Acorn Acres Farm (Chesterton, IN)

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Welcoming Stew Season! (+ This Week's Meat, Dairy & Veggies)

With winter just around the corner, we're welcoming stew season with open arms! Have you tried our bowl-licking-good beef stew recipe? It's packed full of melt-in-your-mouth grass-fed beef, hearty local veggies, and tons of aromatic herbs. The best part? You can batch prepare the recipe and freeze it for easy weekday meals for the whole family. Check out the recipe here on our website!

Shop online for in-store or curbside pickup or stop by the farm store to get all the ingredients & more! We appreciate everyone working together in our store to keep us all safe by following our COVID-19 procedures.

Produce

This week’s harvest includes a broad variety of root vegetables and more – enjoy our local bounty while it lasts!

  • Blueberries (frozen)

  • Cabbage (green and purple) – limited supply

  • Carrots – limited supply

  • Garlic

  • Herbs (both fresh and dried options available)

  • Horseradish

  • Kale

  • Lettuce & Mixed Greens – limited supply

  • Onions

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

  • Pumpkins

  • Radishes

  • Spinach – limited supply

  • Squash (Butternut, Delicata, and Spaghetti)

  • Sunchokes (Jerusalem artichokes)

  • Sweet Potatoes (multiple varieties including purple!)

  • 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)

  • Chicken & Duck 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:

  • Prime Steak: Limited supply of Ribeye & NY Strip!

  • Beef Savory Steaks: Swiss, Cubed, Round, Eye of Round, Top, as well as Bottom, PLUS Mock Tenderloin, Flat Iron, Skirt, Flank, and Denver in limited supply!

  • Beef Roasts: Chuck, Arm, Sirloin Tip, Prime Rib, Rump, Eye of Round, and Top & Bottom Round Roasts. In very limited supply: Brisket!

  • Beef Grill Options: Ground (including ground beef, chuck, and sirloin), Patties (3 or 4 per package), Stew Meat, Soup Bones, Shank Bones, Tallow 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 Fresh Kielbasa, Mild Breakfast, and Oaxacan Adobo this week. All from our pannage raised pork and organically sourced spice blends. Pork Chops (thick and thin), roasts, steaks, and more! 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!), A very limited supply of 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, Chicken & Bacon, and Maple & Brown Sugar Bacon! Request a letter from the chef, Lance, for details about his practices when placing your orderNote: we hope to have our 100% natural cure bacon  and hams back by late December!

  • Lamb: Chops: loin, rib, sirloin, and shoulder. Roasts: Arm, Leg, Neck, Meaty Shanks, 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. All great for Indian curry dishes and more!

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

  • Salmon: Kvarøy Arctic Rope Hung Salmon, Salmon Filets, and Salmon Burgers (2/package) 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 beefpastured poultrypastured pork, & grass-fed lamb, and learn more about Kvarøy Arctic's sustainability practices.