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A Crucial Project for Food Security
  • May 17, 2021
A Crucial Project for Food Security

Our only poultry farmer and a founder of Heritage Foods, Frank Reese, is doing nothing less than preserving the last commercial flocks of non factory farm poultry in the USA – a sad statement for biodiversity and food security. We've created the Good Shepherd Conservancy — a 501(c)(3) non-profit — to ensure that this alternative survives and grows.

Good Shepherd Conservancy Launch
  • Apr 22, 2021
Good Shepherd Conservancy Launch

Introducing the Good Shepherd Conservancy, founded by the one and only Frank Reese, Jay Greenberg — an aspiring Standardbred poultry farmer, educator, and a notable humane butchery expert —and Patrick Martins — Heritage Foods founder. The Good Shepherd Conservancy is a non-profit organization dedicated to safeguarding and promoting biodiversity through the use of Standardbred poultry and historical purebred lines of livestock for agricultural use. Their goal is to re-shape the poultry industry, pushing it away from the sad, industrial nature of it as it stands today.

The Fate of American Poultry
  • Oct 20, 2020
The Fate of American Poultry

In the early 1800s millions of Bison roamed the plains of the United States. Less than 100 years later their numbers had been reduced to a mere 541 animals. While early conservation efforts helped raise this figure modestly, it was only when American farmers began raising Bison for their meat that their population grew into the hundreds of thousands. Much like the early Bison, the millions of healthy Standardbred chickens and turkeys which used to occupy the American landscape are now on the brink of extinction.

The Values Guiding Good Shepherd Poultry Ranch
  • Oct 9, 2020
The Values Guiding Good Shepherd Poultry Ranch

We applaud Good Shepherd Poultry Ranch’s Frank Reese Ranch for putting into words the values that inspire him to continue to preserve endangered poultry breeds poultry.  Here are the values that guide his practice.

Life on Good Shepherd Poultry Ranch
  • Sep 3, 2019
Life on Good Shepherd Poultry Ranch

Frank Reese, the ONLY Farmer Selling APA Turkeys Under USDA Certification
  • Oct 26, 2018
Frank Reese, the ONLY Farmer Selling APA Turkeys Under USDA Certification

Marian Burros and Frank Reese
  • Jul 19, 2018
Marian Burros and Frank Reese

The 2018 Poults are Hatching!
  • Apr 17, 2018
The 2018 Poults are Hatching!

Farmer Frank Reese is busy at Good Shepherd Poultry Ranch hatching the first poults of the 2018 heritage turkey season. See below for scenes from the farm!