Our fully accredited abattoir (Lic: L00133) operates Monday to Friday alongside our team of butchers and packers. We slaughter, hang, bone, butcher, portion, vacuum pack, label and box your meat the way you want it done.
Situated on the banks of Lake Purrumbete in South West Victoria, Koallah Farm consists of 905 acres of some of the country’s most fertile agricultural land.
The Castle family has been dairy, lamb and beef farming for over 100 years and now operates the only fully integrated, on-farm paddock to plate meat operation in Victoria – complete with a fully accredited boutique abattoir.
We’ve always farmed sustainably at Koallah Farm – with minimalist intervention ensuring our animals roam freely and develop naturally with no added hormones, no antibiotics and no grain.
We also operate Simply Free Range – a retail business with a butcher shop in Mt Waverley and an online shop/home delivery service.
Research suggests a single grass fed beef steak contains 100 calories less than the same size steak from a grain fed animal. Grass fed meat is also between 3-7 times higher in "good fats" (omega 3s) which are important for your heart and brain.
FACTS FROM THE FARM
It takes us 12 weeks to grow a pasture-raised free range chicken to a Size18. Intensive factory farming producers achieve the same bird weight in less than 6 weeks!
FACTS FROM THE FARM
Have you ever wondering why lamb cutlets and lamb backstrap are the most expensive cuts? In one 43kg lamb (21kg carcass) there is just 1.12kg of cutlets/racks and a mere 510g of backstrap.
FACTS FROM THE FARM
In a 325kg beef carcass there is about 11kg of rump steak - that's more than the combined weight of eye fillet steak and scotch fillet steak from the same animal and why it is less than half the price.
FACTS FROM THE FARM
Compared to the muscle meat we are used to eating, organ meats are more densely packed with just about every nutrient, including heavy doses of B vitamins such as: B1, B2, B6, folic acid and the very important vitamin B12.
FACTS FROM THE FARM
Livestock account for just 10% of Australia's total emissions. Since 1981 emissions from beef productions in Australia have decreased by 14%.