Regional farms are waking up after their winter sleep, and strawberries are among the first fruits coming off the line. While many produce stands and markets offer fresh-picked berries for purchase, some also put their strawberry crop to use in the kitchen. Consider adding these berry-filled products to your shopping basket before this growing season ends in early June.
Bread and Pies
Mayse Farm Market
6400 N. Saint Joseph Ave.
How does a slice of warm strawberry walnut bread sound? This family-owned farm fires up its bakery in May when fresh strawberries come in from the field. Don’t stop with the bread, though: Mayse also produces berry-filled cheesecake fudge, pies, and 32-ounce bottles of strawberry cider.
Hot Sauce
Linneweber’s Sauce Company
Available online via Local Source
Made from chiles grown at the company’s Vincennes, Indiana, farm, with berries from Memering’s Berry Patch, the Strawberry Kombucha Vinegar Fermented Sauce 1.7-ounce bottle adds a sweet tang to Chris Linneweber’s line of otherwise fiery sauces and seasonings.
Jam
The Tenbarge Farm Stand
431 S. West St., Haubstadt, Indiana
This produce stand’s jam is well known, but the Tenbarge family does not sleep on that success. They’ve stuffed their strawberry jam with peach, giving the sweet treat extra flavor.
Popsicles
Lollys Pops
Available at Reimann’s Farm Market, 13940 Darmstadt Road, Darmstadt, Indiana
You’re likely to catch Lollys’ fruit-filled frozen treats at summer festivals via its food truck, but Reimann’s Farm Market in Darmstadt also regularly keeps them in stock. Berry-centric flavors come in variations like cream, lemonade, and mango, plus classic strawberry.
