NEWSLETTER

To Contact Us

CSA Farmers Market
2933 Burnside Rd.,
North Branch, MI 48461
Ph. 810-688-7442
email us
or Email Krystal

Recipes

Root Vegetable Tagine

This is a Moroccan dish that is impressive and easy in spite of the long list of ingredients.

Mix together and set aside:

1/2 t. EACH salt, cumin, paprika
1/4 t. EACH cinnamon, turmeric, curry powder, pepper
1/8 t. EACH ground red pepper, allspice

In a Dutch oven combine:

1 T olive oil
3 c. chopped cabbage
2 c. cubed sweet potatoes
1 c. EACH of chopped onion, parsnip, carrot, turnip, dried lentils
1/2 c. chopped dried apricots
1 T minced ginger root

Cook for 3 minutes Add spice mixture. Cook for 1 minute stirring constantly.

Add:

2 t. grated lemon rind
28 oz (about) vegetable broth
28 oz (about) diced tomatoes

Simmer uncovered for 40 minutes or until lentils are tender.

Stir in

1 T. lemon juice

Serve over hot cooked couscous.

Distribution Dates

THURS OCT 31
Almar Orchards
2:00pm-5:00pm
Whetham Organic Farm
3:00pm-7:00pm
Preferred Health Food Store
1:00pm-6:00pm
White Pine Farm
6:00pm-8:00pm
Westwind Milling Co.
4:00-6:00pm

FRI NOV 1
Whetham Organic Farm
2:00pm to 6:00pm
Westwind Milling Co.
10:00am to 6:00pm
Green Earth Grocery
10:00am to 6:30pm
Preferred Health Food Store
1:00pm to 4:00 pm
Kinetic Systems Bike Shop
11:00am to 6:30pm
Me, My Health & Eyes
12:00pm to 4:00 pm
Breadwinner Bakery
1:00pm to 6:00pm
Rebekah’s Pure Living
9:00am to 6:30pm
MJP Healthy Living Center
By appointment call Debbie at 810-614-9226
White Pine Farm
8:00am to 8:00pm daylight hours
Clawson United Methodist Church
3:00pm to 7:00pm
Grosse Pointe Memorial Church
3:00 pm to 6:00pm

SAT NOV 2
White Pine Farm
8:00pm-8:00pm
Westwind Milling Co.
4:00-6:00pm
Green Earth Grocery
10:00am to 3:30pm
Whetham Organic Farm
daylight
Grosse Pointe Memorial Church
9:00 am to 12:00 noon
Lapeer at the Farmers Market
9:00am to 2:00pm

SUNDAY NOV 3
White Pine Farm
8:00am to 8:00pm

DELIVERIES OAKLAND COUNTY
Mary Ann from Nature’s Finest Organics
Call (586)-321-3227 or email Mary Ann.

OTHER DISTRIBUTION UPDATES

Is changing their store. The new store is call Many Hands Community Food Hours of operation are Tues-Saturday 10am – 6pm. They now include more of the local farmers and offer a larger variety of local foods.

Grosse Pointe Memorial Church
There is a slight change is previous publicized pick up times. On Saturday it is from 9am to 12noon.

Is now open 7-Days a week.

Other Groups

Michigan Organic Farm & Food Alliance MOFFA

Learn about GMO’s by visiting the
NonGMO Project

Farm to Consumer Legal Defense fund

Weston A Price chapter

ONLINE FORMS

Special Product Requests

RECYCLING

Recyling

Here is a list of what we recyle.

Paper Grocery Bags

• This includes ones you get from stores
  Cardboard
• The cardboard bottoms from the bags
  Glass Jars
• Honey Jars
  • Even if the honey is in them
• Elixer Bottles
• Any jar that our products come in
  The list is longer than what is here. Look later for updates.

Market News

To Order Immediately Click Here Just a reminder you can place as many orders as you want in an order cycle (the week the marker is open).

NEW Distribution Location in Almont

Hilltop Farm
Located at 7320 37 Mile Rd. Romeo MI 48065. Hours for pick are on Friday from 4:00 pm-6:00pm Phone 810-343-3459.
This is a seasonal distribution location. Will only be available until December.
Ruth at Hilltop has a wonderful seasonal bakery open from September to December yearly. They offer a variety of pies, quick breads, snack bars, caramels and other items made by hand. Ruth is well known as the Pie Queen and her pies have been written about in a number of magazines.

Clawson Methodist Church
This location is expanding their hours for customer pick-up until 7 pm on Friday.

Grosse Pointe Memorial Church
This pick up location is replacing the West Park Farmers Market. We had a slight change in previous publicized pick up times. Saturday hours have been shortened. The new hours are Friday between 3pm-6pm or Saturday 9am-12:00 pm .

Products Updates

ON SPECIAL THIS WEEK

FREE with the purchase of any Slow Dog Seasoning: LUCKY DOG LEMON HERB TEA. Lemon balm, lemon verbena, lemon thyme, lemon basil, lemon grass and lavender flower, soon to be available as a loose blend or a tea sweep.(an individual bundle of all of the above tied together and swizzled in your tea mug).

This week on special is Italian Seasoning, Herb Blend for Soup and Not Just for Fish from Slow Dog Seasoning; Celery from White Pine Farm Celery and Steaks from Ulrich Farms.

