Sweetwater Local Foods Market
Saturday, July 22nd, 2023
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!
Sweetwater Pledge to Customers
Loads of veggies available for walk up sales Saturday!
Scholl Farm will have Sam’s (The Woven Farm) produce and a limited amount of her first of season blueberries!
Julie at The Pasturage is layed up with a knee surgery. Drop her a get well quick to thepasturage@gmail.com
Please keep the farmers experiencing catastrophic flooding in Vermont in your thoughts. If you want to help: NOFA Farm Emergency Fund. https://www.nofavt.org/donate-now
Hope to see you at the market!
Vendors Attending Saturday July 22nd:
Blackbird Farm of Coopersville
The long, drenching rains last week have relieved our drought conditions somewhat, and the crops in the field are responding accordingly.
This Saturday at market we will likely be bringing:
PEAS: Snap peas, sweet and crisp, in limited quantities.
BROCCOLI: Very high quality heads and florets, likely some of the last we will see until fall.
MINI-CABBAGES: Half the size, but twice the fun.
We will also be bringing:
Kale, red and green curly
Head lettuce, red and green looseleaf and butterhead
Fennel
Scallions
Radishes
Summer squash
Zucchini
Basil
We will also have a few flower bouquets from Shel’s cut flower garden.
Looking forward to seeing friends old and new at market this weekend!
Greg & Shel
Blackbird Farm
Funny Farm of Grant
Hello, it seems spring sprang straight into summer at the Funny Farm and
the harvest is getting bigger. A few new things this week to change
stuff up a bit.
Summer squash and zucchini
Kale, curly and dino
Giant kohlrabis, tender and not woody
Basil, sweet, lemon and globe for drying
Lettuce,romaine and crisp
Potatoes, freshly dug
Carrots, small and tender
Beets and beet greens
Swiss chard and a few Chinese cabbages.
There may be something else, we seem to find something new every Friday. If you’d like something reserved for you, please text me at 734 945 0720 and I’ll have it ready for you. Thanks to all for your support this season! See you Saturday!
Barb Loe
Funny Farm
The Woven Farm of Whitehall
Happy Friday!
The field is looking fuller and fuller with these bouts of lovely rain showers, and I am looking forward to bringing an array of veggies and flowers for walk up sales!
I am also looking forward to the debut of blueberry season! Our berries are just beginning to ripen, and I plan to have a very limited amount available for walk up sales this week. Berries will be available in pint and quart containers – These blueberries are from an existing blueberry farm on our property that has been out of production for 5+ decades (the blueberries however are productive as ever!!) These, along with everything grown on the farm are chemical free, Certified Naturally Grown, and Grown with love!
I am looking forward to sharing this week’s harvest with you!
I will be away from the market this week, so Connie with Scholl Farms will be bringing this week’s harvest to market for me.
Cheers to good growing!!
Samantha Otto
Farmer; Food+Farm Edu
The Woven Trifecta
231-215-6008
www.thewoventrifecta.com
Pine Row Farm of Rothbury
Hello :-),
We will accept orders until 5pm on Friday. If you miss the deadline or prefer to shop in person, I do bring a selection of what’s available every Saturday. I will try to get totals emailed out by 9:30pm on Friday. If you don’t get a response from me, please contact me. We accept cash or check payable to Pine Row Farm.
100% grass fed beef:
Prices listed are per pound. Orders are filled in the order we receive them.
Ribeye $18
Rib steak $17.50
NY strip steaks $17.50
Sirloin sizzlers $11.50
Round steaks $7.75
Brisket $9
Rolled rump roast $8.50
Chuck roast $8.50
English roasts $8.50
Arm roasts $8.50
Short ribs $7
Shank $5.75
Ground beef $7.25
Ground round (vacuum sealed) $8.25
Ground round (tube pack) $7.75
Ground sirloin (vacuum sealed) $12
Ground sirloin (tube pack) $11.50
Soup bones $2.25
Suet $1.25
Oxtail $6.25
Tongue $6.00
Kidneys $4.50
We sell by halves and quarters. There is one quarter left in August, and a half or two quarters in October. Please let me know if you are interested, or if you would like on the list for 2024.
Sale! We have ground beef bundles available in 25, 50, 75, and 100 pounds. Save 25 cents a pound on 25#, and 50 cents a pound on 50# or more, while supplies last! We have enough ground round and ground sirloin on hand to offer the same sale.
***New: Jersey beef, 100% grass fed
If you are looking to try Jersey beef, we have most of the cuts listed above, plus some that we normally don’t carry (like Korean cut short ribs, Denver steaks, and chuck steaks!). Please specify that you would like Jersey on your order. These are smaller size cuts.
