Apple Season is Here! Plus Mushrooms, Eggplant, Grapes, Salad Greens, Glazed Pecans, Fig Preserves, Coffee & More!
What We Have and What’s Expected for the Week of September 8th
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Apples from Northern Alabama are here and it should be the beginning of a long season!
We’re starting the season with new Ginger Gold, plus Gala, Fuji and Red Delicious. We see some of these varieties continue for many months and then mid and later season varieties like Arkansas Black, Cameo, Dixie Red, Golden Delicious, Jonagold, Jonathan, Mutsu, Pink Lady and Winesap will join the lineup, too!
Apples are such a bright spot of late August or September as we wait for more fall crops. This year we’re happy to have Homegrown in Folsom supplying salad greens that he grows throughout the summer under shade cloth and row covers, too. In previous years, we’d be without salad greens even still. And the varieties of microgreens from Rose Wagon Ranch really brighten the produce offerings, too!
We still do have lots of late summer veggies like eggplant and peppers in stock, with more cucumbers, eggplant, okra and summer squash expected on Tuesday. I will also cut more Italian and lemon basil, along with oregano and rosemary on Tuesday or Wednesday, as well.
And after a break with some grow room issues for Screaming Oaks, fresh mushrooms are back (in bulk one pound bags from Family Fungi). We also got some of their new Fais Dodo tincture (an herbal sleepy time blend) and their Lion’s Mane Vanilla, reformulated as a glycerine tincture with no alcohol. Hoping for more mushrooms from Screaming Oaks on Thursday, as well.
Plus there's plenty of eggs, pastured chicken and pork, all cuts of wild-foraged goat meat (and ground goat meat on sale), limited Gulf seafood, tofu and more. I’m hoping to have some good news about beef on Tuesday afternoon!
There’s also a new large size fig preserves, restocked coffee, hummus and pesto (more coming on Thursday as usual), lots of frozen honey oat loaves, plus brioche buns in two sizes, various shapes of frozen pasta, jam and jellies, rice and grits, olive oil and balsamic and infused vinegars, herbal teas and tinctures, salts and seasonings and more.
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 for next day pick up is 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 Farm Hub on Thursday, 4-5 pm at the Bird’s Nest Cafe, 6508 Spanish Fort Blvd. Home deliveries in 70005, 70119, 70122 and 70124 beforehand. 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 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: Egg and produce shares available for purchase — thanks so much for contributing so we can keep making these drop offs!
Pastured Eggs: Plenty of eggs in stock and lots more where that came from.
Pastured Dairy: There’s some chocolate milk pints on sale from last week, plus creole cream cheese and two types of marinated goat feta. We will restock from both Feliciana’s Best and Southern Maids on Tuesday this week!
Bread & Pasta: Plenty of frozen brioche buns in hamburger or slider size, sliced honey oat loaves, as well as pizza dough and frozen canestri, fettuccine, fusilli, mezzi rigatoni and spaghetti. Fresh pasta coming on Tuesday and fresh bread and buns on Wednesday and Friday as usual.
Local Produce: We sold out of a bunch of items on Saturday, but starting the week with scuppernong grapes, four types of Alabama apples, large bags of frozen blueberries, limited arugula and baby tatsoi greens, bulk bags of Italian oyster mushrooms, green onion, radish, sugar snap pea and sunflower microgreens, fairy tale or mixed Italian eggplant, habanada or hot cherry peppers and hakurei turnips. We’re expecting more slicing cucumbers, lettuce mix and summer squash on Tuesday and more okra, peppers and eggplant on Thursday.
Plant-Based Protein: Plain, black mushroom tofu and red chili lemongrass tofu, plus black mushroom fried tofu cubes.
Bone Broth: Beef, chicken and trinity bone broth, as well as limited second simmer pet bone broth.
Forest-Raised Pork: Cured bacon ends, smoked hocks, spare ribs, jowls, trotters and bones on sale, plus sliced bacon, tenderloins, stir fry tenderloin strips, bone-in or boneless chops, Boston butt or picnic shoulder roasts, smoked Andouille links, as well as bratwurst, breakfast or Italian links, ground breakfast (mild or hot), chorizo or Italian sausage as well as ears, liver, tongue and tail and lard to render. Plus lard soap and already rendered jars of lard to cook with.
Grassfed Beef: We’re more or less sold out of beef with just bones (on sale!), tenderized round steaks and fat/trim. From Credo Farms, we also have beef bone broth. Hoping to introduce new Little Creek Hay & Cattle beef to you this week!
Wild-Foraged Goat Meat: Sale on ground goat! Plus “whole goat” bundles with a sampler of all cuts. Ala carte cuts include loin or rib chops (aka rack steaks), leg, neck or shoulder roasts, stew meat/kebab pieces, shanks, rib racks, Rocky Mountain oysters, bones and heads.
Pastured Poultry: We’re out of breasts and thighs because Pearl River Pastures has a trailer tire blowout on Thursday, but until they deliver this Thursday, there’s whole and half birds, tenders, leg quarters, drumsticks, wings, back and neck packs for broth and livers and hearts. We also have ground chicken, the four flavors of linked sausages and breakfast patties. Will also be restocking feet on Thursday, too.
Gulf Seafood: Large size shrimp, plus soft-shell crabs, sheepshead, tenderized alligator strips, grouper collars and smoked fish portions — both almaco jack and barracuda.
Coffee & Tea: Restocked coffee, so there’s five roasts/origins for whole beans and four roasts/origins for ground coffee. Plus there’s cold brew, chai concentrate and simple syrups from Church Alley and a variety of herbal teas from Family Fungi.
Dips & Condiments: A few of each flavor of hummus in stock, plus basil pesto and more of all coming on Thursday!
Pantry: Restocked everyone’s beloved glazed pecan in two sizes. Plus there’s more pecan meal, pecan butter and pecan oil. We also have plenty of Crop to Pop-corn and the herb and fruit-infused vinegars, salts and sugars from Rose Wagon Ranch, plus Texas olive oil and balsamic vinegars, dehydrated mushrooms, lion’s mane or oyster mushroom powder Caps & Cream soup and dip mix, mushroom and kelp-based seasonings and black garlic. And there’s chili oil from VEGGI Coop and hot sauces.
Pet Treats: Dehydrated chicken necks, feet and liver available, plus Pet Bone Broth.
Sweets: Plenty of our Wisconsin maple syrup, plus local raw honey, elderberry juice, infused elderberry honey, 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 restocked stone-milled flours from Barton Springs Mill and Bellegarde.
Ferments: Out of kombucha! But should be restocking from both La Rive and Gingerbooch this week. And there’s a few types of kimchi from VEGGI Coop and Resurrection Gardens, as well as kraut, giardiniera and chow chow.
Preserves: Various pickles (dill, bread & butter, squash and zucchini and beets), plus lots of fruit jams and jellies and preserves and pepper jellies.
Herbal Remedies: Turmeric and ginger tinctures, plus various lovely mushroom and herb tinctures from Family Fungi along with reishi and herbal teas. There’s also Mineral Manna electrolyte oxymel and a few elderberry syrups and juices from Family Fungi and Cockeyed Farms.
Merch: Canvas bags, t-shirts, hats, mugs and greeting cards.