
Siren Shrub | Whitefeather Organics
Season 12 Episode 1 | 26m 47sVideo has Closed Captions
Head to Stevens Point and visit Siren Shrub Company and Whitefeather Organics farm.
Head to Stevens Point to visit Siren Shrub Company, home of the Door County Cherry Shrub. Siren gets ingredients for their shrubs — nonalcoholic drinks that incorporate apple cider vinegar, sugar and a fruit, root or herb — from local farms, like Whitefeather Organics. Tony and Laura Whitefeather invite everyone to their farm for a pizza night.
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Siren Shrub | Whitefeather Organics
Season 12 Episode 1 | 26m 47sVideo has Closed Captions
Head to Stevens Point to visit Siren Shrub Company, home of the Door County Cherry Shrub. Siren gets ingredients for their shrubs — nonalcoholic drinks that incorporate apple cider vinegar, sugar and a fruit, root or herb — from local farms, like Whitefeather Organics. Tony and Laura Whitefeather invite everyone to their farm for a pizza night.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship- Luke: This week on Wisconsin Foodie: I'm over the moon excited to meet with owners of Siren Shrubs, Mindy and Layne.
What is a shrub?
- Yeah, I'm excited you asked.
- It's not a plant.
So a shrub is actually a colonial beverage.
It came over on the sea and went away with refrigeration, and it came back with the craft cocktail movement.
It's made from three ingredients: organic apple cider vinegar, organic cane sugar or maple syrup, and then whatever fruit, root, or herb we're using.
- Luke: Should we make some shrub?
- Layne: Awesome.
- Mindy: Make some shrub.
- Luke: Okay, makin' shrub!
This is kinda like milking a cherry cow.
The sugar, the cherry, and that apple cider, that apple cider cuts it enough where it's not super sweet, but you get that vanilla, you get that fruit.
It's so balanced.
- Layne: Yeah.
- It's amazing.
- Tony Whitefeather: I think everyone gets to that point in their life where you're early twenties, and you're like, "Where do I fit in?"
In that question, I got familiar with organic agriculture.
It just kinda opened my mind into like, "Wow, maybe I don't need hundreds of acres of farm and dairy cows."
I could actually have a diverse vegetable farm and succeed that way.
Well, yeah, tonight we're going to have a bunch of awesome key players in our local food community around here, if you will.
We're gonna gather around the hearth and whip up some wild pizzas.
We have a set of different ingredients and we'll just kinda hodgepodge it to see if we can come up with some really cool pies.
- Luke: This is a killer vibe.
First and foremost, I love being outside.
Being able to cook outside, being in the open air, having the sunshine grace your back, the smell of wood smoke.
There is nothing better for me as a chef.
Cooking pizzas out here is a dream.
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[paper rustling] [slow, pensive music] Luke: I'm always on the lookout for interesting non-alcoholic beverages.
A fun fact: I gave up drinking alcohol 22 months ago.
I'm over the moon excited to meet with owners of Siren Shrubs, Mindy and Layne.
They're gonna walk me through the shrub making process and show me what this is all about.
- My name is Layne Cozzolino.
I'm the co-founder of Siren Shrub Company.
We make shrub sipping vinegars, which are a mixer that are made with three ingredients.
Organic apple cider vinegar, organic cane sugar, and then whatever fruit, root, or herb we're using.
They have a complexity that the vinegar brings forth that makes it feel like an adult beverage, even when it doesn't have alcohol in it.
But it also mixes perfectly with alcohol.
Since we first started making shrub and because of our relationship with farms, it was really easy to get our hands on seasonal ingredients and just start experimenting with things.
So we always did that in our home kitchens.
Once we started the business, it was like we'd still do that but then you had to get a little bit more meticulous.
You need to start weighing things 'cause you needed to know why this recipe turned out better than that recipe.
- Mindy McCord: What do we gotta get done today?
- All right, we're gonna make two shrubs, the cherry and the basil.
- Okay.
- We've got the cherries-- they're frozen, in the fridge.
