Holiday Challenge!

This email is a gentle reminder that ordering through Gwinnett Locally Grown will close tomorrow (Monday) 9.a.m.

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
June Farm Camp was a HUGE success! Campers milked the goats, washed the pony, fed the chickens, pulled weeds and planted seeds in the garden, and much, much more. Some of the older campers even learned cow herding when our cow decided to visit the neighbor one morning!!!

July camp registration is now open. For information, go here. To book your reservation for your 5-14 year olds, go here. Please note that we cannot guarantee cow-chasing as part of the July camp experience :-)

MARKET NEWS
We have two markets left before the Fourth of July…are you having a cook-out? This is one of my very favorite summer activities and we have a lot of great items on market to make a scrumptious locally grown meal! I buy hamburger every week to slowly add to my stockpile so when a holiday rolls around, I have an ample supply.

So here is my holiday challenge to you: how many items from our local farmers can you share with family and friends at your holiday cook-out? (Shameless Plug: please pick up market brochures to share with your friends and family, we would love to have them as customers too!)

Here are some helpful suggestions. I would enjoy hearing additional ideas that you will be using!!!

Wagon Wheel Ranch – Steaks and burgers for the grill: grass-fed, grass-finished
or try
Anderson Farms pork chops on the grill!
Smokin’ Hot Buns – Mandy makes some pretty awesome hamburger buns from scratch. These can be put in the freezer Tuesday night and thawed the morning of the Fourth for optimum freshness.
Johnston Family Farm – what better way to top off the burger than with hand-made Mozzarella cheese?
Rocky Acres – devil those eggs!!!! (Or make Egg Salad for your vegetarian friends.)
Leah Lakes & Bo & Lisa’s Lil Patch – Lettuce and onions, be watching for tomatoes to be listed for burger toppers. Watch for potatoes too, I love putting potatoes and onions in aluminum foil with some olive oil or Johnston Family Farm butter and tossing it on to the grill. Yum! And because Leah Lakes has about a bazillion kinds of lettuce, a large tossed salad will be a yummy addition.
Smokin’ Hot Buns, Bo & Lisa’s Lil Patch and Sylvan Falls Mill: an ample supply of ready-made desserts, or blueberries or blackberries from Lisa to make your own.
And don’t forget to top it all off with iced coffee from JavaGenisis (save some cream from your milk from Russell), make blueberry milkshakes or smoothies from Lisa and Johnston Family Farm or top it all off with kombucha from Rancho Alegre! Also refreshing herbal iced tea (herbs from Lisa – Rancho Alegre will also have mints and lemon balm listed next week) sweetened with honey.

See you Tuesday!
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. 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!