Strawberries!

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Certified Organic Strawberries!

Sweetwater Local Foods Market
Saturday, June 12th, 9:00am to 1:00pm
 Mercy Health Partners/Hackley Health at the Lakes
On Harvey St just 1/2 mile North of Pontaluna Rd.
We are a Bridge Card market

All Eligible Vendors Gladly Accept the Bridge Card!

Certified Organic Strawberries! Fruitful Acres & The Ware Farm will both bring Certified Organic strawberries to market!

Music at the Market! Front Porch Pickin’ musicians join us this week.

Strawberries!

Fruitful Acres of Manistee

Hugh Bowling returns to market for the first time this season with his wonderful certified organic strawberries.

Ware Farm of Bear Lake

Bernie & Sandee Ware have operated this certified organic CSA farm for over 15 years. Bernie will bring fresh picked Early Glow strawberries.

New Vendor!

Ayurvedic Farm of Montague

Customers who love Microgreens will be thrilled to learn that we now have a regular vendor for them! Chris Brooks and his partner Rebecca Todd will be bringing their signature mix of radish, broccoli & wheat grass microgreens, to be cut fresh at the market. Also: handmade soy candles.

Dancing Goat Creamery of Byron Center

The creamery produces award winning Chevre cheese which is used at several local restaurants and is now available at Sweetwater!  Barbara Jenness is owner and Master Cheesemaker.

She will also bring a selection of Little Rooster Breads from the Lubbers Farm on-farm bakery run by son Casey Lubbers. Please check the Little Rooster website for a description of how these wonderful breads are produced.

The creamery is on http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dancing-Goat-Creamery/178787637813?ref=ts

Little Rooster Bread Company info: http://www.littlerooster.net

Mund Farm of Rothbury

Greg & daughter Erin Mund will return with fresh picked asparagus this week!  The Mund Farm has been in the family since the 1900’s. It was originally a dairy farm, changing to fruit and vegetables in 1955. Greg started using organic practices in 1992, and went totally organic in 2009. The farm will apply for organic certification in 2010-11.

Creswick Farms of Ravenna

Handcrafted Sausages and Specialty Meats

Chicago Style Hot Dogs. Pasture raised beef & pork. No added nitrites.
Deli Sliced Ham. Perfect for sandwiches.

Braunsweiger. Nathan’s pride & joy.

Old Fashioned Ring-Style Bologna.

Pepperoni slices. Thin-sliced & spiced perfectly for pizzas, pasta salads & snacking.
Snack Sticks. Beef, pork & spice. 4 per package. Kids love ’em!

Pancetta Gourmet item often called Italian bacon. Unsmoked pork belly cured in salt and dried for months with a mix of spices. Spiral rolled. Added chopped or diced to dishes, it gives a distinctive pork flavor to pasta dishes without the smokiness of bacon.

Chicken is back! We will have chicken breasts & leg quarters, and ground chicken in 1 lb. pkg. Apple chicken sausage.

Fresh-Aire Pastured Pork
Pork Tenderloin. Pork Chops. Hickory Smoked & Apple Smoked  Bacon. Nitrite-Free. Soup Seasoning Bacon Ends.
Pork Sausages: Garlic Kielbasa. Chorizo. Breakfast sausage, links and 1# bulk pkg. Italian Sausage in 1# bulk pkg.

Lamb Sausages: Moroccan Lamb link sausage.

Grass-fed Beef

Flank Steak. Filet Mignon. Ground Beef Patties (3-1/3# patties) Ground Beef in 1lb. packages. Gourmet Burgers (beef & bacon, 3-1/3# patties).

Soy Free Eggs: Available by pre-order only (see below).
Important Notice Regarding Pre-Orders: If you pre-order meat you will have to pick it up on Saturday by no later than 12:00 noon or the items will be put back in stock. If you have an emergency and can’t make it you can call the cell phone to reach me before the noon cut-off at 231.670.4817. Thanks!

Pre-Orders: Email Chris Bedford at chrisbedford@charter.net by no later than Monday morning  before the next market and he will have it ready for you to pick up on Saturday. For a complete list of products, please see the website: www.CreswickFarms.com

Grassfields Organic, Raw Milk Cheese of Coopersville

Lamont Cheddar, Gouda, Gouda with Dill, Gouda with Garlic & Onion, Leyden (Gouda with Cumin) Polkton Corners (unpressed Gouda = softer cheese), Edam (low-fat Gouda)

Earthscape Farm of Hesperia

Veggies this week ~  Broccoli!  Kale! The last of the Spinach,  Mixed Salad Greens;  Head lettuces including Anuenue and Michelle Crisp-head; Turnip greens, Kohlrabi; Red Scallions; Radishes; Cilantro, Parsley, Rosemary, fresh Oregano.

Chive Plants; Plus 2 kinds of parsley – Flatleaf Gigante d’Italia and Curly Krauss.

BEEF ~  We will have  beef by the pound and package at Sweetwater on Saturday.  Steaks, roasts, ground beef,  stew meat, cubed steak, soup bones, heart.  SALE! Chuck and Arm Roasts 10% off.  Also  ground beef in 10 + # quantities  (1-2# packages) for $3.50 per lb.

We  have Quarters of our Grass-Fed Beef FOR SALE!  It is getting butchered soon.  Order a quarter now and you can have it cut & packaged the way you want, or get our standard cut.  Email pbobier@voyager.net or call for details.

SALE!  Organic Olive Oil ~ Choose your favorite bottle. 10% off.
HIGHER GROUNDS COFFEE ~  I’ll be bringing a new shipment of 1# bags.
CHECK OUT OUR BLOG ~  http://www.earthscapefarm.blogspot.com

McLaughlin Grows! Urban Farm of Muskegon

Dustin Anderson, farm manager of this new inner city urban farm sponsored by Community EnCompass, returns with heads of Romaine lettuce. bagged mixed greens. First of season radishes.

Harmony Gardens of Montague

Garden Plants! Heirloom tomatoes, peppers & more. (for customer who requested a Shungiku plant, I will bring one).

From the Hoophouse: Hakurei Turnips. Arugula. Kales. Lettuces. Green onions.

Olson Farm of Shelby

Jim Olson will be bringing his 2010 batch of Taste of Spring Maple Syrup, lettuces, and possibly strawberries.

Liberty Family Farm & Abundant Harvest Bakery of Hart

From the farm:

Fresh Pasture Raised Chicken. Fed non-GMO grains, supplemented with flaxseed. Whole chickens, Boneless Skinless Breast, leg quarters, wings & livers.

Grassfed Beef. 1# ground beef,patties, soupbones, oxtail. tongue & liver.

Grassfed Goat & Lamb all cuts available. Chops, steaks, shanks, ground and ribs.

From The Bakery

Fresh baked pies, cookies & breads!

From the Garden

Loads of Spinach and Heirloom Lettuces are still coming!

Arugula, parsley & green onions

Earthly Kneads of Muskegon

New this week: fresh and dried shiitake mushrooms from Frasure Farms!

Customers: We’re baking up a storm and will be at market with our usual huge assortment of Bread, Scones, cookies, muffins and granolas. See you there!

Hickory Ridge Family Farm

Finally! A Fresh supply of chicken! Whole chicken &  cuts including chicken breast & leg quarters, wings, soup stock. Chickens raised on pasture & supplemented with either certified organic feed from Grahams Organic, or non-organic but not GMO from a local farm co-op.

Garlic scapes.

Eggs.

We still have an small assortment of Happy Hill Frozen Turkey & Chicken.

Agriculture & Health Alive of Marne

New from the Garden! Freshly dug & potted Comfrey plants. Comfrey is a dynamic accumulator; that means it has a large taproot that brings valuable minerals up to the surface. Good for teas, poultices & lots more.

Garden supplies. We will have 10 oz to 10# sizes of various garden supplements, like Berry Mix, Liquid Fish & Kelp concentrates, Maxicrop, Dry Kelp Meal, Milky spore & Diamatacious Earth.

From the bookshelf: Ask Mother Nature: A Conscious Gardeners Guide, by Ellen Vandevisse. Or How to Grow More Vegetables, by John Jeavons.

Also: Nantucket Bakery Cinnamon Raisin Bread and other baked goods.

Northern Naturals Cherry Concentrate. Blackstrap molasses, honey & maple syrup.

HandCrafteds

Good for the body & soul!

Soul Infusions of Cedar Springs

Ready for the gallon jug, Sun Tea Bags will be $3.00 ea or 2 for $5.00

Stock up on summer herbs and salts for grilling. Lots of tea and we will be sampling “Almond Blossom oolong” iced tea..also for sale by the glass $2.00. See you Saturday!

Brittanie’s Thyme of Cedar Springs

Brittanie’s Thyme: FRENCH GREEN CLAY with White Tea.  Clays have been used for centuries for many different medicinal purposes and still are in the present time.  French Green Clay is an element that I call multi fauceted, containing beneficial minerals including Silica, Magnesium, Calcium, Iron, Potassium, Cobalt, Manganese, Zinc, Selenium, Copper, Aluminium, Phosphorous and Sodium.  French Green Clay has the ability to draw impurities and toxins absorbed by the skin. Whether this is from the makeup we use, or impurities found in the air, French Green Clay acts as a magnet, penetrating deep into the skin layers. The natural minerals found in clay aids healing to the cells under the skin which in all makes this skin care product a wonderful addition to anyones regime.  Our specials are Organic Almond Oatmeal Scrub reg $8.00/sale $6.00  French Green Clay with White Tea reg $5.00/ sale $4.00.

Bee & Botanical of Spring Lake

Stop by and check out our wonderful beeswax candles, certified organic soaps, lip balms, lavender sachets and other great organic and natural products. Candles are made with 100%  pure Michigan beeswax and 100% cotton wicks.

Certified Organic Soaps in Peppermint, Grapefruit, Lemongrass Tea, Northern Forest and others wonderful scents made with essential oils (no artificial fragrances or colors are used in these soaps). Specialty soaps including Rows and Furrow’s Gardener’s Soap with the orange oil and ground almonds to cut the grit and grime that come from a good day of gardening or other dirty work (nice for the kitchen too).

Dog Shampoo Soap in a regular Dirty Dog blend and also one for dogs with itchy or dry skin, Oatmeal and Honey, which includes honey, almond oil and oats.  Both are made using rose geranium, neem oil, rosemary, lavender and other oils to keep away ticks, fleas and mosquitos in a natural non-toxic way.

Last but not least

Big Sweetwater Hugs & Thanks goes out to 8 renewing Friends of the Market! Thanks to Mike, Jennifer & Malcolm Johnson; Joanne Patterson; Michael, Sally & Miles Triant and Robert Tyler & Victoria Veenstra!

If you would like to become a Friend of the Market for a suggested donation of $10.00, 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.


Dancing Goat Creamery Joins Sweetwater!

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Creamery at Dogwood Farm

Sweetwater Local Foods Market
Saturday, June 5th, 9:00am to 1:00pm
 Mercy Health Partners/Hackley Health at the Lakes
On Harvey St just 1/2 mile North of Pontaluna Rd.
We are a Bridge Card market

All Eligible Vendors Gladly Accept the Bridge Card!

Important note for Bridge Card customers: Did you know that you can buy vegetable plants with your Bridge Card? You can, and we’ve got them!

Music at the Market! Front Porch Pickin’ musicians join us this week.

This Week’s Vendors

New Vendor!

Dancing Goat Creamery

We are  thrilled to welcome farmer & artisan cheese maker Barbara Jenness to our market! Previously we could only get a sampling of her cheeses from Earthly Kneads. Now, customers can purchase her superb variety of artisan cheese from the farmer herself! I bought a new goat cheese last week called Honey & Orange. Tastes heavenly on a muffin for breakfast!

Eventually Barbara will be joined by Karen Lubbers who is in process of forming a new cheese venture called Cowslip Creamery. Until then, Barbara will also carry a variety of Little Rooster Breads from the Lubber’s on-farm bakery run by son Casey Lubbers.

Check out Barbara and her wonderful goats at www.dogwoodfarm.net.

Little Rooster Bread Company info: http://www.littlerooster.net

Barbara has also been instrumental in forming the Michigan Cheesemakers Cooperative. Find out more at www.GreatLakesGreatCheese.com

Mund Farm of Rothbury

Greg & daughter Erin Mund will have loads of fresh picked asparagus this week!  The Mund Farm has been in the family since the 1900’s. It was originally a dairy farm, changing to fruit and vegetables in 1955. Greg started using organic practices in 1992, and went totally organic in 2009. The farm will apply for organic certification in 2010-11.

