ABOUT PATASKALA MEATS
The seeds for the creation of Pataskala Meats were planted almost 30 years ago at Ashbrook Stock Farms in Alexandria, Ohio when Kirk Hall and his father-in-law Albert Ashbrook raised sheep and sold them directly to ethnic customers at the farm. At that time a small slaughterhouse was used in an old hog barn, barely with running water, to provide a place for ethnic people to pick out and process their own food. Freezer meat was also raised on the farm; beef, pork, and lamb, and taken to other butcher shops to be processed into local food for customers.
Demand for sheep and lamb was growing, but the old facilities did not meet the State of Ohio food safety standards, so the State shut down their operation.
In 2011 Kirk Hall purchased the 5-acre tract of land on Broad Street in Pataskala in the hope that he could afford to build a butcher shop that would cater to everyone and provide a high-profile location for locally sourced fresh meat and farm to table products.
It took almost 5 years to complete the project and Pataskala Meats opened in 2016 and is a now a proud hometown marketplace.