🥚 Did you know that eggs have seasonality, too? Keep reading to find out more!

Did you know that eggs have seasonality, too? We often forget there is a natural rhythm for eggs, just like everything else in nature. On average, hens need 14-16 hours of daylight for peak egg production. With the increase of daylight hours, comes egg season! 🍳

Contrary to popular belief, the color of an egg shell or its yolk is actually more dependent on the hen’s breed, and its diet, rather than the overall nutritional difference. This is especially true for pasture-raised hens as their diets change with the seasons. ☀️ While a hen’s diet plays a vital role in ensuring the overall health and nutrition of its eggs, it is actually very normal for the color of their yolks to vary seasonally. 🧡 A yolk’s depth in color is also dependent on the levels of carotenoids present in their diet – the natural yellow & orange pigments found in veggies and plants like carrots or marigolds.

You can feel confident about the nutritional value of our eggs that are truly free-range! Our laying hens thrive and forage on very large pastures, free to roam whenever & wherever they please! 🌱 We also feed them certified-organic, soy free, non-GMO feed. This costs about 10 times more than standard feed, but we think it’s well worth it for their wellbeing, the health of our soil, and the incredible flavor – you can really taste the difference!

Every once in a while, we also have duck eggs, turkey eggs, and goose eggs! If you've never tried any of these, you're in for a treat.

Experience their goodness – shop our eggs in the store or place a pre-order online!

📍362 Indian Boundary Rd, Chesterton, IN

• Wednesday 10am-5pm
• Thursday 10am-5pm
• Friday 10am-5:30pm
• Saturday 10am-4:30pm

Produce

This week’s fresh harvest includes a growing offering from our gardens! Don't forget, this is a great time to cleanse and replenish for the spring! We've got plenty of leaf lettuce, mixed greens, spinach, and other green leafy offerings bursting from the soil and ready to give you all the nutrient dense gifts your body needs right now: 

  • Bok Choy

  • Beets—beets with tops and larger without tops

  • Blueberries (frozen)

  • Carrots

  • Green Onions / Purple Scallions

  • Herbs—Fresh (dill, celery, chives, ramp tops etc.) and dried options available!

  • Kale

  • Leaf Lettuce

  • Mixed Greens—endive, mixed leaf lettuce, kale, spinach, and other baby greens

  • Mushrooms—hoping for another small batch of Fresh Oak Log Grown Shiitake

  • Mustard Greens—Purple and Green Mix (Full of color, flavor, and nutrients, greet the spring with the energy to tackle anything!)

  • Potatoes 

  • Pumpkins and other Winter Squash (and gourde) varieties including autumn frost and Musquee de Provence (Fairytale Pumpkins) and more! 

  • Radish—baby radish with tops

  • Spinach

  • Sweet Potatoes

  • Swiss Chard

  • Turnips

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 (from Kalona Supernatural this week!), butter  (Small Acres Specialty Farms tub butter only), cheese (cottage and GGC sharp cheddar), French Dip, kefir, sour cream, whipping cream, and yogurt (vanilla and plain this week)! 

  • Chicken eggs AND duck eggs 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 Prime Steaks: Filet, NY Strip, and T-Bone / Porterhouse Steaks!

  • Beef Savory Roasts, Steaks & Ribs: Brisket, Rump & Sirloin Tip Roasts, Flat Iron, Mock Tenderloin, Round (eye, top, and bottom round), and Skirt steaks.

  • Beef Grill Options: Ground Beef, Chuck, and Round! Beef Patties (3 or 4 pk), Suet (for getting your skillet hot, with flavor), and more! We're also carrying The Brooklyn Hot Dog Company dogs: All Beef or Beef & Pork! Buy two and get 10% off, while supplies last (see our box specials including a 10% break on condiments and brioche buns)!

  • Beef Stew & Organ Meat Options: Stew and Organ Meats,  including cheeks, heart, kidney, 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): Cut-ups (drums, leg quarters and wings—a 10% discount if you buy 2 pkgs wings!!), Ground Chicken, backs, and feet. Also, if you haven't tried our yummy, Mild Chicken Italian Sausage, you're missing out!!

  • Lamb: 

    • Lamb Loin Chops

    • Lamb Rib Chops

    • 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: 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 and bone-in / boneless) & Steaks, Baby Back and 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, 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 (particularly the Real Vermonter's Maple) for that delicious flavor that comes with smoked sausage.

  • Turkey: Frozen Whole and Cut-ups! Breasts (boneless / skin on), drums, wings, 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 and this week we'll have Joe's brioche buns Wed-Sat!!

  • 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