New Items to Kick off 2021

For The Love of Organic Pastry

Betsy and I started our hobby farm because we wanted the very best food. We learned about the shortcuts taken at the grocery and farmers' markets and we simply wanted to taste what the best food would be like.

The "hobby farm" has grown into what we are today. We haven't lost sight of our mission to find the very best food. We've loved learning how amazing good food can taste and are excited to be able to share more "no shortcuts" food with our community.

Fast forward ten years. We've finally convinced Travis at Backwards Bread to make us some organic pastries.

Lots of people make amazing croissants and pastries but almost nobody uses organic ingredients. The ingredients are simply too expensive to use in such labor-intensive treats.

Well, if you're like us and want well-made food that is also organic: 2021 is your year!

If you've never had an expert pastry chef's croissants, you've really got to try them.

I know these may sell out quickly, but I promise: we'll make more soon. If you have any specific requests for other pastries, let us know.

Organic Chocolate

While our crazy good organic pastries are more expensive than the conventional options, most of our new items are less expensive than the comparable options at the grocery. Like the cheeses we added last month (and the new ones below), we are usually able to be about 5-15% less expensive for the same item.

I don't understand why it is so hard to find good organic chocolate in the grocery. We're here to help with two different selections of organic and fair trade chocolate.

Chocolate Chip
These are sometimes marketed as "dark", but at 45% cacao, I personally view them as semi-sweet. Perfect for our chocolate chip cookie recipe or just to eat with espresso. These will taste much better than those bags at the grocery and cost less than most organic options you might be lucky to find.

Dark Chocolate Bar
This is probably my favorite chocolate. It's well done with just three ingredients and 70% cacao. Unlike the chips, this does NOT have any emulsifier so it is soy free.

Bars are not the least expensive way to get chocolate but this is a much better chocolate than is found in the grocery for about the same cost.

If enough people ask us for a 70% chocolate chip, I'd love to offer those too. Pacha makes a chip version and they are great.

New Organic Cheeses

Last month, we featured the amazing Alemar cheeses. We had several requests for a cheddar and goat cheese.

Some of you saw we were able to add in the option of my favorite everyday cheddar and added it to your December delivery at the last minute (nice!). We had to wait until January to add the organic goat cheese option.

Let us know what you think and what else you'd like to see!

Organic Nuts, Trail Mix and Granola

We had so many requests for more options for organic nuts, trail mixes and granola.

The fact that these are all made in a peanut-free facility peaked a lot of interest as well.

So, we decided to offer some more options, here is the link to the full post with ALL of the available items, but for convenience, the new ones we've added for January are listed below.

Are there any other types of organic nuts or mixes you'd love to see?