Burger Night Week 9 (of 23)

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June 26, 2025

Burger Night is open, rain or shine
Thursday & Friday 4pm-9pm
Saturday noon-9pm
Sunday noon-7pm

Welcome to Week 9 of the Burger Night season!

I guess I did something to piss the weather off over the winter because it is NOT playing nice with us this year.

But we are just going to keep on keepin' on and pretend like we aren't even noticing that it's less than perfect....don't even care.

Weather? What's weather? Never heard of her.

Oh! Are you asking if we have any wethers - castrated male sheep? Yes we do!

Oh, you meant weather like the climate? No, I don't know her, sorry.

Ope, excuse me, you must be Weather, sorry, I didn't even see you standing there. Just on my way to set up for Bob's Burgers trivia tonight.

What's that? You were planning on making it rain during trivia? Oh, yeah, I think someone might have mentioned that but you know what? It's totally fine, we've got the pavilion - won't bother us or change what we do even one bit! So no worries! Nice meeting you, have a great day and hope to see you at Burger Night later! Bye! 👋

Weather then gets visibly VERY ANGRY that we are ignoring her and don't care what she does, so she stomps off in a fit of rage to find some poor other schmuck to annoy and she stops trying to ruin every night that we are open.

Please add another win to good ol' Reverse Psychology's playbook

Our beautiful pavilion has got us "covered".

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Some good news! Since we were still weather's schmuck last weekend, we had LOTS of beets left so we are doing TWO Burgers of the Week this week:

Beet, Feta Have My Honey

🌱 NEW Garlicky roasted beet spread
🧀 Feta crumbles
🍯 Honey drizzle
🐮 100% grassfed beef patty
🍞 Toasted, buttery brioche bun

And then our regularly-scheduled program, the:

Jimmy Pesto Pizza Burger 🍕

🌿 Fresh Basil
🧀 Smoked Provolone Cheese
🐷 Smashed Italian Sausage Patty
🍕 Pepperoni
🍅 Roasted Garlic Marinara Sauce
🐄 100% Grass-Fed Beef Patty
🍞 Toasted with Garlic Butter Brioche Bun

We debuted the Jimmy Pesto last summer and people LOVED it.

Unfortunately, I never got a picture so please imagine with me....

No imagination? Here's what AI thinks it will look like.
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Thursday, June 9

Tonight's trivia is all about Bob's Burgers!!

Trivia at 7pm: Bob's Burgers

Remember, we give prizes to 1st place, 2nd place and Last place. Bring your friends!

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Friday, June 27

LIVE MUSIC from Corey Rae White, 5:30-8:30pm

Corey Rae White is a seasoned singer-songwriter with music in his blood and over 3,000 performances under his belt. A former Guitar Player of the Year nominee (Minnesota Music Association), he's known for heartfelt songwriting, electric live shows, and a warm, humorous stage presence. A multiple award-winning artist, White has earned National Native-E Music Awards and Native American Music Awards nominations, including for his song “Dimmer” and collaborations “I Will Always Fight” and “Don’t Keep Me Waiting.” He’s performed with bands like The Johnny Holm Band, CRAE WHITE Band, and Girls Night Out, and opened for stars like Train, Miranda Lambert, Zac Brown Band, and Semisonic. Melody, experience, and soul define his sound - Corey Rae White is the full package.

This will be Corey's first time at Together Farms! Let's give him a warm welcome!
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Saturday, June 28

LIVE MUSIC from YOU! 5:30-8:30pm 🎤

It's KARAOKE night and we want to hear from you! Or maybe that friend of yours that loves to sing?! Bring 'em out!

Best part? Anyone that sings gets a FREE pulltab!

This means that you could get $500 for singing! 😲

You're the star Saturday night! 🌟 Come on out and grace our farm with your unique voice. (Sorry, this is a lot of AI images in one email but I did not get a chance to
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Sunday, June 29

1/2 off kids meals all day.

3 - 5:30pm: Free Xtreme Bingo for the folks over 21 (deluxe prizes pictured below) and free Kids Bingo for the folks under 21!

✨ Remember, you can't win if you don't play! ✨

Let's giveaway some prizes! Every Sunday at 3p, we play 9 games and give out either a huge fancy prize (like 1,000s of $$s) or a practical and modest gift with every round!

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Heads up: Surprisingly, the 2025 season is almost 40% over after this weekend. And who knows what we'll do next year. Plan accordingly.

Farm Store Updates

It's Italian weekend! Let's make some pasta at home!

We've pulled together this cute little bundle with everything you need to have a no-weird-stuff pasta night at home.

