Emma Jacobs

On a recent Sunday afternoon, the first customers gathered in a nearly empty parking lot behind Quest Diagnostics in Cambridge. A white van pulled in from Stillman’s Farm, a western-Mass producer of organic meat and poultry. The driver and her companion set up a table and coolers of frozen meat, and hung a metal scale from the branch of a small tree.

Unlike your typical farmer’s market, this impromptu sale of local meat was arranged through the personal online networks of JJ Gonson, extroverted food blogger (Cuisine en Locale) and personal chef. Roughly once a month, JJ puts out a call on her blog and people enthusiastically arrive for this, a Meat Meet.

Visit a Meat Meet with our audio slideshow. (Please make sure your caption setting is turned ON)

The winter’s last Meat Meet will convene at 11 Olive Square in Somerville, on Saturday, May 15.