One balmy June afternoon I had the pleasure of meeting Anna and Naftali Hanau. My goal was to learn more about pasture-raised beef as this is a fairly new concept to the kosher world. It was inspiring to hear Anna and Naftali share their story and give a tour of their backyard. We chatted over a BBQ feast they prepared, and the simple but truly mouthwatering food was an unexpected perk. We enjoyed Grow & Behold beef tartare (exceptional!), beef burgers, and marinated lamb chops with a salad of greens freshly picked that morning from the garden.
In the backyard of a Brooklyn brownstone, lies a chicken coop with an array of beautiful chickens, surrounded by a garden of herbs, greens and vegetables, and a true living-off-the-land experience: a compost (decayed organic material used as a plant fertilizer).
The owners of this backyard, Naftali and Anna Hanau truly practice what they preach. As the founders of Grow & Behold Foods, they believe in living a natural, sustainable lifestyle. When their dreams of owning a farm didn’t work with their Orthodox lifestyle, Naftali and Anna started Grow & Behold, a unique family-run business which provides high-quality OU-glatt kosher pasture-raised chicken, beef, sausages, beef bacon and lamb to kosher consumers throughout the United States.
Grow and Behold Grilled Lamb Chops with Rosemary Syrup
Grow & Behold started out in the summer of 2010 with just chickens and it took over a year to start beef production and another year to start lamb. There is tremendous thought and planning that goes into finding the right farms to raise the meat and they are focused on doing it right rather than doing it fast. Customers loved the healthier alternative and swear by the difference in quality and taste. The company quickly grew by word of mouth and in addition to retail consumers; Grow & Behold supplies products to many top kosher restaurants such as Pardes in Brooklyn, Citron and Rose in Philadelphia and the Amsterdam Burger Company on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
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Every part of the company has a unique story. The name Grow & Behold was chosen by the guests at the Hanau’s wedding, where they ran a contest to choose the name of what they thought would be their farm. Their famous chicken, titled Sara’s Spring Chicken was named by Naftali’s grandmother who upon eating the pasture-raised chicken immediately proclaimed, “This tastes like spring chicken…I haven’t had it since I was a child.” Sara’s comment defined their mission, and fans of Grow & Behold, like Naftali’s grandmother, taste the difference.
What is unique to Grow & Behold’s pastured meat and poultry? The animals are allowed to roam free, eat grass, critters and do what comes naturally to them. They eat mainly grass, are fed some grain as a supplement, and are given antibiotics only when they are sick.
Click here for Naftali and Anna’s recipes for Beef Tartar and Grilled Lamb Chops.
For more information and cooking tips visit www.growandbehold.com
those lamb chops!! i’m drooling!
What a great couple and great product!
love grow and beholds products and that baby is adorable!
They are doing such great work, thanks for featuring them in this article!
Nice article, and I love that baby’s onesie!
Love those chops!
Thanks David, my mistake. Not the author of the article and working too fast. Grow and Behold does not claim to be Grass Fed, but rather Pasture Raised as the article states, however I would not call it conventional. These animals are not confined to small spaces and are allowed to roam and live like cows should on the pasture, check out their website for more information http://www.growandbehold.com/index.php?page=Promise.
I would just like to point out that in your article you say: “They eat mainly grass, are fed some grain as a supplement, and are given antibiotics only when they are sick.”
This is not grass-fed meat, it’s basically conventionally raised meat. The term grass-fed is regulated by the USDA and by their definition, you can’t feed the animals *any* grain. A simple Google search would’ve told you this. I think it’s time for a rewrite. You’re supposed to do research before you write an article…