You'll get:
--> TF's Italian sausage (could sub with the Midwest-spicy if preferred)
--> Dalla Terra pasta! (made in Wisconsin! Grab whichever shape you prefer!)
--> Good pesto (pesto has one of those ingredient labels that has to be read and I read these before buying and love that it even comes from Italy!)
--> Local Parmesan cheese!!

Almost 20% off, making all of that wonderful-ness only $34.99!!

With all that money you save you should grab yourself a bottle of wine for an even better pasta night that will have you wondering if it's possible for life to get any better.

And it is possible because ice cream was missing.

ICE CREAM UPDATE:

✔ Equipment
✔ Health inspection
✔ Demand
❌ Electricity

We are waiting on subcontractors to get everything hooked up and running! Dang. I really thought it would be in by this weekend but it's looking like it's not (the hot weather last week called a lot of the sub's off on emergency jobs). So, I'm VERY OPTIMISTIC that next week is ice cream debut week!! 🤞

Stop by the farm store to grab this little Pasta Night bundle full of local and authentic ingredients you are going to LOVE!! (But, you'll love it even more if you remember to grab a bottle of wine too.)
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The June Bundle of the Month sold out super fast so we put the July BOTM online early, check it out! We can't wait to meat you!

Thank you for being awesome!

Love you lots! 💚

Steph & the TF fam

p.s. In a desperate last-ditch attempt by Weather to get us to react, she had a tornado warning issued, but don't worry, we have an amazing shelter under the farm store should anything drastic actually happen. Ugh, she's such a drama queen.

p.p.s. Because Blue Ox and Hoofbeats are going on this weekend we are typically not very busy, so if you want to come out on a Friday or Saturday night with less people, this would be it!

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No dogs, carry-ins or reservations (please let us know about groups though). $10 min on cards, ATM on-site.

📍 w93 Norden Rd, Mondovi, WI 54755

See the menus and learn more: togetherfarms.com/burger-night

I am extremely biased that TF, the only "Burger Farm" in the midwest is pretty awesome, so don't take my word for it, check out the google reviews to see what others think, here's an example from Chuck: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Very cool spot.

Pricing Updates & Freezes

Heads up, farm friends, it’s that time of year when all our behind-the-scenes costs start creeping up again, and unfortunately we have to pass along a few updates on delivery/shipping starting tomorrow. We’re still the middle man in a lot of ways, and the middle is getting a little more expensive. 🙃

Celery in meat - more deception?

