A Sonic Wave of Chirping Befalls the Village

This season has seemed to bring in an abundance of all good things and we are happy to be a part of that. The pigs continue to be beautiful week after week, the cows are grazing endlessly on spring grasses providing rich, deeply yellowed fat and Little Way Farm will be bringing us the first run of fresh chickens this week. There is even an abundance of rather agreeable swarms of long-sleeping bugs that have laid a sonic wave of chirping over the whole village. Every Friday Full Plate Farm and Bountiful Backyards drops off CSA shares at the shop and we get to see the contrast of things grown alongside animals reared. We feel lucky the shop has big windows so we can take it all in.

Little Way Farm raises chickens six months out of the year and provides the shop with all of our small batch, heritage chicken. The first run will be arriving this weekend, so the freezers will be restocked with half chickens, leg quarters, skin on breasts and hopefully some other cuts we are thinking through.

We also encourage you to try some different cuts of beef, as you can really taste the season right now. It seems odd and maybe its just because we eat it daily but you can really taste when the cows are gorging on first cut, sweet spring grasses.

Unfortunately, the initial Saturdays in Sax was cancelled this week due to rain. The plan is to combine everything next weekend for a big afternoon in support of the Haw River Assembly. We will have sandwiches per usual and hope you will bring a cooler and stock up while you are this way.