Month: March 2020

23 Mar 2020

Indian Hill Product Availability

Indian Hill Product Availability

You may shop in store, order in advance, or request curbside service:
Email us at farm@green-acres.org
or call us at 513-891-4227 then press extension 1

Regular Hours: Tuesday – Friday 10:30-5, Saturday 9-1

Fresh Cut Flowers

  • Spring Flower Bouquet ($20)

Leafy Greens and Herbs

  • Microgreens (Arugula, Power Mix, Radish, Spicy Mix about $4 each)
  • Baby Kale ($6 per 1/2lb)
  • Seasonal Mix ($5 per 1/2lb)
  • Spinach ($6 per 1/2lb) SALE – BUY 1/2lb get 1/2lb FREE!
  • Dried Herbs (Sage, Savory $4 each)

Root Vegetables

  • Garlic ($3.50 per 1/2lb)
  • Carrots ($6/lb)
  • Onions (red or yellow $4/lb)
  • Turnips (white hakurei $4/lb)

Pasture Raised Meats and Eggs

    Pasture Raised Eggs, $6/dozen

    Our hens live outdoors on pasture, in a fully mobile chicken coop that is moved to fresh grass regularly. They are provided a corn and soy free supplemental feed. If you want to learn more about our mobile chicken coop, click here to see a video!

          Please note: All our meats are frozen.

            100% Grassfed, Grass Finished Lamb

            • Ground Lamb (1lb packages, $11/lb)
            • Stew Meat (approx. 1lb packages, $12/lb)
            • Leg of Lamb (bone-in avg. 3lb, $16/lb)
            • Leg Roast (boneless avg. 2.5lb, $16/lb)
            • Loin Chop (4 chops per package $20/lb)
            • Rib Chop (4 chops per package $20/lb)
            • French Style Rib Roast (average 1lb each, $24/lb)
            • French Style Rib Chops (4 chops per package, avg. 1/2 lb, $24/lb)
            • Loin roast (boneless avg. 1/2 lb, $24/lb)
            • Tenderloin (average less than 1/4lb $32/lb)
            • Shoulder Roast (whole, bone-in $12/lb)
            • Shank ($8/lb)
            • Neck (whole, bone-in $8/lb)

            Lamb Offal:

            • Bones ($5/lb)
            • Liver ($5/lb)
            • Heart ($5/lb)
            • Kidney ($5/lb)

              100% Grassfed, Grass Finished Angus Beef

              • Beef Patties (1/3lb each, 3 per pkg. $8.25/lb)
              • New York Strip Steak (2 per pkg. $22/lb)
              • Ribeye Steak (1 per pkg. $22/lb)
              • Tenderloin (whole, average 3-4lb each $32/lb)
              • Rump Roast (avg. 2-3lb each $10/lb)
              • Sirloin Tip Roast (avg. 2-3lb each $11/lb)
              • Stew Beef ($10/lb)

              Beef Offal:

              • Bones ($4/lb)
              • Heart ($5/lb)
              • Raw Fat ($3/lb)
              • Liver ($4/lb)
              • Tongue ($5/lb)
              • Kidney ($5/lb)

                  Woodland Raised Berkshire Pork

                  • Bacon (jowl, $12/lb)
                  • Shoulder Roast (approx. 2lb each, $12/lb)
                  • Chops (boneless $12/lb)
                  • Baby Back Ribs ($14/lb)
                  • Spare Ribs ($8/lb)
                  • Ground Pork (unseasoned, $7/lb)

                  Pork Sausages:

                  • Chorizo (1lb package, $7.25/lb)
                  • Mild Breakfast Links ($7.25/lb)
                  • Smoked Andouille (Bratwurst size links, 4 per pkg. $10/lb) Sale – $7/lb

                  Pork Offal

                  • Rendered Lard ($18 per quart)
                  • Kidneys ($2/lb)
                  • Leaf Fat (for glorious biscuits and pie crusts $6/lb)
                  • Back Fat (Render for lard or make your own sausage $4/lb)
                  • Caul Fat (lacy net of fat, try wrapping around a lean cut like a loin roast or a whole chicken, to baste while roasting! $6/lb)
                  • Bones (Excellent for ramen broth – roast with onions, garlic, and ginger, then make your stock. $2/lb)

