Sweetwater What’s New at the Market Saturday November 14th

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Beautiful Flowering Kale at Little Red OG!
Sweetwater Local Foods Market
Saturday, November 14, 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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New website is up! http://www.sweetwaterlocalfoodsmarket.org/

2015-2016 WINTER SCHEDULE
We will be CLOSED Saturday November 28th
We will be CLOSED Saturday December 26th
We will be OPEN EVERY SATURDAY after that!
Attendance is up, vendor numbers are up, so we have decided to be open EVERY SATURDAY through the winter! Thanks to all of you LOCAVORES who are helping to re-build our LOCAL FOOD SYSTEM!!

Stock up on Thanksgiving goodies now!
Attending this week’s market:

Little Red Organics of Freesoil
Along with our own organic veggies, we’re bringing ½ gallons of Certified Organic Apple Cider from our neighbors up at Northern Naturals!

Only  2 weeks until Thanksgiving! Stock up on your fall veggies while they last!

Leaf Lettuces
Scallions
Winter Squash
Brussels Sprouts
Cilantro
Parsnips
Beets
Potatoes – russet and white
Parsley
Kale
Panhead and Storage Cabbage
Napa Cabbage
Daikon Radish
Watermelon Radish
Salad Turnips
Spinach
Broccoli
Carrots
Garlic
Shallots
Pea, Sunflower Shoots
Cat Grass!
email, call or text 765-490-2703 or info@littleredorganics.com

Mund Farm of Rothbury
Last Week for APPLES!
Certified organic apples from Hackert Family Farm (Ludington)

A reminder for those folks that placed orders…please bring your containers to transfer the apples and many thanks!!

For this Saturday, I will have Ida Reds available in small quantities with limited supply for 1/2 bushels @ $13 (Approx. 21 lbs); Please bring your own containers to switch over from my baskets.

Ida Red:
Sweetly tart, firm and juicy. Flesh sometimes tinted rosy pink. Stores well.
Good for eating, cooking, baking, salads and freezing. Makes a beautiful pink applesauce when cooked with skins on.

The Roaring Mouse Coffee Roasters of Hart
This cooler weather is perfect for enjoying a cup of coffee, tea or Hot Chocolate! Any 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. This week we are adding Hot Chocolate to the lineup! Come check out our new shipment of Chocolate! We restocked everyone’s favorites, and got a few new ones to try. Our new roaster is installed in the new facility, and we are working on the licensing, so be watching for some exciting new developments over the next few weeks!
Also new for us, we are adding some organic nuts and chocolate chips to our lineup. Hopefully they will be in time for this weekend, but we will for sure have them next weekend.

Check our facebook page for details on our coffee of the week.

We will also plan to bring our Guatemala FTO, Papua New Guinea FTO, Colombia FTO, and a 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 of Teas and Chocolates 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!

Wild Earth Chocolate of Muskegon
This week, I will definitely have Heart Chocolate, the 80% dark chocolate sweetened with D-ribose, for a big boost of calm energy right to your cells. D-ribose is a sweet supplement that is used for heart, chronic fatigue, and fibromyalgia patients to help them regain their cellular energy, so they can begin to move again.
We like to Move it, move it!
Sometimes we don’t realize how wonderful it is to move, until we can’t move good anymore… My advice from personal experience… Don’t go there.
Get some Wild Earth Heart Chocolate,
put it on your tongue,
close your mouth and smile,
Dance with wild abandon, with or without music,
but without chewing,
till your chocolate melts in your mouth.
Thank your body, for the ride, then get on with enjoying your day.

I will be offering:
Heart Chocolate
Chocolate drizzled popcorn
Buckwheaties (Kale, Buckwheat & Sunflower Seeds)
Pineapple Pecan Clusters
Walnut Raisin Clusters
Cacao Beans
Cacao Nibs
Cacao Powder
Cacao Butter

Bloom Ferments Kombucha
Bloom will be at the market with growlers of ginger and lavender hibiscus for $20, and we have a couple bottles left of ginger for $4. Remember to bring back your bottles! Also, Jodie, from Cultured Love, and I will be teaching a kraut and fermented vegetables class on Wednesday, November 18th from 6:30-8:30pm at 19 Hartford St in Muskegon. Still time to sign up!

Grandsons Gardens of West Olive
Assuming the farm hasn’t blown away by tomorrow we will be bringing these items to the market this Saturday:
Cut lettuce
Baby kale and Big kale
Arugula
Spinach
Mustards
Baby bok Choi
Tatsoi
Rainbow carrots
Beets
Shallots
Onions
Leeks
Potatoes (red, blue, fingerling)
Squash ( multiple varieties)
Radishes
Cilantro, parsley, rosemary, sage, thyme

