Once again we have so many beautiful summer veggies (lots of tomatoes!) with more on their way, along with more fruits like peaches, nectarines, plums, figs and blueberries set to be delivered this week. We also restocked a bunch of our pastured pork and grass-finished beef and there’s Gulf seafood, pastured chicken, fresh eggs and dairy, hummus, tofu, kombucha and probiotic drinks and lots more.
Read MoreWe had an amazing time at a pastured poultry event at Mezter Hatchery in Tennessee and brought home ducklings to start a new duck egg venture! Plus our new flock of chickens is finally ramping up their egg laying, the goats are grazing and browsing with a side of mischief and drama and the piglets moved to a shady woods section, across the ditch from the cattle.
Read MoreMore figs will be coming in to start the week and make up for berries winding down. Plus there will be more nectarines and peaches, tons of eggplant, pepper and tomatoes, eggs, dairy, pastured meats, hummus and pesto, bone broth, ferments, pickles, pasta, rice and grits and lots more!
Read MoreBig summer flavors going on this week with amazing goat burgers loaded with herbs, blistered okra and shishito peppers, delicious and easy miso chicken thighs, an Italian spiced beef roast, plus basil arugula pesto, Napa stir fry, homemade kimchi and more!
Read MoreWe’ve got perfect BLT and burger makings with pasture-raised bacon, grass-finished beef, fresh tomatoes, lettuce, bread and brioche buns and pickles to go with it! Plus we restocked shrimp, bone broth and Gingerbooch beverages, have tons of other beautiful summer veggies coming in along with freestone peaches and nectarines and lots more!
Read MoreThe cattle and the goats are enjoying very lush summer forage right now and we’ve been able to watch them from the windows are they made their way through our house field! Plus we’re breeding sows for fall piglets, the new flock is starting to lay more eggs and we hatched our biggest flock of chicks yet in our new incubator!
Read MoreIt’s getting more summery by the week in the produce department, with okra expected to join all the corn, nightshades, peaches and berries this week, plus we have some fun gift bundles for Father’s Day, new granola and granola bars, new pasta shapes, plus our usual pastured and grassfed meats, dairy, preserves, ferments, rice and more.
Read MoreWe’re excited to move our Mid-City Hub to Flour Moon Bagels and we’re also making some other hub and delivery schedule changes to reflect both the needs of the business and our customers shopping habits. It’s been eight years since we started our first neighborhood hub, so it’s always good to reevaluate from time to time!
Read MoreOur cooking this week featured a lot of homegrown, pastured pork, summer veggies and berries with Cochon de Lait fajita spread, chorizo taco bowls, Andouille in a blanket, elote corn, berry lemonade bars and a blueberry galette, plus some large batch crispy tofu, fermented pickle relish and more!
Read MoreSummer veggies are kicking into higher gear with the first sweet corn of the season, beautiful snap beans, plus all the major nightshades — tomatoes, eggplant, peppers and potatoes! Plus there’s more peaches, blackberries and blueberries, tons of gourmet mushrooms, grass-fed, wild-foraged and pasture-raised meats, eggs, dairy, jams and pickles, new skin salves and pet treats and more.
Read MoreWe’ve had so many farm visitors lately, which feels like years of work building the farm finally coming to fruition and it’s really fun. Plus we finally reached the end of six and a half months of goat kidding, the piglets are weaned and the sows are on vacation, the main goat herd and the cattle are make their grazing rounds and the bees are happy with lots of beautiful summer flowers.
Read MoreWe’re getting the grill going as we get into full blown summer with goat kebabs, chicken sausage, drumsticks and squash, plus we did some slightly offbeat spins on pasta salad and hummus for Memorial Day, discovered that truffle and homemade dill pickles go amazingly together and enjoyed the first fresh blueberries of the year in pancakes and blueberry rhubarb crisp!
Read MoreThe glorious time of year when there’s blueberries, blackberries and peaches at the same time has arrived! Plus there’s new chicken sausage and we’re expecting a bunch more summer veggies (tomatoes, potatoes, snap beans, peppers, eggplant & more!) to join the lineup this week. We’re stocked up on pastured and grassfed meats, eggs, dairy and have some new turmeric and ginger products, plus herbal skin salves in stock, too!
Read MoreWe’ve had lots of amazing meals lately with all these lovely local ingredients. If there was a through line, it was lots of mushroom dishes — for risotto, a pizza topping, with steak and in carbonara pasta — as Family Fungi and Screaming Oaks are both cranking out the gourmet mushrooms. We also celebrated the return of ground chicken and new chicken sausage and tried a new method for red snapper.
Read MoreWe’re excited to welcome the ever versatile and tasty ground chicken back to the poultry line up this week, along with a bunch of pickled veggies and fig and berry jams and preserves we had been out of. There’s also lots of gourmet mushrooms, cucumbers and squash, eggs, goat dairy, grassfed beef and goat meat, pastured pork and other chicken cuts, Gulf seafood and lots more.
Read MoreAnother batch of kids has been hitting the ground over the last week and a half, our new egg layers are settling in and hopefully should start laying within the next week or so, the piglets are chunky and getting weaned later this week and the heat is setting in big time!
Read MoreSeveral customer favorite products have made their return, including three sizes of Gulf shrimp, Crop to Pop-corn, Guidry’s glazed pecans and Wisconsin maple syrup. Plus there’s bountiful grassfed and pastured meats and we’re expecting blackberries and peaches this week, along with tons more late spring and early summer veggies like bok choy, kale, spinach, squash and zucchini and more!
Read MoreBasil, beets, cucumbers, summer squash, lettuce, mushrooms, spring mix, spinach and spring onions featured in lots of cooking at the farm recently, along with our beef and pork, chicken and the last of the strawberries and the first of the wild blackberries of the season. And a new pizza oven brought a major upgrade to homemade pizza nights at the farm!
Read MoreThings are starting to look more summery in the veggie realm with abundant cucumbers and summer squashes, but luscious greens and herbs are still hanging on, too! Plus there’s abundant meats, eggs, bulk gourmet mushrooms and a restock on fermented veggies, kombucha and probiotic lemonade and limeade from Gingerbooch!
Read MoreChickens are at the center of our attention right now as we welcomed a new flock of teenage hens about to start laying and are having our first hatches in our new incubator. The April piglets are fat and happy, there always seems to be more goat kids being born and Grant is working on a round of spring bush hogging, aiming for even better warm season grass growth.
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