Pioneer Meat

Altona, Canada

Operating in Altona, Manitoba for over 50 years, Pioneer Meat calls their farmer's sausage 'the true original.' The recipe has been maintained across three generations, and the smoking process uses the same hardwood technique the founders learned from their Mennonite elders. The sausage has a coarser grind and heavier smoke than most commercial versions. They ship across Canada to homesick Mennonites who cannot find proper farmer's sausage in their adopted cities.

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Sausages from Pioneer Meat

Farmer's Sausage

Southern Manitoba

A cold-smoked pork sausage born in the Mennonite farming communities of southern Manitoba. Ground pork, salt, pepper, and woodsmoke. Four ingredients. No herbs, no garlic, no filler. The sausage gets its character from the smoking process: hung in a smokehouse over smoldering wood (often oak or maple) at temperatures too low to cook the meat. The result is a firm, rosy link with a pronounced smoke flavor and a coarse, meaty texture. Mennonite families across the Canadian prairies have eaten it two or three times a week for over a century.

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