Two Rivers Specialty Meats is a purveyor of fine local meats that are free of antibiotics, hormones, and chemical feed additives. In addition to providing the finest protein products available, our goal is to strengthen the connection between producers and consumers.
After four years working in meat sales, Jason Pleym thought he’d gone as far as he’d wanted to go in the industry. “My wife Margot and I left our jobs and spent the summer of 2007 in Golden working at my brother’s rafting company and living in a school bus thinking about our next move,” he says.
Come fall, they returned to Vancouver with a plan to start a wholesale meat company specializing in fine local proteins free of antibiotics, hormones and chemical feed additives. Jason was already selling his father-in-law’s beef from Pemberton Natural Meadows, a seasonal cattle business, in his previous job. It just so happened that year the company was fall calving as well, which opened up the door for a year round supply line of beef. They decided to take a leap of faith and start a meat company.
In January 2008, Two Rivers Speciality Meats began supplying Margot’s father’s beef to restaurants and retailers though Jason’s existing sales relationships. “I spent a lot of time learning how to butcher, and figuring out how to break the beef a little bit differently than what’s standard in order to maximize the cuts of meat from the animal,” says Jason.
