Super Sweet Fun at the Market this Saturday!

Go Saints!

Happy Valentines Day!

Superbowl Specials & Valentines Day Treats!

Sweetwater Local Foods Market

Saturday, February 6th, 9:00am to 1:00pm

Mercy Health Partners/Hackley Health at the Lakes

On Harvey St. ½ mile S of Lakes Mall-exit US31 at Pontaluna Rd

We are a Bridge Card Market All Food Vendors Gladly Accept the Bridge Card!

Superbowl Specials!

Valentine’s Day Treats!

Music!

Front Porch Pickers return!

Chair Massage!

Christine Schultz from Weiss Family Chiropractic will be back this week with

Free Chair Massage!

This Week’s Vendors

Earthly Kneads of Muskegon

Special Note Lots of goodies for Superbowl Sunday and for Valentine’s Day this weekend!!! Our cupid bakers have been baking up a love cookie storm. We’ll have three kinds of cookies for your sweetie: homemade fortune cookies with love quotes on the inside, sugar cookies that spell out L-O-V-E, and giant sugar cookies with conversation heart messages. We also have a limited amount of chocolate bread pudding kits. If you’re looking for treats for a Superbowl party, we’ll have bread bowls (for filling with dip), par-baked medium whole wheat pizza crusts (vegan), and long sub buns (contain dairy & egg). Call the shop to reserve yours: (231)728-6383

Bread – 100% Whole Grain Spelt, Seeded Spelt, Peasant Bread, Tuscan Bread, Italian Rosemary, Sweet Vanilla Challah

Special Breads – Gouda for What Ales You, Leek & Sage Spelt Bread

Other Specials – Spinach Pizza Pockets, more in the note above, too!

Scones – Chocolate Cherry, Mango Orange, Blueberry Lemon

Muffins – Chocolate Raspberry, Mixed Berry

Cookies – HUGE Dark Chocolate Chip, Lemon Fig Oatmeal, Apricot Hazelnut Oatmeal, Sundrop, Sweet & Salty Cashew, and more!

Granola – Blueberry Hazelnut, Ginger Fig Almond, Cherry Almond, Cranberry Pecan, Apple Pepita, and Totally Nuts, plus Muesli and Gorp

Earthscape Farm of Hesperia

BEEF ~ We have some quarters of beef for sale. Email pbobier@voyager.net for details.

We will have beef by the pound and package on Saturday! Steaks , roasts, ground beef, tongue, soup bones, Liver, heart. I’ll also have ground beef in 10 + # quantities (1-2# packages) for $3.50 per lb.

Veggies this week ~ Potatoes – Russian Fingerlings, Russet, Red Norland; yellow and red onions; cabbages; carrots, celeriac. Dried parsley.

Organic Olive Oil ~ Choose your favorite bottle or try a bulk blended organic oil for sale for $30 in your quart jar.

HIGHER GROUNDS COFFEE ~ I’ll be bringing an assortment of 1# bags.

CHECK OUT OUR BLOG ~ http://www.earthscapefarm.blogspot.com New photos are up!

Liberty Family Farm & Abundant Harvest Bakery of Hart

This week from the Bakery:

Breakfast Cookies in two choices.

Carrot cake cheesecakes

Whole wheat bread

Gluten free Meringues.

From the Farm:

We will have a fine selection of grass-fed lamb, beef soup bones & smoked pork hocks.

Hickory Ridge Family Farm

Super Bowl Special! Treat guests and yourselves to Locally Raised Hot Wings! Get 25% Off Any pkg of Chicken Drumsticks or Wings!

BOGO! Whole Turkeys. Average 20#. Buy 1 Get 1 free! We have approximately 25 of them in the deep freeze at the Hart Starting Block. If you want them for the market tomorrow please call us at (231)861-6814 before 5:00 today and we’ll bring them, otherwise you can put your order in on Saturday and we’ll bring them to the next market on February. These turkeys were raised at Happy Hill Farm on pasture and processed in November.

Goose! These freshly processed and frozen geese run between 6 to 9 lbs, and were pastured on grass and supplemented with oats grown on the nearby Earthscape Farm.

Duck! Stewing ducks, whole ducks, & boneless skinless duck breast. Frozen.

Happy Hill Frozen Turkey & Chicken

Turkey Sausage. Breakfast, Italian, Brat & Chorizo. Breakfast & Italian in links or bulk. Turkeys were fed certified organic feed.

Pastured turkey: Fed certified organic grain. Whole turkeys processed the week before Thanksgiving, also: frozen packaged thighs, drumsticks, breast roast, sliced breast, and tenderloin.

Pastured chicken: Frozen chicken fed certified organic grains. All cuts—whole, cut up, bone-in and boneless skinless breast, drumsticks, thighs, leg quarters and wings, soup stock, feet, liver, hearts and gizzards. All meats raised on pasture with daily moves.

Free-Range Eggs: Large.

New from Hickory Ridge! Besides raising pastured poultry, Will raises Shetland sheep and now has beautiful wool in various natural colors for sale by skein. Also his sister Rebecca will bring her hand-knit gloves, mittens & socks. She will also do custom orders.

Garlic! $1.00 a head.

