Join us for our final Twilight Tour of 2021—a livestock showcase at the Weinrich Farm.
This event is free, but we request your preregistration so that we can track attendance for logistics and safety purposes. Please register here.
The Weinrich Farm is a 78-acre diversified farm that began with a family's audacious idea to leave big city office jobs to relate with the land as first generation farmers. Drawing inspiration from farmers such as Joel Salatin and Gabe Brown, farmers Adam and Dandan are focused on raising multiple livestock species on pasture.
The Weinrichs sell their products under the brand Anavery Fine Foods through a CSA subscription program. Meat Club customers select specific products they would like to receive in a box packaged every two weeks for a four month period.
With warm welcome, Adam, Dandan and Crosshatch invite you to join us for a showcase of the livestock systems—including multi-species rotational grazing, mixed bird housing, and pastured hogs—that the Weinrichs have established since they began farming in 2019 . Despite their very recent beginnings, Adam and Dandan have worked with full passion and commitment for the last few years. They are happy for this opportunity to share their experiences, and invite the questions and advice that you bring from your own livestock interests and practices.
Directions:
Please note that online mapping directions will take you to the neighbor’s driveway, which is 100 yards to the west. Please enter the gravel drive marked by a flag and follow Crosshatch event signage as you approach.
Accessibility:
This tour is held on natural landscape without accessibility improvements. Be prepared to move across rough and uneven terrain, and wear sturdy closed-toe shoes. Please contact Program Coordinator Daniel to discuss conditions and accommodations specific to this tour (call 231-622-5252 or email daniel@crosshatch.org). Young adults are welcome. Children are welcome too, if a responsible adult is supervising them at all times.
COVID-19:
We reserve the ability to cancel and reschedule this event based on COVID-19 trends in Michigan and in NW Michigan specifically. If you have symptoms of COVID-19, or simply don’t feel well in any way, please stay home. We strongly encourage following this guidance from the CDC : "Given what we know about the Delta variant, vaccine effectiveness, and current vaccine coverage, layered prevention strategies, including wearing masks, are needed to reduce the transmission of this variant.”
For more information regarding the Weinrich Farm and the Anavery Fine Foods Meat subscription, we encourage you to visit their website.
Funding for this project was provided by the North Central Extension Risk Management Education Center, the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture Award Number 2018-70024-28586
