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| feral trade liverwurst |
| Organic liverwurst farmed by Dominic Palumbo from Large Black Pigs, a heritage breed. Liver is like the Dow Jones Industrial Average of the organic farming world: it concentrates, measures and collects the value of organic farming and gives a good indicator of how different that is. The liver is a bio-indicator, a measure of value and health where the value of the organic is amplified.
ferally traded since: 05/03/11.
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| | FER-1588 | | Moon in the Pond Farm Massachussets, USA to Environmental Health Clinic New York, USA | | dispatched 05/03/11 delivered 05/03/11 |
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COURIER:
 natalie jeremijenko
Yo Jeremijenko-Conley
kate rich
Dominic Palumbo
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| TOTAL ROUTE:
Moon in the Pond Farm-Wassaic Station-Southeast Station-Grand Central Station-Bleecker Lafayette Subway-1 Washington Sq Village--Environmental Health Clinic |
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| liverwurst Moon in the Pond Farm to Environmental Health Clinic
1. Large black pig bunch 2. hang hams 3. Moon in the Pond farm scene 4. commuter bag Metro North |
| Shipping Facts |
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| FER-1588 import purchase & freight
| | 1 x liverwurst .5lb approx | gross | per .5lb approx |
| long car dash Moon in the Pond to Southeast courtesy Dominic Palumbo | $0 |
$0.00 |
| Metro North train Southeast to Grand Central | $16 |
$16.00 |
| Subway to Bleecker | $2.25 |
$2.25 |
| total | $18.25 | $18.25 |
| | Courier Report FER-1588 DISPATCHED: 05/03/11 DELIVERED: 05/03/11 kate rich We left the farm at around 530PM Dom driving, to meet the last train back to New York City the 6:21 from Wassaic, it being a Saturday. Dom was driving Paul the farm apprentice's car due to a collision the previous day with a temporary ditch in the bitumen, a harsh-winter occurrence caused by rapidly freezing water under the road, which took out his entire engine via a catastrophic oil leak. At 6:24 it was clear we would not make the station so now driving hell for leather Dom generously steered us a further hour south into New York State, to catch a direct train from connection hub Southeast. We arrived there with 45 minutes to wait form the train, in which time we went for pizza. The direct train departed 8:13 running straight to Grand Central. Subway Grand Central to Bleecker was relatively straight forward, walked to Washington Square Village where the liverwurst was warehoused overnight. |
Dominic Palumbo Our pigs, because we’re on a small scale and they’re interacting with people all the time, basically there’s a relationship there. In order to move them quietly we have a livestock trailer and we back the trailer into their pasture and we put some hay in there for bedding and leave it there for a day or two. In their natural curiousity they’ll go up and lay inside the trailer and we go out in the morning and close the door and drive away. We take them 30 minutes north to the slaughterhouse and contrary to what most people think they’re not freaking out or screaming, we get to the slaughterhouse and open the trailer door and we wait for them to make their way out. They walk out and - it sounds like I’m justifying, but in point of fact they walk right down the slaughter chute, they’re kind of interested, and they go into the place where they’re slaughtered and they’re shot directly in the head, to immediately render them senseless.
The livers I then need to transport to the sausage maker who is a three hour distance from the slaughterhouse. I get the pork livers with the accompanying pork fat that makes it creamy and smooth and spreadable, and take those things down to a German sausage maker in southern Connecticut - we’re in the south-west corner of Massachussets. He combines the ingredients that we provide and makes the liverwurst.
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| freight and handling liverwurst to Environmental Health Clinic sponsored by |
| | FERALTRADE products passed by hand. The word 'feral' describes a process that is deliberately wild, as in pigeon, as opposed to nature wild (wolf). Feral Trade freight operates largely outside commercial channels, using the surplus potential of social, cultural and data networks for the distribution of goods. contact kate@feraltrade.org |
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