At the Farmstand: April 7-13

April 6, 2016 – 7:23 am

buckets of spinach Ok, it is officially Farmer Spring, meaning the days are long enough and sunny enough that greens are PLENTIFUL! Loads of Spinach, incredible salad mixes, Arugula, supple asian greens, wow, time to feast and enjoy.

This week at our Farmstand you can find:

• Eggs

Fresh/Stored Veggies & Fruits

purple mizuna salad greens

• Arugula
• Asian Salad Greens
• Beets
• Cabbage
• Carrots
• Chard, Frozen
• Garlic
• Green Beans, Frozen
• Pesto
• Spring Salad Mix
• Spinach
• Winter Squash, peeled, cubed & frozen

Meats

Turkey Breast Roasted, Sliced and ready to enjoy!

• Bones, Pork & Goat
• Chicken, Roasting
• Fat, Pork Leaf
• Fat, Pork Back
• Pork Jowl
• Goat Chops
• Ground Goat
• Ham Roasts
• Italian Sausage, bulk
• Leg of Goat Roasts
• Loin Roast, Goat
• Offals – all sorts!
• Pork Chops
• Pork Roasts
• Farmhouse Maple Breakfast Sausage
• Shanks, Goat
• Stew Meat, Goat
• Turkey Breast
• Turkey Drumsticks
• Turkey Thighs

From the Pantry & Prepared Foods

• Applesauce – from our organic, heirloom varieties
• Pickled Beets
• Beet puree
• Bloody Mary Mix from our Heirloom Tomatoes (Red & Green Zebra)
• Black Currant Gastrique
• Bone Broth: Roasted Turkey, Chicken & All-Farm
• Bread & Butter Pickles, regular & Mus-Tang
• Mexican Pickled Carrots, Taqueria Style
• Curried Green Tomato Pickles
• Dilly Beans & Zydeco Beans
• Hot Sauces -frozen
• Jalapeños, pickled
• Lard (Leaf & Back Fat)
• Lemon Pickles
• Monarch Relish
• Pepperoncini
• Roasted Red Pepper Sauce/spread
• Heirloom Tomato Salsa
• Canned Heirloom Tomatoes – by variety
• Green Zebra Tomato Juice
• Tomato Puree
• Dried Hot Peppers
• Dried Tomatoes
• Farmhouse Soups:Vegetarian Borscht, Southwestern Squash & Carrot Potato Leek

From our Farm Friends

• Blueberries, Frozen from Spotted Dog Farm
• Maple Syrup from Brookfield Bees
• BEANS! – Black Beans & King of the Early from Morningstar Meadows Farm
• Cider Syrup from Brookfield Bees
• Honey from Brookfield Bees
• Caramel from Fat Toad Farm

*Items in italics and from our farm friends are not included in the Omnivore Share, but are available to Omnivore’s at a 10% discount.

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Beets for All Beings!

March 30, 2016 – 9:06 am

big beets at harvest

As many of you know, it was a particularly good beet year for the farm. They grew well, are delicious, and some grew quite large (1.5 lbs plus!) but stayed tasty. Well, this week we finally got around to processing some of these lovely beets to add some variety to the farmstand.

beet puree label

More beet puree for those who want to take your beets straight to Red Velvet Brownies & cake or beet pancakes, Applesauce/Beet bread (a new delicious test, who needs banana bread!). We wondered if one could even substitute beets for the great carrot souffle Donna made last week. What a color that’d be.

inside of big beet beets chopped for pickles pickled beets in jars finished pickled beets

Anyway- yes, beets. Not only did they do well, but they are touted as one of the best foods for you – and clearly so much fun with that color.

And while some may malign the lovely beet, around here they are loved by the farmers and certainly the pigs. It is probably their favorite vegetable, right up there with spinach! Fortunately, when we are processing beets, there are always some ends or soft ones to share with the pigs. Saveur magazine highlighted so many good ways to enjoy the gorgeous beet! More recipes on our website as well, just search beet or click on the beet cloud tag.

Pickling beets yesterday = Happy Sows today. Our pregnant sows got a little nutrition boost from one of their favorite veggies!

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Ramona & Amelia not only enjoyed the ends but also the beet cooking water. It was hard to even get the bucket to their bowls as they could smell it coming it and were trying hard to get their mouths right into the bucket. Their snouts were a little pink, but they got their vitamin dosage!

So, this was a week of focus on the beets amidst a season of beets, but our love of the beet just grows as we find more fun ways to enjoy them.

As Tom Robbins noted in Jitterbug Perfume,

The beet is the most intense of vegetables. The radish, admittedly, is the more feverish, but the fire of the radish is a cold fire, the fire of discontent not passion. Tomatoes are lusty enough, yet there runs through tomatoes an undercurrent of frivolity. Beets are deadly serious.

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At the Farmstand: March 31-April 6

March 30, 2016 – 8:26 am

Roasted Chicken

We are double re-stocked! Lots of refreshment of various meats, including chicken, pork roasts and ground goat as well as a variety of greens this week. Enjoy!

This week at our Farmstand you can find:

• Eggs

Fresh/Stored Veggies & Fruits

• Arugula
• Asian Salad Greens
• Beets
• Cabbage
• Carrots
• Chard, Frozen
• Garlic
• Green Beans, Frozen
• Kale, Frozen
• Pesto
• Mixed Salad Greens
• Spinach