Click Here to go to special sales

RECENTLY ADDED

Goat Milk Soap & Lotion
Anita Heeke from Pineberry Dairy is back making her wonderful high quality goat milk soap and lotion products. She will be continuing to add a larger variety of products soon. Click here to get to her products.

MEAT
Pork Cutlets from Almars. These thin cuts of meat are boneless and lean. Once cooked they are perfect for sandwiches.

VEGETABLES
Turnips and Rutabaga, with deer hunting season upon us use these to make pasties for the hungry hunters.

APPLES
Newly added varieties: Jonagold which are juicy medium tart with firm coarse yellow meat, they hold their shape under heat and are perfect for making caramel apples or for baking; Northern Spies which are tart and the traditional pie making apple and Macoun which have a sweet smooth white meat, they are tasty for those with a sweet tooth and good for making applesauce.

Osage Orange
Do you have spiders and want them to move out of your house, but not dead. Law Family farm has the solution, they now are offering Osage Oranges. Just place them in different locations in the house and notice how they work.

Gardeners
Think Dairy Doo. It is a great product to put on your garden in the fall. Spread it or work it into the soil.

REVIEW SECTION

Keeps the comments coming, we love to hear how the market is blessing you!

• I loved the blueberry yogurt from Thomas Creamery, it was tasty without being too sweet and a little bit of it filled me up. I also thoroughly enjoyed the spelt bread from Westwind Milling Co.

• Please tell the farmers at Fallen Oak that I roasted their chicken yesterday, and it was so delicious! My mother and brother were over for dinner, and we all thought it was just super. I will definitely be getting more of their chickens!

Want something we don’t have? Please let us know by clicking here and filling out the form.

If you enjoyed a certain product or just want to share the love please email us with your comments! The comments may be anonymous if desired please indicate in the email! All the growers love to have feedback on the products they sell. email us with comments.

USE THE COMMENT SECTION at the end of your order
If something is sold out or if you want something not on the website you can leave a comment at the end or your order. Periodically when we harvest to fill the orders we do have extra and can fill extra orders.

What To Do With

What to do with turnips.
Carving your turnip for Halloween? Turnips were the original Jack O’ Lantern. Pumpkins didn’t enter the picture until the settlers here in the New World discovered that pumpkins worked much better. The Irish started the turnip tradition to scare Jack of the lantern away as well as evil spirits. Just hollow out your turnip , add a face , a candle and let it stand guard on your porch. You go first and let me know how it went. I’ll make the soup.

Submitted by Teresa Cheely from Slow Dog seasoning

HAPPENINGS

October 26, Saturday
Westwind Milling Co. (Now Many Hands Community Foods)
Come for a Sampling Brunch, between 11am-2pm at Westwind Milling Co. Experience Linda & Lee Purdy new venture (Many Hands community Food) located in their 175 year old mill. Located at 8572 Silver Lake Rd. Linden, Mi 48451 (810) 735-9192. Learn more by visiting
http://mhcf.westwindmilling.com/

Oct 26, Saturday
Clawson United Methodist Church
Will be hosting a new indoor farmers market beginning October 18. So people can pick up CSA Farmers Market orders between 3 and 7 pm, along with visiting a number of other vendors, maybe hearing some live music, and letting their kids do crafts.

Oct 26, Saturday
Dr. Morningstar
Saturday October 26th @1pm Dr Morningstar will talk on Chronic Pain.
Call to reserve your spot today 810-664-6971
Click Here to learn more.

Now until Seasons over with
Thread Creek Farm
The you pick pumpkin patch is open M-Sa 10am till 6pm, Su 11am-5pm. We’re located in Grand Blanc at 3305 East Hill Rd. Take one of our fleet of little red wagons out to the patch and make some family memories. All of our pumpkins, gourds, corn stalks and Indian corn are grown from untreated seed without synthetic chemicals by us right here in Grand Blanc on our 7th generation centennial farm. Hope to see you soon.

Young Chickens First Tomato

Garden produce that is not fit to sell is often food for the chickens. They are often fussy eaters and will snub their noses to some things and devour others. Some of the younger chickens have not yet learned to fully learned to appreciate tomatoes. They can be big red and they roll.
As I walk by the young chickens they all get excited and run along their movable pens waiting for me to throw something to them. Last week they got tomatoes for the first time. They ran to the tomatoes that splashed and dug right in. Not all the tomatoes smashed, some of them rolled a little. They still ran to those ones and took a bite. When the bit the tomato it rolled back at them as in self defense. The young chickens JUMPED HIGH and ran. With hesitation they attacked the tomato again, ran away from the tomato unsure of the new food several times until the tomato tired out and stopped rolling.

Marian Listwak, White Pine Farm

Fundraising

Fundraiser
Walk In Freezer Fundraiser Update <———- We have raised $341 so far! THANK-YOU!

Lots more to go. We do have some other fund raiser plans in the works.
The freezer is standing but needs a new compressor, rubber roof and door trim. The temperature in the freezer will be much lower than standard commercial freezers. These contributions are not tax deductible. Those reaching $20 get the antique historic wine bottles. All other expect a small token of our appreciation.
Click here to see whats available!

Future Spot for Featuring Farmers

REYCLING

In order to help reduce, reuse and recycle we are listing the following.

We can reuse the cardboard bag bottoms.
If the paper bags are in good shape we can reuse those.
Any paper bags from any store we can use.
Jars used for elixers, honey, beans, etc. we can reuse.