Sweetwater Local Foods Market
Saturday, September 28th, 2013, 9:00am to 1:00pm
Mercy Health Partners Lakes Campus
On 6401 Harvey St. at US31/Pontaluna Rd. Exit. 1st Bldg North of Pontaluna Rd.
We accept Bridge Cards Year Round!
Double Up Food Bucks starting July 6th!
Attending this Saturday’s market:
Funny Farm of Grant
We accept WIC Project Fresh and Senior Project Fresh coupons.
This week’s produce list:
Shitake Mushrooms!
Canning tomatoes: $15 a half bushel.
Slicing Tomatoes!! Big red & yellow Heirloom slicers & cherry tomatoes in lots of colors.
Onions! Big red & yellow slicing onions. Italian Cippolinis, SHALLOTS & scallions.
Peppers! Hot peppers, Sweet green bells, Italian sweet reds, beautiful colors.
Greens&Roots! kales, kohlrabi, rutabagas, cabbages, big and small, many varieties of potatoes,
and anything else we can find!
WATERMELONS! We’ve got a huge selection of giant heirloom watermelons.
Okra, eggplant in lots of colors and shapes.
Eggs! Mixed flock of whites & browns.
Apron Lady & Janet will return as well!
Meadow View Goat Dairy & Farm of Fremont
Come sample our latest batch!
Plain Chevreʹ
Fresh chevre with a nice spreading consistency, perfect for sandwich toppings and cooking. Cherry Capital Foods of Traverse City says ” The chèvre produced by Meadow View has a pitch perfect acidity on the palate that becomes gently sweet and milky with a grassy note on the finish.”
Seasoned Chevreʹ
Our fresh Chevre available in your favorite flavorings: Blueberry Vanilla (great on a morning bagel!) Hickory-smoked bacon Bits, Garlic, Italian Herb, & Hot Pepper
Feta
A smooth and creamy feta which is low in salt and rich in fresh goat milk flavor. The brining process gives feta cheese a salty, tangy flavor and a crumbly consistency. Feta cheese can be served as a table cheese, used in baking savory dishes, or served as an appetizer or in salads. The classic Greek salad is made with Feta cheese. In crumbles or cubes for easy slicing.
Dutch Kase
A Meadow View Dairy original! If you are looking for a nicely aged but milder version of our Tomme, this is the cheese for you. Vacuum sealed without mold and aged at least 60 days.
Tomme de Fremont
Our first aged cheese is quickly becoming a customer favorite! Developed from a French recipe, Tomme is a lower fat mold ripened cheese, aged at least 60 days. This gives the cheese a stronger flavor & firmer texture than the fresh Chevres, perfect for slicing.
Other items from our farm:
We will also have eggs from our free-range, GMO feed- free flock as well as our made on the farm maple syrup along. http://www.meadowviewgoatdairy.com/home
Shady Side Farm of Holland
NEW BEANS! The exciting news we have this week is that we’ve harvested two new types of beans. We’ll have Hidatsa Red and Zebra beans along for sale this Saturday. Hidatsu is a small red bean similar to a kidney originally grown by the Native American Hidatsa tribe in the Missouri River Valley of North Dakota. The Zebra Bean is as strikingly patterned as you can imagine. It probably originated in Mexico, therefore it can be used in any recipe where Mexican pinto beans are called for. It also makes a delicious bean paste. And since a strain of this bean was discovered in Ethiopia in the early 1840s, it can also be used in East African recipes with perfect authenticity.
Because we have started to harvest the new crop, many of last year’s beans are now discounted. Time to make room in our storehouse for this year’s beans. These are still wonderful beans, still fresher than what you’d find in the stores. Stop at our booth to see if there is anything you’d like to stock up on while the price is right.
We will also have our needle felting kits, wool roving, wool socks, and Grassfields Farm’s awesome cheese! We have a few openings for raw milk deliveries through Grassfields Farm’s cow share program. Feel free to ask me how you can get fresh milk delivered to Sweetwater each week.
