Sweetwater Local Foods Market
Saturday, July 15th, 2023
10:00am to 11:00am
Mercy Health Lakes Village
6401 Harvey St. at US31/Pontaluna Rd.
Contact info at end of newsletter
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Attending Saturday July 15th:
Blackbird Farm of Coopersville
For Friday Update, we will be bringing a selection of our veggies for walk up sales. See details below for how to preorder Veggie Bags and Weekly CSA for next week!
Friends, our field is bursting with good things to eat, and we are excited to be bringing them to you at this Saturday’s market!
Starting this week, we are again offering our pre-selected, pre-packed bags of fresh vegetables. These bags are something akin to our CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) shares. We assemble bags of our highest quality veggies based on whatever is fresh and in season for that week. In the bag, we aim to have some combination and quantity of at least five different vegetables with a combined value around $25. We also include a brief note from Farmer Greg and a farm-tested recipe. Each bag costs $20. This week’s bag will likely contain a combination of some of the following: head lettuce, kale, mini-cabbages, radishes, scallions, and fennel. To order your Blackbird Farms Veggie Bag, please email us at hello.blackbirdfarms@gmail.com by noon on Thursday. We will then send you an invoice via Square. Payment can also be made via cash or check (payable to Blackbird Farms).
In addition, this season we are experimenting with offering four-week-long trial shares for folks who are curious about the CSA model but not quite ready to commit to a full season. These will be offered in four different four-week sessions (basically the months of July, August, September, and October), with pick-up on the farm on Thursday evenings. Trial shares will be offered as either full shares ($140) or small shares ($75). The sign-up form is available online.
Thanks so much! We’re looking forward to seeing friends old and new this Saturday!
Funny Farm of Grant
Friday Update! To the list below I’m adding freshly dug Nicola potatoes!
Also more Kohlrabi and Beet Greens!
Basic List: Lettuce, green crisp and Romaine, washed bags of mixed lettuce, more summer squash and zucchini, dino and curly green kale, collards, some basil, sweet and lemon (going to top off the plants for branching), Swiss chard (bird netting saved it!), a few dz eggs, and anything else that I find that’s ready. Again, if there’s something you’d like me to reserve for you, please text me at 734 945 0720 and I’ll have it for you. Thanks to all for supporting our market this season!
Barb Loe
The Woven Farm of Whitehall
Come on down to the market for an array of fresh, chemical free, Certified Naturally Grown Veggies!
This week, I will have the following available for walk up sales:
-Assorted Microgreens
-Assorted Herbs
-Garlic Scapes
-Salad Mix
-Lettuce Heads
-Arugula
-Curly Kale
-Collard Greens
-Swiss Chard
-Radishes
-Turnips
-Flower bouquets
..and quite possibly some other items as well!
Looking forward to seeing everyone on Saturday!
Cheers to Good Growing!
Samantha Otto
Farmer; Food+Farm Edu
The Woven Trifecta
231-215-6008
www.thewoventrifecta.com
Pine Row Farm of Rothbury
Hello :-),
We will accept orders until 5pm on Friday. If you miss the deadline or prefer to shop in person, I do bring a selection of what’s available every Saturday. I will try to get totals emailed out by 9:30pm. If you don’t get a response from me, please contact me. We accept cash or check payable to Pine Row Farm.
100% grass fed beef:
Prices listed are per pound. Orders are filled in the order we receive them.
Burger patties $8.25/# (.3#ea. 4/pack)
Ribeye $18
T-bone $18
Porterhouse $18
Rib steak $17.50
NY strip steaks $17.50
Sirloin sizzlers $11.50
Round steaks $7.75
Brisket $9
Hanger $10
Rolled rump roast $8.50
Chuck roast $8.50
English roasts $8.50
Skirt steaks $10
Stew meat $8.75
Arm roasts $8.50
Short ribs $7
Shank $5.75
Ground beef $7.25
Ground round (vacuum sealed) $8.25
Ground round (tube pack) $7.75
Ground sirloin (vacuum sealed) $12
Ground sirloin (tube pack) $11.50
Soup bones $2.25
Suet $1.25
Oxtail $6.25
Tongue $6.00
Kidneys $4.50
Liver $4.50
We sell by halves and quarters. We have beef being processed on July 17. Please let me know if you would like a half or quarter.
Sale! We have ground beef bundles available in 25, 50, 75, and 100 pounds. Save 25 cents a pound on 25#, and 50 cents a pound on 50# or more, while supplies last! We have enough ground round and ground sirloin on hand to offer the same sale.
***New: Jersey beef, 100% grass fed
If you are looking to try Jersey beef, we have most of the cuts listed above, plus some that we normally don’t carry (like Korean cut short ribs, Denver steaks, and chuck steaks!). Please specify that you would like Jersey on your order. These are smaller size cuts.
Pork
We will have pork available in a couple of months. It is Idaho Pasture breed, born and raised on the farm, and never had any vaccines or medications. We raise our pigs on pasture, hay, and a small daily portion of certified organic grain. Please contact me if you would like a half or whole. Thanks!
Poultry
All of our poultry are free range, locked in nightly, and have certified organic feed.
