This month, we spotlight the Meat Department, which is run VERY WELL by Lori Kirkland. Lori is the local meat buyer at Good Foods Grocery. She loves communicating with local farmers in the state of Virginia to get their beef, pork, chicken, turkey, and lamb available for our customers at the store. Lori is the liaison between customer and farmer.

Lori's love for supporting local started when she was in college in central Minnesota at the College of Saint Benedict Saint John's University. In her small college town of St. Joseph, there was a meat market where the local farmers in central Minnesota sold their product, She had never seen anything like it, growing up in Glen Allen, Virginia, she was raised on whatever was the most affordable from the grocery store. It wasn't until Lori was at St. Bens that a seed was planted inside of her on what it meant to support your local farmers and the quality of life the animals have and how if benefits us holistically as a human.

It brings Lori immense joy to not only educate herself but also our customers on the importance of consuming grass-fed animal products and knowing where your food came from. Lori's hope is that the local meat freezers bring a little culinary niche to the Bon Air area. And her ultimate goal is for the Good Foods Grocery customers to discover a wide selection of meats from Virginia Farms. That is just one of the many reasons why Lori enjoys working at Good Foods Grocery, because we are very dominant on supporting local, supporting your farmers, and supporting local families.

Lori's IG ➡️ https://www.instagram.com/abstract_rva_lori/

The Good Foods podcast is hosted by Shardan Sandoval and it’s possible that you've heard my voice on a commercial here and there, particularly since I'm currently one of the many talented National Creative Production Designers for iHeartMedia and to date, I voiced and produced commercials that have aired from Hartford to Hawaii.

My IG ➡️ https://rb.gy/n60br

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