Reviews for: The Hiday Farm

It has a creamy flavor with a little bit of sourness. We use it in place of sour cream and sweeten it with honey or jam.

Me again. I had to write another review after just having tasted the amazing Mangalista pork that Dan and family raise. I have been wanting to try this pork for the last couple of years after reading about it on the internet. Let me tell you, it did not dissapoint. I bought a few different cuts from Dan this past weekend, one being a pork steak that would make a prime cut of beef jealous. The marbling of fat throughout the meat was beyond anything I'd ever seen before. Think of Mangalista as the Kobe beef of pork. That marbling made for not only the most tender pork steak I'd ever eaten, but the most flavorful. Now to find a chest freezer.

I was introduced to Dan and his products down at Eastern Market in Detroit a couple of years ago. I was intrigued by his pastured, all grass-fed beef. Let me tell you, it's the best beef I have ever had. My job affords me the opportunity to travel to different locales, including Brazil and Argentina, places known for their beef. While their's is good, Dan's is better. It reminds me of the beef I used to have as a kid before everything became "corn fed" bland.

For my first taste, I decided to go with something simple and made burgers from some ground beef. The one thing that I've always found with pastured beef versus mass produced, is how little of the fat renders out. Dan's ground beef didn't disappoint. Those burgers were tender, juicy and full of flavor. I've had some other pasture raised beef before that was so strong in taste/smell, it was almost inedible. Not this beef. It has a nice, rich flavor to it without being overpowering.

Eating the steaks and roasts helped confirm that I had made the right choice in buying Dan's product, and will continue to buy from him.

We've just completed our second year with the Hidays. The vegetables were great and plentiful. I'm not a huge meat fan, but the beef we bought was the best I've ever had. My husband was so enthused that this year, we have gotten chicken, a huge turkey, pork, and more beef. I bought him a freezer for his birhtday. Dan, Holly, and the boys are generous and caring folks. They host their customers at a spring and fall event. I planted a pumpkin in the spring, and I carved it in the fall. Plus it's a beautiful drive out there.

As returning customers of the Hiday Farm veggie CSA, we were thrilled to get our first box of veggies this week. There was a combination of lettuce, kohlrabi, potatoes and broccoli in our box. An unexpected treat was the box of fresh Michigan strawberries Dan handed us. We enjoyed the strawberries for dessert tonight.

Last year I found the vegetables to be very high quality and abundant. Each week during the summer we looked forward to discovering what was in our vegetable box.

Dan and family are hard workers and they go the extra mile to please their customers. They have a special pumpkin planting in the spring and host the pumpkin harvest in the fall.

The Hiday farm is a well run CSA and we love being part of the fun.

We joined the Hiday CSA in 2008 for vegetables and were completely satisfied with every aspect of the CSA. The Hiday family is warm and welcoming. The produce is organic, of superior quality and our weekly share regularly included extras like fruit or a landscape plant. The Hiday family welcomed shareholders to farm events, allowing a first hand view of their operation and opportunity to get to know them better. Our boys particularly enjoyed planting their own family pumpkin plant and touring the farm on the hay wagon.