It's Berry & Tomato Season! Plus Seafood & Bone Broth Restock, Eggs, Mushrooms, Sale Dairy, Jams, Jellies, Pickles & More!
What We Have and What’s Expected for the Week of May 25th
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Late May is a wonderful time for local produce in South Louisiana as blueberries and tomatoes usually come into season, to join blackberries, cucurbits, green beans, root veggies, cabbages, peppers and more!
We got the first blueberries, heirloom and cherry tomatoes of the season last week and while we sold out fast, we expect more on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.
We’ll also get first of the season Japanese eggplant, banana peppers and red cabbage from River Queen Greens on Tuesday afternoon. We’ll restock red beets, kohlrabi, jalapeño peppers, purple bell peppers, pickling cucumbers, zephyr and zucchini squashes, plus parsley, chives, fennel and orange carrots from River Queen, as well.
Fresh mushrooms came in late last week from Screaming Oaks, so there’s lion’s mane, oyster and shiitake. We expect more of those, plus chestnut and pearl oyster mushrooms later this week, too.
On Wednesday, we expect heirloom tomatoes and green bell peppers from Faust Farms, plus green beans, head lettuces, salad green mixes, cherry tomatoes, blueberries and blackberries from Homegrown in Folsom.
Besides the exciting seasonal produce, we did an overdue seafood restock on Friday, so there’s shrimp in three sizes, yellowfin tuna, red snapper and sheepshead filets, red snapper taco strips, smoked tuna and almaco jack portions, soft-shell crabs, alligator strips and more.
We’re also stocked up on our pastured and grassfed meats, especially pork, chicken and goat and we’re a little more limited on beef cuts, although we have plenty of ground beef in two sizes.
Bone broth from Credo Farms was restocked on Tuesday, so there’s beef or trinity bone broth as well as beef or chicken pet bone broth. And traditional (seasoned) or plain chicken bone broth from A&A Acres, too.
We have a few pints of half & half and heavy cream on sale from last week and if y’all don’t snag it, I’ll probably make a big batch of ice cream with it! More fresh dairy is coming from Feliciana’s Best and Southern Maids on Tuesday and Wednesday respectively.
There will be plenty more eggs from our chickens and a few dozen duck eggs throughout the week, as well.
Josey’s Goods did a small restock on Thursday, too, so there’s more pickles (including pickled green beans) and jams and jellies.
And there’s some frozen brioche buns as well as honey oat loaves and pizza dough from Bellegarde, with fresh bread and buns and more crostini coming on Wednesday and Friday. Il Supremo pasta is out, but we expect more on Tuesday.
We’re stocked up on rice, grits, cornmeal, farro, black-eyed peas and red peas, stone-milled flours, honey and maple syrup, Texas olive oils and vinegars, infused vinegars, salts and sugars, herbal teas and tinctures and lots more, too.
Pick Up & Delivery Options:
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 is the day prior at 2 pm.
Mandeville Farm Hub on Wednesday, 1-1:30 pm at Open Spaces Studios, 1281 N Causeway Blvd. #1, Mandeville. Home deliveries in an 8 mile radius around Open Spaces available before and afterwards. Deadline to order is 9 am on Wednesday.
Covington Farm Hub also on Wednesday, 3-3:30 pm at Nur’s Kitchen, 100 N Tyler St., Covington. Home deliveries in an 8 mile radius around Nur’s Kitchen available before and afterwards. Deadline to order is 9 am on Wednesday.
Lakeview-Mid-City-Gentilly-Metairie deliveries only on Thursday from 3-6 pm. Delivery zip codes include 70005, 70006, 70119, 70122 and 70124. Deadline to order is noon on Thursday.
Irish Channel Farm Hub on Friday, 10 am to 12 pm inside Levee Baking Co., 3138 Magazine St D. Home deliveries in 70001, 70112, 70113, 70115, 70118, 70121, 70125 and 70130 afterwards. Deadline to order is 4 pm on Thursday.
