A Hearty & Easy Winter Meal Idea 🍝🍅

Looking for a quick, easy, and healthy meal that’s also delicious? We’ve got everything you need for a locally-sourced, nutrient-dense spaghetti night! 🍝

Start with our grass-fed ground beef and organic spaghetti sauce made with heirloom tomatoes for a hearty, flavorful meat sauce.🍅 Pair it with our variety of organic pastas made from heritage and ancient grains for the perfect base. Top the meal off with our fresh herbs, parmesan, a simple side salad, or even some fresh mushrooms in the sauce—and voilà! 😋

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

Produce

This week’s local, fresh harvest includes:

  • Beets

  • Blueberries (frozen)

  • Cabbage (Green)

  • Carrots

  • Garlic—beautiful, delicious, large bulbs

  • Herbs—dried options available!

  • Mushrooms—Fresh Chef Sampler (Brown and Alba Clamshells and Trumpet Royale) and dried options available!

  • Potatoes (Blues, Reds, and fingerlings)

  • Squash (Winter)—Butternut

  • Turnips

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  (GGC sharp cheddar, Parmigiano Reggiano, Pecorino Romano, Grana Padano, and Ubriacone), buttermilk and kefir. Please plan ahead and let us know 2-3 weeks in advance for cream and all dairy (if you can), it helps. By Friday, we will have more Homestead Farm milk and cottage cheese kefir available. Wednesday and Thursday will be low milk days.

  • 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! Note: we will have limited quantities Wednesday and Thursday as the cold has set in and impacted laying quantities.

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, and other steaks!

  • Beef Savory Roasts, Steaks & Ribs: Brisket (plenty large enough for smoking), Chuck, Chuck Arm, Round (top, bottom, eye, and full), and Rump & Sirloin Tip Roasts and Steaks. 

  • Beef Grill Options: Ground Beef, Chuck, and Round. Beef Patties (3 or 4 pk)! 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—boneless / skinless, thighs, leg quarters, drums, and wings—a 10% discount if you buy 2 pkgs or more of wings!!). We also have Ground Chicken! And, chicken organ meat (including: backs, necks, feet, liver, gizzard, and heart)!

  • Duck (frozen): Whole only

  • Lamb: 

    • Ground Lamb

    • Lamb Patties

    • Lamb Loin, Rib, and Shoulder Chops!— melt in your mouth tasty!

    • Leg of Lamb and Shanks

    • Lamb Soup Bones, and organ meats

  • Pork: British Curry, Cajun, Fresh Kielbasa, Italian (Hot or Sweet), Merguez, Mild Breakfast, and Real Vermonter’s Maple 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 (about 2.5 to >8 lbs each). 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.

  • Turkey: Whole and Cut-ups! Breasts (boneless / skin on and bone-in / skin on, drums, thighs, wings) and backs, feet, and necks for amazing soup stock available. And turkey organ meats (gizzard and liver in approximate 1 lb packages)!

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!

  • 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