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May 2023 by Pine Island Auto Care
Asset to the community !
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April 2023 by James Smith
I was interested in buying be from a local farmer but I just read in one of your reviews that it's more expensive from the farmer that it is from the supermarket. How can that be if we're cutting out the middleman and all the ingredients that don't belong in meats
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April 2023 by Kim Brett
Love this farm!!! They have great raw dairy products, grassfed beef, and smoke their own delicious bacon. If you contact them on FB they are very responsive and get back to you quickly. Definitely stop by and check it out!
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February 2023 by Lesli S.
Recently purchased 1/2 cow from Pineshine, which is located in St. James City/Pine Island. Had been searching for local 100% grass fed/finished beef to fill our freezer and Pineshine is 1 of only a few that offer this quality. Most others are grain finished, which we did not want due to the health profile changes it can create, even if only fed grains for a few weeks. Ordering was fairly simple. Communication was a bit spotty (specifically our timeframe & cost), but I suspect it's because they do it all themselves - no marketing department to make things slick, which was fine w/us. We paid quite a bit per pound (more than I'd expected), but the meat is delicious and excellent quality. We've ordered 1/2 cow from other farms in the past, but this is probably the best tasting meat we've had from any ranch so that's impressive! So far we've cooked up ground beef, steaks, roasts, organ meat and made the most amazing beef bone broth from one of the soup bones. All items have been excellent quality, freshness and flavor. We chose to pick-up our meat from their farm. It was easy to schedule pick-up, everyone who helped us was friendly. If you don't have enough coolers to transport they will loan you a few to get home and then you bring them back. Here are the opportunities for improvement...Although the meat is the best we've had, the packaging is the worst we've had. I realize Pineshine isn't doing their own butchering, but the butcher they used is reducing the value of their product. The meats are all wrapped in white butcher paper and taped. Steaks are varying thickness. You can't tell how many steaks or bones are in each package until you open it since the wrapping is white. It's a mess when thawing as the paper gets soaking wet and the juices seep out. Sometimes the paper rips so you then have exposed meat. I prefer to avoid using plastic, but it's SO much nicer to have clear vacuum sealed meat in the freezer. I know exactly how many packages of steak to pull out when I can see them in the bag. If I'm running late on meal prep, I can submerge a vacuum sealed frozen package and have it thawed for dinner. I have a lot more confidence in the freshness several months in with vacuum sealed beef vs paper wrapped. Probably good we didn't know it would be paper wrapped, as we would have ordered elsewhere and missed the opportunity to eat their amazing beef. I also wish custom packaging were offered, which is what we've had with other cows (more roasts vs steaks, thickness of steaks, pounds per package, etc). We only use 1lb of ground beef at a time but all our beef was in 2lb packages and that's such a bummer and waste for us. It's difficult to cut frozen beef so I end up just thawing the whole thing and essentially losing the opportunity to use it later for a 2nd meal. Here you get standard cuts unless you buy the entire cow. Overall, I would highly recommend the beef from Pineshine Farms. It's fantastic! Would I re-order? If I could get customized butchering and vacuum sealed packaging then definitely! However, we would probably not reorder if they're still using the same butcher & paper packaging.
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February 2022 by Adriana Hernandez
Amazing place to buy grass feed beef, eggs and can’t forget the ice cream!!!
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January 2022 by Lyllith I.
Not really a farm. No functioning Barnes. The "barne" has a freezer with frozen meats, very pricy. Saw a couple of cows at a distance. They don't offer fresh killed pigs and cant even buy a freshly killed cow. For the prices it should be fresh and it's not. This is not an actual farm.
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August 2021 by John Murphy
The quality of the food is A+. Going to get a whole lot more chicken eggs next time. Also the ground beef was standout awesome.
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August 2021 by Nomad John
The quality of the food is A+. Going to get a whole lot more chicken eggs next time. Also the ground beef was standout awesome.
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April 2021 by Linda H.
The real deal! Devoted to Weston Price and organics. Wonderful knowledgable staff. My favorites: the bacon, the skirt steak, whole chicken, all fresh pork cuts. Eggs are fresh almost daily! Raw milk products available. Incredible find.
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November 2020 by Michael Howell
We recently spent a lot of money at this farm!being that we only eat grass fed meat,we were thrilled to find such a place!But after our expensive purchase,,,The meat was Unedible!!!"Flank steak especially"Bad meat,,,,After calling the farm they were unwilling to even callback,,,,nevermind a refund!DO NOT RECOMMENDED
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September 2020 by Lacie C.
Was a cool place
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September 2020 by Courtney Staley
Great selection of farm fresh products. Responsive. The raw milk is amazing. I haven't had enough experience with them yet to give them 5 stars- that is the only reason why I haven't. Will come back as I have more experience.
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September 2020 by Kayli Green
Highly recommend we got some of the meat balls and it was the best meat balls we have ever tasted and the people there where so nice Highly recommend
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September 2020 by Dan Carter
I like to get fresh eggs from here!
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September 2020 by Sandy Drelich
The chicken was out of this world and the eggs really were farm fresh!
