Sweetwater Local Foods Market
Saturday, July 21st, 9:00am to 1:00pm
Mercy Health Partners/Hackley Health at the Lakes
On Harvey St. at US31/Pontaluna Rd. Exit. 1st Bldg North of Pontaluna Rd.
We are a 2012 Double Up Food Bucks Market!
Note: Please, please please! If you know of a family that could benefit from this program please pass this newsletter email on to them! This Saturday we will once again have a special gift bag for the first 10 new Bridge Card Customers! Includes a market tote, Kid Approved Cookbook, cutting board, veggie scrubber, and a $5.00 Sweetwater Gift Card to spend on anything at the market!
One more week of Certified Organic Blueberries!
At this week’s market:
Blueberry Heritage Farm of Holland
Lydia LaCroix tells us that she can guarantee more blueberries this week, but with the last day’s rain slowing down picking (can’t pick wet berries) she doesn’t know the exact quantity. Translation: If you want blueberries come early!
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Funny Farm of Grant
We’ll be at market with our CSA shares as well as pickles, cukes, kales, garlic, potatoes, basil, scallions, summer squash, and okra!
Chickadee Creek of Nunica
We’ll be at the market with heirloom zucchini, summer squash, slicing cucumbers, and pickling cucumbers.
Maple Moon Farm of Hart
This week we will have TOMATOES!! Come early to get the best choice to go with your Laughing Tree bread and Creswick bacon!
Have you tried a Tromboncino summer squash yet? Stop and talk to Mike about what makes these summer squash special.
Our wax beans and purple beans are coming on strong. Carrots are available we have a golden cooking carrot as well as some fresh Danvers.
Our garlic is harvested and curing. We will bring some fresh uncured garlic that you can use now or finish curing for later use. Fresh onions red and yellow.
Come see our fresh herb selection. Basil! We will have basil bunches to make pesto. We are running a special on Basil Bunches – see us at market! Amanda also has a new line of herbal teas available!
Creswick Farms of Ravenna
Pasture Raised, Antibiotic & Hormone Free, Artisanal Meats
Week #2 of BRAT EXTRAVAGANZA!
Enjoy this perfect summer weekend by firing up the grill. Once again we will have OBERON, BLUEBERRY, APPLE-SMOKED, & LAMB BRATS!
BEEF
Steaks: Ribeye & Top Sirloin for the grill!
Ground Beef in 1 lb. packages
Ground Beef patties
CHICKEN
Chicken Patties, Regular or BBQ, 1#/ 4 pr pkg
Chicken Breast, boneless, skinless.
Chicken Leg Quarters
Chicken Deli Lunch Slices are back!
PORK
Breakfast Sausage Patties!
We now offer Breakfast Sausage 3 ways: Patties, Links and Bulk 1# pkg!
Pork Tenderloin is back!
Bacon: Choose from Hickory or Apple Smoked.
SPECIALTY SAUSAGES & MEATS
Two Deli Lunchmeat choices: Chicken Deli & Ham Deli!
Chicago Style Hotdogs! No nitrates, no fillers – just 100% pastured meats!
Snack Sticks Jalepeno Cheddar!
Chorizo 1/2lb pkg
EGGS No soy in chicken feed. Large. $3.25 a dozen. Jumbo or medium by pre-order only.
PRE-ORDERS. Sign up to be on the Pre Order reminder list here: dijaan1@charter.net or at the market. On Sunday you will receive a reminder and you’ll have until midnight Monday to put your order in. Once placed, all you have to do is come to the market anytime on Saturday and pick it up!
Earthscape Farm of Hesperia
We now have the ability to take PROJECT FRESH coupons as well as credit cards at Sweetwater Market!
VEGGIES ~ Want bulk kale or chard? Order it ahead of time for a reduced price. Sunflowers! Broccoli, Cucumbers and pickles, Beets, Scallions and Summer Squash! Raddicchio. Kale and Chard, Fresh Basil and Parsley; Dill in quantity for making pickles. New Red Potatoes. Onions. Mesclun Spicy Greens Mix. Maybe some other veggies after we pick for CSA Shares – CSA gets our best variety!
