Butcher's Dinner and Barn Dance

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About

Join the farmers, butchers, and chefs of Medicine Creek Farm, Yker Acres, Baptism River Barbecue and Denham Run Bar & Grill for a full-fledged farm-to-table community event!

4pm Regenerative Farm Tour
5pm Cocktail Hour & Market
6pm Butcher’s Dinner
7-10pm Barn Dance featuring Heartbreak Affair

Regenerative Farm Tour

An afternoon of learning and fun will start with an immersive soil health talk and regenerative farm tour. You will traverse the pastures to meet the cows, sheep, pigs, and chickens of Medicine Creek Farm while learning about rotational grazing practices, beneficial microbes, carbon sequestration, and livestock guardian dogs.

Farmers Market & Cocktail Hour

Following the tour we'll have a farmers market featuring the wares and products of local farmers such as beeswax candles, tallow lotions, soaps, herb salts and teas, wool crafts, fruits and vegetables, and cottage foods. Grab a cocktail featuring locally sourced beverages while enjoying the bucolic scenery. Kids activities and games will keep the little ones busy while you chat with area farmers and shop for goods.

Vendors include:
Uncle Herman's Farm
The Gothic Farmstead
Heirloomista
Stone Creek Farm
Ewe Betcha Market
Birth of Venus Botanicals
Yarrow Bone Farmstead
The Land Stewardship Project
and more!

A cash bar will feature cocktails and wine curated by the Libation Project from local and natural producers with non-alcoholic options available. Beer with support from our friends at Moose Lake Brewing and cider from Sapsucker Farms Yellow Belly Cidery.

Butcher's Dinner

Settle into a rustic dinner featuring pulled pork, barbecued lamb, Laune Bread, Jersey-cow cheese, herbaceous condiments, and organic salads and sides.

Prepared in collaboration with Y-ker Acres butcher Brian Merkel, Baptism River's barbecue master, and Denham Run Bar & Grill's excellent chef with locally-sourced ingredients from:

Medicine Creek Farm
Y-ker Acres
Abraham's Table Farm
Rising Phoenix Community Farm
Food Farm
Shepherd's Way Farms 
and more!

Barn Dance

Following dinner, the hayloft will be hopping with the two-stepping sounds of classic country band Heartbreak Affair as we revive the tradition of the old-fashioned barn dance. A cash bar will be available throughout the dance.

Sponsors

Many thanks to our generous community sponsors!

210 Gallery and Art Center
T Stanway Carpentry
Twin Pines Veterinary Clinic
Compeer Financial
Climate Land Leaders
Pine County Soil and Water Conservation District

This event has been organized in collaboration with a project through Renewing the Countryside, the Sustainable Farming Association, and the Minnesota Farmers Union to promote and expand agritourism opportunities through local on-farm events.

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