Saturday, February 27, 2016, 9:00am to 12:00 noon
Mercy Health Lakes Campus
On 6401 Harvey St. at US31/Pontaluna Rd. Exit. 1st Bldg North of Pontaluna Rd.
We are a Bridge Card Market!
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https://www.facebook.com/Sweetwater-Local-Foods-Market-111077177535/timeline/
Website: http://www.sweetwaterlocalfoodsmarket.org/
2016 Schedule
OPEN EVERY SATURDAY all year long!
Shady Side Farm of Holland
We are busy gearing up for our Shearing Day, which will be held at our farm on Saturday, March 5, from 9 – 3. You are all welcome to come! Since I will not be at market next Saturday, please stock up this Saturday on our certified organic dry beans and Grassfields Farm’s raw aged cheeses. Have you tried our Marrow beans yet? Plump, soft white beans with a creamy texture and a meaty flavor, these beans soak up the flavors of whatever you cook them with.
Please let me know if you need wool items, or any bulk (over 2#) amounts of the beans by emailing me before 5 pm on Friday at info@shadysidefarm.com.
To stay up to date on our activities, please consider following us on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/shadysidefarm
Lona
Roaring Mouse Coffee Roasters
We’re back this week with a beautiful new display! Stop by our table to check out all the Coffee, Chocolate, and Tea we have and taste a sample! We will have all our varieties of freshly roasted coffee in 12 oz and 6 oz bags as well as variety of chocolate bars, barks, and much more! We will be gone next weekend due to Church business, so be sure to stock up!
Bloom Ferments of Grand Rapids
Bloom will be at the market with bottles of ginger and lavender hibiscus. Please remember to return your empties!
Scholl Farm of Montague
Eggs, Chicken $5.00/doz. Certified Organic Feed, Free Range (weather permitting)
Maple Moon Farm of Shelby
Congratulations to Bernadine Rolnicki, the winner of our Know Your Food quiz! Bernadine got the highest score of all the customers who took it. Bernadine wins a $25 gift certificate to our farm. (Sweetwater’s market manager, Diana Jancek, got the only perfect score. Yeah!) We’ll have all the answers available at our stand, with detailed explanations.
This week we are offering:
EGGS-our youngest hens have started to lay, which means we have lots more eggs to offer. Our chickens are pastured and fed locally grown certified organic grain.
POTATOES
ONIONS
WINTER CARROTS
FRESH ROSEMARY
our farm products are made using vegetables and herbs grown here at Maple Moon
JAM
DRIED HOT PEPPERS
DRIED SWEET PEPPERS
CHIPOLTE PEPPERS
BROTH BAGS
THAI GINGER BROTH BAGS
DRIED HERBS
ONION POWDER
POULTRY RUB
HERBAL TEAS
HERBAL SALVES AND CREAMS
HERBAL LIP BALMS
LOVE
We also offer a limited selection of maple syrup from Kasza Sugar Bush when they are not here at the market
1224 S.144th Ave
Shelby, MI 49455
(231)861-2535
Check us out on Facebook
Funny Farm of Grant
One more week for the bonus for your CSA!
We have adapted our CSA this year to allow you your choice of veggies for the week. We will add 10% to the amount you choose for the summer growing season. As an incentive for the early joiners, we will increase your premium by $20, so your $300 CSA will net you $350 in produce for the summer.
Back by popular demand: Black Bean Truffles!
Moms! Cold and flu season is here, don’t forget about Elderberry and Aronia berry jelly to help with your antioxidants to help beat the colds and flu. Fight off the bad stuff with good stuff for breakfast and treats!
Dried kale two ways, whole leaf, or powdered. Perfect for adding to smoothies, soups and more!
Funny Farm’s own jam and jellies! Made with our own fruits, including Kiwi, Aronia berry, Crab Apple, Elderberry, and more!
Organically raised on our farm, using non-GMO sugar and locally sourced ingredients. Low sugar varieties available, too, 50% less sugar
Dried Shiitake mushrooms
Dried Thyme
Hickory Smoked Pink Himalayan Salt
Pink Himalayan Sea Salt
Black Hawaiian finishing salt
Earthscape Farm of Hesperia
We appreciate advance orders. We are pretty well stocked. Email earthscapefarm@gmail.com by 6pm on Friday evening. See you on Saturday!
This week’s specials:
SOUP BONES! $2 PER LB. PRE-ORDER 10#, GET THEM FOR $1.80 PER LB. Bone Broth weather will be over soon!
SHORT RIBS – $3 PER LB. PRE-ORDER 5# OR MORE, GET THEM FOR $2.80 PER LB.
Beef Suet – $1 per lb.
VEGGIES for sale this week: Red onions. Celeriac; Green Cabbages
GRASS FED BEEF! We raised the great great great grandmothers of our brood cows! This latest batch of beef had no grain, as the pastures lasted so long into the Fall, and the winter weather has not been that harsh.
