On-Farm Slaughter Workshop with Mary Lake @ Wild Roots Farm in Bristol 10/25

Join us for our first in-person, socially distanced workshop offering!

When: Sunday, October 25, 2020
Slaughter Workshop - 9:30 am - 12:30 pm
Processing Workshop - 1 - 3 pm

Where: Wild Roots Farm - 195 Harvey Rd Bristol, VT 05443

What: On-Farm Slaughter is part of peoples’ food sovereignty, which currently proves to be essential for our food system’s resilience. This humane way of slaughter on farms is a decentralized opportunity for farmers to increase direct-to-consumer relationships and sales in response to the increased bottlenecks at slaughterhouses.

This is an educational workshop on the slaughter of two goats and the processing of a pig guided by Mary Lake. Mary Lake is a professional itinerant slaughterer, butcher and sheep shearer who lives in Tunbridge. Mary learned the craft of slaughter through several years of full-time work with the Royal Butcher in Randolph, which is a USDA inspected slaughter facility. Her expertise and engagement through testimony was essential for the 2019 improvements to the On-Farm Slaughter law.