Harv’s Butcher Shop

Harv’s Butcher Shop Whole Animal Butcher Shop and USDA Processing Facility. We take great joy in sharing our experience in the local meat industry. This is real food.
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06/05/2026

This one right here is called the salami rodeo. It’s how we get the casings tight tight super tight.

06/05/2026

You can make any sausage you want if you find a recipe you like and know the fundamentals of sausage making you can switch out any of the ingredients for ingredients that you like more.

The Jalapeño Popper Sausage 🔥
06/05/2026

The Jalapeño Popper Sausage 🔥

We recommend a ground beef to fat ratio of atleast 70/30 when you purchase a Wagyu beef. We shoot for an 80/20 in the re...
06/03/2026

We recommend a ground beef to fat ratio of atleast 70/30 when you purchase a Wagyu beef.

We shoot for an 80/20 in the retail shop, but it would be difficult to knock all the marbles out of a well finished beast like this- without sacrificing good product.

It's free to have USDA inspectors. We do not pay the government at all.We don't work for them, and they don't work for u...
06/02/2026

It's free to have USDA inspectors. We do not pay the government at all.

We don't work for them, and they don't work for us. We work together. We log the process that we built for food safety in our own context. They watch us work, verify we followed our plan, and check the documentation.

We're required to take samples throughout the year and send them to a lab to check for pathogens. We pay the lab, not the government. Our lab charges $22 a sample, and for a very small facility the minimum is 17 samples a year.

And yeah, I had to buy them a desk and a filing cabinet. I already had a chair.

If you're buying a whole cow from a farmer, you might not be getting a USDA inspected product.When you buy a whole, half...
06/01/2026

If you're buying a whole cow from a farmer, you might not be getting a USDA inspected product.

When you buy a whole, half, or quarter on the hoof, you're not buying meat. You're buying the live animal, or a share of it. That animal goes to a custom processor, gets killed, cut and wrapped, and comes back to you with a "Not for Sale" stamp on it.

No inspector ever looked at it, and legally that's fine. It's your animal, processed for your own freezer. The law only kicks in when somebody sells meat by the pound to the public.

So the farmer sells you the animal. The processor charges you to cut it. Nobody technically sold you any meat. That's the loophole.

It’s a good deal for a lot of folks. Plenty of small farmers can’t haul cattle two hours to an inspected plant, and this lets them sell their beef anyway. The smaller processors stay busy doing good work close to home.

06/01/2026

All of our four legged critters have glands in them just like we do! We have glands located in all the corners of our body - our neck our armpits are groin. They’re everywhere. While some do eat them, they even embrace a gland in a big old pot of stew - we remove them.

“Made up late last night and haven’t tried it yet” SOLD OUT at two farmers markets yesterday! === community support at i...
05/31/2026

“Made up late last night and haven’t tried it yet” SOLD OUT at two farmers markets yesterday! === community support at its finest.

Shout out to EKU Meadowbrook Farm for the beef, Red Polo Farms for the buckets of garlic and the loyal customers of Boyle County Farmers' Market and Madison County Farmers Market

❤️We salute you

05/29/2026

This is the rum rosemary ribeye. we dry aged the steak and soaked it and rum, just like the name says. Why would you want your ribeye to taste like anything other than meat? Because we can.

05/29/2026

We take our bacon seriously with simple ingredients and hickory smoke, you don’t need a bunch of fillers.

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95 White Oak Road
Lancaster, KY
40444

Opening Hours

Wednesday 11am - 5pm
Thursday 11am - 5pm
Friday 11am - 5pm

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