Hello to all!  Hope this week finds you all enjoying this glorious week of sunshine, dry ground and cool breeze...it seems the weather man has skipped right over the unbearably hot humid August for which GA is famous and has gone straight to an early and pleasant fall. 

This week we'd like to start with a big...

THANK YOU.

...A big thanks to you all for your support - whether in mind, body, or spirit - for this past weekend's Fields of Promise Dinner!  The Dinner, hosted by the Oconee Farmers Market, was a huge success - selling out of it's some 200 tickets before the event and raising a sizable, charitable donation for our local chapter's FFA college scholarship fund.  The incredible outpour of communal support and encouragement has ensured that this become an annual event to foster the love of agriculture and community with future generations.

A link to the preliminary report of the event can be found on the Oconee Farmers Market website...

www.oconeefarmersmarket.org

the mother un-LOAD-ing...

That's right, folks!  A kiln unloading looms - and this one is the mother load...  

This round of wood fired beauties will feature the work of not only John Bradford of Bradford Pottery - but also the impeccable work of Geoff Pickett and the illustrious JB (Jeff Bishoff).

These boys are currently in the process of "stoking the beast" - attending the kilns' insatiable, round-the-clock appetite for wood as it reaches temperatures in excess of 2300 degrees - creating pottery varied in it's tactile and earthy tones.  As you drive by the farm on Colham Ferry Road - you may recognize "the beast" as that strange, smoke-burping igloo.  If the fire is a-goin' feel free to stop on by and peak in!

The unloading is scheduled for Saturday, August 31 - door comes down at  around 5:00 at 1941 Colham Ferry Road, Watkinsville.  We invite you all to come by and witness the birth of the work from this dynamic trio of potters.  

It's quite the experience as an assembly line of pots is formed... pots being passed from kiln, to hand-to hand, until the pots come to their resting place on a bed of pallets - where they are then lovingly inspected and cherished by the potters and pottery lovers alike!  

It is one of the most unique and intimate ways to experience the pottery process and even to find that very special piece - still warm to the touch - that fits so perfectly, nestled in your very own hands.

savor the summer.

This labor day weekend savor the dog days of summer with a cookout sourced from your local farmers and vendors at the Oconee and Central Bishop Farmers Markets!

Grab some Pastures of Rose Creek Piedmontese Ground Beef, Short Ribs, Pears, Figs & Watermelons to complete your Labor Day Cookout Menu!

Try these recipes and really wow your guests with your locally sourced Labour Day spread! (recipes attached below)

• Piedmontese Burgers with Figs, Caramelized Onions, & Goat Cheese
• Piedmontese BBQ Short Ribs
• Pear & Pomegranate Salad
• Watermelon Basil Agua Fresca (beverage)

"the beef" on our beef.

...Turning non-beef eaters to some of our most consistent "regulars" who come back week after week for their Piedmontese fix...for "cholesterol-watchers" who previously could not thoroughly enjoy their red meat - our Piedmontese beef is allowing them to guiltlessly enjoy a steak again.  And for the beef "foodies" - the connousieurs - and the average joe looking for something to turn their palate on - Piedmontese is invariably the answer!

So, here's "the beef" on our beef -  we half regretfully, half happily announce that we are temporarily sold out of steaks.  

We are thrilled that the Piedmontese has been so popular and consider this first round our "test market" which has been absolutely successful!  

With that being said, we are NOT sold out of everything!  We still have:

• short ribs & ground beef to supply your Labor Day Cookout
• succulent roasts, stew meat & bones to appease the early fall dinner menus
• cubed, round steaks, and liver for your down home grub.  

this week.

We will be at our beloved, 3 local markets this week with our delicious beef, eggs, and whatever veggies and fruits are garden produces!

• Today, Oconee Farmers Market, downtown Wat-town, 4-7 pm
• Thursday, Central Bisho Market, downtown Bishop, 4-7 pm
• Saturday, Oconee Farmers Market, downtown Watkinsville, 8 am - 1pm

Be there or be square!  :)

For the love of community and all things farming,

Your local farmers,

Will, Matt, John & Dana

The Pastures of Rose Creek, LLC
1051 Rose Creek Drive
Watkinsville, GA 30677
706.254.9391
575.613.2029