Creswick Farms of Ravenna

Handcrafted Sausages and Specialty Meats

Just in time for Summer grilling – Chicago Style Hot Dogs (pasture raised and nitrate-free)
Fresh-Aire Pastured Pork
Pork Tenderloin. Pork Chops. Hickory Smoked & Apple Smoked  Bacon. Nitrite-Free. Soup Seasoning Bacon Ends.
Pork Sausages: Garlic Kielbasa. Chorizo. Breakfast sausage, links and 1# bulk pkg. Italian Sausage in 1# bulk pkg.

Braunsweiger

Old Fashioned Ring-Style Bologna.

Deli Ham, Gourmet Burgers, and Chicken (all cuts) will be available at the June 12th Market.

Grass-fed Beef
Round Roast. Flank Steak. Filet Mignon. Ground Beef Patties (3 1/3# patties) Ground Beef in 1lb. packages.

Pepperoni slices. Thin-sliced & spiced perfectly for pizzas, pasta salads & snacking.
Chicken Sausages: Apple Chicken Sausage

Lamb Sausages: Moroccan Lamb link sausage.

Snack Sticks

Pancetta Gourmet Italian ham
Soy Free Eggs: Available by pre-order only (see below).
Important Notice Regarding Pre-Orders: If you pre-order meat you will have to pick it up on Saturday by no later than 12:00 noon or the items will be put back in stock. If you have an emergency and can’t make it you can call the cell phone to reach me before the noon cut-off at 231.670.4817. Thanks!

Pre-Orders: Email Chris Bedford at chrisbedford@charter.net by no later than Monday morning  before the next market and he will have it ready for you to pick up on Saturday. For a complete list of products, please see the website: www.CreswickFarms.com

Grassfields Organic, Raw Milk Cheese of Coopersville

Lamont Cheddar, Gouda, Gouda with Dill, Gouda with Garlic & Onion, Leyden (Gouda with Cumin)

Polkton Corners (unpressed Gouda = softer cheese), Edam (low-fat Gouda) and

Earthscape Farm of Hesperia

Veggies this week ~  Spinach and Mixed Salad Greens;  Head lettuce; Beet Greens; Pak Choi; Kohlrabi; Red Scallions; Cilantro, Parsley, Rosemary, fresh Oregano.

Chive Plants; Plus 2 kinds of parsley – Flatleaf Gigante d’Italia and Curly Krauss.

BEEF ~  We  have Quarters of our Grass-Fed Beef FOR SALE!  It is getting butchered next month.  Order a quarter now and you can have it cut & packaged the way you want, or get our standard cut.  Email pbobier@voyager.net or call for details.

We will have  beef by the pound and package at Sweetwater on Saturday.  Steaks, roasts, ground beef,  stew meat, cubed steak, tongue,  soup bones, heart.  Also  ground beef in 10 + # quantities  (1-2# packages) for $3.50 per lb.

ON SALE!  Organic Olive Oil ~ Choose your favorite bottle. 10% off.
HIGHER GROUNDS COFFEE ~  I’ll be bringing an assortment of 1# bags.
CHECK OUT OUR BLOG ~  http://www.earthscapefarm.blogspot.com We have 3 shares remaining for this year’s CSA.  Let us know if you are interested. We will deliver to Sweetwater Market this year.

Harmony Gardens of Montague

Garden Plants! Heirloom tomatoes, peppers & more.

From the Hoophouse: Hakurei Turnips! Kales. Lettuces. Shungiku edible chrysanthemum.

McLaughlin Grows! Urban Farm of Muskegon

Dustin Anderson, farm manager of this new inner city urban farm sponsored by Community EnCompass, returns with heads of Romaine lettuce. bagged mixed greens. First of season radishes.

Liberty Family Farm & Abundant Harvest Bakery of Hart

From the farm:

Fresh Pasture Raised Chicken. Fed non-GMO grains, supplemented with flaxseed. Whole chickens, Boneless Skinless Breast, leg quarters, wings & livers.

Grassfed Beef. 1# ground beef,patties, soupbones, oxtail. tongue & liver.

Grassfed Goat & Lamb all cuts available. Chops, steaks, shanks, ground and ribs.

From The Bakery

NEW ITEMS THIS WEEK:Casatiello Bread. A dreamy Italian elaboration of Brioche, full of Gouda cheese and salami. Serve it warm or cool, each slice will taste like a sandwich.

Potato Rosemary Bread

Wild Mushroom Ciabatta Bread made with Shiitake mushrooms & garlic.

Cherry Chocolate Pecan Breakfast Cookie is Back!

Regular Breakfast Cookie and Chocolate Walnut

Strawberry Rhubarb Pies with our fresh Rhubarb and chemical free Strawberries

Empanadas delicious meat pies made with  Grassfed Beef, organic onions and a touch of Chipotle in our cheddar cheese crust.

100% Whole Wheat Bread

Gluten Free Bread

Strawberry Gluten Free Pie

From the Garden

Loads of Spinach and Heirloom Lettuces are still coming!

Arugula, parsley & green onions

Earthly Kneads of Muskegon

New this week: fresh and dried shiitake mushrooms from Frasure Farms! Cooking out? Did you know you can toast bread on the grill? All you need is medium heat and a vigilant watch to make sure it doesn’t burn and you can have beautiful toast in about 5 minutes. Brush the bread with a little olive oil, sprinkle it with some salt when it comes off, and then rub it with a cut clove of fresh garlic for garlic bread in a flash.

Customers: We’re baking up a storm and will be at market with our usual huge assortment of Bread, Scones, cookies, muffins and granolas. See you there!

Hickory Ridge Family Farm
Please note: We will not be attending this Saturday due to a previously planned event. However, next Saturday we will have a fresh supply of chicken! Whole chicken &  cuts including chicken breast & leg quarters, wings, soup stock. Chickens raised on pasture & supplemented with either certified organic feed from Grahams Organic, or non-organic but not GMO from a local farm co-op.

Garlic scapes.

Eggs.

We still have an assortment of Happy Hill Frozen Turkey & Chicken.

Agriculture & Health Alive of Marne

New from the Garden! Freshly dug & potted Comfrey plants. Comfrey is a dynamic accumulator; that means it has a large taproot that brings valuable minerals up to the surface. Good for teas, poultices & lots more.

Garden supplies. We will have 10 oz to 10# sizes of various garden supplements, like Berry Mix, Liquid Fish & Kelp concentrates, Maxicrop, Dry Kelp Meal, Milky spore & Diamatacious Earth.

From the bookshelf: Ask Mother Nature: A Conscious Gardeners Guide, by Ellen Vandevisse. Or How to Grow More Vegetables, by John Jeavons.

Also: Nantucket Bakery Cinnamon Raisin Bread and other baked goods.

Northern Naturals Cherry Concentrate. Blackstrap molasses, honey & maple syrup.

HandCrafteds

Good for the body & soul!

Bee & Botanical of Spring Lake

Look forward to seeing you at the market this week.  Stop by and check out our wonderful beeswax candles, certified organic soaps, lip balms, lavender sachets and other great organic and natural products.

I have a nice assortment of Michigan beeswax candles. These candles are made with 100%  pure beeswax and 100% cotton wicks.  They not only have that nice natural honey scent but they are the cleanest and brightest burning candles on the market.  Because beeswax has a very high melting point, they also burn slower, lasting longer.

Lip balms in unflavored, peppermint, grapefruit and cinnamon, made with moisturizing oils, Michigan beeswax and the finest organic essential oils for flavoring.

Certified Organic Soaps in Peppermint, Grapefruit, Lemongrass Tea, Northern Forest and others wonderful scents made with essetial oils (no artifical fragrances used in these soaps). Specialty soaps included Rows and Furrow’s Gardener’s Soap with the ingrediendt added to cut the grit and grime that come from a good day of gardening or other dirty work.

New this week (for those that have been asking), Dog Shampoo Soap in a regular Dirty Dog blend and also one for dogs with itchy or dry skin, Oatmeal and Honey,

which includes honey, almond oil and oats.  Both are made using rose geranium, neem oil, rosemary, lavender and other oils to keep away ticks, fleas and mosquitos in a natural non-toxic way.

Brittanie’s Thyme of Cedar Springs

Summer weather has arrived and so has our desire to be out of doors!  Brittanie’s Thyme offers a very safe and effective organic Insect Repellent made with a blend of clove, eucalyptus, geranium, tea tree and peppermint.  No toxic DEET or citronella, only a pleasant scent without the oily residue that can also stain clothing.  I have successfully used this product for 6 years on myself, my grandchildren and even pets.  I have also used this spray on the grassy areas we were lounging with great all day success.  To start your summer off we are offering: Organic Insect Repellent 4oz reg $8.50/ sale $6.00 Organic Bug Bite Relief (roll-on) reg $4.50/ sale $3.50.  I look forward to seeing you at the market!

Imagination to Creation Jewelry of North Muskegon

I will not be at market on Saturday, June 5 as I now have to share my time between Sweetwater and my boutique.  Hope to see you soon!

Soul Infusions of Cedar Springs

Stock up on large pre-filled tea bags for summer gallon size Sun Teas.. large variety of tea bags $ 3.00 ea. Lots of summer time herbs, salts, and peppers for grilling fun.

Last but not least

If you would like to become a Friend of the Market for a suggested donation of $10.00, 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.

Sweetwater is now on Facebook! http://www.facebook.com/pages/Muskegon-MI/Sweetwater-Local-Foods-Market/111077177535

Hope to see you at the market!

Diana Jancek
Market Manager

Memorial Day Weekend!

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Sweetwater Local Foods Market
Saturday, May 29th, 9:00am to 1:00pm
 Mercy Health Partners/Hackley Health at the Lakes
On Harvey St just 1/2 mile North of Pontaluna Rd.
We are a Bridge Card market

All Eligible Vendors Gladly Accept the Bridge Card!

Important note for Bridge Card customers: Did you know that you can buy vegetable plants with your Bridge Card? You can, and we’ve got them!

Road Work Notice: If the road is still being worked on and you want to avoid the bumps and the dust, you can take the Sternberg Road exit, head south up to Farr Rd, turn right and you will end up at the hospital parking lot.

Shop Sweetwater for your Memorial Day Cookout!

Fresh veggies, huge variety & selection of meats, baked goods – we’ve got it all!

This Week’s Vendors

New Vendor!

Mund Farm of Rothbury

Greg Mund of the Mund Farm tells us that he will definitely have loads of fresh picked asparagus this week!  The Mund Farm has been in the family since the 1900’s. It was originally a dairy farm, changing to fruit and vegetables in 1955. Greg started using organic practices in 1992, and went totally organic in 2009. The farm will apply for organic certification in 2010-11.

Creswick Farms of Ravenna

Note to our customers: Due to unprecendented demand, we are again out of chicken, but will have more on June 12th. Thanks!

Handcrafted Sausages and Specialty Meats

NEW! Chicago Hot Dogs. Garlic Kielbasa. Chorizo. Breakfast sausage links. Italian Sausage in 1# bulk pkg. Braunschweiger. Old Fashioned Ring-Style Bologna. Pancetta, A Dry Cured Italian Bacon. Pepperoni slices.

Creswick’s Snack Sticks! 4 generous sticks $4.00/pkg.

Fresh-Aire Pastured Pork
Pork Tenderloin. Pork Chops. Apple Smoked Bacon. Nitrite-Free. Breakfast links.
Grass-fed Beef
Flank Steak. Filet Mignon. Gourmet Patties (beef, bacon 3 1/3# patties)

Ground Beef Patties (3 1/3# patties).

Lamb Sausages: Moroccan Lamb link sausage.

Soy Free Eggs: Available by pre-order only (see below).
Pre-Orders: Email Chris Bedford at chrisbedford@charter.net by no later than Monday morning  before the next market and he will have it ready for you to pick up on Saturday. For a complete list of products, please see the website: www.CreswickFarms.com

Earthscape Farm of Hesperia

Veggies this week ~  Pak Choi, Spinach and Mixed Salad Greens;  Head lettuce; Chard;  Red and White Scallions;  Radishes; Cilantro, Parsley, Chives, Rosemary.

We will also have some plants – HEIRLOOM TOMATOES!  Chive Plants; Plus 2 kinds of parsley – Flatleaf Gigante d’Italia and Curly Krauss.

