Bring in the new! We've got a lot of exciting things coming in 2021. We're starting off the new year with a bunch of tasty treats to add to your January delivery. Plus there's still time to pre-register for our 2021 Veggie CSA (and get free weekly delivery in the process!) and we've got some news about a few new neighborhood pickup location additions too. Oh and did we mention we've got lamb? Kick back and read up!
Pastries!!
We've been wanting to offer organic pastries for a while now. We've partnered with Travis at Backwards Bread to offer three sweet treats for January.
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.
Sugar Cinnamon Buns
Box 828
$14.99/lb
Made with croissant dough
Generous hand-made buns made with organic croissant dough and topped with sugar.
Travis at Backwards Bread insisted we offer these if he was making TC Farm an organic croissant!
These will keep well in your freezer for longer than you'll allow them to stay there!
Click here to view ingredients
Butter Croissants
Box 830
$18.21/lb
Hand made and divine
After trying the conventional version, we begged Travis at backwards bread to make us an organic option!
Try with ham and cheese - amazing!
These will keep well in your freezer for longer than you'll allow them to stay there!
Click here to view ingredients
Organic Chocolate
We've added 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.
Organic Chocolate Chips - 45%
Box 790
$9.79/lb
Organic and Fair Trade
These are about the same price per pound as grocery conventional chocolate and taste better!
- 16 ounce bag of organic chocolate chips
- 45% dark
Ingredients are all organic: Cane sugar, chocolate liquor, cocoa butter, soy lecithin (emulsifier), vanilla extract.
The price listed includes sales tax
Organic Chocolate Bar - 70%
Box 791
$25.88/lb
My favorite chocolate bar
- 2.8 oz
- 70% dark
- Three ingredients (!!)
- NO emulsifiers - soy free
- Organic
- Fair Trade
- Made in a dedicated allergen-free facility
Ingredients are all organic: Chocolate Liquor, Cane Sugar, Cocoa Butter.
The price listed includes sales tax
New Organic Cheeses
Last month, we featured the amazing Alemar cheeses. We had several requests for a cheddar and goat cheese.
We were able to add in the option of my favorite everyday cheddar later in the month. Some of you saw that in the portal 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.
Sharp Cheddar Cheese
Box 758
$12.00/lb
Organic from Rochdale Co-op
This is a great go-to daily cheese from small WI farms you can trust.
Note:This cheese is organic and non-GM but the cows from this co-op are grain-fed as a portion of their diet. This milk is from small Amish farms in WI that are certified organic and hand milk thier own cows.
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. We love that member feedback!!
Cashews - Chocolate Covered
Box 706
$17.19/lb
A salty sweet treat!
Ingredients:
Dry Roasted Cashews*, Fair trade Chocolate* (Cocoa Liquor*, Cane Sugar*, Cocoa Butter*, Vanilla*) Sea Salt, Maltodextrin*, Sugar*, Confectioner's Glaze.
*Certified Organic Ingredients
Peanut-free facility
Nut Mix - Roasted & Salted
Box 710
$18.40/lb
Organic and tasty!
Processed in a peanut-free facility
- Cashew
- Almond
- Hazelnut
- Pecans
- Walnut
No oils added, only sea salt
Nut Mix - Maple
Box 711
$20.00/lb
A touch of sweet, all from trees
Organic, dry roasted and sea salted
Processed in a peanut-free facility
- Cashew
- Almond
- Hazelnut
- Pecans
- Walnut
No oils added, only sea salt, organic maple syrup and organic wheat-free tamari soy sauce
The price listed includes sales tax
Trail Mix
Box 714
$10.00/lb
A great snack!
- Roasted sea salt cashew
- Pumkin seed
- Sunflower seed
- Sultana raisins
- Cranberries
- Diced apple
- Chocolate Chips
The "best by" date is preprinted, assuming the product is stored fresh. TC Farm stores it frozen until delivery to stop that clock, help with any supply disruptions and keep it fresh longer.
- Use within 3 months of thawing
Chocolate Chip ingredients:
Cane sugar, chocolate liquor, cocoa butter, soy lecithin (emulsifier), vanilla extract.
Granola - Pistachio Mulberry
Box 715
$12.00/lb
Organic and not too sweet
- No refined sugar.
- Guten Free
Ingredients:
Whole Rolled Oats*, Maple Syrup*, Sesame Seeds*, Chia Seeds*, Flax Seeds*, Sultana Raisins*, Sunflower Seeds*, Virgin Coconut Oil*, Dried Coconut*, Dried Mulberries*, Roasted Pistachio Meats*, Sea Salt.
*Certified Organic Ingredients
From a peanut-free facility
Granola - Triple Berry
Box 716
$12.00/lb
Organic and not too sweet
The "best by" date is preprinted, assuming the product is stored fresh. TC Farm stores it frozen until delivery to stop that clock, help with any supply disruptions and keep it fresh longer.
