Don & Joe's Meats

Release: 07.15.26 (5:00)

Inside Seattle’s sole full-service butcher shop at Pike Place Market, Ben Frey is carrying forward a century-old legacy.

More than twenty years after first stepping into Don & Joe’s Meats as a "cleanup kid," Frey now stands behind the block as owner and head butcher of one of the region’s oldest family businesses. In this conversation, he reflects on the discipline of whole-animal butchery and the relationships that continue to shape the community around him.

Filmed on location inside the historic shop, we follow "Bennie 'Da Butcha" as he processes a whole lamb by hand while discussing regional farm partnerships, charitable food efforts within the Market, and what it means to preserve a disappearing trade in modern Seattle.

This episode marks the conclusion of Act One of Season Three of Madinah In The Market.

Act Two continues live from The Rabbit Box Theatre on September 4, 2026.

Originally broadcast on KBCS. Distributed by Madinah Slaise Media.

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