A Broken Fridge Won't Stop Us from Stocking All of Our Usual Local Groceries!
What We Have and What’s Expected for the Week of April 20th
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A little wrench was thrown in our operations last week when one of our display coolers went out on Thursday morning.
Fortunately we caught it quickly so didn't lose anything, but it was definitely a scramble to make space in the other display cooler and backup fridge and ice chests and rearrange our delivery schedule so we didn't have to store as many orders overnight!
Our go-to freezer/fridge expert came tinker with the broken fridge on Friday morning, but unfortunately it seems to be a lost cause. We've had the fridge for 10 years, so we're going to replace it rather than put money into the compressor that may fail again.
But don’t worry! We’re still scheduled to get (almost) all of what we usually get in each week from our produce and dairy vendors, we just have to be creative with fridge and cooler sauce and we also amended the hub and delivery schedule slightly to be able to pack straight into coolers and insulated bags instead of the day before and store in the fridge overnight! (See below for hub and delivery changes).
So there’s still lots salad greens, head lettuces, radicchio, herbs, kale and chard, gourmet mushrooms, summer squash, spring onions, root veggies, plus tons of strawberries (quarts, with likely more half flats coming on Thursday), eggs, Feliciana’s Best and Southern Maids dairy and more.
We’re fairly well stocked up on grassfed beef and ground buffalo, wild-foraged goat meat, pastured pork and chicken and Gulf seafood. We’re restocking more pork and limited beef and goat from our backup freezers on Wednesday and more chicken will be delivered on Wednesday, as well, including boneless, skinless breasts that we sold out of last week. A&A Acres doesn’t have ground chicken yet this season, so we got some more from Cassell Farms in the meantime.
We have lots of frozen pasta from Il Supremo, so we aren’t get more fresh pasta this week to leave space in the fridges. There’s also lots of frozen brioche buns, honey oat loaves and pizza dough from Bellegarde. Fresh bread and buns will be delivered on Wednesday and Friday as usual.
We also restocked Guidry’s pecan products last week, so there’s more pecan butter, glazed pecans in two sizes, pecan oil and pecan meal. GraNOLA and bars are going fast again and there’s also lots of rice, grits, clay peas, stone-milled flours, oils and vinegars, infused salts, sugars and vinegars, hot sauces, seasonings, teas and tinctures, dehydrated mushrooms, honey and cane syrup and lots more.
Pick Up & Delivery Options:
We shifted some hubs and deliveries around a little to account for staffing changes and some fridge and storage challenges!
Our Metairie store is open 10 am-6 pm, Tuesday-Saturday as usual. Daily order deadline is 3 pm.
Bogalusa Farm Pick Up is an option on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday or Saturday morning, 8 am-noon. Order deadline for next day pick up is 2 pm.
Bywater Farm Hub on Thursday, 5-6 pm at Parleaux Beer Lab, 634 Lesseps St. Home deliveries in 70116 and 70117 beforehand. Deadline to order is noon on Thursday.
No Mid-City Farm Hub on Friday, but we’ll be doing discounted home deliveries ($8 flat fee versus $10) in our usual route on Friday afternoon, from 3-6 pm. Delivery zip codes include 70005, 70006, 70119, 70122 and 70124. Deadline to order is noon on Friday.
Irish Channel, Warehouse District, Central City, Uptown, Broadmoor, Carrollton & Old Jefferson (70112, 70113, 70115, 70118, 70121, 70125 and 70130) home deliveries also on Friday afternoon/evening from 3-6 pm. Deadline to order is noon on Friday.
Algiers Point Farm Hub on Saturday, one hour later than usual this week, 11 am to noon, Beatrixbell Handcrafted Jewelry, 337 Morgan St. Discounted home deliveries in 70114 afterwards. Deadline to order is 8 am on Saturday.
Here's the full list breakdown of all our grocery categories:
Donations for Mutual Aid: Produce and egg shares available for purchase! We pool your gifts and make drop offs to community fridges almost every Saturday. This week we brought a bunch of strawberries, head lettuce, summer squash and spring onions.
Pastured Eggs: Plenty of eggs, but we’ll be out of our printed cartons for a few weeks as our shipment got delayed! Back to the old days with plain cartons and stickers.
Pastured Dairy: There will be all the usual dairy from Feliciana’s Best delivered on Tuesday and Southern Maids goat milk and cheeses delivered on Wednesday.
Bread & Pasta: In the freezer, we have lots of brioche buns in either hamburger or slider/dinner roll sizes, as well as sliced honey oat loaves. There’s frozen pizza dough, too, and then on Wednesday and Friday, we’ll get more fresh bread, buns and crostini.
