Sometimes it’s easy to forget how effective our newsletter and blog have become at getting the word out about new great products we produce or secure from other farmers.  Well, obviously our customers have been waiting for healthy, delicious charcuterie meats because our Smoking Goose meats surprisingly sold out only a few days after being announced.

So this week we will restock the Chorizo (both links and chubs), Sliced Turkey, Mortadella and Duck, Pear and Port Wine Sausage and will add to the mix sliced Pastrami.

I’ll just add a little reminder here that all of the items that we produce or stock are always nitrate and nitrite free as well as gluten and casein free. A wonderful bonus is that all of the products we sell are produced from heritage breeds which helps to maintain breed diversity.

As I am write this post from the road I am waiting patiently for our River Cottage Farm veal to be magically transformed into River Cottage Farm Veal Bratwurst by the gifted hands of Chris Eley and his compatriots at the Smoking Goose headquarters.

True Artisanal traditionally prepared foods are what we want to save from extinction and it goes without saying that I couldn’t be more please by our customer response to these products.

Over the past 20 years of working with farmers and local artisans we have found that the only way to save our local food economy is to safeguard artisinal mastery where we find it and promote it as best we can in order to ensure its sustainability.

A sad commentary on our limited food choices is the often repeated comment on the Smoking Goose sliced turkey breast.  Many customers who came back to stock up recounted their surprise to find this was really turkey and could barely remember the taste after years of accepting chewed up, filler filled, pressed down and sliced up turkey “product” in place of real sliced turkey.

As customers rally around such treasures we begin to see other small-batch producers seeking out farmers to meet the demands of their discerning customers and the upward cycle begins.

Feel free to visit their website and place a special order.  If you can’t make it out to the shop you can order any of the items from our online store and we will be happy to deliver your order to the Franklin Farmer’s Market or any of our delivery drop off locations.

So, please reach back and give yourselves a warm and heartfelt pat on the back.  We thank you  for your support, together we are really starting something wonderful here in the South!