Everything about Jon and Robin McConaughy’s Double Brook Farm on-farm meat processing operation defies conventional wisdom. They went super-local in the face of meatpacker consolidation.
They went multi-species in an era of specialization.
And their quiet little slaughter-house is situated a stone’s throw from million-dollar homes in the suburban Hopewell Valley near Princeton, New Jersey.
The McConaughys started…
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