For us here at Fingerprint Farms we raise all our beef out on pasture.  It means that they are always on pasture, even while we finish them.  Therefore, their primary diet is the forage (grass) they find on pasture.  Our pasture management program attempts to graze 1/3 to 1/2 of our farm during the growing season (the balance achieved is primarily driven by rainfall), and then allow the balance of the farm to produce forage for a full growing season.  During the non-growing season, we then graze the standing forage.  However, during the winter or in times of extreme drought, we will feed “hay” that we source from local producers when necessary (we do not cut hay on our farm) and supplement their diet with protein as needed.  

We are working to improve the genetics of our cattle herd and on improving our forage, so that we can be 100% grassfed.  However, we currently supplement the cattle we intend to process with NON-GMO grain blends to get them properly finished. 

For us here at Fingerprint Farms, we raise all of our meat birds and laying hens out on pasture. This means that as soon as they are capable of leaving the brooder and thriving on pasture, the birds are put out to pasture.  While on pasture, the birds consume copious amounts of grass, and also eat many insects that they find in the pastures.  The chickens are exclusively supplemented with a Non-GMO grain blend to balance out their diet. 

1.       While there really is not a precise definition of regenerative agriculture, we believe it requires the practitioner to view farm operations (and life really) holistically (i.e. we view the farm like an amazingly interconnected web that transmits information to all its parts from the slightest touch of a single strand).  So, we try to assess how each decision we make on the farm, in our store, with our marketing and sales activities, etc., etc. impacts the other parts of the web we live in. 

Most importantly, we believe that energy derived from the sun drives the entire system, it powers the growth of the plants; the plants feed the animals and insects, and produces energy that supports soil life; the animals tend the plants, provide disturbance to the soil, and deliver nutrients and living microbes in their manure required for life in the soil to flourish; this system then drives the health of  the insects, wildlife, bacteria, fungi, etc. on the farm, thereby enhancing the overall ecosystem. 

When this system is fully functioning, we believe it allows us to produce healthy food in alignment with God’s Creation.  In essence, we see each strand of the extravagantly elaborate web as a fingerprint left by God in this wonderful world we live in, and we strive to understand how we can manage the system in alignment with God’s plan for that creation. 

2.       While we humans have very limited knowledge about how this web of life truly functions, we follow in the footsteps of generations of other people who through scientific testing, direct observation, and actual practice have discovered clues (fingerprints) that help us manage our lives and steward the gifts we have been given in a way that will rebuild life in the soil, so that it can support life above the soil. 

To do this, we move our livestock frequently to graze the plants like they were grazed by free roaming herds and flocks before humanity intervened. This practice enhances the regrowth and diversification of the pastures allowing us to produce even more from the system, without chemical or mechanical interventions that destroy life on the farm (i.e. the insects, plant species, animal species, and microbial life that each form a strand of the web).  

Regenerative management also means that we refrain from applying fertilizers, pesticides, fungicides, or herbicides that negatively impact soil life on our pastures. And thus far, we have never tilled or plowed or burned any of our pastures. While tilling, plowing, or burning may be required on occasion, these practices negatively impact the life in the soil, and we have yet to have a need to use these practices. 

By constantly grazing the animals and birds on fresh pastures, we can also avoid using prophylactic doses of antibiotics or wormers in our animals.  Of course, we treat sick animals.  However, we then cull the treated animals to build a genetically stronger animal that is not predisposed to disease (we have to be the predator in the system taking out the weak animals). 

In short, we strive to promote and rebuild healthy, living soil; raise healthy strong plants and animals; improve water cycling and retention in the soil; and encourage and promote diversity in the wildlife, plant, and insects and microbes in, on and above our farmlands.     

1.       We believe this phrase is a good way to describe an important distinction between how our products are produced in comparison to the products produced in an industrial animal production model.  While I have not met one, I am sure there may be some tiny number of farmers or ranchers who manage the animals on their farm or ranch in a manner that could be found to be inhumane.   However, the vast majority of farmers and ranchers work hard long hours caring for their animals.  They do this despite the fact that our modern society looks down upon or even vilifies the work they do, while the rewards of their labor are drained away from them them by feed lots, processors and large retailers.  To carry on, they must love what they do, and by extension, the animals they raise. 

2.       At Fingerprint Farms, we certainly love and respect the lives that support our life, health and livelihoods. And, we believe that the majority of the animals raised on farms and ranches live very good lives, being fed, tended, and treated so that they can be sold by the farmer.  A weak, starved, mistreated animal will not bring top dollar on the market.  Often times, it is when an animal leaves the farm or ranch that things get dicey.  Animals sold at sale barns or by contract typically end up in a confined, industrial feeding system designed to force growth and maturity on them as quickly as possible and at the lowest possible cost.  However, in the case of birds, the conventional management system means they live the entirety of their lives inside such systems.  We believe this is inhumane treatment of the animals. 

