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Chef Spotlight: Cesare Casella
  • May 18, 2022
Chef Spotlight: Cesare Casella

Farmer Spotlight: Doug Metzger
  • Feb 25, 2022
Farmer Spotlight: Doug Metzger

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.

Heed the Caul by Fatted Calf
  • Feb 23, 2022
Heed the Caul by Fatted Calf

What is that weird webby white stuff? Clinging to the outside of a pâté, draped like lace over little game birds at a Parisian market, wound around little balls of enticing sausage? It's intriguing, it's mysterious, it's caul fat.

Frank Reese’s Turkeys Are Getting Hot by Derek Hawkins
  • Feb 18, 2022
Frank Reese’s Turkeys Are Getting Hot by Derek Hawkins

The heat index at Reese’s Good Shepherd Poultry Ranch in Lindsborg, Kansas, is climbing toward 105 degrees, and the August sun is beating down on the yard where the birds spend their days.

Brand New Heritage Meatballs!
  • Feb 11, 2022
Brand New Heritage Meatballs!

Heritage Chicken and the Keel Bone
  • Oct 29, 2021
Heritage Chicken and the Keel Bone

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

Join Frank Reese at the REGENERATE Conference
  • Oct 22, 2021
Join Frank Reese at the REGENERATE Conference

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. 

Heritage Foods Holiday 21 Catalog
  • Oct 8, 2021
Heritage Foods Holiday Catalogue Fall 2021/Winter 2022

We are proud to announce the release of our annual Fall/Winter virtual catalog.  Take a look below and click through!