UPDATE, 12-19-2025: I just learned that synthetic nitrites, aka pink salt, are pink because red dye is added to it. But, since it's at such a low percentage it is not required to be labeled on the meat (more bs in my mind). So that would be a point for Team Celery; however, with red dyes being banned, all the red dyed pink curing salts are now being phased out. So point is nullified, Team Celery still loses. Today we're talking about something that really irks me, really gets my britches in a bunch, really makes my blood boil, really drives me up the wall....but I will do my best to not devolve into anger and name-calling, I am clearly a professional so we'll keep this educational and factual because that's what you're here for and I don't even know where to get knickers from to twist. I'm obviously in such a state of controlled rage because it's Easter and so up popsCELERY. 😡Obviously. The gist of it: My belief is that nitrates and nitrites in meat should be avoided due to the creation of nitrosamines and that this is created whether the nitrates/ites are from the chemically pure lab-created (aka synthetic) nitrate/ite or if they are from concentrated nitrates/ites derived from celery because the same reactions will occur and be treated by your body in exactly the same way and it's best avoided. To further confuse matters, "their [synthetic nitrate/ites compared to those derived from celery] chemical composition is absolutely the same, and so are the health effects," says Joseph Sebranek, Ph.D., Morrison Endowed Chair in meat science at Iowa State University. 1 Just like how my blood sugar will spike if I eat a spoonful of sugar or a hunk of sugar cane. 🥄🌿REGARDLESS of what the label on the raw sugar cane says - it could say "natural", it could say "organic", it could saw "raw", it could say "derived from natural locations".....my blood sugar will spike because my digestive system is 100% immune from marketing gimmicks or downright deceptions.A+ work digestive system....please teach the eyes. 👁👃👁 Finding smoked meats without any added nitrates/ites in ANY form from animals raised well and organically on a small farm and then processed by an animal-welfare approved butcher that cares about health is quite a feat! Congratulations! 🎺🎺🎺Pictured: our $99 March Bundle of the Month (not pictured: included recipe cards and all the transparency we offer, mostly because it's transparent).Now that it's Easter time, the SMALL FARMS I follow are out there telling their customers that their hams are "uncured" and contain NO nitrates/ites because they use "celery" and therefore it's healthy....either they are directly saying it's healthier or are very heavily implying it. But they are literally say "NO nitrates/ites included" in their emails and social posts.Which is actually 3 lies. ‼ Lie 1. It's not uncured. Celery-derived nitrates/ites are chemically the same BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE. No literally. There's more. Since the USDA will not classify celery-derived nitrates/ites as being a curing agent (which makes zero science-sense) they will also not regulate it's use and so it's basically it's like the wild wild west.Not only that, but I have had butchers personally tell me that they then use MORE just to be "safe"!And the fact that nitrate/ite levels in meats using celery-derived nitrate/ite compounds is at least the same as synthetically sourced nitrate/ite was actually found to be true by researchers. So again, the chemical will behave the same, like a curing agent, regardless of how it came to be. Chemistry. Lie 2. It's just some celery - you know, the green leafy vegetable that is good for you. Well, yes but no. That's just like saying high-fructose corn syrup or glucose syrup is corn. 🌽Yes, but no. Yes it was derived from corn but after extensive further processing and concentration. If you told me "here's some corn for you to eat", I would imagine a cob of corn or perhaps a bag of frozen corn, I wouldn't think you were handing me a spoonful of glucose syrup. Same with the celery.They are not rubbing the meat with a stalk of celery, they are highly refining and processing the celery to extract out the naturally-occurring nitrates/ites and concentrate them which they then use as a substitute for pure synthetic nitate/ite curing salts. The entire point of adding the celery-derived nitrate/ites is for the nitrates/ites, not for flavor or nutrients or color or anything else. Nobody is even pretending there is any other reason for it's use except to act as a cure. Lie 3. It's healthier. I feel like we proved the point as far as celery nitrates/ites are the same chemically as synthetic ones and your intestinal tract also can't read, so just like my intestinal tract, it is what it is.The nitrosamines are created and probably cause colorectal cancer. But, wait, the celery option itself actually gets even a little bit worse. Okay, so it's true that nitrates/ites naturally occur in foods - especially leafy vegetables or any veggies with higher water content (because nitrates/ites occur in water) so then the veggies themselves concentrate that, some a little more than others, and we eat it, but that is seemingly okay. Kind of like how nicotine is naturally occurring in some veggies and actually might be good for you in small doses of that raw form, but I'm doing my best to stay focused here. Just remember, the problem seems to be the heating up of the nitrates/ites in a protein-rich environment, not necessarily the nitrates/ites themselves.Okay so what else are veggies that are full of water going to be full of? That's right - pesticides, herbicides and whatever else is floating around in or dissolved in all that water they are drinking or being splashed with. Celery currently ranks #16 on the EWG's pesticide contamination list (again, they don't look at any of the other -ides) and, here's the kicker! Non-organic celery is used to make celery-derived nitrates/ites even for organic products! 3So along with those celery nitrates/ites comes the concentration of whatever else was in that celery. I mean, at this point, if we didn't have this godsend of an option with our butcher of "D. None of the above".-------> we would choose synthetic over "celery". <------- Now at this point I should just leave well enough alone and send you on your merry way to digest all this info but I'm not really a professional like was indicated earlier so before we go, I'd like to show you this label and you tell me if it's telling you the truth and can be trusted or if it's deceiving you: It's hard to read but under the white banner it says "No Nitrates or Nitrites Added" and then in the asterisk at the very bottom in the white it says "except those naturally occurring in....celery powder" which you'll see below was added. 🤣 what?? so which is it? added or not added?That would be like if the Snickers or whatever candy bar said "no sugar added except for those naturally occurring in corn" instead of "high fructose corn syrup". 🤯And, of course, it says "uncured" in giant letters as part of the name, which it chemically is not Again, the back is hard to read though it does say you can have "peace of mind" eating this (more like, I'll give you a piece of my mind Applegate).A close-up of just the ingredients is included. Notice that the celery is not organic even though this is an organic product. It's not just celery. Some butchers will say "vegetable" or use carrots or beets or some other veggie or combo of veggies but it's all the same - a veggie being highly processed to extract and concentrate nitrates/ites to then be used as a better sounding cure. Could actually be worse depending on how much those other vegs concentrate bad stuff. Okay so they both said "no nitrates/ites added" but also then added the concentrated form of celery nitrates/ites which is chemically exactly the same as the synthetic nitrates/ites and behaves exactly the same way....as a cure.Okay and here's a picture of our label - what do you notice? The label says "uncured", the ingredient list does not include any vegetables or any asterisks that say "except for..." so it really is uncured and there really are no nitrates/ites added. Just good meat that was in a salt & sugar brine and then smoked the old-fashioned way using a smokehouse and hardwood chips! No water injections or reforming either. Just a smoked ham. That's right - actually no nitrates added. Congratulations! You have just unlocked a new set of decoder glasses complete with a ring! 👓💍This is a big deal, as the "Celery in Meat" ring + glasses are both are very hard to collect. This got much longer than I expected so I am going to save the butcher story for next week. I am also a little concerned I'm on the verge of starting a cult with all these secret super powers I am giving you so stay tuned for part 2 as to why and how we ended up here - clean meat, raised organically on our small farm and processed well. No way are we going to work so hard on raising the best meat we can (hand-fed pastured pigs!) only to have questionable ingredients added at the butcher! Hard pass. Of course if you want to eat meats with nitrates/ites in any form - great! If you aren't worried about nitrosamines, great! If you don't think I'm right or my references are not trustworthy, that's all fine. Of course, you probably shouldn't expect to be invited to present at the Annual Convention of Chemists, aka ChemCon, but that's fine, you've got better things to do anyway. 🧪 I just want you to be able to have the CORRECT and trustworthy information you need to make those decisions. And right now, "uncured" meats and "celery" are a huge pile of lies, deception and greenwashing. This really might be the worst example of greenwashing I can think of, specifically because we assume the word celery = better and we assume we can trust all these small farms. It's actually worse even than meat being able to be labelled "Product of USA" no matter where it's from because at least small farms aren't doing that to their blindly trusting customers. Ugh, it all just makes me so sad and frustrated. Also a small pro-tip, according to my chef friend, celery is best left out of broth making too as it brings some unpleasant flavors with it (nitrate is that you??). So keep celery in its place: Bloody Marys and we'll all be fine and live forever. Hmm, a drink actually sounds really good right now. Thanks for being a part of our little farm and I hope you really can trust us - I don't think we are self-deceived (although that's the thing about being self-deceived) and we do our best to be as transparent and honest as possible, but you'll never get the full story until our reality show becomes reality. ❤ Your farmer & founding-member-of-the-Church-of-the-Flying-Anticelery-Monster friend, Stephanie Schneider