We got them kind of prepped.
But the basil, we have to go to Tony's.
He's picking some specifically for this, so that's awesome.
When we first started experimenting with basil, someone gave us a whole bunch of basil out of their garden that they weren't going to sell.
We thought, "Basil, that's a weird one.
I don't know if that's gonna turn out right."
And then we made it and it was amazing.
So, I approached Tony and asked if he'd be willing to put in a bed of basil for us or some rows, and he agreed.
It was the first product that we were able to launch.
The first year, we just made, like, 60 cases, I think, which was a full run at the Wisconsin Innovation Kitchen, just to see how it would go.
And then, the next year, we scaled up and then we've continued to scale up since then.
Now, he grows about 1,500 pounds of basil for us and it doesn't get any fresher than that.
So, it's really great.
- Tony Whitefeather.
we're in Custer, Wisconsin on the farm.
We started in '06.
We acquired the land and we started from scratch.
Everything you see, we've brought here.
We've built the buildings from driveway to well, to fertile fields.
We've started from scratch, I guess, yeah.
I think everyone gets to that point in their life where you're early twenties and you're like, "where do I fit in?"
In that question, I got familiar with organic agriculture and it just kinda opened my mind into like, "Wow, maybe I don't need hundreds of acres of farm and dairy cows."
I could actually have a diverse vegetable farm and succeed that way.
So I feel like not only are you growing produce, but you're growing community.
At this point, I've watched a little kids eat our produce and grow up and it's great to have that connection with them.
Layne with Siren Shrubs?
Yeah, we go back quite far.
We've always stayed close, obviously, and then in touch.
Then when she started her business venture with the Siren Shrubs and brought up basil, I was really stoked.
I've always wanted something-- I kind of still get a kick out of a very large harvest of a certain crop.
So, I was in for the challenge.
We've been working together now for a few years on this and getting through the bumps and hurdles it takes to create a very local product.
We try to harvest this at peak potency and get it to Layne and the crew there within 12 hours so they get a really nice product, get as many oils into the shrub as possible.
You know, she's trying hard for it.
It's not easy.
She could easily take other ways to make her product without doing it locally.
Live long and prosper, basil!
- Layne: There he is.
- Mindy: There's Tony.
- Layne: Checking it out.
- Hey, Layne, Mindy, how you doin'?
- Mindy: Tony.
- Tony, thanks for the basil.
- Tony: Yeah, absolutely.
Excited for another year of basil.
- Mindy: It's lookin' good.
- Tony: Yeah, it is.
- Layne: It's looking awesome.
- We brought you some sparkly.
It's ice cold.
- Oh, dang, oh, yeah!
- Not all for you.
You have to share it with your crew.
- Tony: Oh, you got it.
- Mindy: We've got more than four.
- Oh, yeah.
Oh, that's done well, yeah.
[both laughing] All right, well, what do you think comin' back later for some pizza on the farm?
- Oh, that would be awesome.
- Yeah.
- All right, we'll see you later.
Thank you so much.
- All right, take care, Mindy.
- Good to see ya.
- For all of this.
We really appreciate it.
- We'll see ya soon.
See ya for pizza.
- See you later tonight.
Well yeah, tonight we're going to have a bunch of awesome key players in our local food community around here showing up, and a meeting of the minds, if you will.
We're gonna gather around the hearth and whip up some wild pizzas.
I feel like we're not gonna stick to any certain design.
It sounds like we have some other cool people involved in mixing it up.
So I think we'll just-- We have a set of different ingredients and we'll just kinda hodgepodge it to see if we can come up with some really cool pies.
Yeah.
[cheerful music] - Luke: In Wisconsin, we have a plethora of alcoholic drinks to choose from.
But I'm always on the lookout for a non-alcoholic drink that adds all the complexity and flavor of things that we normally associate with alcohol.
Today we're gonna check out Siren Shrubs, and these craft makers are putting together beverages that completely exceed the expectation for a non-alcoholic beverage.
