About Primal Supply Meats

Our Mission

We support farmers who raise animals in natural, healthy environments and manage their land responsibly. All of our partner farmers raise animals on pasture where they are free to roam, root, forage, graze and exercise their natural instincts. Our farmers never use hormones or sub-therapeutic antibiotics, all supplemental feeds are free of GMOs, and each and every animal is treated humanely, from birth to slaughter.

Our Sourcing Standards

We support farmers who raise animals in natural, healthy environments and manage their land responsibly. All of our partner farmers raise animals on pasture where they are free to roam, root, forage, graze and exercise their natural instincts. Our farmers never use hormones or sub-therapeutic antibiotics, all supplemental feeds are free of GMOs, and each and every animal is treated humanely, from birth to slaughter.

Heather Marold Thomason

Heather left a successful career in graphic design in order to pursue the trade of whole animal butchery and a passion for supporting local, sustainable food systems. To train, she apprenticed at North Mountain Pastures in Newport, PA, where she learned to raise pastured animals from birth to slaughter. While there, she partnered with local farmers to better understand their daily operations and inefficiencies. She then furthered her training in Berkeley, California at The Local Butcher Shop. Heather relocated to Philadelphia in 2014 to serve as the opening Head Butcher and Manager of the butcher shop at Kensington Quarters.

Heather recognized that Philadelphia was prime for community building and change within its food supply chain and in 2016, she founded Primal Supply Meats, a modern butchery committed to whole animal practices.