Help us raise $50k for the second stage of building a micro-abattoir at Jonai Farms!
Jonai Farms & Meatsmiths and Pig & Earth Farm are part of a vibrant community of small-scale farmers on Djaara Country working to take back control of the infrastructure intrinsic to livestock farming that has been captured by multinational corporations – in this case, abattoirs.
As farmers across the country rapidly lose access to abattoirs, butchers, grain mills and dairy processing, many are working collectively to protect the future of local food against the domination of corporations. Jonai Farms is one of them, collaborating for many years with Pig & Earth Farm in the on-farm boning room built with crowdfunding support back in 2013.
Now it’s time to build the Meat Collective @ Jonai, a micro-abattoir where the Jonai and several other local livestock farmers will be guaranteed the future of slaughter with the highest animal welfare. Without more of these facilities all around Victoria and Australia, local communities are about to lose access to local meat, as ever-fewer multinationals consolidate ownership of abattoirs into ever-fewer hands keen on export rather than feeding locals.
FUNDRAISER DINNER AT JONAI FARM 3 JUNE 2024
You can lend your support and reward your palate with a delicious four-course meal of local produce prepared by our ethicurean friends at Bar Merenda, with help from the equally community-minded Adam Racina of La Pinta seriously-good-food notoriety. Beer, cider and wines all from comrades across the region will ensure libations will be as delectable and full of integrity as the food. All produce for the dinner has been donated by Jonai, Pig & Earth, Tumpinyeri, Mt Franklin and more…
All of the beverages for the evening have been kindly donated by our friends Love Shack Brewing, Maidenii Vermouth, Lapalus Wines, Minim Wines, Defialy Wines, Joshua Cooper Wines, Syrahmi, Bindi, LattaVino, Musk Lane, A&C Ainsworth, Dilworth & Allain, North Wine.
We have raised over $50k to date towards the $150k build. We aim to raise another $50k on the night between ticket sales and a raffle run hybridly in person and online on the night, with prizes ranging from packs of local pastured meats, mixed dozens of artisanal wines, and more…
To reach our target, we are offering the night at a minimum dinner price of $250 – all food and drink included – with a ‘pay what you feel/can’ option to contribute more. The evening will commence with a farm tour at Jonai to see what has been achieved in the first 12 years, and plans for the next 50!
You can also buy a raffle ticket for an amazing list of prizes, and you don’t even have to be at the dinner to win!
Link to abattoir updates elsewhere on the website, including ongoing fundraiser with Tammi’s forthcoming cookbook – Eat like the Jonai: Ethical, ecologically sound, socially just & uncommonly delicious!