Earthscape Farm of Hesperia
Samples this week!  Raw Kohlrabi
Veggies for sale this week:  Large & Medium Red and Yellow onions, plus 1.5# bags.  Large Kohlrabi, Celeriac, Maybe Cauliflower; Red, Savoy, and Green Cabbages, Beets with Greens;  Cilantro and fresh Dill
GRASS FED BEEF!   ON SALE:  BEEF HEART!
Email earthscapefarm@gmail.com or call 231-861-2234 by Friday 6pm to place advance orders.
Grilling Steaks ~ Tenderloin,  Porterhouse, Ribeye, Rib Steak, TBone, NY Strip, Sirloin, Cubed Steak, Flank
Braising Beef ~ Round Steaks; Stew Meat, Kabob Beef
Roasts ~ Chuck, Arm, 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 ~ ON SALE!  $2.50 per lb.
NEW SHIPMENT 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

Shady Side Farm of Holland
This is the last week I will be at market for nearly a month. Every year we sell our wool goods and beans at Holland’s Kerstmarkt, an open-air Christmas market that is held on Friday evenings and Saturdays. I will be back at Sweetwater on December 19th. Make sure you take inventory of your bean supply before you come on Saturday. If you’d like to buy larger quantities (5# bags), please email me with your order before Friday at 5 p.m.

I will have along to market our 16 varieties of certified organic dry beans, all grown by us on our farm south of Grand Haven. Did you know you can cook your beans in a crock pot or slow cooker? I just did some Painted Ladies this week, and they took about 3 hours to cook on high and they were last year’s beans! For best results, cook them when you are home so that you can check them every 30-60 minutes.

This is perfect soup weather. For white bean soups, I suggest either Hutterite Soup Beans or Marrow Beans. Marrow beans are plump, soft white beans. They may be Middle Eastern in origin. These beans soak up the flavors of whatever you cook them with. Their texture is creamy, with a meaty flavor. They make a wonderful soup, of course, and can be used in baked beans, or just eaten plain with some seasonings.

I will also have Grassfield’s Farm cheese along this week. This is aged cow’s milk cheese from a local, organic dairy farm. Stop by and sample some!

Lona

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.
New! We have re-stocked all of our beef cuts this week!

Ground Beef $6.50 lb
Burger Patties $10/pkg
Roast $6
T-Bone $12.
Beef Brisket $7/lb
Tenderloin $13
Sirloin $9
Rib steak $12
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
Ducks coming soon!
Honey
12 oz bear 4
1 lb jar raw 5.25
2 lb bottle 9
4 lb pail raw 17
5 lb jug 20

Scholl Farm of Montague
Squash
Potatoes
Pie Pumpkins
Decorative Gourds and Pumpkins
Dried Gourds
Eggs
Frozen Chicken (whole, 4-6 lbs)

Broom Corn.  Anyone wishing to order a bundle of Broom Corn for Holiday decoration can call us at 893-1311 and we will bring it along.

Funny Farm of Grant
Coming Soon!
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

SHIITAKI Mushrooms, until the season gets too cold and they hibernate again. Great sauteed with onions topping anything, steak, burgers, etc.

Winter squash, lots of varieties, Green acorn, pink banana, blue banana, heirloom white acorn, blue hubbard, spaghetti, butternut

Potatoes, any varieties Jim chooses to bring
Kohlrabi, giant size for easy use, try ’em shredded, steamed and sauteed, yum!
Rutabaga, great mashed with potatoes
Cabbage
Broccoli
Cauliflower
Ass’t Kale, many new varieties
Curly parsley
Italian Flat leaf parsley
Eggs from our mixed flock
Dried Shiitake mushrooms, fresh if available
Hickory Smoked Pink Himalayan Salt
Pink Himalayan Sea Salt
Black Hawaiian finishing salt

Maple Moon Farm of Shelby
This week we are offering

POTATOES
SWEET POTATOES
SUNCHOKES (aka Jerusalem Artichokes)
ONIONS (red and yellow)

SPINACH
ARUGULA
OCEANA MIX
BABY KALE
KALE
MUSTARD GREENS
COLLARDS
TURNIP GREENS
CABBAGE

SPROUTING BROCCOLI
CARROTS
SCALLIONS
RADISHES (cherry belle, black Spanish, and diakon)
SALAD TURNIPS

NANTUCKET PIE PUMPKIN-an heirloom from the north east, it has a long unique shape, that is ripe marbled green and orange. We think this is the best cooking pumpkin.  It cooks up sweet and smooth.  It’s perfect for soup, ravioli, bread, and of course pie
DELICATA SQUASH

FRESH HERBS (inclusing parsley, rosemary, thyme, sage)

**NEW THIS WEEK**
BLUEBERRY JAM-made with certified organic blueberries grown right here in west MI and sweetened with local honey for an amazing jam, that is bursting with fruit flavor.

our farm products are made using vegetables and herbs grown here at Maple Moon

DRIED HOT PEPPERS
whole cayenne
crushed cayenne
sliced jalapeno
whole Georgia Flame (an heirloom pepper from the Republic of Georgia)
SMOKED PEPPERS:
whole ancho
whole chipolte
smoked cayenne powder
BROTH BAGS
THAI GINGER BROTH BAGS
DRIED HERBS
parsley, oregano, dill, sweet marjoram, thyme, basil, rosemary, sage, celery leaf
**NEW THIS WEEK**
POULTRY RUB-we blended our own parsley, garlic, sage,and rosemary with mineral rich salt for a delicious rub perfect for chicken or turkey.
HERBAL TEAS
*NOURISH
*CHAMOMILE
*LOVELY LEMON
HERBAL SALVES
HERBAL LIP BALM

