Sweetwater Local Foods Market
Saturday, September 21st, 2024
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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MARKET NEWS
This week we are adding Kaufmans Produce to our list of Sweetwater Verified farmers to be found at other locations. Check out their list below of Certified Organic veggies and then plan to visit Alan and his sons at their spot at the Muskegon Farmers Market this Saturday. Mannor Farm will also be at Muskegon Mkt this Thursday, see their listing.
Earthscape Farm is back this week and Patrice has a lot of veggies as well as their grassfed beef.
Blackbird Farm is having a special Autumn Equinox pop-up market on their farm tomorrow, Thursday, September 19th between 6:30 and 8:00pm. If you haven’t been out to Blackbird Farm yet you should try to get out to this one. Greg& Shel’s farm is a peaceful oasis and the veggies are plentiful right now! Check their listing below for directions.
The Pasturage Turkey Tour is this Sunday! Check their listing for directions.
Attending Sweetwater this Saturday:
Earthscape Farm of Hesperia
We will be at Market this Saturday. Preorders are desired for our beef, veggies will be for walk up sales only.
VEGETABLES! Eggplant, sweet peppers, green beans, wax beans, mixed pole beans, onions, cabbage, summer squashes, Maybe some winter squash and broccoli. We are butchering again in October. Get your name on the list by emailingus! We truly are slowing down. We are now butchering about every 3months instead of every 2 months.
We are both healing well, and just had a great vacation to Vancouver and Alaska!
It’s a drought here on the Farm. Good thing we have a lot of pasture to keep moving the cows around.
BEEF: Please get your advance beef orders in to us and we will invoice you by September 20th.
Please let us know if you want to pay at pick up (cash or checks made out to Earthscape Farm), or on line with a Square invoice. We can most likely fill orders up until 7am Saturday morning!
Email earthscapefarm@gmail.com.
Please note: We have limited beef with us for you to buy at Market. Please try to get a preorder in to get exactly what you want.
Tenderloin $22/ lb, 2 per package. MAY BE OUT
Porterhouse $15/lb 1 per package
Rib Steaks $14 /lb. 2 per package.
T Bone Steak $14/ lb. 2 per package
Sirloin Steak $10/lb. 1 per package. MAY BE OUT
Flank Steak $10 / lb. 1 per package OUT
Hanger Steak $10 / lb 1 per package OUT
Stew Meat $8 per lb.
Kabob Cut beef $8 per lb. These are great for the grill! Large cubes sothey don’t
slip off the skewers and stay medium rare on the inside.
Skirt Steak $8/lb OUT
Cubed Steak $8/lb. .5 to 1.5# per package
Round Steak $7/lb. .5 to 1.5# per package OUT
Rolled Rump or English Roast $8.00/lb.
Brisket $8 per lb. OUT
Chuck Roast $7.50 per lb.
Ground Beef $7.00/lb. ~ 1/2# and 1# packages.
Ground Beef Patties $8 per lb. 4 per package
Short Ribs $6 per lb.
Liver $4/lb. OUT
Heart $3 per lb. OUT
Tongue $3.50 per lb. OUT
Oxtail $5 per lb. Rabo De Toro in Spain.
Soup Bones $2 per lb.
CONTACT: Patrice and Bill Bobier
4220 E. Loop Rd.
Hesperia, MI 49421
email earthscapefarm@gmail.com
Funny Farm of Grant
Good day! So far the weather is hanging in there, let’s see how long this streak lasts! The raised beds are planted! The game is on now, hopefully4-5 weeks until spinach. Keep your fingers crossed. Everything has slowed in growing, just harvesting now. The end is coming quickly but we still have time. Squash and onions will sustain us for awhile, tomatoes are still hanging in there. But cherry tomatoes are done.
If you’d like to reserve something, please text me at 734 945 0720 and I will let you
know. Thank you so much for all your support this summer!
Winter squash, spaghetti and acorn
Cabbage, big ones and small ones
Peppers, green by orders only, red ones as they ripen
Scallions or green onions
Shallots
Onions, white, red and yellow
Garlic
Tomatoes, red and orange big ones of all sizes
Low sugar jelly in many flavors, all from our farm. Blackberry,
Elderberry/blackberry, Apple, Kiwi, Kiwi/crab apple, Wild grape, Elderberry and
Blueberry from a source that I’ve used for 20+ years.
Thanks again!
Barb
Pine Row Farm of Rothbury
Hello :-),
100% grass fed beef:
Prices listed are per pound. Orders are filled in the order we receive them.
Sale! Short ribs $4.00
Short ribs, Korean cut $7.00
Ribeye $18
New York strip $17.25
Hanger $10.00
Sirloin sizzlers $12.50 SOLD OUT
Chuck, English and Arm roasts $8.50 lb
Kabob $11.00 lb
Stew meat $9.00
Soup bones $2.25
We sell by halves and quarters. Please let me know if you would like to be added to the waiting list. We have processing dates in September, October, and November.
Poultry
All of our poultry is free range, locked in nightly, and has certified organic feed.
Please return your empty cartons. Thanks!
Chicken eggs $6.00/dozen.
Duck eggs are $10/dozen.
