season ten
810 Meadworks – mead
Great Lakes Shrimp Co. – shrimp
Elmhurst– oat milk, walnut milk, and sweetened hazelnut milk
Oles Farm/Promised Land CSA – yellow and red onions, leeks, and shallots
Reverie Creamery – Luna, a petit brie, and Tom, a tomme-style cheese

season nine
Iroquois White Corn Project – dried corn kernels, white corn flour
CHQ Local Foods – dried Cherokee trail of tears and adzuki beans from Abers Acres
Dark Forest Chocolate – bean-to-bar chocolate and cacao nibs
BreadHive – specialty breads

season eight
Oles Farm / Promised Land CSA – beets
Lloyd Tortilla Factory – fresh masa and flour tortillas
Barrel + Brine – fermented and pickled foods
Plato Dale Farm – pasture-raised eggs

season seven
Oles Farm / Promised Land CSA – celeriac and rutabagas
Elm Street Bakery – bread
Hoover Dairy – chocolate and whole milk
Wendel’s Poultry Farm – turkey
Stillwater Farm – lamb

season six
CAO’S Green Entrepreneurial Center – winter carrots
Dispenza’s Meat & Slaughterhouse – goat
Public Espresso + Coffee – coffee and espresso
Flat #12 Mushrooms – fresh shiitake, enoki, and bella mushrooms

season five
Arden Farm – kale
Coppa Artisan Meats – pancetta and lardo
Community Beer Works – ale
Nickel City Cheese & Mercantile – mozzarella and burrata

season four
Massachusetts Avenue Project – greens
Leonard Oakes Winery – hard cider
O’Brien’s Smokehouse – beef
First Light Farm & Creamery – chévre and feta

season three
Dan Tower Farm – apples
H2Gro – greenhouse tomatoes
Flying Bison – beer
Painted Meadow – duck eggs

season two
Sorrento – whole milk ricotta
Green Heron Growers – dried shiitake
Grape Growers’ Cooperative – grape concentrate
Singer Farm Naturals – balaton cherries
Baldwin Hill Farms – maple syrup
Arrowhead Spring Vineyards – wine
T-Meadow Farm – pork
Good Grass Farm – chicken

season one
Eggland’s Best/Kreher Farm – eggs
Spar’s European Sausage – sausage
White Cow Dairy – quark, cream, and yogurt
Oles Farm/Promised Land CSA – potatoes

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