Doug Metzger was truly at the ground zero of our business and the heritage food movement. He was the magic man that first introduced us to our processor Paradise Locker Meats, with whom we have worked and grown with ever since, and he worked together with Frank Reese raising heritage turkeys.
Our Heritage breed chickens are unlike what you may very well be used to: they taste different from supermarket chickens, they look different, and even need to be cooked differently (low and slow) to bring out their wonderfully intense, natural chicken flavor. The keel bone stands out as an example of how a Heritage chicken stands apart from its supermarket counterparts. Prominently extending from the sternum, the keel bone offers a sturdy point for the wing muscles to attach to. But this bone is much more pronounced on Heritage birds
Good Shepherd Conservancy President Frank Reese and Jed Greenberg will be leading a virtual workshop at the REGENERATE Conference on Monday, October 25th from 11:00 am - 12:30 pm. The workshop will teach participants about how modern industrial poultry hybrids were created, the dramatic impact they have on today’s poultry industry, and introduce Standardbred heritage poultry production as an alternative to that system.
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