Fundraiser for the Meat Collective Abattoir at Jonai Farms - a nose to tail feast - presented by Jonai Farms & Meatsmiths, Pig & Earth Farm, and Tumpinyeri Growers, in collaboration with Bar Merenda and La Pinta!

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 Growers, the Orchard Keepers, Wombat Forest, Twofold Bakehouse, Burrum Biodynamics, Wildwood Organics, Mt Franklin Organics, Long Paddock Cheese, and Madelaine's Eggs.

All of the beverages for the evening have been kindly donated by our friends Love Shack Brewing, Maidenii Vermouth, Minim Wines, Defialy Wines, Joshua Cooper Wines, Syrahmi, Bindi, LattaVino, Musk Lane, A&C Ainsworth, Dilworth & Allain, North Wine, Patrick Underwood.

The Jonai have raised nearly $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, dinners and lunches at the region's and some of Melbourne's best restaurants, 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!

We are also running a very special raffle with prize winners to be drawn on the night, tickets for the raffle can be purchased here:

https://events.humanitix.com/jonai-abattoir-fundraiser-raffle

Link to abattoir updates on Jonai Farms website, including ongoing fundraiser with Tammi’s forthcoming cookbook – Eat like the Jonai: Ethical, ecologically sound, socially just & uncommonly delicious!