Shippingpolicy

Green Mountain Grown
delivering pasture raised
gourmet meats right to your door!

At Green Mountain Grown we are dedicated to customer satisfaction.
To be certain that your Green Mountain Grown Pasture Raised Gourmet Meats
arrive in excellent condition, all our meats are packed in reusable
EPS foam coolers, surrounded by a protective cardboard outer box.
The meats are packed with a combination of dry ice and gel packs.

All our meats are shipped through the US Post Office, via Priority Mail.
Orders are received in 2-3 business days.
We ship anywhere within the continental 48 states.
We do not offer shipping to Alaska or Hawaii,
or International shipments at this time.

Upon placing an order with Green Mountain Grown, you will receive an order confirmation
via e-mail, and an e-mail notice when your order ships. Due to the highly perishable
nature of our products it is imperative that someone is able to receive the order
and place it immediately in the freezer or refrigerator. We can not offer any
guarantee on meats that were left out on the door step in the hot sun. If you are
unable to be at home to receive the order, you may want to consider having your order
shipped to a friend or neighbor's home, or possibly to your place of employment.
Please consider our shipping dates, and plan accordingly when placing an order:

Two Day Air Orders

Your meats should arrive in tip top shape and may be placed in your freezer for a later
occasion or thawed in your refrigerator if you plan on enjoying them within a few days. If
your meats are no longer frozen upon arrival, but cool to the touch, it is safe to place them
in your freezer or refrigerator and enjoy them when you are ready. If your meats are
completely thawed and WARM to the touch, please contact us via e-mail at
grnmntgrn@yahoo.com within 48 hours of receiving your order.

Ordered On:
Wed-Thurs-Fri
Sat-Sun
Mon-Tues

Will Ship On:
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday

Will Arrive On:
Wed or Thurs
Thur or Fri
Fri or Sat

All Green Mountain Grown Pasture Raised Gourmet Meats are processed at a very small
facility in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont. Our meats are dry aged to perfection and
hand-cut. The sizes and weights vary as we do not use industrial portion control methods
for our packaging. The MINIMUM weights you will receive are listed next to each item on
the order pages, however you will more than likely receive more than the minimum.

Please browse our pages for details on our farm & store, ordering & shipping,
along with links to information and books on pasture-raised/grass-fed meats
(including information on the benefits to your health and our environment).

To Ship or Not to Ship?
This question was always a question for us...until recently.
Ideally we'd love to see everyone raising most of their own food, yet that doesn't seem
very practical. Next best would be: we'd like to see everyone buying their food 100%
locally. The problem with that is it means individuals getting into their cars and driving
out to area farms or farmer's markets to buy their food, which is most likely further
away than the local supermarket. It seems a bit hypocritical to us to advocate several
individuals driving distances to farms/farmer's markets to buy food, as opposed to
having (locally grown) food trucked in to a closer central location, or shipped to your door
by one carrier delivering several packages in the same area. We are fortunate enough
where we live that most of our food resources (what we don't grow for ourselves) fall
within our normal paths of travel, so we aren't making special trips to secure delicious and
nutritious foods for our family...unfortunately that isn't necessarily the case for many
people who would like to purchase locally grown, natural foods. FedEx, UPS and DHL
drive past our farm everyday, and sometimes more often than once or twice a day. It
makes more sense to us to ship out our gourmet pasture raised meats, with a company
that drives past our farm daily (delivering and picking up many packages), than to expect
many people to drive great distances to our farm to pick them up. Also, recently we came
across this interview (click the link below) which discusses the CO2 produced by feed lot
(grain fed) beef in comparison to the CO2 produced by grass fed beef. Did you know
more CO2 is produced by a grain fed beef steer raised, processed and marketed locally
than by a grass fed beef steer rasied, processed then shipped quite a distance? We
found this information to be very interesting, and pertinent in making the decision to
ship our gourmet pasture raised meats. Click on the link below for more details.

Math on the Range
Living on Earth
(When you arrive at this page, scroll
down and click on "Math on the Range")