Transition Chesterfield

It's just a trial year, but now is the time to read on and sign up for local organic lamb for the freezer.

£24 to join the CSA scheme plus £35 per quarter-lamb (i.e. £94 for half a lamb in total).

They hope to add other schemes to the CSA for poultry, other meat and wood.

Details and contact info below.

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From: Helen Cunningham <helen.cunningham@transitionmatlock.org.uk>
Date: 1 July 2010 12:21
Subject: Matlock Community Supported Agriculture( Lamb CSA) News
To: Helen Cunningham <helen.cunningham@mac.com>

Hi all

You are receiving this email because you have previously expressed an interest in the CSA Lamb Project,  if you no longer want to get these emails please let me know and i will remove your name from the list.

The one year trial project at the farm is drawing to a close.

We had a very successful lambing time and have just under 50 lambs.     Some of these lambs may be kept on for breeding from next year, but in order for us to determine how to take the project forward we now need an indication of how much lamb meat you would be interested in signing up for.

Once people have signed up and become members of the Community Supported Agriculture scheme we will be holding seasonal events and reskilling sessions.     We aim to have a blackberry picking day at the farm in late Summer, followed later that day by a blackberry jam and or wine making session in Tansley Village Hall.     Please can you let me know if you would be interested in attending such an event?

We are distributing the meat in quarters ie one flock share is a quarter of a lamb, 2 flock shares is a half of a lamb, and 4 flock shares is a whole lamb.  So can you please let me know as soon as possible if you are interested in signing up for a share of the meat and if possible give an indication of how much meat you would like?

We have put the full details on the Transition Matlock website, along with pictures to show exactly how much meat is in a whole lamb, to give you an idea of how much freezer space you would need if you took a whole lamb.

http://www.transitionmatlock.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=section&layout=blog&id=19&Itemid=60

As this has just been a trial project we only have meat to distribute once this year ie it will be ready to be collected after butchering in August or September.      So this is your  chance to fill your freezer with local lamb reared to soil association standards at a local farm at Riber.

If enough people are interested in obtaining local organic meat then we hope to take the project forward.    If you are interested in future supplies of meat next year eg lamb, pork, beef or poultry please let me know so we can determine in what direction the project might go.

thanks

helen