The Meat Collective

At this time we have no classes scheduled. Please keep an eye on our social media accounts for any updates.

The Northern Colorado Meat Collective brings together consumers, hunters, local farmers, butchers, chefs and meat educators. We are committed to sharing knowledge of how to source, purchase, butcher and preserve local meat. The NCMC partners with farmers who raise their animals humanely and brings them to market with integrity. We have partnered with The Cooking Studio Fort Collins to provide the perfect space for our workshops. Our butchers and chef instructors seek to educate the community about what quality meat should look like, how to butcher it, and the various ways it can be cooked and preserved. Through teaching these artisan butchery and curing techniques, our goal is to help our community cook, eat, and live in a way that preserves and supports our farms and food for generations to come.

We are part of a growing network of one-of-a-kind meat schools and community resources rooted in Fort Collins, Colorado that offers hands-on classes in butchery, meat cookery, and charcuterie. For each NCMC class, local farmers sell whole animals to students, who in turn learn from seasoned butchers and chefs how to transform the animals into everything from pork chops to bacon. Students go home with a lot of good meat and increasingly rare knowledge. Chefs and butchers share their art. And farmers are able to sell directly to consumers who appreciate their sustainable farming practices. The result? A growing community of informed omnivores who support responsible meat production and consumption in America.

​Keep Meat Real. It’s our motto because it’s our philosophy. We believe that everyone is entitled to an understanding of the myriad, often confusing ways that food gets to our tables. The more we become skilled participants in this process, the more control we have over the system that feeds us—and the more we can change that system for the better. A shared education in humane slaughter and whole-animal butchery, cookery, and charcuterie provides an effective path to rethinking our food system. We source good, clean, fair, humane meat from local farms for all of our classes and are dedicated to teaching people how to use the entire animal for food. Eat better meat and less of it—that’s our motto too.

We are currently seeking skilled instructors for our classes. Please email us at pigandplow@gmail.com if you are interested.