Laughing Tree Bakery of Hart
CRANBERRY ORANGE ALMOND BREAD ($8.75) will be available November 21st through December 24th.  This scrumptious loaf features fresh organic orange zest, sweet cranberries, and toasted almonds.  If you don’t eat pie for breakfast on Thanksgiving (as we do!), than this loaf is for you!!  We are happy to take your order for this loaf at any time…
WE ARE NOW TAKING ORDERS FOR THANKSGIVING PIES!
SATURDAY 11/21 (available for pickup at the Sweetwater Market 9–12)
WEDNESDAY 11/25 (available for pickup at The Cheese Lady in Muskegon from 10—5).
ABBA PETER’S FAVORITE APPLE PIE ($25) features an all-butter organic crust, and a mound of local apples seasoned with cinnamon, nutmeg, and just a bit of fair-trade Demerara brown sugar.  We like to eat this pie for breakfast the morning after Thanksgiving—with a good cup of coffee.  It serves 8 generously.  (Abba Peter is Hilde’s dad.  This is his all-time favorite pie—she’s been making them especially for him for ten years!)
RIGHTEOUS PUMPKIN PIE ($20) features an all-organic oat/seed crust made with rolled oats, sunflower seeds, and flax.  The filling is sumptuous and silky with local squash, organic eggs, organic cream, vanilla, and spices.  It’s a combination you won’t want to miss as it only comes around once a year!
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:  Our interpretation of the classic French baguette.  An excellent partner for your favorite cheese or spread.  They also just look nice sticking out the top of a shopping bag.  Price $3.00 (Hoping to have these for Saturday 11/14—if our experiment goes well, we will bring them to market!)
Chili Cheddar: Locally grown jalapenos meet tangy Vermont Cheddar.  Incredible flavor with a kick!  Perfect for breakfast with eggs.  Price $8.00
Honey Oat  A super moist round made with steel cut oats and a bit of Michigan Honey.  Great for French toast.  Price $6.50
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
Hilltoppers Cookies: Molasses Ginger cookies…  A 4oz cookie sweetened with blackstrap molasses and bits of candied ginger.  $2.50 each
Expedition Cookies:  Dark Chocolate, coconut, raisins, dates, sunflower seeds, oats, and barley flour—everything but the kitchen sink!  $2.50 each
Tree Hugger PB Cookies:  The quarter pound peanut buttery original with dark chocolate chips.  Sweetened with Michigan Maple and honey.  $2.50 each
Our delicious scones are $2.50 each.
They are all made with organic butter, organic cream, and organic eggs!
Cranberry Orange Scones
Truly Ginger Scones
Michigan Cherry Scones
Blueberry Scones
Lovely Lemon 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

Provision Family Farms of White Cloud
We have a new little heifer calf on the farm! We encourage you to stop by our table Saturday and drop a name suggestion in a hat. We’ll draw a name for her from the pile. Names that start with AZLD or C are prohibited (we use first letters to denote maternal lineage)

Here’s what we have this week

SMOKED PORK
Smoked Hock                    $4.00/lb
Bacon                                $8.50/lb
Jowl Bacon                        $7.50/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
Boneless Pork Chops, Cutlets or Loin   $7.50/lb
Pork Steak, Pork Chops             $6.50/lb
Spare Ribs                               $5.00/lb
Baby Back Ribs                     $8.00/lb
Tenderloin                               $12.00/lb
Bones                                    $1.00/lb
Head                                      $5.00/each
Fresh Hocks                          $2.00/lb
Liver, Heart                             $4.00/lb
Lard                                        $4.00/lb

BEEF
Hamburger                            $6.00/lb
Hamburger Bulk 10+ lbs         $5.50/lb
Ground Sirloin                         $7.50/lb
1/3lb Hamburger Patties (4 pack)  $8.50/each
Rib Steak, Kabobs                 $8.00/lb
Brisket,  Cube Steak            $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
Kidney                                    $2.00/lb

CHICKEN
Breast                                      $11.00/lb
Thighs                                     $5.00/lb
Drums                                        $6.00/lb
Wings                                       $4.00/lb
Backs, Gizzard, Necks, Feet         $2.00/lb
Liver                                            $4.00/lb

LAMB
Ground                                        $10.00/lb
Stew Meat                                   $10.00/lb
Leg Roast                                   $13.00/lb
Boneless Leg                              $14.00/lb
Chops                                         $13.00/lb
Rack                                          $15.00/lb
Bones                                          $2.00/lb
Liver, Heart                                   $6.00/lb

Vendors not attending this week:
Blackbird Farm of Coopersville
We’ll be back next week!
Never Better Naturals of Muskegon
We’ll be back next week!
Crowfeather Farm of Hesperia
Meadow View Goat Dairy of Fremont
Note: We will be attending market the last Saturday of every month.
Cultured Love of Grand Rapids
Liberty Family Farm & Bakery of Hart
We’ll see you next Saturday with TURKEYS!