Grilling Steaks ~ Tenderloin, Porterhouse, Rib Steak, TBone, NY Strip, Sirloin, Cubed Steak
Braising Beef ~ Round Steaks
Roasts ~ Chuck, English; Brisket
Lean Ground Beef, GROUND SIRLOIN AND BEEF PATTIES, too!
Short Ribs
Soup Bones
Liver and Heart
HIGHER GROUNDS COFFEE in 12 oz bags. Certified organic, Fair Trade. Various types, beans or ground, dark or medium roast, full caf, half caf or decaf.
ORGANIC OLIVE OIL, imported from Palestine by Higher Grounds.
Patrice and Bill Bobier
4220 E. Loop Rd.
Hesperia, MI 49421
231-861-2234
Pine Row Farm of Rothbury
EGGS! We will have plenty of chicken eggs again this week. In these winter months we feed our girls whatever green scraps we have plus Certified Organic layer mix produced at the Grice farm in Rothbury, just down the street from our farm! You can’t get much more locally grown than that!
Taste the difference in 100% Grass Fed Beef!
Our cows are on pasture as much as weather allows, then supplemented with our own farm grown baleage.
Ground Beef $6.50 lb
Burger Patties $7.50 lb
Roast $6
T-Bone $12.
Porterhouse 1” Stk
Beef Brisket $7/lb
Tenderloin $13
Sirloin $9
Rib steak $12
NY Strip $13
Oxtail $5.50 OUT
Short ribs $6.50
Round steak $5.75 OUT
Liver $4.00
Tongue $5.50
Soup bones $2
Hanging half 3.75 pre order call us
Poultry
All poultry is free range, fed Certified Organic feed.
Chicken eggs $5.00
Duck eggs $8
Honey
We are sold out of traditional honey until next harvest. We will have 3-4 sizes of raw and unfiltered honey available.
12 oz bear 4
1 lb jar raw 5.25
2 lb bottle 9
4 lb pail raw 17
5 lb jug 20
Never Better Naturals of Muskegon
We decided to celebrate that spring is right around the corner by whipping up a fresh batch of Sunrise body butter for you this week! This particular scent will remind you of warmer days with the essential oils of orange, hibiscus, and coconut and it’s just one of our many varieties of this lush body butter.
If you’re preparing to escape to somewhere warm, you can pick up our chemical free and highly effective sunscreen.
Come to see, feel, and smell all of the body care, natural remedies, soaps, and more that we make locally and safe for you and the ones you love.
Thanks! Rachel
Meadow View Goat Dairy 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.
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.
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.
Marco Similar to Dutch Kase but pasteurized and vacuum sealed, it comes in Pepper, Sage, Italian & Garlic.
Other items from our farm:
Along with our popcorn, we’ll also have eggs from our free-range, GMO-free flock.
Kasza Sugar Bush of Shelby
We have all the maple syrup that your sweet tooth would desire.
Maple Syrup in Glass and Plastic:
1 Gallons – $49.00
1/2 Gallons – $28.00
Quarts – $16.00
Pints – $10.00
Maple Syrup in Glass only:
12 oz. – $8.00
8 oz. – $6.00
Maple Leaf shaped jars in 4 sizes – varying prices
Decorative/Gift jars 8.45 oz. – $10.00
Maple Sugar Candy $2.50 each
Maple Cream:
1/2 lb. – $7.25
1 lb. – $12.25
Maple Coated Almonds and Pecans 3.5 oz. bags $3.75
Organic Michigan Maple Munch (Homemade Maple Granola) 11 oz. $5.75
We are coming to market every other week so be sure you stock up for a couple weeks.
Visit our website at: http://www.kaszasugarbush.com/
Provision Family Farms of White Cloud
Greetings from Provision Family Farms! There is new life on the farm. Two new lambs and a calf we born this week. We also have our first batch of chicks for May. Piglets are also running around in the woods. Spring is just around the corner!
This week we have various cuts of Smoked and Fresh Pork, Beef, Lamb, and Chicken. We also have EGGS
SMOKED PORK
Smoked Hock $4.00/lb
Bacon $8.50/lb
Jowl Bacon $8.00/lb
Cottage Bacon $8.00/lb
Ham $7.50/lb
Pit Ham (Sliced Lunchmeat) $8.00/lb
Smoked Loin $9.00/lb
Canadian Bacon $5.00/pkg (1/2lb packages)
FRESH PORK
Sausage (Italian and Breakfast) $6.00/lb
Ground Pork $6.00/lb
Bulk Sausage or Ground Pork (10 +lbs) $5.50/lb
Sausage Links $8.00/lb
Pork Steak, Pork Chops $6.50/lb
Loin, Boneless Pork Chops, Cutlets $7.50/lb
Spare Ribs $5.00/lb
Baby Back Ribs $7.00/lb
Tenderloin $12.00/lb
Bones $1.00/lb
Fresh Hocks $2.00/lb
Liver, Heart, Lard $4.00/lb
BEEF
Ground Sirloin $7.50/lb
1/3lb Hamburger Patties (4 pack) $8.50/each
Rib Steak, Rolled Rump $8.00/lb
Brisket, Cube Steak,
Chuck Roast, English Roast,
Kabobs/Stew $6.50/lb
Sirloin, Flat Iron $11.00/lb
Porterhouse Steak, Tenderloin $13.00/lb
Short Ribs $4.00/lb
Bones $2.00/lb
Kidney $2.00/lb
CHICKEN
Breast $11.00/lb
Drums $6.00/lb
Wings $4.00/lb
Backs, Gizzard, Necks, Feet $2.00/lb
Liver $4.00/lb
LAMB
Stew Meat $10.00/lb
Leg Roast $13.00/lb
Boneless Leg $14.00/lb
EGGS $5/doz
Note: chickens on pasture fed GMO-free conventional feed.