Honey
Plastic squeeze bottle:
1# raw $8
Glass canning jars:
Pint raw $10
Quart raw $16
Beeswax
1# block $10
Tiny block $1.50
Maple syrup
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
We will accept orders until 5pm on Friday. I will get totals emailed out by 5am Saturday morning. If you don’t get a response from me, please contact me. We accept cash or check payable to Pine Row Farm.
See you Saturday!
Sarah
pinerowfarmgirl@gmail.com
231-861-5215
The Pasturage of Montague
Hello peeps! Our turkey tour is this coming Sunday from 3-5 at the farm!!!! RSVP requested via this link: https://form.jotform.com/241926908495167
Last year we had a blast so we hope you join us again as we interview the turkeys. They have a lot to say.
In other news, we will have our chicken and turkey back in stock on Nov. 2 (unless you want it fresh in which case you’d pick up the 29th or 30th at the farm). We will have all our lamb cuts back in stock on Nov.9. We will have all our pork back in stock either mid-Dec or January. Stay up to date with our online pre-order form: http://thepasturage.com/order
Autumn is here!!
Julie
Returning soon
Mannor Farm of Hesperia
We will return to Sweetwater next week, September 28th.
We will be at the following markets this week:
Muskegon Farmers Market Thursday 8am-2pm Sept 19th
On our table at Muskegon:
Green beans
Honeynut, Angel Hair & Acorn Squash
Pie Pumpkin
Spanish onions
French fingerlings & German Butterball potatoes
Certified Naturally Grown (to organic standards)
Eggs, Various cuts frozen chicken
Fremont Farmers Market on Saturday 8am-1pm, September 21st
Dan & Linda Mannor
The Mannor Farm LLC
5595 E Arthur Road
Hesperia, MI
The Woven Farm of Whitehall
Hello folks!
I will plan to attend the market again once my CSA wraps up the 1st week of October!
The Woven Trifecta
231-215-6008
www.thewoventrifecta.com
Other Places to Find Sweetwater Verified Goods
Kaufmans Certified Organic Produce of Fremont
We are at Muskegon Farmers Market every Saturday. This week you will find:
Tomatoes: Plum, Cherry, Heirloom
Winter squash: Honeynut, Butternut, Kabocha, Spaghetti, Acorn, Delicata
Green beans
Red beets
Cabbage, Reg & Chinese
Eggplant
Kale
Leeks
Candy onions & storage keeper onions
Peppers: Bell, Habanero, Jalepenos, Poblanos, Hungarian Hot wax
Purple Potatoes
Sweet potatoes
Pie Pumpkins
Alan Kaufman
Blackbird Farm of Coopersville
We have had an abundant late-summer and early-fall here at the farm, and we would love to share that abundance with all our Sweetwater friends. Please join us for a special Autumn Equinox pop-up market here at the farm (5213 Roosevelt, Coopersville, 49404) this Thursday evening, September 19, between 6:30 and 8:00PM. We will have plenty of tomatoes, including many heirloom varieties, as well as San Marzano paste tomatoes for canning (bulk discounts available). We will also have sweet peppers and hot peppers; potatoes, onions, shallots, and garlic; lettuce, chard, and kale; and so much more. We will gladly accept cash, check, and credit cards. Simultaneously, Shel’s you-pick cut flower beds will also be open, and you are welcome to join in and create your own bouquet. We hope to see you there!
You can also continue to find our produce on the lakeshore at both the Grand Haven and Muskegon Health Hutt locations, with deliveries made Friday afternoon.(note: if stocks are low on things please let Health Hutt know so we can increase what we bring them!)
Our produce will also be available at two locations in Grand Rapids: the Fulton Street Farmers’ Market on Friday mornings and the Creston Farmers’ Market on alternating Saturday mornings.
Questions? Send us an e-mail at hello.blackbirdfarms@gmail.com.
Greg & Shel
Scholl Farms of Montague
We will return soon thanks!
In the meantime you can find us at Montague Farmers Market if you’re up that way.
Stu and Connie
Liberty Family Farm & Bakery of Hart
We will return soon. In the meantime you can find us at Pentwater Market on Monday & Thursday from 10:00 to 1:00.
Andy & Dennise
Dirty Roots Healing of Muskegon
See my Instagram page at https://www.instagram.com/dirtyrootshealing/ for details. To keep up to date with all my new products, classes and latest news sign up for the Newsletter at my website.
Thanks all for your support!
DirtyRootsHealing.com
DirtyRootsHealing@yahoo.com
616-834-3233
Thanks!
Cody
Shady Side Farm of Holland
We plan to return in fall. Get news, recipes, and alerts from the farm: https://mailchi.mp/ffb92e5e9f09/shadysidefarmsubscribe
Lona
Shady Side Farm
info@shadysidefarm.net
Laughing Tree Bakery
You can find us every Saturday at the Muskegon Farmers Market as well as the Grand Haven Health Hutt, now carrying a full array of our pastries as well as bread.
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.
STAY IN TOUCH!
Contact the market
(231)742-8477 (leave a message).
Email: sweetwaterlocalfoods@gmail.com
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to get the market product lists on Monday & Friday.
To remind everyone about what is unique about Sweetwater, here is a link to the Sweetwater Pledge to Our Customers. This Pledge is signed by all vendors, and we stand behind Sweetwater Pledge to Customers