I am trying to make Treetown Vittles the kind of business that you can feel good about patronizing and a business that I will be proud to own. As I build my business, it is important to me to establish relationships with local folks that produce high quality products. By using local vendors and producers, especially those attentive to sustainable practices, we reduce our environmental footprint, support the local economy and offer the highest quality products to our customers.

I am so pleased to welcome Silvio’s Organic Pizza to our group of fine Ann Arbor vendors. I think Silvio’s has the best pizza in Ann Arbor and I am very fortunate to be able to offer you Silvio’s fresh pizza dough in our meal kits each month. Silvio Medoro, chef and owner of Silvio’s Organic Pizza, is well-known and respected in the local slow food community. He is a delight to chat with and I have much to learn from Silvio.

According to their website “Silvio was lovingly taught to produce the highest quality breads and pizza dough…The flavorful crust incorporates fine olive oil and is made with organic flour exactly the way Silvio’s father made it.” Please take advantage of our monthly ‘Make your own pizza nights’ to use this uniquely high quality pizza dough in your own kitchen.

I’d also like to introduce you to our newest vendor, Nancy Tatara, owner of Neverdone Farm in Dexter, MI. Nancy is supplying us with wonderful eggs from free range hens. Look for them soon in another frittata offering in March. This spring I will begin purchasing all of our garlic from Nancy as well. We can’t wait to visit the farm this spring to see what other goodies we can include in our meal kits (and I want to play with those cute goats!). Here’s a note from Nan:

“Neverdone Farm has some very fancy hens a laying, Speckled Sussex, Polish Goldens with Top Hats, Araucanas that lay blue-green eggs and the usual reliable Barred Rocks. We also have Boer goats that are only contributing wonderful fertilizer and hours of entertainment for our grandchildren. They are meat goats and we initially thought we’d breed them. However we became rather fond of the girls and we haven’t found anyone interested in goat meat. Worldwide, goat meat production is higher than cattle or hogs. We might still consider this a possibility. This year, having read that 80% of America’s garlic comes from China, I planted many beds of various types of garlic. We’ve a large vegetable garden, herb garden and many perennials. We have raised turkeys, ducks, geese and Guinea Hens in the past and have found them all interesting. I plan to have chicken eggs, herbs, garlic, flowers and fall decorative plants such as broom corn, gourds and Japanese Lanterns available.

Caring for God’s green earth takes time, patience, knowledge and way too much energy. I feel that caring for our lives and the life all about us matters. It is never done, it touches on the eternal and there is time enough.”

Nancy Tatara

Neverdone Farm

Ntatara@aol.com

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