Better For Butchery — The Infrastructure Behind America's Best Craft Butcheries

Princeton, KY · Proving It Works First

The Integrated Meat Platform Powering a New Meat Economy

Our business is co-packing. But the infrastructure we've built in Princeton, KY is proving something much larger is possible — a fully integrated regional meat economy where animals are raised, harvested, processed, packed, and consumed within the same communities. Every dollar stays local. Every tax stays local. Every health outcome stays local.

And the economic winner isn't predetermined. Through our farmer buyback program — powered by porterroad.com — farmers participate directly in the upside of specialty cuts they couldn't otherwise monetize.

Infrastructure

USDA-backed processing, packaging, cold storage, and fulfillment — the backbone every independent farmer deserves access to.

Nourishment

Clean, traceable protein connecting communities to the farms and farmers who raised it — from pasture to customers' dinner table.

Resilience

Self-reliant regional economies built through direct farmer-to-processor relationships that keep dollars circulating locally.

Regional Self-Reliance in Action

Food Is Medicine

Livingston Hospital

Pasture-raised beef processed at our Princeton facility prescribed to patients as part of a clinical food-as-medicine program. Raised, processed, and fed in the same region.

Raised Livingston Co. · Processed Caldwell Co. · Fed Livingston Co.

Feed Students

Hopkins County Schools

Local school districts receive fresh, traceable protein — replacing commodity programs with a farmer-direct supply chain. Dollars, wages, and taxes all stay within the Commonwealth.

Raised locally · Processed Caldwell Co. · Fed Hopkins Co.

Program Partners

"What BFB is doing is really going to be the model for the rest of the country."

Travis Burton · USDA Rural Development Director, Kentucky

RFD-TV Market Day Report · January 2026

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Rittenberry Farms — BFB's primary farm partner since 2013

Our Mission

Helping Farmers
Scale Their Legacy

Joey Rittenberry raises beef and pork the way it's supposed to be done — pasture-based, no confinement, no hormones, no antibiotics. His family has farmed in Burna, Kentucky for generations. For over a decade, his animals were Porter Road's primary supply. Now he's also our processing customer — we helped him launch the Rittenberry Farms brand and scale his legacy.

Through BFB's co-packing infrastructure, Joey has his own brand. His meat is raised in Livingston County, processed at our USDA facility in Caldwell County, and sold directly back to his own community — including at Livingston Hospital as part of the Food Is Medicine initiative.

"It's to promote better nutrition for our people in the Commonwealth. Fortunately, we have Rittenberry Farms. We thought it was a great partnership."

Shane Whittington · CEO, Livingston Hospital

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10+

Years as Primary Farmer

8–9K

Pasture-Raised Hogs/Year

Own Brand

Live via BFB Co-Packing

Rittenberry heritage hog herd pasture raised

Rittenberry Black Angus cattle in Kentucky pasture

The Plant Behind Porter Road

For nearly a decade, our Princeton, Kentucky facility has been the silent engine behind some of America's finest craft butchery. Now we're open to every rancher, co-packer, and food brand ready to do it right.