Pork
We will have pork available in a couple of months. It is Idaho Pasture breed, born and raised on the farm, and never had any vaccines or medications. We raise our pigs on pasture, hay, and a small daily portion of certified organic grain. Please contact me if you would like a half or whole. Thanks!
Poultry
All of our poultry are free range, locked in nightly, and have certified organic feed.
*Chicken eggs are $6/dozen.
Duck eggs are $10/dozen.
*Orders for chicken eggs have been rolling in over the weekend, and we’re nearly sold out for Saturday. Please don’t give up on us. I have 52 lovely little chick hens that should begin to lay in September. I’ve been raising them since early April. They will likely tip the scale from a supply issue to a demand issue.
Honey
We will bring the following honey:
Plastic squeeze bottles:
1# raw $8
2# $12
Glass canning jars:
Pint raw $10
Quart raw $16
Beeswax
1# block $10
Old fashioned boiled maple syrup, powered by wood! Glass jars only. Mother Hubbard’s maple syrup:
Pints $10
Quarts $20
Kasza Sugar Bush Maple Syrup
Glass containers.
Quarts $20
Gallons $55
See you Saturday!
Sarah
pinerowfarmgirl@gmail.com
231-861-5215
Scholl Farms of Montague
Egg Preorders only again this week:
Limit up to one flat per customer.
EGGS, Chicken – $6.00/doz. Duck – $10.00/doz. Goose – $2.00 each
All our products and produce are raised/grown organically using 100% certified organic feeds for our animals.
Rhubarb $3.00 a bundle.
Place all orders via voice message at (231) 893-1311. Leave your name, phone number and speak slow and clear.
Thanks So Much,
Stu and Connie
Laughing Tree Bakery of Hart
Due to staffing issues we will not be at Sweetwater Saturday July 22nd. If customers would like to place an order for pickup at the Muskegon Farmers Market they can email me at hilde@laughingtreebakery.com We are open there from 8–1pm. We will be back to Sweetwater for Saturday 7/29 and then we will not be baking at all for the weekend of August 5th.
To place an order and PRE-PAY please go to www.laughingtreebakery.com
Please pre-order by Tuesday at 6pm.
To pay with cash or check at pickup send an email order to: Hilde@laughingtreebakery.com
Hilde and Charlie Muller
Laughing Tree Brick Oven Bakery
231-873-9820
Find us on facebook and Instagram
www.laughingtreebakery.com
RETURNING SOON
The Pasturage of Montague
Alas, we will not make Sweetwater again this weekend on 7/22. I am still recovering from surgery on my knee and it’s not going as fast as I had hoped! We will probably be at Muskegon; it may not be me at the stand, we’ll see. We expect to be back to Sweetwater on 7/29. Keep your fingers crossed. In the meantime, consider joining the other intrepid folks that have traveled to the farm in search of good vittles. We are so honored! As always, our pre-order form is the most accurate and informative place to see what products we have to offer short of being on the farm or at our market stand: https://form.jotform.com/231266729632056 or you can always call/text 231 288 6112 or email thepasturage@gmail.com
Earthscape Farm of Hesperia
We will return soon.
Liberty Farm of Hart
We will return soon.
The Wrights
Liberty Family Farm 231-873-3737
Forest Finds is now Dirty Roots Healing!
Forest Finds has rebranded! Dirty Roots Healing is our new name. Still the same amazing herbal products. I am going to continue to carry the favorites, along with new seasonal items.
As always I can be contacted for orders, for pickup at Henry St Health Hutt, or I can ship items. Find our new menu at: DIRTY ROOTS-1 Email us at dirtyrootshealing@yahoo.com or leave a message at 616-834-3233We will not be back at Sweetwater until mid July. Thank you for your support!
Love, Cody
In Case of Severe Weather: Cancellation Notice
If we need to cancel a market due to severe weather I will send out a separate email no later than Friday evening before a market notifying you that we will be closed. I will post the same message to our FB & Instagram pages as well as the website. If you know people who are regulars to the market and not in the habit of checking emails please let them know. Thanks!
INSTRUCTIONS FOR How to Pre-Order
1. Look over the list. Each vendor has a unique deadline for when they need to receive your pre-order depending on their product. Send your pre-order by email to each vendor you want to order from, within their required deadlines.
2. Vendors will respond back by no later than Friday before market day with an order confirmation and an invoice that in most cases will allow you to pre-pay for your order. If a vendor is not set up to take payment online they will accept checks (preferred) or cash on market day pickup.
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Contact the market
(231)742-8477 (leave a message).
Email: sweetwaterlocalfoodsmkt@gmail.com
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To remind everyone about what is unique about Sweetwater, here is a link to the Sweetwater Pledge to Our Customers. This Pledge is signed by all vendors, and we stand behind Sweetwater Pledge to Customers