With restaurants unable to buy their lambs, Utah farmers find new ways to get meat to those hungry for it

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The Farmers Feeding Utah initiative has raised almost $150,000 to buy local meat and produce for people experiencing food insecurity. More than 105,000 pounds of lamb and 10,000 pounds of flour have been donated to the Navajo Nation in southern Utah.

According to Matt Hargreaves, Vice President of Communications for the Utah Farm Bureau, the initiative has raised almost $150,000 to buy meat and produce grown by local farmers to distribute to people experiencing food insecurity.

"It does give us pride through all this turmoil we have right now and be able to help just in a small way," says Eliason. Inspiration for the home cook: Slow cooked leg of lamb with smoked eggplant, tomato, garden huckleberry jus, herbs de Provence salad."From day one that has been our mission: know where your food is coming from," says Fahs."The problem is there is not good enough infrastructure to make that happen. That takes a lot of work to do. The logistics are so hard. But we need to be safe.

 

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