BN Week 15: It's gonna Take Your Breath Away.

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August 9, 2024

Hello from the farm!!

I know, it's too early to start counting down, but in less than 2 weeks school starts for us!

And, all the crazy weather in the first half means we have a lot of lost time we still need to make up.

So I feel the need to let you know that there are only 8 official weeks of Burger Night left after this one.

8!? 😲

And, who knows when w*!#er will start or what the weather will be like for the next 8!? weekends we have left or what in the world might happen between now and October (for real, the world right now 😬). But here's what I think we do know:

the weather this weekend looks amazing.
the store was just stocked with a ton of new products you are going to LOVE & must check out before the sell out.
we have amazing music Friday AND Saturday night
this week's burger special was LOVED last year
you aren't getting any younger
this is probably the "cheapest" the food and drinks are ever going to be.
all the big pull-tab winners are still up for grabs!
we just got a bunch of new drinks!
you gotta make hay while the sun shines!

Here's the other thing I know: over the winter I asked you guys what your favorite Burger of the Weeks were in 2023 and a bunch of you said the garlic burger, last year called Take My Breath Away.

Well, this must've been a very busy week last year because I never got a picture and I never explained all the toppings online. But, we found the sauce recipe and we think we remembered everything else, you'll have to let us know how close we are:

Burger of the Week: Never Enough 🧄

creamy garlic sauce
crispy garlic chips
roasted garlic spread
caramelized onions
100% grassfed beef patty
toasted, buttery brioche bun

Do you laugh out loud when a recipe says "1 or 2 cloves of garlic"?
Have you never thought or said "whoa, that's too much garlic"?
Do you have a garlic scented candle?
Do you wish we had scratch-n-sniff email technology so you too could smell the heavenly roasted garlic pictured above?
Do you prefer to play it safe when it comes to vampire protection?
If you answered "yes" to any of the above questions then you need to try our Never Enough BOTW!!

Farm Store Sales

In the store we will have garlic cheese, garlic dips, garlic bread, sauces, seasonings (organic and local!), stickers, infused salts, rubs, meal kits, marinades, snack sticks and more! You can find some items online too.

We also just got a TON of new products in: tea towels we love, BEAUTIFUL jewelry, more stickers (it's hard to stop), funny mugs (pet and horse lovers especially) and more! I highly, highly recommend doing a walk-through. 😍

Note that since we have 8?! weeks left we are likely not restocking some of the more Burger Night customer things and definitely not the seasonal things so once they sell, they might be gone for a long time.

Thursday, August 8

Save 20% on the Burger of the Week

Trivia at 7pm: True Crime

Categories: Conspiracy Theories, Podcasts & Documentaries, Unsolved Mysteries, True Crime & Its Place in Pop Culture and MORE!

BONUS: We're going to have our killer cookbooks on sale tonight only!!

Friday, August 9

LIVE MUSIC from The Brianna Rae Duo, 6-9pm

Formed in 2018, The Brianna Rae Band hails from the LaCrosse, WI area and performs as the BRB duo or full band, which consists of 5 members that span over 75 years of collective experience playing worldwide from stadium festivals to corner nooks. Friday night we'll be hosting the band's duo. You'll hear classic rock, alternative, pop rock, blues, originals, and some undefined styles of music from the 60s to the present. They love to put on a show filled with surprises!

We'll be getting the Duo from the Brianna Rae Band! This is their first time playing here so let's give them a warm welcome!!

Saturday, August 10

LIVE MUSIC from The Woodland Spring, 5:30-8:30pm

The Woodland Spring is a high-energy acoustic band from Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Tim, Caleb and Dan come together to form tight vocal harmonies, intricate well-crafted original songs.
Tim Litscher: Acoustic guitar, vocals
Caleb Horne: Mandolin, Acoustic guitar, vocals
Dan Turner: Bass, Acoustic guitar, vocals

The band that introduced me to bluegrass - my absolute favorite music now! I went almost 40 years without really even hearing it. It's all I play at the Burger Night bar now and so many people thank me for playing a bluegrass channel. I'm not alone in this desire!! So why there isn't a mainstream bluegrass radio channel I'll never understand. Probably a conspiracy to make us sad so we buy more pharmaceuticals (I hope you're ready for round 1 of trivia tonight!! 😉).

Sunday, August 11

Family Day! Buy one get one FREE kids meals all day!

Updates

Well, I did the best I could to find you a ticketing option that avoided fees but all I did was make it impossible for you to get tickets at all (I swear that any success we have is despite me, not because of me), so, all tickets are in Eventbrite now, should be easy peesy!

Easy tickets:

Wine Dinner, Aug 14 (menu updated with wines!)
Murder Mystery Party, Aug 21 (early bird pricing until Wednesday!)

TF Event Calendar

We would LOVE to see you on the farm soon! Too far away? We've been uploading lots of reels and we'll be working on lots more, you can watch them here (share, like, comment to help us for free!).

Have an awesome weekend!!

Your farmer & friend,

Stephanie Schneider

p.s. remember, time is elusive. Your mind could think 8 weeks is actually 2 years and suddenly the BN 2024 season is over. Somehow I think 10 years ago was 2001 AND that we've only lived on the farm for about 6 years now (moved here in 2009), so don't let it fool you too!!

