The Pointside Meat Shop is here to serve local meats, drinks and treats. Santa Cruz locals Kevin and Brian Dueck grew up on the award-winning butcher shop, Freedom Meat Lockers. The brothers have ...

Conger, Minnesota — This tiny farm town near the Iowa border has lost the bank, café and hardware store through the years. The bar remains, for obvious reasons, as does the local meat locker. "We've ...

“I might have to wait three years to get a beef butchered,” said Russell, who has a commercial hog operation near Prairieburg in northeast Linn County. He also sells about 10 head of beef a year ...