Coming Soon: Apples And Concord Grapes
Coming Soon: Apples & Concord Grapes
by Erin Otto
Hey! It’s almost apple & grape time!
Next week, we’ll open the order form for our next order cycle: apples & Concord grapes. The harvest is bountiful! And the fruit is beautiful.
For this load from Michigan, we’re sure of these varieties: Gala, Macintosh, Cortland, Ruby John (a type of Jonathan). We think a few of the popular mid-season apples will be available then too – we’re just not sure yet which ones they’ll be. Watch your emails next week. We’ll send you a link to the order form once it is open.
Concord Grapes
Did you ever wonder why grape flavored candies taste almost nothing like common grapes? Those grape candies are made to taste like Concord grapes – the deep purple, slip-skin, sweet grapes that Welch’s purple grape juice is made from. The fresh Concord grapes we get each fall from Michigan are wildly popular for eating fresh and for juicing. And no wonder! They taste fabulous, and they’re super high in antioxidants.
Juice them, make them into jam, or simply eat them all up fresh.
October is the only time Concord grapes will be available. Don’t miss these!
Dry Goods Update
There’s about a week left to place your order for dry goods. This includes a great selection of pantry staples like whole wheat berries, quinoa, chia seeds, local raw honey, and much more.
*Please note that the dry goods order deadline has been changed. It’s now a few days earlier than it had been.
Deadline To Order Dry Goods: Wednesday, September 18th 10:00 a.m. (central)
Pick Up Date: Thursday or Friday, September 26th or 27th (depending on location)
Click Here To Order: http://bunchesmore.com/index.php?action=guest-app-cart&cid=105
Tim & Erin
Fall Preview 2013 And A Note From The Orchard
What’s Next? (and a note from the orchard)
Heads up!
We’ll be opening up our order form for a last load of peaches very soon… should be within the next few days.
And over the next several months we’ll be bringing in some other things too! Here’s a peek at what we’re preparing:
August:
We’ll be getting a final load of northern peaches and few varieties of summer apples from an orchard we’ve had good
experience with. (See the note from the orchard below.)
September:
Pears, plums, more early apples, and a truckload of wheat, dry goods, and organic animal feed.
October:
Concord grapes, dry goods, and an abundant variety of apples. If you remember, last year was not a good year for apples (Remember how the late spring frost of 2012 killed most of the apple blossoms?). This year is like the reverse swing of nature’s pendulum; apple trees everywhere are heavy with delicious fruit!
Here’s a look behind the scenes into one of our recent emails from the peach orchard we’ll be ordering from later this month.
…We anticipate great quality and volume of peaches through Labor Day so I do not see a problem getting your truck loaded up at the end of August. We will have both yellow and white peaches available at that time. All the fruit that will be shipped to you will come directly from our orchards. We’d need your final order on the 26th. We have been having great quality this year, and as long as we stay hurricane free we should be in good shape.
We do strive to harvest tree ripened fruit that has the maximum sugar content, and typically we try to harvest, pack, and ship to the customer within 48 hours to keep the quality high for end customer. We would have a fuzzy peach in a box that came straight from the field. I think that’s what you’re looking for.
-Maggie
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Postal Delivery & UPS Shipments:
Over the next few months we will be offering more products via postal delivery (several hundred more). If you don’t live in our local delivery range, or if you’d like to have Bulk Natural Foods shipped to your door, we think you’re really going to like this!
We won’t, however, be shipping fresh fruit this year or in 2014. (We haven’t quite figured out how to make that work yet.) Only dry goods items will be ship-able for a while. So, woo-hoo! We’ll keep you posted as we move forward on this.
We can currently ship out about a dozen of our more popular items through our store: things like raw almonds, rapadura, superfood, Celtic sea salt, and the Nutrimill grain mill. (If you’re not already milling your own flour, definitely look into this power kitchen tool. Freshly ground wheat flour or any combination of gluten-free flours take minutes to make yourself, they’re healthier and taste remarkably better than any pre-milled flour you could buy.)
Anyway, we’ll be in touch about the upcoming PEACH order. Watch your emails for more information.
Tim & Erin
From Our Mailbox
My order of peaches was super fantastic! LOVED EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM! -Karissa
The peaches were again outstanding. Delicious, sweet, juicy, and perfectly ripe! -Monica
LOVE the peaches. We have been enjoying our first ever order of peaches and blueberries and mango. Peaches by themselves, peach cobbler, peach mango salsa tomorrow. Thank you for the fresh fruit. -Rebecca
The peaches are beautiful and the carrots have more flavor than any I’ve ever tasted! Forty pounds of bananas is a LOT of bananas, but they’re delicious and I’m clearing out enough freezer space to hold them for smoothies and baking for weeks to come. Thank you! -Jennifer
Oh my goodness! The family started eating peaches before I even got back into the car! Sweet, juicy and perfect even though they were 2nds. Wish I had bought 2 boxes so I will have some left to can. Thanks so much for the opportunity to purchase such yummy, healthy food. -Connie
Concord Grape Sorbet
Concord grapes from BulkNaturalFoods.com
A beautiful purple sorbet, and what better way to use all the delicious grapes you got from Bulk Natural Foods! I’ve adapted this recipe from Martha Stewart Living, and it is wonderful! Try it!
Ingredients
2/3 cup agave
1 1/2 pounds Concord grapes (1 quart container)
1/4 cup water
1 1/2 tablespoons freshly squeezed lemon juice
Directions
Prepare an ice bath; set aside.
Combine grapes and the remaining water in a medium saucepan. Cook over medium heat until the grapes start releasing liquid, about 4 minutes. Reduce heat, and simmer until juices are dark purple and grapes begin to break apart, about 3 minutes.
Pass mixture through a food mill and then through a fine sieve into a large bowl set in the ice bath; stir frequently until completely cool. Stir in the agave and lemon juice.
Transfer mixture to an ice-cream maker, and freeze according to manufacturer’s instructions. Store the sorbet in an airtight container in the freezer until ready to serve, up to 2 weeks.