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LAND ACCESS STORIES: Yankee Flats Meats – Salmon Arm, BC

Posted by Kat Roger on July 18, 2024

ABOUT YANKEE FLATS MEATS Yankee Flats Meats is owned and operated by two farming families, the Keenans and the McKnights, who were matched to each other through the B.C. Land Matching Program (BCLMP) in 2022. What started out as a land lease for the McKnights’ custom cut-and-wrap processing unit has blossomed into a remarkable business collaboration providing immeasurable benefit to food security and farmer livelihoods across the Okanagan and Shuswap. Yankee Flats Meats specializes in high quality locally sourced, farm-to-table meats from family farms in the Okanagan and Shuswap that reflect the heart of their community. Their community-focused abattoir and … Continue reading LAND ACCESS STORIES: Yankee Flats Meats – Salmon Arm, BC

FARM JOB: HALKIRK, AB – LAZY T FARM, CHICKEN BOSS

Posted by Kolby Peterson on February 01, 2021

Lazy T Farm, in Halkirk, Alberta, is seeing a chicken boss for the 2021 season! ABOUT THE POSITION Lazy T Farm raises pastured poultry and is looking for a chicken boss! You would get to be fully involved in our pastured poultry enterprise, learning and helping with our process from chick to freezer for two rounds of birds. This position would start early May and end in September; we can be slightly flexible with dates. We are looking for someone who is interested in regenerative farming and passionate about how the pastured chicken system can improve the land, provide a … Continue reading FARM JOB: HALKIRK, AB – LAZY T FARM, CHICKEN BOSS

New On-Farm Slaughter Regulations in Alberta Will Help New Farmers

Posted by Dana Penrice on August 02, 2020 4 Comments

For years, small-scale meat producers in Alberta have been calling for scale-appropriate regulations that improved access to slaughter and processing. On July 29, 2020, Agriculture and Forestry Minister Devin Dreeshen announced big changes to the Meat Inspection Regulation including a new license allowing farmers to slaughter animals and process meat on-site. This Uninspected Slaughter Operation License will enable a livestock farmer to sell a live animal to a customer and the customer can have the animal slaughtered on the farm. The meat from the animal will be uninspected and for the consumption of the customer and the customer’s household only. The … Continue reading New On-Farm Slaughter Regulations in Alberta Will Help New Farmers