good food is just a few tweaks away

If you’ve been holding your breath waiting for the opening of Green Onion, you’re about to catch that breath of fresh air—and fresh cheese, meat, produce, sauces, and more. In about three weeks—by the end of April—you’ll be standing in line waiting to catch the glint of Killer’s knife as he skillfully excises chicken and pig parts, wrapping them in paper for you to take home for dinner.

Walk by Green Onion, and peer in the windows. The paper’s down, the shelves are up, the cheese orders are in, and now the word is out.

· Meats by Genuine Food Co., Wagon Wheel Ranch, and other fine farms: beef,
chicken, pork, rabbit, and duck—local and less local, high quality, and hormone
free—and Clementine’s sausages
· Clementine specialties—stocks, broths, pickles, sauces, dressings, and more
· Cheeses—25 different kinds, all natural, hormone free
· Bread made exclusively for us by Hamilton Bakery
· Baked goods—mini versions of Clementine’s desserts by Peep
· Deli sandwiches
· Pastas by Field Day, rice, gluten-free goods
· Ice cream, milk, chocolate milk, and more from Prigel Family Creamery
· Yogurt, butter, and more from Trickling Springs
· Eggs from Andy’s Eggs and Mingodale Farm
· Coffee by Zeke’s and Griggs
· Cleaning supplies
· Pet food
· Bulk olive oil and detergent

You can also pick up your CSAs here, whether it’s The Zahradka Farm CSA or our own Genuine Meat CSA. (Please check back for more details soon.)

Before we open, we’ll be patching the floor and walls, tweaking our equipment, and adding finishing touches here and there, like café tables in the front of the store. Before you know it, the bowling alley floors that serve as our countertops will be holding market bags brimming with the best food you can find.

We’re lookin’ good, and before spring is over, you’ll be cookin’ good.

Friday CSA

Many of you are wondering where you'll pick up your CSA on Friday.  Until Green Onion is open, you can pick up your haul at Clementine.  Please click the CSA tab on this blog for information about what's in store for you for Week One.

high on the hog—and the fumes

We’ve stepped away from our prep of the new space momentarily to bring you a long-overdue update.  A few strapping lads are taping and filling the drywall seams, while others are uncovering more of that fantastic tile floor.  We’ve sent Jim Perry off to hand-paint our store signs.  And early next week, we will paint the walls and the building will be ready for inspection.

 

Now to the food front.

Cheese & Dairy

·      We now have 30 spectacular cheeses for our cheese case. 

·      Fresh Mackenzie’s chickens are pumping out the eggs.  

Produce

·      Twin Compass Farm has planted one and a half acres just for us

·      Arthur at HCC has been bringing us dreamy greens and herbs for the past two weeks

·      Zahradkas has beautiful lettuces coming up and heirloom tomatoes in the ground. 

Dry Goods

·      We just met with Unfi to finish ordering our dry and package goods. 

Meat

·      Zahradkas’ chickens have been a hit at Clementine, and we can’t wait to bring them to your home table, too. 

·      Farmer Al has two grass-fed beeves ready for the butchery in early June.

      ·      And our ten Belvale Hampshire/Yorkshire   Cross piglets are growing up.  They have moved outside and are living large.  (Need we say literally?) 

We know it’s taken longer than we had hoped (our new open date is mid-June), but we also know that it will be well worth the wait.  Meanwhile, hop over to Clementine for a fresh taste of things to come.  And we’ll get back to the drywall tape.

Meet the Porkers

join our CSA

Like our restaurant, Clementine, Green Onion will help to sustain local agri-businesses. It makes us proud—not only because those family farms can continue to run in part because of food lovers like us, but also because we know that we're helping you feed your families the best, freshest, healthiest foods at prices you can afford.

You may have heard about local CSAs— Community Supported Agriculture. For as little as $13.46 a week, you can buy a share from one of our favorite purveyors, Zahradka Farm. Yes, they’re the folks who bring those stunning heirloom tomatoes to market.

Please click the CSA tab at the top of this blog (or press right here: CSA) for more information about buying a share. If you do it by March 15th, you’ll get a chance to win a free share for the next season of your choice. But Green Onion has a signing bonus of our own.

We’d like to get at least twenty new members. So if you join the CSA by March 15th for weekly pickup at Green Onion, we’ll throw in a $20 gift card!

And here’s another bonus: When you pick up your CSA from Green Onion each week (likely on Fridays), we’ll help you discover new and exciting things to do with your veggie haul. We'll even post some of them right here, on our Tips and Recipes pages.

yellow-brick road? cheese!

This week, Winston is wiling away the hours with cheese-makers, fraternizing with produce farmers, and conferring with egg people. Soon, amazing local cheeses will appear in two grand cases, and crisp, ripe produce will fill the bins at Green Onion. The folks at Fresh McKenzie are ramping up their egg production to accommodate us. And we’re meeting with our meat purveyor to choose the best-tasting all-natural, hormone- and antibiotic-free meats for our butcher shop. Forever Endeavor Farm will supply grass-fed organic beef and milk-fed pork, which has a sweetness and fullness that can be explained by science but is better to think of as magic. Meanwhile, back at the Clementine ranch, Winston and the boys are tweaking the stocks and soups, sauces and dressings, perfecting them for sale.