Grass-Fed Meat Processing Facility Purchase

Old Salt Co-op is a regenerative meat company designed to bring Montanans together to invest in the place they call home. Founded by three Montana ranching families–Mannix, Anderson, and Hibbard–Old Salt Co-op represents the collective desire to raise grass-fed beef in a manner that does as much for the land as it does for the community.

Old Salt's first venture, a grass-fed burger joint called Old Salt Outpost, opened in 2021. Now, the team is planning to build out its meat processing capacity to pave the way for a flagship butcher shop, a modular onsite slaughter unit, and an expanded restaurant and retail space.

Use of Funds

Old Salt will use a loan from Steward to convert an existing meat processing site into a USDA-inspected facility, where they can process a higher capacity of meats to sell directly to consumers through restaurants, retail locations, and delivery. This will bring high-quality jobs to the greater Helena regional economy, and help bridge the scale gap between local distribution and commercial wholesale markets for local, grass-fed meat.

Regenerative & Sustainable Practices

While they hold a legacy of sustainably-raising local beef, the ranchers that comprise Old Salt are driven by a larger vision of building a regenerative food economy that prioritizes the health of both the land and the people that reside on it. Taking the common challenges of owning a meat enterprise into account, Old Salt engages in practices that: