Terrific Local Products
I have fallen in love with the mozzarella made by the Woodstock Water Buffalo Co. It's delicate and creamy and reminds me of the mozz I was so thrilled to eat in Italy -- about as far from supermarket rubber balls as you can get. The company is shooting for national distribution, but I suspect they're still a Northeast, maybe even a New York, phenom. What fabulous local products have you found for sale in your necks of the woods?
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I live in mushroom country. We have an abundance of mushrooms on any given day and they are cheap cheap cheap. I usually go and buy about 12 pounds of them slice and freeze. In Amish country we have an abundance of fresh produce in season.
JerzeeTomato at 9:38PM on 10/20/07
We just love the beef, pork, bacon, chicken, and eggs we get from Skagit River Ranch here in western Washington State. In the summers we also get fresh halibut and salmon that had just been swimming a couple of days before and was never frozen. There's also a local forager who sells at the farmers' markets in Seattle and I just love to get all sorts of things from him...chanterelles, morels, lobster mushrooms, huckleberries, sea beans, etc. Being in the Pacific Northwest we're pretty lucky with all the fresh produce around here as well.
lliang at 10:46PM on 10/20/07
Here in New Jersey, we love cheeses from Valley Sheperd and Bobolink Dairy. Both have great farm tours as well.
BrianYarvin at 7:21AM on 10/21/07
I love Ronnybrook Farms' milk and yogurt and Red Jacket Orchards' apples and ciders.
I haven't really fallen in love with any local produce purveyors here in MD. :(
charm city cupcake at 10:03AM on 10/21/07
Apples! My upstate NY college gets bushels of organic apples from nearby farms. : )
Christina at 5:53PM on 10/21/07
Hey Cupcake!
Have you visited Mingodale Farm yet? They're in the far north of Baltimore County, right off I-83. Check them out at www.mingodalefarm.com.
BrianYarvin at 6:59PM on 10/21/07
Here in Northern Minnesota we have wild rice. And it's available hand-harvested and hand-parched (processed) directly from the Ojibway Tribe members.
It's world's better than the paddy-raised, burnt black specks from California they pass off as "wild rice" in most restaurants and commercial products.
srhcb at 11:26AM on 10/22/07
Where I live in the midwest is pretty much awful for food. However; the town just across the river is home to Boetje's dutch style, stone-ground mustard, which is pretty great. Tangy, horseradish-y, nice flavor. I get requests from family and folks elsewhere in the country to send it to 'em and I always have some on hand.
That said, it's still not good enough to subject yourself to eastern Iowa. But if you're driving through, it's worth grabbing a jar or two.
corycm at 12:17PM on 10/22/07
I'm so lucky living in WNY....not only do we have a plethora of local produce to enjoy, but we also have some of the best local brands....from Sahlen's hot dogs, Weber's horseradish mustard, and Yancey's Fancy artisan cheeses. Some of my absolute favorite local items are local honey & maple syrup....I couldn't live without them. I regularly make a trip to Spar's European Sausage & Meats for their homemade sausages & bacon that they smoke themselves. I also count on my CSA for not only veggies, but fresh ground beef that I pick up with my veggies....heavenly!
mepolo at 1:11PM on 10/22/07
Iowa=Corn
In addition to owning the business that I work for, my boss also owns a farm. They dedicate a half acre or so to sweet corn, and every summer he invites a few of us over to pick and shuck it. He then boils it on the spot in a turkey fryer, cools it, and passes it to the cutters, who slice it off of the cob and cram it into Ziploc bags and then into the freezer. Anyone who helps gets to take home a car load of corn.
corycm-- as I was writing this I glanced up and saw your post...I don't know why I didn't think of tasty, tasty Boetje's. I, too, am from the nostril of Iowa.
ajeys at 4:35PM on 10/22/07
Pierogies from the lovely Eastern European ladies at Pierogies Plus in McKees Rocks just over the river from Pittsburgh.
Natural casing hot dogs from Silver Star meats-- these are the dogs they serve at PNC Park and they have the most amazing snap when you bite into them.
Elysian Fields Farm lamb-- I believe this is the stuff Thomas Keller serves at the French Laundry. A fairly ringing endorsement.
Heilman's Hogwash Farms Pork. The bacon is sublime.
Greyhoundgrrl at 11:49AM on 10/23/07