Product Categories: Meat & Poultry
Vermont Salumi
Nestled behind AR Market on Main Street in Barre, Vermont you’ll find the cure for the common meat: Vermont Salumi. Founder Peter Colman grew up on Vermont’s Cate Farm and spent summers in Umbria, Italy, with his father’s family. He found himself inspired to learn how to make prosciutto simply because he enjoyed it so much. He was able to learn salumi-making techniques and centuries-old traditions from Norcini, famed butchers of Umbria, and bring those skills back to Vermont.
Stonewood Farm
Grandma Stone sums it up best: “Just plenty of Vermont air, cold nights, good feed and tender loving care on our family farm.” Over the past 30 years, Stonewood Farms may have grown their flock to 34,000 turkeys per year, but they have never relented on their sustainable farming practices, humane treatment of their birds including turkey friendly, open-sided barns to provide plenty of fresh and sunlight. All of that and no hormones or antibiotics make for birds that are happier and ultimately tastier.
Misty Knoll Farms
Family farmed, free range Vermont poultry that is hormone free, antibiotic free and vegetarian fed. At Misty Knoll Farms, turkeys and chickens are free to roam throughout spacious, specially designed turkey houses, with access to abundant feed, water and fresh air. Allowed to grow naturally to size, Misty Knoll birds are robust and meatier. As a result of this clean, stress-free environment, and a healthy diet that nature intended, Misty Knoll birds are healthier and better tasting. View Misty Knoll Farms items carried by Black River Produce.
Harlow Farm
Happily located in the fertile Connecticut River Valley, Harlow Farm has been producing crops since the mid-1700s. Paul G. Harlow purchased the farm in 1917, and it has now been in his family for three generations. One of the largest and earliest organic-certified farms in New England, Harlow’s produces 150 acres-worth of veggies including beets, cabbage, carrots, kale, lettuce, sweet corn, and squashes. Some of that is sold through their seasonal farmstand, and some makes its way to you through their partnership with Black River Produce.
North Country Smokehouse
Located in the historic district of Claremont, New Hampshire, North Country Smokehouse sits upon its very own piece of New England where the company has been doing business for the last hundred years. Their current incarnation, a state-of-the-art, 65,000 square foot facility, opened in 2018, which is where they hand-craft and slow-smoke their small-batch products over local hardwoods using natural ingredients sourced as close to home as possible. They’ve been honored by Men’s Journal for producing one of the top 10 best bacons in the country, they have The Best Bacon in America according to Food & Wine, and they have claimed the New England’s Best Meat award from Yankee Magazine.