BEEF ~  We  have Quarters of our Grass-Fed Beef FOR SALE!  1 quarter is ready right now, and more is getting butchered next month.   Email pbobier@voyager.net or call for details.

We will have  beef by the pound and package at Sweetwater on Saturday.  Steaks, roasts, ground beef,  stew meat, cubed steak, tongue,  soup bones, heart.  Also  ground beef in 10 + # quantities  (1-2# packages) for $3.50 per lb.

ON SALE!  Organic Olive Oil ~ Choose your favorite bottle. 10% off.
HIGHER GROUNDS COFFEE ~  I’ll be bringing an assortment of 1# bags. New shipment arrived this week.
CHECK OUT OUR BLOG ~  http://www.earthscapefarm.blogspot.com We have 3 shares remaining for this year’s CSA.  Let us know if you are interested. We will deliver to Sweetwater Market this year.

Harmony Gardens of Montague

Garden Plants! Heirloom tomatoes, peppers & more.

From the Hoophouse: Hakurei Turnips! Kales. Lettuces. Radishes. Shungiku edible chrysanthemum.

McLaughlin Grows! Urban Farm of Muskegon

Dustin Anderson, farm manager of this new inner city urban farm sponsored by Community EnCompass, returns with heads of Romaine lettuce, Purple Pac Choi & bagged mixed greens including arugula & mixed kales.

Liberty Family Farm & Abundant Harvest Bakery of Hart

From the farm:

First of the season chicken. Pasture raised, supplemented with flax & GMO free feed. Whole chicken & parts.

Grass-fed Lamb & Goat

steaks, shanks, chops, Italian brats, ground and more.

Grass-fed Beef

Ground beef 1# bulk & patties, liver & soup bones

HEIRLOOM GREENS

green & red leaf lettuces, plus multiple single variety lettuces

mixed baby greens

beet greens

spinach

kale

arugula

green onions

HEIRLOOM TOMATO STARTS TOO!

From the bakery:

The Ultimate Breakfast Cookie- regular and chocolate walnut

Spinach & cheddar quiche

Empanadas

Brownies  Gluten Free

Lemon Poppy seed bread

Gluten Free Sandwich Bread

Ciabatta Bread

Multi Grain Bread & Kaiser Rolls

Whole Wheat Bread

NEW THIS WEEK*  GRANOLA BARS-full of nuts,seeds,and dried fruit

Rhubarb Pie-  with fresh rhubarb from our garden

Grassfields Farm of Coopersville
Certified Organic raw milk cheeses in the Dutch process tradition.
This Week! Gouda, Leyden, Gouda with Dill, Edam (low-fat Gouda), Gouda Spice (garlic & onion), & Lamont Cheddar.

Earthly Kneads of Muskegon

Please note – We are open this Saturday at the shop, too! Not this weekend, but starting NEXT weekend, we will have fresh and dried shiitake mushrooms from Frasure Farms, too! I hear the weather forecast is predicting beautiful weather for the weekend. Get out and have some fun! Cooking out? Did you know you can toast bread on the grill? All you need is medium heat and a vigilant watch to make sure it doesn’t burn and you can have beautiful toast in about 5 minutes. Brush the bread with a little olive oil, sprinkle it with some salt when it comes off, and then rub it with a cut clove of fresh garlic for garlic bread in a flash.

Memorial Day Specials – Olive Bread (made with assorted olives from The Cheese Lady!), Honey & Wheatberry Bread, Cheddar & Onion or Parmesan Flatbreads (perfect for sandwiches, available in packs of 6 – dimensions are approximately 6 x 2 1/2 inches for one), Rhubarb Cobblers, Texas-style Chocolate Cake with Roasted Hazelnut & Chocolate Frosting, and Rhubarb Streusel Sweet Breads.

Bread – 100% Whole Grain Spelt, Seeded Spelt, Peasant Bread, Tuscan Bread, Italian Rosemary, Sweet Vanilla Challah

Scones – Apricot & Almond, Cinnamon Raisin, Cranberry Orange

Muffins – Apple Pie, Rhubarb Pie

Cookies – Sunflower Butter Cookies (Vegan AND G.F.) – available plain or with cinnamon and raisins, HUGE! Dark Chocolate Chip, Oatmeal Cookies – Cinnamon Raisin, Malted Chocolate Chip, or Ginger Fig (the oatmeal cookies are all oats, no wheat), and more!

Granola – Blueberry Hazelnut, Ginger Fig Almond, Cherry Almond, Cranberry Pecan, Apple Pepita, and Totally Nuts (pecan, cashew, and almond), plus Muesli and Gorp

We will also have our usual assortment of Naturally Nutty Nut Butters and Food for Thought Preserves, Hot Sauces, and Salsa.

Hickory Ridge Family Farm
Fresh chicken coming in June!

Happy Hill Frozen Turkey & Chicken

Turkey Sausage. Breakfast, Italian, Brat & Chorizo. Breakfast & Italian in links or bulk. Turkeys were fed certified organic feed..
Pastured chicken: Frozen chicken drumsticks & soup stock.
Free-Range Eggs: Large.

Agriculture & Health Alive of Marne

New from the Garden! Spinach & Arugula! Freshly dug & potted Comfrey plants. Comfrey is a dynamic accumulator; that means it has a large taproot that brings valuable minerals up to the surface. Good for teas, poultices & lots more.

Garden supplies. We will have 10 oz to 10# sizes of various garden supplements, like Berry Mix, Liquid Fish & Kelp concentrates, Maxicrop, Dry Kelp Meal, Milky spore & Diamatacious Earth.

From the bookshelf: Ask Mother Nature: A Conscious Gardeners Guide, by Ellen Vandevisse. Or How to Grow More Vegetables, by John Jeavons.

Also: Nantucket Bakery Cinnamon Raisin Bread and other baked goods.

Northern Naturals Cherry Concentrate. Blackstrap molasses, honey & maple syrup.

HandCrafteds

Good for the body & soul!

Bee & Botanical of Spring Lake

Look forward to seeing you at the market this week.  Stop by and check out our wonderful beeswax candles, certified organic soaps, lip balms, lavender sachets and other great organic and natural products.

I have a nice assortment of Michigan beeswax candles. These candles are made with 100%  pure beeswax and 100% cotton wicks.  They not only have that nice natural honey scent but they are the cleanest and brightest burning candles on the market.  Because beeswax has a very high melting point, they also burn slower, lasting longer.

Lip balms in unflavored, peppermint, grapefruit and cinnamon, made with moisturizing oils, Michigan beeswax and the finest organic essential oils for flavoring.

Certified Organic Soaps in Peppermint, Grapefruit, Lemongrass Tea, Northern Forest and others wonderful scents made with essetial oils (no artifical fragrances used in these soaps). Specialty soaps included Rows and Furrow’s Gardener’s Soap with the ingrediendt added to cut the grit and grime that come from a good day of gardening or other dirty work.

New this week (for those that have been asking), Dog Shampoo Soap in a regular Dirty Dog blend and also one for dogs with itchy or dry skin, Oatmeal and Honey,

which includes honey, almond oil and oats.  Both are made using rose geranium, neem oil, rosemary, lavender and other oils to keep away ticks, fleas and mosquitos in a natural non-toxic way.

Brittanie’s Thyme of Cedar Springs

Summer weather has arrived and so has our desire to be out of doors!  Brittanie’s Thyme offers a very safe and effective organic Insect Repellent made with a blend of clove, eucalyptus, geranium, tea tree and peppermint.  No toxic DEET or citronella, only a pleasant scent without the oily residue that can also stain clothing.  I have successfully used this product for 6 years on myself, my grandchildren and even pets.  I have also used this spray on the grassy areas we were lounging with great all day success.  To start your summer off we are offering: Organic Insect Repellent 4oz reg $8.50/ sale $6.00 Organic Bug Bite Relief (roll-on) reg $4.50/ sale $3.50.  I look forward to seeing you at the market!

Imagination to Creation Jewelry of North Muskegon

New this week! Pure copper necklaces. Also, 50% off mens and young lady jewelry and the economical $20 and under table.  See you at the market!

Soul Infusions of Cedar Springs

Stock up on large pre-filled tea bags for summer gallon size Sun Teas.. large variety of tea bags $ 3.00 ea. Lots of summer time herbs, salts, and peppers for grilling fun.

Last but not least

If you would like to become a Friend of the Market for a suggested donation of $10.00, 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.


Asparagus! Rhubarb! Spring Greens!

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It's Asparagus Time!

Sweetwater Local Foods Market
Saturday, May 15th, 9:00am to 1:00pm
 Mercy Health Partners/Hackley Health at the Lakes
On Harvey St just 1/2 mile North of Pontaluna Rd.
We are a Bridge Card market

All Eligible Vendors Gladly Accept the Bridge Card!

Asparagus! Rhubarb! Spring Greens!

And of course, road work. We’ve been told that contractors will be re-sealing and painting the north half of the north parking lots this Saturday. Park in the south half of the north lots, or in the parking spaces to the left as you enter. Cones will be placed to help indicate where to go.

This Week’s Vendors

New Vendor!

Mund Farm of Rothbury

Sweetwater welcomes Greg Mund of the Mund Farm this week, who is bringing first of the season asparagus to the market! The Mund Farm has been in the family since the 1900’s. It was originally a dairy farm, changing to fruit and vegetables in 1955. Greg started using organic practices in 1992, and went totally organic in 2009. The farm will apply for organic certification in 2010-11.

New Vendor!

McLaughlin Grows! Urban Farm of Muskegon

Sweetwater welcomes Dustin Anderson, farm manager of this new inner city urban farm sponsored by Community EnCompass, who will bring bagged mixed greens including purple pac choi, arugula & mixed kales.

Creswick Farms of Ravenna

Chicken is Back!

Boneless Chicken Breasts

Ground Chicken (1 lb. Packages)

Chicken Leg Quarters

Apple Chicken Sausage

Spinach Chicken Feta Sausage

Handcrafted Sausages and Specialty Meats

New Product! Pancetta! A Dry Cured Italian Bacon

1/4 pound packages. This is a favorite of chefs, highly seasoned, used sparingly to add great flavor to many dishes – $5/package.

Returning this week! Creswick’s Snack Sticks! 4 generous sticks $4.00/pkg.

Fresh-Aire Pastured Pork
Pork Tenderloin. Pork Chops. Apple Smoked or Hickory Smoked Bacon. Nitrite-Free. Soup Seasoning Bacon Ends.
Pork Sausages: Garlic Kielbasa. Chorizo. Breakfast sausage in 1# bulk pkg. Breakfast links back next market. Italian Sausage in 1# bulk pkg.

Braunschweiger

Old Fashioned Ring-Style Bologna.

Thin-sliced Deli Style Ham.

Grass-fed Beef
Flank Steak. Filet Mignon. Gourmet Patties (beef, bacon 3 1/3# patties)

Ground Beef Patties (3 1/3# patties).

Pepperoni slices. Thin-sliced & spiced perfectly for pizzas, pasta salads & snacking.
Lamb Sausages: Moroccan Lamb link sausage.

Soy Free Eggs: Available by pre-order only (see below).
Pre-Orders: Email Chris Bedford at chrisbedford@charter.net by no later than Monday morning  before the next market and he will have it ready for you to pick up on Saturday. For a complete list of products, please see the website: www.CreswickFarms.com

Earthscape Farm of Hesperia

Veggies this week ~  Nourishing Spring Greens!!  Spinach and Mixed Salad Greens;  Kale & Chard;  Scallions;  Radishes; Parsley, Chives, Rosemary.  A few heads of lettuce.

Spring Fruit!  Rhubarb ~ grown by Peter Clark, no sprays or chemicals of any kind have been used on his plants.

We will also have some plants – early Siletz, Sophies Choice, Glacier, and Sungold tomatoes with fruit and blossoms on them! Plus 2 kinds of parsley – Flatleaf Gigante d’Italia and Curly Krauss.

BEEF ~  We  have Quarters of our Grass-Fed Beef FOR SALE!  Prices are $390-$465 depending on individual hanging weights.   Email pbobier@voyager.net or call for details.

We will have  beef by the pound and package at Sweetwater on Saturday.  Steaks, roasts, ground beef,  stew meat, cubed steak, tongue, oxtail, soup bones, heart.  Also  ground beef in 10 + # quantities  (1-2# packages) for $3.50 per lb.

