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Kitchen Hours

Lunch
Wednesdays - Sundays
11-3pm
 
Dinner
Thursday, Friday, Saturday & Sunday
5-8:30pm (8pm Sundays)

 
Farmers Market Thursdays: Happy Hour:
$1 off all beers
 

Grocery Hours
Wed - Sunday: 
11-6pm
now open later on Sundays 


Farmers' & Artisans' Market
Thursdays: 4pm - 8pm
serving dinner till 8


164 Highway 4
Murphys, CA 95247
209-728-1164

Mailing address:
PO Box 2052
Murphys, CA 95247
 
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2014 CSA 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 CSA 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.
 
Recipe of the Week
  

 Simple Roasted Tomato Sauce

 

Keep it simple, and help bring out the flavors of the tomatoes from the market. Specials this week (read above) mean: grab a box and start canning!

 

 Get the recipe here

 

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We got BIG SPECIALS on Heirloom tomatoes (including the colorful cherry toms) this week. We have lots and we want to share the abundance.

Check out the Farmer's Market tomato tasting this Thursday and next.

And if you mention to our grocery staff that you read this newsletter we'll give you an additional 10% off tomatoes this week....
 
We've got a tomato sauce recipe in this week's blog, and lots more tomato recipes here.  Check out our latest recipes online here. 

The sweaty garden crew taking a much needed watermelon break!

The Blacktail Mountain watermelon is the perfect refrigerator size, that's if you don't devour the entire melon in one sitting. Not hard to do when it's a 100 degrees and you're looking for that perfect hydrating fruit. Nutritionally it is up there in Lycopene content with tomatoes. Check out this website for more information on just how healthy watermelon is for you.

Blacktail is a modern open-pollinated watermelon variety that was originally bred by a young boy of 17, Glenn Drowns, in 1979. We've grown this exceptional watermelon for several years and a couple of years ago created a public seed saving event by giving the watermelon away with the caveat that folks would enjoy and spit the seeds out, save them and return to us. We still have a generous supply of seeds that will keep us in watermelons for several years to come.

 

"Blacktail Mountain is quintessential watermelon. This dark green cannon ball is shot full of flavor. Its dense scarlet flesh is sweet, juicy and crunchy. . . . . The quintessential icebox watermelon that sets the standard for flavor."  

Amy Goldman,  Melons for the Passionate Grower. 

  

Read up more on the Blacktail Mountain Watermelon's juicy history here!

 

Find more stories on our specialty seeds and produce here! 

 

 

Thanks to Ray Davis we now have a  washer and dryer!!

Got canning jars in the garage and want to give them to us?? We'll take them off your hands! 

 

 Thanks to our great team we got to take a three day weekend and enjoy a backpacking adventure in the Sierra's. The flowers are amazing...if you haven't ventured out the time is now.  

 

Thanks OA crew for giving us this gift of mountain time. 

 

Upcoming Events

 

Every Thursday(4pm-dusk)

Farmers' & Artisans' Market
TOMATO TASTE-OFF this Thursday and next! We'll have all the varieties on display with samples to try and even rate. Wouldn't you like to know which variety comes out tops.

Love Creek Permaculture will be there with their mountain grown strawberries, wild dried mushrooms and fresh herbs.

New this week:   
  • Sampling house made deli items: salsa, hummus, baba ghanoush.
  • Just picked peaches from the Dykens of San Andreas 

Come check it out! We welcome you to our place to enjoy the evening, meet new and old friends, have a bite to eat, pick up some fresh veggies and other goodies. We'll see you down here.  


Happy Hour -- $1 off beer
Salad Bar & menu favorites available 4-8pm

Events at the Market 6-7:30 pm:

  




Saturday, August 23rd (5:30-7pm)
Showcase Wine, Apps, & Garden Tours
Join us for a fun and educational tour of our beautiful garden. We'll stroll over to Harmon Gardens next door and enjoy appetizers and wine tastings in their unique garden setting. You'll enjoy seasonal foods prepared by our talented chefs, as well as tastings from a local winery. Experience a diversity of award winning heirloom varietals and observe techniques developed over our twenty years of growing food. Our productive garden supplies our farm market, restaurant and weekly food delivery and is a showcase in biodiversity. 
  
