WHO WE ARE

A Brief Overview
The farms and foods that once sustained our forefathers as they settled this great land are now endangered. Farms are going belly up every day and the foods small farms raise are being lost forever because they are ignored by industrial agriculture. Just as the Bald Eagle and Panda Bear are on the brink of extinction in the wild, so are numerous varieties of livestock like Bourbon Red turkeys, Red Wattle pigs, Tunis sheep, Barred-Plymouth Rock chickens and Iroquois corn flour. If we want to save them, we must eat them! And Heritage Foods USA exists to help accomplish this goal by selling foods from small farms to consumers and wholesale accounts.

Heritage Foods USA was formed in 2001 as the sales and marketing arm for Slow Food USA, a non-profit organization founded by Patrick Martins and dedicated to celebrating regional cuisines and products. The Heritage Turkey Project, which helped double the population of heritage turkeys in the United States and upgraded the Bourbon Red turkey from "rare" to "watch" status on conservation lists, was Heritage Foods USA's first foray into saving American food traditions. In 2004 it became an independent company dedicated to saving not only turkeys but also Native American foods, pigs, sheep, bison, cows, reef-net salmon, chickens and all breeds of food livestock.

Chefs, journalists, the Heritage Advisory Board and consumers have been quick to rally around the idea of preserving the farmers and food traditions of this country. In 2005, over 10,000 heritage turkeys and 1000 rare pigs were raised for sale by Heritage Foods USA. All foods are raised according to strict production protocols and come to buyers with a traceable label that lists all details about the production and processing of the food. Our turkey-cam allows buyers to see their birds live on the farm before they are processed.

If you are a home cook, please check out the products we sell and recipes and call us (212-980-6603) or click here to order our products via the Internet. If you are a wholesale account please call us and we would be happy to send you food!