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CSA Farmers Market
2933 Burnside Rd.,
North Branch, MI 48461
Ph. 810-688-7442
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Michigan Organic Farm & Food Alliance MOFFA

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Raw Milk Advocacy Farm to Consumer Legal Defense Fund

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FREEZER CONTRIBUTIONS

1,800 so far

$100 to $150
Patricia Gall
Debra Lyman

$50 to $100
Linda Williams
Debi Peters
Stephen Walker

$25 to $50
Lori Brooks
Stephen Cranfield
Holly Lubowicki
David Jameson
Karen Munson
Mary Varady
Tina Dupuis
Bruce Williams
Christy Tiberg

Under $25
Pam Walker
Amy Uniacke
Rebecca Loftus
Brenda Timmerman
Maryjane Engelhart
Barb Bochenek
Marianna Fitzgerald
Melissa Gifford
Jeanette Farley
Peggy Garrigues
Andrea Goddard
Christine Lawler
Andrea Pike
Theresa Schafer
Bill Schwank
Carol Solomon
Michelle Steiner
Denae Tait
Michele Mroczek
Diana Carnahan
Joy Arbor
Anita Heeke
Shannan McNair
Sheryl Forth
Carol Schmidt
Judy Mrachina
Cori Douglas
Kate Darga
Laureen Sue Magyari
Shanna Mills
Kimberly Pistonetti
Tracy Williams
Carol Bendure
Dana Driscoll
Kathleen Gahan
Laurel Levine
Diane Maennle
Kristina Moore
Carolyn Young
Heather Hamlin
Kristy Fairbanks
Donna Mohr
Renee Nadiv
Beth Schmeisl
Kurt Cobb
*We are very grateful for your continued support! *

REUSABLES

Paper Grocery Bags

• This includes the ones you get from stores
  Cardboard
• The cardboard bottoms from the bags
  Glass Jars
• Any jar that our products come in
  Hilhof Dairy Bottles:
• Please be sure when you return the bottles that the cap with the label on is still attached. You receive a two dollar credit for every bottle that comes back(attached your name)
  Ink/Toner Cartridges:
• We recycle the cartridges and receive office supply credits. This truly helps to keep our costs down.
  Ice Packs
  Egg cartons are always appreciated
  Thank you for your continued support of our “LIVE GREEN” efforts!

NEW PICK-UP Locations

We are please to announce that we have four new pick-up locations.

Rebekah’s Pure Living Grand Blanc this location will have hours as late as 7pm for pick-up.

Uncle Peter’s Pasties Shelby Township this location will have Friday and Saturday hours, they have a lot of Freezer and Refrigerator room so customers can pick up either day and they will be able to pick-up at late as 6:30pm.

The Good Beans Cafe (Flint)pick-up days on Fridays. Great Oasis in the middle of a reemerging community.
Worth the visit Pick-up is on Fridays only.

Video Vault Columbiaville downtown easy to find, in the old Citizens Bank building. Friendly faces that love to support the community. Pick-up is on Thursday only.

Growing Season Update

Plants waiting to go into the hoop-house at White Pine Farm.
There must be a turtles nest in the hoop-house because the babies are emerging.
This baby was found this week.

Maple Syrup Season

It appears the famous Groundhog was WRONG (again) this year! Spring has come a bit early and that is shifting our maple syrup producers into high gear. With these warm days and cool nights, it’s the perfect weather to start catching the sap run. Did you know that it takes about 40 gallons of raw maple sap to get 1 gallon of finished syrup? That’s A LOT of effort…just do that math!

While maple products taste amazing, they’ve got a lot of powerful health benefits, too. Don’t you want some extra nutrients such as B-Vitamins, calcium, iron, magnesium, phosphorus, sodium, potassium and zinc? Yes, Please!

Here is a fabulous maple granola recipe from Koilene Law of Law Family Farms, producers of some of the syrup for CSA Farmers Market:

Recipe for maple granola
In bowl combine
1/4 cup olive oil
2/3 cup maple syrup
1 tsp. vanilla
1/2 cup unsweetened coconut
3 1/2 cups rolled oats
1/2 cup pumpkin seeds
1/2 cup sunflower seeds
1/2 cup lightly chopped almonds

NEW MICHIGAN PRODUCTS

Made in Goodrich Michigan with ingredients that are organically approved.

