The Fourth of July was recently their targeted occasion, and price, as usual, was in the crosshairs of the campaign: ‘People in Pennsylvania will pay less for their cookout this year!”
Read MoreHere's the premise: People have to eat, but they don't like shopping for groceries on the weekend when freedom is in the air. Thus, most plan weekend meals on Wednesday.
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Beer. Clarion Farms burgers. Live music. Awesome atmosphere. Yep: Clarion River Brewing Company can't be beat for date night!
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This is a tough one to sort out, as it exposes our vulnerability from preconceived notions about farmer’s markets.
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We’re set up on Penn Avenue between 22 and 23 Streets, right beside Bar Marco, from 9-12!
Read MoreThere's nothing shady about this business: we raise it, we sell it, you can purchase with peace of mind.
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I can’t count the number of times I’ve stood patiently as a customer, suddenly off-guard and sputtering, stared wide-eyed at their grocery list as though a piercing glare might miraculously change the recommended cut inked permanently on their recipe card.
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Today they’re breaking ground again: The guys at Daddy’s are the first to serve grassfed beef from our farm.
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Daddy’s menu is always changing thanks to the creative genius of Dana and Darren, the father-son duo who create the culture of Clarion, and then serve it on a good roll.
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This week we’ll review my tips to thrive at a farmers market, suggestions born from a decade of observations made while selling beef to a growing number of people in towns and cities across our region.
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This week our featured restaurant is Yinzburgh BBQ on Baum Boulevard in Pittsburgh.
Read MoreKeep this idea in mind: YOU are built to LOVE food.
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Most people are increasingly concerned that our food system consists of just a few major players who operate on an international scale to put food on your table. Transparency is obviously an issue when customers are spread all over the country and producers are all over the world. As the beef industry consolidates into a vertically integrated mass production machine, they're running into issues with public relations.
Read MoreI have barely a shred of mechanical know-how. My childhood consisted of a great deal of four wheelers and dirt bikes on which my friends and I terrorized the countryside, but when breakdowns occurred the repair work was always entrusted to someone who had the gift of vehicular prowess.
Read MoreHave you ever watched a group of chickens chasing a grasshopper? It’s a chaotic event. There is squabbling and pushing and shoving all taking place in the midst of constant, rapid movement as the flock pursues their prey.
Read MoreGoals are quite possibly one of the most underrated success strategies known to man. Too often we spend our lives so focused on the day-to-day and the minute-to-minute tasks that we forget to take a look around and actually figure out where we want to go.
Read MoreThe sound, obviously emanating from a bovine of relatively young age, stopped me in my tracks. Gina and I were strolling through Garmish, Germany, completely engulfed in the beauty of the town framed by mountains in the background when our ears picked up the familiar bellow.
Read MoreThe bull was standing not fifteen feet in front of us. He’s a solid chunk of grass powered muscle and I was chattering away about the fact, rattling off pedigree information and reporting on previous calf crops sired by the beast currently subjected to our scrutiny.
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