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Prairie Fruits Farm Holiday Gifts Now Live + Farmers' Market Offerings
12/10/2009 9:13pm
CSG goes live
It's official: Our Community Supported Goat (CSG) Share Program is now live on our website. Go to www.prairiefruits.com to the "Interact" tab. Click on the tab "Community Supported Goat Share Program" to read a general description of the program. When you're ready to sign up, go to the tab "CSG Member Sign Up" and follow the instructions from there. If you are giving this as a gift to someone other than yourself, you will need to sign up the gift recipient's name and contact information. They will receive their goat certificate of support and T-shirt before Christmas (that is my goal, anyway).
Farm Dinner Gift Certificates
Just when you thought that CSG was a great gift for the locavore-cheese lover in your world, we have decided to spice things up for the holidays by offering yet another gift option. We have set aside 50 "Dinners for two" for the 2010 "Dinners on the Farm" Series. If you go to the "Dinners on the Farm" heading in our website and then click on "Buy Dinners" you will see the description for these gift certificates.
Speaking of farm dinners, those of you coming to the Blind Pig Brewery Beer-Cheese-Hors de Oeuvres Fete at our farm this Saturday (December 12th, 7-10PM) should plan to dress warmly with warm socks and shoes. We have heating for the barn, but it IS a barn with a concrete floor. The current forecast calls for a balmy mid 30's during the day. The beers sound dynamite from the brew meister's descriptions, and should pair beautifully with the tapas and cheeses we are preparing. For those of you with reservations, I will have your names on a guest list and check you off when you arrive.
Farmers' Market Offerings
Now is the time to really stock up on fresh chevre for the winter. Remember, you can freeze the chevre with no adverse effects on taste or texture. We have two more markets to go before the end of the year--December 12th and 19th. We will be attending Urbana's Holiday Market inside Lincoln Square Village, Chicago's Green City Market at the Peggy Notebart Nature Museum and the 61st Street Market at Experimental Station in Chicago's Hyde Park Neighborhood.
We have lots of chevre--plain, herbs de Provence and cracked black peppercorn as well as a few chevre rounds (3 oz.) decorated with either smoked paprika or dried herbs and flowers from our garden (now in a frozen state). These rounds are sure to impress your holiday party guests when you present them with your local cheese platter.
We have a limited supply of Little Bloom on the Prairie (which you can also purchase as a gift through the William Sonoma website or catalogue under Pastoral Midwest Cheese Collection).
We also have Roxanne and Kaskaskia to round out your holiday cheese platters.
In addition to our cheeses, we will be selling the last of our farmstead honey and fruit preserves. Come early to get the best selections.
EAT CHEESE-STAY WARM
It's official: Our Community Supported Goat (CSG) Share Program is now live on our website. Go to www.prairiefruits.com to the "Interact" tab. Click on the tab "Community Supported Goat Share Program" to read a general description of the program. When you're ready to sign up, go to the tab "CSG Member Sign Up" and follow the instructions from there. If you are giving this as a gift to someone other than yourself, you will need to sign up the gift recipient's name and contact information. They will receive their goat certificate of support and T-shirt before Christmas (that is my goal, anyway).
Farm Dinner Gift Certificates
Just when you thought that CSG was a great gift for the locavore-cheese lover in your world, we have decided to spice things up for the holidays by offering yet another gift option. We have set aside 50 "Dinners for two" for the 2010 "Dinners on the Farm" Series. If you go to the "Dinners on the Farm" heading in our website and then click on "Buy Dinners" you will see the description for these gift certificates.
Speaking of farm dinners, those of you coming to the Blind Pig Brewery Beer-Cheese-Hors de Oeuvres Fete at our farm this Saturday (December 12th, 7-10PM) should plan to dress warmly with warm socks and shoes. We have heating for the barn, but it IS a barn with a concrete floor. The current forecast calls for a balmy mid 30's during the day. The beers sound dynamite from the brew meister's descriptions, and should pair beautifully with the tapas and cheeses we are preparing. For those of you with reservations, I will have your names on a guest list and check you off when you arrive.
Farmers' Market Offerings
Now is the time to really stock up on fresh chevre for the winter. Remember, you can freeze the chevre with no adverse effects on taste or texture. We have two more markets to go before the end of the year--December 12th and 19th. We will be attending Urbana's Holiday Market inside Lincoln Square Village, Chicago's Green City Market at the Peggy Notebart Nature Museum and the 61st Street Market at Experimental Station in Chicago's Hyde Park Neighborhood.
We have lots of chevre--plain, herbs de Provence and cracked black peppercorn as well as a few chevre rounds (3 oz.) decorated with either smoked paprika or dried herbs and flowers from our garden (now in a frozen state). These rounds are sure to impress your holiday party guests when you present them with your local cheese platter.
We have a limited supply of Little Bloom on the Prairie (which you can also purchase as a gift through the William Sonoma website or catalogue under Pastoral Midwest Cheese Collection).
We also have Roxanne and Kaskaskia to round out your holiday cheese platters.
In addition to our cheeses, we will be selling the last of our farmstead honey and fruit preserves. Come early to get the best selections.
EAT CHEESE-STAY WARM
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