Fall Tomatoes, Roselle Hibiscus, Mushrooms, GraNOLA & Sea Moss Restock, Hummus, Yogurt & Cheeses, Meats, Eggs, Honey & More!
What We Have and What’s Expected for the Week of October 5th
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Tomatoes are back in season as Faust Farms started harvesting their fall crop last week!
We sold out of slicing tomatoes and cherry tomatoes pretty quickly, so we’ll get more than last week this Tuesday. Faust is also harvesting fall black beauty eggplant, green bell peppers and jalapeños.
Screaming Oaks is back in the swing of things with another round of mushrooms this week, including shiitakes. And salad greens and microgreens are going strong from Homegrown in Folsom and Rose Wagon Ranch and from River Queen Greens, we’ll add some arugula, broccoli rabe and large Tokyo bekana, which is like a cross between lettuce, Napa cabbage and bok choy.
I've got tons of roselle hibiscus in my gardens at the farm, so I’ll be harvesting more for the shop this week. You can make hibiscus tea with the fresh calyxes or I love pairing them with strawberries and apples in desserts like crisps, cobblers and muffins, as well as jams and jellies.
Eggs are still plentiful and both small eggs from the juvenile chicken flock and duck eggs are back on sale.
Sage’s Sea Moss and GraNOLA both restocked us late last week, so we have lots of flavors of 8 ounce and 16 ounce sea moss gels, along with more sereniTEA. And we have GraNOLA in all flavors and sizes and all three GraNOLA bars, too.
We have several yogurts and limited cheeses from Berry Hill and goat milk and cheeses from Southern Maids, both will deliver more on Wednesday. Feliciana’s Best will deliver whole milk, heavy cream, half & half and chocolate milk on Tuesday, as well.
There’s several hummus flavors available, especially large sizes and we are restocking on Wednesday versus Thursday this week.
We did another pork restock from back stock on Thursday, so have almost all cuts available (except tenderloin, baby back ribs and kielbasa). Chicken is fairly stocked up, too, and we’re picking up are next round of beef and goat meat, including steaks we’ve been sold out of for awhile and the new goat sausages on Monday!
There’s also lots of kombucha, fermented veggies, jams and jellies, pickles, freshly roasted coffee, herbal teas and tinctures, ginger or turmeric juices, honey, maple syrup, rice and grits, stone-milled flour 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 on Thursday 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 midday from 11 am-2 pm. Deadline to order is 8 am on Friday.
Expected Deliveries By Day:
Monday: Local Cooling Farms beef and goat meat (including new goat sausages!).
Tuesday: Faust Farms eggplant, green bell and jalapeño peppers, cherry and slicing tomatoes, Feliciana’s Best dairy, River Queen Greens radishes, pea shoots and various greens.
Wednesday: Nur’s Kitchen hummus, Bellegarde Bakery bread, brioche buns and crostini, Southern Maids goat dairy, A&A Acres chicken, Berry Hill Farm Greek yogurt and cheeses.
Thursday: Homegrown in Folsom salad greens, cucumbers & zephyr squash and Screaming Oaks mushrooms.
Friday: Bellegarde Bakery bread, brioche buns and crostini, Tien Dat tofu, Nana’s frozen blueberries.
What We Have & What’s Expected This Week by Category:
Donations for Mutual Aid: We dropped a round of eggs on Thursday and then a round of salad greens, peppers and eggplant, along with some bread to the community fridge on St. Philip St. This week, there’s General Grocery shares and egg shares available. Thank you for your continued support!
Pastured Eggs: We’ve got plenty of our mixed size eggs from the mature chicken flocks as well as lots of small eggs from from the juvenile pullet flock and duck eggs, too, both on sale this week!
Pastured Dairy: We’ll get more mild cheddar and Dolly Colby style cheese on Wednesday, along with cottage cheese, whipped cream cheese, blueberry whipped cream cheese, marinated feta and German quark style cheese. There’s also six flavors of Greek yogurt and a few goat cheeses, more of those coming on Wednesday, too, along with more goat milk. And Feliciana’s Best didn’t have chocolate milk for us last week, but we’re expected the usual order including that, whole milk, heavy cream and half & half on Tuesday.
Bread & Pasta: We’ve got five shapes of frozen pasta to start the week and we’ll get more fresh pasta on Tuesday, as well. There’s also limited frozen brioche buns and sliced honey oat bread, along with crostini and frozen pizza dough. We’re expecting more fresh bread and buns from Bellegarde on Wednesday and Friday as usual.
