Meat & Pickles!

As many of my classmates have posted, the Pawtucket Wintertime Farmers Market is an unexpected community of wonderful people and even better goods. It is located at 1005 Main St, Pawtucket, RI, and the venue is massive, featuring local food trucks that use local ingredients from all of the vendors. Two large hallways are packed with a variety of vendors of sustainable goods. I had the pleasure of speaking with a handful of these vendors about their sustainability and how their supply chain is local.

Fox Point Pickling

I met a local pickler named Ziggy, who followed his dream of making pickles. He founded Fox Point Pickling Company, and he conducts his business by making pickles on the weekends, and giving out samples of different types of pickles during the week. He makes two different kinds of pickles, dill and spicy dill, but continues to revise the recipes all the time in order to make them perfect. When he isn’t making pickles, he works for the local food vendors dropping off food to local supermarkets, keeping him in touch with the agricultural community. He recently won two awards at the pickle convention in New York City, and Bryant students have taught him how to handle his company's finances. His wife, who is in this picture, helps him sell pickles at the market.

Daniele Inc

After talking with Ziggy I met the distributors from Daniele, Inc. The local family has been making charcuterie in America for over fifty years, but they continue to be family-owned and operated since moving here from Northern Italy. They are extremely friendly at their table, just like the rest of the community. They offer plenty of samples to try and professionally sealed packaging of all sorts of meats from prosciutto to chorizo. They kept all of their farmers local and are able to ship all through out the U.S. and around the world.

FUN FACT:
Daniele, Inc won the Good Food Award for a new line of artisan charcuterie.




If you have not had the pleasure of trying either Daniele specialty meats or Fox Point Pickles, I strongly urge you to head out to the Wintertime Farmers Market this weekend to explore and taste for yourself. I personally will be going back because there are more incredible people to interact with. It is important for communities to support sustainable and local businesses.

Before you head out this weekend to the Farmers Market, make you sure you continue to read this blog to learn more about our experiences and different vendors. Also, continue to follow our blog as we will be posting while we are in Costa Rica exploring more sustainable companies and supply chains.

I will also be posting more information on my Twitter account for my personal experience down south.

Cheers,
Jake Lamar (@jakelamar29)