How Valor Provisions Works — From the Founder Himself

Step 1. You join the farm membership.  

$250 for life, or $99 a year if you'd rather start there. One-time fee for the lifetime option — that's not a typo and it's not a monthly anything. You pay it once and you're a member forever. We give every new lifetime member a free $100 sampler so you can taste what we carry before you spend another dollar. 

Step 2. You shop the marketplace whenever you want.  

Whenever, however much, however little. You browse, you fill your cart, you check out. Just like any other store. Members see member pricing on every cut. Free shipping on every order, forever. No minimum order. No required cadence. You can order today and not order again for six months. You can order weekly. It's your freezer, not mine. 

Step 3. We ship it frozen from Kansas City in 48 hours.  

Everything in our marketplace ships from our Kansas City facility, packed with dry ice, in under 48 hours. We ship to all 50 states. It arrives frozen, you stick it in the freezer, you cook it when you want. That's it. 

That's the model. Nothing else is happening behind the scenes. No subscription. No mystery box. No subscription that pretends to be a one-time purchase. The membership is the membership, and the marketplace is the marketplace, and the only thing connecting them is your decision to buy something. 

This is where it gets fun, because it's the part most people don't realize until they're in. 

The Valor Provisions marketplace is a curated set of independent American farms and ranches. Today we have beef, pork, bison and poultry. Names you can look up. Real people with real operations in real states. Here are a few of them: 

• KC Cattle Company (Missouri) — that's my ranch. Veteran-owned American Wagyu. We started Valor here. 

• Mac's Farms (Missouri) — pasture-raised pork and heritage breeds. 

• David's Pasture (Missouri) — regenerative pasture-raised chicken. 

• Plainview Beef Co. (Kansas) — regenerative, pasture-raised, and grass-fed beef. 

• Campo Lindo Farm (Missouri) — free range poultry 

• Hightail Ranch (Montana) – Grass fed & finished bison 

Across the farm partner network, we carry beef, pork, chicken, bison and a few other things depending on the season. Every farm is independent. Every farm is American. Every farm is named. You can look them up, you can read their stories, you can see what they do. 

You shop whichever ones you want. Your cart can have Wagyu from KC Cattle, chicken from Campo Lindo, chicken from David's Pasture, and bison from Hightail. Or it can have one ribeye. Whatever works for your kitchen. 

Does The Membership Actually Pay For Itself?

Yes. Here's the math, because I think it matters more than happy thoughts. 

Member pricing on a typical Valor order runs 15-60% below comparable retail. On premium cuts — Wagyu, prime ribeye, pasture-raised anything — the gap can be larger because the retail markup at specialty grocery stores is enormous. Free shipping saves another $22 per order depending on order size. The free $100 sampler we send every new lifetime member covers a good chunk of the membership cost on day one. 

If you order from us twice in your lifetime, the membership has paid for itself. After that, every order you place is pure savings vs. what you'd pay anywhere else for the same quality. 

THE MEMBERSHIP IN ONE LINE 

$250 once. Free $100 sampler. Better pricing on every order, for as long as you're alive. Pays for itself in roughly two orders. After that, you're saving. 

Things that will not happen when you become a member 

Because I know this is the part people worry about, let me say it explicitly. 

• You will not be auto-billed every month. The lifetime membership is one charge. The annual is one charge per year. Neither is a meat subscription. 

• You will not receive a surprise box. We never ship you something you didn't order. There is no monthly mystery cut. There is no "curated selection" arriving at your door without your say-so. 

• You will not be locked into a cadence. Order once and never again. Order every Tuesday. Order three times in March and not again until October. Doesn't matter to us. 

• You will not be charged anything you didn't agree to. Membership is a clear, one-time transaction. Every marketplace order is a clear, one-time transaction. Nothing else happens. 

• You will not be passed off to a call center. If you have a question, you email a real person at Valor. Sometimes that real person is me. 

If any of that ever changes, we'll tell you in advance and you'll have to opt in. We don't do silent upgrades, dark patterns, or terms-of-service revisions that change the deal on you. That's not how I want to run this company. 

Why We Built It This Way

Honest answer: because my own family wouldn't have signed up for the other model. I wouldn't. 

When my wife and I are buying food for our kids, we don't want a company deciding for us what shows up. We want to know what's in the freezer, where it came from, what it cost, and we want the ability to change our minds. Every other meat marketplace I looked at when I was building this took some version of that choice away from the customer. 

So Valor doesn't. The membership unlocks better pricing and direct access to the farms we work with. After that, you're in charge. 

If that sounds good to you. If it sounds like the deal a thoughtful person would actually want. That's the one we built.