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Steak Burger Bundle -- $30

Just in time for Father's Day, our steak burger bundle includes our hearty steak burgers, 1/3 # each formed from the trimmings of tenderloin, strip loin, and ribeye.

For a bun, we encourage you to toast up an English Muffin. They do hold their weight in butter. :) Serve it up with some real homemade mayo and all the fixings.

Includes:

Steak Burgers (4 patties, ~1.25#)

English Muffins (use as burger buns, 4 pack)

Mayo - 8 oz

Sliced Cheddar Cheese - 4 slices

Lettuce - 1 head

Mushrooms, 5 oz

Tomato, Soil Grown Greenhouse - 1 ct

Father's Day Brunch Bundle - Biscuits & Sausage Gravy - $28.50

We had fun in the kitchen this morning. Homemade buttermilk biscuits made with house made cultured buttermilk, lard, butter, and organic local pastry flour. These biscuits are huge. 4 of them nearly cover a 10 inch dinner plate.

For gravy we kept it simple and started with a homemade pork sausage, whole milk, and spices.

Hot sauce. Fermented, smoked jalapenos, Ohio peaches, and cider vinegar. This is one we've been barrel aging since last summer.

Bacon and Eggs of course. Brunch served.

Includes:

6 homemade buttermilk biscuits

Sausage Gravy (1 quart)

Hot Sauce (1 bottle)

Bacon (1#)

Eggs (1 doz)

Beer Brats - $12.50

We worked up some special smoked beer brats for Father's Day Weekend, starting with Krispi IPA from our friends at Market Garden Brewery.

Each 50# batch has nearly 20 beers in it. We left a few for the sausage makers....

These juicy brats are in a natural hog casing and smoked to a tender finish. Cook the over indirect heat on the grill for a good snap to the casing.

Green Onion Brats - 1# package - $8.50

We have always made our dinner brats into 1.25# packages. Then for some reason our processor ran them in 1# packages last week.

This is sure to spell disaster pulling orders in the near future. So we need to get rid of these now!

1# package - 4 links, same diameter as before, just shorter - $8.50

Strawberry Rhubarb Pie

Our signature homemade pies are back. It's "pie season" as we say. Fresh fruit is in and let's enjoy it!

We start with macerating our berries in a little organic sugar. The berry "liquor" that drains off is reduced and added back to the fresh berries and rhubarb to make a rich filling.

We bake it in our house made crust of organic whole wheat flour, butter, and lard. It's flaky and flavorful. The pie is topped with a crunchy and sweet crumb topping of oats, butter, and organic sugar.

Raspberries and Blueberries

While strawberries are on their way out, raspberries are just starting. We expect fresh harvests daily this week. These chemical free berries are intended to enjoy ASAP. Get them while you can.

Blueberries. We are getting a very few this week. Expect many more next week.

Honey Vinaigrette

Homemade salad dressing - just in time for delicious field grown lettuce and fresh veggies.

We start by cracking eggs and making our own mayo as a base, then blending in cider vinegar and raw honey.

Keep refrigerated. 8 oz jar.

This Week's Share Meats

We know the servings sizes aren't 1 size fits all. Get extra of the meat option each week at a discount.


This week's proteins.

Boneless Pork Chops - 10% off

Pork Chorizo Sausage - 10% off

New Items - available in online shop in limited quantities

Edible Pod, Sugar Snap Peas - per pint

Cherry/Grape Tomatoes, Mixed Color - per pint

Broccoli

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2) Tell us where you want to pickup and which bag (from the menu below).

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Please Bring a Bag

Please bring a reusable grocery bag. The plastic liner bag we use is for food safety, and we pack the totes carefully to separate meat and fresh veggies. Please bring a bag or two to protect your fresh food investment.

What happens if you miss your bag

We don't want you to miss. We buy in the food and have it on the truck for you. If you miss, we cannot refund you or give you a credit. Think of it as a gym membership. If you don't show up, you still pay.

There are options:

1) If you don't have a special order, no need to tell us. Just show up at a different pickup location. The full list of locations and times is on our website here.

2) If you have a special order, please contact customer service to see about a transfer. We MAY be able to transfer it. This is a lot harder than it sounds, particularly on Friday night when it's 9 PM and no one wants to be shuffling orders that weren't picked up.

Customer service: info@freshforkmarket.com or 800-861-8582

Saturday, Last Call

If you miss thru out the week, simply go to Ohio City Provisions on Saturdays from 10 AM to 7 PM. 3208 Lorain Ave, Cleveland. For regular totes, we generally can fill it. Special orders do not transfer unless you made prior arrangements and it was confirmed.

OCP will not keep FFM orders until Sunday. There simply isn't room.

Stone Fruits look sad

This is a picture from Ben at Quarry Hill. Date: April 8.

That's 1 of several hard freezes after the cherries, peaches, plums, apples, etc all started blooming.

The goal there was to create just enough heat to keep the frost from settling in and destroying the buds. That's one of many fires he lit that night. It didn't work.

Other guys hired helicopters to fly over and help circulate warmer air from higher up and pushing it towards the ground. Wind machines were deployed. And water - which will freeze, protecting the buds. All take a lot of resources and time with varying results.

Peaches, Plums, Apricots, and Even Apples

The orchards are wide-spread devastated. Cherries - essentially none. Plums, Apricots, and Peaches. - similar. Apples, some varieties took a hard hit, but not near as bad as the stone fruits.

One of our orchards has a block of peach trees on a very high ridge. Those look like they survived and we should have peaches, though not the variety and long season we usually have.

Widespread Damage

Ohio wasn't the only one hit hard. Michigan - the nation's largest cherry producing region - is wiped out. Northern peaches, from PA and NY, also wiped out. Across the northern states, a rough winter combined with a cold, damp spring has caused widespread damage.

One grower was telling me about a contact his co-op has in Southeast Pennsylvania. It's a large orchard operation that usually has 75 immigrant workers for a harvest crew. This year, they have just 5.

This too shall pass

Farmers are always optimistic. You have to be to risk your livelihood on the weather. While this year's crop's won't yield much, there is always next year. And with every bite we take this year, let's remember how fortunate we are to have this delicious fruit!