Slow Money Maine
Common Wealth Poultry is proud to partner with Slow Money Maine and is grateful for their support over the past 10 years.
Common Wealth Poultry is proud to partner with Slow Money Maine and is grateful for their support over the past 10 years.
Ryan Wilson was working for a farm and doing deliveries to restaurants, when he started asking chefs what they wanted that they couldn’t get.
“They said ‘duck,'” he recalls. “So I grew six ducks.”
Today, Wilson's Commonwealth Poultry Co., in Gardiner, processes 300,000 USDA-inspected, all-natural, additive-free, halal chickens, ducks, turkeys, rabbits and game fowl per year, works with commercial growers throughout New England and Pennsylvania, and employs about 30 people year-round.
Nevertheless, it’s been learn-as-you-go since the company started in 2010.
“I don’t have a business background. I’m just doing the best I can every day,” Wilson says. “I read everything I can. I work with the USDA. I have a system down that we repeat and repeat and repeat. And we’ve proved it to work over and over again.”