Strawberries Are Back! Plus Meats, Seafood, Eggs, Dairy, Citrus, Greens & More!
Despite the cold and actual SNOW, there’s some bright spots in how the local food scene made out in last week’s storm.
First, somehow, even though they’ve been covered for the cold for more than a week, Faust Farms was not only able to protect all their strawberries, but harvest and deliver them to us today!
Of course our frozen meats and seafood are all good and Compostella will even have more lettuce, Stellar Winter mix and carrots for us tomorrow. They expect a gap in greens and lost all of their broccolini, but spring starts in their hoop house did survive!
We got a lot of dairy later in the week last week, so still have some whole milk and chocolate milk left and then will get more tomorrow as usual. Southern Maids sold out of everything they had made in the days following the storm, so we won’t get another delivery from them until later in the week or next week.
There’s limited eggs from our hens and despite the high demand and wholesale commitments, we may be able to bring more on Wednesday or Thursday. We’ll try to source more from the Little Brown Egg Farm, A&A Acres, Credo Farms and/or Pearl River Pastures if not.
Plus we have lots of citrus, mushrooms, collard greens, romanesco cauliflower, radishes, sweet potatoes and staples like grits, rice, stone-milled flour, coffee and herbal teas, tinctures, elderberry syrups, honey, maple syrup and more!
Store & Hub Schedule/Hours
We are back to a normal schedule of farm hubs and deliveries this week, punting everything scheduled for last week to this week and everything originally scheduled for this week to next week:
Lakeview on Tuesday, 4-5 pm at the Bird’s Nest Cafe, 6508 Spanish Fort Blvd. Home deliveries in 70005, 70119, 70122 and 70124 beforehand. Deadline to order is noon on Tuesday.
Mandeville on Wednesday, 1-1:30 pm at Open Spaces Studios, 1281 N Causeway Blvd. #1, Mandeville. Home deliveries in an 8 mile radius around Open Spaces available before and afterwards. Deadline to order is 9 am on Wednesday.
Covington also on Wednesday, 3-3:30 pm at Nur’s Kitchen, 100 N Tyler St., Covington. Home deliveries in an 8 mile radius around Nur’s Kitchen available before and afterwards. Deadline to order is 9 am on Wednesday.
Algiers Point on Thursday, 4-5 pm at Beatrixbell Handcrafted Jewelry, 337 Morgan St. Home deliveries in 70114 beforehand. Deadline to order is noon on Thursday.
Irish Channel on Friday, 10 am to 12 pm inside Levee Baking Co., 3138 Magazine St D. Home deliveries in 70112, 70113, 70115, 70118, 70125 and 70130 afterwards. Deadline to order is 4 pm on Thursday.
Here's the full list breakdown of all our grocery categories:
Donations for Mutual Aid: Produce and meat shares available for purchase. Dropped off some salad greens to the community fridge at Turkey and the Wolf on Saturday and should be ready for another trip by this weekend!
Pastured Eggs: There’s a few dozen of our eggs left and we’re aiming to bring as many as we can on Wednesday or Thursday once we fulfill Grow Dat’s order and source from other farms if our hens don’t lay enough!
Pastured Dairy: Whole milk, chocolate milk and goat milk available plus creole cream cheese, butter and goat yogurt. More Feliciana’s Best dairy coming tomorrow as usual, but Southern Maids goat dairy not until next week most likely.
Bread & Pasta: New hot honey brioche croutons! Plus frozen pizza dough, frozen brioche buns and honey oat loaves, as well as limited frozen pasta. More fresh pasta from Il Supremo is expected tomorrow and more fresh bread, buns, crostini, croutons and more coming from Bellegarde on Wednesday and Friday.
Local Produce: Apple cider, strawberries, blood oranges, grapefruit, kumquats, Meyer lemons, Navel oranges and tangerines, plus Granny Smith apples, dried persimmons and frozen blueberries. There’s also several types of mushrooms, radicchio, lettuce, mustard or Stellar Winter salad mixes, collard greens, Napa cabbage, romanesco cauliflower, carrots, hakurei turnips, purple daikon or watermelon radishes and sweet potatoes.
