Opening a butcher shop was a financial leap of faith. Committing to whole animal butchery as both a methodology and ideology means that we never just buy food in a case, mark it up a set percent, and put it on a shelf or in a cooler. But, we were committed to bringing the best tasting, healthiest, locally sourced food to our community in the most respectful and best way possible. As is often the case, the hard way was the right way. Your support of our shop (and by extension - local, sustainable agriculture) not only keeps our lights on, and those of our farmers, but it might also be helping to save the world.

The commodities world is a constant race to the bottom. Producers are driven to deliver fungible products as cheaply as possible, which results in ever shrinking profit margins. In the food industry, this has resulted in intensive farming methods which keep livestock in close quarters, often entirely indoors, and large swaths of monoculture crop fields, which often rely on CAFO manure to keep the soil from becoming barren.

If you're reading this, you're probably familiar with the negative effects of such practices for livestock, for us as consumers, and for the planet. But, as the rest of the world begins to adopt the industrial agriculture model, the damage and danger caused by these practices is escalating at an alarming rate.