Donate $250 to Receive This Gift:
(Gift offer ended August 31, 2012)
Benefactor Appreciation Event
Polyface Farm | Swoope, Virginia
Saturday, September 8, 2012 | 9:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Donors providing $250 during the 2012 FundRAISER are invited to a very special event at Joel and Teresa Salatin's Polyface Farm in Swoope, Virginia.
Highlights will include Joel's behind the scenes in-depth tour of Polyface Farm, local wine sampling, out door over-the-top barbeque and local foods lunch with the Salatin family, interns and staff, your very own $10 shopping gift certificate, and door prizes including a shopping spree at the Polyface Farm Store.
**NEW THIS YEAR – Each adult guest will receive a $10 shopping certificate for use in the Polyface Farm store!
Participation is limited to the first 150 RSVPs received.If you want to attend, don't delay! Donate $250 now to join in the fun!
PLAN FOR THE DAY Although we list 9:30 am as the start time, why not plan on arriving a little early, as early as 8:30 a.m. Those country roads winding to Polyface are beautiful in the morning mists. When you arrive, there will be plenty of pasture parking, a warm welcome and the aroma of your lunch slow-cooking coming out to meet you.
Oh, you are in for a treat or two!
The fine meats of Polyface have their match with the skills of Jed Shaner, Joel’s school chum, friend and neighbor. Using a recipe that’s been in his family for five generations, Jed will marinate the meats for days and days, and then slow cook them for hours onsite at Polyface. The smoke of his craft will waft out to greet you as you pull into Polyface and he promises to have you salivating all morning!
So, to hold you over, we'll be providing you with a sunrise surprise - a yogurt, local honey, granola and seasonal fruit treat to start the day from 8:30 am - 9:30 am
Joel will hook up the tractor to the hay wagons, and our tour will start at 9:30 a.m. and take approximately 2 1/2 hours total. We'll be touring all the key areas in Polyface.
You'll see Pigaerator Pork, Salad Bar Beef and Pastured Poultry (broilers and layers) operations up close and, even better, you'll be treated to Joel's wisdom and humor along the way. Imagine being able to tell the folks back home about Polyface's "stackable, synergistic, symbiotic, multi-enterprise, multi-speciated pasture-based model"!
Want to learn more before you attend? Check out the informative videos from the 2010 tour.
The tour will have us back around noon, and you'll have a couple options. With lunch served at 12:30 pm, you can wash up for lunch, sample local and organic wines at the Country Vintner's tent, visit the folks at the Weston A. Price Foundation table, or buy some cute tees at the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund exhibit, or put your $10 gift certificate to use at the Polyface Farm store.
You'll notice that farm air (and barbeque aroma) sharpens the appetite, so we won't keep you waiting long.
The buffet lunch will feature, of course, a plethora of Polyface Fare fresh off the barbeque with a special gotta-marry-into-the-family-to-get-the-recipe barbeque sauce sweetened with honey. Since one of your hosts is Sally Fallon Morell, author of Nourishing Traditions Cookbook and President of the Weston A. Price Foundation, you'll be sure to see some delicious nutrient dense foods on the table!
At the buffet, you'll become acquainted with the fine flavors of local foods prepared by chef, Mike Lund, who has made quite a name for himself in the Shenandoah Valley. Mike will have procured the ingredients at his favorite local farms and even his backyard garden to provide you with delicious sides to complement the barbeque and complete the feast. Mike's pretty sure his salads will have what it takes to tempt you to eat something besides meat! Check out the delicious side offerings on the menu in the sidebar.
Then, there will be pies, or apple cobbler, if the our friend Organic Harvest Bakery's Alan Shannon's, dough-rolling arm doesn't mend from a recent break. Either will be delish and smoothered with ice cream that deserves it's own standing ovation, custom made with thick cream from grass-fed cows.
At lunch we'll have brief remarks from our special guests, and then, everyone's favorite – drawings for door prizes – including a Polyface Farm Store shopping spree! After lunch you'll have plenty time to use your $10 gift certificate and fill your coolers in the Polyface Farm Store, since the store closes at 4:00 pm.
Even through the event concludes at 2:30 p.m. Polyface and the Salatins will live long in your memory.
Join us for this unforgettable day!
SPECIAL GUESTS Sally Fallon Morell, President, Weston A. Price Foundation, author of Nourishing Traditions Cookbook, and founding board member of the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund.
Pete Kennedy, Esq. President, Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund.
Taaron Meikle, Past-President, Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund and Farm-to-Consumer Foundation.
John Moody, author Food Clubs and Co-ops Handbook, and Treasurer, Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund
DIRECTIONS Polyface Farm
43 Pure Meadows Lane
Swoope, VA 24479
(540) 885-3590
Print the directions from the Polyface Farm Website
LODGING Hampton Inn
40 Payne Lane
Staunton, VA 24401
(540) 886-7000
Website
Discounted rate: $99/night + tax -
Mention "Polyface Farm",
Book By: August 10th
Stonewall Jackson Hotel & Conference Center
24 S. Market Street
Staunton, VA 24401
(540) 885-4848
(Located next door to the American Shakespeare Theater)
Website
Discounted rate: $99/night + tax -
Mention "Polyface Farm"
Howard John Express Inn, Staunton – Distance from farm 25 min
268 North Central Avenue,
Staunton, VA 24401
(540) 886-5330
Website
Discounted rate: $74.80/night + tax
The Frederick House Bed & Breakfast
28 North New Street
Staunton, VA 24401
(540) 885-4220
Website
No discount provided.
Anne Hathaway’s Cottage Bed & Breakfast
950 West Beverley Street,
Staunton, VA
(540) 885-8885
Website
No discount provided.
Comfort Inn
1302 Richmond Avenue
Staunton, VA 24401
(540) 886-5000
Website
FUN THINGS TO DO NEAR SWOOPE American Shakespeare Theater
The Blackfriars Playhouse
10 S. Market Street
Staunton, VA 24401
(540) 851-1733
(877) 682-4236
Website
Mockingbird Roots Music Hall
123 West Beverley St
Staunton, VA 24401
(540) 213-8777
*Dining & Live Music
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Frontier Culture Museum
1290 Richmond Avenue
Staunton, VA 22401
(540) 332-7850
Website
WHAT TO BRING
Coolers - Polyface will not ship your food, so come prepared.
No pets (sorry!)
Prepare for any weather, you'll be outside most of the day.
Check the weather
FAMILIES WITH CHILDREN
This is a great family event! Children 10 and under are $100 each. Lap children (no separate plate) 2 and under are free of charge. Please register in advance by calling 703-208-FARM (3276)
PHOTOS
Michelle Speidel
Angela Potter
Green Cedars Farm - Michael Newman
Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense FundRAISER 2012 Album
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