Monday, August 27, 2012

Farm Tour Success!

We had a fantastic time on Saturday during the Home Grown Farm Tour.  The first car showed up at 10:03am and the last car left at 4:30pm with only a 15 minute break all day without someone here.  We had about 40 cars out to the farm and sold quite a few frozen chickens. We also took orders for pork and turkeys.

We of course had a lot of locals, but also had an amazing amount of people from St. Louis.  A couple of people said they found out about the Farm Tour from our mesabifarm.com website instead of the official Farm Tour website, so that was definitely exciting!

It was exciting to see the looks on kids faces and talk to adults who were interested in our methods of farming, our chicken processing setup and how we treat our animals.

We also had a local reporter that chatted with Dan for quite a while and took pictures.  She wrote an article that posted online today that highlights Mesabi Farm along with two others on the tour.  Read the article here:  Daily Journal Online


After finishing with the tour, we got cleaned up and headed to SayersBrook Bison Ranch for the Field Dinner.  The dinner was fantastic and a nice treat to be able to go out without the kiddos for a few hours. I'd encourage more locals to go to the dinner next year.  Here's what they had on the menu...

                               

All said it done, we had a great time participating in the tour and have already been asked if we'd participate next year.  We agreed and already have some ideas of ways to improve upon what we did this year.

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