Sweetwater Local Foods Market
Saturday, August 31st, 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!
Labor Day Specials!
Announcing the Sweetwater Farm Tour II!
Sunday, September 15th, 9:00am-5:00pm
Stop by the Market Manager table this Saturday to get more info and sign up for our second Sweetwater Organic Farm Tour! Space is limited so don’t delay!
Attending this Saturday’s market:
Earthscape Farm of Hesperia
We accept WIC Project Fresh coupons
At our tables this week: Dandelion Acre of Hesperia
Homegrown natural colored Romedale/CVM yarns. Check it out!
VEGETABLES: Tomatoes – little ones, big ones, Heirlooms, paste! This is the time of year to roast them for freezing, and dry and can for the rest of the year. AND you should be eating tomatoes at least 3 times a day! YUM! Drizzle sliced heirlooms with a Balsamic Vinegar reduction. Broccoli. Carrots. Red and Yellow Onions, Garlic, Green Beans, Sweet Peppers, Eggplant, Summer Squashes (Ask me about freezing roasted squashes for winter! They taste like fresh roasted!), Cucumbers (Regular and Japanese) and Pickles in quantity for pickling, Arugula, Swiss Chard, Scallions, FANCY POTATOES! Blue Gold, plus Fingerlings: Red Thumb and Austrian Crescent, and Red Norland Potatoes, and 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!
We will have a full array of beef cuts.
Join our pre-ordering email system! earthscapefarm@gmail.com .
BEEF AT THE MARKET THIS WEEK:
SPECIALS: Short Ribs! $3 per lb. Liver – $3 per lb. Order in advance to be sure we save some for you.
SPECIAL SPECIAL! ORDER 5# OR MORE OF SHORT RIBS AND GET AN ADDITIONAL 10% OFF! ADVANCE ORDERS APPRECIATED.
Ground beef 1 lb pkgs $4.90 per lb 1/4 lb patties – $5.75 per lb.
Boneless Steaks: Tenderloin steaks – the best cut of beef on a side $20 per lb. RibEye and
New York Strip Steaks $14 per lb. Sirloin $10 per lb. Skirt Steak
Bone in Steaks: Porterhouse, Rib (my personal favorite)
Roasts: Rolled Rump, Chuck, Boneless Rib. Roasts are $6, $6.50 and $7 per lb.
Whole Brisket
Swiss Steak and Round Steak – $6.50 per lb.
Stew Meat and Kabob Meat $6.50 per lb.
Short Ribs, also good for meaty soups $3 per lb. SALE!
Soup Bones $2 per lb.
Oxtail! There’s only 1 per steer :-). $5 per lb.
Liver – $3 per lb. SALE!
Tongue and Heart – $3.00 per lb.
We have some old heart packages from 2012 for $2 per lb, pre-ordered only.
Laughing Tree Bakery of Hart
Labor day already? How can it be? We here on our little hillside choose to hang on to summer until the sun actually passes out of the northern hemisphere so there are actually weeks and weeks of summer left. That said, we look forward to baking for you all again this coming weekend no matter the status of celestial bodies. Our thanks to all of you with whom we celebrate weekends all year long here in extraordinary West Michigan!
BREADS: Each week we bake our seven scrumptious weekly breads (listed below) as well as one or more specialty breads. Please consult the schedule below to find out when we are making your favorite specialty bread!
GRANOLA! We make two different varieties of granola: Mountain Crunch Granola (pure vanilla, toasted almonds, and organic coconut oil) and Laughing Tree Peanut Butter Granola (all-natural PB, pure vanilla, and Michigan honey).
