BN Week 17: Bacon, blueberries and...nachos?!

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August 23, 2024

Hello from Together Farm!!

It's Bacon & Blueberry Week!! 🥓🔵

And, I know you think it can't get any better but we will ALSO have NACHOS and beer-battered onion rings for a limited time!

The nachos will feature MASA chips - made with organic corn and fried in beef tallow!

Burger of the Week: BB's B-B-Blue's

Farm-made Blueberry ketchup
Bacon
Blue Cheese
Basil Aioli
Baby arugula
Brioche bun, toasted with Butter
Brilliant.

Note that the "ketchup" does not contain any tomato ketchup. :)

This was the blueberry ketchup burger from a few years ago, this year's, we hope, will be EVEN BETTER! The Better BB's B-B-Blue's Burger, if you will.
(and, shoutout to the immortal Mister Fluffypants!)

Farm Store Sales

Allllll our different bacons are 20% off! Plus, all the blueberry things are on sale!!

Yes, the sale includes our bacon-onion jam too, as featured on the Good Fat burger! 🥑

Reminder that it's BLT season and that we also have lots of sugar-free bacons if you ever do no sugar challenges or have found a way to live that lifestyle (hats off to you my friend if you have 💪), NOW is the time to stock-up! 🥓

Thursday, August 22

Save 20% on the Burger of the Week

Trivia at 7pm: Disney! 🐭

Sounds like a lot of people want to come to this one (though people tell me stuff all the time so 🤷‍♀️) so I'd suggest coming early to save the best spot!

Want some warm-up questions:

Which Disney princess is the only one based on a real person?
Out of all the Disney films, one main character speaks the least. Which one is it?

Remember: if you dress up you get FREE Bar Bucks!!

Friday, August 23

Steph's Birthday! Help me celebrate turning 64!! (don't I look great for 64?!) 🎉🎉🎉

LIVE MUSIC from Josh White, 6-9pm

Josh White is an American singer/songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and music producer born and raised in Louisiana but now calls Duluth, MN home. His range of music spans from Garth Brooks to, Kenny Wayne Shepard to Alice in Chains and Nirvana. As a solo artist with the ability to sing songs from a variety of genres; he performs the music that the audience in front of him wants to hear.

Bring your requests! Josh will have a QR code on each table for you to "phone it in"!!

Saturday, August 24

LIVE MUSIC from joe g, 5:30-8:30pm

joe g is a singer/songwriter from Marshfield, WI who combines Americana, folk, and pop musical styling with raw, personal lyrics that he hopes resonates with a broad audience. His originals focus on everything from love to pain, joy to sadness. You can expect to hear everything from his own originals to Johnny Cash, Amos Lee, Tom Petty, Elvis, Taylor Swift, Radiohead, Tom Petty, Marvin Gaye to Chris Stapleton.

Whether you’re singing along, or just chillin', joe g’s performance is a not-to-be-missed night of music! (and the weather is going to be awesome too!!)

Hopefully I long ago dispelled the notion of any perfection going on over here and so yes, I am aware that the music does not match the theme of the the week. Usually, we have blue's musicians this weekend but whoopsie daisy! That ball fell on the ground. Maybe next year we'll do it correctly again. So in a perfect world, that's what I would've done, but hey, I'm getting close to 70 now so cut me some slack. (Maybe don't hold your breath for future perfection. 😁)

Sunday, August 25

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

Updates & Reminders

Cup coozies are back in stock!! 🥤

Only 6 more official Burger Night weekends after this one.

Labor Day weekend we will NOT be open on Monday, we'll follow our regular hours.

Steph's Surprise Sale 🥳

You know what my absolute favorite cut of meat is of all the meats we carry?

Chicken Gizzards!!!

Ohmygosh, I just love them so much. They are basically little cartilidge-y chunks of protein and are just the absolute perfect snack.

This is the gizzards-to-go picture I sent my friend yesterday, trying to convince her to ride with me to do Menomonie deliveries. I still ended up going alone....?? Wasn't planning on sharing this with you all but this sale surprised even me!! (getting old has its perks!)