Thank you so much for having me in your home and talking us through today.
What is a shrub?
- Yeah, we're excited you asked.
- It's not a plant.
So, a shrub is actually a colonial beverage.
It came over on the sea and went away with refrigeration.
And it came back with the craft cocktail movement.
It's made from three ingredients.
Organic apple cider vinegar, organic cane sugar or maple syrup, and then whatever fruit, root, or herb we're using.
- Fruit, roots, and herbs.
I like that.
It's got a nice vibe to it.
- Mindy:Fruit, roots, and herbs.
- So what we do in the fruit version, we marry sugar and fruit together for 24 to 48 hours.
You let that break down the fruit and create a syrup that then you strain off.
You'll be doing that today.
Straining off the cherries, getting as much of the juice as possible.
Then, it's a marriage with the vinegar, then a heat up process for that pasteurization.
Then you bottle it or you can put it in your fridge and you don't have to can it.
But that's the way we do it.
- You wanna get started?
- Layne: Sure.
- Should we make some shrub?
- Layne: Awesome.
- Mindy: Make some shrub.
- Okay, makin' shrub!
- All right, so what we've got here is Door County Cherries.
This is the sugar that we're going to be adding to this.
So once you give it a spoon, you get the cherries all coated.
Then we would set that aside for 24 to 48 hours.
- And the reason we set it aside is to get that full-- you keep using the word "marriage"-- that full marriage of like that fruit juice and the sugar.
But also there is a little bit of fermentation probably, that happens here, correct?
- Yeah, definitely.
You know, it breaks through the skins and the fibers of the fruit.
So that's what you're trying to get, is as much of that as you can.
So then, you know, after you get through the pressing process, you'll see the skins that are leftover.
- Sure.
We have these cherries that have been basically marinating and marrying with that sugar.
I'm going to put on the old black apron here because I can see.
- Layne: Yeah, we're gonna stand back.
- Okay, I can see this getting a little messy here.
- Mindy: This is a messy job.
- So I'm going to squeeze these?
- Mm-hmm.
- It's just as simple as you're making this out?
- Layne: Get in there, yup.
- This is kind of like milking a cherry cow.
I think.
[laughter] Moo, yeah.
- Layne: You wanna squeeze until your hand hurts.
- Luke: Yeah, this is fun, okay.
- All right, so you've got the cherry-sugar marriage.
- Yup, cherry-sugar marriage.
- So organic apple cider vinegar actually comes from a company called The Vinegar Guys.
I will put this on the stove and get it cookin' and then you guys can start de-stemming the basil.
- Luke: Are we gonna take the leaves off?
Is that what we're doing?
- Layne: Yeah, we're gonna take the leaves off and then we're gonna just give it a little bit of a rinse.
- Luke: Sure.
- 'Cause it's straight from the field.
So with this one, we're gonna wait to put this in.
We're gonna start with this marriage and then we're gonna heat this up and then we're gonna add it in.
- Luke: So more vinegar?
- Mindy: Yeah, also you wanna dump the sugar in.
- Okay.
This, what we're making right now is, it's a mixer concentrate, correct?
So this is different than what you would get in a can because that's already been diluted?
- Layne: Correct.
- Okay, cool, cool.
Thank you for clarifying that.
So I just cram this basil in there?
- Mindy: Yeah, you can just put it in there.
Yup.
And then stir it around.
- Bubble, bubble, toil and trouble.
- Layne: So you guys can bring over the cherry and put it into those containers there.
- Sweet.
Oh, this is lovely.
- Yeah, that'll knock your socks off.
- That wasn't smart.
- It's very fumey.
- Oh, did you put your-- did you go down and smell it?
- Yeah.
So since this home kitchen is used to make this batch, does this technically qualify this as a shrubbery?
- Yeah, sure it does.
- A place where shrubs are made?
- Yeah, anywhere a shrub is made is a shrubbery.
[Luke laughs] - All right, we have cherry and we have vinegar, and we have sugar, all married and heated up.
Okay, can I taste it?
