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Tag Archives: meat
Last Call (this spring) for Green Acres Chicken
Green Acres Farm still has some of their excellent Freedom Ranger chicken (the brown birds in the photo above) available for purchase at the Palafox Farmers Market in Pensacola this weekend. It takes about an hour and twenty minutes to drive over there from our house (interstate nearly the whole way), and with a little [...]
NYT Ethicist Contest on The Ethics of Eating Meat
The New York Times Magazine has published the winner and finalists in their essay contest on The Ethics of Eating Meat. You can read more about the contest and reader responses (and complaints), and also the essays themselves. I haven’t read them all yet (finalists are here), but I can tell you that my own [...]
Get Local, Humanely-Raised Chicken
Mobile-area friends, here’s a great opportunity to get Red Ranger chickens from Green Acres Farm. If we can put together an order for 25 birds or more, Mark Casson will deliver to Mobile THIS SATURDAY, December 17. Green Acres uses organic practices; the birds are pasture-raised and supplemented with locally-milled conventional feed, and are never [...]
Green Acres Farm
Anyone who’s looked knows that in this area local sources of small farm-raised pastured poultry are few and far between. If you live in Mobile you have to drive to get it, and an hour up I-65 is the ideal place, Green Acres Farm in McDavid, FL, just over the state line from Atmore, AL. [...]
Meat Eaters Guide to Climate Change and Health
From the Environmental Working Group, the people who brought you the Shoppers Guide to Pesticides in Produce, comes the Meat Eaters Guide, a thorough analysis of lifecycle impacts of the various proteins in our diets. You can look through the collection of information and resources on their site – be sure to check out the [...]
Ripple Effects Fall Seminar at Windmill Market
WHAT: Ripple Effects Fall Seminar at Windmill Market WHEN: Thursday, September 16 at 6pm WHERE: Windmill Market, Fairhope COST: free TOPIC: Eating Green in L.A. (Lower Alabama) ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Melissa Boutwell of Boutwell Farms (Clayton, AL) will be speaking on “growing flavor, community, and our future.” She will also be grilling samples of the farm’s [...]
Boutwell Farms Meet the Farmer Events
WHAT: Boutwell Burgers and Farm Dogs / Meet the Farmer WHEN: Friday, September 10 at Lulu’s at Homeport Marina in Gulf Shores from 5:30 – ? Saturday, September 11 at Windmill Market in Fairhope from 9am – until the meat runs out The folks from Boutwell Farms will be selling meat off the grill as [...]
Boutwell Farms Taking Orders for Windmill Market Delivery
Boutwell Farms of Clayton AL is now supplying meat to Windmill Market in Fairhope. Right now the market has a variety of sausage, hot dogs (beef, pork, combination), and bacon in stock, but Boutwell is also taking orders for delivery next weekend (the 28th/29th). Products include a variety of cuts of pork and beef, in [...]
Proposed USDA Rules Could Crimp Local Meat
Consumers of local meat, take note. Newly proposed regulations for slaughterhouses, intended to address the contamination at industrial-scale processing plants, could effectively put small processors out of business. Read more at the Chews Wise blog in a post from Joe Cloud, partner in T&E Meats, a small-scale locally focused slaughterhouse in Harrisonburg, VA. The USDA [...]
It’s Meat Week at NPR