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]