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LORN LARDER : Pasture to Plate

LORN LARDER : from pasture to plate

for farmers and crofters to get locally produced meat to the local consumers - retail and wholesale

If there was a simple, cost effective and less time-consuming method to get your lambs, pigs, cattle, sheep to an abattoir, and getting the meat back, butchered and packed to your needs, would you be interested ?
Aims :
• Make it easier and more cost effective for every farmer & crofter to feed their own family, friends and neighbours with their own meat.
• Make it simpler for local butchers, chefs and shops to use and sell locally grown meat.
• Create new opportunities for businesses to access reliable, regular, supplies of the raw materials to produce new products - like speciality sausages, bacon, charcuterie, pies, ready meals, rugs and skins, craft products.
• Facilitate the full use of every possible product but the oink / baa / moo.
• Allow farmers to send out small or larger numbers of beasts, little and often.

Potential Products :
• Whole carcasses to butchers.
• Boxed, packed meat butchered for home consumption and sales to friends,
neighbours and family.
• Butchered, packed, and labelled cuts for retail sales in local shops and the LORN market.
• Bulk supplies for local processors and catering businesses.
• High quality and speciality cuts for the chefs of the area.

Pilot project:
• Find farmers, crofters, chefs & butchers interested in working together.
• Work with Mull Slaughterhouse for them to receive a regular supply of beasts from the LORN area, and ask them to provide the cutting, butchery, packing and labelling as appropriate for the end markets.
• Organise appropriate combined shipment of livestock and meat to and from slaughterhouse, to save costs, time, food miles, carbon footprint.
• Fund a part-time project officer for 18 months to explore the logistic issues and create a sustainable ongoing development plan.

If you have any interest in this project, and it’s potential products as a farmer, crofter, chef, caterer, processor, butcher, or consumer, please get in touch with
Cath Thomson, Chair, Local Origins Rural Network,
Adrian’s Croft, North Connel, PA37 1RD
0781 0495865 cath@adrianscroft.co.uk