Sweetwater Local Foods Market
Saturday, April 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
Pine Row Farm is ready for your preorders! Tortoise & Hare Farm & Blackbird Farm are taking orders for garden plants. Laughing Tree Bakery & The Pasturage have lots of great Easter goods ready for you at Muskegon Farmers Market! Liberty Family Farm will be back next week.
Accepting Preorders for Delivery to Market on April 19th:
Pine Row Farm
Hello :-),
When I got home from market Saturday, the barn swallows had returned! I’ve missed their lively chatter. The first beef calf of the year arrived on Sunday!
100% grass fed beef:
We have two quarters available on April 21st. Please contact me if you are interested!
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 beef $7.25
Ground round, vacuum sealed, $8.50
Ground sirloin, vacuum sealed, $13.25
Short ribs, regular cut, $7
New York strip steak $17.25
Rolled rump, chuck, or English roast $8.50
Shank $5.25
Soup bones $2.25
Sale! Save 25 cents a pound on 50 pounds or more of ground beef or ground sirloin, while supply lasts.
We sell by halves and quarters. Please contact me if you would like beef soon. We have a couple of new processing dates scheduled.
*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. I can vary the size of the package to your freezer space.
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
Returning to market soon
The Funny Farm of Grant
Hello all my Sweetwater friends. By the time you read this my most recent heartache will be complete. Things go forward, just like the seasons we live through.
My spinach is up and forming new leaves, should be ready to pick in about 2 weeks! Ramps are sprouting too so I should be back at market with those too. I will have an update next week and will be glad to see all of you soon. Thank you all for your kindness.
Barb Loe
Liberty Family Farm & Bakery of Hart
We will return to market next week.
The Woven Farm of Whitehall
Hello folks!
With this cold and dreary weather, it will likely be a couple of weeks until our next big harvest- so keep a look out for updates on our return to market!
In the meantime, we are down to our last few CSA shares for the season! (Both flower shares and veggie shares are available!)
We rely on these early season sales to make the necessary purchases for a successful season! If you are looking for a way to support the farm this season, this is a lovely way todo so! You can learn more about our shares + sign up here: https://thewoventrifecta.com/shop/csa-shares)
If you would like to support the farm but need something a bit more flexible, we also have our market cards! You choose the amount you load onto the card and we load an extra20% to the total! Your market card can then be used throughout the season at any of our market booths/on farm! A friendly reminder that our market cards NEVER expire!
A big thanks for your support!
We look forward to growing you an abundance this season!
Cheers to Good Growing!
Samantha Otto
Farmer; Food+Farm Edu
The Woven Trifecta
231-215-6008
www.thewoventrifecta.com
Sweetwater Verified at Muskegon Farmers Market
Laughing Tree Bakery
We had a wonderful week off but we’re ready to hop back in and start baking –just in time for Easter weekend!
Easter Specials:
Available Saturday, April 19
only at the Muskegon Farmers Market.
Easter Specials
Cranberry Orange Almond Bread:
Sweet Cranberries, toasted almonds, and Boyajian orange oil. $10 each
Auntie P’s Chocolate Cherry Bread: A decadent loaf made with dark chocolate chunks, cocoa, vanilla, and Michigan cherries. $12 each
Oceana Rolls: Soft and chewy rolls made from our Oceana Round dough. Perfect for burgers, sammies, or just with butter! 6 for $7
Cobmoosa Onion Rye: Our favorite rye loaf! Made with caramelized Michigan onions, ground caraway, and organic rye and wheat flours.
$7.50 each
Morning Buns: Perfect for brunch on Easter morning! These hearty cinnamon rolls include organic cinnamon, ground pecans, orange oil, and a vanilla glaze. $4 each.
SCONES–We will have ALL our scone varieties available for Easter–that’s 8 varieties!
Michigan Cherry, Truly Ginger, Blueberry, Cranberry Orange, Lovely Lemon,
Currant Almond,
Pecan Date, Double Chocolate $3.50 each
Buy 12 get 1 free!
The Pasturage of Montague
How-dee. I built a new type of brooder to keep our chicks warm. It’s called an Ohio brooder, or hover brooder, and it’s supposed to help prevent fires from the heat lamp. The number of people that I know personally that have burned down their house or barn or shelter (not to mention the animals), plus the one time we had a near fire ourselves (thankfully Dan caught it while it was only smoke), have convinced me to upgrade. Heat lamps seem so innocent. But wow, can they do damage in a hurry. Other types of small scale supplemental heat aren’t much better based on reviews I’ve read, so… cross your fingers that Ohio will come through! We’ll use it for our laying hen chicks, meat chicks and turkey poults.
We still have chicken and turkey in stock now, from whole birds to cuts of every kind. Plus lamb and pork. Check out our list at https://thepasturage.com/order or call or email. Anyway you want to communicate is fine with me… well… except pinstagram or facetok… I’m not really equipped to mediate socially.
Tootles!
Julie
The Mannor Farm of Hesperia
We will not be at market this week.
Sweetwater Verified Goods in other places
Black Bird Farm of Coopersville
Our newest newsletter is hot off the presses!
https://blackbirdfarmsnews.substack.com/about
If you or someone you know is eager to do a little gardening this season, keep in mind that we will once again be selling herb and vegetable starts this spring. Our herb and vegetable plant pre-sale has just kicked off and will continue through the first week of May, with order pick-ups happening in Grand Rapids on May 14, here at the farm on May 17, and at the Sweetwater Local Foods Market on May 24.
Please use our online form to order: https://blackbirdfarms.aidaform.com/2025-blackbird-farms-plants-pre-order-form
Newsletter is online here: https://blackbirdfarmsnews.substack.com/
Folks can subscribe to our newsletter here: https://blackbirdfarmsnews.substack.com/about
Thanks!
Greg Dunn
Blackbird Farms LLC
farmer.blackbirdfarms@gmail.com
blackbirdfarms.net
instagram.com/blackbird.farms
Tortoise & Hare Farm of North Muskegon
The 2025 plant sale is now live and accepting online orders! New varieties for this year include purple coneflower, cilantro, Thai basil, snapdragon, and new tomato varieties, in addition to all the varieties offered in the past! Click the link to learn more and order. Happy gardening!
https://tortoise-hare-farm.square.site/s/order#CPSPHZGXDFA2ZRXJC7L6LQDO
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).
Shady Side Farm of Holland
We have an on-farm store that’s open each Wednesday & Friday afternoon from1-4pm. We are located at 13275 Blair St, Holland 49424, just 3/4 mile east ofUS-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
Kaufmans Certified Organic Produce of Fremont
We have the following available at our farm:
Eggs, $4.50 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
May 4th from 10-3:00 at the Muskegon Farmers Market
For our annual Mothers Day succulent sale we will have over 25,000 different succulents to choose from to ensure we have enough to go around for everyone!
Everything on our succulent bar is only $1 and we’ll have many different varieties of plants to choose from.
We provide succulents for $1 and potting soil for $1. You’re more then welcome to bring your own planters and decorations.
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
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Email: sweetwaterlocalfoods@gmail.com
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