Posted in Planet Earth, Sustainability on Jan 28th, 2010
I just got back from a remarkable trip in the Patagonia region of Argentina, an area famed for its gauchos and cattle ranching. We spent a few days in El Calafate, a town just north of the turn the Andes mountains take towards the east, separating the upper mass of South America from the islands [...]
Posted in Planet Earth on Jan 22nd, 2010
Today we will be selling Creole Popcorn again. This time around the proceeds will go to benefit the American Red Cross and their relief efforts in Haiti. Come down and grab a bag to snack on this afternoon. Let’s get real . . . I know you are all looking for an excuse to get [...]
Posted in Food + Eating, Sandwich Shops on Jan 21st, 2010
The best days in the Homegrown Sandwich Lab are those spent tasting new menu items. We put each new offering through a set of rigorous tests and only those that survive the gauntlet of taste are rewarded with a menu spot. That being said, our newest item Homegrown’s Cranberry-Currant Granola took a rather circuitous route [...]
Posted in Food + Eating, Planet Earth, Sustainability on Jan 20th, 2010
After reading last week about ‘Pink Slime’ I think that we have all taken a second look at our annual burger intake. The hits keep on coming for the industrial beef industry. A massive beef recall was announced recently from a California meat processing facility, Huntington Meat Packing. It is reported that over 800,000 lbs [...]
Posted in Food + Eating on Jan 18th, 2010
We’re tired of wasteful box lunches and all the trash and cardboard piling up at the end of lunch, so we ditched the box. Each of our Tote Lunches is served in a reusable tote bag, made from 100% post-consumer recycled materials, and packed with great food, wrapped in 100% compostable packaging. We consider our [...]
Posted in Food + Eating, Planet Earth, Sandwich Shops, Sustainability, The 206 on Jan 14th, 2010
We are selling homemade organic Creole Popcorn for $5 – 100% of proceeds go to Yele Haiti’s Earthquake Fund. Chef Rob created a homemade Creole seasoning for our popcorn in hopes of raising aid and relief funds for victims of the earthquake in Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. We chose Yele Haiti’s [...]
Posted in Food + Eating, Homegrown Blends on Jan 13th, 2010
We roast a lot of our own meats and in the process, we developed some great seasoning rubs that will help you take your culinary adventures to the next level. Below are some of our gourmet organic blends. Our Smoked Cajun Blend is a great combination of smoky and spicy flavors – perfect for any [...]
Posted in Food + Eating on Jan 13th, 2010
So we’re launching some tasty offerings alongside our sandwiches, soups and salads. Coming soon: Cranberry-Currant Granola (Homegrownola as I like to call it) and our Garlic Brioche Croutons created from Boulangerie Nantaise’s amazing organic brioche made with rum and orange blossom. I wanted to call them Chronic Brioche Croutons… but alas Homegrown Chronic Brioche Croutons [...]
Posted in Sustainability, The 206 on Jan 13th, 2010
Last night was a big night in Fremont as roughly 600 Sustainable Seattleites came out for a Seattle Greendrinks (@seagreendrinks) event at Evo, just down the street from us. We packed up some Homegrown Blends (our brand new organic seasoning line), brought some t-shirts and homemade hazelnut-caramel corn, and headed over to set up our [...]
Posted in Sandwich Shops, The 206 on Jan 10th, 2010
So many great things happened this year. Opening up Homegrown to the welcoming arms of the Fremont neighborhood and the Seattle community was definitely the highlight to beat. In our short 23 years of living on planet earth, it felt so good be accepted by our hippy neighborhood and patronized by so many in the [...]