Local Produce: Cold-pressed turmeric juice, fresh strawberries, frozen blueberries, chives, cilantro, dill and parsley, yellow spring onions, turmeric root, lion’s mane, oyster or shiitake mushrooms, cilantro, radish or red cabbage microgreens, indigo radicchio or muir head lettuce, baby arugula, lettuce or mustard salad blends, plus spring mix, Dino kale and rainbow chard, orange or rainbow carrots, gold or red beets, red daikon or mixed red salad radishes and yellow squash.
Plant-Based Protein: All the tofu options — plain, black mushroom and red chili lemongrass, plus black mushroom or red chili lemongrass fried tofu cubes.
Bone Broth: Just trinity or chicken broth, aiming to restock beef and pet bone broth from Credo Farms on Friday.
Forest-Raised Pork: We’re out of bratwurst and chorizo sausages, but should be restocking those on Wednesday afternoon. There’s lots of other ground and linked and smoked sausages, plus plain ground pork, belly or jowl bacon and bacon ends, tenderloin, chops, ribs, roasts, jowls, organ meats, fat/lard to render and bones and trotters for broth.
Grassfed Beef & Buffalo: Ground buffalo is back in stock, but going fast! Plus, we’ve got both sizes of ground beef, ribeye, NY strip steaks, top sirloin, sirloin tip, chuckeye and tenderized round steaks, brisket and tri tip, shoulder, chuck, eye of round and top round roasts, stew meat, short ribs, osso bucco shanks, beef bones and trim/fat to render.
Wild-Foraged Goat Meat: Ground goat is still on sale, along with bones. And then there’s four types of goat chops/steaks, leg and shoulder roasts, rib racks, riblets, shanks and ground goat chorizo sausage.
Pastured Poultry: Buffalo mozzarella, gouda and apple and green onion chicken sausage, plus plain ground chicken. There’s also plenty of whole and half chickens, tenders, thighs, leg quarters, drumsticks, wings and frames/bones for broth, as well as dehydrated feet for pets! We will be restocking chicken breasts, livers and hearts on Wednesday, too.
Gulf Seafood: There’s smoked yellowfin tuna portions, but we’re sold out of yellowfin tuna filets for the moment. There’s also red snapper and sheepshead filets, plus red snapper or golden tilefish taco strips, crawfish tails, large, medium or gumbo size shrimp, soft-shell crabs, alligator strips, red snapper collars and smoked almaco jack portions.
Coffee & Tea: An array of roasts and origins in both whole bean and ground coffee. We also have lots of Family Fungi’s herbal and reishi teas.
Dips & Condiments: We sold out of hummus early last week, but we’ll restock on Thursday as usual.
Pantry: Pecan product restock from Guidry’s, so there’s more pecan butter, oil, meal and glazed pecans in two sizes. Plus there’s GraNOLA and GraNOLA bars, restocked last week but going fast as well as fresh-milled flour from both Barton Springs Mill and Bellegarde. There’s also infused vinegars, salts and sugars from Rose Wagon Ranch, along with Texas olive oil and balsamic vinegar and pecan oil from Guidry Organic Farms. And there’s mushroom and kelp-based seasonings, dehydrated mushrooms, mushroom powder, chili oil and hot sauces.
Pet Treats: Dehydrated chicken feet and hoping to add back more of the other dehydrated chicken products now that A&A Acres is processing again, along with more pet bone broth from Credo Farms on Friday.
Sweets: We’re sold out of 2025 maple syrup, but my parents are planning their trip to bring the next batch down in mid May. In the meantime, there’s local sugar cane syrup or molasses, plus raw honey in glass bottles or plastic squeeze bottles, elderberry juice, infused blueberry honey and creamed honey.
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: La Rive kombucha arrives every other Wednesday and goes fast, so we should have a limited supply on Wednesday. Aiming to restock from Gingerbooch once we get our new fridge, too. There’s also limited kimchi from VEGGI Coop as well as kraut, giardiniera and chow chow from Resurrection Gardens.
Preserves: Various jams, jellies, preserves, pickles and hot sauces from Josey’s Goods, plus hot sauce from Sky Ridge Farm and Major Acre Farm. Josey’s restock on Thursday this week!
Herbal Remedies: Several tinctures from ALL CAPS and Family Fungi, along with Reishi Elderberry syrup. There’s also turmeric and ginger tinctures from L4S Farms and plus fire cider and mineral manna oxygens from Family Fungi and a few elderberry juice and infused honey options from Cockeyed Farms.
Merch: Canvas bags, t-shirts, hats and mugs.