Koepsels Farm Market Baileys Harbor, WI
(920) 854-2433
Koepsels: Order online for memorable wintertime food giftsLike many Chicagoans, we love to drive to Door County, Wisconsin for weekend getaways. Our favorite time of year is the autumn, when the fall colors are spectacular and the delicious foods made from local fruits and produce are ready to devour. We always stop at the renowned Koepsels Farm Market (open for 52 years) for foods to bring back to Chicago. Although wintertime in Door County is usually a place of quiet solitude, Koepsels’ owners Kevin and Karrie Oram and their children, Karina and Kami spend the indoor months busily producing their products and shipping them to online customers.
So, if you can’t visit in person, the next best thing is to go to their website (www.koepsels.com) and design your own food gift collection online. You’ll find a rich selection of jams and jellies, no sugar jams, butters, pie fillings, canned goods, pickled goods, dried goods, cheese and salad dressings, all nicely packaged. Let’s highlight the many choices.
If jams and jellies are your favorites, you can choose from a wide range of traditional and creative varieties: red chopped cherry, whole cherry, red cherry/red raspberry, cherry amaretto, red hot raspberry, blueberry/cherry, hot pepper jelly, strawberry, peach, rhubarb, red currant, boysenberry, apricot, blackberry, apple, apple cinnamon, cranberry. If you prefer a no-sugar added jam, try blackberry, strawberry, peach, red cherry, blueberry, strawberry rhubarb, just to name some.
Koepsels’ butters offer the delights of fruit and autumn veggies in a spreadable, less sugary form. Try cinnamon candy apple butter, sweet potato butter, pumpkin butter, apple butter, unsweetened apple butter, peach butter, prune/walnut butter, cherry butter.
Koepsels offer delectable fresh pies at the store, but you can make them at home using their freshly canned pie fillings, in regular and low sugar varieties: cherry, cherry amaretto, red cherry/red raspberry, raspberry rhubarb, peachberry.
There are plentiful choices of packaged and canned goods available online. Here are just a few to consider: milk or dark chocolate covered cherries, dried cherries with or without sugar, dessert cherries, applesauce with or without sugar, hot fudge, sauerkraut with or without caraway, corn relish, red pepper relish, Vidalia sweet onion relish, mild salsa, black bean and corn salsa, cherry salsa (amazing!), Vidalia onion peach salsa.
If you’re a salad lover, Koepsels’ dressings will add a festive, artisan touch, made with Vidalia onions: poppyseed, cucumber, peppercorn, ranch, summer tomato.
Finally, add some 2- or 4-year Wisconsin cheddar cheese to your package and you will bring some true north country joy to your loved ones.
We love Koepsels’ products and the friendly, helpful style of their entire staff. So if you appreciate the specialness of a well-run family food business, please keep this Door County treasure in mind.
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