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Missouri farmer provides meat by subscription

A Missouri farmer is trying to make her mark in the meat box subscription business. Lucinda Cramsey coaxed a $400,000 investment on the television show Shark Tank to help expand the company she calls Moink. She tells Brownfield it’s a model that gets her in touch with end users.

“Maybe we could provide some stability in the marketplace for a farmer and maybe we could also then this high-quality product straight to the consumer,” Cramsey told Brownfield Ag News.

Cramsey, from La Belle, in the northeastern corner of Missouri, sources beef, pork, lamb and chicken from 130 farms in several states. The salmon is wild-caught in Alaska.

“This, to me, has been actually a very fun thing,” said Cramsey, “to be in at the ground floor, to take famers that are looking for a way to add some income to their farm and want to maybe learn to raise a different species than what they’re used to.”

For each subscription, boxes of assorted frozen meats are delivered from a Kansas City distribution point every three weeks to every couple of months.