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Farm Meat Delivery or Good Butcher?
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Anonymous
| I'm in MoCo and would love to stop shopping at the grocery store for meat and poultry. Does anyone have a favorite place to get local meat? |
Anonymous
| The FreshFarm markets usually have a good selection of local meat (chicken, pork, beef/bison, goat/lamb, or rabbit). It costs quite a bit more than the grocery store, though. I also have had good luck at "Let's Meat on the Avenue" in Del Ray, but that is a bit of a haul for you. |
Anonymous
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Are there no more local butchers??? I remember the days when we always bought meat from the small, local butcher shop.
Besides Wagshals, are there any around?? Thanks! |
Anonymous
| I think Stonyman Farms in the Bethesda Women's Farmer's Market (on Wis.) sells local meat. Most of the farmers markets tend to sell frozen meat. |
Anonymous
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Laurel Meat Market in Laurel is the only one I know of, but it's fantastic.
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Anonymous
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Yellowpage search (so can't attest to quality)
Gladhill Meat Market, Damascus Presidential Meats, Olney |
Anonymous
| There's a place in Eastern Market, I'm sorry I can't think of the name |
Anonymous
| This might not be what you are looking for, but I notice that there are stores that sell Halal meats. I bet there are Kosher meat markets as well. I would guess that both provide good service. |
Anonymous
I did a search online but I wanted some suggestions of places people have used. |
Anonymous
| Green Fence Farm CSA |
Anonymous
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Kinda crazy response here. I am sure we are all fans of feeding our kids organic meats. My husband and son have taken up hunting. They bagged a large buck and it has fed our family high protein, organic meat for many winter meals. We bagged a deer with our car a few years back and watched it rot on the side of the road. We have also donated to Hunters for the Hungry.
I know folks will pummel me for teaching my son to hunt. He loves it and it has improved his grades and confidence. If you feed your kids meat, it once had legs! |
Anonymous
I think it's great your family hunts, I really don't care for venison though. And the meat you eat from a deer isn't *organic* at all. It may come from the woods but who knows what run off is in the soil or what crap has been dumped that the deer is eating. Coming from the woods doesn't make food organic by any stretch. |
Anonymous
I don't mind deer hunting, but I'm not sure if it qualifies as organic. It's hard to tell what they eat esp. since deer often graze on crop lands. And the shot is lead, which does get into the meat. I'd really consider it more free-range. Maybe you can tell more based on local conditions. |
Anonymous
| Sorry I should have said slug. Shot would be for birds obviously. |
Anonymous
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Here is a presentation on lead fragmentation which helps minimize lead exposure from hunting:
http://files.dnr.state.mn.us/fish_wildlife/lead/index.htm |