pasture dinner at Double Check Ranch

Double Check Ranch was recently nominated and then accepted as 1 of 25 small food businesses across the nation to speak at this year’s Slow Money National Gathering in Boulder, Colo.,  April 29-30. They are jazzed about the invitation.

In the interim, Slow Money has set up another opportunity allowing the 25 participants to become Entrepreneur of the Year and win $50,000 courtesy of Mamma Chia.

They need your support by voting online.

There is another week voting which ends April 16 at midnight. If you are already voting, please keep voting! If you are not voting, please consider taking the time to do so.The winner will be determined based on a combination of community engagement and board decision.

You need a Facebook account to vote and you can only vote once ever 24 hours. Please share with your Facebook friends. Double Check Ranch sells grassfed beef at the Sunday farmers market at St. Philips Plaza, the Saturday farmers market in Oro Valley, and at Phoenix farmers markets. Some restaurants also use Double Check meat.

The Schwennesen Family thank you.

(Photo courtesy Double Check Ranch)

Pasture dinner at Doublecheck Ranch

Pasture Dinner – Double Check Ranch – March 16
Everyone’s favorite local grass-fed beef rancher is hosting a farm to table dinner in the pasture at the Double Check Ranch in Winkleman, Ariz. And if you’re coming from Tucson or Phoenix and don’t feel like driving there (north of Oracle) – transportation is available.

This is a one-of-a-kind dinner and you’re not going to get any more local than this.

Arizona Chef John Hall of the famous “Bianco Group” will be there for an evening of local food and wine, great friends and engaging conversation. Watch the Arizona sun setting over the lush pasture as you sit together and break bread at a community table, listen to live music and kindle (or re-kindle!) relationships with friends as well as local food and wine purveyors.

Ticket includes:
•    6-course dinner, prepared on-site and featuring Arizona’s finest local foods grown specifically for this event
•    Wine-pairing, selected for this event by favorite Arizona wineries
•    Ranch tour, led by the Schwennesen Family
•    Live music, provided by local band
•    Transportation*, from either Tucson or Phoenix, so you can enjoy yourself!

Buy tickets online

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17th Street Marketing Closing
You may have heard that 17th Street Market is closing. When I posted it on Facebook a few weeks ago, everyone felt sad but when asked nobody had been there for quite awhile. Hello? You need to support places, shop and eat there if you want stores and restaurants to remain open.

Right now the Market is have a 50% off sale on dry goods. I went today and the selection is sparse. You can get some packaged spices, juices, odd cookies, salsas, prickly pear products, canned fish, honey, general groceries, unusual Red Mill flours, chips, many Goya products.  I was hoping for Chinese tea but only herbal tea remained. CDs are on sale but I didn’t walk in that direction. I believe some of the musical instruments were on sale. 98% of the Asian products are gone.

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Coming Attractions
Loft Cinema Farmers Market begins March 16
8 to 11 am
Vendors wanted

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Fresh veggies from the farmers market

There are only 30 days to go in America’s Favorite Farmers Markets™ contest. The Top 20 Favorite Farmers Markets in all four categories have just been unveiled and Tucson’s Santa Cruz River Farmers Market is on the list. Anything can happen in the next four weeks before the contest ends at midnight on August 31.

Your local farmers market needs your continued support so that it can get the recognition it deserves. It’s the only Arizona farmers market in the running in the Favorite category.

In June the Santa Cruz River Farmers Market moved to another location, this time at Mercado San Agustine.

However in the Arizona category, the Farmers Market at St. Phillip’s Plaza is in the #1 slot. Check it out and vote.

You can also request a free bumper sticker that says — No Farms, No Food. Put it on your car or bulletin board at work. Or distribute them at your local farmers market or event. When you display your No Farms No Food bumper sticker, you’re helping raise awareness about the importance of our local farms and ranches and the delicious, fresh foods they produce.