Sweetwater Local Foods Market
Saturday, July 22nd, 2023
10:00am to 11:00am
Mercy Health Lakes Village
6401 Harvey St. at US31/Pontaluna Rd.
Contact info at end of newsletter
Supporting Small Local Organic Food Producers since 2005!
Sweetwater Pledge to Customers
Blackbird Farm has pre-order veggie bags again and needs your preorders by Thursday.
Funny Farm & The Woven Farm will have a plethora of summer veggies.
Pine Row will return with grassfed beef, maple syrup and limited eggs (preorders best).
Get your preorders in for Scholl Farm eggs.
Julie at The Pasturage is layed up with a knee surgery. Drop her a get well quick to thepasturage@gmail.com
Please keep the farmers experiencing catastrophic flooding in Vermont in your thoughts. If you want to help: NOFA Farm Emergency Fund. https://www.nofavt.org/donate-now
There is info posted at the end of the newsletter regarding where you can find organic blueberries. They all involve a drive.
Hope to see you at the market!
Vendors Attending Saturday July 22nd:
Blackbird Farm of Coopersville
It was so good to be back with you all this past weekend, and we are looking forward to seeing you again at this Saturday’s market with all manner of good things to eat!
This week we are again offering for pre-order 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: beets, head lettuce, kale, mini-cabbages, radishes, scallions, herbs, maybe broccoli, and potentially a summer squash or two. To order your Blackbird Farms Veggie Bag, please email us at hello.blackbirdfarms@gmail.com
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 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.
We also plan to have many items for walk-up sales–watch for more information in Friday’s newsletter.
Thanks so much! We’re looking forward to seeing friends old and new this Saturday!
Funny Farm of Grant
So far this week I’ll have: New! Carrots. Possibly: more gold & red beets with greens. Also: 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.
Check back with Friday’s news for any additions. 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 on Friday. 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.
Ribeye $18
Rib steak $17.50
NY strip steaks $17.50
Sirloin sizzlers $11.50
Round steaks $7.75
Brisket $9
Rolled rump roast $8.50
Chuck roast $8.50
English roasts $8.50
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
We sell by halves and quarters. There is one quarter left in August, and a half or two quarters in October. Please let me know if you are interested, or if you would like on the list for 2024.
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 are $6/dozen.
Duck eggs are $10/dozen.
*Orders for chicken eggs have been rolling in over the weekend, and we’re nearly sold out for Saturday. Please don’t give up on us. I have 52 lovely little chick hens that should begin to lay in September. I’ve been raising them since early April. They will likely tip the scale from a supply issue to a demand issue.
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
Due to staffing issues we will not be at Sweetwater Saturday July 22nd. If customers would like to place an order for pickup at the Muskegon Farmers Market they can email me at hilde@laughingtreebakery.com We are open there from 8–1pm. We will be back to Sweetwater for Saturday 7/29 and then we will not be baking at all for the weekend of August 5th.
To place an order and PRE-PAY please go to www.laughingtreebakery.com
Please pre-order by Tuesday at 6pm.
To pay with cash or check at pickup send an email order to: Hilde@laughingtreebakery.com
Hilde and Charlie Muller
Laughing Tree Brick Oven Bakery
231-873-9820
Find us on facebook and Instagram
www.laughingtreebakery.com
Mannor Farm of Newaygo
We will be at the market on Saturday July 22 for preorders only.
We will have:
Rabbit – whole Average 2.5 lb. $8.00 per lb
Chicken – whole Average 4.25 lb. $4.50 per lb
Certified Naturally Grown and fed a strict CNG or organic diet.
Pre-orders only. Orders must be received by 5pm on Thursday.
We will be at the Muskegon Farmers Market on Thursday and at the Newaygo Farmers Market on Friday with meat and veggies.
Dan and Linda Mannor
The Mannor Farm LLC
5595 E Arthur Rd
Hesperia, MI 49421
RETURNING SOON
The Pasturage of Montague
Alas, we will not make Sweetwater again this weekend on 7/22. I am still recovering from surgery on my knee and it’s not going as fast as I had hoped! We will probably be at Muskegon; it may not be me at the stand, we’ll see. We expect to be back to Sweetwater on 7/29. Keep your fingers crossed. In the meantime, consider joining the other intrepid folks that have traveled to the farm in search of good vittles. We are so honored! As always, our pre-order form is the most accurate and informative place to see what products we have to offer short of being on the farm or at our market stand: https://form.jotform.com/
Earthscape Farm of Hesperia
We will return soon.
Liberty Farm of Hart
We 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, 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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(231)742-8477 (leave a message).
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