The Barambah Bulletin - July

Welcome to the Barambah Bulletin. First up, a heart felt thanks for joining our community.  This monthly newsletter is designed to keep you, our loyal customers and subscribers, in touch with all things Barambah Creek Beef.  We’ll tune you in to what’s been happening at the hub of your local grass fed, grass finished beef suppliers. You can expect updates straight from the paddock, easy cooking recipes and tips from our resident “camp cook”, fact based health and nutritional information about our products and valued feedback from our loyal customers

For those of you who haven’t met us personally yet, we are Damien and Virginia, founders of Barambah Creek Beef, quality grass fed and grass finished beef, produced locally in our paddocks in the North Burnett and Gympie regions of South East Queensland.  We take pride in producing quality beef, raised on diverse pastures with absolutely no grain, hormone growth promotants or chemical use.  We are so proud to be ground-truthing our product, helping customers fulfil their journey of eating a clean, healthy diet assisting gut health and well being and feeling better.  It is so reassuring hearing this fantastic feedback, week to week from our loyal community.

Our business is a family affair, with the help of our 3 young adult children, pitching in when needed to give us a helping hand. Whether it’s getting up at 2 am Saturdays for the kawana farmers market, helping out with social media posts and marketing, or getting down and dirty in the paddock mustering, cattle checks or caring for our extended family of working dogs and pets while we are hard at it.  They are very much a part of what we do and our legacy, as we build our business to keep supplying you our beef well into the future.

Whats News

We are so proud of our team, including our contractors, turning up, working like “drovers’ dogs” to launch our online shop and prepare cattle.  Thanks guys! Barambah Creek Beef boxed beef, quarter and half bodies are now available door to door through our online shop across areas of South East Queensland. You can even order your own quality country truckers’ cap - guaranteed to fit most heads and super comfy.

As a lot of you guys know we spend every Saturday at Kawana Farmers Markets, connecting to our amazing customers, with regular updates on what is happening on both of our properties, hearing about what people have been up to when time allows between serving. We really value the meaningful conversations about general day to day life and social issues.  You will always find us up for a chat, passionate about listening to what you are looking for and your feedback when it comes to our fantastic grass fed grass finished beef cuts.

July has been a busy month, supplying cattle for slaughter, picking up product from our butchering and packing team, filling orders online and delivering boxes, quarter and half bodies to customers from the Gold Coast to Gympie.

We have had a great year for growing grass, seems it's not over yet, with winter yielding 85mm of rain to date, looking promising for a good start to spring.

As some of you guys may have seen on our socials, we are really honing in on making sure we keep our cattle in a “rising plain of nutrition” in these colder months. We have spent alot of time researching and sourcing a product that really “fits the shoe” for our “grass fed grass finished’’ program.  “Sea 90’’ is an animal salt supplement made up of pure unwashed salt, known as “BAJA GOLD”.  This salt features an incredible concentration of minerals and trace elements, consumed by people all around the world, harvested from an inland lagoon located in a remote and pristine estuary on the sea of Cortez in Baja, California.  This is one of the most biologically diverse and mineral-rich bodies of water on earth.

Sea 90 is an unprocessed product, made up of 90 natural minerals and trace elements, hence its name “Sea 90’’. Complemented with 1% “Organic Humate’’ for livestock, this balances the animal’s rumen (gut) from an acidic state to an alkaline state, resulting in impressive benefits in converting grass to beef and warding off parasites naturally. We are convinced Sea 90 will be a very beneficial choice in our cattle’s diet, assisting with optimum health, alongside a diverse range of native pastures, legumes, forbes and browses they can choose to forage from in our paddocks.

You can read more about these products here  Baja Gold Sea Salt and Sea 90 Mineral Salt

July has been jam packed with animal management, running all cows and calves through the yards for a health check, preparing for spring weaning.

We have been busy monitoring our grass supplies and making sure we have ample forage until our “Green Day’’. This is a date we mark in our management calendar of when we are likely to receive the first rains to kick off our growing season.

As most of you know, day to day work doesn’t stop on-farm, but being blessed with a great season behind us, and a great looking one ahead, we couldn’t be more grateful.

Highlights from our “Camp Cook” Damien

So I thought it would be cool to share some of the recipes I hear about from customers at the markets and the recipes that I hold upstairs in the old “Grey Matter Hard Drive’’. I’m sure by now those of you who have regular conversations with me gather that I Fancy myself as a pretty good cook.

This month I am going to bring to you a recipe that is more of a “hearty sandwich” that you would order on a trip to New York.  You will come across these beauties in one of the many delicatessens, I’ve only seen on the movies, where you ask for the one and only “Ruben Sandwich”

You will see what’s needed below for how I “wacked’ this old favourite together to create these “bad boys”  like a ”BOSS”.  Then watch the video below and save the link so you don’t “FORGETABOUTIT’’

The star of the show is Barambah Creek Beef’s Nitrate Free Corned Silverside, with its simple curing recipe of Sea Salt and Juniper berries, let me tell you it is the bomb and one of the most popular and recent addition to our product list.

What you will need before you watch the video! 

- Minimum 1.5kg Barambah Creek Beef nitrate free corned silverside

- 1 x 500 gram jar of sauerkraut 

- 1 pack of jarlsberg cheese

- Aioli 

- German mustard/whole seed mustard

- Artisan sour dough bread or rolls

- Dill pickle / sandwich pickle(cut long)

- Nice frosty glass of your favourite beer 

SPECIAL OFFER FOR AUGUST 2025 - Free 1kg pack of Premium Mince or Sausages with your 10kg boxed beef order AND swap out a roast for a nitrate free corned silverside

For the month of August we are giving away a 1kg pack of our premium mince or sausages with every 10kg box of beef. Plus if you want to try our nitrate free corned silverside, send us an email - info@barambahcreekbeef.com.au and we will swap out a regular roast, saving you $10 to $15 (please note - you need to notify us by email before you place your order online for us to process this request).  

Wishing you a great month in August

Horoo!
Damien and Virginia