2024 Butcher's Dinner and Barn Dance!
Join the farmers, butchers, and chefs of Medicine Creek Farm, Yker Acres, and Baptism River Barbecue 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, herb salts and teas, wool crafts, apple cider, produce, 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.
Butcher's Dinner
Settle into a rustic dinner featuring pulled pork, barbecued lamb, farmstead brick oven bread, cheese and Jersey-cow butter, herbaceous condiments, and organic salads and sides. Prepared in collaboration with Y-ker Acres butcher Brian Merkel and Baptism River Barbecue Co with locally-sourced ingredients. A cash bar with full drink service will feature drinks and wine from local and natural producers with non-alcoholic options available.
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.
More details and FAQs can be found on the ticketing website!
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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