So many new products tonight!!

And 6635 StudeBaker now offers her wonderful hamburger buns in a perfect Slider size – thanks to a customer request!

King’s Poultry Farm continues to provide easy meal options – this time with their canned Chicken! Ingredients: their Non-GMO chicken and sea salt – how awesome is that?! :-)

And J & S Buehler Family Farm updated their beef quantities, from Filet Mignon and Sirloin Tip Roast to Swiss Steak and Mild Italian Ground Beef!!

6635 StudeBaker is Back!!

Plus fresh herbs from Simple Living Farm, more soap varieties from Becky’s Buckeye Naturals…

and new Skin Care products including salve, serum, and the most convenient salve stick from our newest vendor, Sacred Rosie – see why they call it Yoga in a Bottle! :-)

The Buehler's are back!

Plus here’s a deal for anyone looking for young hens ready to lay! – Lost Creek Farms in Fletcher has pullets for sale! “We have about 125 left. Approximately 18 weeks old.
Breed is Bovan Brown (hybrid production variety very similar to Golden Comet).
$7.50 each”

Contact Tim at 231-1846 or tim@lost-creek-farms.com for more information :-)

Join us for our MCLG Community Potluck!

A good friend of ours, farmer, author, progressive extraordinaire, Lynn wrote a piece in his beloved quarterly Small Farmer’s Journal that envisions the need and potential of building the kind of community possible with this market…

He retells the Greek myth of Sisyphus who’s cursed with rolling a huge stone up a hill, only to have it roll back down – up and down, no resolution, no freedom. “That is what large scale debt-ridden farming is for far too many good folk… It is manifest desperation. How does one escape it? I humbly suggest that it begins with doubting. As humans and as farmers we need to doubt what society and the marketplace have been telling us and trust that gut instinct to go for our own version of a debt-free handmade life working with family and friends to produce, to be caretakers, to belong to a place, to have that place allow us to be a good part of what it may become.

“Some of us are small, debt-free or close to it, and challenged by our farming, but we’re happy because we are doing what we want to do and embraced by the ownership of it all… quite a few of us would do this work even if we didn’t make anything at it. We happily farm for free (at least it seems like we’re farming for free) because the intangible rewards are so grand and fine [and I know my husband and I aren’t the only ones who feel this way].

“Good farming is always about good farmers working carefully with what they have, what they know, what they may learn, and in concert with each other and nature.” Big governments around the world “are dead wrong on this subject… as they hold that the way forward… is leveraged industrial farming. They do not see that this model has failed and continues to destroy the food supply, the environment, the planet, human societies and dignity.

“The answer rests in the opposite direction. A move to allow and encourage people and peoples to return to the land and their agrarian heritage would transform the world’s economy with natural growth, all the while healing human society and the environment. Confusion about words like sustainable, organic, non-GMO, local, healthy… biodynamic, green, and small farming all will fall away as the waves of new small farmers answer every question with a positive action.

“You will know what is local because you will know first-hand the people who raised that meat, because you will have picked the crop yourself, because you will have watched that food grow as you drove by, because your brother and sister work at the creamery that buys Fred’s milk and makes your cottage cheese, because you stood patiently waiting at the farmer’s market as Sandra backed her husband’s produce-loaded pickup to the table. Every cog in the wheel of your community’s agrarian pursuits will have cause to know and protect every single piece of the puzzle, to avoid poisons, to encourage fertility, to guarantee freshness, to embrace what makes that region’s food unique.

“We need more people in farming, so that we might repair the earth and save humanity.

“But it has to start by talking it up”…

ENTER OUR MARKET COMMUNITY POTLUCK

Tonight available on the Market under our MCLG category is a Community Potluck open to any vendor or customer interested in attending… limited to 10 customers (who are encouraged to bring a guest/family) and 10 vendors (also bringing a guest/family), and again hosted by our ever-gracious Deb Spencer, 6635 StudeBaker, at her lovely farm in Tipp City (what would we do without her bake oven?) on Monday September 17th at 5pm.

A chance to get to know your fellow customers and local producers, this is sure to be another unforgettable MCLG event – last month we invited our long-term supporters and volunteers for our first crack at a dinner that would allow vendors and customers to enjoy a fantastic evening of good food and good company, nurturing the relationships we’ve been building thru this market for two years. And using them as willing (and hungry) guinea pigs, we quickly realized how vital and fun such an event could be – in fact, afterwards we had more vendors AND customers AND even strangers volunteer their own farms, yards, and homes for our next event, because they couldn’t wait to participate! Talk about community building! And there will be more.

We were the most eclectic, quirky, wonderful group of folks that may never have gotten along under any other circumstances – yet in this relaxed, intimate environment, the obvious was clear – we all shared one truly indispensable thing in common… we all eat, and want to eat good food. You could mingle from one conversation to the next and join the talk about the potential products available with access to a shared-use kitchen, hydroponics, backyard poultry, getting kids involved in the garden, ancient grains, heirloom tomatoes, bake ovens, all the necessary fabric to knit a sustainable, healthy society right around us.

We have barely begun to “talk it up”, and must continue… won’t you join us? :-)

6635 StudeBaker out of town next week!

If you just HAVE to have your English muffin bread, sourdough, baguettes, or challah, 6635 StudeBaker is going out of town next week, so order while you can!

$2 off Pot Pies!! And we have SWEET CORN!!

Plus JM Gardens has Sweet Corn available!! But only for this week – shop early!!

A Taste of Sugar Bakery is BACK this week on the Market! Scones, cheesecake, Amish sweet bread, oh my!!

Also BACK this week – Bair Trax Dairy (we know you missed those eggs!) and Michael’s Pastured Poultry – aka known as the 2018 Miami County Fair King ;-)

Good Luck to Michael's Pastured Poultry!

Entering several animals, he’s going to be busy!! Can’t wait to see how he fares at the Fair!

And Thanks to mom Annette of Bair Trax Dairy for the great pictures of Michael with his animals :-)

Don't Miss the Mash Bill Music Series at Indian Creek!

Indian Creek Distillery’s Mash Bill Music Series wraps up this summer on Saturday August 25th!!

With country rock band Overdrive from 5-8pm, and blues musician Eric Jerardi from 8:30-11pm!!

And our very own Tin Roof Mobile Food will be on hand with all of their incredible offerings!!

For more information, check out the distillery at www.staleymillfarmanddistillery.com, www.facebook.com/indiancreekdistillery or call 846-1443!

And don’t forget we have their unforgettable Stillhouse Maple Syrup on the Market – the perfect summer experience on apple pie, cinnamon rolls, ice cream – oh my!

Jandy's Garlic Harvest Celebration is almost here!!

Come Tour their incredible Farm and Enjoy the Music, the yummy Food, Local Vendors,
And of course LOTS of Garlic!

AUGUST 19 (Sunday)
1:00-5:00 p.m.
3624 Township Road 136
Bellefontaine, OH
937-468-2853
Growers Andy Reinhart & Jan Dawson
www.facebook.com/jandy’sfarm

A Few Notes:
This is a Working Farm
Rough Ground, Poison Ivy and Pond on Premises
Come Prepared … bug spray, chair, blanket, etc.
Watch your Children!
No Pets, Please

The Buehler's are going on Vacation - do you need eggs and pork?!

He’ll be back the following week, but if you’re looking for Phil and Matt’s awesome pork or J & S Buehler (including son Landon’s eggs!) get your order in by 8pm Sunday!!

And Congrats to Landon, who did so well at his first trip to the Shelby Co Fair, taking First Place in one class and Third Place in two others with his broiler chickens! Great Job, Landon!