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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Berkshire Pork from New Creation Farm

Posted by on 1:22 pm, Jul 21, 2011 in About Your Ingredients, Farms & Farmers | 0 comments

This week we are very proud to feature pastured Berkshire pork from New Creations Farm in Chardon, OH. You may ask, what’s the big deal?  The taste is the big deal.  I’m sure you’ll notice immediately.  This pork is from a Heritage breed of hogs known as Berkshires. A majority of your hogs on the market – the pink ones and the black and white...

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Skim vs 2% vs Whole:

Posted by on 6:27 pm, Jun 16, 2011 in About Your Ingredients, Farms & Farmers | 1 comment

Last week I was fascinated by the demand for skim milk…so I thought this week might be a good time to start a conversation about milk.  In this section, I’ll cover 3 topics which I find fascinating: - Federal Milk Market Orders - Pasteurization and Homogonization - The health effects of milk‐fat FMMOs: The most fascinating fact about milk is that the...

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Pasture Raised vs Free Range

Posted by on 10:52 am, Jun 5, 2011 in About Your Ingredients, Farms & Farmers | 0 comments

This is a topic I will rant about all summer and continually educate you on. Free range simply means the birds aren’t caged up.  To many industrial producers, such as Tyson or Gerber, that means free range within a large chicken barn.  So they never see green grass! Pasture raised means that the birds are outside on pasture.  The device you see in the...

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About the recent animal cruelty headlines:

Posted by on 12:02 pm, May 22, 2010 in Farms & Farmers | 0 comments

Many of you likely saw the piece on the internet or evening news this week about a dairy farm in southern Ohio viciouslybeating their animals.  The footage and what happened is terrible.It was so terrible that I don’t think I need to dwell on how bad it was.  I personallydon’t know that farmer at all.  I do find it shocking and surprising.  Overall, dair...

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