Embracing The Season With Our Farm Friends 🐄 + Exciting Treats Coming 🍂

This time of year can be hard on all of us. Thankfully, our animal friends always remind us to slow down and appreciate the beauty and thriving life around us! 🐄 Our cattle love this time of year when the temperatures cool down and their bodies can rest.

We’re sending love and peace to all as we begin a new month and transition further in Autumn. 💚🍁

We also have some exciting items on the horizon! Keep your eyes peeled for some homemade, delicious prepared food for your upcoming seasonal gatherings. We’ll announce them soon and have them available for pre-order.

Come see us in the shop this week or place your online pre-orders!

📍362 Indian Boundary Rd, Chesterton, IN
• Wednesday 10am-5pm
• Thursday 10am-5pm
• Friday 10am-5:30pm
• Saturday 10am-4:30pm

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Produce

This week’s local fresh harvest includes a stunning autumn abundance!!

  • Apples (fresh Gala, Honeycrisp, and Jonagold)—reduced rates on purchases 2# and up to make your favorite apple pies!

  • Beets

  • Blueberries (frozen)

  • Brussel Sprouts

  • Cauliflower

  • Carrots

  • Garlic—beautiful, delicious, large bulbs

  • Heirloom Tomatoes—get the last of the season gifts from the gardens, we have our rare, flavorful pastes this week too!

  • Herbs—Fresh (celery, chives, cilantro, mint, oregano, parsley, sage, spearmint, thyme, etc.) and dried options available!

  • Kale

  • Leeks—enjoy in any soup or stew!

  • Lettuce (head and mixed leaf) and Greens Mixes!

  • Mushrooms—fresh shiitake! And, dried options available! If you haven’t dried your own shiitake’s yet, ask us for ideas! Healthy food for all seasons.

  • Onions (Slicing and Bunching)—Dried and Green options

  • Peppers Peppers Peppers!! (sweet and some hot!)—Not many left but we do have some. These are the first plants to go, sadly, during the first hard frost (which we’ve had)

  • Potatoes (Blues, Yellow Fingerlings, Red Nolans and Kennebecs)

  • Radishes (Cherry Belles and Daikon)

  • Raspberries (frozen)

  • Red Florence!—Called Red Long of Florence (rare, delicate flavor, delicious and disappearing fast)!

  • Squash (Winter)—Butternut

  • Swiss Chard

  • Turnips

  • Watermelon—red heirlooms, exceedingly sweet and delicious seedless minis!

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:

  • Grass-fed, organic, non-homogenized, low heat pasteurized milk, butter, cheese  (cottage cheese and GGC sharp cheddar), kefir, sour cream and yogurt! It’s difficult to keep whipping cream in stock. So, please plan ahead and let us know 2 weeks in advance for cream and all dairy! Try Homestead’s new cottage cheese kefir! Samples only, not for sale—gifted from Heidi and it’s first come first serve, when we run out, we run out (available Thursday).

  • Chicken eggs AND duck eggs this week! Our eggs are hand harvested and cleaned. Our chickens are raised on not simply organic but also a soy free grain mix along with their free range diet. There really is nothing like the consistency and flavor of these delectable treats from heritage breeds . . . we bring out the connoisseurs!

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: Filet, NY Strip, Ribeye, Sirloin, Porterhouse and T-Bone!

  • Beef Savory Roasts, Steaks & Ribs: Brisket, Chuck, Chuck Arm, Flank, Flat Iron, Mock Tenderloin, Skirt, and Rump & Sirloin Tip Roasts and Steaks.

  • Beef Grill Options: Beef Patties (3 or 4 pk) and Ground Beef! We're also carrying The Brooklyn Hot Dog Company dogs: All Beef or Beef & Pork! Buy two or more packages for a 10% discount (see our boxes on our pre-order form)!

  • Beef Stew & Organ Meat Options: Stew and Organ Meats, including cheeks, heart, kidney, liver, spleen, sweet breads, and more! 

  • Chicken: (frozen): Whole and Cut-ups (breast—bone-in / skin on and boneless / skinless, thighs, leg quarters, drums, and wings—a 10% discount if you buy 2 pkgs wings or drums!!). Ground Chicken and Sweet Italian Chicken Sausage! And, chicken organ meat (including: backs, necks, feet, liver, gizzard, and heart)!

  • Duck (frozen): Whole only

  • Lamb: 

    • Ground Lamb

    • Lamb Patties

    • Lamb Loin and Rib Chops!— unbelievably tender and tasty . . . melt in your mouth tasty!

    • Lamb Shoulder Chops and Roasts

    • Leg of Lamb and Shanks

    • Lamb Spareribs, Soup Bones, and organ meats—Note: have you tried the spareribs?? Amazing . . . a luxury at a great price! Impress your guests and surprise them with something they haven't tried before!

  • Pork: Andouille, British Curry, Cajun, Fresh Kielbasa, Italian (Hot or Sweet), Merguez, Mild Breakfast, Real Vermonter's Maple, Merguez, Fresh Kielbasa, and Oaxacan Adobo Sausage!  All from our pannage raised pork and organically sourced spice blends (featuring the Teeny Tiny Spice Co). Note: have you tried our pork patties? They come plain or with salt & pepper. You can also get them in a convenient 3-pack or 4-pack. However you slice it, your family grills will never be the same after trying these. The flavor is undeniably delicious.

    • Pork Chops (thick or thin / boneless or bone-in) & Steaks and Spareribs and more! Other cuts: Back Fat for making your own lard! And Pork Neck Bones for that favorite Pasta Sauce flavor. 

    • Pork Roasts: Like pulled pork? We have both the Pork Butt and the Picnic Roasts fresh frozen. It’s what you’ve been asking for and this season we’ve been able to offer it. If you want to add another layer to your slow cooks, try our smoked hams with our unique, natural smoke cure with real fruit pectin rather than celery salt used in the natural blend.

    • Smoked bacon, bacon ends and Jowl bacon, smoked pork chops, ham steaks and  ham hocks for your special meals!! Or, for a smokey sausage, try our bacon cooked in your skillet or toaster oven with any of the sausage for that delicious flavor that comes with smoked sausage.

  • Rabbit (Frozen): Whole only

  • Turkey: Frozen Whole and Cut-ups! Breasts (boneless / skin on) and backs for amazing soup stock available. And turkey gizzards! Soon to come, a whole montage of additional cuts! 😊 Whole turkeys, for the season, are available through our pre-order form, and will be available for pickup starting Thursday, Nov. 14th. For pricing, please see our Turkey pricing sheet here. Note: all turkeys will be available fresh frozen this year! Depending on size, please allow 3 to 5 days to thaw.

Read more about how we raise our grass-fed  beef, pastured   poultry, pastured  pork, and grass-fed  lamb.

Fresh Features

Exciting things in store this week, while supplies last!!

  • Joe's Bread: Fresh Sourdough Bread Daily and soon to come baked seasonal options to help support your seasonal meal plans! Please stay posted. 😊

  • Teeny Tiny Spices (organic tin collection with recipes and featured in our pork sausage)! Enjoy the spice of life in each amazing variety  and a different recipe with every tin! And re-stocking next week some of your favs we’ve been sold out of!

  • Yaggy Road & Equal Exchange coffee options!

Sarah Highlen