Woodstock's Hidden Kitchen Pantry

Yeah! I am so excited. Today I met with Marissa Trevail Bieber from Owl's Ridge Farm in Catskill. She is wonderful, she just got married and her and her husband have 110 acres at the beginning of the finger lakes, an old dairy farm. She was raised in Catskill on Owl's Ridge Farm,High Falls Road and went to college for animal sciences she always wanted to be a farmer. She drove almost 5 hours and spent most of her day in my kitchen going over every detail of how to order, what cuts to expect, how often they slaughter, the other products she has and so on. They love the animals and it is not a factory that breeds illness and poisons our waterways. They are working on a fencing project to help keep the waterways of lake Champlain clean, so the animals are free to pasture but they do not go near the water.

She is also excited to be a part of a group of women who just want clean food. Working together as women, we are taking our money out of the hands of the huge corporations that own our current food supply and we are giving it back to the farmer who's children will farm for our children.This is the beginning of creating a safe food supply, on our own, it is our's we own it. We will be able to sort of pick and choose when it comes in we have to be fair and rotate some cuts but that wont be a problem.

Here are a few details:

A mixed quarter of beef is about 100lbs at about $2.15 per lb ,after they butcher it and package it for us it comes to about $5 per lb which is wonderful considering the work.

A quarter of beef is about 8lbs of Sirloin Steaks,7lbs of Rib Steaks,20lbs of Roasts,7lbs TBone Steakes,8 to 15 lbs of Chuck (that I decided to have ground and add to the ground beef) 30 to 50 lbs of ground beef. and suet for the birds.

This is what I ordered:

Chuck: is being ground

Shoulder meat: I chose /London Broil

Rib: / steaks

Short Ribs :in 1lb pkg instead of ground

Stew Meat: in 1lb pkg

soup bones for deanna

Loin:Bone in( Sirloin/Porterhouse/TBone)

Sirloin Tip: steaks instead of roasts

Top Round: Roast instead if steaks

Eye Round : Roasts instead of steaks

Bottom Round: steaks instead of roasts

Liver and Suet

Delivery is in July and pick up at my house in Pallenville.

She may have extra which she is willing to send if we have the need

Chickens:

July 3 to 5lbs at $3 per lb I will be ordering some of those too

Sept the same

November 5 to 7 lb roasters

they come frozen whole

Honey is fromCatskill and we all need it for our allergies $6 per lbs and she is willing to work with us on that right now she has about a quart left.

There will be 2 groups

10 people for $50 per person for the beef

5 people for $100 per person for the beef

then just add the chicken and honey cost in with the amount you want.

I have to give her the money on Monday so lets gather together and take a leap of faith that working with a farmer is better than the other guys who are making our food.

Plus ..with every order there will be Deanna's magic Arancinii(rice balls) and some other extras I will pick up from story farm on delivery day. I will also have eggs, goat cheese, goat milk, raw milk and whatever else i can find for that wonderful day in July(they better not deliver on amanda's wedding day)

We wont be able to fight for the right to say No to CAFO's (concentrated animal feed lots), in Ny that will run waste into our creeks and rivers, if we continue to support factory produced meat products. One CAFO is equivalent to a city of 70k people in toxic waste. We need to protect our land and as history has it,we are the only people who have stuck together and worked together. This is going to be fun.

Please let me know asap and i can pick up or you can drop off money