Sweetwater Local Foods Market
Saturday, July 19th, 2025
10:00am to 11:00am
Mercy Health Lakes Village
6401 Harvey St. at US31/Pontaluna Rd.
Contact info at end of newsletter
Supporting Small Local Organic Food Producers since 2005!
MARKET NEWS
Funny Farm, Pine Row Farm & The Pasturage have good stuff available for preorder this week. Be sure to see updated info for Blackbird Farm below.
Funny Farm of Grant
Hello, everyone. The weather has sure been crazy, Nice and cool, then
hot and muggy! the plants sure like it so far! Stuff is ripening fast!
More varieties coming pretty much every week now! Here’s my list for
this week. If there’s something you’d like reserved,
please text me at 734 945 0720 and I will put it on the list. Thank you
for all your support these past seasons and always. Hope to see you there!
Potatoes, Reds and Nicola
Yellow squash
Zucchini
Cucumbers
Kale, curly and dino
Fresh pulled garlic, by preorder only this week
Zinnia bouquets, pretty colors
Barb Loe
Pine Row Farm of Rothbury
Hello :-),
Prices listed are per pound. Orders are filled in the order we receive them. Preorders are encouraged but I bring a selection for walk ups.
Ground round, vacuum sealed $8.50
Ground sirloin, vacuum sealed, $13.25
Round steaks $7.75
Short ribs, regular cut, $7
Rolled rump, chuck, arm, or English roast $8.50
Stew meat $9
Soup bones $2.25
Sale! Save 25 cents a pound on50 pounds or more of ground round
or ground sirloin, while supply lasts.
We sell by halves and quarters. Please contact me if you would like to be added to the waiting list for later this year.
Poultry
Unfortunately, this will be the last week for chicken eggs. Our hens were 2 in April and just haven’t been productive. We have finally scheduled them for processing. If you are interested in chicken for soup or other boiled applications, please contact me by the end of market on Saturday. There’s a $5/bird deposit due to reserve your order. They will only be available whole. Thanks.
All of our poultry is free range, locked in nightly, and has certified organic feed.
Please return your empty cartons. Thanks!
Chicken eggs are $7/dozen. Sold out
Duck eggs are $10/dozen.
Honey
Glass canning jars:
Pint raw $10
Quart raw $16
Beeswax
1# block $10
Tiny block $1.50
Maple syrup
Old fashioned boiled maple syrup, powered by wood! Quarts and pints are glass jars. Mother Hubbard’s maple syrup:
Pints $10
Quarts $20
We will accept orders until 5pm on Friday. I will get totals emailed out by 5am Saturday morning. If you don’t get a response from me, please contact me. We accept cash or check payable to Pine Row Farm.
See you Saturday!
Sarah
pinerowfarmgirl@gmail.com
231-861-5215
The Pasturage of Montague
Find us this Saturday,July 19th:
- Muskegon Farmers Market, Sat, 8-2, Julie and Linda tag-team
- Montague Farmers Market, Sat, 9-1, Gina hosting
- Sweetwater Local Foods Market, Sat, 10-11, Pre-order only
- Our online order form is https://form.jotform.com/2312667296320562
It lists everything we have in stock, the price, the average price per package, and for sausages and cured meats it also lists the ingredients. Then it asks you how you’d like to pay and gives you options where you can pick up the products you ordered. Once I receive the form, I collect the products and then send you a total. When you pick up is when you pay. You can always call my cell at 23one 288 6 one one 2 to place an order if that is easier for you.
Tootaloo!
Julie
Liberty Family Farm& Bakery
We will return to Sweetwater July 26th. We are also at Pentwater Farmers Mkt
Sweetwater Verified at Muskegon Farmers Market
Kaufmans Certified Organic Produce of Fremont
We will be at Muskegon Farmers Market Saturday July 19th with the following:
We will bring:
Broccoli
Cabbage
Cauliflower
Cucumber
Green onions
Sweet onions
Red onions
Red potatoes
Yellow & zucchini squash
Bell peppers
Jalepeno peppers
Red Beet Bunches
Kale
Tomatoes
Cherry tomatoes
Herbs:
Fresh dill
Fresh garlic
Stevia
Basil
Cilantro
Parsley
Thyme
Rosemary
Lavender
Thanks.
Allen Kaufman
Laughing Tree Bakery
See you at the Muskegon Farmers Market on Saturday from 8–2pm. Stall 135.
Tortoise & Hare Farm of North Muskegon
We have been back at the Muskegon market since May 3. We will be there every Saturday until sometime in October. Our plant sale is ending this week. Our weekly farm stand has begun and will move to Wednesday nights from 4:30-6:30 pm starting Wednesday, June 4.
