Moutoux Orchard

| Pan Seared Red Snapper | (Profish, Ltd.) -Sweet Potato (Moutoux Orchard) -Mole Amarillo -Purée of Chayote & Field Cress (School Hill Garden and Tiny Acre Farm) -Pumpkin Seed and Micro Greens Our newest dish this weekend 🤩

Loudoun farms report a demand for CSAs, as consumers look to support local businesses and avoid supply chain shortages: https://bit.ly/37gAjU3 Looking for a Community Supported Agriculture subscription? Find one here: http://loudounfarms.org/local-produce/csa/ Potomac Vegetable Farms Moutoux Orchard Root and Marrow Farm

"Hey Peggy, there's some cud chewing noise. Can you mute yourself?" We couldn't resist 😊 but in all seriousness, want to send a smile, thank you, and "hang in there" to ALL of our regional farmers (not just the one's whose animals got on our 'Benefits of Going Grassfed' #Zoom call) for their hard work #stillfarming through this pandemic. Many have had to learn new digital platforms and quickly build new packing and distribution systems in order to pivot to direct sales. And that's on top of the already busy nature of Spring. Now is a perfect time to invest your grocery dollars into your local food community. To find a farmer near you, or get listed, visit the Find-A-Farmer Or Market Map on our website. To help us continue to help farmers, consider donating to Future Harvest. #knowyourfarmer #shoplocal #sustainableagriculture #farming #midatlantic #sheep #goats #chickens #pigs #hogs #cows #calf #dairy #jerseys #turkeys #LGD #GoGrassfed #agserviceproviders #fhcasa #maryland #virginia #westvirginia #delmarvafarms #dc #thankyou Arcadia Center for Sustainable Food & Agriculture Open Book Farm Moutoux Orchard Whiffletree Farm Chesapeake Bay Foundation Long Stone Farm Georges Mill Farm Artisan Cheese Bean Hollow Grassfed Flying Plow Farm Plow and Stars Farm Where Pigs Fly Farm St Brigid's Farm Rocklands Farm DC Greens Clagett Farm CSA

Check out Moutoux Orchard and their “whole diet” CSA!

Rauch Tater — Imperial Märzen 8.2% // 100% Virginia Grain 750mL bottles This is a special beer for us. It’s our first collaboration and meant to celebrate the season, the harvest, and the small farms that make local agriculture possible. Two family farms bringing value-added produce to market, individually — one a Whole Diet CSA and one a Land Beer brewery — offer you Rauch Tater, together. We partnered with Moutoux Orchard to create this Imperial Märzen made with smoked sweet potatoes, sage, and brown sugar. Moutoux Orchard is a third generation family farm committed to sustainable, whole-diet agriculture. The Moutoux family works tirelessly to bring people the highest quality produce and provisions, with a focus on sustainable land stewardship and ethical livestock management. We are so incredibly grateful to call them neighbors, colleagues, and friends. The name, Rauch Tater, hints at our approach to this beer. With a wink to northern Bavarian Rauchbier, which uses smoked malt for often deep smokey flavors, we opted for a subtle smoke component — more earthly than smokey— as a guidepost for the flavors to meet. Instead of smoked grain, the sustainably-grown sweet potatoes from Moutoux Orchard were smoked at our farm with local apple and cherry wood. The sweet potatoes were then put in the 100% Virginia grain mash with local sage. Once transferred to the boil kettle, we added brown sugar. Post fermentation, the Imperial Märzen rested in oak puncheons at 35F for three months before bottle conditioning for another two months. The result is a flavorful beer with complexity from ingredients that have had time to get to know each other. Rauch Tater has a lush base from the malt and molasses sweetness from the brown sugar. The waft of smoke provides an earthy taste that connects the malt and molasses with a velvety mouthfeel from the sweet potatoes. This is capped with a savory and dry finish at the top, thanks to the sage. To us, it tastes like the holidays. Available ‪from Saturday, 14 December‬. @ Wheatland Spring Farm + Brewery

Imperial Märzen with smoked sweet potatoes, sage, and brown sugar. We partnered with our friends and neighbors at Moutoux Orchard to use two hundred pounds of their sustainably grown sweet potatoes in this Imperial Märzen. The sweet potatoes were smoked at our farm by Market Table Bistro over apple and cherry wood before being mixed with regional grains and local sage. It was brewed in early summer and cold conditioned in oak for three months. A limited number of bottles will be available for purchase next month. Live Music 🎶Saturday, October 12th: @derekkretzer (The Plate Scrapers)

Our team always loves to visit Moutoux Orchard , they have the cutest animals🥰

“A Taste of Summer” $55 4 Courses ~cucumber avocado gazpacho ~variations of summer ~scallops, caponata ~blueberry lemon parfait #summertime #lovesummer #gazpacho #veggies #scallops #blueberry #parfait #eatlocal #eatyourveggies Moutoux Orchard Squire Oaks Farm Georges Mill Farm Artisan Cheese Cocina on MarketMarket Burger Fries and Shakes

A huge thank you to all of the farms that hosted last weekend's BFTP-only hands-on field days. It's a delight to be constantly awed by the generosity of the farmers in our network. We tested out tractors at Potomac Vegetable Farms, toured the orchard and cattle pastures and learned about CSAs at Moutoux Orchard, explored everything cut flower at Greenstone Fields, and talked about small farm equipment and marketing at Second Spring. Click through the photos below for a small snapshot of these information-packed days.

Thanks Moutoux Orchard for hooking us up with 200 pounds of sweet potato for our first produce forward beer that we’ll be brewing this week. Market Table Bistro has our back this weekend whipping up BBQ Pork and Summer Vegetable Flatbread for customers while also smoking all 200 pounds of these sweet potato beauties. @ Loudoun County, Virginia

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