The Market is Open!

Good Morning Food Club,

The market is open with the bounty of Autumn blooming our product selection. The variety of our products really is one of my favorite reasons for eating local: I’ve never seen such beautiful and delicious diversity in the aisles of any grocery store. As the seasons change, so do the products, and really, isn’t that how things are supposed to be? Some of the wonderful food this week includes:

• Freshly processed, pasture-raised, GMO-free fed whole chickens from Falling Sky Farm. Unlike most broiler chickens, these have access to fresh air, green grass, sunlight, and the chickens are processed on the farm to ensure a clean and low stress environment. You can taste the difference by roasting one and using the leftovers for chicken salad and chicken stock.

• I’ve never seen a market with more varieties of greens, so now’s the time to try some new ones! Arkansas Abundance has got delicious joy choy, arugula, bibb lettuce, gourmet lettuce, mustard greens, and spinach, while Barnhill Orchards brings us baby bok choy, broccoli greens, green and red butter crunch, collard greens, curly leaf and Florida broadleaf mustard greens, turnip greens, dino kale, and green and red leaf lettuce. Meanwhile, Crimmins Family Farm has got all certified organic arugula, white-stemmed bok choy, endive, mixed asian greens, turnip greens, kale, green butterhead, green leaf crisp, and last but certainly not least, mizuna. PHEW!

• The Root has preserved the sweetness of summer for us in the most delicious way possible. Their red or golden muscadine preserves would be the perfect sweet to add to your morning carbs, and I’m definitely going to put some sweet summer squash relish on the next sausage I see.

Another huge thanks to all our friends that made it out to Foodcraft last weekend! We want to know what other types of workshops y’all would like to see in the future. Please take 5 minutes to fill out this survey and you’ll be entered for the chance to win $15 in Food Club credit!

Happy Eating!

- Alex Handfinger
Director of Operations

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