Organic Olive Oil ~ Choose your favorite bottle.
HIGHER GROUNDS COFFEE ~  I’ll be bringing an assortment of 1# bags. New shipment arrived this week.
CHECK OUT OUR BLOG ~  http://www.earthscapefarm.blogspot.com We have 4 shares remaining for this year’s CSA.  Let us know if you are interested. We will deliver to Sweetwater Market this year.

Harmony Gardens of Montague

First of season Hakurei Turnips! First of lettuces in an array of beautiful textures & colors. More mixed radishes. Mixed mustard greens. Shungiku edible chrisanthymum.

Liberty Family Farm & Abundant Harvest Bakery of Hart

From the farm:

Grass fed Meat & Eggs

Our animals are rotationally grazed on pasture. Chemical, hormone, antibiotic and GMO free.

This week’s Features include 100% Grass fed lamb & goat and beef.

Goat & Lamb chops, steaks, ground, shanks.  ITALIAN LAMB BRATS AVAILABLE.

Grass fed Beef  1# ground beef, 1# ground beef patties, soup bones & liver

FREE RANGE EGGS chicken & turkey eggs

FRESH VEGGIES

Bloomsdale & Space Spinach.  Our first picking of Arugula and 2 types of Parsley

Heirloom Tomato Starts Too!

From the bakery:

Breakfast cookies Regular & Chocolate Walnut

Broccoli Cheddar Quiche

Spinach & Wild Leek Quiche

Empanadas

Rugelach

Lemon Poppy Seed Bread by the slice

Natural Leavened Multi Grain, Cinnamon Raisin & Whole Wheat.  Ciabatta & Kaiser Rolls.

GLUTEN FREE

Rice  Sandwich bread

chocolate bundt cake

brownies

Earthly Kneads of Muskegon

Please note – The shop will be CLOSED on Tuesday, May 18th, but will be open again for regular business on May 19th.

Specials – Olive Bread (made with assorted olives from The Cheese Lady!), Croissants made with real organic butter (available plain or stuffed with raspberry and cream cheese, organic chocolate, or egg and organic raw-milk cheddar cheese), Spicy & Cheesy Cornbread, Cinnamon Rolls with Cream Cheese Frosting, and Apple Streusel Sweet Breads.  Feel free to call the shop to order ahead!  231.728.6383

Bread – 100% Whole Grain Spelt, Seeded Spelt, Peasant Bread, Tuscan Bread, Italian Rosemary, Sweet Vanilla Challah

Scones – Apricot & Almond, Dark Chocolate Chip, Cinnamon Raisin

Muffins – Strawberry Rhubarb Pie, Almond Poppyseed

Cookies – Double Chocolate Cookies (Vegan, NOT G.F.), Peanut Butter Cookies (Vegan AND G.F.), HUGE! Dark Chocolate Chip, Giant Peanut Butter Cookies with Sundrops (G.F.), Sweet & Salty Cashew Cookies (all oats, no wheat), Oatmeal Cookies – Cinnamon Raisin, Malted Chocolate Chip, or Cherry Almond (the oatmeal cookies are all oats, no wheat), Chocolate Sandwich Cookies (Vegan AND G.F.), Sugar Cookies, Snickerdoodles, Coconut Pecan Macaroons (G.F.), and more!

Granola – Blueberry Hazelnut, Ginger Fig Almond, Cherry Almond, Cranberry Pecan, Apple Pepita, and Totally Nuts, plus Muesli and Gorp

We will also have our usual assortment of Naturally Nutty Nut Butters and Food for Thought Preserves, Hot Sauces, and Salsa.

Agriculture & Health Alive of Marne

New from the Garden! Spinach & Arugula! Freshly dug & potted Comfrey plants. Comfrey is a dynamic accumulator; that means it has a large taproot that brings valuable minerals up to the surface. Good for teas, poultices & lots more.

Garden supplies. We will have 10 oz to 10# sizes of various garden supplements, like Berry Mix, Liquid Fish & Kelp concentrates, Maxicrop, Dry Kelp Meal, Milky spore & Diamatacious Earth.

From the bookshelf: Ask Mother Nature: A Conscious Gardeners Guide, by Ellen Vandevisse. Or How to Grow More Vegetables, by John Jeavons.

Also: Nantucket Bakery Cinnamon Raisin Bread and other baked goods.

Northern Naturals Cherry Concentrate. Blackstrap molasses, honey & maple syrup.

Hickory Ridge Family Farm
Goose! These freshly processed and frozen geese run between 6 to 9 lbs, and were pastured on grass and supplemented with oats grown on the nearby Earthscape Farm.

Duck! Stewing ducks, whole ducks, & boneless skinless duck breast. Frozen.

Happy Hill Frozen Turkey & Chicken

Turkey Sausage. Breakfast, Italian, Brat & Chorizo. Breakfast & Italian in links or bulk. Turkeys were fed certified organic feed.
Pastured turkey: Fed certified organic grain.  Whole turkeys processed the week before Thanksgiving, also: frozen packaged thighs, drumsticks, breast roast, sliced breast, and tenderloin.
Pastured chicken: Frozen chicken fed certified organic grains. All cuts—whole, cut up, bone-in and boneless skinless breast, drumsticks, thighs, leg quarters and wings, soup stock, feet, liver, hearts and gizzards. All meats raised on pasture with daily moves.
Free-Range Eggs: Large.

New from Hickory Ridge! Besides raising pastured poultry, Will raises Shetland sheep and now has beautiful wool in various natural colors for sale by skein. Also his sister Rebecca will bring her hand-knit gloves, mittens & socks. She will also do custom orders.

Garlic! $1.00 a head.

Grassfields Farm of Coopersville
Certified Organic raw milk cheeses in the Dutch process tradition.
This Week! Gouda, Leyden, Gouda with Dill, Edam (low-fat Gouda), Gouda Spice (garlic & onion), & Lamont Cheddar.

HandCrafteds

Good for the body & soul!

Bee & Botanical of Spring Lake

New this week! I now have an assortment of Michigan beeswax candles for Sweetwater Market from Swarm Naturals. These candles are made with 100%  pure beeswax and 100% cotton wicks.  They not only have that nice natural honey scent but they are the cleanest and brightest burning candles on the market.  Because beeswax has a very high melting point, they also burn slower, lasting longer.
Also new this week: Lip Balms! Unflavored, peppermint and  grapefruit, made with moisturizing oils, Michigan beeswax and the finest organic essential oils for flavoring.
I will  also have a full assortment of our Certified Organic Soap including our newest Rows & Furrows Garden Soap, Quietude bath Tea, and pretty lavender sachet gifts for Mom!
Look forward to seeing you at the market!

Brittanie’s Thyme of Cedar Springs

We will return to the market on the 29th. In the meantime, FYI….

So many of us have been successfully cleansing our bodies to move our systems from the winter mode to summer, nutritionally.  This is also the time of year I like to do the same for my complexion.  This is when I use our Sampler Pack products.  My favorite Organic Facial Steam of lavender, calendula, and peppermint help my skin to not only revitalize, but also really deep clean.  Simply add one vial of  Organic Facial Steam herbs to 3-4 cups of boiling water, then tent a towel over  head as you allow the blend of herbal aroma and botanical cleansing  overcome your skin.  Stop by my table on the 29th for more spring skin cleansing tips!

Imagination to Creation Jewelry of North Muskegon

New this week! Pure copper necklaces. Also, 50% off mens and young lady jewelry and the economical $20 and under table.  See you at the market!

Soul Infusions of Cedar Springs

Laura Bonarski returns with more herbal teas, honey & her other shop specialties.

Last but not least

Sweetwater thanks & hugs to new Friend of the Market Sue Vargas!

If you would like to become a Friend of the Market for a suggested donation of $10.00, 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.

Sweetwater is now on Facebook! http://www.facebook.com/pages/Muskegon-MI/Sweetwater-Local-Foods-Market/111077177535

Hope to see you at the Market!
Diana Jancek
Market Manager



       







 
	

Happy May Day at the Market!
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Happy May Day!


Sweetwater Local Foods Market

Saturday, May 1st, 9:00am to 1:00pm

 Mercy Health Partners/Hackley Health at the Lakes

On Harvey St just 1/2 mile North of Pontaluna Rd.

We are a Bridge Card market


All Eligible Vendors Gladly Accept the Bridge Card!


Spring gets serious! Signs of spring are everywhere, including Road Work.


We have been told that our road is already being worked on. One lane will always be open to our building – proceed carefully, but do come!


This Week’s Vendors


 


Earthscape Farm of Hesperia 


Veggies this week ~  Nourishing Spring Greens!!  Spinach and Mixed Salad Greens;  Kale & Chard; Chicory Greens; Turnip Greens; Scallions;  Radishes; Parsley, Chives, Rosemary; Potatoes


BEEF ~  We  have Quarters of our Grass-Fed Beef FOR SALE!  Prices are $390-$460 depending on individual hanging weights.   Email pbobier@voyager.net or call for details.


We will have  beef by the pound and package at Sweetwater on Saturday.  Steaks, roasts, ground beef,  stew meat, cubed steak, tongue, oxtail, soup bones, heart.  I’ll also have ground beef in 10 + # quantities  (1-2# packages) for $3.50 per lb.


SALE: Cubed round steak 10% off!  Sirloin steaks 5% off!


Organic Olive Oil ~ Choose your favorite bottle or try a bulk blended organic oil for sale for $30 in your quart jar.

HIGHER GROUNDS COFFEE ~  I’ll be bringing an assortment of 1# bags.

CHECK OUT OUR BLOG ~  http://www.earthscapefarm.blogspot.com We have a few spots remaining for this year’s CSA.  Let us know if you are interested. We will deliver to Sweetwater Market this year!


Harmony Gardens of Montague


Parsley. Mixed radishes. Mixed greens.


Agriculture & Health Alive of Marne


New from the Garden! Spinach & Arugula! Freshly dug & potted Comfrey plants. Comfrey is a dynamic accumulator; that means it has a large taproot that brings valuable minerals up to the surface. Good for teas, poultices & lots more.


Garden supplies. We will have 10 oz to 10# sizes of various garden supplements, like Berry Mix, Liquid Fish & Kelp concentrates, Maxicrop, Dry Kelp Meal, Milky spore & Diamatacious Earth.


From the bookshelf: Ask Mother Nature: A Conscious Gardeners Guide, by Ellen Vandevisse. Or How to Grow More Vegetables, by John Jeavons.


Also: Nantucket Bakery Cinnamon Raisin Bread and other baked goods.


Northern Naturals Cherry Concentrate. Blackstrap molasses, honey & maple syrup.


Creswick Farms of Ravenna


Handcrafted Sausages and Specialty Meats

New Product! Pancetta! A Dry Cured Italian Bacon


1/4 pound packages. This is a favorite of chefs, highly seasoned, used sparingly to add great flavor to many dishes – $5/package.


Returning this week! Creswick’s Snack Sticks! 4 generous sticks $4.00/pkg.


Fresh-Aire Pastured Pork

Pork Tenderloin. Pork Chops. Apple Smoked or Hickory Smoked Bacon. Nitrite-Free. Soup Seasoning Bacon Ends.

Pork Sausages: Garlic Kielbasa. Chorizo. Breakfast sausage in 1# bulk pkg. Breakfast links back next market. Italian Sausage in 1# bulk pkg.


Braunschweiger


Old Fashioned Ring-Style Bologna.


Thin-sliced Deli Style Ham.


Grass-fed Beef

Round Roast. Flank Steak. Filet Mignon. Gourmet Patties (beef, bacon 3 1/3# patties)


Ground Beef Patties (3 1/3# patties).


Pepperoni slices. Thin-sliced & spiced perfectly for pizzas, pasta salads & snacking.

Pastured Poultry

Please note: We will be out of fresh frozen chicken until May. 


Chicken Sausages: Chicken Spinach Feta links.


Lamb Sausages: Moroccan Lamb link sausage.

Soy Free Eggs: Available by pre-order only (see below).

Pre-Orders: Email Chris Bedford at chrisbedford@charter.net by no later than Monday morning  before the next market and he will have it ready for you to pick up on Saturday. For a complete list of products, please see the website: www.CreswickFarms.com

Olson Family Farm of Shelby


This season’s batch of my made on the farm Taste of Spring Maple Syrup.


New this week: Herb & Flower Window Boxes. Handmade of basswood from the farm. Sized 4×4″ & up, perfect for a window herb garden.


