Gentle Harvest Custom Processing

Come work with us! Gentle Harvest Custom Processing is hiring for a full-time Meat Wrapper.

Enjoy great benefits, including:
✅ Paid time off
✅ Employer-paid health & dental insurance (FT)
✅ Generous employee discount
…and more!

Apply in person or email [email protected].

Here at Gentle Harvest, we custom process every order to your specifications. Whether you're processing beef, pork, lamb or deer, our detailed cut sheets will ensure you get exactly what you want! 🥩🐖🐑

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No poultry, no problem. Regardless of what you're eating today we hope you have a great Thanksgiving with friends and family.

Availability of processing facilities that can work with local and small scale livestock farmers is a major issue facing Virginia's producers. Check out this article to learn more and find out one of the ways some of the folks with our partner Ayrshire Farm are trying to help find a solution!

Training Program Aims To Ease Farm To Table Bottleneck Becoming a butcher requires skill, strength, and stamina.It also involves technical skills, and a regional non-profit is stepping up to teach students what they need to know.

Dry aged custom cut beef from Ayrshire farm cut and packaged headed out to one families freezer. 🥩😍

There's a lot of rumors and old tales about best practices around frozen meat, we found this link from the USDA to have a lot of helpful information not only about best practices but also about how long you can expect various things to maintain their freshness while frozen, it even has some tips to help make sure your foods last for the long cold haul!

Freezing and Food Safety | Food Safety and Inspection Service The .gov means it’s official. Federal government websites often end in .gov or .mil. Before sharing sensitive information, make sure you’re on a federal government site.

Tools of the trade 😉

Whether it's burgers, sausage, thick cut steaks, or something totally unique...Gentle Harvest Custom Processing can make sure you have exactly what you want to put on the grill. Happy 4th to everyone and let us know what you're grilling this weekend in the comments!

We take the utmost pride in processing and dry aging animals for our local farmers because we know the best meat is grown locally. If you have any animals you need processed in the coming season give us a call or send us a message today!

Never the wrong time of year to plan ahead, if you're considering using our services take a look at these cut sheets and we look forward to hearing from you soon!