Since spring is coming...and last weeks movie was such a hit...
we put together this fun teaser about the season to come...enjoy!
ONE MORE MONTH OF WINTER!
It's another wintry week in New England! The Farm Store is relatively quiet on these days but it remains packed full of great Codman meats, eggs, and lots of local produce...as much as New England can offer in the heart of winter. Don't forge FRESH BREAD continues every Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturdays!
In lieu of a writer and a story this week, you get a director and a very short film. Figured everyone would benefit from seeing some lush pastures, healthy animals and peak at what lies just a few months from now. Enjoy.
With spring on the way, we are busy getting the greenhouse interior set up and ready to roll. Every week new supplies are arriving, including all the material to build our new greenhouse tables. Kari and Jared are busy constructing the tables and Kari is putting the finishing touches on her master garden plan. It's only a matter of days before we fire up the greenhouse and get the season started! It's an exciting time to finally have plans for a vibrant vegetable and flower garden this year.
BREWERS CRACKERS
This week I reached out to Kyle Fiasconaro, owner of Brewers Crackers, to ask him about his company, why he started it and why he is passionate about his company and products. There are few food entrepreneurs out there as passionate about their mission as Kyle is so I'm going to actually copy some of what he wrote to me, so everyone can get a taste of Karls's passion. We are proud to partner with Kyle as his products are not only super local and super tasty, but he is committed to sustainability and making the world a better place. Our kind of guy, our kind of business!
Keep an eye out for this new brewer's cracker chips in the weeks to come!
"Our goal at Brewer's Crackers is of course to fight food waste by creating a delicious, sustainable product using the used grain from craft breweries, But in my eyes, it is so much more. It may take years or it may take decades but my mission is much larger. My dream is to be able to produce a variety of nutritious and thoughtful food products for people all over the world using brewer's grain and eventually operate as a not-for-profit company. Crackers are just the first product, soon we will be introducing chips. The hope is that we can reach more people and teach them about this untapped resource. Cereal, Bread, Cookies, Flour....affordable sustainable food for the people!! But right now it's all about building a community of people that believe in the idea and vision!"
"Why Spent Grain? Using Spent Grain is an important process not just because we are Upcycling a nutritious product that would normally be thrown away. We feel that so much hard work has gone into making the Malted Grain that we want to see the grain meet its full potential. From the farmers that grow it, the Maltsters that roast it, the truck driver that delivers it, to the brewers that make beer with it, we really do believe Brewer's Crackers are just one more step to making the product truly sustainable."
FUN Facts:
- We use about 1,200# of grain per day that would have otherwise ended up in a landfill.
- Each Box of crackers has about the same amount of grain it takes to make 2 beers!
- Since starting it's estimated we have used about 400,000 of grain since starting our Company.
- Every year US Breweries produce about 1.16 Billion lbs of Spent Grain ..BILLION!!!!!!
Click herefor more information on Brewers Crackers.
PETE's PIZZA UPDATE
Okay okay, it's been too long since I first wrote about pizza. But that DOES NOT mean I have not been cooking up some pretty tasty delights using my new buddies, Tony Gemgiani's cookbook, The Pizza Bible. Almost every week I make a poolish starter and cook up some pizza or even dabble deeper into the bible to try my hand at making a pepperoli or a calzone. To be honest, once you get the dough down pat, just about everything else flows towards success. It has been a very tasty journey so far! Making pizza at home is less stressful now that I've done it a few times and my confidence in putting out a basically good pizza is pretty high. Abe is now a huge fan of the amazing UUGE meatballs I make with Tony's recipe. They are incredibly delicious and while more work than I'm used to putting in for a meatball, it's fun and very much worth the extra effort. Especially now that my boy says that "dad makes the best meatballs in the world". (I'm just following a recipe...but I'll take the credit!)
Once we get our commercial kitchen up and running...perhaps we will have some pizza-making classes! Who's in!?
