Saturday, September 12th, 2015, 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.
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Maple Moon Farm of Shelby
This week we are offering
CANTALOUPE
TOMATOES
ZEN’S CHERRY TOMATOES
CANNING TOMATOES (pre-order to ensure you get some)
SWEET PEPPERS
HOT PEPPERS
POBLANO PEPPERS (perfect for stuffing)
KALE
COLLARDS
CHARD
TURNIP GREENS
SPROUTING BROCCOLI
BEETS
CELERY
SLICING CUCUMBERS
CARROTS
FRESH HERBS (inclusing parsley, rosemary, thyme, thai basil, dill, lemongrass, sage)
CUT FLOWERS
DRIED CULINARY HERBS
DRIED HOT PEPPERS (cayenne and chipolte)
BROTH BAGS
HERBAL TEAS-all our teas are made exclusively with herbs hand picked and blended right here on our farm.
*SWEET SUMMER TEA
*CHAMOMILE
*LOVELY LEMON
HERBAL SALVES
HERBAL LIP BALMS
LOVE
1224 S.144th Ave
Shelby, MI 49455
(231)861-2535
Little Red Organics of Freesoil
Tis the season for putting veggies away for the winter. Things on the farm have slowed down enough that we’re packing our Mason jars and freezer bags. There is a new to us method of freezing veggies without blanching. It works if you plan on using the frozen goodies within twelve months of freezing, otherwise blanching is necessary. We have tried it successfully with shelling peas and beans so far. . . it is a real time saver.
We have tons of stuff for bulk freezing and canning (see below). A number of things will continue in bulk, but tomatoes are headed out quickly. We have everything but limes for making 99.9% local salsa & dilly beans!
Best,
Kate, John & Laila
New & Returning this week
Spinach!
Beans
Beets
Certified Organic Veggies
Dragon Tongue Beans
Green Beans (*)
Cut Flowers
Cabbage, savoy, green, red
Sunflowers
Tomatoes, cherry, red, heirloom (*)
Potatoes, white and yellow
Garlic – Music and German Red
Scallions (limited)
Shallots
Green Peppers
Sweet and Snack Peppers
Arugula
Leaf Lettuce
Cilantro
Dill
Fennel
Parsley
Basil
Beets (new patch, great greens)
Broccoli (*)
Summer Squash and Zuchs – limited
Romanesco Cauliflower – limited
Pasture Raised Chicken – no hormones, antibiotics, or gmo feed! (getting towards the end)
* Bulk pre-ordering for canning/freezing. We cannot fill orders placed at markets on the same day, preordering is essential.
email, call or text 765-490-2703 or info@littleredorganics.com Sign up for our newsletter: http://www.littleredorganics.com/about-little-red-organics/
Blackbird Farms of Coopersville
This week I will likely bring the following:
kale
chard
bok choi
head lettuce
mini-cabbages
kohlrabi
red tomatoes
mini-romas
multi-colored cherry tomato mix
beans
red, yellow, and orange sweet peppers
hot peppers
scallions
leeks
celery
carrots
potatoes
red and yellow onions
shallots
garlic
zinnias
sunflowers
The Roaring Mouse Coffee Roasters of Hart
This cooler weather is perfect for enjoying a cup of coffee or tea! Either way you like it, we have you covered! Every week we have 4-6 varieties of freshly roasted coffee, and 5+ varieties of loose leaf tea. We also have some amazing fair-trade organic chocolate barks, and chocolate covered coffee beans! We can only bring a few varieties of our chocolates to the market each week, so be sure to check out our list on Facebook and pre-order if there is something specific you want.
At this point it looks like we will be out of town on the 19th, so stock up this week! Hopefully this is the last time off for awhile!
Featured coffee of the week! This week we are featuring everyone’s favorite, Guatemala FTO. This is a delicious medium roast with low acidity, and layers of milk chocolate, caramel, and roasted nuts.
We will also plan to bring our Honduras Don Oscar Omer Natural, Papua New Guinea FTO, Colombia FTO, and Sumatra Decaf.
As always, we sell our coffee by the ounce so you can get the perfect amount to use while it is the freshest. We also have gift certificates; the perfect gift for a coffee lover!
Come taste the fresh difference! Coffee is seasonal, so expect some variety. We try not to roast too much extra in order to keep the coffee fresh every week.
Our list has gotten too long to include here, so check out our Facebook page for the full list of what we have available.
