Fresh & News April 30th

A year has nearly passed since Foragers has opened its doors. Over the next few issues of Fresh & News we would like to share with you what we have learned from our customers in identifying coming trends.

Perhaps the most interesting point we found was the rise in importance of food provenance or the notion of who the producer is and/or where the producer is located. Consequently the importance of food provenance has taken over from such labels as “organic”, “natural” and even “local”.

For instance many of our Forager customers know that all of our pork products are drug, hormone, steroid free and raised by Matt Metzger at his closed barn system near Dashwood. Matt raises his hogs from beginning to end beside the field that produces his feed. Metzgers pork does not move from barn to barn as is the case with most hog production, therefore his closed barn system is considered disease free.

At Foragers you can always expect an informed answer as to exactly where all of our fresh products come from and who the grower is. See you this weekend!

Fresh and News

Cheese
We are excited to bring in St Honore. The creamy cows milk cheese has replaced the Riopelle as our triple cream Brie. In our opinion the St Honore can stand up to most French Brie’s albeit with a better price.
For blue cheese lovers be sure to try Bleubry. The pasteurized cows milk cheese from Quebec is similar in look and texture to a Cambozola but with more of a blue cheese taste and decadency.

Pasta
From our Pasta supplier in Toronto we have brought in several new varieties of handmade, organic ravioli, medaglioni and agnolloti. You can now find: Smoked Salmon, Wild Mushroom, Pumpkin, Goat Cheese & Sundried Tomato, Wild Mushroom. Foragers also has two non-dairy varieties; wild mushroom parve and eggplant & zucchini parve.

Mapletons Organic Ice Cream

Mapletons dairy is located near Harriston and for years has been the “go-to” ice cream destination for mid-western Ontario. Now you can enjoy three varieties of organic ice cream and three frozen yoghurts. Successful Forager product testing has taken place this past week at all hours of the day and night! Available in ½ litre containers.

Keep Foraging,

Bill, Sam, Sara & Jeremy