Sourcing Philosophy & Farms

Local. Natural. Simple. Food. These four sourcing principles keep Radius focused on our mission to celebrate and spread local, seasonal home cooking.

Local

Eating local is better for our health, small farmers, the community fabric, and the environment. And most important of all, local ingredients taste the best. Radius will have everything you need to cook local, seasonal homemade meals. Perishables will be from Texas, and select high-quality non-perishables will be from outside Texas to make seasonal cooking more approachable. Cook with local pastured meat, organic produce, heirloom grains, small-batch eggs and dairy, and wild-caught Gulf seafood plus Italian heirloom grain pasta, Sri Lankan spices, and Danish vinegars. 

Natural 

The plants and animals we eat should have an evolutionarily appropriate and regionally adaptive lifestyle, and the farms and ranches that raise them should be regenerative systems. Plants should grow in a polyculture, cows should graze on grass, chickens should eat bugs and peck seeds, fish should swim freely in the ocean. Animals should eat from the land, fertilizer should come from animals, water should be conserved and recycled, soil microbiomes should be protected and nurtured. 

Simple

Food should be grown and cooked, not manufactured. Food should be selected for nutrition and taste, not transportability, growth rate, aesthetics, or size. When deciding between two options of the same product, we choose the simpler one. The spice blend that only has spices rather than the blend that has spices plus anti-caking agents. The beef provider whose cows eat grass rather than feed with a blend of grains and mineral additives. The cooking oil that is pressed or rendered rather than degummed, bleached, and deodorized.

Food

Radius sells food. Radius is not an everything store. No towering center aisles of processed packaged goods and paper products, no endless options in every subcategory, no 30,000 square foot warehouse to navigate. Just the most delicious and nutritious local food plus a selection of spices, sauces, and non-perishables to make home cooking easier. If you can’t eat it or cook with it, you won’t find it at Radius.

Farms and Purveyors 

Guidelines are great, but examples are better. Here are local farms that align with our sourcing philosophy. We'll highlight more farmers as we build out our sourcing program!

Peeler Farms

• Grass-fed and finished wagyu beef
• Rotationally grazed on pasture with seasonal planted grasses  
• No hormones or antibiotics
• On-site processor to reduce stress on the animal

Behind the Oaks

• Color Yield heirloom, slow growth chickens
• Pasture-raised, access to outdoors and natural forage, rotated regularly
• Intentional about supplemental feed - sourced locally, organic non-GMO, low PUFA. 
• Nearby processor to reduce stress on the animal

Trosi Farm

• Texas-acclimated fruit and vegetable varieties. 
• Polyculture seasonal plantings. 
• Korean natural farming, an organic agricultural method that uses microorganisms (bacteria, fungi, nematodes, and protozoa) to produce rich soil and high yields without chemicals.
• Natural animal-based fertilizers (manure, blood, bones)