A Fresh Take on Shipping

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May 8, 2023

Sometimes you spring-clean your kitchen (that's Laura's, above).

And sometimes, you spring-clean your shipping policies! Lol

We've been looking for ways to simplify our on-farm shipping operations AND improve your experience as a shipping customer.

Here's what we came up with...and why we're making each change.

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Update #1
2-Day Shipping is switching to a 4-week schedule (just like our drop sites)

Order deadlines for 2-Day Shipping:
Sun, May 14th
Sun, Jun 11th
Sun, Jul 9th
Sun, Aug 6th
Sun, Sep 3rd
Sun, Oct 1st
Sun, Oct 29th
Sun, Nov 26th
Sun, Dec 24th
-2-Day Orders will ship on Wednesdays & arrive on Fridays-

Why?

1. 2-Day shipments need dry ice while traveling - especially during warmer months. (And for some of you, it's always "warmer months"!) Our dry ice supplier is an hour's drive from the farm, but it luckily lines up with a delivery route that we travel every four weeks. Picking it up at that time, and doing all of our 2-Day shipments on that one day, makes a lot of sense for our busy farm schedule.

2. Something else for you to know, which our monthly drop site friends have known for years, is that buying an entire category of your grocery list only one time per month is wonderful. (Not to mention knowing upfront that every item you bought is ethical, safe, and of the absolute highest quality, vs. whatever was left on the grocery shelf.) If you've never tried buying pastured meats on a 4-week schedule...consider it!

1-Day Shipping Friends: Your orders do not require dry ice and will continue to be available weekly with ice packs. But we really encourage you to try the 4-week schedule! All email shipping reminders will now line up with the new schedule listed above, so it'll be easy if you want to join in with the new routine.

Update #2
Shipping customers who choose to Subscribe & Save 5% on every order have the option to set their subscription frequency to 4 weeks OR 8 weeks to meet their family's needs.

Why Subscribe & Save?

Subscribe & Save helps make our monthly schedule & expected monthly income more predictable, it's free, and you can save 5%! You can edit or skip orders as often as you like until every order deadline, and we'll remember when it's time for your next shipment and notify you in plenty of time for you to make changes or decide to skip it.

Another point to consider: to help you combine Subscribe & Save with free shipping, we offer shipping friends the option to time your deliveries for every 8 weeks if desired.

Simply figure out how long it takes your family to gobble up the amount of high-quality pastured meats it takes to hit your new (reduced!) Free Shipping minimum (see below), and adjust your Subscribe & Save schedule accordingly.

Update #3
We've simplified (and reduced!) our Free Shipping minimums!

Virginia + all Eastern orders
SHIP FREE $150+
2-Day Express Central + West orders
SHIP FREE $200+

Why?

This one's simple: free shipping makes it easier for us to help you access ethical, high-quality meats and farm products when you don't live near a farm or a drop site.

Our hope is that combining these 3 updates will:

a) simplify the way you shop,
b) elevate the quality of your protein
c) make clean, wholesome eating a habit,
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d) make it practical, affordable, and deliciously routine to integrate our farm's high-quality products into your family's nutrient-dense life.

Let us know what you think!

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Family Friendly Weeknight Bolognese

If you're like me, family dinners are important. It feels like there are a million different responsibilities these days, and it's easy to get so busy that there doesn't seem to be time to sit down as a family and enjoy a filling, nutritious meal - much less cook one! The more I learn about the food industry, the more committed I become to making my family's food from scratch as much as possible. So then the challenge becomes finding recipes that fit my criteria... For a meal to be a winner in my book, here's what it needs to be: easy to make with very few separate stepseasy flexibility for dietary needs of individual family memberscustomizable for personal tasteeasy to swap ingredients to a) make it seem like a different dish sometimes and b) use what I have on handbe overall inexpensive (since I have a growing family of 6)have no "weird" ingredients or crazy spices. (In other words, it has to be "kid approved") Now. A quick browse on Pinterest might yield hundreds of recipes that mostly match those criteria, but as soon as I click the mouth-watering picture and actually read the recipe, my stomach churns at all the pre-packaged, ingredient-laden, seed-oil-filled "conveniences" that cook used. 😞 My meals also must be nutritionally dense and use no mystery ingredients or seed oils. Since I created this family-friendly weeknight Bolognese recipe that actually meets all of these requirements, I thought I'd share, because you may be "in the same boat" searching for recipes like this for your family, too. Hannah's Family Friendly Weeknight Bolognese Ingredients: 16 oz dry pasta (For extra kid-friendliness, I usually choose penne or rotini) 1 pound ground beef 1 pound ground pork sausage (My go-to is breakfast sausage, but you can use any flavor. It does need to be pork sausage because of the fat content.) 2 whole carrots (diced) 1 small onion (diced) 1 1/2 tsp salt (I only use REAL salt) 1/2 tsp ground black pepper 1 tsp EACH dried basil, dried oregano, dried parsley (substitute with 1 Tablespoon of fresh herbs when able. 😊) 4-8 garlic cloves (diced) - depending on size and preference 16-32 oz pasta sauce or tomato sauce - based on preference (I use my home-canned tomato sauce, but any will do) 1/2 cup whole milk or heavy cream (again, depending on preference) Steps: Cook pasta according to package instructions for al dente and set aside. Cook and crumble meats together in a large saucepanIn the meat pan, add vegetables and spices/herbs and cook until tenderAdd tomato sauce and simmer for 10-15 minutes to infuse flavorsStir in milk (or cream) and cook until warmStir sauce into cooked pasta and serve immediately with parmesan Recommended sides: Green salad or caprese (tomatoes, mozzarella, basil, balsamic vinegar, olive oil, salt and pepper) Sauteed kale or Swiss chard Roasted green beans, squash & zucchini, or asparagus Garlic toast Let me know if you try this dish, what you changed, and how you liked it! There are endless substitutions and changes that make this meal so so easy to keep in the back of your mind and just use whatever you have on hand. And its so easy that even kids can help with prep (which I love to have my kiddos do).

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