More dates:    
Sept 13th (featured winery: Tanner), 
Oct 11th (featured winery: Ayrael Vieux) 
  
RSVP: 209-728-1164  |  $18 per person
Includes tour, wine tasting & appetizers   

Share it with friends and tell us you're coming (not an official RSVP) on facebook  here.

Interested in a group Agritour (including an extensive farm tour and custom Farm To Table Dinner) for your family, large party or organization?  Contact Christine: 

 

 

September 20th (August 9th cancelled) 
Farm to Table Under the Stars 
First course: apps in the garden

Don't miss it! We have one opportunity at this incredible location just minutes from our farm.

 

 

 

Call us 209/728-1164 and make a reservation today. More details to come. RSVP your seat now by calling us!

 

$100 per person  

$20 wine pairings

$10 non-alcoholic 

 

Join us for the event on facebook: click here 

 

  
We're delighted to be serving beyond organic cuisine throughout the summer at this awesome concert series in Groveland.   Click here for summer concert schedule and tickets. We look forward to eating well and making merry with ya!
 
Two more concerts to go:
August 2nd & August 16 

 

 
Highlights from this Week's Dinner Menu

Sunomono Salad (app)
(Japanese-style cucumber salad) Pluots, cucumbers, peppers, garden greens, Thai basil, mint, cilantro, rice wine agave vinaigrette, sesame seeds, Shoyu reduction

Seared Chicken Breast (entree)
Pan-seared Rosie's Organic free-range airline chicken breast, eggplant potato gratin, Parmesan, cheddar, grilled Tuscan eggplant, marsala cream sauce, Shishito & Marchant peppers

Tomato Basil Savory Tart (app)
Heirloom tomatoes, Feta cheese, fresh basil, Shishito peppers, pine nuts, micro salad, savory house-made crust, port reduction sauce

 

We upload our menus online!

See the latest lunch and dinner menus here 

 

 

At the market this Week: 
 
Armenian, Suyu & Lemon Cucs 
 
Click each of the items below and find recipes on our website! 

FRUIT from Tyson Hill: 
Diva yellow nectarines (my fav), yellow peaches: Faye Elberta, white peach and white nectarine, Mariposa plums, Emerald Green pluots, Catalina plums.

From the Farm: Heirloom tomatoes,Sungolds, red potatoes, eggplant, sweet red onions, summer squashes, salad greens, corn, watermelon, parsley, basil, chard, green beans, shishito, jalapeno, anaheim peppers, bell peppers (purple, yellow and red), cucumbers, cherry tomatoes, creole garlic, cantaloupe and more.

FROM WITHIN 150 MILES: not much which is great for us....oranges, grapefruit, limes, lemons, avocado, broccoli, fennel, cabbage, dill, cilantro, strawberries, kale, ginger.
 

 Check out all of our latest recipes online here


 
Community Supported Agriculture:
  
 

Here's what one of our customer's told us the other week:

"I'm a super busy, working, single woman and LOVE fresh food but end up only getting to the grocery or farmers markets once a month.  Your service has brought back fresh eating into my world and I am so thankful."  
JoLynn

She gets a delivery on a regular basis - would you like to get one too?
For questions contact our CSA & Grocery Manger, Kaedence: outeraisle@gmail.com

 

Community Support Request!

Our "Fill Our Sails" Campaign is the sustenance we need to grow into the community center we work towards.

 

Thank you Ray for coming up with a washer and dryer!! We were impressed with how many of you came forth with computers and unfortunately all of them were too old to run the more modern programs that we operate with. We are seeking a modern (2012 or later version) laptop or desktop and willing to do store/restaurant trade for one.

 


Email Christine at outeraislefoods@gmail.com if you have any leads. Thank you all for your support!

 
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.