- Use within 3 months of thawing
Ingredients:
Whole Rolled Oats*, Maple Syrup*, Sesame Seeds*, Chia Seeds*, Flax Seeds*, Dried Cranberries* (Apple Juice Concentrate*, Sunflower Oil*), Sunflower Seeds*, Virgin Coconut Oil*, Dried Coconut*, Raisins*, Dried Mulberries*, Dried Tart Cherries*, Sea Salt.
* Certified Organic Ingredients
Made in a peanut-free facility
Sign up for Veggie CSA by the end of the year
There's just a couple weeks left until the end of 2020. We need to get a rough idea of how many seeds to be ordering for our 2020 vegetables. If you pre-register for the TC Farm 2021 Weekly Produce share, you'll be able to get free weekly delivery. With produce, dairy and food right to your door, this is a really exciting thing for us to be offering. If you've been on the fence about joining, be sure to let us know by the end of the year so we can be sure to reserve a spot for you!
Neighborhood Pickup Sites -- New Locations and More
We've added several new neighborhood pickup sites including Stillwater, a second pickup site in Albertville (to help lighten the load of a site that was getting a little big) and a new pickup site in St. Anthony.
You can easily change to any of these (or any other) neighborhood pickup site. Set your default pickup location in the member portal under Your Account / Pickup Location. If you make the change there, it will change for all future deliveries, not just the one in January.
The page also has a handy map to help you pick the site that's best for you.
Lamb Available
We've added lamb for our January deliveries. You can add some to your next delivery. If you manage to snag some in time. It goes fast!
Don't worry, we've got more coming in the spring!
Lamb Sampler
Box 400
$17.91/lb
Mild flavored, smaller chops
- 2-3 packs of porterhouse and/or rib chops
- Shoulder roast
- 1-2 lbs ground lamb
Some packs also have spare ribs
This is a flat rate box, weights will vary
Leg of Lamb - Small
Box 401
$21.75/lb
The king of lamb roasts
This is a flat rate box, weights will vary
Lamb Liver
Box 402
$19.05/lb
Lamb Yearling Sampler
Box 430
$20.54/lb
The best lamb in the world
- 2-3 packs of porterhouse and/or rib chops
- Shoulder roast
- 1-3 lbs ground yearling lamb
Some packs also have spare ribs
Click here for more info.
This is a flat rate box, weights will vary
Leg of Yearling Lamb
Box 431
$23.89/lb
Richer in flavor - amazing
This is a flat rate box, weights will vary
New Pickup Site in St. Anthony - Columbia Heights!
Starting in January, we have a new neighborhood pickup site in the St. Anthony, Columbia Heights area. Pickups will be on the second Thursday of the month. If you live in the area and would like to begin to pick up there, you can easily change your pickup location. Be sure to make the change before midnight December 31st if you want to pick up there in January.
A message as we close out 2020
What a whirlwind year!
A big THANK YOU to our members for the support and especially to the TC Farm staff, processors and farmers who worked WAY too much this year to provide food to our community. We were able to do so much more this year than we ever would have dreamed at the start of the year. Some of our newer members might not even know how much of this happened just this year!
- We just started doing home delivery this March (We'd been trying to figure it out for years but then in March when people couldn't get meat at the store and we had meat, we wanted to get food to people's homes as quickly as we could - somehow we figured it out on the fly and we just kept running!)
- We had to move all of our Minneapolis/St. Paul neighborhood pickups to home deliveries at the last minute in June. (Didn't think we'd be able to pull that one off until after we did it!)
- A huge influx of new members because of all the people suddenly cooking from home
- Moving to a new warehouse (!!) allowed us to to bundle items better and offer more variety and choices (behind the scenes for our members but a massive change)
- We started to deliver fish. And fruit and nuts. And soups. And cheese. And pet treats. And mushroom butter. And monthly sampler packs and a whole host of other stuff too!
As challenging as this year has been, I am excited for the opportunities we have in 2021. The produce farmers are excited to finally be a part of our group. I just can’t wait to share all of the plans we have for next year: The start of weekly home delivery and the ability to share all the types of amazing food I love will be a dream come true! Most of these items aren’t available in any grocery and the ones that are, we’re able to offer at a lower price.
Your support has built something special! It’s been ten years since our hobby farm became the beginning of this group. If you watched my presentation on why I left corporate life to start it, you’ll know how long of a road it has been for all of us at TC Farm and have a good idea of where we’re headed.
Looking at what 2020 drove us as a collective group to build, I am sure 2021 is going to be a fantastic year!
I hope you have a relaxing rest of the year.
-Jack
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