Join 30 women livestock farmers, butchers, processors, chefs, and professionals for two days and nights of hands-on learning with lead instructor and James Beard Award nominee Kari Underly, a third generation meat cutter and inventor of the flat iron steak. The retreat will be held in Chapel Hill, NC and is presented by NC Choices with support from NC Growing Together, Southern Risk Management and Education Center, Farm Credit Association of NC and partnering organizations.
Participants will be trained in hands-on whole pork and beef butchery and leave with increased confidence in determining pricing and gross margins, measuring yields, improving knife skills, and learning how to make a cut sheet and processing options work for their business.
For the first time ever, NC Choices is teaming up with Amazing Grazing’s Leadership in Cattle Handling for Female Producers workshop, November 8 at the NCSU Butner Beef Cattle Field Laboratory. It will be a packed educational weekend for women meat producers and professionals!
Further details and registration information will be available soon at www.ncchoices.com.
From the September 2014 E-Newsletter