Farmstand

We used local arugula from Lucky 13 Farm in Winchester in our latest house made sausage. We blanched and chopped the arugula and then added it to our pork with garlic, parmesan cheese, white wine, and lemon. Get it while is lasts, like the spring arugula I don’t expect these to be around for too

We got a whole cows worth of grass fed beef from Snug Valley Farm this week. New items include beef kielbasa and kebab meat. We also restocked a lot of the steaks and stew meat that we had run out of. We are scheduled to cut two lambs from Five Sigma Farm in Sullivan the

Whole Chicken Sale! To celebrate the arrival of spring chicks take $5 off the price of any whole chicken in our farm store. Limited time offer, now through next Thursday April 15th, subject to availability. Currently in Stock:Pork – Archway Farm Meatloaf Bacon (Sliced & Ends – low supply) Ground Pork Smoked Kielbasa links Archway

We restocked a lot of the items in our refrigerated case this week. Echo Farms puddings, Picadilly Farm spring parsnips, Queen’s Greens spring greens, Blue Ledge Farm cheeses. We are cutting pork on Monday, so let us know if you have any special requests. Currently in Stock:Pork – Archway Farm Meatloaf Bacon (Ends) Ground Pork

We have a good supply of smoked ham quarters if you are looking for a special Easter centerpiece. We have a limited supply of larger ham halves and legs of lamb as well. We are excited to finally have our own house made sliced bacon for sale. We still will carry the bacon we’ve had

We have been busy boiling sap in our renovated sugarhouse the last couple weeks, and are excited for some more good sugaring weather this month. Our sugaring operation is very small scale, so our plan this year is to use the syrup we produce in our bacon and breakfast sausage, and continue to rely on

We were back in the kitchen Monday and Tuesday cutting pork and creating two exciting new products: Pork Carnitas – heat and serve for an easy taco option, we even have local Mi Tierra corn tortillas available to go with Irish Bangers – breadcrumbs in this traditional Irish sausage give them a different texture Currently

The Sunnycroft Farm ground beef currently in our store is from my parents farm in Paris, ME. They have a small grass fed cow/calf operation and sell their calves to other Maine farms to finish. We occasionally get ground beef from them when it’s time for an older cow to retire. Currently in Stock:Pork –

The milk we carry from Manning Hill Farm is bottled exclusively in glass. To encourage people to return those bottles for re-use there is a $2 deposit built into the cost of the milk at our store. When you bring the bottle back to our farm store you can take the $2 deposit off your

When we break down a whole pig we start by separating the largest muscle groups into what are called primals. At a high level these are the shoulder (front leg), loin, belly (ribs & bacon), and ham (rear leg). Each of these primals is then broken down into smaller “retail” cuts. The butt and picnic

Archway Sweet, the latest installment of our Archway sausage line, is in our farm store now. What’s unique is that we have control over the entire process. We raise the pigs from birth, develop our own recipes, mix the spices, grind the pork, and stuff the casings. Our frozen meatloaf is also back by popular

We got a whole side of grass fed beef in from Snug Valley Farm in Hardwick, VT this week. New cuts include stew beef, stir fry beef, t-bone steaks and porterhouse steaks. We are scheduled to pick up more bacon on Friday and are cutting a whole pig on Monday, so will have chops back