It's a crazy summer here at the farm between road construction turning off either the water or electricity on a daily basis or me staying up nights feeding baby pigs after a tough delivery.  Despite everything we've got some delicious meats for you to choose from as well as a couple of special events.  

Canning Class: this coming Saturday

This Saturday, August 6 at 10AM, we will be offering a free canning class at the farm.  Ines Beltran from the Gwinnett County Extension Office will present. I've taken her class and it is excellent. The body of the class is a film from the UGA Department of Agriculture but Ines is a treasure of information for the first time or long time canner. The class will finish with a cold cut luncheon of my roast beef and Anthony Brown's roast chicken. I'll also be making a salad of heirloom tomatoes, cucumbers, sweet peppers and basil from my garden. Please contact me if you would like to attend, and I'll let you know what you can bring to contribute to the meal. Essentially we'll need condiments and sandwich bread. There is no cost other than to contribute something tasty to the lunch.

Beef and Lamb Shares

At the moment I have shares of grass-fed beef available as well as lamb.  Of course I charge by the hanging weight of the animal in accordance with state law, but you can estimate to have paid between $8 and $8.50 per pound for all the meats going into your freezer.  Final weights of beef quarters are currently averaging about 40 pounds, and lamb halves about 10lbs of meat to go into your freezer. 

Heritage Pork Dinner

Tim's Rib Joint in Dacula has generously offered to stay open Sunday August 14 to cook one of my new Ossobaw Island Hogs and sell sampler plates. It will be a full meal with sides included. These little pigs have run feral on Ossobaw Island near Savannah, since the Spanish dropped them off about 400 years ago.  They are renowned for their flavor, and I'll be tasting the pork along with you for the first time. I can't wait. I'll forward specifics about time and cost as soon as Tim gets them to me. 
Please feel free to let me know if you have any questions, would like to place an order, or would like to register for an event.  Anthony Stokes, stokesfarm@bellsouth.net