Gifts and Giving

How the F.A.R.M. Cafe Giving Option Works

What happens when you send a Shipley Farms gift card to F.A.R.M. Cafe in Boone: how it reaches the kitchen, how many people it helps feed, what your receipt shows, and what we can and cannot tell you

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Shipley Farms

October 24, 2026 · 5 min read

Gifts and Giving

Beef Subscriptions as a Gift: What Arrives, and When

A subscription is the one gift that keeps introducing itself. It also asks more of the person receiving it than a single box does, so it is worth being honest about who it suits before you send one.

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Shipley Farms

October 3, 2026 · 3 min read

Gifts and Giving

Best Beef Gifts

The best beef gift is the one that gets eaten. That sounds obvious until you look at what most gifts do, which is sit somewhere waiting to be dealt with.

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Shipley Farms

October 3, 2026 · 4 min read

Gifts and Giving

Best Gifts for Meat Lovers

Buying for someone who knows food is harder than buying for someone who does not, because the obvious gifts are things they already have opinions about. The way through is not to spend more.

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Shipley Farms

October 3, 2026 · 4 min read

Gifts and Giving

Best Gifts for People Who Love to Grill

Everyone who grills has been given a spatula set.

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Shipley Farms

October 3, 2026 · 3 min read

Gifts and Giving

Best Meat Gift Boxes

A meat gift box is a good gift and an easy one to oversize. The two things that decide whether it lands are what is in it and whether the person has anywhere to put it.

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Shipley Farms

October 3, 2026 · 4 min read

Gifts and Giving

Best Steak Gift Boxes

A steak box is an easy gift to send and a surprisingly easy one to get wrong, because the instinct is to send the most expensive thing in the shop.

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Shipley Farms

October 3, 2026 · 4 min read

Gifts and Giving

Client, Customer and Partner Gifts From a Working Farm

A client gift is read, not just received. It says something about how your business operates, and a branded object from a catalogue says something specific and unflattering.

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Shipley Farms

October 3, 2026 · 4 min read

Gifts and Giving

Corporate Gifting Made Easy: Online, Email or Phone

Corporate gifting is rarely hard to decide and frequently hard to execute. The deciding takes ten minutes. The addresses, the cards, the timing and the chasing take the rest of December.

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Shipley Farms

October 3, 2026 · 4 min read

Gifts and Giving

Edible Gifts vs. Traditional Gifts

There is an assumption built into gift-giving that something lasting is worth more than something consumed.

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Shipley Farms

October 3, 2026 · 3 min read

Gifts and Giving

Employee and Team Gifts That Get Remembered

Employee gifts fail in two predictable ways: they are branded objects that end up in a drawer, or they arrive in the second week of December alongside four other parcels.

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Shipley Farms

October 3, 2026 · 4 min read

Gifts and Giving

Food Gifts People Will Actually Use

The hamper is the classic failure. It looks generous, it contains eleven things, and nine of them sit in a cupboard until somebody admits defeat.

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Shipley Farms

October 3, 2026 · 3 min read

Gifts and Giving

Gift Box vs. Gift Card: Which Should You Send?

People agonize over this one as though it were a question about how much you care. It is mostly a question about timing and about whether you have ever seen the inside of their freezer.

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Shipley Farms

October 3, 2026 · 4 min read

Gifts and Giving

Gifts for People Who Are Hard to Shop For

The person who is hard to buy for is usually not difficult at all.

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Shipley Farms

October 3, 2026 · 4 min read

Gifts and Giving

How to Choose a Steak Gift

Choosing a steak gift goes wrong in a predictable way: people sort by price and send the most expensive thing. A better sort is by who is cooking it and what they already know how to do.

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Shipley Farms

October 3, 2026 · 3 min read

Gifts and Giving

How to Send 25, 50 or 100 Gifts Without Placing 100 Orders

There is a version of this where somebody sits with a spreadsheet and a checkout page for an afternoon. There is another version where you send one list and answer one email.

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Shipley Farms

October 3, 2026 · 4 min read

Gifts and Giving

North Carolina Food Gifts

A food gift from North Carolina should taste of a place and be traceable to one. That rules out most of what gets sold as regional, and it leaves the things that come from a farm somebody can name.

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Shipley Farms

October 3, 2026 · 3 min read

Gifts and Giving

Prize and Incentive Ideas People Actually Want

Most incentive prizes are either too small to motivate anyone or too large to award more than once.

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Shipley Farms

October 3, 2026 · 4 min read