Caledonia Packing Information

Fig. 6 John and Grace DeVries in their butcher shop in Michigan. Mike gained experience and wisdom through working for his dad but sought out the noteworthy challenges of the large corporate scale meat company. He has worked for major food giants such as Tyson, IBP, Sara Lee, Hillshire Farms and Michigan Turkey to which he credits many of his acquired abilities. Eventually the nostalgic lure of running a family meat business, like his father and grandfather did, led him to purchase Caledonia Packing in 2013. Building from nearly the ground up, Mike, his wife and their three daughters are turning Caledonia Packing into a much needed link in the chain of the locally grown Farm to Fork market. Through hard work, valuable knowledge, and much prayer Caledonia Packing is committed to the growers in the surrounding communities and the emerging number of customers that are concerned about their food sources. Jannelle & Joe is a brand creation of the DeVries Family. Jannelle & Joe are simply the combination of the family middle names. (Michael JOE, Barbara ANN, Madeleine ELLE, Meika JAN, and Montana ANN) Mike, Barb and their daughters have a significant vested interest in the quality of the meat products they are bringing to the market place. That high quality has merited a name reflective of its creators. The goal of the Jannelle & Joe brand is to strive for simple yet high quality meat products. It is a purposeful intention to produce as clean a label as possible without compromising the integrity of the spices used in making our sausage.