MARKET IS OPEN FOR ORDERING & JUNE MOTHER EARTH MEATS DEADLINES

The Market is open Thursday Noon – Monday 9:00 a.m. After that, ordering is disabled until Thursday noon-ish. Pick up your order Tuesday 4:30-6:30 p.m. only at Rancho Alegre Farm at 2225 Givens Road, Dacula, GA 30019. New to The Market? Learn about how it works here.

FARM NEWS
Camp registration is now open for July. For information, go here. To book your reservation for your 5-14 year olds, go here.

GROUP BUY NEWS – MOTHER EARTH MEATS
For those of you who like to order Mother Earth Meats in bulk, this month’s final order date is Saturday. Please note that Tracy has moved to Saturday deliveries, which will be the last Saturday of this month. This is an effort to keep prices down, so he is setting up a delivery route instead of shipping FedEx. If you have not ordered in bulk before, you can find the instructions in several past web blogs on the Gwinnett Locally Grown website, just scroll down through the blogs. Basically, go to his website at motherearthmeats.com and be sure to use Rancho Alegre Farm’s address as the delivery address (2225 Givens Road, Dacula.)

MARKET NEWS
The remodeling of our store is proceeding. Your orders are now in individual crates stacked on shelves with your invoice attached to the outside of the crate, which eliminates the overflow onto other people’s orders and gives the store more space. There will be help available in moving the crates so you can offload your items into your bags. With this heat, it might be helpful if you bring insulated bags, but we have a healthy supply of grocery bags available if you forget.

We also have an additional refrigerated unit, so feel free to order as much milk and as many eggs as you can consume! The store will eventually have shelves which will allow us to sell even more products than we currently have available. This expansion is extremely exciting!!!!’

Leah Lakes, our veggie vendor, will return for next week’s market. They are on vacation enjoying family which includes a graduation. Congratulations Leah Lakes family members!

We have duck eggs available again as an add-on at market Tuesday (we are out of goose eggs for the season). Also, don’t forget that if you are interested in Goat’s Milk and can pick up any day but Tuesday, contact Nik The Goat Guy at 404-542-0981. Goats have to be milked every day and a week-end pick-up would be lovely. Please contact him first though, we can’t accommodate walk-ins due to hosting private events almost every week-end!

PRODUCER PROFILE
Benji from Anderson Farms has uploaded more pork inventory and will be delivering Tuesday. I especially love his ground pork – the way he raises his hogs produces healthy pork fat, and I tend to mix hamburger and pork together for things like lasagna, pizza, etc. because I think it makes for a fuller flavor. I also add my own spices to ground pork to make my own sausage, because my husband and I have widely diverging tastes, so it’s easy to satisfy us both by dividing a pound in half and adding custom spice blends.

Please share with me your favorite way to fix pork chops! Our recipe section on the Gwinnett Locally Grown website is now enabled, you can add the recipe there, or bring me a copy, or email me, and I will add it.

Benji also will be delivering leaf fat for those of you who render your own lard! Here are excellent instructions, plus information on why lard from properly raised hogs such as Benji’s is very good for a person. This product typically sells out very fast, so order early.

Love ribs? I do! Here is a tip on fixing St. Louis Ribs: There is a thin membrane on the back of the ribs that needs to be removed before cooking. All these years of eating off the farm, and I never knew that! Here is a great YouTube video that shows how and why. Now that I’m doing it, I can tell that there is definitely a difference in taste and texture.

I know people are extremely passionate about their barbecue, so if you’d like to share your recipe, I would enjoy that, and I’m sure others will too. I leave it to you to use your favorite barbecue sauce with the St. Louis Ribs.

Our market listings are growing, and I know this makes for a memory-hogging email, so I thought I would add the market link here, instead of including all of the listings. I hope this is helpful for you.

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Debbie Moore
Market Manager
grow@ranchoalegrefarm.com

Fresh Wishes,
Pilar Quintero
Market Host
Rancho Alegre Farm

Please contact grow@ranchoalegrefarm.com for questions pertaining to Market or Raw Milk. It is very difficult to return phone calls. Remember to interact with us on Facebook and follow us on Meetup to get notification on all our wonderful events and news.