The printed menu’s unexpectedly upmarket, too: duck salad with dried cherries and crumbled chèvre on mixed greens…tapenade-topped goat burger on English muffin with Manchego cheese. Best of all, much of what’s served is grown or produced locally, some of it practically within hollering distance. The Cane Creek Farm heirloom pork, for example. The Goat Lady Dairy chèvre.

Read the full article here: http://www.gourmet.com/food/gourmetlive/2012/020112/a-five-star-gas-station

Sorry, we forgot a couple of important things.

1. We have gift certificates available on our website.  We can send them to the buyer, or if you let us know in the notes section, we’ll send them directly to the recipient. Healthy wonderful food is way more interesting than a sweater…     Just look at the column on the right side of the page.

2. We have a holiday market in Carrboro on Thursday, 2-5pm. Our store will be open 2-6 on Thursday, and we’ll be at the Carrboro market on Saturday, Dec 31. (not on Christmas eve).

3. No more holiday hams available, but lots of prosciutto, bacon, roasts, etc.

4. Have a great holiday!

Listen to the full broadcast of The State of Things with Frank Stacio

Frank Stacio asked about the consumer movement toward smaller conscientious farms, the market for sustainable and naturally raised meats, and how things have changed or moved along since he last interviewed Eliza in September of 2007. Here is what Eliza had to say about it:  “Demand has increased, as we expected that it would. And I’m glad that it has and more and more farmers have come to the area. More and more people are producing more than just for their own families on their smaller pieces of land. Jeff (Barney) is a great aggregator of those people too… of those who don’t do the farmers markets like I do. More Farmers markets have come up in the last few years. I don’t think the market is saturated but you have to keep you eye on the ball to stay in this business. It’s still not easy. None if us would do it if we didn’t feel some immense pride in it.  You cant work this hard and and make this little money unless you love every moment of it…. I remember talking with you four years ago about the critical mass thing. We’re getting there but I don’t think we’re yet there. There are still lots and lot of consumers who need to be brought into it and room for more producers. We need to collaborate.”

Listen to the full broadcast of The State of Things with Frank Stacio

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(L-R Chef Jeff Barney of the Saxapahaw General Store & The Eddy Pub, farmer V. Mac Baldwin of Baldwin Beef, farmer Suzanne Nelson of Cozi Farm, filmmaker Graham Meriwether, farmer Johnny Glosson of Glosson Farm, farmer Eliza MacLean of Cane Creek Farm, farmer Kim Griffin, and Casey McKissick of NC Choices. Photo courtesy of Sarah at LuckPhotography.com)

What an enjoyable evening of food, film and fellowship. It was great to see so many community members come out in support of a new documentary (American Meat) exploring meat production in America and the movement toward smaller family farms raising happy healthy animals on pasture. Cane Creek Farm’s Eliza MacLean was invited to join the post-film Panel Discussion. Thank you for allowing us to share in this important conversation.

We hope you all had a Happy Thanksgiving! Christmas is just around the corner but by the looks of things here you’d wonder if it was springtime—babies are everywhere. We have an abundance of piglets, with more on the way and so far five lambs on the ground with another dozen or more expected soon. Animals are being shuffled around the farm into their winter quarters and everyone seems happy with their new digs.

Our hams are hanging in the smokehouse, so if you want one for Christmas or New Year’s email us and reserve one.  We are not doing Paypal on hams like we did for turkeys, just a first come first serve via email. They will be available for pick-up at the Carborro Holiday Market on the 17th (there will not be a Christmas Eve market in Carrboro) or come to our Farm Store on the 22nd (or the 29th).  Send us an email and we will hold one for you. The hams are 5-7lbs @ $9/lb. We will also be coming to Greensboro’s market on the 10th and the 17th of this month. And we’re planning on being at the Dec. 31 market in Carrboro.

Also it’s time to order 1/4 cow if you are interested, as we are about to take a break from beef for a while—our last five beeves (yes, that’s a word) are heading to Matkins as I write, so now’s the time to speak up if you want to stock up on some beef for the winter. As always we will have plenty of pork available in all your favorite cuts.  We have prosciutto and sweet potato pate for those upcoming parties. We’re currently making guanciale, bacon, smoked hams. This week and next we will also have beautiful pure-bred ossabaw cuts (chops, shoulder pieces, racks, bellies, ribs).

Thanks and have wonderful holidays if we miss any of you in the next month

Cane Creekers

Before the film, starting at 6:30 p.m., an optional pre-screening dinner will celebrate the bounty of food produced right across the street from the movie – chicken and pork from Cozi Farms, greens and veggies from the Saxapahaw General Store’s own garden., in collaboration with Saxapahaw’s own Bushy Tail Farm.

Thursday, Dec. 8, Food from 6:30- 7:30 p.m.,
Screening of American Meat at 7:30 p.m., followed by panel discussion.

AMERICAN MEAT TRAILER from Leave It Better on Vimeo.

“The new documentary AMERICAN MEAT chronicles America’s grassroots revolution in sustainable meat production. The film, an official selection of Food Day 2011, explains our current industrial meat system, and shows the feedlots and confinement operations, not through hidden cameras but through the eyes of the farmers who live and work there — men like Johnny Glosson and Sam Talley who operate poultry confinement farms in Chatham County, N.C. The film then shifts to the burgeoning sustainable, local-food movement made up farmers, food advocates, chefs and everyday folks who could change everything about the way meat reaches the American table. The film stars Joel Salatin, the legendary Virginia farmer who leads a movement of meat producers who raise their animals outdoors and without antibiotics.”

You can buy a ticket for just the film screening and panel or for the film, panel and feast.

Tickets are: $10 for the film, or $25 for film and feast.

Buy Tickets and More Information at hawriverballroom.com/event/78349/