Lamb Restock + Sweet Corn Continues 😍🌽

We recently restocked our nutrient-dense, grass-fed lamb!! 🎉 Patties, chops, leg of lamb, ground, and more are available now. This crowd favorite never lasts long, so be sure to place your pre-orders online!

Lamb is packed with bioavailable protein, omega-3’s, vitamins, minerals, and other healthy fats.

Looking for creative ways to enjoy this incredible meat? Try our Dolmades recipe— available on our website. 😍 Fire up the grill for lamb chops, or slow roast a leg of lamb for a special meal!

In other exciting news:
We’ll continue to have delicious, locally grown sweet corn in stock this week. 🌽

Over the weekend, our family enjoyed one of our favorite summer pastimes—cooking over a fire. 🔥 We cooked our own farm-fresh veggies, lamb ribs, hotdogs from The Brooklyn Hot Dog Company, and more, using dried oak branches from a recent storm. It was a lovely evening filled with delicious food. 💚

Come beat the heat in the farm store with us!

📍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: 🤩. This week’s local, fresh harvest includes:

  • Asian Pears – they may be small this year but they’re just as fresh and delicious as ever! 🤩

  • 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!) 🤩

  • Beets—red with tops 🤩

  • Blackberries (frozen – may have some fresh too!)

  • 🫐 Blueberries (frozen – may have some fresh too) 🤩

  • Broccoli 

  • Cabbage (Red and Green)

  • Cantaloupe — incredibly sweet and harvest may be limited this week so get your pre-order in early if you want some. Heavier harvest next 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) 🤩

  • 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! 🤩

  • 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! 🤩

  • 🧄 Garlic

  • Green Onions — Red Florence (mild and sweet flavors make eating these onions fresh easy, but they’re also great for caramelizing and layering over your favorite meat or veggie dishes)

  • 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

  • Horseradish upon request 

  • Kale (Curly, Red Russian Lacinato, and other varieties) 🤩

  • Kohlrabi

  • 🥬 Lettuce (mixed leaf and head—multiple varieties such as romaine and others) 🤩

  • Mulberries (frozen)

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

  • Okra

  • Onions—sweet baking onions!

  • Peaches (fresh) — we are planning to harvest from Jerry’s orchard this week but so far, due to weather challenges, we haven’t been able to confirm that it’s going to happen. We are hoping that, if not, next week we’ll have another great batch of these amazing delights!

  • Peppers—sweet banana and green peppers as well as hot jalapeños 🤩

  • Plums (frozen) – we are hoping to have more fresh next week, if the weather allows!

  • Potatoes (Blues, Kennebec, and Red Nolan) 🤩

  • Raspberries (frozen)

  • Shallots

  • 🍓 Strawberries (frozen)

  • 🌽 Sweet Corn

  • Swiss Chard

  • Turnips 🤩

  • Zucchini (Green and Yellow) 🤩

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 and A2/A2 this week), butter, buttermilk, cheese (cottage cheese, cottage cheese kefir, Parmigiano Reggiano, and GGC sharp cheddar), kefir (plain or vanilla), yogurt (plain or vanilla), and whipping cream. Note: the 16 oz whipping cream is being discontinued after Aug 4th. We will only have the option to carry the 24 oz afterwards and would prefer pre-orders at least 2 weeks prior to ensure we avoid any waste.

  • 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, Ribeye, Sirloin, Sirloin tip, Tri-tip!

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

  • Beef Grill Options: Ground Beef—approx. 85% lean, Ground Chuck—approx. 89% lean, and Ground Round—approx. 90% 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, oxtail, 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

    • Leg of Lamb

    • Lamb Shanks

    • Lamb Stew Meat

    • Lamb Soup Bones, and organ meats

  • Pork: Fresh Kielbasa, Italian (Hot or Sweet), and Merguez 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 and Cut-ups! Breasts (boneless/skin on and bone-in/skin on, drums, wings) 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!

  • 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