All-Inclusive Membership Package

Our ordering system is designed as an all-inclusive membership package! Our desire here at Vintage Meadows is to provide you with not only premium products, but excellent service as well.  Part of that service is making sure our user-friendly, online store provides you with a stress-free experience. Click on the expanders to read more about what’s included in the membership.

Vintage Meadows Membership Agreement

​Welcome to VINTAGE MEADOWS! 

Vintage Meadows is a privately owned and operated buying club and is an great way to grocery shop for your family!  Here you have the unique opportunity to purchase food directly from us - your farmer! Take a moment and get to know us - feel free to explore our website at www.vintagemeadows.farm!   

We greatly value connecting with our customers and believe in transparency with integrity.  Our buying club policy requires members to sign and date the following Membership and Share Agreement to ensure legal distribution/purchase of our exclusive farm-direct-to-consumer products.   

A $35 membership fee will automatically be charged when you sign up and will be renewable one year from the date of your initial membership sign up.

Your all-inclusive membership includes full access to browse and buy any of our amazing products - including our unpasteurized, unhomogenized dairy! We’re talking nutritious and delicious milk, cream, kefir, yogurt, butter, and more! Previously, these items were only available to those who paid extra, but now they're conveniently available to everyone.  In addition, you retain complete flexibility with how often you order.  You order when you want, what you want - no point system or quotas to meet.

PLEASE NOTE: According to the state of Indiana, raw dairy products are not safe for human consumption.

Pickup and Delivery Options

Vintage Meadows offers pick up of pre-orders to local customers at our farm every Saturday.  We also provide delivery to 20+ different pick up locations throughout the Chicagoland communities. Each location has its own delivery schedule alternating from every week, every two weeks, or once every four weeks.  To preview all of our pick up locations, scroll past our opening pages and click on the LOCATIONS tab.  Actual addresses are initially hidden for privacy and security purposes and will be listed on your emailed order confirmation. 

In addition, customers choosing delivery options in the Chicagoland areas receive free shipping & handling!

A $30.00 minimum is required for delivery orders.  No order minimum required on GOSHEN FARM PICK UP orders.

PAYMENT: Your credit card/bank account will be charged 1-2 days prior to delivery at which time payment must be received. Payment can be made with most major credit cards or by e-check*. Multiple failed/non-payments resulting in cancelling an order, may result in termination of your membership.  Don't miss out on important communication - please keep your account information current (cell#, email, payment methods). Our farm relies on prompt payment and unpaid orders will not be delivered.  Thanks for understanding!

*subject to fees if payment fails

Order Cancellation

In the event that you need to cancel an order, you can remove it at any time, up until the final order deadline. Or by emailing our office at info@vintagemeadows.farm by Sunday evening at the very latest.  After 11pm Sunday evening, your order is locked in and can no longer be canceled.  Our crew invests a lot of time throughout the week to prepare each order. Frozen meat weights are recorded; dairy products, fresh produce, and baked goods are pre-ordered as per individual custom order. And finally, everything is labeled and assembled prior to delivery day. 

PLEASE NOTE: Multiple requests to cancel AFTER Sunday evening, may result in temporary suspension or permanent termination of your membership. 

VINTAGE MEADOWS CLUB MEMBERSHIP AND SHARE AGREEMENT

I, the undersigned, on behalf of myself and spouse and immediate family (“Member”), hereby apply for a membership share (“Share”) in the Vintage Meadows cooperative, (the “Co-op”), and tender the sum of $35 for an annual Share in the Co-op.  Shares in the Co-op may be renewed yearly, and approval for a Share is subject to the Discretion of Ryan or Katrina Schrock (“Co-op Managers”), or his/her designee.

I hereby affirm that my intent in applying for a share in the Co-op is to obtain raw milk, raw dairy and other direct-from-the-farm products including but not limited to eggs, beef, poultry, lamb, pork and other products which are available through the Co-op’s participation in herd and flock leases and other farm product arrangements. My wish is to combine with others who share my interests, and in consideration of the promises and covenants of other members of the Co-op, I affirm that my application for a Share in the Co-op is not and shall not become, an effort, so as to undermine the common interests of other Co-op members as described above, by any participation in governmental monitoring, enforcement or other activities or otherwise.

If approved, this Share in the Co-op will entitle the undersigned to share in that certain “Female Bovine Herd-Lease and Boarding contract” as from time to time in effect between the Co-op and Forest Grove Dairy (the “Farms”), and other similar farm lease and other agreements into which the Co-op may, from time to time, enter with producers of raw milk, raw dairy, eggs and other farm products produced by other members of the Co-op.  Such agreements represent leases by the Co-op of the animals in question (dairy cattle for milk, laying chickens for eggs, beef cattle for beef, hogs for pork, etc) and require annual Initial Lease Payments by the Co-op and periodic Lease/Boarding Payments made in connection with delivery of farm products.  These payments are made partly from the proceeds of the annual Share fee described in the first paragraph of this Agreement, together with periodic Boarding Fees and other payments made for services under the various leases.  As such, all such payments for farm products do not represent sales, but are lease payments for Boarding and for delivery and other services rendered by the Co-op and the farmers under the respective leases and this Membership Share Agreement.  I agree that I will not sell any raw milk, or raw dairy, or any other product obtained under this Share Membership to any person.  I understand that from time to time, scarcity may occur due to weather or other circumstances concerning various direct-from-the-farm products, and by my signature below I hereby delegate to the Co-op Manager or his/her designee, the right and authority to manage the allocation of such products.

In consideration of the promises made by other Co-op Members, the undersigned hereby acknowledges that the personal choices made concerning food and nutrition may carry risks to both humans and animals, and considering such risks, the undersigned agrees not to bring any complaint, or testify against the farm, the Co-op or any other Co-op Member in any governmental trial, hearing or proceeding whatsoever.  The undersigned also agrees to indemnify the Farms, the Co-op or any other Co-op Member against any claim that arises out of or relates in any way to (1) any handling, processing, consumption, or use of any milk or dairy product made from the milk produced by the leased herd after it has been retrieved or otherwise obtained by the undersigned or any other farm product obtained through the Co-op and/or (2) the visit by any person that undersigned brings to or causes to visit the Farms or any premises where the leased herd is located.

For more information about unpasteurized dairy products, visit the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund (https://www.farmtoconsumer.org/).

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