Acorn Acres Farm (Chesterton, IN)

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To Our Caring, Supportive Community (+ This Week's Meat, Dairy & Veggies)

We appreciate your kindness, patience, and flexibility while you've adjusted to our farm store hours, our strict pandemic procedures, and sometimes even having to wait in lines. In doing so, you have once again proven to be a warm, supportive, and caring community, politely thinking of others while we do our best to keep each other healthy.

We've experienced many of the same challenges that larger businesses have at the farm and at our store, even though we're small and local. We're constantly hard at work finding new and unique ways to provide products we've always carried, and your encouragement and support has kept us positive and making plans for the new year while we continue to grow our small business and farm partnerships. Thank you, all!

Produce

This week’s harvest includes a broad variety of root vegetables and more – enjoy our local bounty while it lasts!

  • Beets

  • Blueberries (frozen)

  • Cabbage (green) – limited supply

  • Garlic

  • Herbs 

  • Horseradish

  • Onions

  • Potatoes (blue, reds, yellows/whites, and fingerlings)

  • Pumpkins

  • Radishes (daikon)

  • Squash (Butternut & Delicata)

  • Sunchokes (Jerusalem artichokes)

  • Sweet Potatoes (multiple varieties including purple!)

  • And more. Like any local market, we never know what else we might end up with until we harvest. So, it helps to come to the farm store and explore or request further details when pre-ordering!

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:

  • A2 protein/grass-fed cow's milk, butter, buttermilk, cheese (cottage and a variety of raw), French onion dip, Kefir (vanilla and plain), sour cream, & yogurt (Greek and plain)

  • Chicken & duck eggs — Very limited supply this week!

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 Savory Steaks: Swiss, Cubed, Round, Eye of Round, Top, as well as Bottom, PLUS Mock Tenderloin, Flat Iron, Skirt, Flank, and Denver in limited supply!

  • Beef Roasts: Chuck, Arm, Sirloin Tip, Rump (or Rolled Rump), Eye of Round, and Top & Bottom Round Roasts.

  • Beef Grill Options: Ground (including ground beef, chuck, and sirloin), Patties (3 or 4 per package), Stew Meat, Soup Bones, Shank Bones, Tallow and more! We're also carrying The Brooklyn Hot Dog Company dogs: Classic Beef, Beef & Pork, Buffalo (Chicken & Pork), Pepperoni (Pork & Beef), and Gyro (Pork & Beef — traditional Greek gyro ingredients)! Their chef, Tony, takes great pride in his work as he seeks the best possible ingredients both in the quality of the meat and in the spices that go into his dogs!

  • Pork: Italian (sweet or spicy), Merguez, Oaxacan Adobo, Fresh Kielbasa, and Mild Breakfast Sausage this week! All from our pannage raised pork and organically sourced spice blends (featuring the Teeny Tiny Spice Co). Pork Chops (thick and thin), roasts, and more! Other cuts: Neck Bones, Soup Bones, Organ Meats, Back Fat (Great for making your own lard or using just like it is to grease your skillet!), A very limited supply of Ham Slices. Note: we hope to have our 100% natural-cure bacon and hams back by mid-January 2022! We're also carrying a variety of smoked bacon sausage options from Big Fork (from Berkshire Hogs raised on a pasture): Hickory & Applewood Bacon, Aged Cheddar Bacon, Chicken & Bacon, and Maple & Brown Sugar Bacon! Request a letter from the chef, Lance, for details about his practices when placing your order

  • Lamb: Chops: loin, rib, sirloin, and shoulder. Roasts: Arm, Leg, Neck, Meaty Shanks, Ground, Soup Bones. While supplies last!

  • Goat: Shoulder, Arm, Neck, Leg Roasts, Meaty Shanks, Rib & Loin Chops, Rack of Ribs & Rack of Loins, Shoulder & Leg Chops (including sirloin), Ground, Stew Meat, Organ Meats, Soup Bones. All great for Indian curry dishes and more!

  • Chicken (frozen): Whole, Cut-ups (boneless/skinless breast, leg quarters, drumsticks, wings), Ground Chicken, Soup Bones (necks, backs, feet) and Organ Meats (heart, liver, gizzards)

  • Turkey (frozen): Breasts, Drumsticks, Ground Turkey, Soup Bones (including backs and feet) and Organ Meats

  • Salmon: Kvarøy Arctic Rope Hung Salmon, Salmon Filets, and Salmon Burgers (2/package) all sustainably raised in Norway where they are doing what they can to protect our seas and share their long traditions with the rest of us. Their waters and fish are pristine, and the Kvarøy Arctic team is working tirelessly to keep it that way. “We must leave the environment in the same or better shape than when we began.” —Alf-Gøran Knutsen, CEO of Kvarøy Arctic

Read more about how we raise our grass-fed beefpastured poultrypastured pork, & grass-fed lamb, and learn more about Kvarøy Arctic's sustainability practices.