This meat changes everything.
Dinner gets easier. Your body feels better. Standards you can taste. Grass-fed & pasture-raised meat delivered from small East Coast farms.
Want to say goodbye to 'good enough' meat?
Start with our bundles for better weeknight and weekend meals.
Add butcher-crafted cuts
Regenerative farming
Rotational grazing, diverse cover crops, zero antibiotics. Farms working with biology, not against it, to build healthier soil, healthier animals, and better-tasting meat.
Measurable nutrition
Higher Omega-3s, more CLA, richer in Vitamin E. Independent lab testing confirms our meat outperforms both grass-fed and grain-fed grocery benchmarks.
Made for real life
No mystery boxes. No flash promos. Pick the exact cuts you want, order when you need them, and get 1-day delivery to your door. Quality meat without the hassle.
Walden exists for people who want to eat meat — but want to feel good about how it’s raised, how it tastes, and how it impacts our health.
The Walden Way
We audit, measure and enforce the standards, so you don't have to. Food you can trust — without the homework.
→ Every farm independently audited for animal welfare and soil health
→ No antibiotics, growth hormones, or animal byproducts, ever
→ 333% more every dollar goes directly to the farmer vs grocery store
→ Nutrition verified by independent lab testing
"Walden has radically changed my diet. I feel healthier, I actually eat less meat than I used to, and I'm ecstatic that I'm helping my local farmers.
The only downside: it's ruined factory-farmed meat forever so now I taste the difference!"
Cass M., Walden Member
Bestseller
Your $98 Pantry Reboot.
The Weeknight Starter Bundle is our most popular first order. 100% grass-fed ground beef, pasture-raised chicken breast, and house-made sausage — enough for 5+ dinners, delivered in 1 day.
Includes: 1 lb ground beef · 1.5 lb chicken breast · 1 lb Italian sausage · Free delivery
Healthier soil → Healthier grass → Healthier animals → Healthier, more delicious meat ♡
Frequently asked questions
Where do you deliver?
We currently deliver within 1 day ground delivery — all the way from Portland, Maine to Central New Jersey.
When will my delivery arrive?
For orders received Monday-Wednesday, we'll pack the order the next day and ship via 1-day ground shipping.
For orders received Thursday-Sunday, you'll receive the delivery on the following Monday.
How much does shipping cost?
One-day ground shipping is included in the price of our starter bundles. For orders with signature products, shipping is calculated based on your location and the items in your order. You will always know the shipping price before you purchase.
Where do you source your meat from?
Right here on the East Coast, from small-scale, independent farms in New England, New York, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and Virginia. These aren’t faceless industrial operations churning out meat by the ton. They’re family farms—real people working the land with care, raising animals the way nature intended.
The common thread? Regenerative practices. These farms prioritize healthy soil, open pastures, and ethical animal care. No crowded feedlots, no shortcuts, no cutting corners—just farming done right.
When you get a Walden delivery, you’re getting more than just incredible meat. You’re getting the pride of these farmers—their craft, their commitment, their way of life—delivered directly to your door. It’s a connection to the land, to your food, and to a better food system.
This is meat you can feel good about, every step of the way.
What makes your meat healthier? Is this just marketing?
It all starts with how our animals are raised. When you choose Walden meat, you’re getting food that’s not only rich in flavor but also packed with nutrients—and without the baggage of factory farming.
Take our 100% grass-fed and grass-finished beef as an example:
- More Omega-3s: Studies show that grass-fed beef contains significantly higher levels of heart-healthy Omega-3 fatty acids compared to grain-fed beef. These are the same “good fats” found in foods like salmon and walnuts. (Source: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35267281/)
- Higher in CLA (Conjugated Linoleic Acid): Grass-fed beef has up to five times more CLA, a healthy fat linked to reduced inflammation and improved immune function. (Source: https://www.stonebarnscenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Grassfed_Full_v2.pdf)
- More Vitamins: Grass-fed beef is naturally richer in Vitamin E and beta-carotene (a precursor to Vitamin A), both powerful antioxidants that help combat free radicals and support your immune system.
But it’s not just about the beef. Across the board, our meat is better for your health because it’s raised the way nature intended:
- No Animal Byproducts: Our animals are fed diets that are natural, clean, and wholesome—never animal byproducts. Industrial farms might cut corners by feeding animals ground-up waste from other animals, like blood and bone meal. Not here. Our livestock eat the way nature intended.
- No Antibiotics or Hormones: Industrial meat is often pumped full of antibiotics and growth hormones to make animals grow faster in stressful, unsanitary conditions. Not here. Our animals are pasture-raised and never treated with antibiotics or hormones, which means you’re not ingesting those, either.
And here’s the kicker: When animals are raised on grass, in open pastures, without shortcuts or chemical crutches, they’re healthier—and that health translates directly to you. With Walden, you’re not just feeding yourself or your family; you’re nourishing them with clean, nutrient-dense, responsibly raised food.
It’s better for the land, better for the animals, and better for you. That’s the Walden difference.
What makes Walden different from grocery store meat?
Let’s start with the elephant (or maybe the factory-farmed cow) in the room: grocery store meat comes from a system built to cut costs at the expense of farmers, animals, the environment—and frankly, you. Most of it is raised on massive factory farms, shipped across the country (or the globe), and processed in giant facilities. Big Food works hard to obscure where your food comes from because they know if you saw the truth, you’d put that shrink-wrapped package back on the shelf.
At Walden, we’re rewriting the story. Here’s how:
- A Better System for Farmers: At the grocery store, only $0.15 of every dollar you spend goes back to the farmer. With Walden, it’s $0.55 or more. That means your dollars are directly supporting small-scale, independent farmers who use regenerative practices and care for their animals and the land the right way.
- Exceptional Quality: Factory farming churns out bland, mass-produced meat raised on grains, antibiotics, and stress. Walden meat is pasture-raised, nutrient-dense, and packed with flavor you can actually taste. We even offer unique heirloom cuts you won’t find in any supermarket. Think pork jowls, bavette steaks, or lamb shanks—the kind of cuts chefs love but grocery stores skip.
- Transparency: Every cut in your Walden order is traceable to the local farm it came from. No mystery labels, no middlemen. Just food you can trust.
- Convenience: Skip the crowded aisles and freezer-section guesswork. Walden delivers straight to your door, so you get premium, pasture-raised meat without the hassle of grocery shopping.
Factory farms might own the supermarket shelves, but they don’t own us. The Walden Way is better for farmers, better for animals, better for the planet, and better for you. Because you deserve more than industrialized meat— you deserve meat with integrity.
Does Walden cost more? What am I paying for?
Walden costs more than commodity meat — and it should.
Cheap meat is only cheap because someone else pays the difference: the farmer, the land, the animal, or eventually your health. Industrial systems cut costs by confining animals, compressing timelines, and extracting from soil. That shows up somewhere.
We do things differently.
Our animals are raised on regenerative East Coast pasture, never in feedlots, never with antibiotics or growth shortcuts. We pay farmers fairly, enforce measurable standards, and test for nutritional performance. That produces meat with better flavor, stronger protein density, and a healthier fat profile than conventional grocery benchmarks.
You’re not paying for a brand story.
You’re paying for:
- Higher upstream standards
- Fair farmer economics
- Measurable nutrition
- And meat that actually performs on the plate
It’s a different system — and it produces a measurably different product.