BN Week 19: GOAT week + flannels & friends & fire!

written by

posted on

September 4, 2024

Hello from TF!

Looks like we've got a gorgeous weather weekend which is perfect because we have an amazing line-up of farm fun so we hope you'll visit us (at least a few more times before the season ends....in 5 weeks)!

This weekend is looking a bit cool so throw those flannels in the car and make plans to join us by the fire! (Bonus points if you're the person the smoke is always attracted to. 😂)

Burger of the Week: A Burger Named Goat

A toasted ciabatta bun
100% grassfed beef patty
Creamy Goat cheese
Roasted Roma tomatoes
Garlic & fresh basil mayo
Drizzled with a balsamic reduction
Optional, but not optional: lettuce & red onion from the Burger Bar

Another fan favorite BOTW!

A Burger Named Goat....even if you don't love goat cheese but just tolerate it, you'll probably really love this burger. It's worth getting, even if only for the garlic & basil mayo. 😋
Bonus Fun: Feed a leftover fry to a Sheep Named Goat (the burgers namesake) before you leave.

Farm Store Sales 🐐

You'll find all goat products and all G.O.A.T. (Greatest Of All Time) products on sale in the farm store and online this week, including ground beef, bacon, Onion-Leek brats, and more!!

Free gift with every on-farm store purchase >$100 this weekend too!

Thursday, September 5

Save 20% on the Burger of the Week

LAST Trivia at 6:30pm: Friends

Note the earlier start time. Looks like the weather is going to be nice for us too!

Remember a flannel (sun sets a little earlier here) and bring your friends! 😉

Friday, September 6

Meet the Makers! 5ish-8ish

Bring your questions and get ready to try some unique products you didn't know you loved & needed! 💚

Tapped Maple Syrup

Try their infused syrups before committing to a bottle, be sure to try the savory ones too, like the black umami garlic and they have drink mixes!! (Reminder about upcoming holidays!)

Terravee Naturals

Erica will be restocking your sold out favorites and bringing NEW products for hair, hormones, sleep, pain and, perhaps most importantly right now, immune boosters!

Sooooo much awesome stuff. She'll be happy to help walk you through your questions and let you try a few of the try-able things like elderberry syrup, tonics and more!!

LIVE MUSIC from The Northwoods Bassist, 5-8pm

The Northwoods Bassist, from Merrill, WI, expands the roll of the bass player beyond what is considered to be traditional, creating a unique and memorable experience that you won’t soon forget. You can expect to him to perform recognizable cover songs on his play bass, lead, rhythm and sing to a drum track. rom genres across the board. You’ll hear classic rock, country, soul, and pop from Jimmy Hendrix, Styx, Ricky Van Shelton to Jason Aldean, Rick Springfield, Ottis Redding, Wilson Pickett, and Al Green, literally a little something for everyone.

Enough lead guitar already! I'm ready to be impressed by a bassist! Are you??

Saturday, September 7

LIVE MUSIC from Nick Hensley, 5-8pm

Hensley’s alias, stage name and alter ego, Love Songs For Angry Men, was born as a joke on the editor of the City Pages, 10 years later...THE NAME WON’T GO AWAY! Hensley’s 3 STUDIO ALBUMS were released to sold out crowds in Saint Paul and Mpls, MN. The albums are available at all major retailers and the web. All three records have received rave reviews from different media outlets including Paste Magazine and AltCountry.com and a “best of” 2014 local selection of the City Pages.
Hensley has maintained a full schedule since 1998 playing more than 200 shows a year throughout the North America and overseas. They have shared the stage with several National acts including: The Why Store, Alex Ligertwood of Santana, Fastball, Big Head Todd and The Monsters, The Gear Daddies, The Samples, The Pines, Semisonic, Trampled By Turtles, John Hiatt, The Wallflowers, Soul Asylum and countless others.

Okay, that was really impressive and the only non-lead guitar solo act we know of, so now back to the lead guitar!

Sunday, September 8

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

UPDATES & REMINDERS

First, the bar is FULL of lots of great drinks! We're moving into fun fall-ish beers now and playing with some new seltzer flavors. 🍻

Now that we are post Labor Day, schedules do start to change a bit:

Friday music is not scheduled until we see how the weather looks.

Music Friday & Saturday starts earlier now, at 5pm.

Open Later!

The farm store will now be open until 6pm on Mondays and Tuesdays. Winter hours are still being decided, any thoughts? Hit reply!

Closing Earlier??

The "ish"s are back on Friday and Saturday night closing times since it gets dark early and can get very cold early. We may close at 8:30 if the weather and darkness lead us to believe no one else is coming, so if you are coming after 8pm, call or text to make sure the kitchen will be ready for you!

The bar and fire keep going until everyone's had enough though. So no hurry there. Just one more. :)

Closing, closing

Sunday, October 6th is our official last Burger Night of 2024.

We may do pop-ups on the weekends if the weather is nice, depends on how the pre-winter projects are moving along. Let us know if you want to help!

Hope to see you on the farm or online soon!!

Your farmer & flannel & fire-loving friend,

Stephanie Schneider

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 19: GOAT week + flannels & friends & fire!

Burger of the Week: A Burger Named Goat

Farm Store Sales 🐐

Thursday, September 5

Friday, September 6

Saturday, September 7

Sunday, September 8

UPDATES & REMINDERS

More from the blog

Off the Hook Fish Sale is LIVE! 🐟

2025 Winter Beef Sale is LIVE!

Herbs for Heart Health & Beyond

Local Farm • Grass-fed Beef • Meal Kits • Burger Nights • More