Sweetwater Local Foods Market
Saturday, October 26th, 2013, 9:00am to 1:00pm
Mercy Health Partners Lakes Campus
On 6401 Harvey St. at US31/Pontaluna Rd. Exit. 1st Bldg North of Pontaluna Rd.
We accept Bridge Cards Year Round!
INDOOR WINTER MARKET BEGINS WITH A
CUSTOMER APPRECIATION DAY!
Well, of course we appreciate you EVERY day,
but we want to take this Saturday to tell you just how much!
Stop by the Sweetwater Center info table and enter a drawing for one of 12 of our brand new snazzy Sweetwater Market bags with a very special gift certificate inside. Sample a sip of the most delicious organic Apple Cider this side of the Rocky Mountains. Sweetwater is selling 1/2 gallons of Kaleva-based Northern Naturals Certified Organic Apple Cider as a market fundraiser. Grab an organic treat for the kids. Then, after you’ve wandered through the market sampling all the goodies, proceed to the back and grab a CHAIR MASSAGE provided by Weiss Chiropractic Wellness of Spring Lake!
Attending this Saturday’s market:
New! The Orange Whisk of Grand Haven
Susan Clemente, well-known author of Michigan’s Guide to Local Cooking, is now making tasty gluten-free snacks to bring to market on Saturday. She will have sweet & savory nut and seed based treats for sale. All items this week are vegan.
This weeks offerings include:
• Crackers – Flax or Seeds
• Sweet bites – Pecan/Date Bites or Almond/Coconut Bites.
• Hearty Nutty Loaf
• Vegan Trail Mix Cookies – Soft or Crunchy varieties
Susan is interested in creating products for families or individuals on special diets. Her products are baked in a wheat-free home kitchen; however, if you have food allergies she is available to make her products in your kitchen. Special requests are always welcome.
Susan creates wheat-free, and refined sugar-free snacks, sweets, and breads. She uses high-quality ingredients, when possible local and /or organic, to bake and make her products. She uses products from local family farms i.e. honey, maple syrup, eggs and chestnuts. She uses no preservatives, and ONLY bakes with ingredients your grandmother would recognize!
Please visit her Facebook page for more information, photos and weekly updates! https://www.facebook.com/pages/Orange-Whisk/137119332998928
Scholl Farms of Montague
Stu Scholl will have free-range chicken, frozen whole, butternut squash & potatoes at market tomorrow. Chickens were raised on pasture their entire lives this summer! No GMOs!
Earthscape Farm of Hesperia
BEEF! We have ground beef! If you would like 10 packages, we are taking orders. We will have all cuts of beef next week.
Some of the cuts from the last few butcherings are ON SALE!
SPECIALS: SHORT RIBS, Beef Heart, Tongue $2 per lb.
1/4 lb patties – $5.75 per lb.
Boneless Steaks: Tenderloin steaks – the best cut of beef on a side $20 per lb.
Roasts: Boneless Rib, Chuck. Roasts are $6 and $6.50 per lb.
Swiss Steak $6.50 per lb.
Soup Bones $2 per lb.
Oxtail $5 per lb. I have one on sale for $3 per lb.
Liver $3 per lb.
VEGETABLES~ Sweet Peppers are ON SALE ~ Red and Green and Purple. Fill a red basket! They are easy to freeze, and are a great source of Vitamin C throughout the winter.
The last of the Eggplant.
Celeriac! Broccoli and Cauliflower. Cabbages, Kohlrabi.
Red and Yellow Onions, POTATOES! Blue Gold and Kennebec. Chard and Kale. Fresh Herbs!
ORGANIC OLIVE OIL ~ Imported by Higher Grounds in Traverse City. $15 per bottle!
New Shipment: HIGHER GROUNDS COFFEE in 1# bags. Certified organic, Fair Trade. Various types, beans or ground, dark or medium roast, full caf, half caf or decaf. Try a cup at the Sweetwater Market table!
Liberty Family Farm & Bakery of Hart
Fresh Greens!
Spinach
Kale
Lettuce mix & Arugula
Pastured Meat
Grass fed Lamb
Ground lamb
Roasts & Ribs
Leg Steaks
Chicken – Whole, leg quarters & wings
Bakery Offerings
Breakfast cookies – Gluten Free and Reg.
