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A few decades ago, small meat processing plants were not hard to find. They provided a valuable service: harvesting and butchering livestock for local farmers and freezing/ storing the meat year round. Most people did not have in-home freezers, especially not the giant chest freezers available today, so the plant took care of the storage. This arrangement gave small plants the nickname, “lockers”. Often, the freezer in such facilities would have drawers that rolled out, with a lock and key, like a bank deposit box. A customer could show up and snag some meat from their drawer, or locker, periodically...

Why Subscribe?  Home Place Pastures is a mission driven, fifth generation family farm in Como, MS. We use regenerative practices to produce 100% grass fed and finished beef and pasture raised pork. Our farm is a Certified Humane, No Antibiotics Ever program. Subscribing is the single most impactful way to support us and most cost effective and convenient way to get our award winning* products.  Why is this so important for us? We run a farm, a USDA processing facility, and a butcher shop/ restaurant on the Home Place. These enterprises support roughly 30 employees and a network of small...

We won 1st place in shoulder at Memphis in May. That sentence still feels crazy to say. You can read the tale of our first, very unsuccessful attempt in 2018 in a wonderful 2021 blog post written by HHP’s John Jordan Proctor, who is also the head cook of our BBQ team, Sweet Cheeks.   It’s a true Cinderella story from basically last place in 2018 to a 3rd place finish last year to take 1st this year. Normally self-deprecating to a fault, we do have to admit at this point that we know a thing or two about cooking pork....

Folks, Quick reminder that the public comment deadline for the voluntary Country of Origin labeling policy for inspected meat and egg products is June 10th! Below we’ve summarized the proposed rule change and written a suggested comment to post!  Comment by June 10th to help us change the current policy. As it stands now, the policy allows companies (ie multinational meat conglomerates with international supply chains) to import cheaper meat from other countries, minimally reprocess and repackage it in the USA (ie. grind trimmings, cut steaks from primals, etc), and label it as “Product of the USA”. The result is artificially...