Local Meats Fair: 10/25
I just received this notice today. I went to a similar but different event in the spring. This one is going on my calendar.
Sunday, October 25, 2009 2:30-5:30 PM
Women’s Community Building, 100 West Seneca St., Ithaca, NY
Consumers can meet at least 15 livestock producers from across our region, learn about their farms and products, and taste samples prepared by Chef Sean O’Brien of Serendipity Catering. There will be presentations on how consumers can process a whole chicken into smaller cuts, recipes for unfamiliar cuts, and other information on buying local meats. Producers of beef (grass-fed and natural grain/grass fed), pork, lamb, goat, chicken, rabbit, turkey and duck will be present, and some meats will be available for sale. Admission is $5/person. So that the caterer may prepare an appropriate amount of samples, please register in advance by calling Cornell Cooperative Extension of Tompkins County at (607) 272-2292. For additional information, please contact Matthew LeRoux at (607) 272-2292 or mnl28@cornell.edu.
Farms confirmed for the Meat Fair as of 10/5/09 AM:
1. Kingbird Farm, Berkshire, NY, Tioga Co.- Beef, chicken, duck, pork, turkey
2. Straight-Way Farm, Montour Falls, NY, Schuyler Co.- beef
3. McDonald Farm, Romulus, NY, Seneca Co.- Beef, chicken, lamb, pork, turkey
4. Sabol’s Farm, Ovid, NY, Seneca Co.- Beef, chicken, duck, goose, goat, lamb, pork
5. Orchardland Farm, Interlaken, NY, Seneca Co.- beef
6. Porkchop Valley, Ithaca, NY, Tompkins Co.- pork
7. Ever Green Farm, Rock Stream, NY, Yates Co.- chicken
8. Birdsall Beef, Homer, NY, Cortland Co.- beef
9. High Point Farms, Trumansburg, NY, Tompkins Co.- beef, lamb, pork, chicken, rabbit
10. Quinn’s Irish Hill Farm, Freeville, NY, Tompkins Co.- chicken, lamb
11. Ort Family Farm, Bradford, NY, Schuyler Co.- beef, chicken, duck, lamb, pork, rabbit, turkey
12. Angus Glen Farm, Watkins Glen, NY, Schuyler Co.-beef, goat, chicken
13. The Piggery, Trumansburg, NY, Tompkins Co.- pork
14. Ellis Hollow Farm, Ithaca, NY, Tompkins Co.-lamb
15. Autumn’s Harvest, Romulus NY, Seneca Co – rabbit, chicken, pork & beef
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This sounds like an excellent event to attend! Thanks for the heads-up!
I really enjoyed hearing from the farmers last time, but am excited there will be more in-depth information this time around. It was most interesting to hear that some of the farmers used to be vegan or vegetarian and started their own farms so they could eat sustainable meat that was treated well.