Our story begins long before Lottie’s Meats launched in 2024, but we will skip to the good parts - starting with the nineties, baby!

Enter Chelsey (the eldest of four) and Cassie (a classic younger sibling...nark).

Growing up on a family pork farm in rural Illinois, we developed a knack for hard work (on brand), discipline and "doing things right!" This, paired with our big imaginations + love for building, created what we now realize was a little sense of entrepreneurial spirit! As tweens & teens, we often attempted joint ventures: launching lemonade stands, writing & participating in school plays & speech contests, and even starting a short-lived bakery for the family farm-goers.

Since those businesses didn’t work out (and our parents encouraged us to try our hand at careers off the farm), we took different paths: Chelsey went on to graduate from the Culinary Institute of America and worked as a chef in multiple award-winning restaurants while Cassie went into the corporate world - working in “THE INTERNET.”

As real adult people, we noticed that we were the ones to consistently educate our colleagues, friends and customers on the power of pork. We saw quick adoption & a small consumer movement from simple word-of-mouth conversations and communal dinners; but, we also realized that it was going to take more than 1:1 conversations to reintroduce pork and play within a larger system that had done damage. The industry had changed and rightfully so had consumer sentiment.

And so, Lottie’s - a family name - was born to ensure we bring pork back to the conversation and the dinner table in a new and meaningful way.

We hope you get a chance to try Lottie's sausages out for yourself and introduce convenient, better-for-you, natural pork products into your communities and conversations - let us know what you think!

And thanks for being here!