Speakers: Kim Denney, owner/operator of Chestnut Farm Meat CSA, cattle farmer Ridge Shinn, author and local food activist Jamey Lionette
All-natural. Organic. Free-range. Grass-fed. Are you a conscientious meat-eater trying to navigate this new terrain of labels and concerns? Are you wondering whether it’s safe and sustainable to eat meat at all? Bring your questions to a discussion with three experts in small-scale meat production — and learn about how you can eat meat responsibly.
About our Speakers:
As a child Kim Denney loved the Little House on the Prairie books and read them all repeatedly. She dreamed of living Laura’s life and credits the hours spent reading with driving her dream of farming. In addition, she grew up with a family that appreciated and valued open space. Her father would often tell her “they don’t make any more land”. As an adult she purchased an abandoned farm and embarked on the path of her dreams. She has enjoyed a decade of life without a furnace and raised three children on one bathroom. For eight years Kim worked as a middle school teacher and school administrator fully believing that nothing is more fun than a thirteen year old. Today, she loves farming full-time and notes many parallels between her former middle school students and current farm animals.
Cattleman Ridge Shinn is an expert in sustainable farm practices and hardy, high-functioning livestock breeds that allow him to eschew the industrial, feedlot model of raising cattle. He is now recognized as a pioneer in developing a system of producing tender, tasty, and healthful beef from animals raised on 100% grass and hay, with no grain. His company, Hardwick Beef, was featured in Time magazine in January. He lives in Hardwick, MA.
Jamey Lionette is a contributor to Manifestos on the Future of Food and Seed and Boston’s most outspoken grocer. He ran Lionette’s Market in the South End until 2010, an independent shop devoted to sustainably raised local produce and meats.
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