What’s In The Box? March 13-19

St. Patrick’s Day Feast
Just in time for St. Paddy’s Day, this week’s box bursts to life with beautiful spring ‘greenery’—from crisp cabbage and tender leeks to bright Bibb lettuce and kale. To complement this colorful bounty, you’ll also find ingredients to help you craft a feast inspired by the Emerald Isle: Irish soda bread, farm-fresh eggs, locally-milled all-purpose flour, organic dried apples and hazelnuts, plus other produce such as potatoes, parsnips, carrots, and turnips. As they say in Ireland, sláinte (to your good health)!

Here’s what you’ll find in your box this week:

Irish Soda Bread

Baked in nearby Snohomish by our favorite bakery, this beloved quick bread is crafted in the traditional style from buttermilk, flour, sugar, raisins, and egg.

Bluebird Grain Farms Pasayten Hard White Flour

This all purpose flour from a plow-to-package grain farm located in Winthrop, Washington boasts high protein, mild flavor, and a soft texture that allows for ultimate baking versatility. Use it in quick breads, pie crusts, cookies, muffins, yeast breads and pizza dough!

Sauk Farm Dried Honeycrisp Apples

Made from the organic apples also grown on Sauk Farm, these dried apple chips are a great healthy snack, made without added sugar, additives or preservatives.

Dragon’s Head Newtown Pippin Sparkling Cider

Newtown Pippin apples are fermented using the Méthode Traditionnelle process. The resulting cider is elegant and bone dry with persistent bubbles and singing acidity.

Farm Fresh Eggs

As they balance their time between foraging in their outdoor run during rain breaks and then snuggling up in their coop in the evenings, our small flock of heritage breed laying hens is made up of three breeds: Black Copper Maran, Ameraucana, and Delaware. They especially enjoy produce trimmings and fresh greens to supplement their diet of organic layer mash, and continue to give us fresh eggs in beautiful shades of brown, beige and cream that we collect throughout the day.

Nookachamps Farms Organic Hazelnuts

A heart-healthy snack that provides a natural source of Omega 6, these high-quality hazelnuts are grown by a family-run farm located in the Skagit Valley.

Organic Greens

Mixed radicchio, Bibb lettuce and kale.

Seasonal Organic Fruit & Vegetables

This week’s produce selection also includes: Green cabbage, red potatoes, carrots, turnips, leeks, onions and parsnips, plus lemons.

Garden-Grown Herbs

Italian parsley and thyme from the walled garden.

What’s In The Box? March 6-12

Hearty & Healthy
In keeping with the soulful flavors of classic German fare, this week’s lineup takes a trip to Bavaria with such favorites as smoky bratwurst links and locally-made Riesling sauerkraut. Complemented by an array of fresh spring produce like baby red beets, potatoes, Bibb lettuce, mixed radicchio, Delicata squash, and Lemon Drop apples, this box also includes farm-fresh eggs, fromage blanc, Gruyère cheese bread, tender herbs, and our housemade apple chutney—prost!

Here’s what you’ll find in your box this week:

Skagit River Ranch Bratwurst

The pampered pigs raised on this farm in Sedro-Woolley roam outdoors in certified organic pastureland to root, dig, and cavort, thriving on a diet of flaxseed, corn and wheat. This week, enjoy the all-natural pork in the ranch’s perfectly-spiced bratwurst.

Gruyère Cheese Bread

Made in nearby Snohomish by our favorite bakery, this freshly-baked loaf balances sweet, nutty Gruyère with a light, crisp crust. Absolutely wonderful re-warmed in the oven—just sprinkle with a few drops of water and bake at 350° for about 15 minutes.

La Perrière La Petite Perriere Sauvignon Blanc 2023

This highly-rated French wine boasts a pale lemon color and a fresh nose that hints at notes of green melon, grapefruit and white peach.

Bellsong Creamery Fromage Blanc

Light in texture and tangy in taste, our fromage blanc is lovingly-made from local cow’s milk—put it to work in your favorite recipes, or mix it with fresh herbs or lemon zest and honey to add lusciously-creamy appeal to your next cheese board.

Farm Fresh Eggs

As they balance their time between foraging in their outdoor run during rain breaks and then snuggling up in their coop in the evenings, our small flock of heritage breed laying hens is made up of three breeds: Black Copper Maran, Ameraucana, and Delaware. They especially enjoy produce trimmings and fresh greens to supplement their diet of organic layer mash, and continue to give us fresh eggs in beautiful shades of brown, beige and cream that we collect throughout the day.