BEEF ~ Pre-orders accepted. Email me for a price list. Please email or call by 5pm on Friday.
Other cuts available this week:
- We have lean Ground Beef!
- Chuck Roasts
- Bone-In Porterhouse, Tbone, and Rib Steaks
- Boneless Tenderloin and Sirloin Steaks
- Cubed Swiss Steak, Round Steak, Stew Meat & Short Ribs
- Liver, Tongue
- Soup Bones
Our steers and cows are on pasture, and happy!
ORGANIC OLIVE OIL.
HIGHER GROUNDS COFFEE in 1# bags. Certified organic, Fair Trade. Various types, beans or ground, dark or light roast, full caf, half caf or decaf. Try a cup at the Sweetwater Market table!
Laughing Tree Bakery of Hart
West Michigan’s ONLY Brick Oven Solar Powered Bakery!
*NEW PRE-ORDER INFORMATION*
We are taking pre-orders again for pickup at all of our sales locations for quantities of:
Five (5) or more loaves of bread
Ten (10) or more pastries.
PLEASE send us an email charlie@laughingtreebakery.com (or call 231-873-9820) by Tuesday at 6pm
More information at our Facebook Page at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Laughing-Tree-Brick-Oven-Bakery/135813859786385?ref=ts
HAVE YOU TRIED OUR GRANOLA LATELY? Choose from: Mountain Crunch Granola (pure vanilla, toasted almonds, and organic coconut oil) and Laughing Tree Peanut Butter Granola (all-natural PB, pure vanilla, and Michigan honey).
Baked in our wood-fired brick oven several days after the intense bread-baking heat has dissipated. This ensures that the nutrients in the grains and seeds remain intact! Please note, these granolas are SWEETENED ONLY WITH MICHIGAN HONEY! There is absolutely no refined sugar in them. They are both wonderful with milk or yogurt or as part of a trail mix. Our children love them! We often have samples of each variety available at market—come have a taste!
OUR NINE WEEKLY VARIETIES:
Homesteader’s Wheat (An extraordinary light wheat bread with a wonderfully chewy crust) $5.00
Oceana Round ( Rustic Italian country bread) $5.00
Third Coast Three Seed (Sunnies, Sesames, and Flax in a light wheat) $5.50
The Michigander (made with Michigan-grown whole wheat—dark and soulful) $5.50
Annie’s Raisin Spice (sweet organic raisins, organic cinnamon, and freshly ground cardamon) $6.00
Griff’s 8-Grain (Hearty, hearty! Eight organic grains and a bit of Michigan honey) $6.50
Finn’s Pecan Raisin Pecan (Jam packed with pecans and organic raisins) $8.25
Elbridge Parmesan Olive (Sumptuous parmesan and Kalamata black olives) $8.00
Irish Cheddar Peppercorn (Smooth Irish Cheddar accompanied by tongue tingling black pepper). Price $8.00
SPECIALTY BREAD
Rosemary Round: (Local, freshly chopped rosemary transforms our light wheat bread into something altogether new) $5.50
Pastries available for Saturday:
Cranberry Orange Scones
Truly Ginger Scones
Michigan Cherry Scones
Pecan Date Scones
All our scones are $2.25 each* and are handmade with our own fresh eggs, organic cream, and organic butter.
Deep Mud Brownies $2.75 each* Our brownies are made with extraordinary Callebaut dark chocolate, our own fresh eggs, and Michigan grown organic barley flour—they are amazing!!
Michigan Cherry Deep Mud Brownies $3.00 The original Deep Mud Brownie infused with dried oranges & zest.
Hilltoppers Molasses Ginger cookies…A 4oz cookie sweetened with golden molasses and bits of candied ginger $2.25 each.
