Gathering season – we’ve got just what you need! 🍖🍂

The cooler weather and crisp air make it the perfect environment for gathering with friends or family and cozying up around a warm, delicious meal. 🍽️ Break out your favorite serving platter and celebrate the season by making a savory, nutrient-dense roast. We have smoked hams, prime steaks, brisket, chuck roast, whole turkeys, leg of lamb, and so much more — fresh from the pasture and the perfect touch for every meal!

🧑‍🍳 Try your hand at our mouthwatering prime rib recipe. Seal the deal with our farm-fresh herbs and veggies!

We place custom orders from our butcher for prime rib, so please place an online pre-order in advance to reserve your choice cuts. We look forward to helping you make your gathering complete!

📍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—multiple colors and heirloom varieties again this week! Enjoy plenty of dishes with these babies before the cold weather sets in!

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

  • Cherry Tomatoes (heirloom varieties)! 

  • Eggplant—a few are hanging on for the end of the season relish and baba ghanoush fans!

  • 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 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 onions of many varieties (Red Baron, Parade, etc.)

  • Peppers Peppers 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! Note: the hard frost hit and most of our plants are wilted now so get these special treats while you can. We have some in abundance if you’re making your favorite sauces or winter canning!

  • 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)!

  • Shallots

  • 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!

  • 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, Ribeye, Sirloin, and T-Bone!

  • Beef Savory Roasts, Steaks & Ribs: Brisket, Chuck, Chuck Arm, Flat Iron, Mock Tenderloin, 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 only this week): 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)!

  • 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.

  • Turkey: Frozen Whole and Cut-ups! Breasts (boneless / skin on) 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—Joe added in a weekly special of Pumpernickel Bread, have you tried it? Yum!

  • 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!

  • Yaggy Road & Equal Exchange coffee options!

Sarah Highlen