Iroquois Valley is excited to share our annual gift guide featuring products grown by the farmers we partner with. 2022 has been a year of gratitude and community, and we hope that you have been able to appreciate local organic food, flourishing landscapes, and meaningful relationships with your communities throughout the year. This year’s gift guide is illustrated by Chicago-based artist, Hannah Bess Ross, who is an illustrator and writer that specializes in all things whimsy. Check out her website here and scroll below for products available across the country as well as products available in certain regions. The Iroquois Valley team and our partners wish you all the joys of this Holiday Season!

NATIONALLY AVAILABLE PRODUCTS

Central Grazing (KS): Ships delicious, humanely raised grass-fed lamb directly to your doorstep across all lower 48 states. Order your Holiday Lamb Box now to get a discount code for a second one 50% off that can be sent to the recipient of your choosing! Share in a growing movement of conscious consumers who are loving their high-quality, sustainably produced meat subscription service. Enjoy your lamb meat knowing that Central Grazing cares about animals, our planet, and improving the livelihoods of farmers in the Heartland. 

Doudlah Farms (WI): Over twenty varieties of organic artisan products including beans, flours, honey, and sunflower seeds. Check out the farm’s story and their products here.

Evergreen Ranching (SD): Audubon-Certified ranch that produces meats, jerky, and raw dog food / dog treats. If you are looking for something for yourself or your furry friend, shop their online store here. Items are also available for pick-up in Rapid City, SD and Sturgis, SD.

Janie’s Mill (IL): Janie’s Mill organic-milled products and grains include specialty flours, bran, and whole wheat berries. Visit their online store here. Make sure to check out their recipes for baking with heirloom grains.

Locavore Farm (IL): Purchase a ticket for one of Locavore Farm’s signature Dine on the Land experiences, featuring a walking tour of the farm, a multi-course farm-fresh feast, and live music. Gift cards are also available, and check out their website here for additional experiences and farm stays.

Meadowlark Organics (WI): Organically grown grains, available as flour, rolled, and whole berries, as well as heirloom dry beans. Visit their online store here.

Mint Creek Farm (IL): Year-round CSA shares, eggs, poultry, meat, & honey raised on organic prairie pastures. Holiday meat cuts include lamb (rack of lamb, lamb shanks, lamb chops, and lamb loin roast), beef (steak bundle, beef loin roast, brisket, tri-tip/sirloin-tip roast, ribeye, NY strip, filet, and summer sausage), and pork and boar (ham roast, pork shoulder, sausage, Italian sausage bundle, and boar loin chops). Visit their online store here, and make sure to use promo code: IQVF-HOLIDAY. Products are available for home delivery or local pick-up.

Prairie Fruits Farm (IL): Goat cheese and dairy products, including gift boxes. Visit their online store here. Goats are raised in a silvopasture system that incorporates fruit trees and bushes that also flavor some of the products. Note: some products only available for pick-up at their farmstand.

Prairie Grass Ranch (MT): Grass-fed beef raised under the big sky in Montana. Their cattle “graze on nutrient dense native prairie grasses and forage dense regenerative organic rotations along the northern slopes of the Bear Paw Mountains.” Order online at Regen Market. Prairie Grass Ranch is also launching a new start-up company called Gruff, which will be marketing ancient grain grits made from Emmer (also known as Farro). This whole grain is well adapted to dryland farming practices. Gruff grits are regenerative organic certified/source verified and will be available in January 2023. Contact www.gruffgrains.com to be among the first to try this new product!

Singing Pastures (ME): Charcuterie and roam sticks made from heritage pork raised on organic pastures. Visit their online store here.

Tulip Tree Gardens (IL): Wellness and CBD products (hemp grown using regenerative and organic practices) available here. Farmstand products, such as eggs, honey, coffee, and meats are also for sale via the online farmstand (local pick-up only).

Vilicus Farms (MT): Purchase a share to support the land stewardship work across the 12,508 acres of Vilicus Farms through their Community Supported Stewardship Agriculture (CSSA). Timeless Seeds (shipping available) and Glacier Distilling (local stores only, check it out if you find yourself skiing in MT this winter!) also sell products grown by our partners at Vilicus Farms. 

