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Wednesdays - Sundays
Lunch: 11-2:30pm
Dinner*: 5-8:30pm
Pub: 5pm-closing
*Full service Fri/Sat, reservations by phone

Grocery Hours
Wed - Sat: 11-6pm
Sundays: 11-4pm

Extended Summer Hours Coming Soon!


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Murphys, CA 95247
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2014 BOX DELIVERIES CSA  
Do you want to enjoy fresh seasonal produce and knowledge of where it comes from? Do you and your friends live outside our current distribution and would love to have Outer Aisle come closer to you? Contact Kaedence to see about starting deliveries in your area!

Weekly or bi-weekly deliveries to:
  • Tuolumne County
  • Calaveras County
  • Alpine County  
 
Benefits of Becoming a Member:
  • Enjoy local and seasonal fruits and veggies all year round
  • Fresh, high quality, home-grown flavor
  • Bi-weekly fall, winter and spring deliveries to convenient drop off locations near you
  • Your choice of the size bag for your needs: mini, basic and full sizes. Add on fruit, roots, and greens
  • Access our on-line web store  
  • Vacation when you are out of town
  • Supplement your own garden, you grow greens: we have roots and fruits!
  • Lower your carbon footprint. Save gas, we deliver to you
  • Support local growers, producers and makers.
 
Greetings!

We are knee deep in the farm this month, preparing for the season and loving what the kitchen is making from our rich harvests!  Read on for updates on what we're growing, what we're cooking, and new members to the tribe!
 

Garden Update

400 tomato plants went into the ground on Tuesday, hooped, clothed and greenhouse covered they should survive the next few days of rain and cooler temps. Cover crops are all under and Eric reports that the soil is looking the healthiest ever; tilthy and fertile. Friday we'll be putting in peppers by the hundreds and harvesting zucchini. 

 

 

Produce Update

Kaedence and team are doing a wonderful job at putting together the weekly CSA boxes. In this week's boxes you'll discover a bounty of seasonal produce: Purple asparagus, cilantro, kale, red potatoes, broccoli and the first strawberries!

     Did you know we have an option to switch items out? We are getting ready to launch the "personal shopper" option to our CSA. More details about this next newsletter.



Strawberries are the hit of the show this week. Sweet and flavorful - a promise of more goodness to come. This product comes from Tomatero Farm in Watsonville - young farmers that are committed to providing the highest quality produce. You'll find other products from their farm at our store this week: broccoli and kale.

 

 
 
This Week's Menumenu

 

 

Lunch: As promised, the lunch menu is growing! This week we are excited to bring back the Farmer's Plate - house made meatloaf, Fiscalini cheese, Diestel turkey sausage, garden side salad, soup du jour and bread. If you ever ate at the old Outer Aisle you would remember "Stephanie's salads" - they are back too! Plus more add-on options: Mountain Ranch chicken, avocado, Diestel organic fried egg.

 

Other new lunch items to get excited about!

  • Strawberry mâché spinach salad with a sesame dressing 
  • Pear blue cheese, fennel roasted almond salad with mustard quince vinaigrette

 

Dinner Specials:

Join us for dinner for Sonoma Poultry duck and Macadamia crusted wild caught California Halibut. We are featuring our very own mouth watering Taylor Farms beef brisket and fresh baby squash from the garden.

And if you haven't tried it yet, don't miss our lasagna, piled high with root veggies that will melt in your mouth. 

 

 

Community Updatecommunity
Mitch with Beverly of Aria Bakery

Please welcome our Head Dinner Chef: Mitchell Webster. A Calaveras native, he's apprenticed under Executive Chef Bob Anderson (former chef at: Camps, V Restaurant and now Awahnee) and worked at Taste Restaurant in Plymouth and most recently the V Restaurant. Mitch's excitement and focused attention to creating and presenting delicious dishes continually amazes us and of course delights our palates too. We are honored to have him join our team and take the lead position at dinner.

 

Please welcome Rose Wells to the position of Restaurant Manager. We are so delighted to have her join our team in this capacity. Her manner with guests is outstanding beyond measure and she sets the style and atmosphere that is in alignment with our mission perfectly. 

 

 

We're Being Featured by Green Drinks

Green Drinks is THE place to learn about innovative business ideas and local success stories.  They are sponsored by Sierra Business Council and host at a different local business in Calaveras or Tuolumne County each month. 

In April they are featuring Outer Aisle! 

 

Join us April 8th,  6 to 7:30pm

with Christine & Eric Taylor

 

 
Outer Aisle FARMERS KITCHEN, MARKET & PUB. "growing food, feeding community". 

Behind the scenes of Outer Aisle is Taylor Farms. Located on Main Street, Douglas Flat, our nearly two acre "beyond organic" farm produces a large variety of seasonal vegetables including these seasonal highlights: summer heirloom tomatoes, fall cauliflower, winter carrots and spring potatoes to name just a few! 

Outer Aisle also operates a year round CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) program. We distribute the highest quality, local, seasonal and regional produce and products to members all over Calaveras and Tuolumne Counties. We only purchase product from farms and producers who are committed to ecologically sustainable practices and go beyond the National "Organic" standards.
COMMUNITY SUPPORTED AGRICULTURE 

We invite you to be a member of our CSA. Community Supported Agriculture is more than a statement of support it's an amazing way to connect your palate with seasonal eating on a regular basis.
 
Where the food comes from?

People ask us all the time is our produce "organic" and while we are tempted to just say yes and let the organic definition tell the story we don't. We are not certified "organic" and to use the word as a casual expression would get us into trouble. We believe that our practice of stewardship goes beyond what is required under the "organic" label. We are committed to caring for the soil and the micro-organisms that so skillfully maintain fertility so that plants can thrive. And above all, we have a direct connection with our customers and invite you to come out to the fields on one of our farm tours. (Starting in May every 2nd and 4th Saturday.)

Thank you to those pioneering farmers who worked for years, at first alone and then together, to stand firm in ensuring the adoption of strict regulations for what was to become a multi-billion dollar industry. Over the years since "organic" moved to a national standard some of those regs have been "watered" down to allow the larger industrial farms to get a piece of the dollar pie.

We love it that the farmers who were the originators of organic are the predominant producers of the food that we eat, we sell and we cook. 

Those pioneering farmers are still doing what they have always done: adhering to their own high standards of organic and going beyond what is required. Full Belly Farm, Terra Firma, Coke Farms are three of the original pioneers that supply us with produce at times when our garden is not producing. They are advocates of a sustainable approach and even though they are certified organic their practices are what nurtures community: soil and people! 

Those pioneers are inspiring the younger generation and we are proud also to complement our produce with those from up and coming organic farms like Tomatero in Watsonville.


Enjoy seasonal produce and the insurance that what you eat comes from farms that practice diversity, stewardship and are pioneers of good health.