The aged raw milk cheese flavors we will have along this week include: Baby Swiss, Edam, Garlic & Onion, Gouda, Lamont Cheddar and Polkton Corners. See you Saturday!
Shady Side Farm
shadysidefarmmichigan@gmail.com
Maple Moon Farm of Shelby
Broccoli
Cauliflower
Onions
Leeks
Winter Squash (many varieties)
Pie Pumpkins
Arugula
Mustard Mix
Carrots
Tomatoes
Sweet Peppers
Hot Peppers
Tomatillos
Fresh Herbs including parsley, dill, cilantro, sweet marjoram, rosemary, sage, and more
We’ll have our normal spread of herbal teas and medicinal salves and creams.
Earthscape Farm of Hesperia
We accept WIC Project Fresh coupons
VEGETABLES: Celeriac! Tomatoes – winding down for the year. Broccoli and Cauliflower. Red and Yellow Onions, Garlic, Sweet Peppers are ON SALE ~ Red and Green and Purple. Eggplant (try roasting it – my favorite!), Summer Squashes are winding down. Late Season not-so-pretty-but-still-taste-ok Cucumbers (Regular and Japanese). FANCY POTATOES! Blue Gold, and Fingerlings: Red Thumb and Austrian Crescent. Kennebec and Red Norland Potatoes. Beets with Greens, Carrots. Chard and Kale. Fresh Herbs!
SALE! ORGANIC OLIVE OIL ~ Fair Trade, too! Imported by Higher Grounds in Traverse City. $15 per bottle!
New Shipment: HIGHER GROUNDS COFFEE in 1# bags. Certified organic, Fair Trade. Various types, beans or ground, dark or medium roast, full caf, half caf or decaf. Try a cup at the Sweetwater Market table!
BEEF!
SPECIALS: ORDER 5# OR MORE OF SHORT RIBS AND GET them at $2 per lb.
Beef Heart – $2 per lb.
Ground beef 1 lb pkgs $4.90 per lb; 1/4 lb patties – $5.75 per lb.
GROUND SIRLOIN $6.50 per lb.
Boneless Steaks: Tenderloin steaks – the best cut of beef on a side $20 per lb.
New York Strip, Skirt and Flank Steaks.
Bone in Steaks: Porterhouse, TBone, Rib (my personal favorite)
Roasts: Rolled Rump, Boneless Rib, Chuck. Roasts are $6, $6.50 and $7 per lb.
Whole Brisket $7.50 per lb.
Swiss Steak $6.50 per lb.
Stew Meat and Kabob Cut $6.50 per lb.
Soup Bones $2 per lb.
Oxtail! There’s only 1 per steer :-). $5 per lb.
Liver $3 per lb.
Tongue – $3.50 per lb.
Kasza Sugar Bush of Shelby
The Kasza family began making Pure Maple Syrup from the two trees in our front yard about 15 years ago. Every year since then we have grown in production and quality, today bringing you pure maple products made from cutting-edge technology (and the help of 3,500 trees!). Our maple syrup is continually graded for color, taste, and quality during production. Our processing facility is kept clean and sanitary as well as inspected and licensed by the State of Michigan.
Along with our bottled syrup, we have also expanded our line of maple products this summer to include the following:
Maple Cream – this is maple syrup condensed, cooled, and stirred into a beautiful buttery-like spread excellent on bagels, toast, doughnuts, winter squash, or a glaze on meat (esp. fish, and venison). The best thing about this is that it is totally natural only pure maple syrup.
Maple Candy – an excellent treat for someone’s sweet tooth. Simply pure maple syrup cooked down to only sugar and minerals remaining with enough moisture to hold the sugar in beautiful little maple leaf shaped candies.
