Peach Pie. With Lattice Top

We have fun each week changing up the pie flavors. This week is back to a seasonal favorite - fresh peach pie.

As always, the pies start with our signature lard and whole wheat based pie crust, for a flaky and tasty medium to hold the summer flavors of Ohio peaches.

Notables A La Carte Fruits and Veggies

• Yellow Doll Watermelon. An early variety of seeded, sweet yellow watermelon. I enjoy it served chilled with salt and chili flake. Give it a try! $4 per melon
• Blackberries $7 per pint or 2 for $12
• Cantaloupe - because in my house it is one per night these days
• Mixed color grape tomatoes
• Peaches. 2# bags for $5
• Nectarines. For real, they are coming in this week.
• Transparent and Lodi Apples - make homemade apple sauce with these old timey apples.

Breakfast Items Sale

We recently realized we have been adding new breakfast items over the last few years without talking about them. Each week when we pull orders, the old standards are flying off the shelf and the new classics are slowly moving.

So, we figured we'd be fair and celebrate breakfast across the board with some sale prices.

Bacon and Eggs. Sorry, we don't have enough to put on sale and you all know how good they are! Look for a bacon focused promotion in a few weeks!

$1 off all breakfast sausages

• New: Apple Cinnamon Brats. A hogs casing (brat size) sausage good for breakfast or dinner. Slightly seasoned with cinnamon to play well off of real apples. 4 links per package.
• New: Country Breakfast Sausage Patties. A larger, thin "sandwhich size" patty. Perfect on English Muffins for a sandwich. Salt, Pepper, Sage and Rosemary. Sugar free.
• Bacon Breakfast Patties. 10 little "pucks" of pork sausage and bacon ground together
• Maple Breakfast Links - 10 small links flavored with real Ohio maple syrup

$1 off other breakfast staples

• WVF English Muffins. Made in house at our farm from scratch, the dough starts with organic flour from Stutzman farms, farm fresh eggs, and A2 Guernsey milk. It is proofed, hand formed, and cooked slowly on our flat top griddle. Great in the morning or evening. Try as a substitute for a burger bun. They toast up great and hold up to a hefty, juicy burger.
• Maple Syrup. Pure, Ohio maple syrup, darker for a more rich maple flavor. Sold in the glass pint.
• Pie Crusts. Made in house with heritage pork lard and whole wheat flour. This raw (unbaked) crust is perfect for a morning quiche or evening pie.
• Cornflour Pancake Mix. Ohio grown corn meal, winter wheat flour, and seasonings for a ready to mix pancake batter. $1.5 off.
• Butter, Sticks. No pancakes or grits, or fried eggs, are complete without a hearty serving of quality butter from Minerva Dairy. Salted or Unsalted.

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There are few things more picture perfect than the old fashioned "shock and cap" of oats arranged neatly in a field. It is also quite a unique scene not found outside of Amish country.

For the next week or so, the old order Amish farmers have been busy cutting and binding their oat crop. The process is quite fascinating and requires the whole community to pitch in.

Oats for a farmer aren't for human consumption (although you could eat them). For the farmers around here, the oat is for their horses. It's an important component of the feed for the horses, and with all the farmers using horses for transportation and work, they must raise a lot of oats.

Ripe oats have a seed head that is firm and full. The stem of the plant will be dry and golden brown. The head begins to droop over from the weight of the full pod and the oat is ready to harvest. The farmer then needs to find a way to "thresh it." Threshing is simply the mechanical action of removing the seed from the stalk.

In modern farming, a farmer would pass through the field with a combine. The combine would separate the seeds and blow the stalk - known as the straw - out the back. For the small Amish farmer, they do it differently.