2018 In Review

Fresh Fork Market has grown. When we launched in 2009, we only had 40 subscribers. Today that number is in the thousands. Our family of companies now includes a farm and a butcher shop: Wholesome Valley Farm and Ohio City Provisions. In 2018 alone we put over a million dollars back into our local economy.…

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Heritage Thanksgiving Turkeys

Thanksgiving — our favorite holiday of the year!– is still a few weeks away, but for our farmers,Thanksgiving is really the culmination of a year’s worth of planning and hard work, especially when breeding and raising heritage turkeys. Heritage turkeys are turkeys that can naturally reproduce their same offspring. Most commercial poultry breeds are cross-breeds…

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Why Grass-fed

The fat from grass-grazed animals, either in the form of milk or meat, is one of the most efficient sources of these good fatty acids. Grass-fed beef is no exception: besides being higher in CLAs, you’ll notice in the color alone the mineralization of the meat, which is the result of a more mature animal…

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Spring Chickens

We only raise chicken on pasture.  That means that fresh chicken is essentially seasonal.  We believe that it is better to sell a frozen bird that was raised on green grass, in the sunlight, and with the bugs and grub of the pasture, rather than keep them in a barn throughout the winter. So all…

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FMMOS

  One of the most fascinating facts about milk, I think, is that the price is fixed by a quasi‐government organization known as the milk marketing board.  In the 1930s, the USDA set up milk market orders to ensure that everyone could afford milk.  Up until the late 1960s, there were over 500 localized market…

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Chicken Tractors

For those of you who followed our Countdown to Summer emails (and if you didn’t, find em here) you know our birds live outside all the time. I stopped down and saw the chickens on Friday that will be in this week’s bag. I was able to capture a couple cool pictures of them. These…

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Ground Venison

The ground venison in this week’s bag is a real treat. The Ohio venison meat market is a pet project we’ve been trying to grow over these past few years. More White-Tailed Deer, you might say? What, are we crazy? Well actually deer farming is a really interesting business in Ohio. Formerly, there were really…

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Trevor’s Biscuits & Gravy

OK, hang on there.  This post might get a little long.  This past Sunday Allyson and I were craving biscuits and gravy.  Sunday morning breakfast is our favorite meal together and it’s the one day of the week where we aren’t rushing out the door.  That means time for more complex breakfasts, like pancake Sundays…

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Carrots & Fall Root Crops

This is my favorite time of the year for root crops. Radishes, carrots, turnips, and rutabagas are so good this time of the year. The most noticeable difference is in carrots. Summer carrots sometimes have a bitter note. Not fall and winter carrots. The carrots are kept in the ground as long as possible and…

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Winter Livestock

As November comes to a close, we will finish harvesting all of our chickens for our winter inventory. Our chickens are “pasture raised,” which means they live outside all of their lives. Part of the benefit here is that they receive s significant portion of their diet from the bugs, seeds, and grass they eat…

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