Quiches – Kale & onion cheddar
Spinach & Cheddar
Potato & Rosemary
Ciabatta Bread
Pumpkin Bread
Apple Muffins
New!!! Paleo Breakfast Cookie
See you at the market! Stay warm!
September’s Herbs & Produce of Montague
THE FROST IS COMING SOON!!!
Till then enjoy what we have to offer:
Spinach
Baby Kale
Baby Arugula
Mixed Greens (our heart healthy mix)
Carrots
Celery
Parsnips
Heirloom Tomatoes(all colors & sizes)
Don’t forget the herbs:
Cilantro
Parsley (curly & flat- leaf) Amazing amount of vitamin C!!
Marjoram( lovely flavor my personal favorite)
Sage (savory herb)
Bronze Fennel (perfect for juicing)
Flower Blends:
The beauty of color is still abundant!!
Dahlias, zinnias, sunflowers and statice
Shady Side Farm of Holland
We will be at market with certified organic beans, wool roving, wool socks, and Grassfield Farm’s awesome cheese! The aged raw milk cheese flavors we will have along this week include: Country Dill, Edam, Fait Gras, Gouda, Lamont Cheddar and Polkton Corners.
Because we have started to harvest the new crop, all last year’s beans, including Black Valentine, Hutterite Soup, Jacob’s Cattle, Jacob’s Cattle Gold, Nuña, October and Yellow Indian Woman, are now discounted. Time to make room in our storehouse for this year’s beans. These are still wonderful beans, still fresher than what you’d find in the stores. Stop at our booth to see if there is anything you’d like to stock up on while the price is right. We’ll also have fresh Black Turtle, Pinto, Hidatsa Red, Marrow, and Zebra beans along for sale this Saturday.
We have a few openings for raw milk deliveries through Grassfields Farm’s cow share program. Feel free to ask me how you can get fresh milk delivered to Sweetwater each week.
See you Saturday!
Shady Side Farm
shadysidefarmmichigan@gmail.com
Maple Moon Farm of Shelby
GREENS!
Spinach
Lettuce Mix
Mustard Greens
Ovation Mix (baby greens including kale, mustards, bok choy, and arugula)
Arugula
Kale
FALL VEGGIES
Potatoes
Winter Squash
Onions
Cabbage (red and savoy)
Fresh herbs
Broccoli
Leeks
HERBALS
Our three Tea blends
Creams
Salves
NEW THIS WEEK! Breathe Deep We gathered the plant medicine in New England Aster and Mullein, along with garden grown sage, thyme, rosemary, and peppermint to help offer comfort and relief to upper respiratory infections. Our traditional blend contains essential oils (organic and medical grade) of eucalyptus and pine. We also make a gentle version with no essential oils for children and other sensitive folks.
Funny Farm of Grant
This week’s produce list:
Onions! Big red & yellow slicing onions. Italian Cippolinis, SHALLOTS
Peppers! Hot peppers, Sweet green bells, Italian sweet reds, beautiful colors.
Getting near the end of the season for bulk peppers for the freezer!
Greens&Roots! kales, kohlrabi, rutabagas, cabbages, big and small,
and anything else we can find!
Potatoes! Choose from 6 or more varieties.
Eggs! Mixed flock of whites & browns.
Apron Lady & Janet will be at Mamreland Lutheran Church Craft Show
4085 Lutheran Church Road, Kent City.
Meadow View Goat Dairy & Farm of Fremont
Come sample our latest batch!
Plain 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.
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.
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.
Other items from our farm:
We will also have eggs from our free-range, GMO feed- free flock as well as our made on the farm maple syrup along. http://www.meadowviewgoatdairy.com/home
Kasza Sugar Bush of Shelby
CHRISTMAS IS COMING!!! Come get the perfect, all-natural gift from our large selection of super-sweet Maple Products for that special someone.