Earthly Kneads of Muskegon


We’ll be back next market on May 15th!


Liberty Family Farm & Abundant Harvest Bakery of Hart


From the bakery:


Breakfast cookies and other assorted baked goods.


Hickory Ridge Family Farm

Goose! These freshly processed and frozen geese run between 6 to 9 lbs, and were pastured on grass and supplemented with oats grown on the nearby Earthscape Farm.


Duck! Stewing ducks, whole ducks, & boneless skinless duck breast. Frozen.


Happy Hill Frozen Turkey & Chicken


Turkey Sausage. Breakfast, Italian, Brat & Chorizo. Breakfast & Italian in links or bulk. Turkeys were fed certified organic feed.

Pastured turkey: Fed certified organic grain.  Whole turkeys processed the week before Thanksgiving, also: frozen packaged thighs, drumsticks, breast roast, sliced breast, and tenderloin. 

Pastured chicken: Frozen chicken fed certified organic grains. All cuts—whole, cut up, bone-in and boneless skinless breast, drumsticks, thighs, leg quarters and wings, soup stock, feet, liver, hearts and gizzards. All meats raised on pasture with daily moves.

Free-Range Eggs: Large. 


New from Hickory Ridge! Besides raising pastured poultry, Will raises Shetland sheep and now has beautiful wool in various natural colors for sale by skein. Also his sister Rebecca will bring her hand-knit gloves, mittens & socks. She will also do custom orders.


Garlic! $1.00 a head.


Grassfields Farm of Coopersville

Certified Organic raw milk cheeses in the Dutch process tradition.

This Week! Gouda, Leyden, Gouda with Dill, Edam (low-fat Gouda), Gouda Spice (garlic & onion), & Lamont Cheddar.


HandCrafteds


Good for the body & soul!


Bee & Botanical of Spring Lake


New this week! I now have an assortment of Michigan beeswax candles for Sweetwater Market from Swarm Naturals. These candles are made with 100%  pure beeswax and 100% cotton wicks.  They not only have that nice natural honey scent but they are the cleanest and brightest burning candles on the market.  Because beeswax has a very high melting point, they also burn slower, lasting longer.

Also new this week: Lip Balms! Unflavored, peppermint and  grapefruit, made with moisturizing oils, Michigan beeswax and the finest organic essential oils for flavoring.

I will  also have a full assortment of our Certified Organic Soap including our newest Rows & Furrows Garden Soap, Quietude bath Tea, and pretty lavender sachet gifts for Mom!

Look forward to seeing you at the market!


Brittanie’s Thyme of Cedar Springs


In celebration of Earth Day this month all purchases are 25% off!


NEW PRODUCTS are here!  Sweetwater is the first to offer the new 4oz Balancing Facial Toner $7.00, 2oz EveryDay Moisturizer $16.00, 2oz Night Time Facial Restorative Serum $24.00.


Our feature product this week is Sweet Almond Oil with Vitamin E.  This product is meant to be used as a deep,  protective moisturizer focusing on very dry skin types as well as mature skin.  It offers protection in cold, wind, and sun exposures; deep skin moisturizing with no greasy feeling and the antioxidant properties of Vit E offers additional healing effects. Great for both day and night moisturizing!


Imagination to Creation Jewelry of North Muskegon


Mother’s Day Specials! I will be offering Mother’s Day necklace sets and bracelets.  Also on the agenda for Mom are my new Dragonfly earrings…sold out of these at Christmas.  Also there will be new “Friends Forever” bracelets.  And new ladie’s watches…I will have one in “Snowflake Obsidian” and one in a peridot double strand crystal with sterling accents.


This week the “On Sale” table will feature young lady’s jewelry at 50 % off the marked price.


 


Last but not least 


If you would like to become a Friend of the Market for a suggested donation of $10.00, 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.


Sweetwater is now on Facebook! http://www.facebook.com/pages/Muskegon-MI/Sweetwater-Local-Foods-Market/111077177535


Hope to see you at the Market!

Diana Jancek

Market Manager




       







 
	

April showers bring…..music & spring greens back to the market!
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Spring Greens at the Market!


Sweetwater Local Foods Market


 Saturday, April 17th, 9:00am to 1:00pm 


Mercy Health Partners/Hackley Health at the Lakes


On Harvey St just 1/2 mile North of Pontaluna Rd.


We are a Bridge Card market


All Eligible Vendors Gladly Accept the Bridge Card!   


Front Porch Picken & JoAnn Windberg back this week.


Road Notice! We have been told the road is being worked on again this summer….bummer. Don’t be deterred, take the detour!


This Week’s Vendors


Agriculture & Health Alive of Marne


New from the Garden! Spinach & Arugula! Freshly dug & potted Comfrey plants. Comfrey is a dynamic accumulator; that means it has a large taproot that brings valuable minerals up to the surface. Good for teas, poultices & lots more.  Garden supplies. We will have 10 oz to 10# sizes of various garden supplements, like Berry Mix, Liquid Fish & Kelp concentrates, Maxicrop, Dry Kelp Meal, Milky spore & Diamatacious Earth.  From the bookshelf: Ask Mother Nature: A Conscious Gardeners Guide, by Ellen Vandevisse. Or How to Grow More Vegetables, by John Jeavons.  Also: Nantucket Bakery Cinnamon Raisin Bread and other baked goods.  Northern Naturals Cherry Concentrate. Blackstrap molasses, honey & maple syrup.


Creswick Farms of Ravenna


Handcrafted Sausages and Specialty Meats New Product! Pancetta! A Dry Cured Italian Bacon  1/4 pound packages. This is a favorite of chefs, highly seasoned, used sparingly to add great flavor to many dishes – $5/package.  Returning this week! Creswick’s Snack Sticks! 4 generous sticks $4.00/pkg.  Fresh-Aire Pastured Pork Pork Tenderloin. Pork Chops. Apple Smoked or Hickory Smoked Bacon. Nitrite-Free. Soup Seasoning Bacon Ends. Pork Sausages: Garlic Kielbasa. Chorizo. Breakfast sausage in 1# bulk pkg. Breakfast links back next market. Italian Sausage in 1# bulk pkg.  Braunschweiger Old Fashioned Ring-Style Bologna. Thin-sliced Deli Style Ham.  Grass-fed Beef Round Roast. Flank Steak. Filet Mignon. Gourmet Patties (beef, bacon 3 1/3# patties)  Ground Beef Patties (3 1/3# patties).  Pepperoni slices. Thin-sliced & spiced perfectly for pizzas, pasta salads & snacking. Pastured Poultry Please note: We will be out of fresh frozen chicken until May.  Chicken Sausages: Chicken Spinach Feta links.  Lamb Sausages: Moroccan Lamb link sausage. Soy Free Eggs: Available by pre-order only (see below). Pre-Orders: Email Chris Bedford at chrisbedford@charter.net by no later than Monday morning  before the next market and he will have it ready for you to pick up on Saturday. For a complete list of products, please see the website: www.CreswickFarms.com


Earthscape Farm of Hesperia


  BEEF ~  We  have Quarters of our Grass-Fed Beef FOR SALE! We just butchered and have the beef hanging to age and tenderize it. If you order in the next week, your quarter will have your name on each vacuum-packed package and will be cut and packaged however you desire. Prices are $400-$450 depending on individual hanging weights. It would be ready to pick up in 3 weeks.  Email pbobier@voyager.net or call for details.  We will have  beef by the pound and package at Sweetwater on Saturday.  Steaks, roasts, ground beef,  stew meat, cubed steak, liver, heart.  I’ll also have ground beef in 10 + # quantities  (1-2# packages) for $3.50 per lb.  Veggies this week ~ Spinach and Mixed salad greens;  Russet Potatoes and Red La Soda, the last of the red potatoes; Dried herbs.  Organic Olive Oil ~ Choose your favorite bottle or try a bulk blended organic oil for sale for $30 in your quart jar. HIGHER GROUNDS COFFEE ~  I’ll be bringing an assortment of 1# bags. CHECK OUT OUR BLOG ~  http://www.earthscapefarm.blogspot.com We are signing up this year’s CSA members.  Let us know if you are interested. We will deliver to Sweetwater Market this year!


Harmony Gardens of Montague


Mix of Brite Lites Chard. Spinach. Kales. Parsley.


Olson Family Farm of Shelby


This season’s batch of my made on the farm Taste of Spring Maple Syrup.  New this week: Herb & Flower Window Boxes. Handmade of basswood from the farm. Sized 4×4″ & up, perfect for a window herb garden.


Earthly Kneads of Muskegon


Specials – Chocolate Bread Pudding, Cherry Cola Muffins, Strawberry Pie Muffins.  Feel free to call the shop to order ahead!  231.728.6383  Scones – Dark Chocolate Chip, Blueberry Lemon, Cinnamon Raisin.  And….a great assortment of cookies, breads and other treats!  Also – We will also have our usual assortment of Naturally Nutty Nut Butters and Food for Thought Preserves, Hot Sauces, and Salsa.


Liberty Family Farm & Abundant Harvest Bakery of Hart


From the bakery:  Gluten-Free Bread  Breakfast Cookies  Regular, Chocolate Walnut  Mini Cheesecakes  Empanadas  Bread  Jumble Cookies  Broccoli cheddar quiche  From the Farm: Grass-fed Lamb  Grass-fed Beef Soup Bones & Roasts


Hickory Ridge Family Farm


Goose! These freshly processed and frozen geese run between 6 to 9 lbs, and were pastured on grass and supplemented with oats grown on the nearby Earthscape Farm.  Duck! Stewing ducks, whole ducks, & boneless skinless duck breast. Frozen. Happy Hill Frozen Turkey & Chicken Turkey Sausage. Breakfast, Italian, Brat & Chorizo. Breakfast & Italian in links or bulk. Turkeys were fed certified organic feed. Pastured turkey: Fed certified organic grain.  Whole turkeys processed the week before Thanksgiving, also: frozen packaged thighs, drumsticks, breast roast, sliced breast, and tenderloin.  Pastured chicken: Frozen chicken fed certified organic grains. All cuts—whole, cut up, bone-in and boneless skinless breast, drumsticks, thighs, leg quarters and wings, soup stock, feet, liver, hearts and gizzards. All meats raised on pasture with daily moves. Free-Range Eggs: Large.  New from Hickory Ridge! Besides raising pastured poultry, Will raises Shetland sheep and now has beautiful wool in various natural colors for sale by skein. Also his sister Rebecca will bring her hand-knit gloves, mittens & socks. She will also do custom orders.  Garlic! $1.00 a head.


Grassfields Farm of Coopersville 


Certified Organic raw milk cheeses in the Dutch process tradition. This Week! Gouda, Leyden, Gouda with Dill, Edam (low-fat Gouda), Gouda Spice (garlic & onion), & Lamont Cheddar.


HandCrafteds


Good for the body & soul!   


Fruitland Farm of Whitehall


Pure Goat Milk soaps. Made by hand with olive, coconut & essential oils. No artificial ingredients, fillers or fragrances. Patchouli Lavender, Jasmine Lavender, Oatmeal & Honey. Try our new Jewel Weed soap.   


Brittanie’s Thyme of Cedar Springs


  NEW PRODUCTS are here!  Sweetwater is the first to offer the new 4oz Balancing Facial Toner $7.00, 2oz EveryDay Moisturizer $16.00, 2oz Night Time Facial Restorative Serum $24.00.  Our feature product this week is Sweet Almond Oil with Vitamin E.  This product is meant to be used as a deep,  protective moisturizer focusing on very dry skin types as well as mature skin.  It offers protection in cold, wind, and sun exposures; deep skin moisturizing with no greasy feeling and the antioxidant properties of Vit E offers additional healing effects. Great for both day and night moisturizing!  This week we are offering $1.00 off Sweet Almond Oil with Vitamin E  


Imagination to Creation Jewelry of North Muskegon


Beginning this Saturday I will be offering Mother’s Day necklace sets and bracelets.  Also on the agenda for Mom are my new Dragonfly earrings…sold out of these at Christmas.  Also there will be new “Friends Forever” bracelets.  And new ladie’s watches…I will have one in “Snowflake Obsidian” and one in a peridot double strand crystal with sterling accents.  This week the “On Sale” table will feature young lady’s jewelry at 50 % off the marked price.   


       







 
	

Happy Easter! Happy Spring!
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Happy Easter! Happy Spring!


