El Dorado Meat Collective

While we at the El Dorado Meat Collective are usually spending our time at farms or ranches, cutting, curing, or otherwise transforming meat, or cooking and eating said meat, at times we like to pontificate on all things related to the meat collective. You can find our blog here. Hopefully you will find something of interest to you.

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The El Dorado Meat Collective Moves to Oregon
1/20/2018 5:50:59 PM
The EMC has been in transition with our family move from California to Oregon. We hope to offer some small private meaty events in the near furture. Please see our new Class March -10 featuring Francois Vecchio's Butchers Apprentice collaboration with the EMC in Dayton, Oregon.

The EMC is transitioning to Musetto LLC.
2/3/2016 8:22:20 PM
Just as the EMC was going strong and taking off, my father fell quite ill in 2015 and required my full attention. Now that life is stable again, I want to take this opportunity to update you on changes with The El Dorado Meat Collective. Going forward, the EMC is consolidating with it's parent company, Musetto LLC, dba Musetto Adventures. What this means to you is that you receive all future information, newsletters and events/classes/travel information from www.musettoadventures.com. We will be reseting our step and begin offering soon some classes, events and our new addition, Slow Food travel excursions to Italy!

I want to thank everyone for the support and patronage over the years at EMC!

Lamb Butchery, Johnson Style
12/24/2014 3:30:56 PM

Danny Johnson’s philosophy is, “A good butcher should know how to feed the animal, eat the animal, and everything that has to be done between those two points”. In our February Lamb Butchery class, Danny will focus on the "everything between those two points". Read more about the class on our Classes page.

There is still time for a last minute Christmas present ... or maybe your new year's resolution is to learn to butcher your own dinner. Either way, it's time to sign up for a class before the spring lambs are ready!

Lamb Butchery is the best class for beginning butchers. It's fairly easy to handle and makes much quicker work than butchering your first hog. And who doesn't love a good lamb stew in February or having those chops ready for breaking out the grill when the weather starts to turn in Spring? As with all of our classes, in our lamb class, students will take home their share of the lamb they help to butcher.