One Local Summer: Week 13

The leaves are changing here in the high-country though we’ve been blessed with warm weather this week.   It’s such a colorful time of year.   The grasses are still green.   The flowers are still vibrant in all their many hues.   Purple-red wild raspberries dot the bushes and the willows are just beginning to turn gold.

We’ve enjoyed eating on the patio all summer long, and this week was no exception though we huddled in blankets to cut the chill of late summer.   This week we enjoyed a classic American meal.   The main course was a rich meatloaf of grass-fed beefalo, beef and meadow-raised pork covered with a nice rich gravy.   Aside from that, we also enjoyed salt-roasted fingerling potatoes, raw carrots, steamed baby squash and a salad of our very own lettuce in addition to home-made sauerkraut with all its beneficial bacteria.   Top that with sweet peaches and we were all set.

Here’s the breakdown:

Animal Foods

• Grass-finished Beef, Meadow-raised Pork, Pastured Eggs: Parker Pastures, Doyleville (40 miles)
• Grass-finished Beefalo: Black Canyon Foods, Olathe (120 miles)
• Ghee: Purity Farms, Sedalia (250 miles)

Plant Foods

• Cabbage, Carrots & Baby Squash: Circle A Gardens, Montrose (100 miles)
• Lettuce: Community Garden, Crested Butte (3 miles)
• Peaches: First Fruits, Hotchkiss (50 miles)
• Flour: Rocky Mountain Milling (250 miles)

Not from These Parts:

• Salt