Our Spring Collection

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WSM is your local source for a well curated selection of spring décor, home accents and gifts, from April Cornell and PPD to Caspari and Merritt Designs. Check out our spring collection today.

Celebrating Earth Day Every Day

Walter Stewart’s has long been committed to offering eco-friendlier products and eco-responsible practices.

  • US Food Rescue
    Walter Stewart’s has teamed up with US Food Rescue and their volunteers to tackle the problem of food waste head on. US Food Rescue picks up all of their edible perishables every day, and transports the food to local food pantries and social service agencies. 
  • Curbside Compost Program
    The rest of our food waste, approximately 20 bins a week, is composted by Curbside Compost. In our first year composting we have diverted 107,000 lbs or 53.5 tons of food scraps from the waste stream. 
  • Compostable Produce Bags
    Walter Stewart’s offers the only compostable produce bag approved for use in New Canaan’s Food Scrap program. 
  • Re-Usable Bags
    We offer an excellent selection of re-usable shopping bags, from stylish, handy Blu Bags to WSM insulated box bags!  Use your T-Bill rewards towards the purchase of our WSM reusable totes.
  • Sustainable and Eco-Friendly products
    You’ll find greener household cleaners and laundry detergents, we use eco-friendly compostable produce bags instead of plastic, we offer a glass bottle deposit/return program with organic glass bottled milk from Trickling Springs Creamery, we of course also offer re-usable shopping bags and we are committed to offering the best selection of local fare from the finest CT producers (East Coast Kombucha, Simply Delicious, Millstone Farm, Il Palio Fresh Pasta, Baldanza Soups, Whistle Stop Bakery Pies, Wave Hill Breads, Shearwater Organic Coffee, Fat Stone Farm, Gilbertie’s Herbs, Arethusa Milk and so many more!), as well as organic and sustainable foods, and bio-dynamic wines. We recently replaced all of our inefficient fluorescent lighting with LED lighting and upgrading our refrigerated cases to new more-efficient models (check out our Dairy Doors!).
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Easter Candies & Chocolates

Fill your Easter baskets with the finest gourmet candies and handcrafted chocolates and take your Easter egg hunt to a whole new delicious level with eye-poppingly-colorful foil wrapped eggs. Walter Stewart’s is your local source for the best selection of Easter candies, treats and decor!


Walter Stewart’s will be closed Easter Sunday.

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Featured Cheese: Jasper Hill Creamery Harbison

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Award-winning Harbison farmstead cheese from Jasper Hill Creamery is a bark-wrapped bloomy-rind cheese with woodsy, sweet, herbal, and bright flavors. The bark, cut from Jasper Hill Farm’s woodlands in Greensboro, Vermont, holds the delicate cheese together, provides flavor to the creamy paste, and allows for an ideal presentation as the centerpiece of a cheese plate. Aged 3-6 weeks, this Jasper Hill original cheese is soft-ripened with a rustic, bloomy rind.

HARBISON is named for Anne Harbison, affectionately known as the grandmother of Greensboro. Along with breathtaking views, traditions and people are part of what makes Vermont’s working landscape special; we’re proud to honor Ms. Harbison’s contribution with this cheese.

SENSORY NOTES  – Harbison is a soft-ripened cheese with a rustic, bloomy rind. Young cheeses are wrapped in strips of spruce cambium, the tree’s inner bark layer, harvested from the woodlands of Jasper Hill. The spoonable texture begins to develop in our vaults, though the paste continues to soften on the way to market. Harbison is woodsy and sweet, balanced with lemon, mustard, and vegetal flavors.

PAIRING AND SERVICE  – Harbison is a great excuse to gather a few friends and scoop into a decadent treat. When a bit younger, the bark can be peeled away for sliced portioning. If the bark has fused with a more loosened paste, then the best approach is to leave the bark intact and spoon out portions from the top. Pair with oaked white wine, or barrel-aged sour beer. Fruit mostarda and crusty bread make nice accompaniments.

 

Peak Season Winter Citrus: Red MandaRosas

If you’re looking for the perfect piece of citrus to liven up the winter doldrums, Red MandaRosas are the mandarin for you. A blood orange and mandarin cultivar, these Sicilian-created and California-grown sweet, juicy globes, are just waiting to be added to salads, cocktails, vinaigrettes & desserts.  The flavor and internal colors of this variety vary and change as the fruit matures, very much like blood oranges, with some fruit having red/purple pigment & others more reddish orange.
Sure the weather may be dreary but it’s peak season for so many delicious citrus varieties! Enjoy two of our favorite navel oranges: Heirlooms and Cara Caras! The large juicy Heirloom is ultra-sweet with an amazing old world taste. With plentiful low-acid juice and little or no seeds, Caras are one of the most popular of all navels!
Shop Stewart’s for all of your favorite peak season Winter Citrus varieties:
Red Mandarosas Heirloom Navels, Clementines, Cara Caras, Navel Oranges, Organic Navel Oranges, Organic Tangelos, White Grapefruits, Pink Grapefruits, Star Ruby Grapefruits, and more.

Featured Local Cheese: Arethusa Bella Bantam


Bella Bantam With the comforting aromas of fresh, buttered popcorn, Bella Bantam is supple and creamy, making it the perfect snack time staple. Bella Bantam, a toma-style, open textured cheese. Mild, sweet and tangy, an easy-eating cheese, great for melting.
AGE: 1-4 MONTHS
PAIRINGS: BELGIAN FARMHOUSE ALES (NORBROOK FARM BREWERY SAISON), CHARDONNAYS (PAUL HOBBS CROSSBARN OR DECOY SONOMA CHARD)
Arethusa Farm Dairy
Bantam, CT
In 1996 two ex-executive at Manolo Blahnik footwear, Anthony Yugaitis and George Makelmus purchased a century old horse farm across the road from their home in Litchfield, CT, and decided to revive the original dairy that stood in that spot a century before. They started out selling milk from their herd of Jersey, Brown Swiss, and Holstein cows which later evolved into a cheese-making venture. They use only milk from their highly pampered, purebred cows. They pride themselves on providing the absolute highest level of care for their animals and like to say “Great milk comes from great cows, and great cows come from Arethusa”.
 

Peak Season Winter Citrus

Sure the weather may be dreary but it’s peak season for so many delicious citrus varieties! Enjoy two of our favorite navel oranges: Heirlooms and Cara Caras! The large juicy Heirloom is ultra-sweet with an amazing old world taste. With plentiful low-acid juice and little or no seeds, Caras are one of the most popular of all navels!
Shop Stewart’s for all of your favorite peak season Winter Citrus varieties:
Heirloom Navels, Clementines, Cara Caras, Navel Oranges, Organic Navel Oranges, Organic Tangelos, White Grapefruits, Pink Grapefruits, Star Ruby Grapefruits, and more.