Jonai Farms

16/04/2026

Have you lost access to your local abattoir, like so many farmers (including us)?

Is your community thinking of building a micro-abattoir?

We are very nearly finished building ours, and so have decided to open the doors next week for a day of sharing how we got to this point so you can too!

Tuesday 21 April from 10-4
129 Morgantis Rd Eganstown VIC
$55 pp, uncommonly delicious lunch included, served with a side of food politics

We are excited to show you what can be done with a bit of determination & hard work!

Learn how to build a farmer-owned micro-abattoir on your farm, from planning and regulations to infrastructure, governance, and finance.

07/12/2025

We have just 9 of these lovely porchettas left for farm gate pick up only. From our Large Black pigs, stuffed with garlic scapes & herbs straight out of the garden, Mount Zero salt & freshly ground L & L Pepper, they each weigh around 2kg.

We are finished butchering for the year so these & 2 large bone in shoulders are the last of the Xmas roasts on offer. Plenty of Tam’s Cumberland & honey mustard sausages in the freezer, & a limited number of jars of pâté de tête to grace your holiday tables!

You can also grab a copy of Tam’s cookbook - a great Chrissy present for the ethical omnivores & food sovereignty minded folks in your lives! The book has helped us raise over $50k of the abattoir funds to date!

Wishing everyone a joyful & safe holiday season as we work steadily on to finish the micro-abattoir early in the new year!

x the Jonai

02/03/2025

Hello friends - we will soon be shutting down this account as I (Tammi) am no longer of Fb, and we're getting vegan attacks again as the abattoir construction continues. My Friday started with a death threat via voicemail at 6:55am.

It seems Meta might shut us down anyway due to some spurious reports of violating standards (one of these reported is 'Spreading misleading information about agricultural practices that undermines confidence in agriculture'), so who knows, maybe it isn't just vegan abolitionists, maybe it is industrial ag or NIMBY neighbours. Our community will know we have rarely posted over the past year or more, and that misinformation is very far from our approach to radically transforming the food system.

For those who would like to keep following our efforts to ensure a habitable and equitable planet for future generations, in addition to the Jonai Farms blog on our website, I've set up a Substack (where I have so far published all the 'Politics of...' sections of my cookbook, with more to come as I find time around the build, normal farm life, and leading a national abattoir campaign). Google 'Tammi Jonas substack' and you will find me. We also have on Instagram.

Look forward to continuing the discussions and debates on platforms that are not controlled by the fascist oligarchy (NB I recognise that Insta is still that, and am working on an exit strategy).