Salad Greens Are Here! Plus Pumpkin Granola, Restocked Meats, Summer & Fall Veggies, Eggs, Pecan Products & More!
What We Have and What’s Expected for the Week of September 30th
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I don’t know about you, but it’s felt like a longer, hotter summer than usual without salad greens.
Maybe part of it is that in years past we’ve been able to get beautiful purple mizuna mustard greens, arugula and a salad mix from Maranatha Greens and St. Joseph’s Homestead in early to mid August. This year though, apparently they are struggling with fungal pest issues that is particularly effecting delicate salad greens.
So River Queen Greens has come in clutch with our first salad greens of the season. We had a bunch of arugula, plus mesclun mix, microgreens and basil. Arugula is sold out and there’s just a few of the latter three left. We should be able to get another batch from them on Wednesday or Thursday afternoon. And Compostella Farm should start their deliveries soon, too!
Other signs of fall include a fun seasonal granola flavor, Pumpkin Patch, from Good Granoly. We also restocked all eight other flavors and I can recommend combining the pumpkin flavor with Apple Crisp for the ultimate fall granola bowl!
We did a big meat restock from the backup freezer on Tuesday, so there is more ground beef, pork tenderloin, sausages and chicken leg quarters.
Guidry’s sent us more pecan butter and glazed pecans last week, too, plus we got more fresh mushrooms as well as herbal teas and the Remedy mushroom tincture from Family Fungi.
There’s plenty of eggs, goat dairy and other veggies including beautiful eggplant and bell peppers from Faust Farms. New Autumn Frost squashes came in from Two Dog Farms this week and we expect more of those, plus heirloom pumpkins, butternut and delicata squashes this week, too.
Fresh dairy from Feliciana’s Best will arrive Tuesday, as usual, along with more fresh pasta Tuesday and Thursday and fresh bread and buns on Wednesday and Friday.
Store & Hub Schedule/Hours
Normal schedule this week with half of our regular biweekly hubs:
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, 5-6 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: The top of the storefront includes our mutual aid shares. With so many eggs, we’re just focusing on egg and produce shares right now. We were are gearing up to bring another round of eggs to Grace at the Greenlight this week!
Pastured Eggs: Lots of eggs and more coming tomorrow!
Pastured Dairy: Plenty of fresh goat milk, cheeses and yogurt and Feliciana’s Best dairy will be delivered on Tuesday by midday or early afternoon.
Bread & Pasta: Crostini, croutons and pizza dough and some bucatini to start the week, with more fresh pasta expected tomorrow and more fresh bread and buns on Wednesday and Friday.
Local Produce: Apple cider, five varieties of apples, frozen blueberries, basil bunches, oyster and shiitake mushrooms, microgreens and mesclun salad mix, Japanese eggplant, green or yellow bell peppers, mixed hot peppers, shishito peppers and Autumn Frost, butternut, delicata squashes and sweet potatoes. We’re expecting more muscadine grapes heirloom tomatoes, summer squash and zucchini and sweet corn on Tuesday, plus suyo cucumbers, lemon squash, garlic chives and roselle hibiscus on Wednesday and likely more salad greens on Thursday!
Plant-Based Protein: Soy & pumpkin seed tempeh, plus plain, black mushroom or lemongrass tofu and fried lemongrass tofu cubes.
Forest-Raised Pork: We’re continuing our sale spare ribs, plus there’s plenty of bacon, pork tenderloin, stir fry strips, bone-in or boneless chops, Boston butt or picnic shoulder roasts, jowl, stew meat, smoked hocks, plain ground pork and ground breakfast, chorizo and Italian sausages, plus Andouille, breakfast, bratwurst, hot pork and Italian links. There’s also leaf lard, lard or skin pieces (for cracklins), bones, trotters, ears, kidney and liver.
Grassfed Beef: Sale on shish kebab pieces, cut from the sirloin, plus ground beef, hamburger and slider patties, ribeyes, NY Strips, chuck eye, picanha, bavette and Denver steaks, plus eye of round roasts, London broil or tenderized round steaks, stew meat, short ribs and riblets/Flanken short ribs, osso bucco shanks, tongue, liver, kidney, bones and fat for rendering.
Wild-Foraged Goat: Goat legs, shoulders, shanks, stew meat/kebab pieces and ribs are on sale, plus there’s neck roasts, too. Getting ready to process more goats and we’ll go much more ground on the shoulder and leg cuts this time to respond to demand.
Pastured Poultry: Leg quarters are back, but whole chickens are out now! There’s also feet, backs and necks.
Gulf Seafood: We were supposed to restock seafood on Saturday, but that got punted to sometime this upcoming week. In the meantime, there’s the new Jolthead Porgy filets, red snapper and red grouper filets, soft-shell crabs, red snapper collars and smoked amber jack portions.
Coffee & Tea: A big restock on coffee beans and ground coffee after we missed a delivery during Hurricane Francine. There’s also simple syrups from Church Alley and we should restock their cold brew and chai concentrate this week, too.
Dips & Condiments: Limited Nur’s Kitchen hummus, more coming on Thursday morning!
Pantry: Big granola and Guidry’s pecan restock! Plus there’s popcorn, dried mushrooms from Family Fungi, two kinds of mushroom seasoning, black garlic salts, chili oil from VEGGI Coop, hot sauce, chili crisp and sambal from Southern Chili Lab, Texas olive oil and balsamic vinegar and Georgia’s Vinaigrette from Church Alley.
Sweets: Wisconsin Maple syrup, plus more honey in either squeeze bottles or glass jars. And there's honey infused with either blueberries or elderberries and creamed honey, too.
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 stone-milled flours from Barton Springs Mill.
Ferments: Plenty of veggie ferments -- several types of kimchi, kraut and other fermented veggies from Gingberbooch, VEGGI Coop and Resurrection Gardens. Kombucha and probiotic lemonade and limeade, too!
Preserves: We have a good supply of Josey's Goods’ pickles, fruit jams and jellies and pepper jellies. Hoping to restock some things that just came back in season like pickled okra and green beans and fig preserves in the next couple of weeks.
Herbal Remedies: A few elderberry syrup options from Cockeyed Farms and AndiLynn's and Family Fungi. And there's several varieties of South of Eden's herbal tinctures, plus Lion's Mane, Reishi or Turkey Tail mushroom tinctures and the Remedy Tincture, combining several kinds of mushroom extractions in one.
Merch: Canvas bags and insulated totes, t-shirts, hats, mugs and greeting cards.
