Anavery Fine Foods

Let’s celebrate our Independence!! We’re closed for the day today but the holiday weekend is just getting started! Prepare your summer table by displaying some of our regenerative flowers. Pick up a ready-to-go bouquet and all of our meats at the store from 1-6 PM Friday and Saturday. We’re closed Sunday and Mi day and open again on Tuesday. 🇺🇸

Welcome to the farm, Sam! We are thrilled to welcome our newest member of the farm family, who we’ll raise with love to guard our flocks, our hens and our herds. Sam brings a bright curiosity, a protective spirit and a fluffy coat. Welcome to the farm, little buddy!

Thanks to everyone for braving the rain today! Farmers Lara and Dave were excited to show off our first flowers of the season, including Peonies, Ranunculus, Clarkia, Campanula and Eryngium! follow for more updates on our flowers on Instagram

Recognize our new beefy, juicy, yet delicate flowers? Ranunculus are one of many different varieties we’ve planted this year. We’re using our sheep’s wool as bedding material in our beds to control temperature, moisture and insects. It’s also a slow-release fertilizer! See and learn more about this at our Open House on Thursday, June 13 from 4-8 PM! We can’t wait for you to have these flowers at your table.

We welcome our friends, neighbors and the entire community out to our farm on Thursday, June 13 for an open house. Come by from 4 to 8 PM for tours of the farm, talks about our farming practices and a special look at our new flower field, which is bedded with our own sheep’s wool. Our friends from will be on hand to discuss their new certified USDA Organic wheat operation and how we at Anavery contribute to their crop rotation. We’ll fire up the BBQ.

Welcome to the farm little guy! This sweet Hereford male was born on Thursday, June 6. This is our 7th calf of the season, all born happy and healthy in our barn or pasture. Reminder: we’re hosting an Open House at the farm on Thursday, June 13 from 4-8 PM. We’ll offer tours of our farm and fire up the BBQ. Swing on out and say hi!

Big announcement today! Our new Farm Store is officially open to the public! We’re excited to share our pasture-raised meats, eggs, dairy, and cheese. We’re open from Tuesday to Saturday from 1 PM to 6 PM. The store is on our farm at 6071 Secor Road in Traverse City (Long Lake Township).

We’ll spend time over the next few weeks highlighting our partners and their products. Here are a few photos highlighting our first vendors to be featured. Mayfield Organic Wheat and

We can’t wait to see you at the store!

Thank you so much for the visit today from FLOW - For Love of Water! We moved pastured pigs to fresh grass, counted newborn calves and shared an amazing farm lunch together. Their work is so important. Thank you! 🙏

Come see us today from 7-Noon to kick off our first season at the ! We’ve got a great selection of 100% grass-fed beef, our fresh eggs, pastured pork, delicious lamb and pastured chicken.

Thank you so much to for allowing Adam to share his story with our community. Our fellow storytellers were incredible: , .music and .therapy

Come see The Smell of Money tonight! We’ll be joining the panel discussion following the show.

Attend Our Events in 2024 - FLOW THE SMELL OF MONEY Film Screening Saturday, April 27 at 6:00pm, Old Town Playhouse in Traverse City In celebration of Earth Day, please join FLOW (For Love of Water), Michiganders for a Just Farming System (MJFS) and VegMichigan for a screening of THE SMELL OF MONEY. This powerful film is a David vs...

Head over to amical and check out their neeest appetizer featuring our pasture-raised pork belly! We cannot wait to try it.

Say hello to this fun new appetizer:
seared pork belly, smoked almond mole, date worcestershire gel, almond crumble, cilantro

Warm and sunny mornings with these piggies are a huge boost to morale. The improved weather has had a great impact on everyone. Here’s to spring on the way! 🐽 ☀️

Reminder to stop by the farm today from 12-6 PM to pick up your Easter leg of lamb. Both boneless and bone-in are available for $12 a pound. Average weight for the bone-in is 4.5 lbs and the boneless is around 3.75 lbs. We’re at 6071 Secor Rd (down the driveway by our red sign) or the link to our location in Google Maps from our profile. [Image: Serious Eats / J. Kenji López-Alt]

Come by the farm on Friday, March 29 from Noon-6 PM! We have leg of lamb for sale for your Easter roast! Both boneless and bone-in are available for $12 a pound. Average weight for the bone-in is 4.5 lbs and the boneless is around 3.75 lbs. Come down the driveway by our red sign at 6071 Secor Road in Traverse City (Long Lake Township). We can take cash, card or a check at the farm.

Welcome to the farm little buddy. This Hereford male is our 3rd calf of the year so far. He was born early Wednesday morning. Another calf was born this morning and is also doing great! We’ll get a glamour shot for that calf up tomorrow! Happy Birthday little guys!

