New Pork Steaks, Lots of Ground Beef, Turmeric Products, Peppers, Eggplant, Okra & Mushrooms, Hummus, Eggs & More!
What We Have and What’s Expected for the Week of July 20th
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We did yet another pork and beef restock from our rental freezer warehouse on Friday and we have some new pork steaks in stock. These are cut from the shoulder, so they’re a little more marbled than pork chops with big flavor. You can pan sear, grill or slow cook and smother. We got them cut because we already have plenty of roasts back in stock, along with pork stew meat, which is also cut from the shoulder, and plenty of sausages, too. We hope you give them a try!
We also stocked up on ground beef, briskets, tri tip, tenderized round steaks, short ribs and osso bucco shanks, but we are low on some other beef cuts until we process again in September.
In the produce realm, concern about the Cyclospora parasite outbreak remains high and so does demand for salad greens, especially lettuce!
But unfortunately lettuce is just not all that abundant this time of year. It'll pick up more as it (eventually) starts cooling off.
Some of the farms we source from are on their summer breaks and/or have a skeleton crew harvesting a few heat-loving crops each week.
We're lucky to have Jason Miller at Homegrown in Folsom growing salad greens under shade cloth in high tunnels through the summer, but there's a lot more arugula and mustard greens right now than lettuce! We sold out of almost everything we got last week and we’ll get more on Thursday as usual.
We do have a variety of microgreens from Rose Wagon Ranch, plus gourmet mushrooms, cucumbers, Fairy tale or Italian eggplant, okra, various peppers, summer squash, butternut squash, root veggies and more in the produce realm! And we expect more beefsteak, cherry and San Marzano tomatoes, plus cucumbers and zucchini, red cabbage and more peppers on Tuesday, too.
And we restocked from L4S Farms on Friday, too, meaning their beloved Golden Milk spice blend and both sizes of their Red Turmeric and Ginger Honey Bombs are back in stock, along with restocked salve, tinctures and more.
There's also now an egg recall in Louisiana, so expect interest in local eggs to spike and plan accordingly. Our hens are a bit hot and bothered right now and have declined in production, but we'll aim to work with our other egg producing farm pals if we sell out too quickly in the coming weeks.
Overall, all this has me reminded of COVID times and has me thinking about how fragile and scary the industrial food system can be. It's good to be in community with local farmers for all the joys of local food and in times like this, to avoid the pains of the conventional food system!
Plus there's several shapes of frozen pasta (more fresh coming on Tuesday), frozen brioche buns and pizza dough, pastured chicken, wild-foraged goat meat, Gulf seafood, a few sale dairy items, hummus, tofu, limited kombucha, rice, grits, stone-milled flour, jams and jellies and pickles and lots more.
Pick Up & Delivery Options:
Our Metairie store is open 10 am-6 pm, Tuesday-Saturday as usual. Daily order deadline is 3 pm. Or you can shop in person!
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 4 pm.
Algiers Point Farm Hub on Wednesday, 4-5 pm, Beatrixbell Handcrafted Jewelry, 337 Morgan St. Home deliveries in 70053, 70056, 70114 and 70131 beforehand. Deadline to order is noon on Wednesday.
Mid-City-Lakeview-Gentilly-Metairie deliveries only from 3-6 pm. Delivery zip codes include 70005, 70006, 70119, 70122 and 70124. Deadline to order is noon on Thursday.
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.
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 2-6 pm. Deadline to order is noon on Friday.
Expected Deliveries By Day:
Tuesday: Feliciana’s Best dairy, Il Supremo Pasta, River Queen Greens produce (okra, peppers, red cabbage), Faust Farms tomatoes, cucumbers & zucchini, Two Dog Farms cherry & San Marzano tomatoes & eggplant, Local Cooling Farms eggs.
Wednesday: Bellegarde Bakery bread, brioche buns and crostini, Southern Maids goat dairy, A&A Acres chicken.
Thursday: Nur’s Kitchen hummus, Screaming Oaks mushrooms, Homegrown in Folsom salad greens, cucumbers and zephyr squash, Local Cooling Farms eggs.
Friday: Bellegarde Bakery bread, brioche buns and crostini, Rose Wagon Ranch microgreens, Tien Dat tofu & VEGGI Coop kimchi, Gingerbooch kombucha, probiotic lemonade and limeade, kimchi and kraut.
What We Have & What’s Expected This Week by Category:
Donations for Mutual Aid: We did a small drop off of bread, peppers and herbs last week as we let share contributions catch up to what we’ve been dropping off the last few weeks! Thank you for your support to allow us to make these contributions.
Pastured Eggs: Mixed size chicken eggs to start the week with a few more duck and pullet eggs coming in on Tuesday and more on Thursday.