Email us to order in advance, and we will have it bagged up and ready for you. Advance orders will ensure that we don’t run out of your favorite coffee before you get there, and speed up your shopping if you are in a hurry!
Liberty Family Farm & Bakery of Hart
Garden Offerings
Kale
Heirloom Tomatoes
Bakery Offerings
Fresh! Kale and onion quiche. GF and Reg.
Fresh! Apple pies made with our very own apples!! GF and Reg.
Breakfast Cookies- GF, Reg. and Paleo
Zucchini loaves- GF and Reg
Lemon Poppy Seed loaves- GF and Reg
Zucchini chocolate Bread- GF and Paleo.
New! Granola Bars! GF and Reg.
New! Gluten Free Brownies
Pasture Raised Meats
Limited selection of Lamb
Non GMO chicken
Pasture raised Pork- limited cuts.
Wool and Weaving
Liberty wool and weaving items. Olivia is quickly becoming very proficient and creative on our looms. She is working on building up an inventory for this fall. Some items available will be dish towels made with 100% organic cotton and linen yarn. Scarves, table runners, and blankets. We are using merino yarn and our Romney yarn natural and hand-dyed with 100% organic dyes.
We hope to settle into the fall/winter market season. Timothy remains very busy with sheep shearing on the weekends. We will be filling in for him until his load lightens a little. Looking forward to reconnecting at market.
Crowfeather Farm of Hesperia
We’ll have our usual assortment of tasty salad greens and garlic.
Kasza Sugar Bush
Try our 100% organic ingredient Maple Munch Granola! We’ll also have our maple syrup & maple sugar treats in various sizes.
Cultured Love of Grand Rapids
Cultured Love is “making good food possible”, producing probiotic-laden, nutritious foods that are not only beneficial for you, but also add amazing flavor, texture, and beauty to any meal.
Curryosity – Cabbage, Salt, Carrot, Green Onion, Curry, Cumin, Paprika
Root for Ginger – Cabbage, Salt, Carrot, Radish, Garlic, Red Pepper Flakes
Add those to our current lineup of specialty kraut products — traditional sauerkraut with caraway, dill kraut, and spicy kraut — are naturally fermented and nutritious, hand-crafted in Grand Rapids.
http://www.culturedlove.com/about/
https://www.facebook.com/culturedlovellc/timeline
Pine Row Farm of Rothbury
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.
We have quarters and halves of our 100% grass fed beef available now! See me at market, or call
New! Beginning next week we will have ground beef burger patties available!
Ground beef $6.50
Roast $6
T-Bone $12.
Tenderloin $13 OUT
Sirloin $9
Rib steak $12 OUT
NY Strip $13
Oxtail $5.50
Short ribs $6.50
Round steak $5.75
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
Broiler chickens $4 lb SOLD OUT, Taking Pre-Orders now for Labor Day delivery!
Turkeys $4 lb SOLD OUT, Taking Pre-Orders, ask about date.
Ducks , guineas, geese: ask for availability
Honey
12 oz bear 4
1 lb jar raw 5.25
2 lb bottle 9
4 lb pail raw 17
5 lb jug 20
Shady Side Farm of Holland
This week I will have along our certified organic beans, all harvested last fall, in the following varieties:
Black Turtle – Common black bean with a thick skin and a meaty texture. We’ve got a lot of these beans left, so they are discounted $1 a pound while supplies last.
Black Valentine – Taste like kidney beans, great for salads, soups and dips.
Hutterite Soup – Comfort food, cook fast, creamy soup, baby food.
Jacob’s Cattle – Big and meaty, taste & texture of new potatoes, traditional baked beans, chili. We’ve got a lot of these beans left, so they are discounted $2 a pound while supplies last.
Marrow – (Almost gone) Plump, soft white beans that soak up the flavors of whatever you cook them with.
October – (Almost gone) Creamy, velvety smooth texture, nutty, sweet flavor, thin skin, soups or chili.
Painted Lady – (Almost gone) Slightly sweet bean, smooth, creamy texture, good in everything.
Pinto – (Almost gone) Earthy flavor, great in Mexican cooking, falls apart under long cooking.
Zebra – (Almost gone) Smooth, creamy texture, full-bodied flavor, good all-purpose bean.
Please let us know ahead of time if you’d like to order 5# bags of any one variety, so that we can pre-bag those and bring them along.
