Why Buy A Whole or Half Lamb?

It is, after all a big commitment and a significant cost…

Let me tell you about my experience deciding that my family and I were going to start trying to source better meat. 

Buying better meat to me means sourcing it from my local region, from farmers whose practice I know, cares for and improves our environment. Because you and I don’t want the alternative to that, which is to buy from the centralized, commodity system at the grocery store, where the farmer only gets $.12 to the dollar, and there is no accountability for practices and land stewardship.

For someone like me, price is a big factor. Buying good meat is no doubt more expensive, but buying a whole animal is a good way to stabilize the cost. Though I haven’t done this accounting personally, I would wager that what I spend per cut week to week at the grocery store ends up being way more than just a lump sum for a full freezer. By forward planning and filling our freezers with a whole lamb, we can get every cut, including the very fancy expensive ones like ribeyes and rack of lamb, for only $10/lb, (grocery store ground lamb is currently 8-9/lb.