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Lauren Owens Lambert is a photojournalist based in the Boston area whose work has a creative focus in documenting the human aspect of conservation and climate change research.

Photo Essay: Bringing the Butcher to the Farm

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February 20, 2020

Jim Wieringa hangs the last of the fresh meat and edible organs in the cold storage room of the truck. One of the Island Grown Farmers Cooperative members, Ruthie Dougherty, director of Coffelt Farm Stewards on Orcas Island, has been working with the mobile unit since 1994. “Without the unit, there would be no island meat producers; without the unit, we're pretty much toast here," Dougherty said.