To Market, To Market!

The growers are back! Hopefully, you have noticed the longer list of Farmers of the Week on the website and the super freshness of the produce. Our weekends are now filled with marketing and we currently adore the lovely weather for it.

Some very exciting news, too: Deep Creek Ranch is now selling their wonderful grass fed beef at Vero Oceanside Farmers Market! Grass fed beef has superior nutritional content as well as being the way cattle were meant to eat, lighter on the earth and downright tasty. Knowing these ranchers, I am assured that the cattle lead a life beyond humane - probably more relaxing than ours. We are thrilled to have such a wonderful product so accessible to us.

Of course, we are always looking for more local products. Do you know of anyone who farms frogs? catfish? makes sausage? Tell us - we'd love to sell their product.

One other thing; we often get asked to post the specials earlier. We do the best we can. Why can't we do it sooner? For one thing, Chef is just one man. He does all the product cleaning and prep as well as every step of the cooking process. Everyday he strives to put out a bountiful selection, but can't know what all will get done until that morning comes. We are sometimes dependent upon deliveries and when they will show up, there is no way to know. Sourcing local is more work, so on top of the administrative duties I am often running around getting ingredients. For example, we are pleased as punch to say that now all the bread for our garlic bread comes from the Sunrise City Bakery & Cafe. It is easier to get bread that is made thousands of miles away trucked in on a regular basis, but we feel that freshness, quality and supporting our neighbors is worth the extra effort.

We are proud to offer a fresh, real food product made in house and sourced from as many local ingredients as possible at an astonishingly affordable price. This comes at the cost of some things not always being available. Takes getting used to, doesn't it? Processed non-food shipped from a world away is available at any moment you want, isn't it? You vote on your health as well as which food system gets rewarded with every dollar you spend. We are grateful to all of you who choose us, choose local, choose fresh, choose real, choose to steward the environment instead of pillage it!