1871
Family lands in Como
The Bartlett family story begins on this land in Como, Mississippi.
Our story
Five generations on the same dirt
Como, Mississippi · since 1871
The early days
The pickup truck
Before The Boxes, There Was A Pickup Bed Cooler
In 2014, Marshall was driving meat to Memphis chefs out of a homemade cooler built into the bed of a pickup truck.
It was not polished. It was not scalable. But it proved something important: people could taste the difference when meat was raised, butchered, packed, and delivered by the same farm.
That pickup route became the beginning of the Home Place Pastures you see today.
The timeline
How A Family Farm Became Home Place Pastures
The story stretches back more than 150 years, but a few turning points shaped the farm, the butcher shop, and the membership boxes we ship today.
2014
Marshall comes home
Marshall returned to the farm and started building a new path for the family land.
2016
The work gets real
The farm began turning early customer demand into a more complete pasture-to-package system.
2018
USDA slaughter on farm
The team brought USDA-inspected slaughter and processing onto the farm.
2023
The membership grows
Home Place Pastures grew from regional deliveries into a larger membership community.
Today
830 member families
Today, families across the country stock their freezers from the same farm.
The plant
Why We Built Our Own Butcher Shop
To connect families with regenerative agriculture, we had to do more than raise animals well. We had to control the step most farms never get to control: turning livestock into finished, sellable food.
So we built our own USDA-inspected facility on the farm — a plant designed to keep the work, the quality, and the accountability close to the land.
Inspected
USDA-inspected processing
Accountable
Raised, butchered, and packed by one team
Rare
One of the few farms built this way
Built on the farm
The community
Built For More Than Our Own Farm
The plant, the store, and the work around this farm have always been about more than selling meat. They create jobs, feed neighbors, and give other farmers a path to bring better food to market.
Local work
Jobs that stay in Como
Keeping the farm, plant, packing, and store close together means more of the work stays in our community.
Farm Store
A place to eat and gather
The Farm Store & Eatery gives neighbors and travelers a way to meet the farm in person.
Food access
Food for more families
The work here also supports food bank efforts and helps more people access real farm-raised food.
Other farmers
A path to market
Our facility gives other farmers a way to process livestock and sell finished food with more accountability.
The people
The Names Behind The Work
Home Place Pastures is not a brand built somewhere else. It is a family, a crew, and a community of people doing the daily work.
M
Marshall
Founder
Returned home to build a farm, butcher shop, and food system rooted in Como.
C
Cale
Farm team
Part of the daily work that keeps the farm moving from pasture to package.
B
Betty
Family
Part of the family story behind the land, the work, and the people here.
T
The Crew
Butcher shop and farm
The team behind the raising, butchering, packing, shipping, and serving.
Ready to taste the story
Taste What Five Generations Built
Become a member and get pasture-raised meat from our farm in Como, Mississippi shipped frozen to your door.
