Shopkeeper’s Dilemma
We don’t normally sell a lot of stuff on Sunday mornings. Mostly because we are not open. But today my daughter Jessalyn was visiting...
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Lyle Estill
- Nov 9, 2018
- 1 min
Post Industrial Snacks
We just took delivery of a bunch of Shagbark corn chips from Ohio. It’s our first “far away” specialty food offering–everything else we...
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Lyle Estill
- Oct 27, 2018
- 1 min
Persimmon Palooza
Persimmons are unforgiving. Pick them too soon and you with pucker up with a nasty astringent taste experience. Get them too late and...
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Lyle Estill
- Oct 23, 2018
- 1 min
Waning Chestnut Pie
Not long ago I would stop at the chestnut tree outside our tasting room and pick up three pounds of nuts in five minutes. Today I found...
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Lyle Estill
- Oct 9, 2018
- 1 min
Chestnut Pudding
It appears our new “Made in NC” Pantry project is getting legs. Today I took delivery of some new infused avocado oils at the tasting...
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Lyle Estill
- Oct 5, 2018
- 1 min
Wild Tasting Tuesdays
I came home from my Hurricane Florence evacuation to a yard full of prematurely downed chestnuts.When I kicked the outer husks off, the...
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Lyle Estill
- Aug 7, 2018
- 1 min
Wags to Witches!
Save the date for our upcoming fall event, Wags to Witches! We had such a great time at last summer’s Dog Days of Summer event with CARE...
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Lyle Estill
- Mar 29, 2018
- 1 min
New CSA in Town
For those of us accustomed to “eating out of a box,” there seems to be a shortage of CSAs around Pittsboro these days. Eva is fixing to...
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Lyle Estill
- Mar 6, 2018
- 1 min
Fair Game Chocolates at Blue Dot Coffee
When people started using Fair Game Amber Rum and Fair Game Apple Brandy in homemade chocolates, we started buying them and selling them...
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Lyle Estill
- Feb 13, 2018
- 1 min
It’s Not Too Late
The other day I delivered one of our Brandy Alexander gift crates to a customer on a construction site. He described last year’s...
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Lyle Estill
- Feb 9, 2018
- 2 min
Use Yer Crate
When you sell gift crates, the issue arises of what to do with them once the contents have been consumed. Our answer: bring them back. ...
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Lyle Estill
- Feb 2, 2018
- 2 min
Alexander the Crate
I finally have a Valentine’s Day crate ready to go. The ink was still drying on the artwork tonight when I showed it to a couple of...
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Lyle Estill
- Jan 13, 2018
- 1 min
Spirits on Fire
Over the holiday break on the Outer Banks my son Arlo lit a bottle cap of Fair Game Apple Brandy on fire. It was a gentle blue flame...
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