Expedition Cookies– The kitchen sink including bits of chocolate, coconut, and raisins rolled into whole oats and barley flour. $2.25 each
BAKER’S DOZEN: If you order 12 pastries you’ll receive a 13th pastry FREE!
Hilde and Charlie Muller
Dancing Goat Creamery of Byron Center
Andrea will be back this week with more fresh Goat Cheese (chevre) and Cream Cheese. Be sure to try some of our customer favorites: Red Pepper Spring Roll, Honey Orange, Black Pepper and Herbs de Provence!
Grassfield’s Cheese of Coopersville
We’ll be at market this week with our certified organic Dutch Style gouda’s & cheddars. Try our Gouda with Dill, Gouda with Chili, Lamont Cheddar, or Edam!
Hickory Ridge Family Farm of Hart
Introducing Freedom Ranger!. Meat chickens with origins in Brittany & Burgundy France. In the 1960s the genetic stock was derived from heritage breeds to meet the standards of the French Label Rouge Free Range program. These chickens are born grazers, foraging for up to 30% or more of their diet. Whole & cuts available.
Fresh & Frozen. Pastured Chicken-Cornish Cross. Chickens rotated daily getting up to 20% of their diet from grass.
Chicken feet! Make some healthy stock.
Pastured Pork. We are currently out, with more coming in about 2 weeks.
Order forms are available for pork halves & wholes and whole chicken. Take advantage of a good discount when you preorder.
For more information call Will at (231) 794-7936.
“Like” us on Facebook! http://www.facebook.com/HickoryRidgeFamilyFarm?ref=ts
Liberty Family Farm & Bakery
HOOPHOUSE OFFERINGS
We’ll have lots of garden veggies.
PASTURE RAISED CHICKEN
Try our delicious pasture raised chicken on the grill.
BAKERY OFFERINGS
Lots of fresh veggies = great baked goods.
Join us for a FARM TO TABLE DINNER ! Enjoy a tour of our farm and a
delicious dinner made with fresh food grown here on Liberty Family
Farm.
Ed’s Farm of Spring Lake
Ed Bisacky is a new farmer who is farming on several acres of the family land he grew up on in Spring Lake. Though the land hasn’t been farmed for years (his grandparents were farmers) he has been busy clearing the brush & scrub and has the good fortune of having wonderful soil to work with.
Maple Creek Sugars of Fremont
Tate Luchies will return next week with maple syrup & honey .
Shady Side Farm of Holland
Mike will not be at market this week, however we appreciate your business and your continued prayers and good wishes for rain for our crops. We got nearly a half-inch in the last rainstorm – not enough but we’re grateful for it!
Bees & Botanicals of Spring Lake
We’ll be back next week, thanks!
Last but not least
Friends of the Market
Thanks & Big Sweetwater Hugs to Lee Henderson & Kate Heineman for renewing their Friend of the Market contribution!
As always, if you would like to become a Friend of the Market for a suggested donation of $20.00, which entitles you to a free cup of coffee at every market you attend for a full year, please see me at the market this Saturday! We will also have Higher Grounds Coffee by the Cup for a suggested donation of $1.00.
Double Up Food Bucks 2012!
Thanks to a grant received from the Fair Food Network and others, Sweetwater will be offering Double Up Food Bucks to anyone using a Bridge Card at our market from June 2nd through November. Click here to see how it works: http://sweetwaterlocalfoodsmarket.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/ffn_dufb-2012-faq-customer.pdf
New! Sweetwater OrganiCorps!
If you support the mission of Sweetwater and have some time to help us extend our organic message into the community please stop by the Market Managers booth this Saturday and sign up for a variety of volunteer positions! We need help with market surveys, Double Up Food Buck promotions and much more!
Have a great weekend, hope to see you at the market!
Diana Jancek
Market Manager
Contact info: (231)292-1152, dijaan1@charter.net
We are a BRIDGE CARD Double Up Foods Bucks 2012 market!