It’s the monarch of meat, the benchmark of how perfect beef can be. Once the preserve of the Japanese aristocracy, the Wagyu beef that originated in the Kobe district of Japan’s Hyogo prefecture has travelled the globe in recent years. Now, the South African Wagyu industry is poised to flex.
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LA Farms
LA Farms is the only farm-to-table online butchery in South Africa, bringing you certified wagyu, grass-fed Angus beef and free-range lamb, reared on their farm on the West Coast. They are a family business with a focus on sustainability, quality and traceability brought to you from their farm to your table.
The story of the farm
In the late 1990s, the founder of LA Farms, AK Peer, acquired a piece of farmland on the Cape West Coast between St Helena Bay and Veldrif. This beautiful piece of land lies on the coast of nine bays with a very rich natural flora and fauna of fynbos and birdlife.