Farrar Out Farm NPR Update
Oct 31, 2008 farming, missouri, sustainable agriculture
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The Truemper’s segment from All Things Considered is now online. You can read their story as well as listen to an audio stream of their segment.
There is also a comments section which I would implore you to read and comment on. I personally have grown too angry reading the posts to be able to rationally respond. It bothers me to know that people who have absolutely know idea who Bryan and Christina are–apart from a five minute NPR segment–are making assumptions about who they are as people and how they should run their lives and farm.
Like so many people that buy from them at the Maplewood and Kirkwood markets, I know them. I know what good people they are, and I know how hard they work.
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Notes
Oct 5, 2008 St. Louis, books, farmers' markets, groceries, offal watch, restaurants
1. I spotted hardback copies of one of my favorite foodie books, The Apprentice
It’s hard to imagine a time when people were attempting to make chain food that actually stood up to some level of high standards.
2. Guanciale. Salume Beddu was slinging some made with Fararr Out Farm Berkshire jaws at Tower Grove recently and it is delicious.
Toast some good bread, render some up like lardons, and top it with arugula and a fried egg cooked in the rendered fat for the ultimate (and fast) after-work snack.
3. Grits. I’d been unimpressed by Revival’s in the past, but this week, cheesy grits baked in a dish and topped with a slice of ham and a sunny-side up egg were absolutely perfect. It doesn’t get much better than egg yolk running over anything.
4. Getting much better…the Fat of stlbites.com has made an appearance at Niche. Lamb belly is now the final savory course of the tasting menu and it’s ridiculously good–everything a solitary slice of tender lamb gut was meant to be.
Lamb - mushroom, cauliflower, tapenade (& Brussels Sprouts when I had it)
5. A guilty pleasure: Chicken Modega and a side of white cavatelli at the Town & Country Rich & Charlie’s. Bonus: it was $28 for two of us to eat. Bonus 2: That Rich & Charlie’s is BYOB. Bonus 3: It was enough for lunch the next day too.
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Last Week at the Market - Fennel
Jul 2, 2008 St. Louis, farmers' markets, missouri
Sorry for the late and brief run down this week but I didn’t spend as much time at the markets last week as I usually do.
Maybe it’s a tough call, but I personally think the highlight was fennel. Probably a lot more people will pick the increase in fruit with all the berries and sweet cherries arriving, but I’m more of a vegetable man and fennel is right up there with the Brussels Sprouts and cauliflower.
At Maplewood the fennel came by way of
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Farrar Out Farms
Jun 13, 2008 St. Louis, farmers' markets, farming, missouri, sustainable agriculture
Because it’s just too exciting to hold onto until next week, the big market news this week will surely be that Farrar Out Farm is now at Maplewood Farmers’ Market. A lot of fingers can be uncrossed now.
I spoke to owners Bryan and Christina Truemper briefly about how things were going and they seemed pretty pleased with the reaction to their arrival. They brought a small selection because they weren’t sure what they’d sell, and it sounds like they’ll be a permanent Maplewood fixture meaning there will be more in the coming weeks. They even had fresh (not frozen) chicken that were slaughtered that morning.
Apart from that they grow all kinds of vegetables but the more exciting things (to me anyway) are the animals they raise. Three you just don’t see that much locally: duck, heritage breed turkeys and rabbit.
Here’s the complete list of everything they do:
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