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Art displayed in the F&M Trust Training room is on loan from a local artist in partnership with the Valley Arts Association. https://valleyartassoc.org/

About the Artist: 

Carol Wilks has been versatile in various mediums for over 40 years and has studied under a variety of artists ranging from drawing, photography, oil, watercolor as well as pastel, her current passion. Her work has created a lot of attention because of the style used to create her animals.

Carol is currently a member of the Valley Art Association in Hagerstown as well as the Pastel Society of America, Portrait Society of America and the Maryland Pastel Society. She currently offers a class in all mediums on a weekly basis.  Her class started in 2008 and is still going strong.

In addition to displaying and selling her art in various galleries such as the juried shows at the Washington County Museum and the Washington County Arts Council in Hagerstown, her paintings show and continue to sell in other galleries as well in Maryland, West Virginia, Pennsylvania and Virginia.

She does commissioned work on portraits and animals, and has completed several works on landscapes, seascapes and still life as well. She also completed several paintings in oil on the Civil War, focusing on the Antietam Battlefield, entering them in shows locally where many of these works have sold.  Her paintings are currently on permanent display at the Mansion House Art Gallery in Hagerstown Park where she also takes part in the shows held there.

You can find out more about Carol on her website:www.carolwilks.net or like her on Facebook 

About the Chef: 

Steven Tibbs, Owner

240-818-7709          |          tibbs@tibbsbeefjerky.com

Hand crafted beef jerky with only the finest available ingredients. It will keep you coming back for more. 

Our Mission

Tibbs Beef Jerky will never Sacrifice QUALITY over QUANTITY. This is true! We take our time for each batch, we make sure that every batch of jerky that's made from Tibbs Beef Jerky has a set of standards above and beyond to ensure you get the best bite of jerky. Each cut of meat, ingredients, label, and bag, is of the highest quality.

For the Love of Jerky

If you’re reading this, I can probably guess one thing about you – you love jerky. Awesome. You’re in the right place.

Ever since I tasted my first piece of beef jerky back when I was 7 years old, I was hooked. There’s truly nothing like it. It sparked something in my taste buds which made me become more addicted with every bite I took.

Over the years, this delicious treat became an obsession. I wanted to not just eat jerky, but only eat the highest quality ones I could find.

And that turned out to be much harder than I thought…

You see, there’s a science to this whole “jerky” thing. There are tons of flavors… styles… spices… hardness and softness levels… which separate each piece of beef jerky. I’ve tried almost every commercial jerky brand out there and one thing became obvious to me – they weren’t trying hard enough.

The flavor was bland. The texture was weird. They were either too brittle or too thin. It left a bad after-taste in your mouth. And the more I ate it, the more it felt like I was biting into something that didn’t even resemble food anymore.

These larger companies became too focused on output rather than quality. They cared more about reaching their daily quotas, instead of delivering a product they could proudly stand behind.

How Tibbs Beef Jerky Was Born

I used to be fat. 260 pounds to be exact. It wasn’t fun.

My doctor told me one day, “Steve you’re fat and fat people keep me in business.” After this, it finally clicked to me that I needed to make a change. I needed to get my health back.

And that’s what I did…

I changed my lifestyle.

I started going to the gym.

And during all of this, making beef jerky became my passion.

I would give out pieces of my own jerky to friends, family, or anyone who was curious enough to taste it.

And people actually liked it – a lot. They even started to get mad at me when I couldn’t give them another batch of beef jerky fast enough.

Flash forward five years later, I took a simple hobby and grew it into a full-fledged business.

It’s So Good, You Can’t Just Have One Bite

We now have 5 different mouth-watering flavors of jerky to choose from. Each one with its own unique blend of herbs and spices. And unlike commercial beef jerkies which are filled with “mystery meat,” chemicals, and other suspicious hormones, our beef jerky is made different. We only use ingredients you can trust, and the highest quality, USDA certified beef money can buy.

But that’s not all.

Tibbs Beef Jerky has no added nitrates or MSG in it either. Basically, this means we add zero stuff to our jerky which could potentially harm you. For example, in multiple studies nitrates have been linked to cause Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s disease, and even cancer.

Scary stuff. That’s why quality has always been my number one priority.

I want to make beef jerky that not only tastes good, but that’s also good for you too.

You can enjoy Tibbs Beef Jerky with beer or wine. You can eat it for breakfast or as a snack in the afternoon. No matter how you choose to enjoy it, we have a flavor for you.

Come taste the difference.