3.       On our farm, we raise the animals to maturity on pasture.  Essentially, the animals that will be processed by us spend the entirety of their lives on clean chemical free pastures being moved, fed, and watched over by us until the time they are processed; and our breeding stock get this treatment for the entirety of their productive lives.  Our chickens go out on pasture as soon as they are able to survive there and are kept there until they are sent for processing.  We believe this is a much more humane way to raise and care for the animals that provide us with food necessary for our survival and critically, to the maintenance of the ecosystem we live in. Without animals on our lands, the system will collapse just as surely as it will from the plowing, tilling, and chemical interventions used in conventional farm management systems.  Our job is to steward the land to support and enhance the lives of the plants, animals, microbes and people living in and on it.

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1. We make deliveries from our farm store directly to you, or to our shipper’s distribution centers in Fort Worth and Dallas on Mondays and Thursdays.

2. Unless otherwise designated by You, we ship purchases made on a Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday on the immediately following Thursday, and purchases made on Thursday, Friday, Saturday or Sunday on the immediately following Monday (the “Designated Shipping Date”).  You may designate shipments for a Monday or Thursday after the Designated Shipping Date at the time of purchase.

 3. Products will be delivered to you either: within 24 hours of leaving our farm store when we deliver the product directly to you; or within 24 hours after being delivered to our shipper’s distribution center, on a Tuesday or Friday.

4. It is important that you provide us with an accurate Shipping Address, where the product can be delivered or left at without requiring a signature.

5. A shipping notification email will be sent to you either: at the time we leave the farm store to deliver your product directly to you; or at the time we drop your product off for shipping at our shipper’s distribution center (the “Shipping Email”).  If your product is being shipped to you using our shipper, the Shipping Email will include a tracking number to allow you to track the delivery of your product.  

6. Completion of Delivery:  1. If we deliver your product directly to you, or use our shipper to ship the product to you, and you or your agent accepts delivery of your product, the delivery is complete. 2. If we deliver your product directly to you and drop it off at the Shipping Address, a delivery email will be sent to you stating the time the drop off occurred (the “Delivery Email”). If you receive a Delivery Email from us, delivery is complete when we drop the product off and the Delivery Email is sent to you.  In this case, you must pick up your product within 24 hours of receiving the Delivery Email from us.  3. Or if we used our shipper to ship your Product to you, delivery is complete when the product is dropped off by the shipper.  In this case, you must pick up your product within 24 hours from the time you received the Shipping Email from us. .

1.       If you do not designate a preferred shipping date when placing your order, products purchased on a Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday will be shipped on the immediately following Thursday; and products purchased on a Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday will be shipped on the immediately following Monday (the “Designated Shipping Day”).  If a Designated Shipping Day falls on a Monday that is a holiday, products normally scheduled for shipment on that day will ship on the Tuesday immediately following the Designated Shipping Day.  If a Designated Shipping Day falls on a Thursday that is a holiday, products normally scheduled for shipment on that day will ship on the Monday immediately following the Designated Shipping Day.

1.       We strive to take a holistic approach to the way we regeneratively manage our farm, which encompasses the overall ecosystem surrounding our farm.  Restricting our delivery area reduces both the amount of packing required to sell our products direct to consumers, and the resources necessary to deliver that product to the consumers.  This allows us to limit our impact on the ecosystem surrounding our farm in comparison to participating in the modern centralized industrial cattle feeding, processing, and distribution system.

1.       Our products are packaged in a cardboard box, with insulated liners and cool packs designed to maintain the freshness of the Perishable Products for at least 24 hours. 

1.       If your products have partially thawed or if the temperature of the product is less than 45 degrees Fahrenheit when you pick it up, it may be safely re-frozen.

2.         If your product is delivered to you or picked up by you within 24 hours from the time the Shipping Email is sent to you, and the temperature of the product is over 45 degrees Fahrenheit, you should immediately take a photo of the digital thermometer showing the temperature of the product at the time the temperature is being taken, and email the photograph to the company at shop@fingerprint-farms.com to document the time the package was delivered or picked up by you and its temperature. When you take these steps, you preserve the refund rights provided in the Terms of Service.  (Click to review the Terms of Service)

1.       Due to the perishable nature of the products, returns may not be accepted by the company. 

2.       The Terms of Service provide the remedies available to you if you are unsatisfied with the product or it is damaged in shipping.  (Click to review the Terms of Service)

1.       The company does not ship outside of the designated geographic service area.

1.       Frozen beef or chicken can be maintained in a high, quality state for up to 12 months.

2.       These products will remain safe so long as they are stored at a temperature that is constantly held below zero degrees Fahrenheit, but the quality may degrade over longer storage times.

 3.       Our products are vacuum packaged to keep air from getting in, which provides additional protection from degradation and freezer burn. However, if portions of the product are found to have freezer burn on them, the properly stored product remains safe to eat, but it will have diminished taste and texture.  We suggest trimming freezer burned portions of the products off before preparation.