Our Commercial Kitchen is Closed CURRENTLY for hot take out food, sorry for the inconvenience.
Slagle's Family Farm is now utilizing our commercial kitchen at N7705 Metropolitan Rd. Let us do the cooking for you!
We offer Carry Out Food Only, but have picnic tables.
Meat ShopSlagle's Family Farm makes our own custom sausages from our farm raised pork and sell meat at our farm store. We have pork and beef for sale.
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Processing our ProduceWe are licensed and able to process our produce and meat to make great products for your family to enjoy! Try our homemade soups, frozen pizzas, and more!
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Slagle’s Family Farm opens commercial kitchen
Our Town Channing, Felch, Foster City, Hardwood and Sagola BUSINESS SEP 29, 2020 BETSY BLOOM Managing Editor [email protected] FELCH TOWNSHIP — While this COVID-19-altered year would seem a difficult time to expand a business, the Slagles know how to carry on through adversity. In 2017, Jennifer and Jason Slagle secured a $84,110 Rural Development Fund Grant from the Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development to convert part of the old Steinbrecher potato warehouse at N7705 Metropolitan Road into a 2,800-square-foot commercial kitchen. Adding in their own funding, they expected to invest almost $118,000 on the project. But taking that next major step at Slagle’s Family Farm had to wait after their son, Justin, was seriously injured in an ATV accident. Then Jennifer’s mother died in Ohio in September 2018. Finally, the COVID-19 situation played havoc this year with lining up contractors to work on the kitchen, Jennifer Slagle said. But everything finally came together earlier this month, when the Michigan Department of Agriculture inspected the new facility and “we passed with flying colors,” Jason Slagle posted Sept. 14 on Facebook. The new commercial kitchen opened earlier this month that will allow the Slagles to widen the variety of products they can offer, much of it produced on the farm. “It has been a long time in the making, with countless setbacks, years of burning the candle at both ends and many mountains to climb,” he said, “but we have finally achieved our dream.” The commercial kitchen expands what the Slagles can do: processing meat — including making sausages and lunchmeats — and fruits and vegetables; canning salsas and sauces, pickles, baby foods and other products made with its home-grown fruit and vegetables; and preparing full meals a couple nights a week for takeout. The meals already have been offered at the Felch Township and Iron Mountain farmers markets. Saturday in Iron Mountain, they served smoked pork loin sandwiches with homemade barbecue sauce, smoked mac and cheese with bacon, and cowboy beans. The Slagles next hope to open a storefront at the Metropolitan Road location in November for selling their products year-round. They primarily in the past relied on community supported agriculture, or CSA, arrangements and farmers market sales. The store would mean “we can make income in the winter,” Jennifer Slagle noted, adding, “we’re very excited.” The Slagle family includes sons Cody and Justin and daughter Lauren, who still works in the business. Along with the Metropolitan Road location, they have a property at W4563 M-69 just west of Norway Lake Road where they make their home. In addition to fruits and vegetables, the Slagles raise sheep, hogs, cattle, ducks, chickens and turkeys for meat, plus laying hens for eggs and goats to discourage predators. They also have a vocal and friendly donkey who greeted customers Sunday as they opened their pick-your-own pumpkin patch on Metropolitan Road for the season. It drew a steady stream of customers despite being a gray day, including a couple and their son from out of town who came to do some grouse hunting, saw the sign and could not resist. The patch has a stand for those who don’t want, or aren’t able, to walk the pumpkin field. Sunday’s selection included some bell peppers, watermelons and late sweet corn that had been picked that same day. Squash, gourds and cornstalks are available in the fields as well. The pumpkin patch was closed Monday, but will reopen today from 1 to 5 p.m. For updates on what Slagle’s Family Farm has available, check their Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/slaglesfamilyfarm/. LAUREN SLAGLE OF Slagle’s Family Farm with some of the fresh-cut flowers she arranged to sell at a recent Iron Mountain farmers market. |
A growing operation Farm gets $84K grant for commercial kitchen
MAY 12, 2017 BETSY BLOOM Managing Editor [email protected]
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Farm-fresh pizza: Slagle’s in Felch tosses it up with commercial kitchen addition
BUSINESSJUN 30, 2021
BETSY BLOOM
Managing Editor
[email protected]
Betsy Bloom/Daily News photos ASHLEY STEINBRECHER MAKES “Barnyard Meaty” pizzas — they have pepperoni, Italian sausage, bacon and ham — Thursday in the commercial kitchen at Slagle’s Family Farm in Felch Township. Thursdays are used to prepare foods such as pizza and sausage for sale from the freezers.