Happy Restaurant Week! Thank you so much to our friends at amical for featuring our lamb shank on their menu this week! These shanks are brined with brown sugar, glazed with an elegant tamarind barbecue sauce and served over a bed of eggplant chow chow. Our entire meal was fantastic. We appreciate the support of our local restaurant partners.

It has been a very busy two weeks here at Anavery. Two full farrows of piglets, a dozen new lambs (with another 20 or so on the way) and two calves were born since the 1st week of February! It’s been rewarding to see these littles thriving in our cozy barn.

It’s been quite a week and it’s only Tuesday. Farmer Autumn caught this great shot today during a brief moment of sunshine over the pasture. Cats are hunkered in deep burrows in straw and we navigated deep snowdrifts with snowshoes and the tractor to keep everyone fed.

Winter has arrived in full force! We spent Friday prepping for the heavy snow and wind. 6000+ lbs of feed for our pigs and layers, plenty of hay bales and a full morning of fresh straw spread all around. Bring it on Mother Nature. We got this.

We’re so thankful for our weekly visits from The Children's House. These young chefs and farmers arrive with a week’s worth of delicious fruit and vegetables scraps from their learning kitchen, which offers variety and nourishment to our Red Waddle pigs! We learn about cows, sheep, goats, ducks, chickens and barn cats before we head out to our pig pasture. Thank you so much.

Our winter Meat Club is open for subscriptions! Click the link or send us a DM to let us know if you have any questions: https://app.barn2door.com/anavery/all
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It’s been a brutally cloudy, wet, muddy and snow-less winter so far. We’re keeping the barn cozy for everyone, which isn’t easy with temps hovering above freezing. Here’s to hoping for frozen ground, some snow on the horizon and a great holiday week to catch our breath around the farm.

Snowchain season is here. Our cows and sheep are enjoying locally-sourced alfalfa, sorghum and teff, which supply ample calories for the coldest conditions. Thanks to our trusty Deere for starting perfectly in even the worst conditions. 📸: Dave Waeltz

We’re thankful for sunsets like this and for the Meat Club Members and turkey customers we’ve seen over the last few days. John Deere green looks real nice against our barn red.

Say hi to these stunner Murray Grey cows. These gentle beauties have a really unique color. The Murray Grey breed was developed from an initial chance mating of a black Aberdeen Angus bull and a roan Shorthorn cow in 1905 in the Murray River Valley in New South Wales, Australia 🇦🇺!They’ve been great on our farm mingling with our Herefords. 📸:

Reserve your Thanksgiving Turkey! Our pasture-raised Broad-breasted Bronze turkeys are open for orders for Thanksgiving! We estimate our birds will weigh 20-30 pounds each and you can choose either a whole or half turkey.

Visit our online store and gobble one before they sell out!

https://app.barn2door.com/anavery/all

Thanks to our friends at Oryana Community Co-op for hosting us in a series of upcoming cooking classes in their beautiful learning kitchen at their Oryana West location. We love our animals and do our best to honor them with great care, technique and recipes. We want to share our experience in getting the most out of a whole Anavery pasture-raised chicken! Sign up to learn the finer points of cooking a whole bird with Dave! We’ll start by learning the spatchcock technique, then create a fall curry chicken salad and then talk about hearty fall stock-making! Cheers!

One Chicken, Three Meals Cooking Class! 🐓

Learn how to spatchcock, roast and breakdown a whole heritage broiler chicken from local farmer, Dave Waeltz from Anavery Fine Foods. In this class you’ll make a delicious fall curry chicken salad and a rich chicken stock that you can use to make nourishing and delectable soups or stews.

Tuesday, October 10, 6pm @ Oryana West Community Room

Secure your ticket today: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/one-chicken-three-meals-tickets-689399732157?aff=ebdsoporgprofile

So excited to announce we’re sharing our ground beef and a selection of steaks at Lakeview Hill Farm & Market!

Thank you so much for the incredible food and hospitality from our friends .nmc for featuring our chicken on the first of three Farm to Table prixe fixe dinners at Lobdell’s, their incredible teaching restaurant. We’re honored to support the next generation of local chefs and hospitality professionals and the food was incredible. Seriously, check out that menu, featuring a cornucopia of what our region’s farmers produce every season. Next dinners in the series are on September 28 and October 5. Thank you!

Come out tomorrow (Sunday, August 27) from 1-5 PM to see how we farm! Our menu will feature grass-fed burgers from our pasture. We'll start a walking farm tour about every 30 minutes, answer questions and provide more information about our approach to raising livestock. We'll have our ground beef, eggs by the dozen and chesnock red garlic for sale. We’ll also be taking subscriptions to our Sep-Dec Meat Club and have members of our team available to answer questions about your order. 6071 Secor Dr. Follow the driveway down where you see our red sign.