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Something that bothers me about the whole H1N1/A rush to vaccinate is that they are rushing the vaccines to market too fast. Now vaccine maker GlaxoSmithKline has recalled 172,000 doses of the vaccine in Canada. This rush to make money on the flu hysteria has put the vaccines out to the market too fast without proper testing. Normally our whole family gets vaccines every year but this time we’re skipping it because I just don’t trust the corporate greed machine.

Big Pig with Fall Foliage

Our secret Big Project is revealed - we are building a USDA/State inspected on-farm slaughterhouse and butcher shop here on Sugar Mountain. The other day I discussed how we’re funding the butcher shop out of pocket through bootstrapping and personal funds from other farmers and extended terms with local merchants. I also mentioned that some of our customers are pre-buying next future pork now which gives us cash in hand to pay for concrete and other things. Here are the promised details of how to get free processing, free delivery and save 30% on a pastured pig…

Read the full story here and find out how you can save 30% on our pastured pork…

[This is part three in the series. Visit http://SugarMtnFarm.com/blog/ regularly to follow the progress as we bring our on-farm slaughterhouse and butcher shop up to USDA inspection. Learn about how the story of our butcher shop and NoNAIS are intimately intertwined… -WJ]

South Field Pigs and Sheep Grazing

As I mentioned in my Sunday post we are building a USDA/State inspected on-farm slaughterhouse and butcher shop - our Big Project. We need approximately $150,000 to build and outfit the butcher shop. That is about 10% of what the typical facility costs to build. We have some special efficiencies such that we can build for less because we are:

• a small tightly focused family farm,
• just doing one species,
• an on-farm facility,
• already own the land,
• started with an existing foundation,
• had some construction materials on-hand to begin with and
• providing all of the labor.

Still, there are costs for concrete, insulation, plumbing pipes, electrical, equipment, etc. It takes many wallets to fund a project like this. Here are some of the ways that we are funding the butcher shop project…

Read the full story here…

[This is part two in the series. I have moved this story and comments from here back over to my Sugar Mountain Farm blog in the interest of keeping the discussion thread in one place. Visit http://SugarMtnFarm.com/blog/ regularly to follow the progress as we bring our on-farm slaughterhouse and butcher shop up to USDA inspection. Learn about how the story of our butcher shop and NoNAIS are intimately intertwined… -WJ]