Your local butcher alternative: Blue Cedar Beef
Do you have a favorite local butcher?
It feels like our parents and grandparents were lucky to have a classic, local butcher shop experience. Taking the time to stop in and chat with the guy behind the counter. Asking what was fresh or what was on special for the week. Knowing your local butcher was a valued relationship in your community.
The local butcher was someone you could trust to get a nice roast, or a steak cut just the way you wanted. Feeling confident that your meat was fresh and sourced from someplace you could feel proud supporting.
Things have certainly changed in our modern era. Independent butcher shops are harder to find, but consumers finding the time to stop in is even harder! Your local butchers are often found inside larger supermarkets and grocery stores.
An Alternative to Your Local Butcher Shop
We believe our beef shipping business here at Blue Cedar Beef is not a replacement for a relationship with your local butcher, but can be a viable alternative for busy families.
Here are a few reasons why:
A trusted relationship. You can’t stop in and peek in our meat case, but you can reach out to Elaine at any time to ask questions about our beef and our cuts of meat. You can share your preferences with us. We actually love answering questions! It is one of the reasons we started this business.
Supreme Knowledge of the Product. You want to know exactly what you are getting and that is why many of our customers shop with us. We can tell you everything about our Angus cattle, their genetics, how they have been fed and treated, and the entire processing and butchering process. Our cattle have only 4 stops: our farm, the processor, back to the freezers on our farm, and your front porch.
The Taste. It doesn’t matter how personable your local butcher is, if the meat wasn’t delicious you wouldn’t keep shopping there. People love their butcher because they get high quality meat with great taste. Taste is one of the things you will notice is mentioned over and over again in our reviews. You simply can’t beat it and you can’t get it at the supermarket.
Supporting Local and Small Businesses. Most of our customers prioritize supporting local and small businesses and we love that! We do the same as often as possible. When you shop with Blue Cedar Beef, you are supporting a small, family farm and a local processing plant. No big names around here.
Convenience. If you have your own local butcher that sources meat from local farms, and you love it, we are not trying to pull you away from that. We love hearing it! But there are a lot of people out there that don’t have access to that product and that is where Blue Cedar Beef shines. We ship each and every Tuesday. Our online ordering is easy to understand and flexible to meet your needs. You simply get home and unpack your delivery right into your freezer. It is such a time saver and works on your schedule!
How to Shop Blue Cedar Beef
If you’ve never shopped for beef like this before, we invite you to take a look at our website and take a look around. We generally advise thinking about it in 3 different sections: Ground Beef, Roasts, and Steaks. Of course, there are other cuts of meat but most of our products fall in those three categories and those happen to be the most family friendly for recipe planning, also.
Something else to consider, if ordering beef is something you’d like to add to your household routines - We have a Subscribe and Save option. You can build your own custom order and save 10%. You get to choose how often it is delivered to your home and you are not tied down to a commitment. You can easily cancel, skip a month, or even edit your order from month to month. But, you can just “set it and forget it” if that works for your lifestyle.
We also have our Monthly Beef Share which is our most economical way to put high quality beef in your freezer. You get to pick a Medium Share (15 lbs) or a Large Share (30 lbs) and how often you’d like it delivered. Then, Each month you'll receive a variety of cuts including steaks, roasts, and ground beef in every box. Cuts will vary month to month based on seasonality and ensuring you get to enjoy every cut of beef! AND we welcome preferences! Do you prefer New York Strip steaks over T-Bone Steaks? Let us know and we will do our very best to meet your requests.
We both grew up in rural communities and we know that those brick and mortar places in town are the backbone of the community, so if you have a local butcher that you love…keep supporting them! But, if you don’t have that relationship, ordering from Blue Cedar Beef is a fantastic butcher shop alternative. We’d love the chance to win you over.
A few ways to get to know us better:
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Read more about our farm in the Shenandoah Valley: The Farm
Meet the couple raising your delicious black angus beef: The Family
