Ring Necked Pheasant

Eben Proft, a gamekeeper based in southern Vermont, treats his birds far differently than the regional status quo. Pheasants are not native to the United States, and they rarely fare well outside of the windswept expanses of the midwest. These circumstances relegate them to a very perfunctory existence, primarily raised for sport, sold to hunting clubs, and shot by their members. Eben, however, raises his pheasants with their eventual culinary presentation in mind, in the spirit of the world’s finest game bird producers. After years of refining his craft through travel and apprenticeship in Australia, New Zealand, and Europe, Eben received the prestigious Diploma in Gamekeeping from Sparsholt College of Hampshire, in the United Kingdom. Now settled in southern Vermont, Eben’s operation is the culmination of his time-honored dedication. Raised on ample pasture and without antibiotics, these Ring Necked Pheasants are allowed to grow up away from cages, foraging a swath of carefully sele