How are you holding up with this chilly season?

Winter farming in the Midwest means bundling up to stay alive while working in -15 weather. ❄️ It’s part of the job, you might say. This time of year it is especially imperative to plan ahead for emergencies, ensuring the water and heat pumps keep running so that the livestock and poultry are safe!

How is everyone else holding up with this chilly season? Stop by and pick up some freshly made bone broth to warm your soul and keep your energy up. 🍲

Produce

This week’s fresh harvest includes fewer offerings but we hope to gear back up next week: 

  • Beets

  • Blueberries (frozen)

  • Garlic—very limited supply now!

  • Herbs—Many dried options, fresh are re-growing in our hoops! 

  • Lettuce & Mixed Greens—the plan is to uncover these sensitive delicacies next week, when they've had a chance to grow a wee bit bigger!

  • Mushrooms—Chef’s Sampler (mix of Maitake Frondosa, Trumpet Royale, Grey Oysters, Alba and Brown Clamshells)

  • Onions

  • Potatoes—Fingerlings and Kennebecs . . . amazing flavor! 

  • Pumpkins and other Winter Squash (and gourde) varieties including autumn frost and Musqee de Provance (Fairytale Pumpkins), spaghetti squash and more! 

  • Sweet Potatoes

    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 cow's milk, butter (Small Acres Specialty Farms tub butter only—Kalona Supernatural no longer offers their stick butter due to cream shortages), cheese (cottage, GGC sharp cheddar, Alpine style premium reserves and a variety of others), French Dip, Kefir (plain), sour cream, whipping cream, and yogurt! 

  • Chicken eggs!

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

  • Beef Savory Roasts, Steaks & Ribs: Chuck, Chuck Arm, Sirloin Tip Roasts and Cubed, Flank, Flat Iron, Mock Tenderloin, Round (full, eye, top, and bottom round) and Skirt steaks as well as our favorite Short Ribs (get the box with 2 pkgs for 15% off)!

  • Beef Grill Options: Ground Beef, Beef Patties (3 or 4 pk), Suet (for getting your skillet hot, with flavor), and more! 

  • Beef Stew & Organ Meat Options: Soup Bones, Stew and Organ Meats, including heart, kidney, liver, oxtail, spleen, sweet breads, tongue, and more! Respect the whole animal and enjoy the health benefits! Ask our team what makes the organ meats so special!

  • Chicken (frozen): Whole and Cut-ups (sold out of breasts this week—more next, thighs—bone-in / skin on only, and wings—a 15% discount if you buy 2 pkgs wings!!), Ground Chicken, Soup Bones, and Organ Meats. Also, if you haven't tried our yummy, Mild Chicken Italian Sausage, you're missing out!!

  • Lamb: 

    • Lamb Loin Chops

    • Lamb Rib 

    • Leg of Lamb and shoulder roasts (limited supply)

    • 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: British Curry, Cajun, Ethiopian Berbere, Fresh Kielbasa, Hot and Sweet Italian, Mild Breakfast, Oaxacan Adobo, and Real Vermonter's Maple Sausage!  All from our pannage raised pork and organically sourced spice blends (featuring the Teeny Tiny Spice Co).

    • Pork Chops (thick or thin) & Steaks, Tenderloins, Baby Backs, Spareribs and more! Other cuts: Back Fat and Lard made by one of our own in-house chefs and store managers, Joanna, in collaboration with Joe's Bread! And Pork Neck Bones for that favorite Pasta Sauce flavor. 

    • Smoked Canadian, Jowl and pork belly bacon, smoked pork chops, hams 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 (particularly the Real Vermonter's Maple) for that delicious flavor that comes with smoked sausage.

  • Turkey: Frozen Whole (a few extra) and Cut-ups! Breasts (boneless / skin on), thighs, drums, wings, necks, and backs for amazing soup stock available.

    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 this week we'll have his fresh brioche buns (hamburger and sausage / hotdog) by Wednesday and more fresh bagels by Saturday (frozen bagels Wed to Sat)!! We also hope to have some of his bone broth made with our all-grass-fed beef bones back by Thursday or Friday this week! And we'll keep trying to keep up with this demand from week-to-week!

  • Teeny Tiny Spices (entire 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!

Sarah Highlen