This last weekend, one of the local colleges (a clue to the school's identity is in the last photo) held a gathering of local growers and consumers in support of sustainable agriculture, which is my latest cause célèbre. :)
Growers/Farmers/Ranchers and "environmentally conscious, humane" buyers of their products rubbed shoulders for a night, and made some connections for product.
Given we now have a second paycheck in the household (yay!) we marched right out and ordered a teeny (5.0 cu. ft.) chest freezer from Home Depot (delivery day tomorrow!). Now we have space for some frozen food to buy in bulk when fresh... and eat out of over winter. And in the spirit of my new conviction to move away from factory meat to happy meat, we hooked up at the party with a couple of small ranchers and interviewed them about their animals, their practices, and the processing facilities they use.
It was a good evening. Managed to score a 1/4 cow and half a lamb and feel pretty good about the people who raise them and the way they take them on through to harvest (read: butchering and packaging... but harvesting is a kinder, gentler term befitting more humane methods; or at least that's what they told me).
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