Here's the full list breakdown of all our grocery categories:
Donations for Mutual Aid: We didn’t have quite enough to do a mutual aid drop off on Saturday, but we had something like an 9 week stretch in a row of drop offs! Thanks for your continued support so we can keep doing this!
Pastured Eggs: Plenty of eggs — mixed sizes from the mature flocks, small eggs from the young birds and there will be a few dozen duck eggs, too.
Pastured Dairy: There’s several goat cheese and yogurt options to start the week, as well as sale pints of half & half and heavy cream. More fresh whole milk, cream, chocolate milk, goat milk and cheeses will be delivered on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Bread & Pasta: Fresh bread and brioche buns will be delivered on Wednesday and Friday as usual and we have some frozen brioche buns and sliced honey oat loaves and pizza dough in the meantime. More crostini coming on Wednesday, too.
Local Produce: Cold-pressed turmeric juice, peaches, frozen blueberries, fresh mint, fennel, garlic, red spring onions, turmeric root, lion’s mane, oyster or shiitake mushrooms, cilantro, cabbage, radish or sunflower microgreens, lettuce mix, Napa cabbage, purple bell peppers, green beans, gold beets, hakurei turnips, purple daikon, watermelon or mixed pink salad radishes and red potatoes. Expecting more blueberries, blackberries, creole and heirloom tomatoes, Japanese eggplant, pickling cucumbers, squash and zucchini, carrots, red cabbage, fennel, banana and jalapeño peppers, parsley and chives on Tuesday, plus cherry tomatoes, head lettuce and more salad greens and green beans on Thursday.
Plant-Based Protein: Limited tofu available, more coming on Friday.
Bone Broth: Beef, two types of chicken and trinity bone broth, plus beef or chicken pet bone broth.
Forest-Raised Pork: We restocked some pork tenderloins, baby back ribs, ground pork and a few sausages we were out of on Friday so we have almost every cut available right now except picnic shoulder roasts.
Grassfed Beef: We’ve got both sizes of ground beef, NY strip steaks, top sirloin, tenderized round steaks, brisket, shoulder, eye of round and top round roasts, stew meat, osso bucco shanks, beef bones and trim/fat to render. And since we’re out of ribeyes, don’t sleep on the chuckeye steaks. These are cut a little further down from the ribeye and are known as poor man’s ribeye since they’re a very similar cut just not quite as tender.
Wild-Foraged Goat Meat: Ground goat is still on sale, along with bones. And then there’s three types of goat chops/steaks, leg and shoulder roasts, rib racks, riblets, shanks and ground goat chorizo sausage.
Pastured Poultry: We’re limited on chicken sausage right now, but we have plain ground chicken and every other cut including whole and half birds, tenders and boneless breasts, thighs, leg quarters and drumsticks, wings, feet, frames, hearts and livers. We also have dehydrated feet for pet treats and will restock dehydrated livers on Wednesday, too, along with chicken breakfast sausage patties.
Gulf Seafood: Restocked! So there’s yellowfin tuna, red snapper and sheepshead filets, red snapper taco trips, smoked almaco jack and tuna portions, soft-shell crabs, alligator strips and shrimp in all three sizes.
Coffee & Tea: We’re a little limited on some coffee — restocking on Thursday. We also have an array of herbal teas from Family Fungi, recently restocked.
Dips & Condiments: Just traditional hummus, more of all flavors and sizes coming on Thursday as usual.
Pantry: We’re also stocked up GraNOLA and bars, popcorn, Guidry’s pecan butter, pecan oil and two sizes of glazed pecans, plus 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. Plus mushroom and kelp-based seasonings, dehydrated mushrooms, mushroom powder, chili oil and hot sauces.
Pet Treats: More pet bone broth, plus dehydrated chicken feet.
Sweets: Wisconsin maple syrup is back! And there’s also 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 (new white 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, get it while you can! Aiming to restock from Gingerbooch once we get our new fridge, too. We’re out of kimchi, but restocked on kraut, chow chow and giardiniera.
Preserves: Various jams, jellies, preserves, pickles and hot sauces from Josey’s Goods, plus hot sauce from Sky Ridge Farm and Major Acre Farm.
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.