Plant-Based Protein: Plain or two flavors of tofu, more fried tofu is expected on Friday.
Forest-Raised Pork: We’re running a sale on some pork cuts for winter! There’s picnic shoulders and Boston butts, plus bones, liver, spare ribs, trotters and smoked hocks. Plus we also have bacon, bacon ends, stir fry strips, bone-in or boneless chops, jowls, baby back ribs, stew meat, plain ground pork, ground chorizo sausage, plus Andouille, bratwurst, Cajun, hot pork sausage links. There’s also lard or skin pieces (for cracklins) and kidney.
Grassfed Beef: Currently there’s ground beef in two pound packs, plus Caveman ground beef blend, hamburger or slider size patties, ribeye, NY Strips, teres major steaks, top sirloin and sirloin tip, picanha, bavette, flank, Denver, flat iron and skirt steaks, tri tip, brisket, teres major roasts, shoulder roasts, short ribs and riblets/Flanken short ribs, liver and fat/trim for rendering.
Wild-Foraged Goat Meat: Goat meat is back big time! Right now we have lots of ground goat, loin or rib chops (also known as rack steaks), whole racks of goat, leg roasts, stew meat/kebab pieces, ribs, shanks, liver, bones, paya (trotters) and heads.
Pastured Poultry: We now have whole chickens from Credo Farms, which are nearly $2 less per pound than Pearl River Pastures. We also have thighs, bones and feet from Credo and breasts, leg quarters, wings, necks, hearts and livers from Pearl River.
Gulf Seafood: Soft-shell crabs, tenderized alligator bites, red grouper filets, black drum and sheepshead filets, plus flounder, red snapper taco strips, smoked fish portions (Almaco Jack, Amber Jack or Barracuda), red grouper collars and all sizes of shrimp.
Coffee & Tea: Whole beans and ground coffee from Flamjeaux and we have several herbal tea blends from Family Fungi. And we also restocked Church Alley cold brew, chai concrete and simple syrups once again.
Dips & Condiments: We’re totally out of Nur’s Kitchen products, but restocking tomorrow morning!
Pantry: New oyster mushroom powder and Caps & Cream soup and dip mix from ALL CAPS. Plus there’s more apple cider vinegar from Scott’s Orchard, crop to popcorn, plenty of granola and Guidry’s pecan oil, pecan butter and glazed pecans. Plus there’s dried mushrooms from Family Fungi, two kinds of mushroom seasoning, chili oil from VEGGI Coop, hot sauce, chili crisp and sambal from Southern Chili Lab, Texas olive oil and balsamic vinegar.
Sweets: Plenty of honey in both glass jars and squeeze bottles, plus elderberry juice, infused elderberry honey, infused blueberry honey and creamed honey. Plus there’s Wisconsin Maple syrup.
Rice, Grains & Stone Ground Corn Products: Lots of rice, grits, cornmeal and whole grain and clay pea options from Two Brooks Rice and Marsh Hen Mill, plus more stone-milled flours from Barton Springs Mill and new flour milled by Bellegarde Bakery, too!
Ferments: Gingerbooch came back and are going fast! Plus there’s veggie ferments -- several types of kimchi and other fermented veggies from Gingberbooch, VEGGI Coop and Resurrection Gardens.
Preserves: More bread and butter pickles, including spicy ones, and a few other veggie pickles, plus jellies and jams from Josey’s Goods.
Herbal Remedies: Fire Cider from Family Fungi, plus a few elderberry syrup options from Cockeyed Farms and Family Fungi. And there's several herbal tinctures and mushroom extractions from ALL CAPS and Family Fungi.
Merch: Canvas bags and insulated totes, t-shirts, hats, mugs and greeting cards.
