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Help Us Protect the Healthiest, Most Ethical, and Tastiest Meat Available!
  • Jan 1, 2018
Help Us Protect the Healthiest, Most Ethical, and Tastiest Meat Available!

With success comes challenges: Right now there is a movement in the commercial food industry to change the definition of the word “heritage,” and attempt to lay claim to the very thing that has defined us and sustained our farmers since we began selling heritage breeds in 2001.

Jive Talkin’ Turkey , Part II
  • Nov 9, 2017
Jive Talkin’ Turkey , Part II

We were having so much fun talking about “turkeys of the 1970s” – a time when real Heritage turkeys were having a tough time fighting against the influx of industrial farming and a trend towards growing everything cheaper and faster, no matter what the ultimate cost — that we thought we’d go back and look at some of favorite TELEVISION TURKEYS of the 1970s!

Larry Sorrell, Red Wattle Pig Farmer
  • Oct 18, 2017
Larry Sorrell, Red Wattle Pig Farmer

When you see Red Wattle pork on a menu, what you are seeing is a five-state, fifteen farm network dedicated to raising a storied breed that was once upon a time nearly extinct. Larry Sorrell is one of the heroes of this story, an avatar of the heritage food movement, a salt of the earth […] The post Larry Sorrell, Red Wattle Pig Farmer appeared first on HERITAGE FOODS USA.

Heritage Turkey Premiere: An Interview with Frank Reese
  • Aug 21, 2017
Heritage Turkey Premiere: An Interview with Frank Reese

  “I have baby turkeys everywhere!” It’s that time of year, summer in Kansas, and the heat is rising. “Turkeys have to be hatched before June to be ready for Thanksgiving,” says Frank Reese. “But these birds do real well in the heat – they aren’t morbidly obese, so they can handle it. And unlike […] The post Heritage Turkey Premiere: An Interview with Frank Reese appeared first on HERITAGE FOODS USA.

Heritage Foods Anniversary Lunch at Lupa
  • Jun 17, 2015
Heritage Foods Anniversary Lunch at Lupa

To celebrate our anniversary, Lupa Osteria Romana is host a four-course family-style meat tasting highlighting twelve different heritage breeds. Guests will be seated throughout Lupa’s main dining room. The meat will be prepared simply with sea salt, black pepper and extra virgin olive oil. No brines, no rubs— the objective is for the meat to be as unadulterated as possible, so that diners can taste the difference between the breeds and the livestock.