MEAT DEPARTMENT
The Good Earth Food Co-op’s Meat Department puts a lot of thought and care into every purchase to offer you the highest quality Local, Grass-fed, Pastured, Free-range, Organic, and Humanely Raised product choices at competitive prices that help support your healthy, ethical lifestyles. We are pleased to say all of our meat is free of antibiotics, hormones, nitrates, MSGs and preservatives, as well as being humanely raised or sustainably wild caught. This arrangement helps local farmers keep money in their communities, reduces our carbon footprint and provides our community with a much higher quality final product than what is available on the conventional market.
As a co-op, we are committed to a strong local economy, and are constantly seeking out products made or grown in Minnesota to make available to you; especially the meat department. It is important for us to have integrity you can trust, that is why 90% of the meat we carry comes from local farmers, ranchers and fishermen, and local producers and other local co-op’s that we trust. Making it possible to see where your food comes from and meet the families producing it.
All of our suppliers welcome farm tours and invite the community to come and see their operations.
For any farm tour information ask for Kelsey!
OUR LOCAL SUPPLIERS
Thousand Hills Cattle Co. – Cannon Falls, MN
(Local, 100% Grass-fed Beef, Gluten & Nitrate-free)
DCBL Acres – Avon, MN
(Local, 99% Grass-fed 1% Org. Grain Beef, Lamb & Chicken)
Larry Schultz – Owatanna, MN
(Local, Certified Organic, Free-range Chicken)
Just Bare – Saint Cloud, MN (Chicken is traceable to the family farm where it was raised!)
(Local, Third-Party Humane Certified, Free-range, Vegetarian Fed, Anti-biotic-Free Chicken)
La Pacos – Princeton, MN
(Local, Grass-fed, Pastured Alpaca)
Buffalo Gal – Houston, MN
(Local, Grass-fed, Pastured Bison)
Doraisamy Elk Farms – Garfield, MN
(Local, Grass-fed, Pastured Elk)
Ferndale Market – Cannon Falls, MN
(Local, Free-range, vegetarian fed, anti-biotic free Turkey)
Alaska Wild Fish Company – Cushing, MN
(Local Family catches Wild Alaskan Fish)
Beeler’s Pork – La Mars, IA
(Pure Heluka Pork Products)
Gerhard’s Brats – Minneapolis, MN
(Uncured, Anitbiotic/Hormone Free, Vegetarian Fed Pork)
La Quercia Pork – Norwalk, IO
(Antibiotic Free/No Nitrates)
Fox Farms Pork – Browerville, MN
(Humanely Raised, Antibiotic Free No added Hormones, Vegetarian Fed)
Many Pastures – Princeton, MN
(Alpaca and Beef raised without the use of growth hormones and antibiotics)
We carry Elk, Bison, Yak, Alpaca, and if we don’t have it we can source almost anything! We are your co-op and are community owned; so please tell us what you would like to see. Also check out the ever-changing promotional specials. With these great deals you can easily expand your meat and seafood horizons.
Special Orders:
Good Earth Food Co-op gladly accepts special orders of large quantities and items not regularly in stock at the store.
Call ahead for special requests so they are ready when you arrive!
To contact the meat department directly, please email us at:
kelsey.kapsch@goodearthfoodcoop.coop
Phone: 320-253-9290