Local Produce: We’ve got five types of apples available to start the week, and we should be adding Granny Smith, Rome Beauty and Winesap this week, too. There’s also cold-pressed ginger or turmeric juice, as well as fresh turmeric root, garlic, lion’s mane, oyster, pioppino or shiitake mushrooms, five types of microgreens, baby arugula, braising mix, kale, komatsuna, lettuce, mizuna and spring mix salad greens, black beauty eggplant, green bell peppers, jalapeño peppers, large gold or red beets, slicing cucumbers, red rover radishes, kabocha squash and zephyr squash.
Plant-Based Protein: Plain, black mushroom or lemongrass red chili tofu as well as fried lemongrass and red chili tofu cubes.
Bone Broth: New beef bone broth from Mother Broth! Plus traditional/seasoned or plain/unseasoned chicken broth from A&A Acres.
Forest-Raised Pork: Bones, uncured jowls, trotters, smoked hocks on sale, plus regular belly bacon or jowl bacon, bacon ends, bone-in or boneless chops, stew meat, Boston butt or picnic shoulder roasts, spare ribs, crosscut hocks, smoked Andouille, brat, breakfast, Cajun or Italian links, ground breakfast, chorizo or Italian sausages, plain ground pork, ears, liver, tongue, tails, lard and lard bar soap!
Grassfed Beef: We’re now out of ground beef, but we have limited tri tip, meaty soup bones (from the shank) and fat to tender into tallow. And the big beef restock is happening on Monday, so should be in online inventory by Tuesday morning at the latest.
Wild-Foraged Goat Meat: We just have ground goat meat, shanks, riblets, rib racks and bones and will restock four types of chops, roasts, stew meat and all the new goat sausages on Monday, as well.
Pastured Poultry: There’s new party wings available this week! These are split into drumettes and flats (wing tips used for broth). We also have whole wings as usual. And there’s plain or traditional/seasoned bone broth, whole chickens, half chickens, tenders, thighs, leg quarters, drumsticks, frames/bones for broth, skin and livers, along with dehydrated skin and feet for pet treats. We’ll restock breasts and other cuts we’re low on on Wednesday.
Gulf Seafood: Seafood is getting a little limited, but we won’t likely restock until next week at the earliest, to make sure we have freezer space for all the beef and goat cuts. In the meantime, there’s large packs of smoked yellowfin tuna, yellowfin tuna, red snapper, sheepshead and yellowedge grouper filets, soft shell crabs and large or medium size shrimp.
Coffee & Tea: Flamjeaux did their biweekly stock up, so we have lots of roasts and origins in whole bean and ground coffee. There’s also lots of herbal and reishi-based teas from Family Fungi.
Dips & Condiments: We have several hummus flavors to start the week and will restock on Wednesday rather than Thursday this week.
Pantry: We restocked GraNOLA and GraNOLA bars on Saturday and are expecting more pecan butter and large size glazed pecans from Guidry’s to arrive by mid week. There’s also fresh-milled flour from both Barton Springs Mill and Bellegarde, plus 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: We have dehydrated chicken feet and skins and hoping to restock pet bone broth on Friday from Credo Farms.
Sweets: Wisconsin maple syrup is stocked up! And there’s plenty raw honey in glass jars or squeeze bottles, along elderberry juice, infused blueberry honey and creamed honey.
Rice, Grains & Stone Ground Corn Products: We’ve several rice options from Two Brooks Farm, including basmati, black, jasmine, long grain white and red. And there’s lots of grits, cornmeal and whole grain and clay pea options from Marsh Hen Mill, plus stone-milled flours from Barton Springs Mill.
Ferments: We’ve got five flavors of kombucha from La Rive, plus two from Gingerbooch, along with probiotic lemonade or limeade and we’ll restock even more kombucha from La Rive on Friday. There’s also a few kraut, kimchi and other fermented veggie options from Gingerbooch, Resurrection Gardens and VEGGI Farmer’s Coop.
Preserves: There’s tons of variety in fruit jams and jellies, pepper jellies and pickles from Josey’s Goods, plus large jars of fig preserves from Resurrection Gardens.
Herbal Remedies: Sage’s Sea Moss gels are restocked, plus there’s Golden Milk spice blend from Family Fungi and L4S. Family Fungi also has a new herb infused honey. And there’s the Red Turmeric and Ginger honey bombs from L4S Farms, 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.