Chicken eggs: $6/dozen
Duck eggs $10/dozen
I have 52 lovely little chick hens that should begin to lay in September. I’ve been raising them since early April. Please let me know if you would like to be added to the list for standing egg orders once they begin laying. The list is closed until then.
Honey
We will bring the following honey:
Plastic squeeze bottles:
1# raw $8
2# $12
Glass canning jars:
Pint raw $10
Quart raw $16
Beeswax
1# block $10
Old fashioned boiled maple syrup, powered by wood! Glass jars only. Mother Hubbard’s maple syrup:
Pints $10
Quarts $20
Kasza Sugar Bush Maple Syrup
Glass containers.
Quarts $20
Gallons $55
See you Saturday!
Sarah
pinerowfarmgirl@gmail.com
231-861-5215
Scholl Farms of Montague
Egg Preorders only again this week:
Limit up to one flat per customer.
EGGS, Chicken – $6.00/doz. Duck – $10.00/doz. Goose – $2.00 each
All our products and produce are raised/grown organically using 100% certified organic feeds for our animals.
Rhubarb $3.00 a bundle.
Place all orders via voice message at (231) 893-1311. Leave your name, phone number and speak slow and clear.
Thanks So Much,
Stu and Connie
Laughing Tree Bakery of Hart
We will have a nice selection of breads and pastries available for walk up sales Saturday.
Hilde and Charlie Muller
Laughing Tree Brick Oven Bakery
231-873-9820
Find us on facebook and Instagram
www.laughingtreebakery.com
RETURNING SOON
The Pasturage of Montague
We will not be at Sweetwater this weekend, 7/15. We will be at Muskegon bringing Gina up to speed so that we can be back and serving you on the 22nd. Coming down the pike: we are getting Gloucester Old Spot purebred heritage breed feeder pigs on Monday, July 10. We have spent the last month covered in poison ivy preparing a shady retreat in our brush for them to rotate through. In the UK, the breed is registered much like the Angus beef is here in the states because the pork is purported to be that much different from other breeds of pig. We’re putting that claim to the test. Our slaughter date is November 30 so if you have any special cuts you’d like to see or to purchase a whole or half hog, do let me know!
Our order form for Muskegon this coming Saturday: https://form.jotform.com/231266729632056 or you can always call/text 231 288 6112 or email thepasturage@gmail.com
Julie
Earthscape Farm of Hesperia
We will return soon.
Liberty Farm of Hart
We have a wedding this week and will return soon.
The Wrights
Liberty Family Farm 231-873-3737
Forest Finds is now Dirty Roots Healing!
Forest Finds has rebranded! Dirty Roots Healing is our new name. Still the same amazing herbal products. I am going to continue to carry the favorites, along with new seasonal items.
As always I can be contacted for orders, for pickup at Henry St Health Hutt, or I can ship items. Find our new menu at: DIRTY ROOTS-1 Email us at dirtyrootshealing@yahoo.com or leave a message at 616-834-3233We will not be back at Sweetwater until mid July. Thank you for your support!
Love, Cody
Where to find Certified Organic sweet cherries! North Star Organic Farms, 1139 Forrester Rd, Frankfort, MI 49635. Phone 231-352-4865 Email: northstarorganics@live.com
You-Pick Dark Sweet Cherries July 8 – July 16
Where to find Certified Organic, transitional organic and organically grown blueberries!
Pleasant Hill Farm
1 hr 10 min
5859 124th Ave Fennville, MI 49408
269-561-2850
Growing organic for forty years.
First day for U-Pick is July 15th
Sign up link: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/70a0c45abae2ca6fa7-youpick8#/
Cost $3 a pound.
For more information, please contact us at our website or through our Facebook Page
https://pleasanthillfarm.eatfromfarms.com/
Our son and his wife have started their own farming operation called Born and Raised Organics where they raise organic strawberries, various vegetables and loads of melons and squash. Here is their website and their produce should be ready during the blueberry season.
Link to their site: https://www.bornandraisedorganics.com/
Better Way Farms of South Haven
6072 105th Avenue, South Haven, MI, United States, Michigan.
(269) 236-9424
contact@betterwayfarms.com
betterwayfarms.com.
Earth First Farms
2 hr
8335 Smith Rd, Berrien Center, MI 49102
269-815-3370
Mitchell Organic Blueberries
1 hr 20 mins
19230 Co Rd 681, Grand Junction, MI 49056
lukeketterhagen@gmail.com
K,zoo Farmers Market
In Case of Severe Weather: Cancellation Notice
If we need to cancel a market due to severe weather I will send out a separate email no later than Friday evening before a market notifying you that we will be closed. I will post the same message to our FB & Instagram pages as well as the website. If you know people who are regulars to the market and not in the habit of checking emails please let them know. Thanks!
INSTRUCTIONS FOR How to Pre-Order
1. Look over the list. Each vendor has a unique deadline for when they need to receive your pre-order depending on their product. Send your pre-order by email to each vendor you want to order from, within their required deadlines.
2. Vendors will respond back by no later than Friday before market day with an order confirmation and an invoice that in most cases will allow you to pre-pay for your order. If a vendor is not set up to take payment online they will accept checks (preferred) or cash on market day pickup.
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Contact the market
(231)742-8477 (leave a message).
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