Distinctly Montana Magazine

SEASONAL FRUITS AND VEGETABLES duced beef. Fresh, pastured lamb is far more flavorful than lamb from 6,000 miles away. A few of Montana’s producers are listed below: • BIG SKY NATURAL BEEF, INC. (406.276.3626) raises Highland Beef in Dell and Forsyth. Buy their beef at the Good Food Store and the Clark Fork‘s Market in Missoula or from them directly. • HALF CIRCLE RANCH (www.organicpiedmontesebeef.com or 406.388.0563) raises lamb and beef in Belgrade and sells at the Community Food Coop in Bozeman, Billings, and Helena, as well as online. • LIFELINE FARM (www.lifelinefarm.com or 406.642.3873) in Victor offers their beef and pork in Missoula, Kalispell, Helena, and Bozeman at a number of grocery stores and farmers’ markets. • GRAPEVINE RANCH (www.grapevineranch.com or 406.690.4643) near Billings raises predominantly Black Angus cattle and sells their beef at the Good Earth Mar- ket in Billings. • FARM TO MARKET PORK (406.755.5326) near Kalispell raises pork and sells their roasts, chops, ribs, and sausage at the farm store and at the farmers’ market in Kalispell and the Clark Fork River Market in Missoula. Free-range chickens taste the way chicken should taste. They have texture and flavor. Eggs from chickens that move around eating bugs and grass have deep golden plump yolks with a distinct egg flavor. • NEW ROCKPORT COLONY (406.466.2112) near Choteau sells their products throughout the state as well as turkeys in November and December. • SEDER RIDGE TURKEY FARMS (406.656.2701) near Ballantine sells their turkeys at the IGA and Good Earth Market in Billings. • GOOD EGGS FROM THE MOIESE VALLEY (406.644.3022) sells their eggs at the Good Food Store in Missoula. Fresh milk, butter, and cheese from local cows and goats have the flavor of the mountains and high plains. • LIFELINE FARM’S herds of Brown Swiss cows produce all of their milk, butter, and several cheeses, such as Cheddar, Jack, Brie, and Feta. Their products are sold at a number of grocery stores in Montana as well as the Farmers’ Market and River Market in Missoula. • Two-hundred-eighty goats supply the milk for the Chevron, Feta, and Ricotta cheeses produced at AMALTHEIA DAIRY (www.amaltheiadairy.com or 406.388.5950) near Belgrade. These cheeses can be found at Albertsons and Safeway and online. MAY JUNE JULY AUGUST beets, carrots, mustard greens, lettuce, Swiss chard, radishes, rhubarb, scallions, asparagus, beets, green beans, carrots, lettuce, peas, radishes, rhubarb, scallions, Swiss chard apples, beets, green beans, carrots, cherries, cucumbers, garlic, herbs, lettuce, peas, scallions, strawberries, Swiss chard apples, apricots, beets, green beans, blueberries, carrots, celery, cherries, cucumbers, eggplant, garlic, herbs, huckleberries, lettuce, melons, shallots, summer squash, strawberries, sweet corn, tomatoes SEPTEMBER apples, beets, broccoli, carrots, celery, eggplant, garlic, lettuce, melons, onions, pears, potatoes, pumpkins, shallots, sweet corn, tomatoes, winter squash OCTOBER apples, beets, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cab- bage, carrots, celery root, escarole, kale, onions, parsnips, pears, potatoes, pumpkins, rutabagas, shallots, Swiss chard, turnips, winter squash For a complete listing of farmers’ markets, go to www.aeromt.org/food-ag/farmers-market/. Montana is famous for its grain, especially its high-pro- tein winter wheat, and produces other grains and legumes as well. If you can’t grow your own, the following prod- ucts are available: • WHEAT MONTANA FARMS AND BAKERY (www.wheatmontana. com or 406.632.4804) near Three Forks sells a variety of breads, grains, flours, and mixes at Albertsons, Safeway, IGA, and many other stores. • CREAM OF THE WEST (www.creamofthewest.com or 406.632.4804) near Harlowton provides three cereals and a pancake mix made from Montana grains. They are found at Albertsons and Rosauers Supermarkets. • TIMELESS SEEDS (www.timelessfood.com or 406.278.5722) based in Conrad and Ulm, produces barley, flax, lentils, chickpeas, and split peas. They are available at the Community Food Coop in Bozeman, Good Earth Mar- ket in Billings, Good Food Store in Missoula, Real Food Market in Helena, and Third Street Market in Whitefish as well as other stores in Montana. www.distinctlymontana.com 103

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