When you think of an idillic small town you probably think of rolling hills, a corner store, a one screen movie house and a butcher shop. We have one of those things!! Terry Ragasa and his wife Susan knew they wanted to start their own butcher shop and looked all over the country for the perfect place. Northampton beat out Austin, Ann Arbor and more. And those other places might be really mad at us now. Be careful if you travel there.

Sutter Meats carves up 1 or 2 cows, 4 or so pigs, 3 lambs and about 150 chickens a week. Which is apparently small time. They carve the meat up and sell it all—bones for broth, they render fat into tallow, they make dog food, jerky and sausages including the world’s best bologna according to me. There’s also rotisserie chickens, sandwiches and classes. And you can find it all at 65 King Street in Northampton and SutterMeats.com on the web. And they keep their social media simple with @suttermeats on Instagram and Facebook.

And look, Terry’s phone had a slight buzz. Get over it. Just imagine you’re listening to one of those old time wax cylinder podcasts of yore.