Sweetwater Local Foods Market

Saturday, April 3rd, 9:00am to 1:00pm

 Mercy Health Partners/Hackley Health at the Lakes

On Harvey St just 1/2 mile North of Pontaluna Rd.

We are a Bridge Card market


All Vendors Gladly Accept the Bridge Card!


Easter Specials! 


Front Porch Pickin’ Band Returns!


 


This Week’s Vendors

Earthly Kneads of Muskegon


Specials – Have a Happy Easter!  Looks like there will be beautiful weather for it this year.  Easter Treats: Rolls, rolls, and more rolls.  We’re on a roll!  Spice Cake with cream cheese frosting (cakes or cupcakes), Carrot Spice Cheesecakes (gluten free), Hot Cross Buns, Cherry Almond Sweet Rolls, Pies (Maple Pecan, Chocolate Pecan, Apple Galette), Apple Pie Coffee Cake, Spring Sugar Cookies (Bunnies, eggs, flowers, and butterflies), Giant Chocolate Cookies covered in mint chocolate (gluten free AND vegan!).  Feel free to call the shop to order ahead!  231.728.6383


Bread – 100% Whole Grain Spelt, Seeded Spelt, Peasant Bread, Tuscan Bread, Italian Rosemary, Challah, Soft & Slightly Sweet Light Rye Bread (special this week!)


Scones – Dark Chocolate Chip, Cinnamon Raisin, Cranberry Orange


Muffins – Strawberry Streusel, Blueberry Lemon


Cookies – Sunflower Butter Cookies (Vegan AND G.F., available in Cinnamon or with Organic Raisins), HUGE! Dark Chocolate Chip, Sweet & Salty Cashew Cookies (all oats, no wheat), Oatmeal Raisin (all oats, no wheat), Lemon Fig Oatmeal (all oats, no wheat), and more!


Granola – Blueberry Hazelnut, Ginger Fig Almond, Cherry Almond, Cranberry Pecan, Apple Pepita, and Totally Nuts, plus Muesli and Gorp


We will also have our usual assortment of Naturally Nutty Nut Butters and Food for Thought Preserves, Hot Sauces, and Salsa.


Creswick Farms of Ravenna


Handcrafted Sausages and Specialty Meats

Fresh-Aire Pastured Pork

Pork Tenderloin. Pork Chops. Apple Smoked or Hickory Smoked Bacon. Nitrite-Free. Soup Seasoning Bacon Ends.

Pork Sausages: Garlic Kielbasa. Chorizo. Breakfast sausage in links or 1# bulk pkg. Italian Sausage in 1# bulk pkg.


Braunschweiger


Old Fashioned Ring-Style Bologna.


Thin-sliced Deli Style Ham.


Grass-fed Beef

Round Roast. Flank Steak. Filet Mignon. Gourmet Patties (beef, bacon 3 1/3# patties)


Ground Beef Patties (3 1/3# patties).


Pepperoni slices. Thin-sliced & spiced perfectly for pizzas, pasta salads & snacking.

Pastured Poultry

Please note: We will be out of fresh frozen chicken until May. 


Chicken Sausages: Chicken Spinach Feta links.


Lamb Sausages: Moroccan Lamb link sausage.

Soy Free Eggs: Available by pre-order only (see below).

Pre-Orders: Email Chris Bedford at chrisbedford@charter.net by no later than Monday morning  before the next market and he will have it ready for you to pick up on Saturday. For a complete list of products, please see the website: www.CreswickFarms.com

Earthscape Farm of Hesperia 


BEEF ~  We  have some quarters of beef for sale.  Email pbobier@voyager.net for details.


We will have  beef by the pound and package on Saturday!  Steaks , roasts, ground beef,  soup bones, Liver, heart.  I’ll also have ground beef in 10 + # quantities  (1-2# packages) for $3.50 per lb.


Veggies this week ~ Spinach and Mixed salad greens;  Russet Potatoes and Red La Soda, the last of the red potatoes; yellow and red onions; celeriac, parsnips.  Dried herbs.  Organic Olive Oil ~ Choose your favorite bottle or try a bulk blended organic oil for sale for $30 in your quart jar.

HIGHER GROUNDS COFFEE ~  I’ll be bringing an assortment of 1# bags.

CHECK OUT OUR BLOG ~  http://www.earthscapefarm.blogspot.com New photos are up!  We are signing up this year’s CSA members.  Let us know if you are interested. We will deliver to Sweetwater Market this year!


Olson Farm of Shelby


Taste of Spring Maple Syrup 2010! First week for my newest batch of syrup. Limited quantities this year as all syrup makers in the area experienced a smaller harvest due to weather.   Corn! I will be bringing my grinder and my saved open pollinated shelled yellow corn & wheat berries. I will grind you a custom blend and give you a recipe for the best tasting corn bread you ever ate!


Hickory Ridge Family Farm

New this year! Meat CSA! We are offering an incredible deal for 20 families to get top quality locally raised meats at a great price. Stop and ask Will for details and a copy of the Farm Newsletter.


Goose! These freshly processed and frozen geese run between 6 to 9 lbs, and were pastured on grass and supplemented with oats grown on the nearby Earthscape Farm.


Duck! Stewing ducks, whole ducks, & boneless skinless duck breast. Frozen.


Happy Hill Frozen Turkey & Chicken


Whole Turkeys, 75% off while they last. 


Turkey Sausage. Breakfast, Italian, Brat & Chorizo. Breakfast & Italian in links or bulk. Turkeys were fed certified organic feed.

Pastured turkey: Fed certified organic grain.  Whole turkeys processed the week before Thanksgiving, also: frozen packaged thighs, drumsticks, breast roast, sliced breast, and tenderloin. 

Pastured chicken: Frozen chicken fed certified organic grains. All cuts—whole, cut up, bone-in and boneless skinless breast, drumsticks, thighs, leg quarters and wings, soup stock, feet, liver, hearts and gizzards. All meats raised on pasture with daily moves.

Free-Range Eggs: Large. 


New from Hickory Ridge! Besides raising pastured poultry, Will raises Shetland sheep and now has beautiful wool in various natural colors for sale by skein. Also his sister Rebecca will bring her hand-knit gloves, mittens & socks. She will also do custom orders.


Garlic! $1.00 a head.


Ag & Health Alive of Marne


Spring is around the corner! Start preparing now for your garden! We will have 10 oz to 10# sizes of various garden supplements, like Berry Mix, Liquid Fish & Kelp concentrates, Maxicrop, Dry Kelp Meal, Milky spore & Diamatacious Earth.


From the bookshelf: Ask Mother Nature: A Conscious Gardeners Guide, by Ellen Vandevisse. Or How to Grow More Vegetables, by John Jeavons.


Also: Nantucket Bakery Cinnamon Raisin Bread and other baked goods.


Northern Naturals Cherry Concentrate. Blackstrap molasses, honey & maple syrup.


Grassfields Farm of Coopersville

Certified Organic raw milk cheeses in the Dutch process tradition.

This Week! Gouda, Leyden, Gouda with Dill, Edam (low-fat Gouda), Gouda Spice (garlic & onion), & Lamont Cheddar.


HandCrafteds


Good for the body & soul!


Bee & Botanical of Spring Lake


Hello Sunshine and warmer weather! 


We are fully stocked for this weekend with our wonderful certified organic soaps. From Lemongrass Tea soap with it’s light lemon scent and touch of tea tree oil to our new Rows and Furrows Gardener’s soap with ground apricots, coffee, and sweet orange essential oil.  All of our soaps are made with only essential oils, the colors in the soap are from the botanicals used in each recipe, no artificial preservatives and are not animal tested! Gift Boxes available for soaps (small extra fee), to  make a thoughtful and usefull little hostess gift.


Other sweet offerings:


Herbal bath tea blend of yummy organic botanicals – try the new convienent single use bath bags that come in a set of 2.


Rose bud mini heart shape wreaths, hand made, pretty to hang on a little girls or baby’s room wall or unique wedding shower gift.


Lavender dryer bags to freshen your laundry and ecofriendly way.  No chemicals and lots less packaging then traditional dryer sheets.


Everlastings in single sachets and also pretty drawstring bags with 4 sachets inside and nicely packaged for gifting.


Happy Easter and look forward to seeing you at the market!


Brittanie’s Thyme of Cedar Springs


Special Namesake Sale! To help celebrate My granddaughter Brittanie’s 6th birthday we’re going to introduce our new Facial Freedom line at 20% off.  This line consists of a cleanser, toner, scrub, acne treatment and protective moisturizer.  100% of these products are organic, vegan, 90% are gluten free, and all are USDA approved.  We hope you’ll stop by and check out our new line.


Imagination to Creation Jewelry of North Muskegon


Sale! This Saturday (and probably several Saturdays) I will have a close-out sale on mens, boys, and young lady’s jewelry; 50 % off till sold out.  Also, I will have remaining bagged chocolates on sale for $1.00. For sale, (but not ON sale) some bagged Easter treats and Easter bracelets celebrating Jesus.


For those folks who did not attend last market, I have created an “Economy Table”; goods on this table are $20 and under for ease of sortment/shopping.  See you there!


Soul Infusions of Cedar Springs


Time for some body spring cleaning with detox herbs like Red clover and Dandelion! These herbs make great teas or added to smoothies or salads can help clean your blood and rid the body of toxins. For you to sample this week “Honeybush” tea.This is a mellow-sweet red tea from Ethiopia full of anti-oxidants and caffeine free –  yummy!


Sweetwater special: Buy any tea strainer thru the month of April and get an ounce of tea


your choice $3.00 or less for free.


 


Last but not least 


Big Sweetwater Hugs to Renewing Friends of the Market Ben & Jen Michaels & daughters Alison & Meredith! If you would like to become a Friend of the Market for a suggested donation of $10.00, 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.


       







 
	

Celebrate March: Shamrocks & Basketball Madness!
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Sweetwater Local Foods Market

Saturday, March 20th, 9:00am to 1:00pm

 Mercy Health Partners/Hackley Health at the Lakes

On Harvey St just 1/2 mile North of Pontaluna Rd.

We are a Bridge Card market


All Vendors Gladly Accept the Bridge Card!


This Week’s Vendors

Earthly Kneads of Muskegon


Specials – St. Patty’s Day Treats!  Irish Cream Cheese Cakes, Irish Soda Bread (made with or without currants), Guinness Bread (with or without cheddar cheese), and Cinnamon Rolls with Irish Cream Glaze.  Pizza Crusts (just top & bake!), Chocolate Bread Pudding Squares, Cheesy Spinach Pockets with caramelized onions and roasted garlic.  Feel free to call the shop to order ahead!  231.728.6383


Bread – 100% Whole Grain Spelt, Seeded Spelt, Peasant Bread, Tuscan Bread, Italian Rosemary, Sweet Vanilla Challah


Scones – Dark Chocolate Chip, Apple Pie, Cranberry Orange


Muffins – Chocolate Raspberry, Blueberry Lemon


Cookies – Double Chocolate Cookies (Vegan, NOT G.F.), Sunflower Butter Cookies (Vegan AND G.F., available in Cinnamon or with GF & Vegan Chocolate Chips), HUGE! Dark Chocolate Chip, Sweet & Salty Cashew Cookies (all oats, no wheat), Oatmeal Raisin (all oats, no wheat), Lemon Fig Oatmeal (all oats, no wheat), and more!


Granola – Blueberry Hazelnut, Ginger Fig Almond, Cherry Almond, Cranberry Pecan, Apple Pepita, and Totally Nuts, plus Muesli and Gorp


Also – We will also have our usual assortment of Naturally Nutty Nut Butters and Food for Thought Preserves, Hot Sauces, and Salsa.


Creswick Farms of Ravenna


Handcrafted Sausages and Specialty Meats

New Product Coming Next Market! Pancetta! A Dry Cured Italian Bacon


1/4 pound packages. – $5/package.


Returning this week! Creswick’s Snack Sticks! 4 generous sticks $4.00/pkg.


Fresh-Aire Pastured Pork

Pork Tenderloin. Pork Chops. Apple Smoked or Hickory Smoked Bacon. Nitrite-Free. Soup Seasoning Bacon Ends.

Pork Sausages: Garlic Kielbasa. Chorizo. Breakfast sausage in links or 1# bulk pkg. Italian Sausage in 1# bulk pkg.


Braunschweiger


Old Fashioned Ring-Style Bologna.


Thin-sliced Deli Style Ham.


