December schedule-Lau Family Farm Grass-fed meats
Lori Anne Lau
LAU FAMILY FARM, LLC
Grass-Fed and Finished * No Antibiotics * No Hormone Implants
December 12th: Logan @ Crumb Brothers Bakery - 9 to 10:30 am
Pocatello @ 420 N Main - 1:30 to 2 pm
Idaho Falls @ Key Bank Parking lot along Broadway - 3:30 to 4:30pm
December 19th: Salt Lake City @ Rio Grande Depot Winter Market - 10 am to 2 pm
Ogden @ parking lot behind Grounds for Coffee on Harrison and 30th - 4 to 4:30 pm
· We have a full variety of lamb cuts available again. Chops, roasts, ground lamb, etc. We’ve got it.
· New batches of lamb and beef sausages are ready for us to offer to you-if we can just get them down from Mackay Idaho where our sausage maker is located. We are hoping to get this done next week.
· We are able to take additional quarter and half beef orders, as well as whole and half lamb orders.
· We’ve got a couple of tenderloin roasts that are available for your holiday meals.
I’m having a hard time believing that it is December already. I’m not sure where the last 11 months have gone.
Progress is being made toward being made toward being ready for winter. The sheep have been brought to our home farm for the winter and spring. We got the meat lambs separated from the ewes, the ewes with udder issues identified, and the replacement ewe lambs ear tagged and vaccinated. John has brought the yearling cattle home too, and got them vaccinated as well. Sunday we’ll bring this year’s calves here for the winter. They were vaccinated, and the cows pregnancy checked earlier this winter. John and Tom moved a lot of gravel in the last couple of weeks so as to make the road more passable this fall and next spring, and fill in various low spots around water troughs etc. Various fences have been getting a makeover, and equipment stored away for the winter.
I had the new experience of showing up for jury duty this week. I must say while it was interesting to learn about the process, and it is critical that people serve, I was relieved to not have to serve on the jury for what is expected to be a 7 day trial. The whole process did leave me with questions about how the civil trial system works…but I’ll have to table those for now. I’m sure glad my name wasn’t called and I wasn’t being grilled as one of the 24 potential jurors for the 6 hours. I’m not sure they would have appreciated by answers if I’d ever gotten into the hot seats…but maybe I would have gotten out of there earlier than 6 hours after showing up.
We are looking forward to seeing Tom perform in his first social dance club performance next week. He got put in the polka group, and has something like 10 lifts of his partner to do. Becca is enjoying her last year of middle school too. Both are doing well in school. Tom has put his first major dent in a vehicle thanks to icy roads by Grandpa’s house. Thankfully, he did not injure himself or the other driver, nor was the other vehicle really damaged. We are so looking forward to our insurance rates going up.
I’m freshly returned from the Idaho Farm Bureau Federation meeting. My head is spinning with all of the information, and ideas I gathered. I am so thankful that I found an organization where a “recovering city slicker” from California, who has a small farm, and niche markets their product, has an equal opportunity to be heard. I will never be part of the “good ole boy’s club”, but I don’t need to be to be able to influence this organization. It may take years for the seeds of ideas I help plant to flourish but several of them have germinated and are gaining strength.
We are looking forward to 2016 and we appreciate your going with us on this journey. Finding a path for our small herd of cattle and sheep and the land we steward to support our family has not been easy. This path still has its inherent challenges, but knowing you are all going along for the ride with us helps so much
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Many thanks for your business,
Lau Family Farm, LLC
Grass Fed Beef, Lamb & Wool...A Natural Choice
PO Box 337
Soda Springs, ID 83276
208-709-4981 (cell)