- Mindy: You can taste it.
- Luke: Okay, great.
- Hot, it's gonna be a little stronger on the apple cider vinegar than it would be cool.
- You get the cherry, too, right?
- Mm-hmm, ooh.
That's actually really nice.
The sugar, the cherry, and that apple cider.
That apple cider cuts it enough where it's not cloying and super sweet.
But you get that vanilla, you get that fruit, and you get such a-- I mean, it's so balanced.
- Yes, yeah.
- It's amazing, great.
All right, so in the bottle.
- Mindy: Into the bottle.
- ["Dust on the Bottle" spoof] ♪ Might be a little shrub in the bottle ♪ So we have five different flavors of shrub, but our cherry is our most versatile out of them all, I'd say.
- Luke: When you say versatile, what do you mean?
- Mindy: I mean that you can use it in pretty much anything.
It pairs really well in whatever your favorite drinks are.
- So we have the basil infusion, correct?
- Correct.
- We've steeped it like it's a tea, almost?
And pulled out that essential oil and all that good stuff with that sugar and vinegar.
You mind if I taste it?
- Mindy: Please do.
- Cool.
Oh yeah, there's that vinegar again.
Mm.
It's herbaceous.
I mean, you get that basil in there.
Basil itself is, I mean, it's really well-suited.
I think like mint is often suited to be a savory herb.
Basil is really well suited to be a sweet herb.
There's all those, like, comforting, soothing qualities about basil that really work well in this, and that vinegar, again, it gives it levity and lightness.
So I just pour this right in here?
- Yep.
[liquid sloshing] - Mindy: Perfect.
Get the leaves out.
- Luke: Look at that.
- All right, so are you gonna join us at Tony's tonight for a pizza party?
- Am I invited?
- Yeah.
Whitefeather Organics; I think you've been there.
Maybe?
Not yet?
-Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, no, no.
- Okay, cool.
They're going to have ingredients from their farm.
Mindy and I'll be mixing up cocktails.
- Is there anything I can bring tonight?
- Cheese.
- Cheese?
That happens to be my jam.
[laughter] Is there a place you would suggest going here in the community to source?
- Yeah, the Stevens Point Area Co-op.
They carry Siren Shrubs and you'll find lots of good things there.
- Okay, great.
I am so appreciative of being able to have the opportunity to meet you all, but also to be an honorary shrubist?
Can I be an honorary shrubist?
- We'll think about it.
- Oh.
[Mindy and Layne laughing] Thanks, ladies.
[Luke laughing] [relaxing music] - Taylor Christiansen: The Stevens Point Area Co-op has been around for almost 50 years.
Next year is our big 50th anniversary.
We're a small cooperatively- managed grocery store in a nice, small neighborhood in the middle of Stevens Point.
The co-op prides ourselves in being able to work with a lot of local vendors, whether they're small farmers or growing producers like Siren Shrub.
But we are able to work with not only local businesses, but we really focus on regional.
So Wisconsin-made, Midwest-made products.
I've worked with Whitefeather for the past couple of years.
It's been really fun because I used to work doing wholesale, so I would pack the microgreens on a Tuesday and then unpack them on a Wednesday here at the Co-op while on my shift.
So it's been really fun to see the product growing out in the field, harvest it, clean it, and then get it to its final home here.
And then be able to sell it to customers, too.
So the full process is really fun.
- So I had to get some local cheese and I stopped in at the food co-op in Stevens Point.
Little known fact that these tiny cooperatives are usually the hub of the good food movement, or at least the small farm community, in any community you can find one.
- Why are you buying so much cheese today?
- We're having a pizza party.
- Oh, right on.
- You can't have a pizza party in Wisconsin without a lot of cheese, right?
- Oh, for sure.
[relaxing piano music] - Tony Whitefeather: Three hours 'til pizza cookin' time and that's when I like to give it a good stoke on some hardwood.
I started the fire at about 10 this morning, just to kind of get it going.
Slowly warm up the walls of the hearth.
