones.

Days, zones and fees

DayWhatHours
ThursdayFarm pickup15:00 to 18:00
FridayLocal delivery, four zones12:00 to 18:00
SaturdayFarm pickup10:00 to 14:00
Delivery minimum
$150
Zones A and B, Kamloops
$12 to $15, free over $300
Zones C and D, outlying
$25
Order cutoff
Tuesday 21:00
Round hay bales on rolling pasture with morning mist in the valley and a dirt road curving away

From the farm

About 120 cows, the hay to feed them, and a lot of hills.

The ranch has been in the family since 1979. We run a cow-calf herd, put up our own hay in the valley bottom, and summer the cattle on grass in the hills above the house.

Every animal we sell was born here. We know its mother.

Herd
About 120 cow-calf pairs. Black Angus and Hereford cross.
Land
Hay fields on the home place, summer range in the hills behind.
Finishing
On our own hay at home, 20 to 24 months of age.
Butcher
A provincially inspected shop in the Kamloops area. Dry aged 14 days.

The ranch, the herd and how a beef share works