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Buy from Local Farmers
Encouraging schools, colleges, churches,
& stores to buy from local farmers
Nearby Farmers' Markets
Wednesday 4-7 Shepherdstown
opposite Sheetz
June-August
Thursday 4-7 Route 340, BB&T parking lot across 340 from WalMart May-Oct
Saturday 9-12 Charles Town, Bank of Charles Town parking lot, 111 E.Washington
St, Late April-Oct
Saturday 9-12 Berryville
Dollar store on
Saturday 9-12 Shepherdstown Morgan's Grove
May-Labor
Saturday 10-12 Shepherdstown post office,
Sunday 9:30-1 Shepherdstown
behind library,
distant
farmers' markets
Fruits, Vegetables, Flowers & More
Bardane Country Market, March-Dec weekends (full time July-Oct) Rt 9 south of
Fruit
& Veggie Market, spring-fall, often daily, Rt. 340 and Country Club Road NE
of Charles Town, corn, tomatoes, green beans, flowers, peaches, apples
Jefferson Greenhouse wholesale herbs,
Middleway Farm, seasonal bedding such as
vegetable plants, hanging baskets, herbs, and cut flowers. Flowers for weddings.
Ridgefield,
Southwood,
Ap1-Oc1 Kearneysville WV
Smith's Market, Summer Tue-Sun
10-5, Rt 340, S of
Charles Town,
Tudor Hall
, Rt 51 between Charles Town & Middleway WV
Uvilla Orchard , Je1-Se15, WV Rt
230,
Walnut
Hill, Ap1-Oc1,
Fruits & vegetables by weekly subscription - Community-Supported Agriculture
Distant Fruit & Vegetables
Potomac Vegetable Farms 9627 Leesburg Pike,
School food issues
Learn to eat
Soybeans , a major local crop, & buy from a
WV tofu producer
Donate venison
to hungry
Meat
D & D Meats, Rt 51
east side of Inwood WV
Prairy
Hill , WV Rt 17 south
of Y,
Fertile Plains, Rt 45 between Shepherdstown &
Martinsburg WV
Woodlawn Farm, Thur+Fri 8-5, Sat 7-noon, east of
Sharpsburg MD
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How to Buy a Quarter, Half or Whole Beef. If you want a quarter or half, ask the farmer to put you on a waiting list until others come along to take the rest of the animal. If you want a quarter you don't have to choose front or hind quarter: you can get half of all the cuts on that side of the animal. Options in red.
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Tabb
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Headwater Farms
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When is it available?
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intermittent all year
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Oct-Nov
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Aug, Oct-March
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Typical age in months, when slaughtered. |
16-18
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15-18
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10
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Typical live weight, pounds
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1150-1300
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1100
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750
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Typical hanging weight (after removing hide, blood, guts, hooves, etc. which the slaughterhouse keeps).
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62%
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62%
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Typical cut weight to take home (after removing leg bones, all but ¼ inch of fat, etc.) Weight depends if you want bones on your steaks. If you take out all bones & fat, meat is about 50% of hanging wt, or 30% of live wt.
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45% of live wt; 70-75% of hanging wt
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32% of live wt; 240 pounds
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Typical price per pound charged by farmer
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$0.92 on live wt, delivered to slaughterhouse
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$2.25 on hanging wt. Includes cutting, wrapping, freezing. Get at farm or slaughterhouse
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Typical cost to slaughter, cut to your desire, wrap, freeze. Butcher disposes of hide & waste.
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$25+.35/lb or $29+.38/lb on hanging wt
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Estimated average consumer cost per pound, cut to your desire, wrapped, & frozen (remember to add cost of running your freezer for the months you eat the beef). Compare US retail cost.
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$2.32 at butcher
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$2.92 at farm or butcher
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$4.58-$5 in
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Typical cut weight from 1/4 of animal, in pounds
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144-160
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120
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60. They'll also sell 15.
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Typical hamburger as % of cut wt. (this is from trimmings too small to be useful for much else)
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50%
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30%
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50%
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Feed (none of these uses poultry litter )
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grass, grain
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grass, local corn & soya beans
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grass, with grain supplement for weaning
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Added hormones? All animals have natural hormones. This question refers to implanted hormones, which can raise weight by 10-13%. Some consumers worry about eating beef raised with added hormones .
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no
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no
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no
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Antibiotics? Many large scale herds have low levels of antibiotics added to animal feed. Some consumers worry about this creating antibiotic-resistant bacteria , so antibiotics will be less useful for
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Food & Flowers by Subscription: Community Supported Agriculture (CSA)
Generally
you join in February-April, for weekly deliveries all summer. If they get
cancellations, you can start later.
Blueberry Hill, Clear Spring, MD 21722, Washington county, MD, not
operating in 2001, 301-842-2870, 301-842-1191
Blue Ridge Center for Environmental Stewardship , 11661 Harpers
Ferry Road, Purcellville, VA 20132 delivery in Shepherdstown 877-661-1127
540-668-7640
Blue Ridge Food Coop, at Piedmont Episcopal Church, Madison VA,
membership $30+$15/week, organic, 4-6 Thurs 540-923-4131
Bull Run Mountain Organic Farm , Fauquier County VA, 703-754-4005
Sunnyside Farm, Rt
340 south of Charles Town, 304-725-1996
Waterpenny Farm , 12093 Lee
Highway, Sperryville, Rappahannock county VA 22740,
540-987-8567