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Monday, July 30, 2012

Happy Anniversary

It is Venneford Farm Country Meats'  12th Anniversary
selling by the individual package at farm markets

We will be celebrating by giving away door prizes, meat & cheese, running special prices, etc. 
Check us out right here to see what is new for the weekend at the Downtown Appleton Farm Market.


This weekend, August 4
We will be giving away a Door Prize Package (several items)
to the 12 customer of the day
to comemorate the 12 years at farm markets.

Our families have been farming in the New London - Clintonville area for 155 years.  My in-laws changed over to beef farming in the early 1980's.  After my father-in-law became very ill with cancer in the 1990's we started farming on our own.

I had always wanted a little business of my own, so I researched direct marketing and in August of 2000 we became licensed to sell our meat by the individual cut.

Several of our relatives told us we were making a mistake by selling this way.  It is a lot more work, getting up at 3:00am every Saturday, picking up 100's of pounds of meat from the butcher to bring home, sort and organize to get ready for the farm market, the advertising and extra accounting work to just name a few.  And then there are the extra costs involved as well, extra insurance, electricity for 5 large freezers, delivery van, constructing the store front, advertising, etc.

BUT, WE LOVE WHAT WE ARE DOING.

Wednesday, July 25, 2012

BIG SALE ON RIBEYE STEAKS !!

For the last weekend of July is
National Beef Month
we will have our biggest sale yet.
RIBEYE  STEAKS
The more you buy the more you save.

Save $3.00 lb OFF each Ribeye steak. 
Buy just one if you like.
But, 
Buy 4 and get 1 FREE. 
That is the same as $3.50 lb OFF.


Keep checking back, there may be more news yet this week.

Tuesday, July 24, 2012

EAA - Serving up Venneford Farm Beef

Burgers and Pulled Beef

I just found out this morning that the Kangaroostaurant will be at EAA.
They will be serving Burgers and Pulled Beef Sandwiches made from Venneford Farm Country Meats all natural beef on:

Thursday from 5:30 to 8:30
Saturday from 3:30 to 10:00

If you are at EAA make sure you look for their brightly colored mobile kitchen, you can't miss it and you won't want to miss their cooking.  It is great !!!!


Monday, July 23, 2012

New Cheeses and Butchering dates

We will have some new cheeses at the Farmers Market that we didn't have before.
FETA
ASIAGO
and others, stop in on Saturday to see what we have.

Butchering Dates Coming Up:
We will have quarters and halves available for stocking your freezers in August, September and October.
We butcher the first Monday of the month, so if you are interested, we need orders in by the 15th of the month before.

But for August, there is still time to get your orders in.
This time of the year the openings fill fast.  If you have any questions just give a call or email, see our contacts page.

Remember, we now take credit cards so it is easy to put your downpayment on your card and pay a little each month.

Thursday, July 19, 2012

Farm Market July 21

Hello from
Venneford Farm Country Meats

We are restocking on cheese this week.  We are also checking on bringing in more differant cheese or flavors.  We want to add more Low Fat and even Low Sodium cheese.  We will keep you updated on this.
Check out the new tab at the top, I now have all the cheeses we bring listed.

Blueberry Haven is a Wisconsin Blueberry farm that is located just on the other side of the country block from us on County Road XX.  They are now open for pick-your-own.  When driving toward Clintonville, watch for signs on Hwy 45 and county roads D and XX. 

I went to the Farm Technology Days yesterday.  this was the first time I have been able to go.  It was great, so much to see I wish I had another day to go.  My 2 little grandkids just loved the kids area and see the calves and horses.

Check out our referrals under the Contacts tab above.

Thursday, July 12, 2012

July is National BEEF Month

Hello from
Venneford Farm Country Meats

Up Coming Dates !!

July is National Beef Month - week 2

To celebrate National Beef Month we will have several things going on this weekend.
We still have some great prizes left from our drawing last weekend, SO, if you bring back your drawing slip you picked from the can last week and use it when making a purchase this week, you can pick from the remaining ones left.  We still have a 5%off, 10%off and a Door Prize one left as well as others.

Also, this Saturday, The First , 5th and 10th customers of the day will get One FREE RibEye Steak.

Flat Iron steak vs. Mock New York Steak !!
Same muscle, 2 ways to cut it, and many names.

Flat iron steak is the American name for the cut known as butlers' steak in the UK and oyster blade steak in Australia and New Zealand. It is cut with the grain, from a specific muscle in the shoulder of the animal, producing a cut that tastes good, but is a bit tougher because it's not cross-grain.

Mock New York Strip is cut from the same muscle but is cut across the grain making it the second most tender cut of meat from the animal, second only to tenderloin.  This cut tastes like a ribeye and remains moist because of the marbling.  When cut across the grain  it looks a little like a New York Strip which is how it got its name.

We carry the Mock New York Stripe steaks, they come in packs of .5 to 1.0 pounds and have 2 or 3 steaks in each pack.  They can be pan fried, grilled, use for kabobs and much more.  I love them pan fried with lots of onions.

NO it’s not in there....

Our sausage and brats are not only MSG Free but also are Gluten FREE.

Taking Credit Cards !!

Thank you for your patience,  WE are now up and running completely for taking credit cards, swiping them and everything.


Bacon Ends have many uses........

Bacon ends make it very easy to add bacon to salads, baked beans, etc. or anything that you would crumble bacon for.  But crumbled bacon is messy.  Using bacon ends is not.  Bacon ends are cubes or chunks left from cutting the nice long strips of bacon.  They can be quit meaty.  It is very easy to slice off little pieces and pan fry them.  Because they are already small pieces there is no need to crumble.  Fry , drain and ready to use.  No mess.  We have them in Regular ends and Shoulder bacon ends.  The package sizes can vary from .5 to 1.25 pounds.


Remember, we take EBT tokens.

Friday, July 6, 2012


Hello from
Venneford Farm Country Meats

I am sorry that I am posting after so many of you have already checked in today.  But this has been one busy week.  

  
July is National Beef Month
Check out the specials tab above. 

Polish vs. Kielbasa !!

I get asked all the time what the difference is between Polish sausage and Kielbasa.  Well not a lot, the spices and seasonings are the same.  They are really the same thing with 2 different names but, in our case there is one little difference.  I have my Polish sausage made all Beef.  And my Kielbasa is all Pork.  But they are both in brats so you can use them in or out of a bun.

WHAT'S UP ON THE FARM....

Our grandkids were over last weekend and we got lots of pictures of them helping to feed the cows.  I will try to get some of these pics put on our farm page over the next couple of weeks.  Click on the farm sign to the right to see if they are there.

Taking Credit Cards !!

I am very sorry for the bad WiFi signal causing trouble with my taking credit cards last weekend.  I just got a Hot Spot device tonight.  Getting it charged now so I can try it out tomorrow.  I hope to not have any problems with it Saturday.  I want to thank those who trusted me to take down their info the ancient old fashioned way last weekend.

My butcher told me this week that the processing charges for cutting, wrapping, making sausage, etc. will be going up.  So, since is have to re-evaluate my prices anyway, I will look at working it out so that the cost of using the credit card program will be covered.  That means that the 3% charge for using your credit card will be temporary.  Please bear with me, this might be the last weekend that I add that service charge.  I will, however, try to make my price changes as minimal as I can.  Some items will not change at all. 

Thanks for being so patient with my getting set up for credit cards.  Nothing is ever easy even when it sounds easy.

Re-Stocking.................

Apple & Cinnamon Porkie Links this weekend.  12 per pack.