George
When someone buys a cut of meat, it goes home with them and is incorporated into their favorite recipe. When George hears about the results, and how that recipe has forever been improved by the meat he sold them, it’s a reminder of why he’s a butcher.
George has been cutting meat for nearly his whole life. He learned a lot about butchering from his father, who learned from his mother on the farm where he grew up. George worked as a butcher in a grocery store after school and eventually even married a butcher’s daughter – Harvey’s daughter.
Since then, George and Marty have re-built the business, literally. After the 2011 fire at Union Market, Harvey’s began anew in November of 2012, offering cuts from local farms that are free-range or naturally fed. It’s an approach that’s changed the way George looks at the meat he sells. “There’s nothing better than a happy customer,” he says, “ Outside of happy animals.” Marty retired at the end of April 2021.