FELCH TOWNSHIP — A new commercial kitchen has created a number of new opportunities for Slagle’s Family Farm.
Homemade pizzas and sausage. Meals by order on Wednesdays and Saturdays. An array of soaps, lip balms and other novelties made on site by Jennifer Slagle, who runs the farm along with her husband, Jason.
“We’re diversified,” Jennifer Slagle said, rather than relying too much on one area of production.
The 2,800-square-foot commercial kitchen and other renovations have helped convert the former Steinbrecher potato warehouse at N7705 Metropolitan Road in Felch Township into a business that’s part restaurant, part gift shop, part custom meats store along with fresh produce in season.
In 2017, the Slagles secured a $84,110 Rural Development Fund Grant from the Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development that, along with their own investment, allowed them to remake a building that once housed livestock into a workspace that could be used year-round.
A DISPLAY OF the many varieties of cocoa butter Mama Bear’s Soap that Jennifer Slagle makes at Slagle’s Family Farm. The building at N7705 Metropolitan Road in Felch Township has a merchandise area highlighting the soap and other items the Slagles make on site.
The commercial kitchen expands what the Slagles can do: processing meat — including making sausages and lunchmeats — and fruits and vegetables; canning salsas and sauces, pickles, jams and other products made with its home-grown fruit and vegetables.
They also now have a takeout menu of prime rib burgers, chicken and fish sandwiches, wraps, even a shrimp basket they prepare on Wednesdays and Saturdays. On most Saturdays, they’ll add a special item, often something done in the smoker, such as beef brisket this past week or pulled pork.
The farm is open on Thursdays as well but devoted to preparing items to stock the freezers or custom orders. Some weeks it’s pizzas, with sauce made from tomatoes grown on the farm. On others, it’s cranking out sausage and “Yooper” and jalapeno cheddar brats.
Thursday, the kitchen team — Jennifer Slagle; her daughter, Lauren; and Ashley and Mollie Steinbrecher — were assembling pizzas that ranged from “Barnyard Meaty” to “Greenhouse Veggie,” available on a thin or hand-tossed crust or a gluten-free cauliflower crust.
They’ll put together about 30 pizzas in a prep session, all of which reliably sell out, Jennifer Slagle said.
For now they don’t have the license to cure meats, so don’t produce their own bacon, hams or pepperoni.
But they do have a number of farm-raised meats — beef, lamb, pork, chicken, turkey — some from their own stock.
They’re raising about 40 pigs, along with chickens, ducks, geese and seven head of cattle right now. They used to have sheep but ended that in January, though they still have lamb and even gyro meat in the freezer.
The shift to more kitchen work has meant adjusting other parts of the operation. The Slagles decided this summer not to participate in regional farmers markets, which had been a staple of their business in the past. The time needed to pack and set up the booths in Marquette or Escanaba just proved too much, Jennifer Slagle said.
Customers now seem willing to come to them. “We’re kind of getting to know enough people in the area that it’s a nice little drive,” she said.
She also coordinates by email to deliver pizzas or other orders to Iron Mountain when she has another reason to go to town.
While they reduced what they planted in the field in half as well, they still cultivate about 6 acres of vegetables and fruit, so should have plenty of fresh produce to offer when ready — except strawberries, which got nipped by the late cold snap. They’re still waiting to see if their 400 blueberry bushes will yield any fruit this summer.
They finally got the last of the plants she started — her favorite part of farm life, she said — in the ground this past weekend.
The kitchen building also has a display of Jennifer Slagle’s Mama Bear products, made on site. The cocoa butter soaps come in more than 100 scents; she offers an unscented version as well that contains goat’s milk, along with glycerine and liquid soaps, aftershave, shave sticks and lip balm.
They had hoped this year to add a new greenhouse for selling plants on site but it didn’t come together in time, though the frame is in place. They do expect to have it ready for next year.
The Slagle’s Family Farm building at N7705 Metropolitan Road in Felch Township is open 3 to 7 p.m. Wednesdays, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thursdays and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturdays. To order or for other information, call 906-221-5937.
Betsy Bloom can be reached at 906-774-2772, ext. 240, or [email protected].
