Week 6 Winter CSA Package

Posted by on 7:31 am, Jan 4, 2012 in About Your Ingredients, Bag Contents, Farms & Farmers | 0 comments

Chickens, organic black beans, butternut squash pasta I hope everyone had a very special holiday season.  For me the parties and time off was nice, but I’m ready to be back to work.  We started planning over the break for the summer 2012.  I can’t believe it!  So much work to do and so little time.  We’ll be sending updates about that in...

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Happy Thanksgiving!

Posted by on 12:03 pm, Nov 22, 2011 in Bag Contents, Farms & Farmers, Season | 0 comments

CSA Package Contents: -       1 half gallon apple cider -       1 quarter peck Mutsu apples -       1 lb nitrate free bacon -       1 dozen eggs -       1.5 lbs white spelt flour -       1 large bok choy -       1 bunch leeks -       1 bag mustard greens -       2 lbs butter, salted or unsalted -      ...

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About Fresh Fork Meats

Posted by on 9:49 am, Nov 11, 2011 in About Your Ingredients, Farms & Farmers | 1 comment

I forgot to write about this last week.  I like to start the winter by bringing to light the financials behind pasture raised, artisan meats.  Eating a healthy, all natural diet isn’t easy nor cheap.  It is my goal to work intelligently with my producers to get you the most bang for your buck. Over the winter, because we’ll feature more meats, I’ll...

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Thanksgiving Turkeys…RSVP before Wednesday

Posted by on 6:37 am, Oct 25, 2011 in About Your Ingredients, Farms & Farmers, News | 0 comments

Our Thanksgiving turkeys are selling fast and we don’t want you to miss out. If you are thinking about a Turkey or a Thanksgiving bundle, please reserve one before this Wednesday. After this Wednesday we will make the Thanksgiving turkeys and bundles available to the general public and the thousands of other customers on our mailing list. As a CSA...

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Biodiversity

Posted by on 5:15 am, Sep 13, 2011 in About Your Ingredients, Farms & Farmers | 0 comments

As we get closer to the farm tour, I like to talk a little about some of the production methods we’ll come across. Kind of a “summer reading” for the farm tour. One of the organic production methods is called “biodiversity.” Biodiversity can be applied to both produce production and animal production, or a mixture. It’s a rather broad term that...

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Change to Tomatoes

Posted by on 11:27 am, Sep 7, 2011 in About Your Ingredients, Farms & Farmers | 0 comments

This week, we had to change our tomato selection to slicing tomatoes.  The producer with the heirlooms is old order Amish.  My communications with him are via US Mail.  We expected a delay in mail this week due to Labor Day, so I sent out my letter to him on Saturday as opposed to the usual Monday.  He needed the letter by Wednesday.  The letter did...

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