The main thing we're doing is trying to get heat to go down into the floor, 'cause that's where it's hardest to cook pizzas over time, is the bottom heat gets cold 'cause you keep putting a pizza down and it cools it, pizza down and it cools it.
Not only that, fires don't like to necessarily drive heat down.
So the reason to really keep stoking it is trying to keep that area so hot that a lot of it resonates into our mass below on the floor.
So yeah, it should be really good.
Should be tasty.
- Hey, what's up, Tony?
- Hey, how you doin', buddy?
- I'm great.
It's good to be here.
Thank you for having me.
- Yeah, right on, yeah.
- So what are we doing today?
- We're having pizza, bro.
Yeah, we got a bunch of awesome Pointers here that are movers and shakers of the community, local food community.
We're gonna celebrate and have some pies.
- I love it.
Let me help out.
Is that cool?
- Yeah, yeah.
What you could do is do the dough skills, if you don't mind.
- Do the dough skills.
- I'm used to like flippin' pies, so I can judge how the quality.
I'm not good at stretching, but.
Let's see the magic.
- Let's see if I got it.
- Whoa, ho, look at, he's warmed up, man.
- Yeah, that's right, baby.
- Look at that.
- Get it up there.
That's how we get it goin'.
Now, it's a party.
[clapping] - Here's the array.
Let let's make random pies.
Whatever you feel inspired to do, but remember, don't overload it.
- I won't overload it, okay.
The trick to a crispy bottom pie.
- Yeah, not overload it.
- Don't overload.
All right, here we go.
I'm gonna try this little.
Let's try this one.
This is an aioli.
- Tony: Oh yeah.
- Have you ever put mayonnaise on a pizza before?
- Dude, no.
This is like, yeah, no, first time.
- Luke: Let's do some scapes.
Man, these are beautiful.
These grow on the farm?
- Yup, farm scapes.
We had them just split in half so they can cook in that short amount of time they'll be in there.
- Luke: Some beets, steamed.
- Oh yeah, beet-za.
- Beet-za.
Let's do just a little tomato if that's cool.
- Tony: Oh yeah.
- So all this comes from your farm, right?
I mean like the shiitake mushrooms here and the beets, and is that bok choy?
- Yep, we got choy.
That was our first field green this year, first cherry tomatoes of the season there.
It's garlic season so you've got the scapes there.
I like it.
- How's that look?
- Well, let's see if it's got the wheels.
Does it move?
Oh yeah, we're looking good.
- I still got it, baby, I got it.
- Yeah, you do.
- Here we go.
- Tony: All right, let's let her fly.
- Luke: Tony, tell me a little bit about Whitefeather Organics.
- Well, you know, it's a passion of vegetables, long strolls down the field, [chuckles] and I love the community, man.
I just, you know, it's like I wanted to feed.
You don't have a healthy community unless you give them some healthy food, right?
- That's totally true and it seems like this place is kind of like the connection point for so many people in Stevens Point.
- We've been around a while, man.
We really take it serious.
We really love our produce.
We love our people.
It's like really a passion.
- Being out here, surrounded by these beautiful people, you can see why, man.
You've got good ideas, good energy just oozing out of this place.
- I appreciate that, man.
I just, you know, just think with my heart and work hard, man, yeah.
- That's what it takes.
- Yeah.
- Here we go.
- Right on.
- Let's make some pies.
- Yeah, let's do this.
- Oh, man, look at that thing.
- Tony: Yeah, pretty.
- Luke: Dude, we're on to something here.
- All right, I got two pies to hit the floor with.
- Two pies.
- All right.
I'm gonna spread it out so there aren't fights going on here.
- Wow, thank you!
- Here you go.
I mean just mob.
It's all you guys.
We're gonna keep bringing 'em out, all right?
Yeah.
[cheers and applause] - This is a killer vibe.
First and foremost, I love being outside.
Being able to cook outside, being in the open air, having the sunshine grace your back, the smell of wood smoke.
There is nothing better for me as a chef.