Britt’s Riesling Sauerkraut

Crafted from green cabbage, sweet onion, sea salt and yes, Riesling wine, this zippy sauerkraut from Langley, Washington’s Britt’s Fermented Foods is full of healthy probiotics and is wonderful served with this week’s German fare. (Fun fact: The first sauerkraut was actually from China and used rice wine! Sauerkraut was introduced to Europe by the Huns when they came on horseback and became a staple in German cuisine when they combined salt and water with their cabbage to ferment and thereby preserve it.)

Housemade Apple Chutney

Our signature chutney is made from our own orchard apples, onions, currants, brown sugar, apple cider vinegar, and warm spices.

Organic Greens

Red-veined micro sorrel, green Bibb lettuce and mixed radicchio.

Seasonal Organic Fruit & Vegetables

This week’s produce selection also includes: Yellow onions, baby red beets, Delicata squash, and Austrian Crescent fingerling potatoes, plus Lemon Drop apples.

Garden-Grown Herbs

Italian parsley and thyme from the walled garden.

What’s In The Box? February 20-26

Weekend Brunch
Put on a pot of coffee, pull out a skillet, and wake up to this week’s menu of farmhouse favorites. It has everything you need to whip up a luxurious and leisurely weekend brunch, from those aforementioned coffee beans to smoked English-style bacon rashers, plus cinnamon-raisin bread and both farm-fresh hen and duck eggs. Complemented by our housemade apple butter, locally-grown hazelnuts and chocolate-covered cherries, the box also includes fresh produce like fava shoots, salad mix, colorful radicchio, fingerling potatoes and a bevy of winter citrus. Good morning!

Here’s what you’ll find in your box this week:

Jack Mountain Smoked English-Style Bacon Rashers

Also known as back bacon, the rashers from this Skagit Valley-based meat company are hand cut from the loin with a portion of the belly still attached. Each belly cut is dry-cured the “old school” way, by hand, aged for a minimum of eight days, and are smoked all day over hazelnut shells. The resulting rashers crisp up very well, yet still have a big meaty chew.

Cinnamon Raisin Bread

Baked just for us by our favorite local bakery, this fresh-baked cinnamon raisin loaf makes for a delicious base to French toast.

Island Time Coffee Island Sunset French Roast

Crafted specifically for the Northwest aesthetic, Island Time Coffee Company sources only the finest, farm-direct, sustainable coffee beans from Latin America and Indonesia. All of the Whidbey Island company’s coffee is small-batch roasted, ensuring the best possible freshness, and this particular dark-roasted blend is smooth, dark and tangy, with an assertive smoky aroma.

Saviah Cellars ‘The Jack’ Chardonnay 2022

This delicious wine from the Columbia Valley opens with scents of pear, apples, and tropical fruit with hints of lemon and vanilla. The palate is fresh, clean and crisp with beautiful balance expressed through flavors of stone fruit and Gala apples.

Duck Eggs

With near-transparent egg whites and color-rich oversize yolks, these local duck eggs are a chef’s dream, lending flavorful appeal to a variety of dishes.

Farm Fresh Eggs

Our small flock of heritage breed laying hens gives us fresh eggs each day in beautiful shades of brown, cream and green. As they spend more time snug in their coop during the chilly winter months, the “girls” are also enjoying extra helpings of grain and fresh greens to supplement their diet.

Nookachamps Farms Organic Hazelnuts

A heart-healthy snack that provides a natural source of Omega 6, these high-quality hazelnuts are grown by a family-run farm located in the Skagit Valley.

Housemade Apple Butter

A farmhouse favorite crafted from fresh-picked Bella Luna orchard apples, slow-cooked in a cider reduction and seasoned with organic cane sugar and warm spices.

Dick Taylor Chocolate Coated Cherries

Made using a traditional coating pan, the chocolatiers at Dick Taylor layer upon layer of their award winning 65% Belize Dark Chocolate over organic dried tart cherries grown in Michigan to craft this delicious treat. Chosen for their complex flavor, these tart cherries are both sweet and sour and lend balancing notes to the rich, earthy dark chocolate. Each small batch is finished with a light dusting of organic cocoa powder.

Organic Greens

Chioggia and Rosalba radicchio, Mesclun salad mix and fava shoots.

Seasonal Organic Fruit & Vegetables

This week’s produce selection also includes: Huckleberry Gold potatoes, plus Cara Cara oranges, Meyer lemons, and apples from the Bella Luna orchard. Inside, you’ll also find TDE triple cross mandarins, a new hybrid variety that combines the best of its components into an incredibly sweet, juicy, and flavorful mandarin. This cross between the Temple, Dancy, and Encore mandarins is seedless, easy to peel, and packed with flavor.

Garden-Grown Herbs

Thyme and sweet bay from the walled garden.