The Kasza family began making Pure Maple Syrup from the two trees in our front yard about 15 years ago. Every year since then we have grown in production and quality, today bringing you pure maple products made from cutting-edge technology (and the help of 3,500 trees!). Our maple syrup is continually graded for color, taste, and quality during production. Our processing facility is kept clean and sanitary as well as inspected and licensed by the State of Michigan.
Along with our bottled syrup, we have also expanded our line of maple products this summer to include the following:
Maple Cream – this is maple syrup condensed, cooled, and stirred into a beautiful buttery-like spread excellent on bagels, toast, doughnuts, winter squash, or a glaze on meat (esp. fish, and venison). The best thing about this is that it is totally natural only pure maple syrup.
Maple Candy – an excellent treat for someone’s sweet tooth. Simply pure maple syrup cooked down to only sugar and minerals remaining with enough moisture to hold the sugar in beautiful little maple leaf shaped candies.
Maple Granulated Sugar – is much like Maple Candy but without moisture. This can be used in place of white sugar as a natural sweetener along with the maple taste (esp. on oatmeal)
Maple Sugar-Coated Almonds and Pecans – a healthy sweet and crunchy treat. These make great gifts if they don’t get eaten before that!!!
Please stop by and check out all these 100% natural products for yourself. We would be very happy to answer any questions or visit our web www.kaszasugarbush.com Looking forward to seeing you Saturday!
Laughing Tree Bakery of Hart
BREADS: Each week we bake our seven scrumptious weekly breads (listed below) as well as one or more specialty breads. Please consult the schedule below to find out when we are making your favorite specialty bread!
GRANOLA! We make two different varieties of granola: 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).
OUR EIGHT 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
100% whole grain Kamut: Light and moist with a fruity flavor, a great loaf for folks with wheat sensitivities. $6.00
SPECIALTY BREAD BAKE SCHEDULE
Elbridge Parmesan Olive (Sumptuous parmesan and Kalamata black olives) $8.00
Pumpernickel Rye A new twist on an old Eastern European standard. Cracked Rye and Caraway seed in a dark, chewy loaf. $6.00
Irish Cheddar Peppercorn (Smooth Irish Cheddar accompanied by tongue tingling black pepper). Price $8.00
Pastries available for Saturday:
Hilltoppers (A 4oz cookie sweetened with golden molasses and bits of candied ginger) $2.25 each
Treehuggers( The one and only quarter pound peanut buttery original.) $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
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!!
Olson Farm of Shelby
SALE on SYRUP! Just for Customer Appreciation Day, I am rolling back my Taste of Spring syrup prices to 2010! Grab a quart, pint or 12oz bottle for yourself and/or a gift for someone else. Prices won’t be this low again, ever!
Vegetables this week: Carrots, turnips, beets, potatoes. Last of the Broccoli!
Chickadee Creek Farm of Nunica
Whew! We have some bacon lovers in Muskegon – one week and we’re all sold out again! But we will have a good supply of pork chops, pork steak, roasts, smoked hocks, ham, and other cuts. This new supply will not be from our Mulefoots, but from another wonderful old breed called Tamworth. These pigs have been nicknamed “Irish Graziers”, referring to their active and thrifty habits on pasture. While they are a little leaner than Mulefoots, their meat is every bit as tasty. We will also have our same great selection of 100% pork sausages from our heritage breed Mulefoot pigs.
Veggies this week include: many varieties of heirloom winter squash. All of our carving pumpkins and ornamental squash will be on sale this week so be sure to pick out your perfect one before they are gone! A few of our other squash are selling fast as well, so if you have a particular favorite, you may want to check in with us to see how much longer they will be available.
Hickory Ridge Family Farm
CHICKEN IS BACK!
We will be bringing our regular pastured broilers, all cuts and whole. All frozen.
Crow Feather Farm of Hesperia
Order your Halloween Jack o-lantern this week! We have lots of big ones!
Beautiful, edible Indian corn
“Baby Pam” pie pumpkins are perfect for pie and cookies
Winter squash – Delicata, Butternuts, “Old Mother” Hubbards
Brassica salad mix
Baby lettuce mix
Kale and chard
Giant Kohlrabi
Cabbage
Yukon Gold potatoes
Onions
Celery
Thanks so much for being our customers!
Hope to see you at the Market!