With Memorial Day around the corner, it’s time to start planning the first delicious outdoor menu of the spring! Brats are a perfect item to grill because they come in many flavors and they always satisfy a hungry crowd. Technically bratwurst is a fresh, link sausage made with pork and sometimes veal. Wheatsfield’s artisanal [...]
Seasonal Transition Update Adam Calder, Wheatsfield Produce Manager This is a time of year for transitioning seasons, and it is also a time of transition for many of the produce items we sell at Wheatsfield. During the winter months, many crops are raised in the desert growing regions of Arizona and Mexico and distributed [...]
We're selling Christmas Trees at the Co-op! Oneota Slopes Farm - your Christmas Tree Grower: Located in Decorah, Iowa, Andy, Emily Johnson and their three daughters grow 10 acres of pine, spruce and fir trees along the slopes of Northeast Iowa. After living in Georgia for a few years, Andy and Emily returned to [...]
Iowa Asparagus By Adam Calder, Wheatsfield Produce Manager Spring showers have done their job, and the tips of delicious asparagus from Iowa Asparagus LLC in Ankeny have burst forth from the rain-dampened soil. Wheatsfield Cooperative has been doing business with Iowa Asparagus LLC for many years, and each year their asparagus is better than [...]
By Adam Calder, Produce Manager Iowa autumn produce is abundant at Wheatsfield this November. If you need squash for pies, soups, roasting or casseroles we have got you covered. The department has some great spaghetti, acorn, delicata, buttercup and butternut squashes from One Step at a Time Gardens in Kanawha, IA. If you are going [...]
By Adam Calder, Produce Manager The unseasonably warm and wet spring has been somewhat of a mixed blessing here in central Iowa. The heat and heavy rains have caused many muggy days and wet basements, but that weather has also been great for local produce. We’ve got local raspberries from The Berry Patch, flower bouquets [...]
By Adam Calder, Produce Manager March 2018 Produce Parable It’s spring, and that means it is time to start your flower seedlings. If you’ve saved your own seeds from last year’s garden flowers, then good for you! If the birds and back yard critters ate all your flower seeds, or [...]
An interview with Kate Brown, Founder - BRAISED Bone Broth CAN YOU TELL US ABOUT WHY YOU STARTED PRODUCING BONE BROTH? A: Mom’s homemade broth and soup are some of my favorite memories of home. In my early twenties, I learned how to craft it myself and would take a huge thermal carafe of [...]
By Adam Calder, Produce Manager This time of year is a great one for local produce. We are still rolling in the bounty of summer produce, and the autumn produce is also starting to come on strong. The best of these two seasons only overlap for about a month, so now is a good time [...]
By Adam Calder, Produce Manager Originally published in the July/Aug/Sept edition of the Field Journal. We expect the Crimson Sweet Watermelon in a few weeks! (Updated Aug 15) This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Iowa State University Horticultural Research Station. Over the years, the horticulture department has used the research station to develop [...]
