Sweetwater Local Foods Market
Saturday, December 28th, 2013, 9:00am to 1:00pm
Mercy Health Lakes Campus
On 6401 Harvey St. at US31/Pontaluna Rd. Exit. 1st Bldg North of Pontaluna Rd.
We accept Bridge Cards Year Round!
Last Market of 2013!
Please note! Plan to stock up this Saturday as we are now on our every other Saturday schedule and our next market will be Saturday, January 11th. The entire winter schedule is at the bottom of this newsletter.
SCOOP End of Year Fundraiser!
Did you use the Let’s Eat Guide to Organic Food in 2013? Receive garden plants for your community garden? See Living Downstream &/or hear a panel of incredible local women talk about their own “living downstream” experiences? If you want to see the efforts of Sweetwater Center for Organic Opportunity continue we need your help! We will be updating and publishing the Let’s Eat Guide for 2014, increasing our donations to area community gardens, supporting the efforts of our small farms, re-building the Friends of the Market and much more! We’ll have more information and donor gifts at the market to entice you with, so stop by the info table! Remember, SCOOP is a 501c3 so your donation is tax deductible!
Attending this Saturday’s market:
Earthscape Farm of Hesperia
SHORT RIBS ARE ON SALE! $3 PER LB. Regular price is $3.50 per lb. Buy 5# or more, get them for $2.50 / lb.
BEEF HEART IS ON SALE! $2 PER LB.
We will take advance orders up until 8pm Friday evening. Email earthscapefarm@gmail.com
Steaks: Tenderloin, Porterhouse, NY Strip, Sirloin, Rib, Swiss, Round
Roasts: Chuck, Arm, Boneless Rib
Ground Beef
Short Ribs – one of the most flavorful and unappreciated cuts of beef!
Soup Bones & Oxtail
Liver, Heart and Tongue
VEGETABLES~ Celeriac! Cabbages. Kohlrabi. POTATOES! Red Norland, Blue Gold and Kennebec. Rosemary.
ORGANIC OLIVE OIL ~ Imported by Higher Grounds in Traverse City. $15 per bottle!
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!
Meadow View Goat Dairy & Farm of Fremont
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
Maple Moon Farm of Shelby
We hope you all are enjoying the wonders of this season. We are continuing to dig our little farm out of the ever steady snowfall. We have been busy clearing the hoops in hopes that the sun will shine through and help wake up the greens. We are hoping that Friday allows us just that. If the weather permits, we plan on getting into the hoops and picking greens.
FALL VEGGIES
Carrots, super sweet and tasty
Potatoes (many varieties and colors)
EGGS
Our chickens are fully free-range. The have open access to roam and forage on our 40 acres, and they reluctantly venture out in the snow. They are fed non-GMO feed. (we also gratefully accept empty egg cartons)
CHICKEN
We raise pastured chickens for meat. They are also fed non-GMO feed and they forage within a moveable fence. whole frozen birds $4/lb
Please pre-order by Friday at 8pm. Call 231-861-2535 or email maplemoonfarm@gmail.com
DRIED HERBS
Parsley
Basil
Thai Basil
Celery Leaf
Red Pepper Flakes
Whole Cayenne Peppers
Rosemary
Herbal Salves, Creams, and Teas
Salves:Mama’s All Purpose, Mike’s Muscles Relaxer (our two best sellers), Andi-Anxiety, Rob’s Relief (nature’s cure for poison ivy), and Breathe Deep
Creams: Radiant Beauty and Patti’s Hard Working Hands
Teas: Nourish, Restore, and Peace
Lip Balm: Michigan Winter balm, Peppermint, and Sova’s Heartsong
Kasza Sugar Bush of Shelby
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!
Shady Side Farm of Holland
We will be at market with certified organic beans, felting kits, wool dryer balls, wool roving, wool socks, mittens and Grassfields Farm’s awesome cheese in limited flavors: Chili Cheese, Garlic & Onion, Gouda, Lamont Cheddar and Leyden.
We will have all 14 varieties of organic dry beans that we grew ourselves, including Black Calypso, Black Turtle, Black Valentine, Green Flageolet, Hidatsa Red, Hutterite Soup, Jacob’s Cattle, Jacob’s Cattle Gold, Marrow, Nuña, October, Pinto, Yellow Indian Woman and Zebra. We have only limited quantities of Black Calypso, Green Flageolet, Hidatsa Red, and Zebra, so don’t wait.
Depending on the work load at home, Mike may be along to market with his sock knitting machine.
See you Saturday!
Shady Side Farm
shadysidefarmmichigan@gmail.com
Laughing Tree Bakery of Hart
We look forward to one last go ‘round in 2013 this coming weekend at The Sweetwater Local Foods Market and all our normal retail outlets. We will be taking a break at the beginning of January in order to catch up on some things around the bakery as well as to sled and build a snow fort or two with the young Mullers. Remember, our bread freezes well so if you’d care to stock up please preorder to ensure you don’t run dry over our hiatus. We wish all of you a peaceful holiday season and an extraordinary 2014!
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
Cranberry Orange Almond (A loaf for the holidays full of the goodies its name includes). Price $8.75
Irish Cheddar Peppercorn (Smooth Irish Cheddar accompanied by tongue tingling black pepper). Price $8.00
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
Hazel Road Rustic: An old-time New England bread made with organic cornmeal (Michigan grown), rye, and golden molasses. A bread with a slightly sweet, complex flavor. Great for french toast or slathered with jam. $5.50 a loaf.
PASTRIES AVAILABLE FOR SATURDAY
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.
Hilltoppers (our NEW Molasses Ginger cookies…A 4oz cookie sweetened with golden molasses and bits of candied ginger) $2.25 each *
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!!
Orange Mud Brownies $3.00 each Our Deep Mud Brownies infused with candied orange and zest.
Cranberry Orange Scones
Truly Ginger Scones
Michigan Cherry Scones
Bursting Blueberry Scones—New!!
BAKER’S DOZEN: If you order 12 pastries you’ll receive a 13th pastry FREE!
Funny Farm of Grant
This week’s produce list:
Onions! Big red & yellow slicing onions. Italian Cippolinis, SHALLOTS
Roots! rutabagas, cabbages, big and small,
and anything else we can find!
Potatoes! Choose from 6 or more varieties.
Eggs! Mixed flock of whites & browns.
Pink Himalayan Sea Salt. Stop by the booth and find out about the health benefits of Himalayan salts. We will also have Garlic Powder & Granules & Celery Seed, certified organic from California and our own dried dill, sweet & hot pepper flakes and dried shitake mushrooms.
Back again for gift giving; Barb’s Baubles. Handmade, one of a kind pieces.
Apron Lady & Janet will be coming too!
Sweetwater Holiday & Winter Market Schedule!
Sweetwater will be open as usual every Saturday in December.
January Hours: OPEN January 11th & 25th. CLOSED on January 4th & 18th.
February Hours: OPEN February 8th & 22nd. CLOSED February 1st & 15th.
March Hours: OPEN March 8th & 22nd, CLOSED March 1st & 15th. and after that we will resume our every Saturday schedule again.
Happy Holidays from all of us at Sweetwater!
Diana Jancek
Market Manager