Farm Fresh Meat

Farm Fresh Meat is meat that is produced from animals grown the way nature intended, processed on the farm, and sold to local customers. Many regulations put barriers between farmers and consumers, forcing both to enter the industrialized food system to sell or buy meat. Rural Vermont recently worked to break down one of these barriers. In 2007, the “Chicken Bill” was enacted into law in Vermont. It allows small-scale poultry producers to process their birds on the farm (without state or federal inspection) and sell these birds at farmers’ markets or to local restaurants. We are currently working with farmers and consumers who would like to break down more barriers for other meat products.