In addition, we offer Grassfield Farms organic raw aged cheeses in the following flavors:
NEW! Smoked Gouda – I’ll have samples along. It’s amazing!
Aged Cheddar – You asked, and we listened! A sharp cheddar, aged a year. Award-winning!
Country Dill – A house favorite, the dill herb in Gouda well represents the fresh grass that dominates the cows’ diet.
Crofters – This delicious cheese is aged 1 year with a medium sharp taste. The texture is dry and crumbly. Very similar to Parmesan.
Edam – A variety of Gouda made with skim milk: Elastic, yet firm, this flawless low fat cheese is our best melter, improving any dish.
Garlic & Onion – The most aromatic of herbs. Don’t be the only one in the room to eat this spiced Gouda or you soon will be.
Gouda – A traditional handmade cheese in keeping with West Michigan’s (and our family’s) Dutch culture.
Lamont Cheddar – A rare, natural rind English cheese, named for the Grand River’s first settlement near our farm.
Leyden – Originally from the Rhine Valley, now the Grand River Valley; cumin perfectly compliments this aged Dutch cheese.
Cheese Sticks – Want to try some cheese, but don’t need a whole 8 ounces? We’ll have a few cheese sticks along each week, in a variety of cheese types, for $2 each.
Hand-Dyed Wool
I’ll also bring along some hand-dyed yarn for fall/winter knitting projects. This wool or wool/nylon blend yarn is from our sheep, hand-dyed by us. Stop by and see what we’ve got!
Lona
Funny Farm of Grant
We accept WIC Project Fresh Coupons!
This week we will bring:
Watermelons, red flesh and some seedless
Cherry tomatoes, lots of colors!
Potatoes
Okra
Kohlrabi. giant size for easy use, try ’em shredded, steamed and sauteed, yum!
Rutabaga and turnabagas, cross of rutabaga and turnip, great mashed with potatoes
Scallions
Sweet white onions
Rainbow Carrots
Broccoli
Cauliflower
Ass’t Kale, many new varieties
Sweet basil – end of the season, bringing what’s left
Lemon Basil – ditto here
Cutting celery, great celery flavor, greens similar to parsley, use stem and leaf
Curly parsley
Italian Flat leaf parsley
Eggs from our mixed flock
Dried Shiitake mushrooms, fresh is available
Hickory Smoked Pink Himalayan Salt
Pink Himalayan Sea Salt
Black Hawaiian finishing salt
Earthscape Farm of Hesperia
Veggies for sale this week: Large & Medium Red and Yellow onions, Beets with Greens, Japanese Cucumbers; Eggplant. Broccoli, Savoy Cabbage,
GRASS FED BEEF! SALE! Short Ribs $3 per lb.
Email earthscapefarm@gmail.com or call 231-861-2234 by Friday 6pm to place advance orders.
Grilling Steaks ~ Tenderloin, TBone, NY Strip, Sirloin, Cubed Steak
Braising Beef ~ Round Steaks; Stew Meat, Kabob Beef,
Roasts ~ Chuck, English, Rolled Rump; Brisket
Lean Ground Beef, BEEF PATTIES & GROUND SIRLOIN!
Short Ribs ~ One of the most flavorful cuts. Google some recipes!
SOUP BONES! Back in stock.
Heart and Liver
BEEF TALLOW – $1 per lb. or trade with us!
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.
Earthscape / Full Circle Farm
Patrice and Bill Bobier
4220 E. Loop Rd.
Hesperia, MI 49421
231-861-2234
Provision Family Farms of White Cloud
This week we have Fresh CHICKEN!!
If you would like to reserve your order for Market on Saturday, just
email or call us (231) 689-0457 with your request and we will have it
ready for you to pick up.