OUR EIGHT WEEKLY VARIETIES:
Homesteader’s Wheat (An extraordinary light wheat bread with a wonderfully chewy crust) $5.00
Oceana Round ( Rustic Italian country bread) $5.00
Third Coast Three Seed (Sunnies, Sesames, and Flax in a light wheat) $5.50
The Michigander (made with Michigan-grown whole wheat—dark and soulful) $5.50
Annie’s Raisin Spice (sweet organic raisins, organic cinnamon, and freshly ground cardamon) $6.00
Griff’s 8-Grain (Hearty, hearty! Eight organic grains and a bit of Michigan honey) $6.50
Finn’s Pecan Raisin Pecan (Jam packed with pecans and organic raisins) $8.25
100% whole grain Kamut: Light and moist with a fruity flavor, a great loaf for folks with wheat sensitivities. $6.00
SPECIALTY BREAD BAKE SCHEDULE
Elbridge Parmesan Olive (Sumptuous parmesan and Kalamata black olives) $8.00
Toasted Walnut Batard: (aromatic toasted walnuts lend a lovely nuttiness and a purple hue to this versatile batard) $6.50
Chili Cheddar Whoa-homegrown, pickled jalapeno peppers coupled with mild cheddar cheese makes for great flavor with a little kick. Fresh or toasted, great as an accompaniment to soup or chili. $8.00
Pastries available for Saturday:
Hilltoppers (our NEW Molasses Ginger cookies…A 4oz cookie sweetened with golden molasses and bits of candied ginger) $2.25 each
Treehuggers The one and only quarter pound peanut buttery original. $2.25 each.
Mrs. Moose’s Wangdangdoodlers $2.25 each-Chunks of chocolate and walnuts give this cookie texture into which one can sink their teeth with great fervor.
Cranberry Orange Scones
Truly Ginger Scones
Michigan Cherry Scones
Currant Scones
Pecan Date Scones
(All our scones are $2.25 each* and are handmade with our own fresh eggs, organic cream, and organic butter)
Cherry Mud Brownies $3.00 each Our Deep Mud Brownies infused with Michigan grown, dried Michigan cherries.
Deep Mud Brownies $2.75 each* Our brownies are made with extraordinary Callebaut dark chocolate, our own fresh eggs, and Michigan grown organic barley flour—they are amazing!!
Shady Side Farm of Holland
We will be at market with felting kits, wool roving, certified organic beans, and Grassfields Farm’s awesome cheese!
This week the Yellow Indian Woman Bean is our Special of the Week. The 2-lb. bags will be available for $10, regularly $11.50 and the 1-lb. bags will be available for $5.50, regularly $6.00. Originally brought to Montana by a Swedish family, the Yellow Indian Woman Bean is a rare heirloom bean that is now found in Native American communities in Montana. The Yellow Indian Woman is a small, yellowish-gold bean that, when cooked, is creamy and resembles the flavor of Pinto and Black beans. The Yellow Indian Woman is ideal for slow cooked dishes, as is holds its shape while cooking. Here’s a link to our Yellow Indian Woman Bean Dip recipe: http://shadysidefarm.com/portfolio-view/yellow-indian-woman-bean-dip/
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 Grassfield aged raw milk cheese we will have along this week will include: New! Baby Swiss, Country Dill, Edam, Fait Gras, Garlic & Onion, Gouda, Lamont Cheddar, Leyden and Polkton Corners. See you Saturday! shadysidefarmmichigan@gmail.com
Meadow View Goat Dairy of Fremont
Stop by our booth and try our aged Tomme as well as our Dutch Kase cheese. Similar to our Tomme de Fremont, it is a lower fat aged cheese. We’ll also have our regular line of Feta, fresh Chevre and flavored Chevres. We also have our maple syrup and some of our free-range, GMO feed- free eggs.
http://www.meadowviewgoatdairy.com/home
Funny Farm of Grant
We accept WIC Project Fresh and Senior Project Fresh coupons
This week’s veggie list:
Broccoli, okra, eggplant in lots of colors and shapes,
cherry tomatoes in lots of colors, scallions, Italian cippolini onions,
hot peppers, sweet green peppers, kales, kohlrabi, heirloom tomatoes,
rutabagas, cabbages, big and small, many varieties of potatoes, melons,
and anything else we can find!
Apron Lady & Janet will return as well!
