And the winners are...!!

When a new customer comes to Pick-up for the first time, we ask where they heard about the Market – and when the person says your name, you’re entered in our drawing!! :-)

This month’s Refer-A-Friend winner is… Susan Westfall!!

And the winner of our monthly Vendor Appreciation Gift Giveaway is Katie Bensman and Family, better known as Mother Suds Soap Co.!! We love you guys :-)

Tonight on the Market we have all kinds of new treats – Baklava from Honey Creek Farm

Plain Pizza Crusts from Rachel Lusk that make great dessert crusts or fruit pizzas!

5lb whole organic Chickens, and Chicken Gizzards, from Michael’s Pastured Poultry

And Certified Naturally Grown Tumeric Root from Simple Living Farm!! Awesome!!

What a Week!!

Also, Simple Living Farm now has Certified Naturally Grown Ginger Root available!! :-)

And JM Gardens brings a new favorite snack to the Market – Peanut Brittle! Yay!

Phil and Matt Buehler have a wonderful Breakfast Sampler full of everyone’s favorite bacon, sausage, and more!!

And 6635 StudeBaker has a new Ancient Grains Spelt Bread, and the half-sized Sprouted Rye is on Special this week!!

What fun, meeting a new Vendor!!

From brownies, bars, and cookies to specialty items and more, this Troy baker has lots to offer, and she joins our ever-growing Market family next week!! Yay :-)

Sweet Jalapeno Mustard is back!!

Sam and Emma Powell of St Paris, better known as Bad Seed Mustard Company, will be making the trip to Ohio State where they use a commercial kitchen to create and process their incredible Mustards – talk about dedication!! And it all started with Grandma’s famous recipe (which you can still enjoy if you can handle the sweet heat of the Sweet Habanero Mustard!!)

Spinach, Eggs, and Monarchs, oh My!!

My kids loved it, and were then inspired, when we were harvesting Milkweed pods, to offer the seeds to their “Market friends” :-)

Beautiful favorites of many pollinators, including the American Monarch, we’ll have Milkweed seeds available for anyone interested at pick-up!!

This week the Market sees the return of Simple Living Farm’s Spinach, and next week their sweet Carrots will be back!!

More Eggs are available this week, even though the hens’ production is dropping, whether from the cold, the diminishing sunlight, or this being the time for them to molt (and when they lose their feathers, they don’t lay eggs!! Ah!!

6,500,000 lbs of beef recalled? Not here!

Your food dollars speak volumes when you choose to support healthy, happy animals raised and processed humanely by our local small businesses, or neighborhood farmers who take pride in the food they grow to sell and feed their own families.

This most recent recall proves yet again bigger is not better. No single corporation should be big enough to CONTAMINATE 6.5 million lbs of beef, in addition to all else they’re selling. Spread that out among family farms in each of the states where the salmonella beef was sold and eaten, and how much more of an impact would that make in MANY local economies instead of just one big mechanized, industrial corporation in Arizona?
Small is beautiful, sustainable, and just around the corner. And when farmers are able to establish a customer base who are lost when the chickens stop laying, they can scale up without worrying whether they’ll be able to sell their eggs come fall and winter when the shorter day length causes production to plummet, and the chickens are more expensive to feed.

It’s all about the relationships we’re forming as we see just how far local can take us. Maybe we can rely on each other, so we can make a living doing what we love, and you can eat our salad and burgers without questioning whether it’s going to put your young daughter or elderly mother in the hospital.

And we will be confident keeping our laying chicken numbers up through the most expensive months because you’ve been there steadily through the year (and we’re ready to take an extra dozen come Spring’s surplus!)

Bagels, Turkeys, and Mini Pot Pies!!

And Tin Roof Mobile Food is offering grandson Braden’s turkeys from his Fair project this year, raised on their Fletcher farm!

Plus thanks to Rachel Lusk for sharing the interesting photos of her bagel-making process – maybe everyone knew bagels were boiled except me! They’re on our Facebook page, along with her cutest little helper :-)

We're OPEN for orders!!

Mark your calendars for our next Night Market, just in time for Christmas on December 4th :-)

What a wonderful group of vendors who turned out tonight with such colorful and delicious displays – oh what samples!!

And what wonderful customers – we love you, and you make us glad we do what we do!! :-)

Happy Shopping!!

For a Limited Time Only...

And only for a short time, Rachel Lusk has brought back both her savory Tomato Basil Garlic Bagels and sweet Apple Streusel jumbo Muffins!!

Also, Michael’s Pastured Poultry just added two new Certified Organic listings… for Chicken Backs and Chicken Feet! Perfect for Asian dishes or making bone broth – who won’t be glad for some chicken stock when the cool weather hits for real?!

And the winners are...!!!

And a big THANK YOU to our Vendor Appreciation Gift recipients, Dennis and Keba Hitzeman – aka Innisfree on the Stillwater Farm!

Fantastic believers of the Market from the beginning, Dennis and Keba are true supporters of Local Food, being dedicated farmers themselves. Their Innisfree on the Stillwater is a beautiful family farm over in Pleasant Hill, where they flourish with a crazy variety of animals and projects – so glad to have their custom-roasted coffee on the Market!!

And Keba’s a glutton for punishment when it comes to volunteering her time for the Market, whether it be at pick-up, as a last minute fill-in when someone has to cancel, or at any of the events where the Market sets up to advertise and sell outside of our location at First Place!

Thanks for all of your support, you wonderful Hitzeman’s – I’m so grateful to call you friends and fellow vendors! :-)