For many Kentucky families, putting enough food on the table has become harder.
Food prices have risen 27 percent since 2020. Kentucky ranks seventh in the nation for food insecurity. In 2026, one in four Kentucky households with children reported skipping meals or making them smaller because there was not enough food.
Our Home Place Meat has been working for years to help meet that need with something we know how to provide: healthy food raised by Kentucky farmers.
Since 2020, nearly $300,000 worth of humanely raised meat has been donated to Kentucky families facing food insecurity. Today, that work continues through a partnership with The Berry Center and Feed Louisville.
Feed Louisville serves people facing hunger and homelessness across the city. By working together, we can help provide nutritious, locally raised food while supporting the Kentucky farmers who raise it.
The partnership reflects the same principles behind Our Home Place Meat. Meat should be raised in a way that honors the land, the farmer, and the animal. A strong local food system should also be able to respond when people need it.
We have seen what that can look like.
At the height of COVID-19, 30,000 food-insecure families in Louisville received meat through more than 10 hunger-relief partners. At a time when meat was difficult to source in large quantities, Our Home Place Meat was able to draw on its network of local farmers and help meet the need.
After the 2025 flooding in eastern Kentucky, more than 1,400 pounds of locally raised meat were delivered to affected communities.
Those efforts responded to immediate needs. Our next step is building a program that can continue year after year, with partners like Feed Louisville helping us reach more people consistently.
The goal is simple: make locally raised meat a dependable part of hunger relief in Kentucky.
That takes farmers who can raise the animals, organizations that know the communities they serve, and people willing to support the work.
Our Home Place Meat began with a commitment to build a better relationship between farmers, the land, and the people who eat what those farms produce. This work extends that commitment by helping more Kentucky families share in the food being raised here.
