10/08/2026
🌿 **Let's talk about something that matters to us here at McCarty Farmstead: HONESTY & TRANSPARENCY.** 🌿
There's absolutely nothing wrong with sourcing ingredients from another local farmer. In fact, we think supporting other small farms is a wonderful thing. There's also nothing wrong with selling products you didn't personally make, provided you're honest about where they came from.
But there's a mighty big difference between **homemade, locally sourced, and homegrown.** And those words aren't interchangeable just because they sound good on a label.
If you purchase peppers from another farmer and turn them into hot sauce, you've made homemade hot sauce using locally sourced peppers. That's wonderful! But those peppers didn't suddenly become *homegrown* just because they found their way into your kitchen.
And if you're selling something made by someone else, there's no shame in that either. Just give credit where credit is due.
At McCarty Farmstead, we believe our customers deserve to know exactly what they're buying.
🌱 When we say our produce is homegrown, we mean it was grown right here on our farmstead.
🍐 When we make preserves with fruit we don't grow ourselves, we're happy to tell you it's locally sourced, usually from Hughes.
🌶️ When we say our hot sauce is made with our homegrown ingredients, that's exactly what we mean.
We're proud of what we grow, what we make, and the farmers we support. We don't need to blur those lines to make a sale.
**There's room at the table for everybody, but let's not confuse supporting local farmers with pretending to be one.**
Around here, we believe good food speaks for itself, and honesty ought to come standard.
After all, **you can put just about anything on a label, but that doesn't make it the truth.** 🤎