Our farm store website can be found athttps://tortoise-hare-farm.square.site/s/order#QAVY3RDJ2SUEWHIIYVFNW44L
Established in 2018,Tortoise & Hare Farm grows a wide variety of Certified Naturally Grown vegetables. We are dedicated to growing clean, safe, high quality vegetables without the use of pesticides or synthetic fertilizers. We offer a summer CSA and weekly farm stand at the farm (3940 N. Weber Rd, Muskegon, MI 49445).
The Montague Farmers Market – If you’re traveling to the Montague area be sure to stop in to the market Saturday’s from 9 to 12:30! You’ll find some friendly faces – Scholl Farm, The Pasturage and The Woven Farm plus more new young farmers to support!
Sweetwater Verified farms along the lakeshore
Blackbird Farm of Coopersville
News and Notes
- Our cut-flower beds are overflowing with all manner of beautiful blooms readyfor harvest. We will be opening up the flower patch to the public for bouquetnights on Mondays and Wednesdays (6:00 pm to dusk) starting next Wednesday,July 23 (weather permitting), and running through the beginning of October.As always, you are welcome to harvest what you like and pay what you wish.
Weare also booking private bouquet gatherings—perfect for birthday parties,bridal showers, church groups, and more!—on the weekends. Reach out to Shelat hello.blackbirdfarms@gmail.com if you’reinterested in learning more.
- The good Lord willing and the creek don’t rise, we should finally be able tooffer the first of our Second Saturday on-farm markets on August 9, 9:00 amto 1:00 pm, where we’ll be selling veggies, flowers, and fruit, and will likelyhave some you-pick options as well. Hope you can join us!
- Throughout the rest of the summer and into the fall, you can find BlackbirdFarms produce at the Grand Haven and Muskegon Health Hutts, with freshdeliveries made each week by Saturday morning.
You can also subscribe to our newsletter here:https://blackbirdfarmsnews.substack.com/about
Hope to see you out at the farm!
Greg
Blackbird Farm
Shady Side Farm of Holland
We have an on-farm store that’s open each Wednesday & Friday afternoon from 1-4pm. We are located at 13275 Blair St, Holland 49424, just 3/4 mile east of US-31 between Grand Haven and Holland. We’d love to have you visit!
Lona
Shady Side Farm
info@shadysidefarm.net
Get news, recipes, and alerts from the farm: https://mailchi.mp/ffb92e5e9f09/shadysidefarmsubscribe
Hidden Creek Farm of North Muskegon
Everything here on our farm is raised with love and care until it is ready for harvest. We do this WITHOUT the use of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO’s), pesticides, herbicides, chemicals, hormones, steroids, or antibiotics. In addition to all the above our livestock is also corn, soy and wheat free. We focus on raising our livestock with a pasture and produce based diet. Our on Farmacy farm store is open Monday-Saturday from 9am-6pm
https://www.thehiddencreekfarm.com/
1230W River Rd, Muskegon, MI (616)796-5696
Dirty Roots Healing of Muskegon
See my website https://www.dirtyrootshealing.com/shop for details. To keep up to date with all my new products, classes and latest news sign up for the Newsletter at my website.
Thanks all for your support!
DirtyRootsHealing.com
DirtyRootsHealing@yahoo.com
616-834-3233
Thanks!
Cody
The Mannor Farm of Hesperia
Here are the markets we will be attending this week:
Newaygo Farmers Market 2pm-6pm Friday 7/18/2025
The Farm Market (our farmstand) will be open 9am – 4pm Saturday 7/19/2025
corner of 168th Avenue and Arthur Road, Hesperia
We plan to return to Sweetwater Market on August 2nd.
Along with many other items, we will be offering the following:
Naturally Grown Brown Eggs Our hens are cage free and fed a 100% natural non-GMO diet. Our eggs are collected daily, are clean but not washed, and are packed in new cardboard cartons and stored in our walk in cooler. Large Eggs $3.00 a dozen. 4 dozen for $10 We suggest pre-ordering and paying online since we tend to sell out early once the season gets rolling.
Naturally Grown Chicken Raised on a 100% organic diet. All our meat is processed in a MDARD or USDA Inspected facility. Our next batch of chicken will be available the week of 7/28/2025. We are accepting pre-orders now for whole, spatchcocked, livers, hearts, and backs. At this time this will be our last batch of broilers for the season. To view everything we offer, go to Shop at The Mannor Farm (https://mannorfarm.eatfromfarms.com/shop.php) to pre-order (we will finalize the orders when the chicken is processed).
Pre-Orders for the markets are appreciated. We will have items available for walk-up sales at all the locations except SWEETWATER (pre-order only).
We accept cash, credit/debit cards, Senior Fresh, and SNAP/EBT (Bridge) cards.
Dan & Linda Mannor
The Mannor Farm LLC
5595 E Arthur Road
Hesperia, MI 49421
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Contact the market
Email: sweetwaterlocalfoods@gmail.com
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