{"id":496,"date":"2020-11-09T19:13:57","date_gmt":"2020-11-09T19:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.dakinfarm.com\/news\/?p=496"},"modified":"2025-08-08T12:05:52","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T12:05:52","slug":"stress-free-and-joy-filled-2020-holiday-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.dakinfarm.com\/news\/stress-free-and-joy-filled-2020-holiday-season\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best Way to Enjoy a Stress-Free and Joy-Filled 2020 Holiday Season"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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The Holiday season brings fond childhood memories of growing up on Dakin Farm and fond memories of the family gathered around a Christmas Feast. The centerpiece of this meal in my family has always been a traditional Dakin Farm, Bone-In Dinner Ham. When I was a child, my dad used to smoke these hams in a wooden barrel over glowing corncob embers. Then, when I graduated from college in 1980 and joined the family business full-time, we went under USDA meat inspection and constructed a new meat plant here on the farm so we could safely ship our hams nationwide in order to share our beloved traditions and tastes of Vermont with families near and far. The process of preparing our hams is much the same as it was in the days of the wooden barrel. Our recipe for smoking meat requires a long, slow, tenderizing smoke over glowing corncob embers. The result produces meat with a rich golden-bronze color and, delicate, sweet, smoky flavor. A ham from Dakin Farm is simply the best ham you can find anywhere; It has been for as long as I can remember and it will be for as long as I\u2019m around.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m thankful for families like yours all over the country that have made an old-fashioned, maple-cured, and cob-smoked ham or delightful North Country Breakfast with Pure Vermont Maple Syrup from Dakin Farm their Christmas Family Tradition. These traditions will likely look different this year – with smaller, more intimate family dinners or even meals shared over zoom. Smaller celebrations don’t mean that you have to skip your favorite dishes you love. We’re here to help with just the right size centerpiece for your family as well as hassle-free nationwide shipping to surprise and delight loved ones. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We wanted to provide you with an update so we can offer you,\nour valued customer, the best possible holiday experience we can despite these\nunusual times. As always, our team is working hard to quickly, safely, and\ncarefully package our specialty foods and gifts and making sure they start\ntheir journey to you and your loved ones for timely Holiday delivery. However,\nwe continue to face the challenges presented by the ongoing pandemic and have\nhad to make significant changes in our production and fulfillment processes to\nensure we are doing everything in our power to keep our team healthy and safe\nas we enter our busiest shipping season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ordering and shipping your Holiday gifts and centerpieces\nearlier than usual is the best way to ensure your products will be ready and\nwaiting for you and your gift recipients to enjoy on Thanksgiving or Christmas\nday. It will also help us make sure we can maintain a safe environment for all\nof our staff. Additionally, our shipping partners are expecting unprecedented\ndemand and have already begun warning of unavoidable delays due to the sheer\nincrease in the volume of packages as Christmas delivery nears. We will\ncontinue to quickly and safely get your packages into the hands of our FedEx\nand USPS shipping partners but their journey is out of our hands at that point.\nWe know there is a chance that our typical fast delivery will be subject to\ntransit delays. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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