Off the Hook Fish Sale is LIVE! 🐟

Our 1st Annual Off the Hook Fish Sale is LIVE and it really is Off the Hook!! ⚓It was exactly one year ago today that we announced a new partnership with Bering Bounty and let you know we had finally found some of the best food on the planet: Wild Alaskan fish.plus it's Lentplus a few of us just realized that we've been through 2 false springs already meaning real spring is pert near here and it's time to hurry up and lose some of that winter weight by eating clean high-protein and low fat (halibut).(Although a few others have decided this is the year the sweaters-in-summer fashion look sticks and we're eating all the Sablefish we want.)plus it's time to start getting really serious about Burger Night again so my ability to manage and run big sales like this will end 3/31 and then we'll all be waiting a long while before any more big sales come up. So: Anniversary + Lent + Weight Loss (or Maintenance 😂) + Burger Night is coming (56 days!) = OFF THE HOOK FISH SALE!! We will definitely plan on doing this every March but one thing with the state of Alaska is they are very strict with their quotas in order to ensure sustainability so we never know how much fish Captain Mark will be able to reel in - some of these cuts may not always be available but we are super stoked that right now they all are!!Salmon Lovers Bundle - savings of 27% plus a BONUS 5% + FREE item if you're a subscriber! Includes: King, Sockeye, Coho + Pink Salmon all wild-caught and never-farmed from Alaska's Bering Sea.We have a lot of new people here so we'll do a quick re-introduction.Because I'm constantly keeping an eye out for the best products I can find for you guys I serendipitously stumbled upon Bering Bounty last winter and was soooo excited! I had been looking for a source of good Alaskan fish FOR YEARS but it was either crazy expensive, mostly unavailable or a logistical nightmare. But the coolest thing is that Captain Mark is a Wisconsin-ite with his own small fishing operation (so a ma & pa, like us!).He harvests wild salmon, halibut, and other fish in Alaska’s Bering Sea, which are immediately processed, vacuum-sealed and flash-frozen there and then brought back to his home state so we can all enjoy some of the world's best and cleanest protein!We are his most northern location so we drive to southern WI every other month or so to do our own re-stocking for you guys. Captain Mark & his pet Octopus (not really) battling Alaska's Bering Sea "the cradle of storms" to bring us the healthiest, cleanest and tastiest protein in the world! 🌎(and yes, even better than our 100% grassfed/finished organically raised beef since the best beef still can't beat the Omegas and other nutrients in Salmon and Sablefish.)What's included in the sale In an effort to live up to the name, we have some pretty off the hook deals ranging from a minimum of 10% off to almost 40% off! 😲 Subscribers (free to join, easy to leave) will even get a BONUS 5% off plus a FREE item for life so really it's 15 to nearly 45% off!! No pressure, I often don't make the best decisions with my (+ Andy's 😉) money so I get it (note those percentages listed above 😂) but if you like good fish at all, NOW is the BEST time to stock up and save! Available raw fish portions from Bering Bounty: King Salmon portionsSockeye Salmon portionsCoho Salmon portionsPink Salmon portionsCod portionsHalibut portionsSablefish portions Like with the beef sale we think the star of the show is going to be the Sampler Bundle and we have 3 sizes to choose from: 1 of each fish (7 portions)2 of each fish4 of each fish: ships for free/reduced, the largest savings of all the deals at 38% off (before subscription savings are added) ✨In addition to the Sampler Bundles we also have the Salmon Lovers Bundle pictured above and a White Fish Lovers bundle which includes: 4 Cod2 Sablefish2 HalibutSave 30%!We even have a Buy 3, Get 1 FREE option for: CodCohoSablefishKing Salmon CaviarMix and Match all your different favorites to get free/reduced shipping and stock your freezer! Not only do we have Bering Bounty to bring us the best raw fish, but I also found Alaska Smokehouse so we also have a source of smoked fish!And, guess what? Smoked fish doesn't need refrigeration or special shipping so we even have a few bundles and a lot of products that can be shipped anywhere!! Right now we only ship our frozen meats throughout the Midwest but smoked & tinned fish doesn't need any special shipping so we even have a few non-perishable bundles, spices, cookbooks and pet treats in our Off the Hook Fish Sale that can be shipped anywhere!For more info on how to do a work-around if our online store tells you we can't deliver to you, see this article. Sorry for the extra step, it's the best our software can offer at the moment and once it's set up, it's super easy! But, wait. There's more! In addition to the raw fish and smoked fish we included a few more products in our Off the Hook Fish Sale: ButterSalt SeasoningsCookbooksDog & Cat Treats Obviously butter, salt and seasonings need to be included, what fun is fish without those??We are so happy to have also partnered with Nordic Creamery and we LOVE their butters. We just added their Pepper Butter (won the Gold last year 🥇) to our line-up, we'll see how it performs compared to our current best-seller, their Garlic Butter (won the silver last year 🥈). May as well try them all while they are on sale! Salt & seasonings....I mean salt is my favorite so we'll always have fun options there but check out some of our seasonings and sauces if you are ready to experiment and have some fun with all your fish! Scared that you are going to screw it up because you don't really know how to cook fish? 😬We've got cookbooks! And, as usual, we'll include some of our free recipe cards too or check out the fish-specific page on our website for cooking tips (Captain Mark prefers to cook straight from the freezer!) or our Recipe Page. We aren't the only ones that love fish - dogs and cats do too! 😺So we included some fun fishy treats for dogs & cats too, starting at just $2.70 - there's no reason to leave out our best friends! 🐶 We even have fishy-treats for our 4-legged friends!! (Lots more to choose from in the farm store if you can come visit!)I hope you’re as excited about our 1st Annual Off the Hook Fish Sale as I am!If you have any hesitation or questions, simply hit reply and ask away!Your farmer & a-fish-ionado friend, Stephanie Schneider

BN Week 15: It's gonna Take Your Breath Away.

Burger of the Week: Never Enough 🧄

Farm Store Sales

Thursday, August 8

Friday, August 9

Saturday, August 10

Sunday, August 11

Updates

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