Low & Slow BBQ 2024

Cookies at midnight, an early morning Cubby Hole run (with only one kid forgotten in a closet) and a whole day of food prep for the staff-appreciation lunch. This was our final day of Low and Slow IL. After all the cookies were baked, homemade of course, and games were played, we all ventured...

Today was a big preparation day for the feast on Thursday for all of the school staff, as well as the day for our sleepover. Firstly, we trimmed pork butts (which is actually meat from a pig’s shoulder) by cutting off all the excess fat and bits of hard bone around the outside of...

To start the day we went to the pit and uncovered the meat that was cooking overnight. We unwrapped the lamb to find three perfectly cooked cuts. After bringing the lamb inside, we then filled the hole with dirt and started to prepare the lamb for lunch. To prepare the lamb, we pulled apart...

We arrived at Van Meter this morning to discover that our pit that we dug over the weekend had collapsed due to the rain. All the walls had caved inwards, leaving soil and bricks where the firewood was supposed to go. Not to be disheartened, the crew rushed to the rescue and saved the...

Itinerary for Day One We arrived to Van Meter Hall at 8:30 a.m. and went over the plan for the day and set up our Remind app to communicate with each other. Then we gathered materials to dig our hole for the lamb to cook in. Unfortunately, the digging posed some difficulties. The bottom...