Unless otherwise noted, all meetings and seminars take place at Commisioner's Hall at Westmoreland County Community College in Youngwood, PA.

Thank you to all who attended the 2022 ACF Laurel Highlands and Pittsburgh chapter picnic! 

Chef Paul Haines, Co-owner of Haines Farming and Meat Processing, fabricated a hind quarter of beef into usable cuts, and explained different cooking methods for each cut. The Foods I Class prepared samples of their fresh ground beef for those in attendance.
 
Beef Fabrication Seminar
WCCC Commissioners Hall, Room 2303/2304
February 18th, 2019, 5:00-7:00 pm 

Chef Haines was our Chapter's Chef of the Year in 2011 and was our last Chapter President. 

Here is some info about his family's business:
In 1970, Paul Haines, Sr. and Betty started processing deer in their basement. They moved into the garage doing deer and custom beef and pork in 2008. After a building collapsed due to heavy snow fall in 2010 they remodeled and moved the business into a bigger building to fit their ever-expanding business. In August 2016 the establishment decided to go into an USDA and Retail plant.

Paul Jr. has been around the butcher shop since he was just a small boy. In 2007 he became an official business partner and, along with his wife, has helped his parents to expand the business to where it is now. With the help of their 12 employees the Haines’ are able to do deer processing in the fall and do Federal, Retail, and Custom beef, pork, lamb, and goat all year long.

Funding for this seminar was provided through a grant from the Northeast Beef Promotion Initiative.

Thanks to Jim Bosco and his team for a great meal, a tour of the restaurant with a free history lesson, as well as some great live music!

Major Stokes

108 West Pgh Street, Greensburg, PA 15601