Stratford local born and bred Nathan was a qualified butcher by age 23 and since then has done a huge range of butchering work including working in abattoirs, managing and working in a farm to plate butcher shop, on farm butchering, harvesting game meat, processing game meat and on selling to now owning and running our butcher shop Fehst On Meats.
Born and raised in South Gippsland Emily was raised on a farm and home kills were a part of day to day life. Then leaving school Emily spent 4 years travelling and working in the shearing sheds.
The next decade was spent FIFO, mining, rail and civil construction. Fast forward to when they first met with a collected love for the outdoors, hunting, fishing and sustainable eating.
Now they have two children and a game meat business/butcher shop based in Maffra VIC.
“Life is crazy and we wouldn’t have it any other way.”
Glenn Mcquillan owned the business previously for over 2 decades and it was a butcher shop previous to that also. We established Fehst On Meats at the end of 2024 when we took the business on from Glenn we opened our doors for the first time 6th Jan 2025.
We previously had started up our own Wild Harvest Game Meat Business called East Gippy Game in 2023-2024 leasing a shop in Orbost to process. Nathan still sustainably harvests wild deer and other wild game and we hire other harvester’s to assist with this.
They then get approved by a meat inspector and stamped at Orbost Abattoirs and then we process them in our butcher shop Fehst On Meats to sell,
Our vision is local meats processed by locals and sold to you by locals. We try to stock as much local produce as possible including honey, venison smallgoods and various other products available in store as well as our beef and lamb.