Laughing Tree Bakery of Hart
As many of you know, Charlie and I are big fans of French Toast. Well, this morning I did a little experimenting to determine which loaves make the best French Toast… I have to say that Annie’s Raisin Spice is still my top pick for this purpose (I just love the cinnamon, cardamom, and whole grains in this loaf), but the Oceana Round was a strong second—it was super custardy and scrumptious—practically melting in our mouths!
I haven’t determined yet which loaf takes third place… I played around with the Honey Oat but I’d like to compare that to the Homesteader’s Wheat, Michigander, and maybe even Big Country.
But still, top picks for French Toast: ANNIE’S RAISIN SPICE and OCEANA ROUND. Both were pretty darn fabulous!
Laughing Tree French Toast—makes 6 slices
3 Eggs
½ cup whole milk or half and half
Generous sprinkle of cinnamon
1 tsp. Vanilla extract
Coconut oil—for the frying pan
OUR TEN WEEKLY VARIETIES
Homesteader’s Wheat (An extraordinary light wheat bread with a wonderfully chewy crust) $6.00
Oceana Round ( Rustic Italian country bread) $6.00
Third Coast Three Seed (Sunnies, Sesames, and Flax in a light wheat) $6.50
The Michigander (made with Michigan-grown whole wheat—dark and soulful) $6.00
Annie’s Raisin Spice (sweet organic raisins, organic cinnamon, and freshly ground cardamom) $7.00
Griff’s 8-Grain (Hearty, hearty! Eight organic grains and a bit of Michigan honey) $7.00
Finn’s Pecan Raisin Pecan (Jam packed with pecans and organic raisins) $8.75
100% Whole grain Kamut: A heritage grain with a golden hue. Distinct and moist with a flavor similar to corn. A non-hybridized cousin to modern wheat. $7.00
Elbridge Parmesan Olive (Sumptuous parmesan and Kalamata black olives) $8.00
Pilgrim Rye: A German-style rye made with cracked rye berries and OG Spelt Flour. (No wheat flour except for what is in the levain starter). Slice it thin to enjoy this dark and hearty loaf. $7.00 a loaf
SPECIALTY BREAD BAKE
Big Country: Made with germ-restored wheat flour and Michigan-grown rye, this 2 pound loaf is sumptuously supple and earthy. Perfect pick for a crowd. Price $7.50
Rustic Baguette: A rustic cousin to the French baguette. An excellent partner for your favorite cheese or spread. They also just look nice sticking out from the top of a shopping bag!. Price $3.00
Chili Cheddar: Maple Moon Farm jalapenos and Vermont cheddar in a loaf that bites back! Price $8.00
Pumpernickel Rye: A new twist on an old Eastern European tradition. Caraway and cracked rye make this dark, chewy loaf. Price $6.00
PASTRIES AVAILABLE FOR SATURDAY:
Deep Mud Brownies Our brownies are made with extraordinary Callebaut dark chocolate, our own fresh eggs, and Michigan grown organic barley flour—they are amazing!!
$3.25 each
Tree Huggers: The original quarter pound PB cookie with organic chocolate chips. VEGAN $2.50
Mrs Moose’s Whangdangdoodlers: Valrhona dark chocolate batons and organic walnuts make this a cookie as memorable as its name! $2.50
Expedition Cookies: Everything but the kitchen sink! (Oats, barley flour, sunnies, coconut, dates, honey, raisins, chocolate chips) $2.50
Our delicious scones are $2.50 each.
They are all made with organic butter, organic cream, and organic eggs!
Truly Ginger Scones
Michigan Cherry Scones
Blueberry Scones
Lovely Lemon Scones
Cranberry Orange Scones
MOUNTAIN CRUNCH GRANOLA (Local Honey, almonds, OG oats, OG coconut oil, OG sunflower seeds, OG coconut, sea salt) $8.00/pound
LAUGHING TREE PEANUT BUTTER GRANOLA (OG oats, OG sunflower seeds, OG coconut, all-natural Peanut butter, OG coconut oil, sea salt) $8.00/pound