Sweetwater Local Foods Market
Saturday, March 1st, 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
Liberty Family Farm returns again this week to join Pine Row Farm & Scholl Farm will be at market with potatoes. Updates on The Pasturage funding situation. Blackbird Farm wants you to know that their winter veggies are still showing up on Health Hutt shelves in Grand Haven and Henry St Muskegon stores! Check below for more info.
Please note: There is CSA info for The Mannor Farm, Tortoise & Hare Farm & The Woven Farm below! It’s that time of year when farms need to spend a lot of $$ to get ready for the season, so please consider a CSA option this year!
Accepting Preorders for Delivery to Market on March 1st:
Liberty Family Farm & Bakery of Hart
PASTURED POULTRY
Fresh Eggs- $6.00 per dozen, NON-gmo feed. limited
Whole Chickens- $ 6.50/lb average wt. Is 4-6 lbs.
Breasts- $12.25 /lb
Thighs- $8.00/lb
Wings- $6.00
PASTURED PORK NEW !
NEW! Nitrate Free Bacon $12.00/lb- I
NEW ! Nitrate Free Ham Slices $9.00/lb
NEW ! Nitrate Free Hocks $7.00/lb in stock
NEW ! Pork Chops $9.00/lb in stock
NEW! Breakfast Links $10.00
NEW! Maple Breakfast Bulk $10.00/lb in stock
NEW! Garlic Basil Sausage 1 lb/ $10.00 in stock
NEW! Italian Bulk Sausage 1 lb/ $10.00 in stock
NEW! Ground Pork 1 lb/ $7.00 in stock
BAKERY ITEMS made fresh for you with Organic ingredients
New! Sourdough Sandwich Loaf $8.00
SOURDOUGH Plain Loaf $8.00
SOURDOUGH JALAPENO & CHEDDAR BREAD $12.00
SOURDOUGH BAGELS $6.00 EACH – Plain or Everything
SOURDOUGH CHOCOLATE CHIP SCONES $3.00 each
SOURDOUGH GINGER SCONES $3.00
Spinach & Cheddar Quiche made with Organic ingredients! $17.00
Broccoli & Cheddar Quiche made with Organic ingredients $17.00
Quiche can be ordered Gluten Free.
Classic Banana Bread- $8.00/large
Classic Banana Bread with Organic Chocolate Chips- $10.00/large
Organic Pizza Crusts (4pk)- $5.00
Please email orders to- libertyff@gmail.com
Questions- 231-873-3737
~ Andy & Dennise
Scholl Farm
I will be at the market Saturday for walk up sales only of my Purple Potatoes. These are the same famous Purple Potatoes featured on the Hearthstone Restaurant menu! $5 a quart. Please bring your own containers, thanks.
Stu Scholl
Pine Row Farm
Hello :-),
I am so incredibly thankful for the warmer temperatures. I’m also appreciating the lengthening daylight hours.
100% grass fed beef:
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. The processor has raised some of their prices, and we have increased ours accordingly.
Ground beef $7.25
Ground round, vacuum sealed, $8.50
Ground sirloin, vacuum sealed, $13.25
Burger patties, 1/3#,4/pack $8.50
Ribeye $18
New York strip steak$17.25
Sirloin sizzlers $12.50
Rolled rump, chuck,English, or arm roast $8.50
Brisket $9
Flank, skirt, or hanger$10
Stew meat $9
Shank $5.25
Soup bones $2.25
Suet $1.25
Sale! Ground: save 25 cents a pound on 50 pounds or more, while supply lasts.
We sell by halves and quarters. Please contact me if you would like to be added to the list for2025.
*New: We have Jersey beef bundles for anyone interested in a package that is smaller than a quarter. It would include ground beef, chuck roasts, soup bones, and steaks.
Poultry
All of our poultry is free range, locked in nightly, and has certified organic feed.
Please return your empty cartons. Thanks!
Chicken eggs are $6/dozen. Sold out
Duck eggs are$10/dozen.
Honey
Plastic squeeze bottle:
1# raw $8
Glass canning jars:
Pint raw $10
Quart raw $16
Beeswax
1# block $10
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
Gallons, plastic containers, $65
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
It’s nearly March! We’ve had a bonafide winter, for which I am glad. It made it easy to keep the animals happy because the ground is frozen. Now they only have to slog through mud for 2 months, not 4 (or more). Feeding them is easier, too. Watering, however, will become easier with spring, which I am looking forward to. I have been enjoying listening to the birds as I do chores.
We have all your goods at www.thepasturage.com/order where you’ll see everything including ingredients, price per pound, average price per package and practices and certifications.
Thanks!
Funding update: thank you for calling your representative. Kathy Voth, editor of On Pasture, writes “Thanks to the alarms sounded by producers across the country some reimbursements may be on the way. It appears that $20 million in existing contracts funded through the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) will be honored and funds were unfrozen to pay those obligations. This tells me that farmers and ranchers have a degree of influence they shouldn’t be afraid to wield.
But as Mike Lavendar, policy director for the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition says, ‘It’s a pittance.'”
So.
We’re not out of the woods.
Good thing we’re into agroforestry, aka silvopasture.
