I first heard about a store named Harvest at the Woodward in Mt.Vernon, Ohio, from my friends, Corinne and Matt Gompf of Heritage Harvest Farm. The Gompf's have a market stall at Mt. Vernon's farmers market, and the store carries the dip mixes, herbs, spice , and teas that Corinne custom blends.
Jim and I were in Mt. Vernon on Sunday for the Dan Emmett Festival. We saw this lovely display. I realized that it was made by the store that Corinne has talked about. The store was open, so we went inside to check it out. Man, oh, man, am I ever glad that we did!
I soon realized that the store only carries Ohio produced foods, most from Knox and surrounding counties. I think that the Harvest at the Woodward is a localvore's dream store!
Not only does the store carry produce, it also has milk, cheese, eggs, and meats. Here one can find goat's milk, sheep cheese, and yogurt made from local dairies. Isn't that wonderful?
The day was hot and I did not have an insulated bag with ice packs in the car, so I did not do any shopping that day. But I can hardly wait to go baaa-ack (hopefully next week) because I am more curious than the Cheshire Cat about how sheep cheese tastes like!
Marcheta *sheepish
Day 4 Localvore meals
Lunch
Jim stayed in town where his job site is at, so for myself I heated up the leftover pork with peach/pear salsa and finished off the apple/pear cobbler.
Planned for Dinner
Roast beef sandwiches (the beef was slow cooked with yesterday's stuffed peppers)
mashed or fried potatoes
marinated cucumber/onion/grape tomato salad
fried apples
fresh homemade tomato juice
Not sourced locally:*
sandwich buns
Everything else is local and from the same sources as listed yesterday.
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