Waterfall Unity Alliance (NY): Iroquois Valley collaborated with the Waterfall Unity Alliance and Kanien’kehá:ka (Mohawk) leaders from Akwesasne on a landback project offering customized mortgage financing for a farm last month. This farm is located in the Schoharie Valley of Central New York where the remains of an old Mohawk village sit on what is now a 60-acre working berry farm. Please learn more and donate to their Go Fund Me campaign through this link to help support a new Kanien’kehá:ka community that will transition the farm back to organic and regenerative practices. The next steps are to renovate the farmhouse, get things ready for next planting season, work on a traditional Longhouse structure, and develop a language immersion and original life ways program at the berry farm. Niawen for your support.

LOCALS-ONLY PRODUCTS

Chehalis Valley Farm (WA): Pasture-raised poultry and forest-raised pork that is sustainably and ethically grown in the Chehalis River Valley outside of Elma, WA. Find it at local farmer’s markets in Olympia and Proctor or order through South Sound Fresh. The meats can also be ordered directly through their online store for pick-up at the farm or a farmer’s market.

Creambrook Farm (VA): Ben and Kristen Beichler of Creambrook Farm in Middlebrook, VA produce wholesome, lab-tested raw milk from pastured Jersey cows. Their farm is accepting more local raw milk herd share members at the following locations. 

Harvest Table Foods (IL): The Gray family is proud to offer ethically farmed and pastured-raised whole turkeys and additional meats from their organic farm in Central Illinois. Check out their website here, and place orders via email (stephengray311@yahoo.com), text, or phone call (Stephen at (815) 644-0470).

Norwich Farm Creamery (VT): Dairy products sourced from an award-winning herd of grass-fed Jersey cows. The on-site farm store is self-serve and open 24/7. In addition to The Creamery’s products, eggs, pork, beef, cheese, and more are available. Check out the website for directions and more information here. In addition to their locally available products and farm store, contributions through Norwich Farm Creamery’s Donate page and Go Fund Me will support the funds the farm needs for short-term expenses like mortgage payments, utilities, insurance, upkeep, and repairs, as well as long-term costs like grant matching funds, equipment purchases, and establishing reserves. These contributions will support their operating principles of Local Food Security, Affordable Farmer Housing, Working Landscape, Regenerative Agriculture, and Agricultural Education.

The Little Farm By the Sea (WA): Pasture-raised pork and lamb raised on the Olympic Peninsula in a silvopasture system that incorporates grasses, forage, and trees. Visit their online store here. Free delivery to the Western Washington area.

The Pasturage (MI): Animal Welfare Approved and Certified Grassfed lamb available now: ground lamb, loin chop, rib chop, rack of lamb, leg of lamb (bone-in and boneless), shoulder roast (bone-in and boneless), neck roast, sirloin roast, shanks (whole or osso bucco), sirloin steak, leg steak, shoulder steak, lamb bones, heart, liver, kidneys, tongue and amazing array of sausages that rival pork (bratwurst, kielbasa, Italian and more coming soon). Heritage pork cuts available now: bacon, fat back, smoked ham & hocks, sausage: (breakfast, bratwurst, Italian, German style Kielbasa, Chorizo, Polish, Jalapeno bratwurst, andouille), leaf fat, loin roast, pork chops, shoulder roast and butt, organs & neck bones, pork steak, and raw dog treats such as ears, snout, feet, fresh hocks.

Email thepasturage@gmail.com to order lamb or pork. Pick-up at the Muskegon Farmers Market or at the farm. Local delivery may be available – email to inquire.

SUPPORT IROQUOIS VALLEY THIS HOLIDAY SEASON

Iroquois Valley is proud to partner with farmers raising good food across the country. We believe that land security enables land stewardship – our work supports farmers and their businesses. Investing with Iroquois Valley allows us to grow and partner with more farmers raising food in ways that enliven our soils, ecosystems, and communities. Learn more about our investment options here or set up a conversation by emailing invest@iroquoisvalley.com.