Cooking pizzas out here is a dream.
You know what I want for this pizza?
Seriously, I want an egg.
Oh, so good.
- We can get you one.
We can get you an egg.
- Eggs on pies?
- Yeah.
- All right, I would love an egg on pie.
- All right.
[chickens clucking] - This is where you wear a glove 'cause some of them are a little bit meaner than other ones when you try grabbing their eggs.
[chickens clucking] - This will be a first for me, man.
An egg on a pizza.
I mean, I think I've tried a lot but this is awesome.
- Really?
- Tell me.
- So eggs on pie.
This is like a totally Neapolitan thing.
You take these farm-fresh eggs right here.
What I do is I crack it right in the middle and I want it to land just like that.
I'm gonna take and throw just a little bit of, you know, salt and black pepper on it 'cause it's an egg, right?
You want it to cook and then we're going to cook it right on top of the pie.
We are gonna get a nice custardy yolk here and that albumin is gonna set.
That white will set and it creates this experience where the sauce is in the egg and then it drips into the pie, and it's this wonderful sensation.
Once you try egg on a pizza, I promise, you never go back.
- Dude, it's crazy.
- So Tony tell me, how long have y'all been on the farm here?
- 15 years now, yeah.
It's kind of mind blowing.
- Luke: It's kind of like the Wisconsinite dream, though.
The re-emergence of agriculture and the re-emergence of culture.
And as you look out here, I mean, that's exactly what you've got.
You created an entire network of people that subscribe to this because they believe in it and they believe in you, and that's amazing.
- Yeah, I feel fortunate and lucky 'cause I think it would be really hard to get up and go in those fields every day if I didn't know I had an awesome community to cheer it on and you know, enjoy it with them.
- Yeah.
To feed.
- Yeah.
- That's a big responsibility.
- All right, well, this is my first time cutting in one of these and you say, right through the center?
- Luke: Right through the heart.
Like the Bon Jovi song.
Oh yeah, look at that thing.
- Oh yeah.
Nice, I like it.
All right, you get one over here.
Let see, and one over here.
It looks like.
That one's got an egg.
That's a first for me.
That's a first for me on the egg.
Yeah.
- Layne: Tony, I gotta say, being able to be out here and be connected to the farmer, to the food, to the people that appreciate good food.
This is a chef's dream.
To work with a live fire and an oven, and get the essence of this storyline, this relationship, this intention.
Thank you so much for this opportunity.
- Yeah, man.
This is great.
I'm glad we could hit that sweet spot for you, man.
It's a treat to have you here too.
- Oh, thanks, I appreciate that.
[upbeat acoustic music] I feel like, you remember that "Kali Ma!"
The guys who ripped a heart out in "Indiana Jones?"
[upbeat music] - Yeah!
Like this one in the currant, for sure, when you're squeezing it, you're like, oh, it looks like a blood bath.
Yeah.
- If I was in the store, this is not how this would normally look, correct?
- Man: Are you actually doing this now or are you just practicing?
- I'm laying it out.
- Man: Okay, maybe stand up straight instead of leaning down.
Let's do that.
- I'm just gonna lay down.
- Man: Clap on, Luke.
[Luke clapping] Thank you, sir.
- Thank you, baby.
- Are we ready?
- Man: Yeah, roll it.
[hand smacks] Ooh!
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It's on everything we make.
- At Organic Valley, our cows make milk [cheery whistling] with just a few simple ingredients.
Sun, soil, rain, and grass.
[bubble popping] And grass, and grass.
- Cow: Yee-haw!
[angelic choir music] - Organic Valley Grassmilk, organic milk from 100% grass-fed cows.
[banjo music] - Employee-owned New Glarus Brewing Company has been brewing and bottling beer for their friends only in Wisconsin since 1993.
Just a short drive from Madison, come visit Swissconsin, and see where your beer's made.
[upbeat music] - Wisconsin's great outdoors has something for everyone.
Come for the adventure, stay for the memories.
Go wild in Wisconsin.
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