Maple Granulated Sugar – is much like Maple Candy but without moisture. This can be used in place of white sugar as a natural sweetener along with the maple taste (esp. on oatmeal)
Maple Sugar-Coated Almonds and Pecans – a healthy sweet and crunchy treat. These make great gifts if they don’t get eaten before that!!!
Please stop by and check out all these 100% natural products for yourself. We would be very happy to answer any questions or visit our web www.kaszasugarbush.com Looking forward to seeing you Saturday!
Olson Farm of Shelby
A long time Sweetwater vendor Jim Olson returns to the market this Saturday, with Butternut & Spaghetti squash, broccoli, beets, purple top turnips, carrots, three different kinds of potatoes including Yukon Golds, Red Pontiacs, Russian Bananas & Taste of Spring maple syrup. He will also have information about how to order his beef by the halves & quarters. Welcome back, Jim!
September’s Herbs & Produce of Montague
New! Concord grapes from our own vines!
Flowers:
Mariachi Lisianthus and Karma Dahlia flower blends.
LimeLight Hydrangeas.
Hopi Red Dye amaranth for drying.
Zinnias, Giant African Marigolds, Statice and much, much more.
Produce:
Heirloom Tomatoes.
Peppers.
Summer squash.
Dragon’s Egg and Lemon cucumber.
Detroit Dark Red beets.
Colorful carrots.
Swiss Chard.
Baby Kale.
Mixed Greens.
Spinach.
Herbs:
Basil.
Dill.
Cilantro.
Parsley.
Other culinary herbs available.
Chickadee Creek Farm of Nunica
PORK! We will have sausage and a few other cuts from our heritage-breed American Mulefoot Hogs.
Sweet Corn! We’ll have some sweet corn available, come early for best selection.
Heirloom Winter Squash! We grew some wonderful old varieties, come check them out!
Also along with our usual veggie assortment we’ll our remaining perennial herb plants.
Crow Feather Farm of Hesperia
This week we’ll have:
Tasty sweet Watermelons
Ripe red peppers
Sungold cherry tomatoes
Lettuce Salad mix
Brassica Salad mix
Celery
Kale and big, beautiful rainbow Chard
onions and potatoes
parsley, dill, basil, rosemary
Bee & Botanicals of Spring Lake
Pretty, Practical, & Organic for home, friends & family
100% Michigan beeswax candles; natural, bright, clean and long burning.
Organic Lavender Sachets–Sale this week – 20% off – Fragrant and versatile, in Organza, embroidered, and hand colored options. Add natural fragrance to drawers, closets, clothing in storage, travel bags, desk drawers… it smells sweet, clean & fresh but also known to be a natural relaxant and also a moth deterrent for woolens and cup boards
Hand Crafted Organic Soaps, made using only essential oils and rosemary extract for preservative, with coconut oil for a nice lather, sunflower Oil and high glycerin levels for moisturizing (not cooked off and sold like many store brands) – This week -Peppermint, Grapefruit, Oats & Spice, Simply Rosemary (unscented) & Rows & Furrows – a great hand soap with a little extra grit for Gardener’s and other projects.
Ladybug Botanicals of Whitehall
My soaps are all handmade in small batches with organic glycerin, herbs and flowers added. New this week: Cinnamon Applesauce! Also popular this fall is our Pumpkin & Clove and Bronze Fennel. And just in time for Halloween! Spooky Suds! Your favorite “spooky” characters embedded in organic glycerin based bath bars! Learn more about my business here: http://sweetwaterlocalfoodsmarket.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/ladybug-botanicals2.pdf
Laughing Tree Bakery of Hart
We’re taking a short break this week and will return to market next week. Thanks!
Liberty Family Farm & Bakery of Hart
Tim is teaching sheep shearing this Saturday, we will be back next week!
FRIENDS of the MARKET. We wish to thank Pete & Jodi Sodini for being true Friends of the Market! Nice to see you guys again!
See you at the market!
Diana Jancek
Market Manager
Contact info: (231)292-1152, dijaan1@charter.net
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