If you want to help you can go to this link and email our reps.
https://secure.everyaction.com/Sae1dwnpZ0G-OnqYvbTT7g2?emci=2c9eff1f-53f4-ef11-90cb-0022482a94f4&emdi=0524c96e-5df4-ef11-90cb-0022482a94f4&ceid=19168350
The Woven Farm of Whitehall
In brighter news, our spring tunnel transplants are looking beautifullllll and I am hopeful to be back to market with spinach and salad greens by the middle of March!
If you’d like to support the farm before then, consider joining our CSA this season. You can find all the details and sign up at the link below.
https://thewoventrifecta.com/shop/csa-shares
Thank you for your continued support—we can’t wait to share another amazing season with you!
Cheers to Good Growing!
Samantha Otto
Farmer; Food+Farm Edu
The Woven Trifecta
231-215-6008
Sweetwater Verified Goods in other places
Black Bird Farm of Coopersville
FYI for those who have asked: We are still making Friday/early Saturday deliveries to Health Hutt this winter. The Grand Haven store especially has been buying from us pretty consistently each week: potatoes, winter squash, carrots, turnips, rutabagas, garlic, and other storage crops. Muskegon shoppers of Health Hutt, if you want to see more, let them know! Thanks.
Greg
Kaufmans Certified Organic Produce of Fremont
We have the following available at our farm:
New! Eggs, $4.00 dozen.
Vegetables available by pre-order only! Please email us at kaufmans@emailprint.net & plan to pick up your order at the farm.
Available for preorder:
Winter squash: Butternut
Red beets
Cabbage
Purple Potatoes
New! Pickled Red Beets.
All organic ingredients. $9.00 qt $7.00 pint. Discounts available for quantities.
Our farm store hours are Monday – Saturday 8am to 5 pm. We take cash & checks only, please include phone# on checks. Address is 7547 Croswell Ave, Newaygo, MI 49337. Thanks.
Allen Kaufman
Hidden Creek Farm
1230W River Rd, Muskegon, MI (616)796-5696
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/
Laughing Tree Bakery of Hart
Muskegon Farmers Mkt every Saturday.
Come check out our soups and sandwiches too!
Breads & Pastries available this Saturday:
Rustic Baguettes $4 out of stock this week
Oceana Round $6.50
Breads for $7
Homesteader’s Wheat
Michigander
Breads for $7.50
Honey Oat
Third Coast Three Seed
Griff’s 8 Grain
Annie’s Raisin Spice
Rosie’s Wholegrain Kamut
Pilgrim Rye
Breads for $8
Cheddar Peppercorn Bread
Big Country
Sliced Homesteader’s Wheat
Breads for $10
Finn’s Pecan Raisin Pecan
Morning Buns–Hearty cinnamon rolls with ground pecans and a bit of orange oil. $4
Deep Mud Brownies–Rich dark Belgian chocolate! $4
Tree Hugger–PB Choc. Chip Cookies
Whangdangdoodler–Dark Chocolate and Walnut
Pecan Maple Oaties–Oatmeal Raisin with pecans and local maple syrup
Hilltoppers–Ginger Molasses Cookies
All cookies $3.50
Truly Ginger Scones
Michigan Cherry Scones
Blueberry Scones
Cranberry Orange Scones
Lovely Lemon Scones
All scones $3.50
Mountain Crunch Granola $10
Pecan Maple Crunch Granola $10
Tortoise & Hare Farm of North Muskegon
New! Our 2025 CSA and Farm Card info is up at the Farm Store website. If you are considering joining a CSA for 2025 take a look, offering an Early Order Sale Price right now. https://tortoise-hare-farm.square.site/s/order#6
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 Mannor Farm of Hesperia
We will be offering our CSA card again this year.
We only offer a Farm Card/Free Choice CSA Membership. This type of CSA allows you to choose how you would like to spend your CSA dollars. You receive a prepaid card. With it, you can purchase locally naturally grown veggies, dried produce, meat, or eggs from us. You can pre-order for pick-up at one of the several local farmers markets that we attend. Or come to the farmers market and purchase directly from us.
You can purchase a card for as much as you want but there is a $100 minimum. Once you have a card, additional funds may be added to your card at any time.
Why should you do this?
- Flexible; you buy what you want, when you want
- No weekly commitment
- Easy to use
- Cards can be used to purchase everything we offer at our farmers market locations without pre-ordering.
- Your card balance never expires
- You can check your balance at any time
- You increase your buying power by 10 – 20%
Why are we doing this?
- Interest rate on borrowed money has gone up drastically in the last 4 years.
- We must purchase most of our seeds and supplies during the time when our sales are the lowest or not at all.
- Inflation…the cost of our supplies have gone up over the last 6 years
- Without the additional funds we will be forced to cut back on our operation
If you are interested, you can go to Purchase a CSA Card for more information and to purchase a membership. If you would like you can email us your info to purchase a membership.
Please share this information with your family and friends.
We thank you for your business and time. We look forward to your continued support.
Thanks,
Dan & Linda Mannor
The Mannor Farm LLC
5595 E Arthur Road
Hesperia, MI 49421
Shady Side Farm of Holland
Get news, recipes, and alerts from the farm: https://mailchi.mp/ffb92e5e9f09/shadysidefarmsubscribe
Lona
Shady Side Farm
info@shadysidefarm.net
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
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