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Farm Fresh from local & organic farms to Nectar plates!
Our focus at Nectar is on using the freshest and most sustainable ingredients we can get our hands on! This includes both locally and organically grown produce and meat. We work closely with many farms in the area. Check out their information below!
CleanFish
"CleanFish is a company, an aspiration and a movement to promote seafood that’s the best of the season, better every season. We bring together artisan producers — both fishermen and farmers — and champion them in the marketplace under traceable, transparent brands.
Our network of artisans are stewards of their fisheries, and we are stewards of their stories as we connect producers to chefs and consumers in a celebration of fish you can trust with a difference you can taste."
Cowgirl Creamery
In 1997, Sue Conley and Peggy Smith opened Cowgirl Creamery in Pt. Reyes Station, CA. Today, Cowgirl Creamery continues to make just a small collection of cheese -- four, soft aged and three fresh, totaling about 3,000 pounds per week. However, their circle of cheesemaking friends has grown like wildfire and they now distribute extraordinary artisan cheeses from over 60 of America's and Europe's most prized producers.
Yellow Springs Farm
Yellow Springs Farm Native Plant Nursery and Artisanal Goat Cheese Dairy, founded by Catherine and Al Renzi, is located in Chester Springs, Pennsylvania. The farm and nursery consists of an historic farmhouse, dairy barn, a springhouse with pond on 8 acres of land. Orginally a dairy farm 150 years ago, they purchased the farm in 2001 protecting it from future development with a conservation easement. Their focus on conservation landscaping comes from the knowledge that preservation of our environment, including waterways and woodlands in both our residential and rural areas is necessary to insure the future health of the planet and ourselves.
PA Noble
PA Noble supplies Nectar with their all organic, classic cheddar cheese, using a vegetable rennet, and aged a minimum of 11 months!
Common Folk
Working with Lancaster Farm Fresh, an organic co-op, Common Folk has been able to provide Nectar with a fabulous Blue Cheese made from cows' milk, and utilizing vegetable rennet to keep their cheese truly vegetarian!
Amazing Acres Goat Dairy
Amazing Acres' Nubian goats are grass fed in the summer and hay fed in the winter along with healthy grains! All of their goats are CAE free, which means they are able to keep the kids with their mothers for two months, rather then seperating them at birth, thereby reducing stress on the goats, and allowing for both a happier goat and a healthier cheese. Amazing Acres' cheese uses vegetable rennet, and is a great example of fresh-aged goat cheese!
Pineland Farms Natural Meats
Pineland Farms Natural Meats prides itself on producing the highest quality NATURAL beef that is simply delicious, tender, and melt in your mouth flavorful! From its humble beginnings on the rocky coast of Maine to its present day representation of over 250 farming families, Pineland Farms Natural Meats continues to maintain the same missions and goals: to stengthen family farms across the country, to raise cattle with dignity and integrity and to ensure only the highest quality beef makes it to your table!
Oley Valley Mushrooms
With a passion for harvesting wild mushrooms, Joseph and Angela Evans started their mushroom farm in 1999. The couple specializes in both Oyster and shiitake Mushrooms, and have plans to incorporate other varieties. Oley Valley sells directly to Nectar as well as other restaurants, Winter Harvest CSA, West Chester Green Market, and the Reading Terminal Market at the Fair Food Stand.
Northstar Orchard
North Star Orchard is located in southeastern Pennsylvania, and specializes in growing high quality fruit that is normally not available commercially. Ike and Lisa Kerschner grow over sixty varieties of Modern and Heritage Apples, seven types of Asian Pears, over thirty kinds of peaches and plums, as well as European pears, nectarines, berries, and cherries!
Cross Creek Farm
Located in nearby West Chester, Cross Creek Farm produces herbs and honey. Owner Tina Miller raises roughly 25 culinary herbs that she sells to local chefs. With help from her father-in-law, Tina recently incorporated honey bees into her farm, which pollinate her plants and impart her honey with nectar from herbs!
Windy Acres Farm
Amish Farmer Abram L. Stoltzfus, in Lincoln University, PA, and Windy Acres Farm have been working together to achieve production through the winter with the addition of two hoop houses as well as two green houses heated by wood burning stove.
Branch Creek Farms
On their twenty-one-acre farm in Bucks County, Mark and Judy Dornstreich have been growing outstanding produce, such as heirloom vegetables and micro greens, since the 1970s and providing the best restaurants in the area, including Nectar, with their exquisite harvest!
