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Great time to Grow!

Pick up a packet of seeds to start your spring!
While we are all spending more time at home, now is a great time to start plants growing for the summer, or to have fresh herbs in your kitchen.

Some good varieties to start early include tomatoes, onions, peppers, basil, parsley, cabbage, squash, cilantro and cucumbers!

All you need are seeds, a container, water, dirt and sun!

Seeds from Seed Savers Exchange.

Showing support for rural grocery stores.

Support your local grocery stores. The New York Times published an article Nov 5th, highlighting the lack of accessibility to grocery stores in many of the same places that contribute to food production for the U.S.. (Click the image below to be brought to the full article.) In our community, every purchase you make, large AND small, is a contribution that allows us to stay open and continue offering locally sourced products.

Your participation matters to us! Thank you!

Holiday Bundles – A perfect customizable way to entertain.

Thanksgiving is right around the corner, but have you thought ahead to all the holiday gatherings after?
Order a Holiday Bundle from PDT. Customize your perfect Bundle with everything you need for the holiday party, or family get together and receive 10% off your entire order!

If you have any questions stop in store, or give us a call at 320-589-4332.

Follow the link below to begin!

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Featured Product- Beyond Burger

Not Your Mother’s Veggie Patties

By : Thomas Hiatt 

Beyond Burger is not simply another veggie burger as they contain no actual vegetables, but rather vegetable derivatives. The central idea behind them is to “build meat directly from plants” which basically amounts to a reverse-engineering of the process an animal uses to break down what it consumes while removing the animal altogether from the equation. 

 The top two ingredients are water and pea protein isolate, simulating the texture and nutritional make-up of real beef. Beet juice extract and pomegranate fruit powder are used for the “blood” coloration. Sunflower lecithin is added as a binder. Expeller-pressed canola and refined coconut recreate the marbling effect of a high quality grind.. 

Fried up as patties, they retain their juiciness. However, chopped up they tend to 

dry out and lose much of their moist, chewy, “meaty” texture. Another disadvantage is the product being sold frozen while the instructions state it be cooked thawed. A bit of patience is required.  These issues aside, they taste very close to real beef, fooling even some self-affirmed carnivores in taste tests.

 Concerns about the sustainability issues of the traditional livestock industry (i.e, the effect on the land, the environment, as well the bovines themselves) are addressed here (although, to be fair, some improved practices of the beef industry, such as the open range grass cattle feeding, are becoming more eco-friendly.)   

They are ideal for vegan, kosher or halal diets.