A LOT is happening at the farm. Major updates on our in-store inventory, Thanksgiving Turkeys and other projects below.
News and updates for this week:
- Inventory update: We have had an extraordinarily busy late summer/fall. Our in-store inventory has been really light for a few reasons: Wholesale orders are booming for local restaurants and stores. Our store has been busier than anticipated and we had a great farmer’s market season. RRR has been great and their busy season is early fall/late summer and it’s been hard to squeeze in more animals to process.
- We’ll have a fully re-supplied store in all your favorite cuts of beef, pork and lamb towards the last few days of October/first week of November.
- We realized we needed to expand our processing capability to keep up with demand. We’ll remain a partner of RRR Meats in Buckley where all of our meat has been processed to date and we’re adding Byron Center Meats in Grand Rapids as a secondary processor.
- Expect to see some new cuts, new packaging and more of your favorite meats as our inventory is resupplied over the next two weeks.
Thanksgiving Turkey Ordering:
- Turkeys are on sale now! Now that we have a store on our farm, we won’t require and pre-orders or down payments. All our Turkeys are available in our store starting today.
- We heard great feedback on our 2023 turkeys: they tasted delicious but they were huge! We scheduled our flock this year to trim down their size to better fit your oven.
- Birds will weigh 15-20 pounds each. The turkeys will be sold frozen and our price is $5 per pound.
- Our turkeys spent their lives foraging on pasture, eating locally-sourced non-GMO feed. These birds were raised in northern Michigan on the same farm where our chickens are raised and help support local, family-run agriculture.
New products in stock now:
- We now have whole Muscovy Ducks in stock in our store. Ducks were just processed and look fantastic. Ducks are $9 a pound.
- We also received a re-supply of Hot and Sweet Italian pork sausage along with pork breakfast sausage links, which many of your will see in your Meat Club bag this week.
Pole Barn Expansion:
- Our new pole barn is coming together! See below for some pictures of the project as it’s coming together. This will be dedicated to egg processing space for wholesale and a small commercial kitchen.
Your pasture-raised meat cuts are ready for pickup! Here’s what’s in your bag for Friday, October 18:
Great Lakes Fish: Whitefish and smoked trout pate this week! Our double fish subscribers will also see smoked salmon pate and smoked salmon filets.
Lamb: Whole boneless leg of lamb this week! Never cooked a whole leg? Don’t save this roast for a special occasion. It’s perfect for a crisp fall weekend. Check out this recipe for Slow-Roasted Boneless Leg of Lamb
Pork: Breakfast sausage and picnic roasts this week for our 25 lb. subscribers! The picnic roast comes from the shoulder of the hog, a cut known alongside the loin, belly, and hind leg. Check out this great recipe for Easy Slow-Cooked Pork Picnic Roast.
Our 50+ lb. pork subscribers will see breakfast links, hot and sweet Italian sausage along with ground pork instead of the picnic roast.
Beef: Per our note above about inventory, beef inventory has been light lately. This week is a little bit of a mix. Our 25 lb. subscribers will see a mix of arm roast, ground beef, and possibly one of our rarer and harder-to-find steaks like tri-tip, flat iron, hanger. Some will see a smaller arm roast and ground beef and others will see just a larger arm roast. We keep detailed records on what each member receives and if you didn’t get a hard-to-find steak this week, you’ll receive one in a future pick-up.
Our 50+ lb. subscribers will see a unique steak mentioned above along with ground beef, and 1 or 2 packages of our all-beef hot dogs.
Chicken: Check out this great recipe for Peruvian Roasted Chicken
Dave had a blast working this mini excavator. Bill and Adam did a great job at admiring his work digging trenches for plumbing.
Muscovy Duck is in stock! Pick one up today for $9 a pound. Thanksgiving Turkeys will also be in stock starting today.
Don’t know what to do with a whole duck? Check out these recipes:
