Butcher Box, Richmond

Gone are the days when home cooks would stop by the neighborhood butcher shop to pick up meat for the week's meals. Now, home cooks resort to buying meat from the grocery store, where it's hard to discern its origins. ButcherBox seeks to break modern-society's reliance on store-bought proteins with questionable histories by delivering 100% grass-fed beef, free-range organic chicken, and heritage-breed pork directly to doors. Not only that, your first ButcherBox will arrive with the BB Kitchen Handbook, featuring recipes, cooking advice, and more interesting information on meat than you ever thought you’d need.

All of the farms humanely raise their animals—cows roam on grassy pastures, for instance, and each chicken gets a turn to watch their favorite cartoon. And they are free from antibiotics and hormones.

As a monthly ButcherBox member, you get you get 9-14 pounds of meat (depending upon the type of box and cuts you choose) delivered directly to your door​​; the price works out to less than $6.00 a meal.​ As a member, you can customize your box with add-ons such as bacon and ribeye steaks. You can also elect to get a box monthly or every 2 months​ (if you don't eat a lot of meat). ​