Farm Tour

At the end of August our county has an event called the Homegrown Farm Tour. Within about 20 minutes of us, there are several farms. Some small like us, others are large 2500 acre spreads. The Homegrown Farm tour puts an emphasis on eating locally and natural, healthy foods. The event is held over the weekend and is a self-guided tour of nine farms. You're given a map and just roam from farm to farm. Here's some of the things we saw on our tour...

Llama's...

Goats...

And Bison...

Dan and Samuel looked at a restored log cabin at one of the farms....

At the bison farm, we browsed through the gift shop.  We found a cute bison horn hat that stayed on Samuel's head only long enough for this picture...

After the farm tours ended, the committee hosting the event held a Field Dinner.  To follow the 'homegrown' theme, dinner highlighted seasonal veggies, meats from local farms and wines from the vineyard where the dinner was held.  In addition to bison and lamb from local farms, Dan and I had the privilege of donating ham for the dinner.  Each of the farms that donated meat were asked to say a few words about their farm, how the animals are raised, etc.  After eating more food than should be allowed, we had quite a few people come up to us letting us know it was either their favorite dish of the night or it was the best pork they've ever had!  We left the dinner having made some new friends, a small business arrangement with the vineyard and an invitation to be on the Homegrown Tour next year.  All in all, it was a good day for our little farm!