Local Food Production - An Introduction to Selling Meat Boxes

Local food production - An Introduction to selling meat boxes

You raise livestock on your croft and would like to try direct selling to customers through meat boxes. But where to start?

Sally Crowe of The Croft, Keiss, has designed a bespoke workshop - condensed from her Box Clever programme - specifically for our local food production series. Drawing on her experience from years of selling seasonal beef, lamb and mutton boxes, Sally will cover:-

• regulations;
• logistics - from live animal to finished product;
• marketing, pricing & sales.

There will also be time for questions.

Book early as spaces will be limited and we anticipate a high demand for this workshop.

Ticket prices:- £5 Members/£15 Non-Members
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Wondering why we ask you to pay for this workshop?

The Scottish Crofting Federation (SCF) is a registered charity and relies primarily on membership subscriptions for its income. We need to keep finding other ways to cover our costs.
The SCF (originally the Crofters' Union) has been championing crofters for 40 years and we want to continue to do so for the next 40!

Membership of the SCF gives you multiple benefits including:- a voice at national level, reduced price training, access to advice from a panel of expert crofters, a free 30 minute legal consultation, news and updates that affect crofting with The Crofter magazine twice a year and monthly e-newsletters.

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This workshop is part of our Crofting for the Future series and is 75% subsidised through the SRDP Knowledge Transfer and Innovation Fund (KTIF), funded by Scottish Government.

With grateful thanks to the Pebble Trust for additional funding support for our Crofting for the Future project in 2026-2027.

The Pebble Trust has a vision for a more sustainable, fair, and low-carbon society, where constraints on fossil fuels lead to a more localised economy with stronger, more resilient communities.