Acorn Acres Farm (Chesterton, IN)

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Celebrate the Season with Specialty Roasts – Pre-Order Now! 🍖

With more gatherings right around the corner, we want to make sure we have exactly what you need to create the perfect meals! Are you planning to celebrate the season with a specialty roast?

As a small farm, it can be hard to predict product availability, so please place your pre-orders soon for any desired cuts.

Think leg of lamb, whole duck or rabbit, smoked hams, pork shoulder roasts, prime rib roasts, and much more.  đźĄ©đźŤ–

Our meats are grass-fed, raised on pasture, and absolutely delicious!

Place your order through our online order form or stop by the store. We look forward to helping you make your gathering complete!

đź“Ť362 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 a stunning autumn abundance!!

  • Apples (fresh Gala, Empire, and Pink Lady)—reduced rates on purchases 2# and up to make your favorite apple pies! Small batch of Apple Cider available this week—get it while you still can!

  • Beets

  • Blueberries (frozen)

  • Cabbage (Savoy and Green)

  • Carrots

  • Garlic—beautiful, delicious, large bulbs

  • Heirloom Tomatoes—get the last of the seasons gifts from the gardens while you can!

  • Herbs—Fresh (celery, cilantro, dill, parsley, sage, thyme, etc.) and dried options available!

  • Kale

  • Leeks—enjoy in any soup or stew!

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

  • Mushrooms—dried options available!

  • Potatoes (Blues, Red Nolans and Kennebecs)

  • 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, GGC sharp cheddar, Pecorino Romano, and Grana Padano), kefir, sour cream and yogurt! EGGNOG!! Please plan ahead and let us know 2 weeks in advance for cream and all dairy, it really helps.

  • 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: NY Strip and T-Bone!

  • Beef Savory Roasts, Steaks & Ribs: Brisket, Chuck, Chuck Arm, 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, thighs, leg quarters, drums, and wings—a 10% discount if you buy 2 pkgs wings!!). 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!

    • Leg of Lamb and Shanks

    • Lamb Soup Bones, and organ meats

  • Pork: Andouille, 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. 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: 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, heart, and liver in approximate 1 lb packages)! Note: there are 2 whole (frozen) left from November 2024 if you didn’t get a chance to enjoy a meal with your loved ones yet. Please get your pre-orders in quick so that we can be sure they go home with you before the end of the year.

Read more about how we raise our grass-fed  beefpastured   poultrypastured  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!