December Doings

We have the last market in Rocky/Yeppoon this weekend. Please come along and stock up for Christmas. At this stage we won’t be back at these Markets until 19/20 of January. None of our pork, ham or bacon has been frozen and because it is cryvacced, it keeps really well in the freezer if you want to get a bit more than usual to get you through.

Yeppoon Community Markets at the Showgrounds on Saturday
Kern Arcade Markets, Rockhampton on Sunday

Thursday the 19th December will see us delivering our last orders and Christmas Hams to the Gladstone Region. We then head off on Saturday to Southern Qld. Sunday 22nd December we'll drive down to Brisbane and the Gold Coast and then back to Buderim, where we plan to stop for a few days and have Christmas with Lucy's family.

 

It will be great to have a break from the farm. The sad part is that we have to leave one of our boys behind to look after the farm and the pigs. Unfortunately that's what is involved when you have farm like ours - someone needs to be here all the time. One of our sons said that he would stay so that Kim and I can have a break away!

 

Look forward to seeing you at one of our markets or on the delivery runs over the next week, however if we don’t catchup, we would like to take this opportunity to wish you a very Merry Christmas, filled with peace and love and laughter. And a healthy and happy 2014!

Thank you all for your support of our business. We love what we are doing and are really grateful for the support all our customers give us, as we couldn’t do it without you!

I'll be posting our market dates and deliveries for 2014 over the Christmas break.

 

Take care and happy holiday season!

From all the House Family

Markets and Goat meat available

Market time again!

 

Dawson Valley Free Range will be at the following Markets this coming weekend:

 

Saturday the 30^th November:

Yeppoon Community Markets – from 6 until 8 am – we have to leave early

Handmade Expo – Rockhampton Show grounds – 9 am to 2pm.

Sunday the 1^st December:

Kern Arcade, Rockhampton.

 

WE WILL HAVE GOAT AVAILABLE FOR SALE AT ALL THESE MARKETS THIS WEEKEND ONLY.

 

 

Central Highlands

We will be delivering to the Central Highlands on the weekend of the 9th November. If you live in the region or know someone who does, please pass this information on. We would love to be able to make it a regular delivery in 2014, so we need the support of people in Emerald, Moranbah and Middlemount and all towns in between Rocky and there!

We have just come back from Brisbane - thankyou to all our customers down that way!

A reminder to order whenever you think of it and we will fit it in with the next available delivery.

Christmas Hams

 

We would like to start taking orders for hams for Christmas. At this stage I will just keep a list of who wants what but closer to Christmas we will be putting together other packs for delivery just before Christmas. We aren’t sure yet whether we will close down the markets for a couple of weeks from Christmas through to the end of January.

Hams will be $18/kg

Either a half or whole ham

Bone in or bone out

Conventional or Nitrate Free

 

A whole ham would weigh somewhere between 5 and 6 kg’s.

Please email and just say whether you want a whole or a half and whether you would like it bone in or bone out and Nitrate Free or Conventional.

If you have any suggestions for some packs we could offer at Christmas time please let me know.

Delivery will be – Local, Yeppoon and Rocky areas – 14^th/15^th December

Gladstone and Brisbane/Sunshine Coast will be the weekend of the 21^st December. If you are in Gladstone and would like it sooner, let me know and we can probably organise a different delivery option.

Hams will be based on a first in first served basis, so please give me an expression of interest as soon as possible.

Christmas is getting closer and closer each day!!!

Markets this weekend

We can be found at the Yeppoon community markets at the show grounds Saturday the 6th and then kern arcade markets on Sunday morning. We have plenty of great tasting pork, ham and bacon, as well as Scott's chickens. So if you come along that would be great.

Capricorn Food and Wine Festival

The Capricorn Food and Wine Festival is on this weekend coming - 21st and 22nd of September. Dawson Valley Free Range is going to be there!!! We are getting very excited about it all. There will be samples for people to try our pork and we will be selling pork as well. So PLEASE bring along your esky if you plan on buying some pork to take home. We will have some ice bricks and eskies available as well.

Matt Golinski is going to be cooking some of our pork on the main stage.

Hansen's Catering are cooking our pork on a spit for selling in gourmet pork rolls.

So come along and support the inaugural Capricorn Food and Wine Festival. Support is needed this year, so that it's bigger and better for next year! It's really exciting to see Local Food being showcased in our region!

Mercure Capricorn Resort, Yeppoon
Saturday 21st & Sunday 22nd September 2013

Southern Qld Deliveries

We are going to Brisbane and the Sunshine Coast on the weekend of the 12th and 13th October. I do have a different order form than the one on this site which is to cater for those customers that don’t have a lot of fridge space - please email me for it. You can also order extra cuts and they will be priced according to a price list that I can also email you. The form on the blog has bigger packs, but will also attract a freight charge of $5/pack for delivery, which is not listed. . Please just let me know in your email or on the comments section on the online order form if you require extra cuts. Please email me if you have any questions or other requests – eg whole pigs. I’m not sure exactly what day delivery will be, but most likely Saturday morning on the Sunshine Coast and Saturday afternoon in Brisbane. Delivery spots to be arranged yet, but for the Brisbane people, the train station worked well. If someone would like to suggest one on the south side and one on the north side, that would be great. Please keep in mind that I’m not the best traffic driver! Sunshine Coast will be either Peters place or Annes Place. Please get your orders in by Friday 27th September. Tell all your friends and family about our pork - the more people we can deliver to, the more often we can come down. We are also hoping to deliver to these two areas just before Christmas, as we are going to Buderim for Christmas this year. Stay tuned for details regarding Christmas Ham orders.