May 2025 Update

Announcements 

• July 4th pre-orders are now open! Fire up the grill with local farm products sourced by Radius. Pre-ordering is a great way to reserve your favorites and save time at the shop. We have burgers, brisket, pulled pork, sausages, chicken wings, shrimp skewers, dips, and a bunch more available for pre-order. 
• Wholesale tallow available. We have local, pasture raised, grass-fed and -finished tallow available in bulk quantity. If you are a skincare or wellness company interested in local tallow, reach out to us at hi@eatradius.com.
• Refrigeration stability. Last month’s update shared our recent refrigeration woes. I’m pleased to say our refrigeration is  stable and hopefully will stay that way 🤞 Our freezer is fully back and filled with ice cream, gluten-free products, doughs, bulk ground meats, organ meats, and a bunch more. 

The Pursuit of Flavor 

“Do you have peaches today??” This was by far the most common question I got last month from friends’ texts, Instagram messages, and support emails. Each time there was at least two question marks, maybe an exclamation point, usually a heart eyes emoji too. I love the excitement in this question.

I love it because the experience of eating a Radius peach is the experience of eating food as it should be. I love it because once you eat a Radius seasonal peach, you can’t go back to eating grocery store peaches. I love it because it’s the perfect symbol of our mission — to foster a food system optimized for nutrient density and flavor rather than yield and transportability. Every peach, every tomato, every fennel bulb, every hand-tied oregano bunch, every shrimp, steak, and chicken breast at Radius is a symbol of our continuous effort to build a food system we admire. A food system built on the union of regeneration and flavor. 

There are many different definitions of regenerative agriculture. Some focus on the practices - mob grazing, cover cropping, no till, crop rotations, no sprays. I believe in all of these practices. But to me regenerative is a philosophy beyond practices. To me it’s when the art of growing food heals the land. It’s a perpetual motion machine of food outputs without external inputs like fertilizer, pesticides, or herbicides. It is generative, not extractive. And the best part of regenerative ag? The flavor. We believe flavor comes from regenerative growing practices, flavor-optimized genetics, and a short transportation cycle. 

Take for example how Trosi Farms in Elgin raises peaches, blackberries, and melons. Farmer William Nikkel uses regenerative practices to manage pests and fertilize the soil. He approaches farming as an ecosystem of soil, plants, inspects, and animals that all must be in balance. In his words:

Most crucial to our blackberry flavor is feeding the soil life and providing adequate water and fertility to promote growth. We are moving blackberries to organic and regenerative fertility and pest management. This includes many proactive efforts to interrupt lifecycles of problem insects. This year in blackberry cultivation we used Cardoon and Sunflower rows to attract leaf footed bugs and then we sprayed organic pesticides on just those rows. Proboscidea Louisianica is another plant we grow intentionally because it’s semi carnivorous and attracts many small flying insects which often vector plant diseases. For organic fertility we primarily use fish hydrolysate, seaweed, molasses, and indigenous micro-organisms fed through our irrigation systems. 

Peaches have been managed completely organically and regeneratively this year. Fertility comes from dry humates. We used Nematodes to address the greater and lesser peach borer last winter. We also use dormant sprays and sulfur to prevent disease as best we can, and Elbon Rye to suppress weeds and add biomass. Hundreds of thousands of pounds of composted mulch added yearly. 

Melons were fertilized with years of compost, chicken bone meal from Radius, and molasses. The bone meal promotes root growth allowing better scavenging of nutrients and more flavorful melons. 

Trosi Farms also raises different breeds to extend the harvest season. Each breed has a slightly different flavor and sweetness profile, which makes it even more fun to explore varieties each week and taste the difference. 

Blackberries

• PrimArk Freedom: April-Mid May
• PrimArk Traveler: Mid May-June 
• Wachita: Mid May-June 
• Odessa: Mid may-June 
• Caddo: Late may-July
• Ponca: Late may-July 

Peaches

• TexStar: Mid to Late May
• Midpride: Early to Mid June

This means peaches will be back very soon :) And once peach season ends, melon season begins shortly after. There should be a fig harvest soon too, which we’re really excited about. We hope you’re able to visit Radius soon to try all of these wonderful fruits raised with tremendous care and pride!