In lieu of the accident last week involving the owners of Liefie Li Vine, one of our suppliers was gracious enough to donate some goods for a raffles, from which all proceeds will be forwarded to Inge Strydom to assist her with the costs derived from the accident.
We will raffle 50 tickets at $10 per ticket with the possibility of winning 1 of 3 prises. The prises are valued between $40 and $75 each. If the winner cannot pick up in store, we will cover the shipping.
We will also be adding an additional 1/2lb of Angus Biltong per prize.
Let's do this!
#waarjoumakoskoop
Some of you know pieces of this story already.
Most of you don't.
For the past several months, I have been working directly with Amos Miller, alongside @RobertBarnes, on something that started as an attempt to solve a very specific problem for one Amish farmer and has grown into something considerably larger.
And today, we're finally at the point where I can start talking publicly about it.
Many people in this community know Amos.
Some of you have bought food from his farm for years.
Others know his name because of the legal battles surrounding his farm, his private association, raw milk, traditional food, and the rather extraordinary amount of government attention one Amish farmer in Pennsylvania has managed to attract over the years.
My involvement started much more simply.
Robert Barnes contacted me because Amos needed help.
So I started talking to Amos.
Then I kept talking to Amos.
A lot.
And the more I learned about how his operation actually worked behind the scenes, the more obvious it became that simply building him another website wasn't going to fix the underlying problem.
Amos is Amish.
He isn't sitting at a ...