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      Bill Dean on November 21, 2011

      Thanks Chelsea! You're a good friend.

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      Chelsea VandeDrink on November 20, 2011

      I heart Dean Family Farm - you guys rule!!!

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Everyone who pledges will get a heartfelt thank you posted on our web site and Facebook page.

Estimated Delivery: Dec 2011

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Everyone who pledges at this level or above will get their name prominently and permanently posted on a plaque mounted on the new pig building. You can come and see it almost anytime; we’d just need some notice to make sure we’re there.

Estimated Delivery: May 2012

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A really cool Dean Family Farm Tee Shirt. This shirt features our farm’s logo. Your shirt will be made by a small, minority owned startup business located in Downtown Cincinnati. Let us know your size. If you’d like this item shipped please add $5 to your pledge.

Estimated Delivery: Dec 2011

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A custom Dean Family Farm Glass Sun Catcher. This unique and beautiful item is made out of 100% recycled glass by the Glass ReFactory a division of Adams Brown Recycling a non profit organization. If you’d like this item shipped please add $5 to your pledge

Estimated Delivery: Dec 2011

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2 really cool Dean Family Farm Tee Shirts. These shirts feature our farm’s logo. Your shirts will be made by a small, minority owned startup business located in Downtown Cincinnati. Let us know your sizes. If you’d like this item shipped please add $5 to your pledge.

Estimated Delivery: Dec 2011

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2 custom Dean Family Farm Glass Sun Catchers. Get one for yourself and one for a friend. This unique and beautiful item is made out of 100% recycled glass by the Glass ReFactory a division of Adams Brown Recycling a non profit organization. If you’d like this item shipped please add $5 to your pledge.

Estimated Delivery: Dec 2011

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The new Orchids at Palm Court Cookbook. This cookbook, from one of Cincinnati's best chefs and best restaurants, doesn’t come out until the middle of November and you will be one of the first to have a copy. Orchids has our Red Wattle Pork on their menu and it is featured in this new cookbook. If you’d like this item shipped please add $5 to your pledge.

Estimated Delivery: Dec 2011

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5lbs of delicious Red Wattle Breakfast Sausage. You will really enjoy our sausage with your breakfast or other meal. It is packaged in 1lb tubes. If you’d like this item shipped please add $20 to your pledge.

Estimated Delivery: Dec 2011

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Enjoy a Rosie's Turkey Corner turkey next Thanksgiving. Turkeys will be in the 12-20 pound range and you will be able to pick your size. If you’d like this item shipped please add $45 to your pledge.

Estimated Delivery: Nov 2012

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2 copies of the new Orchids at Palm Court Cookbook. Get one for yourself and one for a friend. This cookbook, from one of Cincinnati's best chefs and best restaurants, doesn’t come out until the middle of November and you will be one of the first to have a copy. Orchids has our Red Wattle Pork on their menu and it is featured in this new cookbook. If you’d like this item shipped please add $8 to your pledge.

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Combine driving experience. After a brief training session you will get to experience the harvest firsthand from the cab of our small Gleaner combine. This would be a great experience for a father and his kids to share. Harvesting will take place in the fall of 2012.

Estimated Delivery: Oct 2012

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¼ Red Wattle Hog cut up to order. Approximately 40lbs of meat. Delivery date is very approximate. Depending on the number of orders, you will get your meat as soon as a pig is available. No shipping on this item.

Estimated Delivery: Mar 2012

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Enjoy dinner with Bill and Beth Dean, the owners of Dean Family Farm, at Orchids at Palm Court. Orchids is consistently rated the best restaurant in Cincinnati and you and a guest will have a chance to dine there on a special Red Wattle Pork dinner whipped up by executive chef Todd Kelly. Dinner will take place between late January and the end of February.

Estimated Delivery: Feb 2012

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½ Red Wattle Hog cut up to order Approximately 85lbs of meat. Delivery date is very approximate. Depending on the number of orders, you will get your meat as soon as a pig is available. No shipping on this item.

Estimated Delivery: Mar 2012

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A whole Red Wattle Hog cut up to order. Approximately 170lbs of meat. Delivery date is very approximate. Depending on the number of orders, you will get your meat as soon as a pig is available. No shipping on this item.

Estimated Delivery: Mar 2012

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Bill Dean

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Billl Dean is a broadcast engineer for Cincinnati Public Radio which plays classical music on WGUC 90.9 and NPR on WVXU 91.7. He is trying to make a go with the farming business.
Beth Dean is the Event Manager at F&W Media and loves to cook.
Adam Dean is a college student studying business and entrepreneurship at Northern Kentucky University.
Rosie Dean is in the 4th Grade at Hamersville Elementary and loves working with Turkeys and runs her own division called Rosie's Turkey Corner.
Lily Dean is in preschool and loves to help with the baby animals.
Bill Dean Sr. is a retired engineer from General Electric Aircraft Engine Group.

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