Grass-fed Beef

Round Roast. Flank Steak. Filet Mignon. Gourmet Patties (beef, bacon 3 1/3# patties)


Ground Beef Patties (3 1/3# patties).


Pepperoni slices. Thin-sliced & spiced perfectly for pizzas, pasta salads & snacking.

Pastured Poultry

Please note: We will be out of fresh frozen chicken until May. 


Chicken Sausages: Chicken Spinach Feta links.


Lamb Sausages: Moroccan Lamb link sausage.

Soy Free Eggs: Available by pre-order only (see below).

Pre-Orders: Email Chris Bedford at chrisbedford@charter.net by no later than Monday morning  before the next market and he will have it ready for you to pick up on Saturday. For a complete list of products, please see the website: www.CreswickFarms.com

Earthscape Farm of Hesperia 


BEEF ~  We  have some quarters of beef for sale.  Email pbobier@voyager.net for details.


We will have  beef by the pound and package on Saturday!  Steaks , roasts, ground beef, tongue, soup bones, Liver, heart.  I’ll also have ground beef in 10 + # quantities  (1-2# packages) for $3.50 per lb.


Veggies this week ~ Potatoes –  Russet, Red La Soda; yellow and red onions; carrots, celeriac, parsnips.  Dried herbs.  Maybe some spinach ?

Organic Olive Oil ~ Choose your favorite bottle or try a bulk blended organic oil for sale for $30 in your quart jar.

HIGHER GROUNDS COFFEE ~  I’ll be bringing an assortment of 1# bags. A new shipment arrived this week.

CHECK OUT OUR BLOG ~  http://www.earthscapefarm.blogspot.com New photos are up!  We are signing up this year’s CSA members.  Let us know if you are interested.


Liberty Family Farm & Abundant Harvest Bakery of Hart


From the bakery:


Abundant Harvest Bakery


Breakfast Cookies


Regular, Chocolate Walnut


Mini Cheesecakes


Empanadas


Bread


Jumble Cookies


Broccoli cheddar quiche


From the Farm:


Grass-fed Lamb


Grass-fed Beef Soup Bones & Roasts


Hickory Ridge Family Farm

Goose! These freshly processed and frozen geese run between 6 to 9 lbs, and were pastured on grass and supplemented with oats grown on the nearby Earthscape Farm.


Duck! Stewing ducks, whole ducks, & boneless skinless duck breast. Frozen.


Happy Hill Frozen Turkey & Chicken


Turkey Sausage. Breakfast, Italian, Brat & Chorizo. Breakfast & Italian in links or bulk. Turkeys were fed certified organic feed.

Pastured turkey: Fed certified organic grain.  Whole turkeys processed the week before Thanksgiving, also: frozen packaged thighs, drumsticks, breast roast, sliced breast, and tenderloin. 

Pastured chicken: Frozen chicken fed certified organic grains. All cuts—whole, cut up, bone-in and boneless skinless breast, drumsticks, thighs, leg quarters and wings, soup stock, feet, liver, hearts and gizzards. All meats raised on pasture with daily moves.

Free-Range Eggs: Large. 


New from Hickory Ridge! Besides raising pastured poultry, Will raises Shetland sheep and now has beautiful wool in various natural colors for sale by skein. Also his sister Rebecca will bring her hand-knit gloves, mittens & socks. She will also do custom orders.


Garlic! $1.00 a head.


Ag & Health Alive of Marne


Spring is around the corner! Start preparing now for your garden! We will have 10 oz to 10# sizes of various garden supplements, like Berry Mix, Liquid Fish & Kelp concentrates, Maxicrop, Dry Kelp Meal, Milky spore & Diamatacious Earth.


From the bookshelf: Ask Mother Nature: A Conscious Gardeners Guide, by Ellen Vandevisse. Or How to Grow More Vegetables, by John Jeavons.


Also: Nantucket Bakery Cinnamon Raisin Bread and other baked goods.


Northern Naturals Cherry Concentrate. Blackstrap molasses, honey & maple syrup.


Grassfields Farm of Coopersville

Certified Organic raw milk cheeses in the Dutch process tradition.

This Week! Gouda, Leyden, Gouda with Dill, Edam (low-fat Gouda), Gouda Spice (garlic & onion), & Lamont Cheddar.


HandCrafteds


Good for the body & soul!


Bee & Botanical of Spring Lake


New! I am introducing a new soap to our certified organic soaps just in time for your Spring plantings, called Rows and Furrows Gardener’s Soap. It’s a clean scented soap with that extra grit from ground apricots and coffee with light sweet orange essential oil for added grease cutting ability. All of our soaps are made with only essential oils, the colors in the soap are from the botanicals used in each recipe, no artificial preservatives and are not animal tested!


Herbal bath tea blend of yummy organic botanicals now comes in two sizes; the jar with refillable muslin bags and now also a set of 2 single use bags.


Sweet hand made rose bud mini heart share wreaths, pretty to hang on a little girls or baby’s room wall or unique wedding shower gift.


Along with our single hand made cards I now also have package sets of 4 hand made cards which are nice to use yourself or also for a hostess gift.


Look forward to seeing you at the market!


Brittanie’s Thyme of Cedar Springs


NEW PRODUCTS are here!  Sweetwater is the first to offer the new 4oz Balancing Facial Toner $7.00, 2oz EveryDay Moisturizer $16.00, 2oz Night Time Facial Restorative Serum $24.00.


Our feature product this week is Sweet Almond Oil with Vitamin E.  This product is meant to be used as a deep,  protective moisturizer focusing on very dry skin types as well as mature skin.  It offers protection in cold, wind, and sun exposures; deep skin moisturizing with no greasy feeling and the antioxidant properties of Vit E offers additional healing effects. Great for both day and night moisturizing!


This week we are offering $1.00 off Sweet Almond Oil with Vitamin E


Imagination to Creation Jewelry of North Muskegon


NEW!!! “Strands”…possibly the most versatile jewelry in the world!  “Strands” can be worn several different ways in the front of your body OR down your back to dress up a sundress or plain outfit.  They can also be worn partially in the front and partially in the back.  “Strands” can also be worn as a belt or in an updo.  What a fun and practical piece of jewelry!  Also new this Saturday will be “BeadforLife” necklace sets.  BeadforLife is a non-profit organization providing impoverished Ugandan women and their children the opportunity to rise above poverty by making beads from recycled paper.  I have purchased some of these beads and have mixed them with Gemstones and the like to make pretty spring and summer sets.


Soul Infusions of Cedar Springs


Stock up on spring cleansing herbs like dandelion and red clover. we will have “Irish Breakfast Tea” to sample,and many favorites to purchase.Honey and whole food lotions available as well as selected essential oils.


 


Last but not least If you would like to become a Friend of the Market for a suggested donation of $10.00, 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.







       







 
	

What’s New at Sweetwater March 6th
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The sap is running at Olson Farm this weekend!


Sweetwater Local Foods Market 


 Saturday, March 6th, 9:00am to 1:00pm


Mercy Health Partners/Hackley Health at the Lakes


On Harvey St just 1/2 mile North of Pontaluna Rd.


We are a Bridge Card market


All Vendors Gladly Accept the Bridge Card!   


This Week’s Vendors


Olson Farm of Shelby


Stop out to my farm this weekend and see how maple syrup gets made! I am busy tapping trees & boiling this spring’s batch of Taste of Spring Maple Syrup. The Muskegon Chronicle is visiting the farm on Saturday. If you want to come out call me at 231 861 1903 for directions.


Earthly Kneads of Muskegon Bread – 100% Whole Grain Spelt, Seeded Spelt, Peasant Bread, Tuscan Bread, Italian Rosemary, Sweet Vanilla Challah Specials – Energy Bars (small, healthy bars that filled with seeds, fruit, oats, spelt, and sweetened with barley malt syrup and brown rice syrup – VEGAN), Pizza Crusts (just top & bake!), Gouda for What Ales You, Marble Rye (NEW! Special this weekend), Cinnamon Rolls with Cream Cheese Frosting, Sticky Buns, Apple Pie Buns (These are GOOD! Homemade apple pie filling and sweetened cream cheese), Cherry Spice Bread Pudding Squares, SB&J (sunflower butter & apricot chardonnay jam) pockets.  We will also have bread pudding kits (Chocolate or Cherry Hazelnut) and stuffing kits (the stuffing kits are 1/2 price!). Scones – Dark Chocolate Chip, Blueberry Lemon, Cranberry Orange Muffins – Blueberry Streusel Surprise, Lemon Poppyseed Cookies – Chocolate Hazelnut Cookies (Vegan, NOT G.F.), Sunflower Butter Cookies (Vegan AND G.F., available in Cinnamon or with GF & Vegan Chocolate Chips), HUGE! Dark Chocolate Chip, Sweet & Salty Cashew Cookies (all oats, no wheat), and more! Granola – Blueberry Hazelnut, Ginger Fig Almond, Cherry Almond, Cranberry Pecan, Apple Pepita, and Totally Nuts, plus Muesli and Gorp  Also: We will have our usual assortment of Naturally Nutty Nut Butters and Food for Thought Preserves, Hot Sauces, and Salsa.


Creswick Farms of Ravenna


Handcrafted Sausages and Specialty Meats


Fresh-Aire Pastured Pork


  Pork Tenderloin. Pork Chops. Apple Smoked  Bacon. Nitrite-Free. Soup Seasoning Bacon Ends.


Pork Sausages: Garlic Kielbasa. Chorizo. Breakfast sausage, links and 1# bulk pkg. Italian Sausage in 1# bulk pkg.   


Braunsweiger


Old Fashioned Ring-Style Bologna.  


Thin-sliced Deli Style Ham.


Grass-fed Beef Round Roast. Flank Steak. Filet Mignon. Gourmet Patties (beef, bacon 3 1/3# patties)  Ground Beef Patties (3 1/3# patties).


Pepperoni slices. Thin-sliced & spiced perfectly for pizzas, pasta salads & snacking.


Pastured Poultry Please note: We will be out of fresh frozen chicken until May.  Chicken Sausages: Chicken Spinach Feta links.   


Lamb Sausages: Moroccan Lamb link sausage.  


Soy Free Eggs: Available by pre-order only (see below).


Pre-Orders: Email Chris Bedford at chrisbedford@charter.net by no later than Monday morning  before the next market and he will have it ready for you to pick up on Saturday. For a complete list of products, please see the website: www.CreswickFarms.com


 Earthscape Farm of Hesperia


  BEEF ~  We  have some quarters of beef for sale.  Email pbobier@voyager.net for details.  We will have  beef by the pound and package on Saturday!  Steaks , roasts, ground beef, tongue, soup bones, Liver, heart.  I’ll also have ground beef in 10 + # quantities  (1-2# packages) for $3.50 per lb.  Veggies this week ~ Potatoes – Russian Fingerlings (last week!), Russet, Red Norland; yellow and red onions; carrots, celeriac.  Dried herbs. Organic Olive Oil ~ Choose your favorite bottle or try a bulk blended organic oil for sale for $30 in your quart jar. HIGHER GROUNDS COFFEE ~  I’ll be bringing an assortment of 1# bags. A new shipment arrived this week. CHECK OUT OUR BLOG ~  http://www.earthscapefarm.blogspot.com New photos are up!


Hickory Ridge Family Farm


Goose! These freshly processed and frozen geese run between 6 to 9 lbs, and were pastured on grass and supplemented with oats grown on the nearby Earthscape Farm.  Duck! Stewing ducks, whole ducks, & boneless skinless duck breast. Frozen. Happy Hill Frozen Turkey & Chicken Turkey Sausage. Breakfast, Italian, Brat & Chorizo. Breakfast & Italian in links or bulk. Turkeys were fed certified organic feed. Pastured turkey: Fed certified organic grain.  Whole turkeys processed the week before Thanksgiving, also: frozen packaged thighs, drumsticks, breast roast, sliced breast, and tenderloin.  Pastured chicken: Frozen chicken fed certified organic grains. All cuts—whole, cut up, bone-in and boneless skinless breast, drumsticks, thighs, leg quarters and wings, soup stock, feet, liver, hearts and gizzards. All meats raised on pasture with daily moves. Free-Range Eggs: Large.  New from Hickory Ridge! Besides raising pastured poultry, Will raises Shetland sheep and now has beautiful wool in various natural colors for sale by skein. Also his sister Rebecca will bring her hand-knit gloves, mittens & socks. She will also do custom orders.  Garlic! $1.00 a head.


