Fifth generation beef farmer and fourth generation butcher, Dave Raylinsky, along with his wife Benaye and children Oscar and Olive, own and operate Highland Hollow Farm in Schoharie. Highland Hollow is a diverse operation raising a number of unique breeds, including Scottish Highland cattle, Berkshire pigs, Katahdin and Jacob sheep and Bronze turkeys.
The Raylinksky family was recently awarded a SEEC Resiliency Fund grant, allowing them to move forward with a USDA approved slaughterhouse. Highland Hollow recently received their USDA license to process meat, however the cost of the HAACP Plan (a management system in which food safety is addressed through the analysis and control of biological chemical and physical hazards from raw material production, procurement and handling, to manufacturing distribution and consumption of the finished product) was a major hurdle for the farm.
The SEEC Resilinecy award funds will help cover the cost of the required plan, allowing Highland Hollow to be an official USDA slaughterhouse.
Highland Hollow has two retail locations – one at their farm in Schoharie (322 Colby Rd, Schoharie, NY 12157) and one at Circa 1762 Slingerland Farm in Feura Bush, New York.
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