Not satisfied with going the more standard tent-and-cooler route when selling at farmers’ markets, Ross partnered up with Cane Creek Farms’ Eliza MacLean to create a mobile butcher shop.
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It’s inevitable. When we’re shooting, I flub my lines, lights go out … and we have a great time!
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What’s the benefit of only sourcing pork from Cane Creek Farm and beef from Braeburn Farms? Stability and the opportunity to form deep, lasting, mutually beneficial relationships.
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Braeburn Farms is where everything started for Ross Flynn. He was on his way through this part of North Carolina, heading to take on a new opportunity further south, when the financial crisis of 2008 hit. He was working on Charles Sydnor’s Braeburn Farm at the time and decided to just stay put for the time being. He’s been in Saxahapaw ever since and now partners with Charles as his butcher shop’s only beef supplier. Eliza MacLean was farming with Charles at the time and that’s what connected Ross and Eliza. Now, the three of them form a unique triumvirate of sustainable meat production that can serve as a model for others.
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At Cane Creek Farm, Eliza MacLean raises heritage hogs, chickens, donkeys, sheep, cats and gunieas on her diverse farm. Each animal plays a particular role in the health of the farm’s soil and Eliza moves the hogs around the farm on a rotating basis. She and Ross are close friends, collaborating on the mobile butcher shop that they take to market each week and relying on each other for support and success.
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Ross Flynn has created a unique business model at his butcher shop in Saxahapaw, North Carolina. He sources from only one hog farm, Cane Creek Farm, and one beef operation, Braeburn Farms, to supply his shop. This creates an interdependent system where he has a reliable source for animals raised with the highest level of integrity and sustainability and the farmers have a partner that they can count on to source whole animals at a price they set directly.
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