Born from a friendship between two Lansdale Catholic classmates and a shared love of a dubbed kung-fu movie, Soul Brothers Meats makes sausage and charcuterie in North Wales, Pennsylvania. Bob and Karl Zimmerman and Doug Perry started the business in 2003 after learning the craft through annual Italian sausage-making sessions, and it has grown from a friends-and-family project into a certified, inspected operation serving the public and wholesale customers. The company uses locally sourced beef, chicken, and pork alongside recipes and techniques shaped by the North Penn community.
Uncle Charley'sFounded in 1989 by Charley Armitage and his wife, Uncle Charley’s makes fresh pork sausage, beginning with the premium Italian sausage Charley developed for Western Pennsylvania. The Vandergrift company builds its signature flavor around premium pork and Charley’s seasoning expertise, and has grown from local independent stores into a familiar brand across Western Pennsylvania and the Cleveland market. Its line now includes griller sausages, breakfast products, meatballs, and heat-and-eat meals while retaining the original focus on fresh ingredients and natural casings.VANDERGRIFT, PA
Mark's Custom Meats LLCMark’s Custom Meats is a family-owned Pennsylvania business founded by Mark and Kim Bair in 1994, with their two sons now carrying the company into its next generation. It began as a custom processing facility for local farmers and neighbors and remains rooted in careful workmanship, humane animal treatment, and meat raised within 30 miles of its shop.311612HOWARD, PA
Nello's Specialty MeatsFamily-owned Nello’s Specialty Meats grew from a one-car garage on the family farm, where it began butchering wild game in 1982, into a USDA-inspected facility rooted in European craft and Old World charcuterie traditions. Today, the company employs more than 25 people and processes meat for over 100 farmers throughout the Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York tri-state area.NAZARETH, PA
Dundore & HeisterFounded as a neighborhood butcher shop in Berks County by Tod and Chrissy Auman, Dundore & Heister now ships Pennsylvania provisions from its Wyomissing operation, including craft sausage and its distinctive Hex beef snacks. The shop draws on Pennsylvania Dutch whole-animal butchery and farm-to-table traditions, with sausages crafted by award-winning sausage maker Jeremy Nolen and ingredients kept deliberately simple. Its products are sold online as a taste of Pennsylvania delivered to customers’ doors.WYOMISSING, PA