I learned about Wind Dancer Ranch at the Downtown Palo Alto Farmer's Market. Lisa Leonard, the proprietor, is a relatively recent participant from Brooks, CA. Brooks is west of I-505 and north-east of Lake Berryessa. Lisa comes to Palo Alto on alternate Saturdays. It is worth your time to get to know Lisa!
http://www.winddancerranch.us/
On the website you will find that there are alternative delivery options to the above-mentioned farmer's market.
http://www.winddancerranch.us/wdr-deliveryoptions.htm
There is also a "winddancerranch.com" but it is in Texas. They raise Friesian horses and fancy cats. Don't be mislead.
Once in the past we enjoyed a meal or two from one of her rabbits, but I am here to praise the milk-fed Churro lamb she is offering this spring. Don't be mislead because she sells Churro wool, that the breed is only desirable because of its Navajo rug wool. In all my 72 years I've never tasted better lamb, or 'liver with onions and bacon,' or sauté of kidney and heart in a sherry/mustard sauce. Churro milk-fed lamb makes a gourmet meal!
I was delighted to learn that I could take delivery of this whole lamb unfrozen! It was a bit bigger than either Lisa or I anticipated (12-15 pounds turned out to be almost 19 pounds) but it was a straightforward task to turn it into meat for cooking with nothing more than two sharp knives, a short chef's knife and a pointed boning knife, and a meat saw (ours has 10-teeth-per-inch) for which you could substitute a coping saw or hacksaw with the proper blade. The saw is very helpful in cutting the backbone (chops) and large bones (leg and shoulder.) To give us the courage to undertake the task, my wife and I referred to this step-by-step tutorial:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/gallery/2008/nov/19/foodanddrink
You can do it, too. It took us 2-3 hours from start to meat wrapped, inventoried, and in the freezer. We even boned the legs and shoulders, roasted the bones, picked off the meat for a first meal, and made soup stock from them and the fatty scraps. read more