Maple Moon Farm of Shelby
Tomatoes! Most of what we grow are heirlooms and we have a range of beautiful colors
Sweet Peppers
Jalapeños
Surano
Cayenne
Kale
Chard
Celery
Beans (green, purple, yellow, and dragon tongue) We have lots! Interested in canning or freezing some? email us at maplemoonfarm@gmail.com
Carrots
Summer Squash
Cucumbers
Broccoli
Fresh herbs including dill, cilantro, parsley, basil, and morewe have large amounts of parsley, and I can’t keep up with drying it all. Interested in some for drying or freezing? Let us know!)
Herbal Salves-Let your medicine be local too!
We infuse wildharvested herbs that grow naturally on our land, as well as some great medicinal plants we grow in the garden, in high quality organic oil for great herbal medicine.
Mama’s All Purpose-A great general purpose salve that can help everything from bug bites to bumps to burns to diaper rash. Contains calendula, comfrey leaf and root, violet leaf, plantain, chickweed, cleavers, and now with St. John’s Wort!
Mike’s Muscle Relaxer– Mike needed something stronger this year, so we added the power of western plain grown arnica. Also contains dandelion flowers, rosemary, and St. John’s Wort. The perfect remedy for tired, over-worked muscles.
Andi-Anxiety-Named for our friend Andy, a gentle balm that helps promote relaxation. Contains lemon balm, rose petals, oat tops, lavender, chamomile, catnips flowers, and borage flowers.
Rob’s Relief– Our original salve. Nature’s remedy for poison ivy. A must for anyone who wanders MI woods. Contains jewelweed and burdock leaf.
We’ll have our normal spread of herbal teas; Nourish, Peace, and Restore.
September’s Herbs & Produce of Montague
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
We will be at market Saturday with a great selection of produce, sustainably grown herb and flowering plants, and meat from our heritage Mulefoot pigs. Come see us!
Crow Feather Farm of Hesperia
Big, sweet red Watermelons and other melons
Heirloom tomatoes and delicious ‘Sungold’ cherry tomatoes
Ripe hot or sweet peppers in several varieties
Sale on Carrots! for juicing, freezing, or fresh eating
Baby Salad Greens: Lettuce mix, Brassica mix, Arugula
Radishes, Kale and Rainbow Chard
Also lots of fresh, tasty Basil and Cilantro, and fresh-cut flower bunches.
See you at the Market
Liberty Family Farm & Bakery of Hart
Garden Offerings
Basil, cabbage, parsley and broccoli.
Tomatoes-heirloom, beefsteak and cherry tomatoes!
Grass-fed Beef
Steaks, roasts and short ribs.
Bakery Offerings
Quiche gluten free and reg.
Breakfast cookies
New ! Our very own Rustic Apple Tart
Made with our old fashioned apples!
Hope to see you at the market!
Happy Goat Soaps of Allendale
For this week only you will also be able to order a custom handmade PLUSH HAPPY GOAT!
Order Plush Happy Goat Combos from us this Saturday or on-line at : loveHAPPYGOATsoap.etsy.com
Visit us on Saturday at Sweetwater for:
Bath/Shower Bars, Shampoo Bars, Liquid Foaming Soap Pumps & Refills.
We will also have New-Cocoa Butter Lip Balm!
All our products are 100 % Natural and gentle to your skin and they all contain goat milk!
Friends of the Market
The Friends of the Market Program is in the process of being redesigned. We will need many helping hands to assist us in sustaining and growing this invaluable resource. We do not know of another Farmer’s Market like Sweetwater in the state — one focused on organically produced, local products. The mission of the Friends of the Market will be to promote growth and sustainability. We will be rolling out the details of the program in the next several weeks. Those who wish to participate will be asked to help by donating time, talent and/or financial support. Whether you have been involved in the past or are new to the market we would love to have you join us. Please contact the Friends of the Market committee at email – Sweetwaterfriends@yahoo.com if you are interested in helping. Provide your contact information and we will follow-up with you. Thanks!
Have a happy & safe Labor Day Weekend!
See you at the market!
Diana Jancek
Market Manager
Contact info: (231)292-1152, dijaan1@charter.net
We are a BRIDGE CARD market!