A Bacon Update + Lessons in Patience from Local Eating 🥓

If you've never tried jowl bacon before, it's a treat you won't want to miss! It has an even richer flavor than traditional pork belly bacon - a perfect balance of smoky, sweet, and savory. 🥓 And if you’re looking for another delicious alternative, our smoked ham steaks are a great option – easy to prepare and packed with protein for a satisfying breakfast!

We anticipate a restock of our pork belly bacon later this year, around September or October. Has anyone ever told you that good things take time? 💚 Raising meat humanely, naturally, and on a small scale requires extra love, care, and time, but we believe it’s more than worth it for our animals, the land, and our health.

Eating locally and seasonally teaches us a great deal about patience and gratitude. While we might miss some of our favorite foods during the wait for the next season, they taste even more delicious and satisfying when they return.

We appreciate your patience and understanding and thank you for choosing to eat locally with us.

We look forward to seeing you this week!

📍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:

  • Arugula—first of the season!

  • Beets

  • Blueberries (frozen)

  • Carrots

  • Herbs— fresh chives, dill, celery, rosemary and plenty of dried options available!

  • Kale

  • Lettuce (mixed leafy)

  • Mixed Greens

  • Mushrooms—dried options available!

  • Spinach

  • Swiss Chard

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 (A2/A2 and A1/A2 mix option this week), butter (limited supply), cheese (cottage cheese and GGC sharp cheddar), buttermilk, French dip, kefir, and yogurt. Please plan ahead and let us know 2-3 weeks in advance for cream and all dairy (if you can), it helps. Thank you to all those who are working hard to help us make that happen.

  • Chicken AND Duck eggs this week, or so we think! 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 other steaks!

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

  • Beef Grill Options: Ground Beef 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 Meat (limited supply), Soup bones and Organ Meats, including cheeks, heart, kidney, liver, and more! 

  • Chicken (frozen): Whole (yes we have it back!), Cut-ups (breast—boneless / skinless, leg quarters, and drums—a 10% discount if you buy 2 pkgs or more of leg quarters or drums while supplies last!!). We also have Ground Chicken and Sweet Italian Chicken Sausage! And, chicken organ meat (including: backs, necks, feet, liver, and gizzard)!

  • Duck (frozen): Whole only

  • Lamb: 

    • Ground Lamb

    • Lamb Patties

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

    • Leg of Lamb

    • Lamb Shanks

    • Lamb Soup Bones, and organ meats

  • Pork: British Curry, Fresh Kielbasa, Italian (Hot or Sweet), Merguez, and Mild Breakfast 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. They’re in our box specials—buy 2 or more and get them 10% off. This a real find!

    • Pork Chops (thick or thin / boneless or bone-in), Pork Steaks, Baby Back & 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). 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 jowl bacon and 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: Whole

  • 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)! Turkey drums or wings—buy 2 or more and get them 10% off!

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, Artisanal Sourdough Bread Daily! Wednesday and Friday specialty options available too!

  • Equal Exchange: Try many organic coffee options, including their newly branded “Everyday”! We have a wide selection and love to talk about our favorites!

  • Pure Indian Foods: Try an array of thoughtfully sourced, organic spices (including curry blends), Kitchari with mung bean (yellow or green), aged Himalayan Basmati rice,  cultured ghee, vegan Worcestershire sauce, or mango puree, you won’t be disappointed!

  • Teeny Tiny Spices: (organic tin collection with recipes and featured in our pork sausage)! Enjoy the spice of life in each amazing variety, a different recipe with every tin, and a trip to whatever region of the world you’ve been wanting to go, without leaving your kitchen!

Sarah Highlen