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The Lopez Community Land Trust has developed the mobile processing unit, and is currently leasing the unit to the Island Grown Farmers Cooperative. The first such unit to receive a USDA Grant of Inspection, the MPU allows local farmers to supply their community with healthy and wholesome, locally grown meats.
With the mobile unit, animals are slaughtered and USDA-inspected on-farm, serving the community in a number of ways:
Cuts of meat from the MPU are available from many retail outlets in Skagit and San Juan counties, including Blossom Grocery on Lopez, at the Mount Vernon Co-op and at the IGFC retail outlet in Bow. For more information contact Bruce Dunlop: bruce@lopezislandfarm.com
** MPU In the News ** On September 5, 2008, The Wall Street Journal published an article entitled: Have Knife, Will Travel: A Slaughterhouse on Wheels'Custom Butcher' Gives Small Farms New Option to Sell Local ProduceSee www.wsj.com and do a search to read!
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