A Rainbow of Summer Produce 🌈 🍅 đŸŒœ

Summer produce is in full swing over here! We’ve got delicious, locally grown cantaloupe 🍈, eggplant 🍆, heirloom tomatoes 🍅, sweet corn đŸŒœ, and more—perfect for all your summertime cravings and gatherings.

We also just harvested the first of the season leeks and several varieties of watermelon, including seeded Yellow Doll, Mini, and more, all bursting with flavor! 🍉

😍 Nothing beats the flavor, scent, texture, and color of produce that’s been grown naturally with care—without synthetic pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, or GMOs.

Want to preserve the flavors of summer to enjoy year-round? Ask us about bulk-ordering options when you place your online pre-order—perfect for canning and pickling!

🌈 Stop by our farm store this week and take in the beautiful rainbow of summertime produce. We can’t wait to see you! Thank you for shopping local and supporting small farmers and producers.

📍362 Indian Boundary Rd, Chesterton, IN
‱ Wednesday 10am-5pm
‱ Thursday 10am-5pm
‱ Friday 10am-5:30pm
‱ Saturday 10am-4:30pm

Produce

As our gardens continue to grow, it occasionally becomes possible to harvest some produce in bulk. If interested, please give us a day advance to harvest extra! We can offer bulk prices, at the time of your pre-order and we will use the following emoji to designate whether bulk options are available: đŸ€©. This week’s local, fresh harvest includes:

  • Asian Pears – fresh and delicious as ever! đŸ€©

  • Beans—Green (fancy French and other varieties will be coming in this week throughout the week so, if pre-ordering bulk, please let us know what you prefer, it may be coming in!) đŸ€©

  • Beets—red with tops đŸ€©

  • Blackberries (fresh and frozen again this week!)

  • Blueberries (frozen – next week we will have more fresh!)

  • Broccoli – small but mighty harvest this week! 

  • Cabbage (Red and Green)

  • Cantaloupe — incredibly sweet and plenty this week!

  • Carrots (with tops)

  • Cherry Tomatoes – mixed varieties and yellow (all are ultra sweet and flavorful, great for a special snack, salad, or adding to your sauces) đŸ€©

  • Cucumbers – many varieties including those special pickles you enjoy all fall and winter, now is the time to pre-order for bulk canning, all varieties are coming in fast! đŸ€©

  • Eggplant – planning for special guests who’ve traveled the world and always seem to have tried everything? Get a little bit of garlic, olive oil, lemon juice, tahini, and smoke roast these amazing eggplants (preferably over a fire) to blend for Baba Ghanoush, you’ll surprise anyone with sophisticated tastebuds! Enjoy with our cucumbers, sweet peppers, cracker options, or toast up some of Joe’s sourdough! đŸ€©

  • Garlic

  • Herbs — many great varieties of fresh basil (green or purple), celery, cilantro, mint, Greek and Italian oregano, parsley, rosemary, sage, thyme, and plenty of dried options available!

  • Heirloom Tomatoes – many varieties (Beefsteak, Brandywine, Black Brandywine, C. Purples, Marvel Stripe, Evergreen, White Wonder, and more)

  • Horseradish upon request 

  • Kale (Lacinato, and other varieties) đŸ€©

  • Kohlrabi

  • Leeks—first of the season!

  • Lettuce (mixed leaf and head—multiple varieties such as romaine and others) đŸ€©

  • Mulberries (frozen – may have some fresh this week too!)

  • Mushrooms—dried (shiitake) and marinated (porcini and mixed varieties) this week

  • Okra

  • Onions—sweet baking onions!

  • Peaches (fresh) — Jerry’s orchard harvest looks good this week but, the peaches aren’t ripening as quickly as we’d hoped! Even with a bumper crop out there on the trees, it’s hard to know if they’ll ripen when we need them. So, please pre-order and we’ll keep you in the loop should we need to delay the harvest to Thursday!

  • Peppers—sweet banana and green peppers as well as hot jalapeños, poblanos, shishitos, and others đŸ€©

  • Plums (frozen) – no more fresh this year sadly! But these frozen plums are amazing, you won’t want to miss them!

  • Potatoes (Blues, Kennebec, and Red Nolan) đŸ€©

  • Radishes

  • Raspberries (frozen)

  • Shallots

  • Strawberries (frozen)

  • Sweet Corn—another great harvest this week!

  • Swiss Chard

  • Turnips đŸ€©

  • Watermelon—first of the season! Including the seeded Yellow Doll, Mini, and others bursting with flavor!

  • Zucchini (Green and Yellow) đŸ€©

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 (A1/A2 this week), butter, buttermilk, cheese (cottage cheese, Parmigiano Reggiano, and GGC sharp cheddar), kefir (vanilla), and yogurt (plain). Note: the 16 oz whipping cream was discontinued. We will only have the option to carry the 24 oz afterwards and would prefer pre-orders 3 weeks prior to ensure we avoid any waste. We do not have whipping cream this week.

  • Chicken 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!

Meat Availability

This week’s options (while supplies last) include:

  • Beef Prime Steaks: NY Strip, Sirloin, Sirloin tip, Tri-tip! We will be re-stocking with more prime steaks by mid-month!

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

  • Beef Grill Options: Ground Beef—approx. 85% lean and Ground Chuck—approx. 89% lean. Beef Patties—approx. 85% lean (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 options may have fresh cuts available depending on butcher): Whole, Cut-ups (breast—boneless / skinless, thighs, leg quarters, and drums—a 10% discount if you buy 2 pkgs or more of leg quarters and drums on special--$4.99/lb 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 (15% off while supplies last!)

    • Lamb Patties (4/pkg)

    • Lamb Chops: loin, rib, shoulder, and sirloin

    • Lamb Shanks

    • Lamb Stew Meat

    • Lamb Soup Bones, and organ meats

  • Pork: Italian (Hot or Sweet) Sausage Large Links! Breakfast sausages: Real Vermonter’s Maple and Mild Breakfast Small Links! 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, 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, smoked pork chops, ham roasts & 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, Cut-ups including Breasts (boneless/skin on and bone-in/skin on, drums, wings), ground, and backs 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!!

  • Beca Imports: Lots of new pasta, Arke’ EVOO, Riso Carnaroli Gran Riserva, marinated olives, artichokes,  and more!

  • Bona Furtuna: Enjoy more amazing, ancient grain pasta options, taralli, marinated pasta sauces, and more!

  • Foods Alive: healthy, organic foods with lots of savory flavor! We carry their salad dressings with high omega-3, cold-pressed seed oils, sprouted crisps, sustainably sourced nuts and dried berries, unfortified nutritional yeasts, and more!

  • 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! And, if you haven’t tasted these spices in our pork sausages, you’re missing out.

Sarah Highlen