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Why do cut sizes vary, and how will I be charged?
If you browse our store you will see that we give the price per pound for
each cut, as well as the average cost and weight of each cut. Each animal
varies slightly in weight, and therefore the cuts of meat vary slightly.
You are only charged for the amount of meat shipped. The amounts
usually vary within ounces of the average size. All prices given in our
online store are good faith estimates. Your order is individually weighed
and you are charged accordingly for product and shipping.
How will my order be shipped? How much will it cost?
Meat comes back to us fresh every week from the butcher. We hard chill
(freeze) it and ship it out to you in an insulated box, with dry ice. It arrives to
you hard chilled.
We ship out via UPS ground if you are in New England or within UPS' two day
delivery range which includes NY, PA, NJ, DE, MD, WV and VA.
In warm weather we may not be able to ship your order via ground to some
of these locations, and will need to ship overnight.
Orders to all other locations are shipped overnight via UPS.
Shipping is done each week on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. This is done so
that you can be assured of pre-weekend delivery. Orders placed Monday,
Tuesday or Wednesday morning will go out the same week. An order
placed after Wednesday morning will be shipped out the following week.
The cost of shipping includes all the packaging materials necessary to ensure
that your product arrives in the proper condition. The cost of the appropriate
UPS shipping method is then added to this to arrive at the total shipping
costs.
What do you mean by sustainable agriculture?
We utilize mountain pastures that would not be farmed and would grow up
to brush, or have to be mowed if we were not using them. We are sustaining
the majority of the land in our town. Unfortunately we are losing land every
year to new housing development. Half of the land we use is leased from
other landowners. This is an area that used to be small dairy farms, most of
which disappeared in the middle of the 1900's. The pastures we use have
never had pesticides applied to them. We use organic fertilizer and improve
the quality of the soil.
What does North Hollow Farm feed its cattle?
Our cattle have always been raised as vegetarians, never receiving any
animal parts or by-products. The cattle on the farm don't eat anything that's
not produced on the farm. Their diet is grass in the summer and stored
forages (hay and silage - 'chopped grass'), grown organically on the farm, in
the winter. This results in pasture fed beef which is high in beneficial Omega
3. This means their feed is not treated with any chemicals, genetically
modified organisms, growth hormones, steroids, or antibiotics.
Our calves spend the first 8 to 10 months with their mother. This natural
process provides the animal with antibodies from the mother's milk to ensure
animal wellness. When they are weaned, our cattle graze free range on
grass. This open environment makes it less likely that cattle will spread
bacteria or sickness to one another.
How are your animals slaughtered?
All of our beef is processed at a small USDA inspected plant in Vermont. The
plant we use has a maximum capacity of 8 cattle a day. What that means is
the inspector carefully watches each individual carcass.
We trailer our animals to the plant ourselves, in a trailer they are used to,
because they have spent their lives getting in and out of the trailer in the
summer to go to different pastures, so they arrive unstressed.
The slaughterhouse routinely tests for E. coli. We wait for the test results
before sending out the meat to our customers.
Our meat is naturally aged to enhance flavor and tenderness.
If you browse our store you will see that we give the price per pound for
each cut, as well as the average cost and weight of each cut. Each animal
varies slightly in weight, and therefore the cuts of meat vary slightly.
You are only charged for the amount of meat shipped. The amounts
usually vary within ounces of the average size. All prices given in our
online store are good faith estimates. Your order is individually weighed
and you are charged accordingly for product and shipping.
How will my order be shipped? How much will it cost?
Meat comes back to us fresh every week from the butcher. We hard chill
(freeze) it and ship it out to you in an insulated box, with dry ice. It arrives to
you hard chilled.
We ship out via UPS ground if you are in New England or within UPS' two day
delivery range which includes NY, PA, NJ, DE, MD, WV and VA.
In warm weather we may not be able to ship your order via ground to some
of these locations, and will need to ship overnight.
Orders to all other locations are shipped overnight via UPS.
Shipping is done each week on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. This is done so
that you can be assured of pre-weekend delivery. Orders placed Monday,
Tuesday or Wednesday morning will go out the same week. An order
placed after Wednesday morning will be shipped out the following week.
The cost of shipping includes all the packaging materials necessary to ensure
that your product arrives in the proper condition. The cost of the appropriate
UPS shipping method is then added to this to arrive at the total shipping
costs.
What do you mean by sustainable agriculture?
We utilize mountain pastures that would not be farmed and would grow up
to brush, or have to be mowed if we were not using them. We are sustaining
the majority of the land in our town. Unfortunately we are losing land every
year to new housing development. Half of the land we use is leased from
other landowners. This is an area that used to be small dairy farms, most of
which disappeared in the middle of the 1900's. The pastures we use have
never had pesticides applied to them. We use organic fertilizer and improve
the quality of the soil.
What does North Hollow Farm feed its cattle?
Our cattle have always been raised as vegetarians, never receiving any
animal parts or by-products. The cattle on the farm don't eat anything that's
not produced on the farm. Their diet is grass in the summer and stored
forages (hay and silage - 'chopped grass'), grown organically on the farm, in
the winter. This results in pasture fed beef which is high in beneficial Omega
3. This means their feed is not treated with any chemicals, genetically
modified organisms, growth hormones, steroids, or antibiotics.
Our calves spend the first 8 to 10 months with their mother. This natural
process provides the animal with antibodies from the mother's milk to ensure
animal wellness. When they are weaned, our cattle graze free range on
grass. This open environment makes it less likely that cattle will spread
bacteria or sickness to one another.
How are your animals slaughtered?
All of our beef is processed at a small USDA inspected plant in Vermont. The
plant we use has a maximum capacity of 8 cattle a day. What that means is
the inspector carefully watches each individual carcass.
We trailer our animals to the plant ourselves, in a trailer they are used to,
because they have spent their lives getting in and out of the trailer in the
summer to go to different pastures, so they arrive unstressed.
The slaughterhouse routinely tests for E. coli. We wait for the test results
before sending out the meat to our customers.
Our meat is naturally aged to enhance flavor and tenderness.
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