{"id":81,"date":"2011-10-18T18:19:41","date_gmt":"2011-10-18T23:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=81"},"modified":"2011-10-18T18:19:41","modified_gmt":"2011-10-18T23:19:41","slug":"and-the-winner-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/and-the-winner-is\/","title":{"rendered":"And the winner is…."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>….Carolyn Lumb and her husband, Alan, of Markham, Virginia.\u00a0 The Lumbs entered the drawing for the 8-pound standing rib roast from Thistle Hill at the annual Hume Day event in late September.<\/p>\n

This will be their first time sampling pure, grass fed Devon beef from Thistle Hill and we look forward to their reaction.\u00a0 From the look on the faces of the family dogs, it would appear they think they were the real winners.\u00a0 That’s Wooz on the right making the presentation.<\/p>\n

We’d like to admit now that the acceptance of our beef has exceeded all our expectations.\u00a0 Our freezers are bare (like the proverbial shoemaker, we have no beef) and it could be as much as a month before we have more meat to sell.\u00a0 The demand for our pork has also been very great and customers have ordered halves and two have even asked for whole pigs!<\/p>\n

We have upped our production of steers intended strictly for beef but they won’t be available until next year.\u00a0 Until now, meat was only incidental to our seed stock business selling live animals to other Devon breeders.\u00a0 But we do very much believe in the benefits of healthy, grass fed, chemical- and\u00a0 hormone- free beef and so we are going to do our very best to supply your needs, though it certainly wasn’t in our original plan a few years back.<\/p>\n

And if you’d like to be on our email mailing list to be sure you’re alerted when the next meat supply is available, just drop us a quick note at devon@thistlehill.net<\/a>.\u00a0 Right now we have\u00a0almost 100 regular customers for our meats, so please be sure to move quickly when we announce that beef or pork is available to be sure you’re not left out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

….Carolyn Lumb and her husband, Alan, of Markham, Virginia.\u00a0 The Lumbs entered the drawing for the 8-pound standing rib roast from Thistle Hill at the annual Hume Day event in late September. This will be their first time sampling pure, grass fed Devon beef from Thistle Hill and we look forward to their reaction.\u00a0 From the look on the faces of the family dogs, it would appear they think they were the real winners.\u00a0 That’s Wooz on the right making the presentation. We’d like to admit now that the acceptance of our beef has exceeded all our expectations.\u00a0 Our freezers are bare (like the proverbial shoemaker, we have no beef) and it could be as much as a month before we have more meat to sell.\u00a0 The demand for our pork has also been very great and customers have ordered halves and two have even asked for whole pigs! We have upped our production of steers intended strictly for beef but they won’t be available until next year.\u00a0 Until now, meat was only incidental to our seed stock business selling live animals to other Devon breeders.\u00a0 But we do very much believe in the benefits of healthy, grass fed, chemical- and\u00a0 hormone- free beef and so we are going to do our very best to supply your needs, though it certainly wasn’t in our original plan a few years back. And if you’d like to be on our email mailing list to be sure you’re alerted when the next meat supply is available, just drop us a quick note at devon@thistlehill.net.\u00a0 Right now we have\u00a0almost 100 regular customers for our meats, so please be sure to move quickly when we announce that beef or pork is available to be sure you’re not left out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions\/83"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}