Summer produce options are dwindling – get them while you can! 🍅🌽🫑

We know it’s hard to believe, but with autumn right around the corner, our summer produce availability becomes quite unpredictable. We think it’s safe to say that our cucumbers are done for the season, with zucchini just barely hanging on. But never fear, a whole new bounty of seasonal produce is on the horizon: think turnips and winter squash (acorn, butternut, spaghetti, etc.)! 

We still have heirloom tomatoes, eggplant, green beans, and watermelon, but who knows how long these harvests will last, so get them while you can! 🍉 🫑 We should continue to have plenty of pepper varieties for at least the next couple of weeks. We also have an abundance of beets, carrots, garlic, leeks, green onions, red Florence, fresh herbs (parsley, basil, etc.), potatoes (purple, red, white), and more!

Place your pre-orders online or come on in and enjoy the last breath of summer with us! ☀️🌻

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

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Produce

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

  • Apples (fresh)

  • Beets

  • Blackberries (frozen)

  • Blueberries (frozen)

  • Carrots! Including rainbow, purple, and our standard delicious!

  • Cherry Tomatoes—many varieties and multiple, daily harvests! 

  • Eggplant—plenty for prepping and storing your favorite relish or baba ganoush! Another week of abundance—won’t last!

  • Elderberries (frozen)

  • Garlic—beautiful, delicious, large bulbs

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

  • Head Lettuce!

  • Heirloom Tomatoes—paste, cherry, and many varieties!

  • Horseradish

  • Leeks

  • Mushrooms—fresh and dried options available

  • Okra!

  • Onions (Slicing and Bunching)—Green onions or Scallions of many varieties (Red Baron, Parade, etc.)

  • Peppers (sweet and some hot!)—Sweet Cubanelle, Bell (green, purple, red, and yellow), Mildly Hot Pepperoncini and Poblano, Hot Hot Datil, Hungarian Wax, Jalapeno, Serrano, and more!

  • Potatoes (Blues, Red Nolans and Kennebecs)

  • Raspberries (frozen)

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

  • Shallots!—Great for just about everything, similar to the Red Florence with a slightly different nuance to the flavor!

  • Squash (Winter)—Butternut and Spaghetti

  • Swiss Chard

  • Tomatillos

  • Turnips

  • Watermelon—red heirlooms, exceedingly sweet and delicious! Thursday Harvest!

  • Zucchini

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, buttermilk, cheese  (GGC sharp cheddar and cottage cheese), kefir, sour cream, whipping cream, and yogurt! 

  • 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: Chuckeye, Denver, Filet, NY Strip, Ribeye, Sirloin, and T-Bone re-stock!

  • Beef Savory Roasts, Steaks & Ribs: Brisket, Chuck, Chuck Arm, Flat Iron, Mock Tenderloin, Rump & Sirloin Tip Roasts and Steaks, and Round (eye, top, and bottom round) steaks. Flank and Skirt steak re-stock Thursday!

  • Beef Grill Options: Beef Patties (3 or 4 pk). Re-stock of Ground Beef, Chuck, and Round! 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 only this week): Whole and Cut-ups (breast—both boneless / skinless and bone-in / skin on, thighs, leg quarters, drums, and wings—a 10% discount if you buy 2 pkgs wings or drums!!). Ground Chicken low stock (more back next week)!! Chicken organ meat (including: backs, necks, feet, liver, gizzard, and heart)! And, Sweet Italian Chicken Sausage!!

  • 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: our re-supply should occur next week if you’re missing some of your other favorite!

    • 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. 

    • 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.

  • Turkey: Frozen Whole and Cut-ups! Breasts (boneless / skin on), drums , wings, and backs for amazing soup stock available. And turkey gizzards!

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—this week may be lower capacity for Joe!!

  • 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! Recently re-stocked!

  • Yaggy Road & Equal Exchange coffee  options!

Sarah Highlen