The Portland Meat Collective brings local meat to local people. It's a network of Portland citizens who are looking for a cost-effective way to buy meat directly from Oregon's small ranchers. While PMC is modeled after traditional meat CSAs that are popping up around the country, it is also an up-close-and-personal traveling butchery school. Once PMC procures that whole cow, pig, or lamb, members can take part in master butchery and charcuterie classes with Portland meat masters. They'll get to decide how they want their animal carved up. They'll wield knives and bags of curing salts. And they'll learn what to do with all those specialty cuts once they're at home in the kitchen. PMC brings a dynamic, local, sustainable approach to buying and eating meat straight to the people.

PMC will launch its Meat CSA and Butchery Classes in early 2010.

Stay tuned for a schedule of PMC classes and events, as well as a guide to buying meat directly from Oregon farmers through PMC's Meat CSA.

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