                      Pasture Raised Turkey

                      • Turkey Breast (bone-in skin-on, avg. 8-11lb each, $11/lb)
                      • Turkey Necks ($3lb)
                      • Turkey Drumsticks ($3lb)
                      • Turkey Wings ($3lb)

                      Pasture Raised Chicken

                      • Freedom Rangers heritage breed chickens – excellent foragers on pasture with superior flavor. Click here to learn more about Freedom Rangers.  (Whole, approx. 4lb each, $4/lb)
                      • Whole Chickens ($4/lb)
                      • Chicken Breast (boneless, skinless, 2 pieces per pkg. approx. 1.5-2lb, $8/lb)
                      • Split Breast (bone-in, skin-on, $8/lb)
                      • Chicken Wings (6 per pkg. approx. 2lb, $3/lb)
                      • Chicken Drum Quarter (Drum and thigh together, 2 pieces per pkg. $5/lb)
                      • Chicken Thighs (bone-in, skin on. 4 per pkg. approx. 2lb, $5/lb)
                      • Chicken Thighs (boneless, skinless, 4per pkg. approx. 1lb $7/lb)
                      • Chicken Drumsticks (4 per pkg. approx. 2lb, $3/lb)
                      • Chicken Backs (3 backs per pkg. $3/lb)
                      • Chicken Feet (great for stock! High in collagen. Approx. 1lb per pkg. $4/lb)

                      Chicken Sausages:

                      • Tomato Basil Chicken Burger Patties (4 patties per 1lb package, $7.25)
                      • Chicken Breakfast Sausage Patties (4 patties per 1lb pkg. $7.25)
                      • Links: Bratwurst, Sweet Italian, Hot Italian, Chipotle, or Chorizo (5 links per 1lb pkg. $7.25/lb)

                      Chicken Offal:

                      • Liver (1-2lb per pkg. $4/lb)
                      • Hearts ($2/lb)
                      • Gizzards ($2/lb)
                        21 Mar 2020

                        Lesser Celandine….Smotherer of Native Plants

                        Lesser Celandine….Smotherer of Native Plants

                        Lesser celandine (Ficaria verna) is a broadleaf plant with a yellow flower, which is native to Europe and Western Asia. In North America it is considered to be a highly invasive plant. You can find it growing in 21 of the lower 48 states, and in southern parts of Canada.

                        Lesser celandine produces both seeds and bulbils. This type of reproduction strategy causes it to be highly invasive, and allows it to spread like wildfire. The three easiest and fastest ways it spreads are water ways, boots of hikers, and hooves of ungulates. The spread of lesser celandine begins to create dense green carpets in our woods and lawns. Studies have shown that these “carpets” inhibit native wildflowers and other plants from finishing their life cycles. When these native wildflowers and plants cannot finish their life cycles, pollinators are losing their sources of nectar and mammals are losing food sources. Can the mammals just eat the celandine instead? Unfortunately no, because lesser celandine has compounds that make it taste bitter and possibly toxic to mammals. These are just a few out of many ecological impacts that are the driving forces to research ways to eradicate lesser celandine from our woods and lawns.

                        We are starting a research project in early 2020 to test eradication methods of lesser celandine. We will be testing the effects of hand removal, and two types of herbicides: glyphosate and metsulfuron. We will measure cover of celandine and count other species pre and post treatment. This study will likely be a multiple year study because other data shows lesser celandine needs multiple rounds of treatments to eliminate it.

                        Below are photos of lesser celandine before and after it flowers, and the dense carpet it creates.

                        –Chad G.

                        pre-flower stage
                        flowering stage
                        13 Mar 2020

                        Wildflower Data

                        Wildflower Data

                        In winter we spend a lot of time indoors, analyzing data from the previous year.  In 2019, we had our first opportunity to collect data on native spring ephemerals.  These are native (as opposed to alien or invasive) species whose life cycle is quite short.  The plants emerge, grow, flower and die generally between February and May, before trees fully leaf out.  Our data show that Spring Beauty (Claytonia virginica) is the most dominant ephemeral across the woods in both frequency and density.  The frequency of wildflowers across 3 of our woodland is shown in the graph.

                        –Jennifer