CHICKEN
Whole
$4.00/lb
Breast
$11.00/lb
Thighs
$5.00/lb
Drums
$6.00/lb
Wings
$4.00/lb
Backs
$2.00/lb
Stewing Hens
$2.75/lb
Giblets
$2.00/lb
Necks
$2.00/lb
Feet
$2.00/lb
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)
PORK
Sausage (Italian and Breakfast)
$6.00/lb
Ground Pork
$6.00/lb
Bulk Sausage (not links) or Ground Pork (10 +lbs)
$5.50/lb
Sausage Links
$8.00/lb
Boneless Pork Chops
$7.50/lb
Pork Steak
$6.50/lb
Boston Butt
$6.50/lb
Cutlets
$7.50/lb
Loin
$7.50/lb
Spare Ribs
$5.00/lb
Baby Back Ribs
$9.00/lb
Tenderloin
$12.00/lb
Bones
$1.00/lb
Head
$5.00/each
Fresh Hocks
$3.00/lb
Liver, Heart
$4.00/lb
Lard
$4.00/lb
BEEF
Hamburger (out of stock)
$5.75/lb
Hamburger Bulk 10+ lbs (out of stock)
$5.25/lb
Ground Sirloin (out of stock)
$6.50/lb
1/3lb Hamburger Patties (4 pack)
$8.50/each
Cube Steak
$6.50/lb
Rib Steak, Kabobs
$8.00/lb
Brisket, Chuck Roast, English Roast, Cube Steak, Stew Meat
$6.50/lb
Skirt, Sirloin, Flat Iron
$11.00/lb
Porterhouse Steak, Tenderloin
$13.00/lb
Liver, Short Ribs
$4.00/lb
Bones
$2.00/lb
Heart, Kidney
$2.00/lb
LAMB
Ground
$10.00/lb
Stew Meat
$10.00/lb
Leg Roast
$13.00/lb
Boneless Leg
$14.00/lb
Steaks, Spare Ribs
$11.00/lb
Chops
$13.00/lb
Rack
$15.00/lb
Bones
$2.00/lb
Liver, Heart
$6.00/lb
Simply Soaps of Spring Lake
Well I have some big news…. I’m not just wintering in Texas this year, I have decided to sell my house and move there permanently. I am super sad to leave this market, all the wonderful vendors and fabulous customers I have come to love. I will be available by phone or Etsy (Simply Soaps by Shirley) and can ship you anything you need in the future. The great thing is you can stock up before I go because everything will last at least a year! I don’t know how much longer I will be here as I will be leaving as soon as the house sells but I think its safe to say I’ll be here through Sept. I will come to the market every Sat until I go and will keep you posted. THANK YOU for all the joy you have brought to my life and for buying these products!
Stock up BONUS: This week stock up on 3 bottles of Body Wash and get a 4th one FREE!!! That’s a $9 savings!
Products include:
Body Wash:
“Wide Awake”- Peppermint, Tea Tree, Eucalyptus and Rosemary essential oils
“Peaceful Meadow”- Rose Geranium, Sage, Lemongrass & Rosemary essential oils
“Sweet Whispers”- Ylang Ylang, Lavender, Tangerine & Lemon essential oils
“Burst of Sunshine”- Orange, Grapefruit, Lemon, Lime & Lavender
“Nights in Tuscany”- Patchouli, Ylang Ylang, Lavender & Orange essential oils (matching it to Simply Soaps sensual Tuscany Perfume!)
Bar Soaps: Peppermint & Tea Tree, Lavender, Orange, Four Thieves or Unscented (All-in-One shampoo & body bar)
Foaming Hand Soap: Peppermint or Citrus (Orange & Grapefruit)
Deodorant
Lip Balm
Lemon Sugar Scrub
Body Butter
Hydrating Lotion
Peppermint Toothpaste
Healing Clay
Cool Vapor Rub (New product similar to Vick’s but safe and healthy!)
Tuscany Perfume
Bath Salts & Fizz Set: Peppermint or Lavender
Laundry Soap & Stain Stick
Freeze Spray (pain relief)
Relaxing Pillow Mist
Heated Rice Bags: Peppermint, Lavender, Orange or Unscented
Insect Repellent (For people and pets)
$1 off! Did you know that when you bring me your bottles of Freeze, Body Wash, Pillow Mist or Insect Repellent I will refill them at the market for $1 off the price! Good for you and the planet!
Samples of Tuscany Perfume, Body Butter, Healing Clay, Cool Vapor Rub, Freeze Spray, Lemon Sugar Scrub, Hydrating Lotion and Peppermint Toothpaste are available for you to try.
Each product at Simply Soaps is created and manufactured without the use of chemicals, artificial ingredients or preservatives of any kind. The colors and scents used are from nature, essential oils and whenever possible are made from organic ingredients.
Looking forward to seeing you on Saturday!
Vendors not attending this week:
Laughing Tree Bakery of Hart
We’re taking a break this week, but we will be back next week!
Meadow View Goat Dairy of Fremont
We will be at market ONLY the last Saturday of the month. Hope to see you this week, thank you!
Grandsons Gardens of West Olive
Bonao Cacao of Muskegon