Dinner at the Lake with Ray Ruiz
April 12, 2025 @ 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm
$40Dinner at the Lake
Saturday, April 12th
5 pm - 8 pm
$40
Founding Baztec: Bringing Fishing & the Outdoors
to Underserved Communities
Join us for a magical evening on the lake! Enjoy delicious food and hear from a keynote speaker Ray Ruiz, founder of Baztec Fishing & Outdoors.
In 2017 Ray started his fishing company Baztec, Inc. Minnesota’s first bilingual fishing educational platform dedicated to serving folks from the Latino community. Since then, Ray and his team have hosted and facilitated over 200 community outreach fishing events with a distinct focus on delivering programming to underrepresented communities and people of color. In 2023, in conjunction to his business, Ray founded Baztec Fishing & Outdoors, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that aims to enhance Baztec, Inc mission by providing fishing, hunting, camping, biking, birding and other outdoor activities to kids of color, as well as scholarship opportunities for BIPOC youth that want to get into Natural Resources and STEM fields.
Tickets are $40 per person and include:
– Beer & wine selections-
-3-course dinner-
-Admission to the keynote presentation-
-Connection & community on beautiful Grindstone Lake!-
All reservations must be paid in full prior to the day of the event.
Hannah grew up on a corn and soybean farm in Southern Minnesota and graduated from Mount Holyoke College in western Massachusetts in 2004. She worked in politics and government in St. Paul and Washington, DC, grew her first vegetables on rooftops in Brooklyn, and fell in love with grass-based livestock farming as an intern at Kinderhook Farm in the Hudson Valley of Upstate New York.
She returned home to Minnesota and began her pastured pig operation, Belly Rub Bacon, in 2015 at beautiful Dancing Winds Farms outside of Kenyon, MN, formerly a popular goat dairy run by Mairi Doerr.
In the spring of 2016, Hannah and her partner bought 160 acres of beautiful rolling hay fields and wildlife-filled wetlands outside Finlayson, MN, and Medicine Creek Farm was born.
DINNER MENU
Beer & Wine
Appetizer
Fresh Garden Salad
Main Course
– featuring Medicine Creek Farm Beef –
Juicy Lucey: Deluxe Grass-fed Hamburger with Cheese
Mushroom Burgers
Skillet Sautéed Corn
Greek Potato Fries
Grilled Pasta Salad
Dessert
Sundae Bar