Pastured Dairy: We’ve got sale pints of half & half and chocolate milk to start the week, along with five types of goat cheeses. We’ll get more whole milk, heavy cream, half & half and both sizes of chocolate milk on Tuesday from Feand more goat milk and yogurt on Wednesday.
Bread & Pasta: There’s plenty of frozen brioche buns and pizza dough, but out of crostini and frozen honey oat loaves until Wednesday. We’ll also get more fresh baguettes, ciabatta and country loaves on Wednesday and Friday, as well.
Local Produce: There’s cold pressed turmeric juice, frozen blueberries, garlic, turmeric root, lion’s mane, pioppino or shiitake mushrooms, six varieties of microgreens, mixed braising greens, two types of eggplant, okra, banana or jalapeño peppers, gold or red beets, slicing cucumbers, red daikon radishes, butternut squash and zephyr squash. We’re also expected more tomatoes, cucumbers, zucchini, red cabbage and sweet peppers on Tuesday and more salad greens on Thursday.
Plant-Based Protein: Just plain or black mushroom tofu, more coming on Friday.
Bone Broth: Currently due to a required labeling change, we only have chicken bone broth from A&A Acres or pet bone broth from Credo Farms.
Forest-Raised Pork: All stocked up with bacon and bacon ends, plus jowl bacon, bone-in or boneless chops, new pork shoulder steaks, stew meat, Boston butt or picnic shoulder roasts, spare ribs, smoked Andouille, bratwurst, breakfast, Cajun, Italian or kielbasa links, plus ground breakfast, chorizo or Italian sausages and plain ground pork, along with jowls, bones, smoked bones, smoked hocks, trotters, ears, liver, tails, tongue and lard to render.
Grassfed Beef: Primal blend ground beef is back in stock and we have plenty of one pound or two pound packs of plain ground beef as well. There’s also top sirloin or sirloin tip steaks, chuckeye steaks, tri tip, brisket, tenderized cube steaks, rump roasts, top round roasts, stew meat, short ribs, tongue, bones and fat to render.
Grassfed Buffalo: Don’t sleep on the buffalo bones for bone broth! We’re otherwise out of ground buffalo at the moment, hoping to restock soon.
Wild-Foraged Goat Meat: It’s almost time for us to process again to restock cuts. But in the meantime, we have ground goat meat, loin or sirloin chops, shanks, riblets, rib racks and bones.
Pastured Poultry: There’s plain or traditional/seasoned bone broth, plus green onion sausage links or breakfast sausage patties, ground chicken, whole or half birds, tenders, breasts, thighs, leg quarters, drumsticks, wings, feet, livers and hearts, along with dehydrated livers and skin for pet treats. The only thing we’re out of is dehydrated feet for pets and we’ll restock those on Wednesday.
Gulf Seafood: The new redfish filets are out and the speckled trout isn’t far behind! Plus there’s filets of yellowfin tuna, red snapper and sheepshead, along with red snapper taco strips, soft-shell crabs, tenderized alligator strips, smoked tuna portions, crawfish tails and all three sizes of shrimp.
Coffee & Tea: Lots of herbal and reishi based teas from Family Fungi, and plenty of Flamjeaux Coffee in whole bean or ground, just restocked on Thursday.
Dips & Condiments: There’s a little more hummus to start the week than usual, especially traditional and large size of the Mediterranean dressed hummus. Restock of other flavors and sizes on Thursday as usual.
Pantry: We’re getting a little low on GraNOLA and out of GraNOLA bars, should be restocking in another week or two. There’s also customer favorites glazed pecans, pecan butter and Crop to Pop-corn, along with pecan meal for baking and fresh-milled flour from both Barton Springs Mill and Bellegarde. And there’s infused vinegars, salts and sugars from Rose Wagon Ranch and Texas olive oil and balsamic vinegar and mushroom and kelp-based seasonings, dehydrated mushrooms, mushroom powder, chili oil and hot sauces.
Pet Treats: Pet bone broth, plus dehydrated chicken livers and skins.
Sweets: Wisconsin maple syrup is stocked up! And there’s plenty raw honey in glass jars 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: Limited Hoppy Orange kombucha, but we’ll be getting a restock from La Rive on Wednesday. Plus there’s various krauts, kimchi and other veggie ferments from Gingerbooch, Resurrection Gardens and VEGGI and we should be restocking Gingerbooch soon, too.
Preserves: Lots of jams, jellies, preserves, pickles and hot sauces from Josey’s Goods, plus hot sauce from Major Acre Farm.
Herbal Remedies: We restocked Golden Milk spice blend and Red Turmeric and Ginger honey bombs from L4S Farms on Friday. Plus there’s several tinctures from L4S, ALL CAPS and Family Fungi, along with Reishi Elderberry syrup and a few elderberry juice and infused honey options from Cockeyed Farms.
Merch: Canvas bags, t-shirts, hats and mugs.