Why are gizzards so amazing?

Well, besides being super easy to cook (I just boil them) and then prepare (I just salt them, sometimes with a spicy salt to really shake things up), they are also:

super high in protein, about 44g/cup (same as chicken breast)
but better than chicken breasts if you're looking to lose weight
- gizzards are lower in calories than breasts
- gizzards are lower in fat than breasts
- but gizzards have the same amount of protein, plus so much more (they are an organ meat superfood!):
Vit B12
Niacin
Riboflavin
Iron
Phosphorus
Zinc
Glucosamine
Chondroitin

I would love gizzards even if they weren't amazingly good for you and so crazy easy but I've always loved eating all the cartilage off every piece of meat, so if you like that too and haven't yet discovered these organ-based one-step PROTEIN BALLS! Now's the time!! (You'll never screw around with making a peanut butter protein ball mess again.)

If you don't like chewy stuff I can't help you yet because I haven't made it past the boil-n-eat stage yet, but I promise there are ways: pickling perhaps? They can also be diced up and tossed in a soup or a stew. Got recipes? I'd love to see them!

Just another underappreciated "rock"star of an organ that can't wait to meat you.

And thus concludes my surprise birthday ode to gizzards. ❤

Hope to see you on the farm soon!!

Your farmer & friend (looking to someday take it to the next level of friendship where I try to bribe you with organ meats),

Stephanie Schneider

How to Change Your Location on Our Website

How to Change Your Shopping Location on Our Website Our website uses “locations” to make sure you see the right shopping options for how you want to receive your order. Changing your location can affect what you see in the store (for example, we do not ship eggs), what delivery or pickup options appear at checkout and the dates that are available. When you might need to change your location You normally ship, but this time you want to pickup from the farm. You usually do local delivery, but you want to grab your order at an event or market. You are ordering for a friend or family member in a different area. You are not seeing the delivery or pickup option you expected. How to change your location Step 1: Sign in or create an accountIf you are being told that we do not deliver to your area yet, click "Enter a different zip code" and use the farm's zip code (54755). Choose any of the listed delivery options but "Pick-up at Together Farms" is great. Step 2: Once you are signed in, go to any page of the website and click the [CHANGE] button in the orange bar toward the top of the screen.If you scroll all the way to the top of the page, it's usually near the top 1/3 middle of the screen. It can be easy to miss though, so we've circled it in red below: Step 3: Click Change A location box will pop up. Step 4: Enter your zip code again Yes, even if you already entered it before. That’s normal. Step 5: Select the new location you want Choose the pickup, delivery or shipping option that matches what you need. If you are still having any trouble, you can always click "try a different postal code" at the bottom and use the farm zip code: 54755. Once you select your new option, the store will refresh and you will be shopping that location. What might look different after you switch This is normal, not a glitch: Some items may disappear or show as unavailable Delivery or pickup dates may change Your cart may update if something in it is not available for that location Locations help us keep things accurate so you are not ordering something we cannot fulfill for that route or pickup point. If you do not want to mess with it If you are an existing customer and you do not feel like fighting the Change button, you can do this instead: At checkout, use Order Comments and tell us where you want your order to go, for example: “Please switch this order to farm pickup - see you next Friday!” “Please bring this to the event pickup.” “Please switch my account to shipping from now on.” We will happily take care of it for you! Out of the area? Right now we do NOT ship our meat nationwide, but exceptions can be made if you're willing to potentially share in some of the air shipping costs. For a custom quote, please include the following: Receiving address (we can not ship meat to PO boxes)Estimated total pounds (minimum 10lbs for mass to help with thermal stability during shipping)Specific items you are interested in. Email that info to steph@togetherfarms.com and I'll get back to you asap. We DO ship non-meat products nationwide though so long as no temperatures need to be maintained with the products (note that some items like tallow lotions may not be able to be shipped in the summer to hot parts of the country), you'll just have to choose "Farm Pickup" for your location but leave a note to ship. For full step-by-step directions go here. Thanks so much!

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