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We’re ‘cooking up’ some special food items for the Mayhaw Berry Festival this weekend. Johnston’s Meat Market BBQ Lunches Johnston’s Meat Market will be here with their awesome mobile kitchen. This is the cooking unit they take to storm areas where the emergency personnel need to be fed by the hundred’s. We’re so glad to […]
The calls have been coming for a while and we finally have had enough growth to process goat. There are a variety of cuts available. We have it here in the Country Store or through Red Hills Online Market. It is USDA inspected, vacuumed packaged and fast frozen. We also have our Mayhaw Jelly, […]
We expanded our “on location” Country Store. Mayhaw Jelly, Pindo Palm, Cranberry Sauce, Muscadine Grape, and some Blueberry Jam are a few of the mainstays. We carry local honey from Full Moon Farms. There are USDA-certified lamb and goat chops, roasts, ground, organs and Merguez Sausage (lamb sausage). We’ll will be giving out samples of […]
This Lamb Chart is in French but I’m sure you recognize the cuts. Hanna went to a paper mill while in France with her club from school and brought it to me as a present. We do now have Merguez (lamb Sausage with no fillers and in lamb casing), Stew meat both boneless and bone-in […]
We are sold out. It depends on your point of view whether that is a good thing or bad. We are happy business has been so good but have had to turn down a lot of folks. Even the chickens are letting us down right now. Our New Leaf Market Farm Tour was such a […]
Forty-five lambs have been born here since January 10! We are about split with male to female ratio. These are Katahdin and Florida Native mix and are available for pets or meat. We breed for parasite resistance and don’t use chemicals or force feed for growth. They’re only around two months old now so they’ll […]
MEAT SHEEP ALLIANCE OF FLORIDA – ANNUAL SPRING CONFERENCE is being held here at Golden Acres Ranch the weekend of April 20-21-22. This is the same weekend as the annual Southern Music Rising in Downtown Monticello. The Meat Sheep Alliance consists of member sheep producers from all over Florida and South Georgia. However, all you […]
Sorry I didn’t make it last week. I had to take care of some animal issues here at the farm due to the sudden shift in cold and windy weather. My plan is to be there this week, December 14 and also Wednesday December 21. Lake Ella Growers Market Wednesday, December 14 3:00 PM to […]
No, you’re not imagining things. This newsletter looks a lot like last week’s and that’s because it’s an update of each of those things. Enjoy! Lake Ella Growers Market Wednesday, December 7 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM I’ll be at Lake Ella Growers Market this week with lots of Cranberry Sauce, Blueberry Jam, Mayhaw Jelly […]
Johnston’s Meat Locker here in Monticello are promoting their new Fundraising Service, and we want to help them do that. The people at Johnston’s are ‘good people’ and a real help to our business and the town of Monticello. You can find out more at the Farm Tour. Also, they’ve just set up a new […]