A Little Bit About Our Grass-fed Beef (+This Week's Meat, Dairy & Veggies)

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Meet Rosie, part of our grass-fed, pastured cow crew on the farm. She loves roaming the fields and chowing down on a natural diet of grasses, just as nature intended. Our cattle are moved regularly to fresh pasture, which we manage carefully to maintain the health of the land and livestock, and to provide high nutrient density. Did you know grass-fed beef contains more heart-healthy omega-3 fatty acids, more antioxidant vitamins, and more conjugated linoleic acid (a type of fat that’s thought to reduce risk for heart disease and cancer) than factory-farmed beef?

Taste the difference by shopping at our Chesterton store or pre-ordering online for in-store or curbside pickup!

Produce

This week’s harvest includes:

  • Beans (string and pole varieties – including green beans this week!)

  • Beets

  • Blueberries (frozen)

  • Cabbage (green and purple)

  • Carrots

  • Eggplant

  • Garlic

  • Greens – Spicy Sampler (kale, mustard greens, and arugula)

  • Herbs (multiple varieties)

  • Kale

  • Lettuce (heads and mixed)

  • Mushrooms (Chef Sampler)

  • Onions

  • Peppers (light green/sweet, yummy, poblano, jalapeños/hot and other varieties)

  • Potatoes (blue, reds, yellows/whites, and fingerlings)

  • Squash (Acorn, Butternut, Baby Butternut, Delicata and Spaghetti)

  • Sweet Potatoes 

  • Swiss Chard

  • Tomatoes (heirlooms, including cherry tomatoes) – Sweet, juicy, heirlooms, picked at their peak!

  • Watercress

  • Watermelon

  • Zucchini – Very limited supply of yellow and green!

  • And more! Like any local market, we never know what else we might end up with until we harvest. So, it helps to come to the farm store and explore!

As always, our produce is GMO-free and grown without synthetic pesticides, herbicides, or fungicides — and we make sure it stays that way, even for crops that are tricky to grow naturally!

Dairy & Eggs

This week’s options include:

  • A2 protein/grass-fed cow's milk, butter, buttermilk, cheese (cottage and a variety of raw), French onion dip, Kefir (vanilla and plain), sour cream, & yogurt (Greek and plain)

  • Duck and chicken eggs

Learn more about our eggs and why the creamy, delicious dairy we carry tastes so good!

Meat Availability

This week’s options (while supplies last) include:

  • Beef Prime Steaks & Grill Options: NY Strip (Club)--Very Limited Supply!!

  • Beef Savory Steaks: Skirt,  Mock Tenderloin, Swiss, Cubed, Round, Eye of Round, Top, and Bottom

  • Beef Roasts: Chuck, Arm, Sirloin Tip, Rump, Eye of Round, and Top & Bottom Round Roasts

  • Beef & Beef Grill Options: Ground (including ground beef, chuck, and sirloin), Patties (3 or 4 per package), Stew Meat, Soup Bones, Shank Bones, Tallow, Organ Meats, and more! We're also carrying The Brooklyn Hot Dog Company dogs: Classic Beef, Beef & Pork, Buffalo (Chicken & Pork), Pepperoni (Pork & Beef), and Gyro (Pork & Beef — traditional Greek gyro ingredients)! Their chef, Tony, takes great pride in his work as he seeks the best possible ingredients both in the quality of the meat and in the spices that go into his dogs!

  • Pork: Limited supply of Sausage including Andouille, Brats, Breakfast, Fresh Kielbasa, Italian (Hot, Regular, or Sweet), Merguez, Oaxacan Adobo, Polish, Tolucan Chorizo,  and Real Vermonter's Maple. All from our pannage raised pork and organically sourced spice blends. Loin Chops (thick and thin), Center Cut, and Sirloin Chops. Other cuts: Neck Bones, Soup Bones, Organ Meats, Back Fat (Great for making your own lard or using just like it is to grease your skillet!!), Smoked Ham Hocks, and a very limited supply of Hams and Ham Slices. We're also carrying a variety of smoked bacon sausage options from Big Fork (from Berkshire Hogs raised on a pasture): Hickory & Applewood Bacon, Aged Cheddar Bacon, Maple & Brown Sugar Bacon, and Chicken & Bacon! Request a letter from the chef, Lance, for details about his practices when placing your order!

  • Lamb: Chops--loin, rib, and shoulder. Roasts--Arm, Leg, Neck, Meaty Shanks, Rack of Ribs & Rack of Loins, Ground, Soup Bones. While supplies last!

  • Goat: Shoulder, Arm, Neck, Leg Roasts, Meaty Shanks, Rib & Loin Chops, Rack of Ribs & Rack of Loins, Shoulder & Leg Chops (including sirloin), Ground, Stew Meat, Organ Meats, Soup Bones 

  • Chicken (frozen): Whole, Cut-ups (bone-in/skin on & boneless/skinless breast, leg quarters or thighs, drumsticks, wings), Ground Chicken, Soup Bones (necks, backs, feet) and Organ Meats (heart, liver, gizzards)

  • Salmon: Kvarøy Arctic Rope Hung Salmon burgers (2/package) and flash frozen salmon fillets (2lb packages), all sustainably raised in Norway where they are doing what they can to protect our seas and share their long traditions with the rest of us. Their waters and fish are pristine and the Kvarøy Arctic team is working tirelessly to keep it that way. “We must leave the environment in the same or better shape than when we began.” —Alf-Gøran Knutsen, CEO of Kvarøy Arctic

Read more about how we raise our grass-fed beef, pastured poultry, pastured pork, and grass-fed lamb.
Read more about Kvarøy Arctic's sustainability practices.

Sarah HighlenComment