Grassfields Farm of Coopersville


 Certified Organic raw milk cheeses in the Dutch process tradition. This Week! Gouda, Leyden, Gouda with Dill, Edam (low-fat Gouda), Gouda Spice (garlic & onion), & Lamont Cheddar.  HandCrafteds Good for the body & soul!   


Bee & Botanical of Spring Lake New! I am introducing a new soap to our certified organic soaps just in time for your Spring plantings, called Rows and Furrows Gardener’s Soap. It’s a clean scented soap with that extra grit from ground apricots and coffee with light sweet orange essential oil for added grease cutting ability. All of our soaps are made with only essential oils, the colors in the soap are from the botanicals used in each recipe, no artificial preservatives and are not animal tested!  Herbal bath tea blend of yummy organic botanicals now comes in two sizes; the jar with refillable muslin bags and now also a set of 2 single use bags.  Sweet hand made rose bud mini heart share wreaths, pretty to hang on a little girls or baby’s room wall or unique wedding shower gift.  Along with our single hand made cards I now also have package sets of 4 hand made cards which are nice to use yourself or also for a hostess gift.  Look forward to seeing you at the market!


Brittanie’s Thyme of Cedar Springs NOTE: Thank you to all for your interest in the new products we have been sampling.  These products will be available for purchase starting March 20th!  Spring is truly coming and it’s very important to prepare your skin for venturing back out of doors.  Even though indoor winter air is very dry and actually depletes our skin of much needed moisture, once we go outside  we are exposing our skin to the elements of wind, sun and particles/toxins in the air.  Not only is moisturizing critical, so is exfoliating.  To prevent the buildup of dead cells on your skin’s surface, gently exfoliate once a week to stimulate circulation, remove old cells and provide your skin with better ability to breath. Our Organic Almond Oatmeal Scrub is just the solution for gently exfoliating the skin. Ingredients: Organic Oatmeal finely ground – provides protein silica to soften the skin’s surface gently without harsh chemicals and leaves skin feeling satiny to the touch after each treatment. Organic Almonds finely ground – provides scrubbing action to remove surface buildup without harming new skin cells. Simply add a few drops of Organic Citrus Cleanser or water to 1 tablespoon of Organic Almond Oatmeal Scrub  to make a fresh  new scrub each time you use it. Feel the softness immediately after each use  and see the new glow your skin will have!   


Imagination to Creation Jewelry of North Muskegon NEW!!! “Strands”…possibly the most versatile jewelry in the world!  “Strands” can be worn several different ways in the front of your body OR down your back to dress up a sundress or plain outfit.  They can also be worn partially in the front and partially in the back.  “Strands” can also be worn as a belt or in an updo.  What a fun and practical piece of jewelry!  Also new this Saturday will be “BeadforLife” necklace sets.  BeadforLife is a non-profit organization providing impoverished Ugandan women and their children the opportunity to rise above poverty by making beads from recycled paper.  I have purchased some of these beads and have mixed them with Gemstones and the like to make pretty spring and summer sets.  Again, this Saturday I will have the last week of the “End of 2009” 50% off jewelry sale with the items on sale not having been shown before.  See you there!!!     


       







 
	

What’s New at Sweetwater Local Foods Market?
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Organic Pizza!


Sweetwater Local Foods Market


 Saturday, February 20th, 9:00am to 1:00pm




 Mercy Health Partners/Hackley Health at the Lakes




 On Harvey St. ½ mile S of Lakes Mall-exit US31 at Pontaluna Rd




 We are a Bridge Card Market –All Food Vendors Gladly Accept the Bridge Card!


Music is Back at the Market!


This week Jo Ann Winberg & the Front Porch Pickers are joined once again by


Nathan Wright on the fiddle and friend Jon Misner playing the Irish Bodhran!


 


This Week’s Vendors




 Earthly Kneads of Muskegon


Bread – 100% Whole Grain Spelt, Seeded Spelt, Peasant Bread, Tuscan Bread, Italian Rosemary, Sweet Vanilla Challah


Specials – Pizza Crusts (just top & bake!), English Muffin Bread, Chili Cheese Cornbread, Cinnamon Rolls with Cream Cheese Frosting, Chocolate Raspberry Buns (These are GOOD!), Cherry Hazelnut Bread Pudding Squares, Cheddar & Spinach Pockets (Caramelized Onions, Roasted Garlic, Spinach, and Raw Milk Cheddar Cheese).  We will also have bread pudding kits (Chocolate or Cherry Hazelnut) and stuffing kits (the stuffing kits are 1/2 price!).


Scones – Honey Lemon Fig, Cranberry Orange


Muffins – Cherry Cola, Strawberry Streusel Surprise


Cookies – Double Chocolate Cookies (Vegan, NOT G.F.), Peanut Butter Cookies (Vegan AND G.F., available plain or with GF & Vegan Chocolate Chips), HUGE! Dark Chocolate Chip, Sundrop, Coconut Pecan Macaroons (GF), Sweet & Salty Cashew Cookies (all oats, not wheat)


Granola – Blueberry Hazelnut, Ginger Fig Almond, Cherry Almond, Cranberry Pecan, Apple Pepita, and Totally Nuts, plus Muesli and Gorp


We will also have our usual assortment of Naturally Nutty Nut Butters and Food for Thought Preserves, Hot Sauces, and Salsa.


Creswick Farms of Ravenna


Handcrafted Sausages and Specialty Meats




! Corned Beef New! Try one this week, slow cooked in a crock pot with cabbage, or sliced thin for sandwiches – this is meat-lovers heaven!


Fresh-Aire Pastured Pork




 Pork Tenderloin. Pork Chops. Two choices of bacon this week: Apple Smoked  and Hickory Smoked. Nitrite-Free. Soup Seasoning Bacon Ends.


Pork Sausages: Garlic Kielbasa. Chorizo. Breakfast sausage, links and 1# bulk pkg. Italian Sausage in 1# bulk pkg. Braunsweiger is back!


Thin-sliced Deli Style Ham.


Grass-fed Beef




Round Roast.  Flank Steak. Filet Mignon. Gourmet Patties (beef, bacon 3 1/3# patties)


Ground Beef Patties (3 1/3# patties).


Pepperoni slices. Thin-sliced & spiced perfectly for pizzas, pasta salads & snacking.


Pastured Poultry


Please note: We will be out of fresh frozen chicken until April. 


Chicken Sausages: Apple Chicken & Chicken Spinach Feta links.


Lamb Sausages: Moroccan Lamb link sausage.


Soy Free Eggs: Available by pre-order only (see below).


Pre-Orders: Email Chris Bedford at chrisbedford@charter.net by no later than Monday morning  before the next market and he will have it ready for you to pick up on Saturday. For a complete list of products, please see the website: www.CreswickFarms.com .


Earthscape Farm of Hesperia 


BEEF ~  We  have some quarters of beef for sale.  Email pbobier@voyager.net for details.


We will have  beef by the pound and package on Saturday!  Steaks , roasts, ground beef, tongue, soup bones, Liver, heart.  I’ll also have ground beef in 10 + # quantities  (1-2# packages) for $3.50 per lb.


Veggies this week ~ Potatoes – Russian Fingerlings (last week!), Russet, Red Norland; yellow and red onions; carrots, celeriac.  Dried herbs.


Organic Olive Oil ~ Choose your favorite bottle or try a bulk blended organic oil for sale for $30 in your quart jar.


HIGHER GROUNDS COFFEE ~  I’ll be bringing an assortment of 1# bags. A new shipment arrived this week.


CHECK OUT OUR BLOG ~  http://www.earthscapefarm.blogspot.com New photos are up!


Liberty Family Farm & Abundant Harvest Bakery of Hart


This week from the Bakery: 


Hazel Nut Meringues, Breakfast Cookies, Quiche, Cheese Cakes


From the Farm:


Grass Fed Lamb and Pasture Raised


Simply Wool:


We will have some yarn/wool products featuring a queen sized wool filled (from the fleeces of our flock) comforter for sale.


Hickory Ridge Family Farm


Goose! These freshly processed and frozen geese run between 6 to 9 lbs, and were pastured on grass and supplemented with oats grown on the nearby Earthscape Farm.


Duck! Stewing ducks, whole ducks, & boneless skinless duck breast. Frozen.


Happy Hill Frozen Turkey & Chicken


Turkey Sausage. Breakfast, Italian, Brat & Chorizo. Breakfast & Italian in links or bulk. Turkeys were fed certified organic feed.


Pastured turkey: Fed certified organic grain.  Whole turkeys processed the week before Thanksgiving, also: frozen packaged thighs, drumsticks, breast roast, sliced breast, and tenderloin. 




 Pastured chicken: Frozen chicken fed certified organic grains. All cuts—whole, cut up, bone-in and boneless skinless breast, drumsticks, thighs, leg quarters and wings, soup stock, feet, liver, hearts and gizzards. All meats raised on pasture with daily moves.


Free-Range Eggs: Large. 


New from Hickory Ridge! Besides raising pastured poultry, Will raises Shetland sheep and now has beautiful wool in various natural colors for sale by skein. Also his sister Rebecca will bring her hand-knit gloves, mittens & socks. She will also do custom orders.


Garlic! $1.00 a head.


Olson Farm of Shelby


Corn! I will be bringing my grinder and my saved open pollinated shelled yellow corn & wheat berries. I will grind you a custom blend and give you a recipe for the best tasting corn bread you ever ate!


Taste of Spring Maple Syrup. Less than a case left so plan to pick some up before it’s all gone until  I make this spring’s newest batch.


Grassfields Farm of Coopersville




 Certified Organic raw milk cheeses in the Dutch process tradition.


This Week! Gouda, Leyden, Gouda with Dill, Edam (low-fat Gouda), Gouda Spice (garlic & onion), & Lamont Cheddar.


Ag and Health Alive of Marne


Spring is around the corner! Start preparing now for your garden! We will have 10 oz to 10# sizes of various garden supplements, like Berry Mix, Liquid Fish & Kelp concentrates, Maxicrop, Dry Kelp Meal, Milky spore & Diamatacious Earth.


From the bookshelf: Ask Mother Nature: A Conscious Gardeners Guide, by Ellen Vandevisse. Or How to Grow More Vegetables, by John Jeavons.


Also: Nantucket Bakery Cinnamon Raisin Bread and other baked goods.


Northern Naturals Cherry Concentrate. Blackstrap molasses, honey & maple syrup.


Also: pie pumpkins. They make great substitutes for any recipe calling for squash.


HandCrafteds


Good for the body & soul!


Brittanie’s Thyme of Cedar Springs


Beginning this new year, Brittanie’s Thyme will expand with not only new and upcoming products but also with a little more detailed information about our individual products.  So this week we’d like to start with our Organic Citrus Cleanser and some of the benefits.


Ingredients: Organic Aloe (for hydration and gentle cleansing)


100% Natural Glycerin (softens skin, atracts moisture from the air)


Organic Jojoba Oil ( closest to our natural body sebum oil, readily absorbed)


Vitamin E (healing properties, antioxidant, preservative)


Organic Grapefruit essential oil (antioxidant, stimulant and cleansing)


Organic Rosemary essential oil (improves circulation, creates glowing skin)


This product is a gentle gel/liquid cleanser, providing you with hydration, light moisturizing and  essentail oils  that improve skin’s natural glow.  It is effective on all skin types without drying and provides the slightest moistuizing without clogging pores.  This is the reason you will not find any emulsifiers in this product. Once you’ve tried our lighter cleanser, you will feel the original softness your skin was meant to have.


Imagination to Creation Jewelry of North Muskegon


This Saturday I will be hosting my END OF THE YEAR sale again.  I usually hold this sale 2-3 weekends but it didn’t work out that way this year and I have had folks say “I wish you were having your sale again”, so I am.


EVERYTHING on the tables will be 50 % off.  I will have jewelry, purses, and totes.


Soul Infusions of Cedar Springs


This week we will have plenty of coconut-lime body lotion on hand. Please stop by and sample “Forever Fruit Tea” a wonderful herbal blend that is caffeine free and great tasting! We will gladly bring a specific herb or tea just cal  616-696-1808 by Friday 2/19 so we can bring it.


 


Last but not least:   Sweetwater thanks goes out to renewing Friends of the Market Dave Fredericks & Hildi Paulsen! If you would like to become a Friend of the Market for a suggested donation of $10.00, 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.