Lunchables and Microplastics
The Focus on Lead A recent study by Consumer Reports found elevated, though not illegal, levels of lead and cadmium in prepackaged lunch meals. Lunchables is the most famous version,...
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Our Values
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Convenient
We carefully pack your order in a recyclable insulated liner and ship it straight to your door. Dry ice ensures that everything arrives in perfect condition. Orders placed by Monday will arrive Wednesday, and shipping is free on orders over $200!
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Healthy
All our beef and lamb is 100% grass fed and grass finished. Poultry is pastured and certified organic. We believe in giving our livestock good pasture, clean water, and lots of sunshine. These practices produce meat that is both healthy and delicious.
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Local
We are a small, family farm located in the rolling hills of central New York. We are not an aggregator; we raise the beef, lamb and pork we sell, and our chicken comes from good friends on a single nearby farm. Farming should be personal, not anonymous.
Grass Fed Beef
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Beef How It's Meant To Be
We believe good grass, clean air, sunlight, and fresh water are the only things a cow needs to thrive.
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Cairncrest Farm
22 pounds Grass Finished, Grass Fed Ground Beef
22.0 lb
$205.70$240.90Unit price /UnavailableLow stock (9 units) -
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Cairncrest Farm
10 pounds grass fed ground beef (10 packs, 1 pounds each)
10.0 lb
$99.50$109.50Unit price /UnavailableLow stock (20 units) -
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News from the Farm
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Bringing Down The Industrial Food System
The story of food for the past hundred years has been one of industrialization. This is true of farming — we’ve gone from horses to 600 horsepower tractors — but...
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New York is Losing Small Farms
Between 2017 and 2022 New York lost 2788 farms, a more than 8% decline. It was concentrated in small farms; the number of operations with over 500 acres actually increased....
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Beef Rice: An Examination of a Very Silly Idea
By taking standard rice, coating it in a layer of fish gelatin and microbial transglutimase, immersing the grains in a nutrient bath seeded with beef muscle and fat cells, waiting...
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Thin-Sliced Beef with Scallion and Crunchy Chili Oil
Growing up outside of Philadelphia, I always associated thinly shaved beef with cheesesteaks. Perhaps I would have assented on some abstract level that it could be used for other dishes,...
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How to Think About Microplastics
I have a strong intuition that consuming thousands or hundreds of thousands or millions of microscopic beads of plastic, some unknown number of which doubtless become lodged within my body,...
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How to Identify Ultra-Processed Foods
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Why Eating a Healthy Diet is Incredibly Easy and Completely Impossible
When it comes to diet tidy answers are appealing. Carbs are the problem, or maybe it’s fat. Maybe The healthiest diet is to eat no meat at all, or to...
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