Holiday & Sale Updates & Deadlines

Since the weather refuses to co-operate I've been trying really hard to get all the products online but whooo boy! It's a big task. I've added a TON though and am actively working through all the candles. It's day 8 of the 12 days and today all candles, melts & diffusers are 20% off!! I love these new candles made from upcycled wine glasses, check them out here! I'm working through the milkhouse candles now - my success here will depend on my level of success in the physical farm store, if we are busy, you won't see much more added, if we are not, they should keep showing up! We have something for all the candle lovers out there:🐝100% beeswax only.🐝100% beeswax with essential oils.🕯️Diffusers with essential oils only.🕯️Soy-wax with high quality fragrance oils.🕯️Electric candles with built-in 6 hour timers, they are even dipped in and made from wax so they look really legit but without the fear of fire or forgetting to blow them out. And without the pain of turning them all on every day! I love them. We have every shape and size: taper, tealight, small and large pillars, toads, mushrooms, fox, corn and more! Even the DIY candles are on sale today! So no matter your candle preference, you'll want to stop by the farm store for some free sniffs today! Open 2-6pm Table Centerpieces Unfortunately, we are woefully low on holiday centerpieces for your table (you guys are learning from all of our selling out in past years!). We have some beautiful pork tenderloins that make a great centerpiece especially when wrapped with bacon (or use a pork roast and make the family-favorite (and easier-than-pie) Bacon-Wrapped Kalua Pork which will IMPRESS). We have hams, but we may need to combine a few smaller ones to get to your desired poundage. No whole beef tenderloins but we do have filets (again, bacon wrapping is pretty spectacular) pair them with a whole side of one of the wild Alaskan salmons and you'll have the perfect surf & turf! Deadlines Until Christmas, ignore the online default deadlines (every time I try to override them, I screw something up): we will ship non-meat orders ASAP until the 23rd (flat $9, free for orders over $179). To bypass the store's limitations, follow these steps. Order MEAT and we'll ship this week if you are ready with Monday the 22nd being our last ship day (and a risky one for some of you, especially since the meat will arrive frozen, so plan accordingly!). Thank you so much for shopping small! Ironically, it makes a WORLD of difference to not just our little farm family but to all the small businesses you buy from through us too. We have 100s in our little farm store that we'd love to show you. ✨ Holiday Sale

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