BUSINESSJUN 30, 2021
BETSY BLOOM
Managing Editor
[email protected]
Betsy Bloom/Daily News photos ASHLEY STEINBRECHER MAKES “Barnyard Meaty” pizzas — they have pepperoni, Italian sausage, bacon and ham — Thursday in the commercial kitchen at Slagle’s Family Farm in Felch Township. Thursdays are used to prepare foods such as pizza and sausage for sale from the freezers.
FELCH TOWNSHIP — A new commercial kitchen has created a number of new opportunities for Slagle’s Family Farm.
Homemade pizzas and sausage. Meals by order on Wednesdays and Saturdays. An array of soaps, lip balms and other novelties made on site by Jennifer Slagle, who runs the farm along with her husband, Jason.
“We’re diversified,” Jennifer Slagle said, rather than relying too much on one area of production.
The 2,800-square-foot commercial kitchen and other renovations have helped convert the former Steinbrecher potato warehouse at N7705 Metropolitan Road in Felch Township into a business that’s part restaurant, part gift shop, part custom meats store along with fresh produce in season.
In 2017, the Slagles secured a $84,110 Rural Development Fund Grant from the Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development that, along with their own investment, allowed them to remake a building that once housed livestock into a workspace that could be used year-round.
A DISPLAY OF the many varieties of cocoa butter Mama Bear’s Soap that Jennifer Slagle makes at Slagle’s Family Farm. The building at N7705 Metropolitan Road in Felch Township has a merchandise area highlighting the soap and other items the Slagles make on site.
The commercial kitchen expands what the Slagles can do: processing meat — including making sausages and lunchmeats — and fruits and vegetables; canning salsas and sauces, pickles, jams and other products made with its home-grown fruit and vegetables.
They also now have a takeout menu of prime rib burgers, chicken and fish sandwiches, wraps, even a shrimp basket they prepare on Wednesdays and Saturdays. On most Saturdays, they’ll add a special item, often something done in the smoker, such as beef brisket this past week or pulled pork.
The farm is open on Thursdays as well but devoted to preparing items to stock the freezers or custom orders. Some weeks it’s pizzas, with sauce made from tomatoes grown on the farm. On others, it’s cranking out sausage and “Yooper” and jalapeno cheddar brats.
Thursday, the kitchen team — Jennifer Slagle; her daughter, Lauren; and Ashley and Mollie Steinbrecher — were assembling pizzas that ranged from “Barnyard Meaty” to “Greenhouse Veggie,” available on a thin or hand-tossed crust or a gluten-free cauliflower crust.
They’ll put together about 30 pizzas in a prep session, all of which reliably sell out, Jennifer Slagle said.
For now they don’t have the license to cure meats, so don’t produce their own bacon, hams or pepperoni.
But they do have a number of farm-raised meats — beef, lamb, pork, chicken, turkey — some from their own stock.
They’re raising about 40 pigs, along with chickens, ducks, geese and seven head of cattle right now. They used to have sheep but ended that in January, though they still have lamb and even gyro meat in the freezer.
The shift to more kitchen work has meant adjusting other parts of the operation. The Slagles decided this summer not to participate in regional farmers markets, which had been a staple of their business in the past. The time needed to pack and set up the booths in Marquette or Escanaba just proved too much, Jennifer Slagle said.
Customers now seem willing to come to them. “We’re kind of getting to know enough people in the area that it’s a nice little drive,” she said.
She also coordinates by email to deliver pizzas or other orders to Iron Mountain when she has another reason to go to town.
While they reduced what they planted in the field in half as well, they still cultivate about 6 acres of vegetables and fruit, so should have plenty of fresh produce to offer when ready — except strawberries, which got nipped by the late cold snap. They’re still waiting to see if their 400 blueberry bushes will yield any fruit this summer.
They finally got the last of the plants she started — her favorite part of farm life, she said — in the ground this past weekend.
The kitchen building also has a display of Jennifer Slagle’s Mama Bear products, made on site. The cocoa butter soaps come in more than 100 scents; she offers an unscented version as well that contains goat’s milk, along with glycerine and liquid soaps, aftershave, shave sticks and lip balm.
They had hoped this year to add a new greenhouse for selling plants on site but it didn’t come together in time, though the frame is in place. They do expect to have it ready for next year.
The Slagle’s Family Farm building at N7705 Metropolitan Road in Felch Township is open 3 to 7 p.m. Wednesdays, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thursdays and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturdays. To order or for other information, call 906-221-5937.
Betsy Bloom can be reached at 906-774-2772, ext. 240, or [email protected].
