Spring Into Health With Your Local Farm! 🌱

Spring has sprung and we are so excited for the warmer days ahead! Springtime brings so much life to the farm and we can’t wait to keep sharing more delicious, fresh offerings as the days grow brighter and the fields begin to thaw. 🌱☀️

After a long and sluggish winter, we can help our bodies’ natural ability to detox by consuming lots of leafy greens! 🥬 These are rich in chlorophyll which can rid our bodies of toxins and increase bile production - aiding our liver in its cleansing abilities.

In the store, fresh from our garden, we have plenty of greens to help you feel revived. We also love our beets, carrots, and blueberries for their amazing detoxifying elements! 🥕🫐

You can feel good about giving your body the nutrients it needs with our produce that is grown with the utmost care and intention. Everything is always GMO-free and grown without synthetic pesticides, herbicides, or fungicides.

Thank you for caring for your health and supporting local producers by shopping at Acorn Acres Farm!

📍362 Indian Boundary Rd, Chesterton, IN
• Wednesday 10am-5pm
• Thursday 10am-5pm
• Friday 10am-5:30pm
• Saturday 10am-4:30pm

Wondering how you can support more small farmers, as well as local farm to school programs? Check out Indiana Grown, Indiana Grown for Schools, and the NWI Food Council to learn more! 💚

Produce

This week’s local, fresh harvest includes:

  • Beets

  • Blueberries (frozen)

  • Carrots and Baby Carrots with Tops!

  • Herbs— fresh dill, parsley, celery and plenty of dried options available!

  • Kale

  • Lettuce (mixed leafy)

  • Lettuce (mini artisan heads)

  • Mixed Greens

  • Mushrooms—dried options available!

  • Spinach

  • Swiss Chard

As always, our produce is GMO-free and grown without synthetic pesticides, herbicides, or fungicides — and we make sure it stays that way, even for crops that are tricky to grow naturally!

Dairy & Eggs

This week’s options include:

  • Grass-fed, organic, non-homogenized, low heat pasteurized milk (A1 / A2 option this week), butter, cheese  (cottage cheese, GGC sharp cheddar, and Parmigiano Reggiano), buttermilk, French dip, kefir, and yogurt. Please plan ahead and let us know 2-3 weeks in advance for cream and all dairy (if you can), it helps. Thank you to all those who are working hard to help us make that happen.

  • Chicken AND Duck eggs this week, or so we think! 😉 Our eggs are hand harvested and cleaned. Our chickens are raised on not simply organic but also a soy free grain mix along with their free range diet. There really is nothing like the consistency and flavor of these delectable treats from heritage breeds . . . we bring out the connoisseurs! Learn more about our eggs and why the creamy, delicious dairy we carry tastes so good!

Meat Availability

This week’s options (while supplies last) include:

  • Beef Prime Steaks: Filet, Chuckeye, Denver, NY Strip, Ribeye, Sirloin, and other steaks!

  • Beef Savory Roasts, Steaks & Ribs: Brisket (plenty large enough for smoking), Chuck, Chuck Arm, Round (top, bottom, eye, and full), Flat Iron, Mock Tenderloin, and Rump & Sirloin Tip Roasts and Steaks. 

  • Beef Grill Options: Ground Beef, Chuck, and Round. Beef Patties (3 or 4 pk)! We're also carrying The Brooklyn Hot Dog Company dogs: All Beef or Beef & Pork! Buy two or more packages for a 10% discount (see our boxes on our pre-order form)!

  • Beef Stew & Organ Meat Options: Stew Meat, Soup bones and Organ Meats, including cheeks, heart, kidney, liver, and more! 

  • Chicken (frozen): Whole and Cut-ups (breast—boneless / skinless, leg quarters, drums, and wings—a 10% discount if you buy 2 pkgs or more of leg quarters, drums, or wings, while supplies last!!). We also have Ground Chicken and Sweet Italian Chicken Sausage! And, chicken organ meat (including: backs, necks, feet, liver, gizzard, and heart)!

  • Duck (frozen): Whole only

  • Lamb: 

    • Ground Lamb

    • Lamb Patties

    • Lamb Loin, Rib, and Shoulder Chops!—melt in your mouth tasty!

    • Leg of Lamb

    • Lamb Shanks

    • Lamb Soup Bones, and organ meats

  • Pork: British Curry, Cajun, Fresh Kielbasa, Italian (Hot or Sweet), Merguez, and Mild Breakfast Sausage! All from our pannage raised pork and organically sourced spice blends (featuring the Teeny Tiny Spice Co). Note: have you tried our pork patties? They come plain or with salt & pepper. You can also get them in a convenient 3-pack or 4-pack. This week, they’re in our box specials—buy 2 or more and get them 10% off. This a real find!

    • Pork Chops (thick or thin / boneless or bone-in), Pork Steaks, Baby Back & Spareribs and more! Other cuts: Back Fat for making your own lard! And Pork Neck Bones for that favorite Pasta Sauce flavor. 

    • Pork Roasts: Like pulled pork? We have both the Pork Butt and the Picnic Roasts fresh frozen (about 2.5 to >8 lbs each). If you want to add another layer to your slow cooks, try our smoked hams with our unique, natural smoke cure with real fruit pectin rather than celery salt used in the natural blend.

    • Smoked bacon, bacon ends and Jowl bacon, smoked pork chops, ham steaks and  ham hocks for your special meals!! Or, for a smokey sausage, try our bacon cooked in your skillet or toaster oven with any of the sausage for that delicious flavor that comes with smoked sausage. Here too, if you haven’t tried our jowl bacon, we have it on special, as limited as it is! While supplies last, buy 2 or more and get them 10% off!

  • Turkey: Whole and Cut-ups! Breasts (boneless / skin on and bone-in / skin on, drums, thighs, wings) and backs, feet, and necks for amazing soup stock available. And turkey organ meats (gizzard and liver in approximate 1 lb packages)! Turkey drums or wings—buy 2 or more and get them 10% off!

Read more about how we raise our grass-fed beef, pastured poultry, pastured pork, and grass-fed lamb.

Sarah Highlen