Olson Farm of Shelby

Corn! I will be bringing my grinder and my saved open pollinated shelled yellow corn & wheat berries. I will grind you a custom blend and give you a recipe for the best tasting corn bread you ever ate!

Last market for red white potatoes and

Taste of Spring Maple Syrup. Less than a case left so plan to pick some up before it’s all gone until I make this spring’s newest batch.

Creswick Farms of Ravenna

Handcrafted Sausages and Specialty Meats

New! Creswick Old Fashioned Ring Bologna. Braunsweiger is back!

Pepperoni slices. Thin-sliced & spiced perfectly for pizzas, pasta salads & snacking.

Thin-sliced Deli Style Ham. New batch this week!

Pork Sausages: Garlic Kielbasa. Chorizo. Breakfast sausage, links and 1# bulk pkg. Italian Sausage in 1# bulk pkg.

Chicken Sausages: Apple Chicken & Chicken Spinach Feta links.

Lamb Sausages: Moroccan Lamb link sausage.

Fresh-Aire Pastured Pork

Pork Tenderloin. Pork Chops. Two choices of bacon this week: Apple Smoked and Hickory Smoked. Nitrite-Free. Soup Seasoning Bacon Ends.

Grass-fed Beef

Round Roast. Flank Steak. Filet Mignon.

Pastured Poultry

Chicken Breast. Whole Chicken. Chicken leg quarters. Ground chicken in 1# bulk pkg.

Soy Free Eggs: Available by pre-order only (see below).

Pre-Orders: Email Chris Bedford at chrisbedford@charter.net by no later than Monday morning before the next market and he will have it ready for you to pick up on Saturday. For a complete list of products, please see the website: www.CreswickFarms.com .

Grassfields Farm of Coopersville

Certified Organic raw milk cheeses in the Dutch process tradition.

This Week! Gouda, Leyden, Gouda with Dill, Edam (low-fat Gouda), Gouda Spice (garlic & onion), Lamont Cheddar & newest cheese Polkton Corners.

Ag and Health Alive of Marne

Spring is only 45 weeks away! Start preparing now for your garden! We will have 10 oz to 10# sizes of various garden supplements, like Berry Mix, Liquid Fish & Kelp concentrates, Maxicrop, Dry Kelp Meal, Milky spore & Diamatacious Earth.

From the bookshelf: Ask Mother Nature: A Conscious Gardeners Guide, by Ellen Vandevisse. Or How to Grow More Vegetables, by John Jeavons.

Also: Nantucket Bakery Cinnamon Raisin Bread and other baked goods. Northern Naturals Cherry Concentrate, honey or maple syrup.

Also: pie pumpkins. They make great substitutes for any recipe calling for squash.

HandCrafteds

Good for the body & soul!

Brittanie’s Thyme of Cedar Springs

New! Great things have been happening with Brittanie’s Thyme. We have been working with MSU on new marketing ideas and we are about ready to launch our new label designs and lines. You will be seeing: Mindful Beauty (original skin care), Facial Freedom (our new teen line) and Outdoor Harmony (Insect Repellent and Bug Bite) .

We also are adding three new products: Moisturizer, Facial Serum and a Toner. (stop by for free samples available this Saturday)

As the final details are set on the labels (coming in March) we would like to use the two

market days in February to help support the great need in Haiti by giving 5% of all sales this month to Doctors Without Borders for badly needed medical supplies. Thank you for your support, see you at the market.

Bee and Botanicals of Spring Lake

Organic Bath Soaps! If you are trying to go greener this year (or just want a great soap) our certified organic bath soap is a great place to start! Certified organic guarantees that all the oils and herbs were grown – and processed – according to organic standards (no pesticides, no radiation, environmentally friendly methods, etc.). These soaps are made with only essential oils, the colors in the soap are from the botanicals used in each recipe, no artificial preservatives and not animal tested!

Valentines Day Specials! Valentines Day just around the corner we have a nice selection of soap gift boxes for purchase in a variety of designs, as well as Valentines Day cards.

Herbal bath tea blend of yummy organic botanicals, pretty sachets, organic lavender dryer bags, Lavender Hill Stain bars (travel size only right now) and organic catnip also available!

Look forward to seeing you at the market!

Imagination to Creation Jewelry of North Muskegon

NEW! Valentines Day jewelry, gifts and cards along with my new “vintage-look” necklaces at lower prices. Also, new earring designs and no-clasp pendant necklaces.

Weiss Chiropractic Wellness Center of Spring Lake

Located in downtown Spring Lake. The center’s mission is to help the people in our community experience natural healing and wellness by coaching them to eat well, move well and to think well. The center has two chiropractors and three massage therapists. The center will be available at the market to answer health related questions, offer spinal screenings, and will provide free five minute chair massages. The center will also offer 30 minute chair massage gift certificates for just $15 dollars.

Last but not least: Sweetwater thanks goes out to renewing Friend of the Market Don Kunst and new member Terry Lehnen! If you would like to become a Friend of the Market for a suggested donation of $10.00, which entitles you to a free cup of coffee at every market you attend for a full year, please see me at the market this Saturday! We will also have Higher Grounds Coffee by the Cup for a suggested donation of $1.00.