Sauerkraut! YUMM! Fermented to perfection, made with Michigan Produce from Both Certified Organic Growers and Growers who grow organically but are not certified.Michigan Organic produce.

Certified Frozen Organic Cucumbers. Vacuumed packed for freshness. The excess 2016 crop was frozen at the end of the season. These cucumbers are great for juicing and gives you that summertime fresh flavor. The excess 2016 crop was frozen at the end of the season. These cucumbers are GREAT for juicing and gives you that summertime fresh flavor. Juice Thaw 1 cucumber. Juice cucumber, lemon and ginger/garlic cloves for a wonderfully fresh and nutritious beverage you can enjoy anytime of the day. Tzatziki Sauce is another use for the frozen cucumbers. Recipe 1 Thaw the cucumber, chop and strain. Use a food processor or hand mix the strained chopped cucumber with 2 cups plain greek yogurt, 1 tbsp lemon juice, 4 cloves pressed garlic, 1/3 cup chopped dill, salt and pepper to taste. Recipe 2 You can also make a juice and add small amounts to the yogurt until you have the consistency you want. I thaw and juice the cucumber, lemon and garlic. If you have fresh dill throw that in the juicer too. Salt to taste and add to your yogurt until you get the consistency you want in your sauce. Add some dried dill to add some color and extra flavor. This sauce is great with lamb and used in gyro sandwiches.

BIG HUGE DUCK EGGS

NEW!!

We will be sending a small follow up survey from now on to all customers who have picked up their orders. It is a quick survey asking if there were any problems with the order.
We did it for the first time this week and were pleasantly surprised to get so much positive feed back we also a couple of comments from customers that alerted us to some problem areas in which we promptly fixed.

Thanks to all those that replied.——It is greatly appreciated!!

AVAILABLE

FRESH HARVETED Certifited Organic Lettuce and Spinach.

CERTIFIED ORGANIC PRODUCE AVAILABLE APPLES, (Crimson Crisp, Fuji and Honeycrisp), Parsnips, Cabbage, Beets, Carrots, Garlic, FROZEN Blueberries, Frozen Cherries, Frozen Produce (peppers, tomatoes, beans etc) & More etc.

THANKS _Tina Dupuis and Davis Shattuck _ for contributing to our freezer fund._

Sale and Clearance Items

• Lenten Special all fish on sale
• DRY BEANS All 20% off
• Beef
• Pork
• Pastas
• Pumpkin Puree
• Salsa
• Nut Butters
• Diced Onions

Nutty Butter Almond Butter price went down it was a good harvest year for almonds
Click here TO VISIT THE ONLINE FARMERS MARKET!

NEW or Nearly New

• MOMA SUDS laundry soap, dishwasher soap, toilet bowl bombs, all purpose cleaner
• Sauerkraut
• Frozen Cukes perfect for smoothies
• Truck Stop Organic Fair Trade Coffee
• Bees Wax
• MICRO GREENS spicy and mild
  Click here to get to the sale/clearance items.

OTHER GOODIES

• Meats Pork, Beef, Poultry, Lamb
• Fresh Pressed Apple Cider
• Raw Honey
• Apples Many Varieties
• Osage Oranges
• FROZEN cherries, squash, blueberries, tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, etc.
• Maple Syrup Candy
• Elixirs
• Seasoning
• Bees Wax Candles
• Slippers
• Salami
• Pepperoni
• Beef, Pork, Fish and Lamb
• Eggs
• Flour
• Oatmeal
• Soap
• NOT ALL ITEMS LISTED

If something is SOLD OUT you may request it in the comment section of your order. Sometimes, after harvesting produce we discover we have a bit more

Please at any time if any product has quality issues contact us via email us or phone 810-688-7442

NEW LOCATIONS

• GRAND BLANC Rebekah’s Pure Living
• Shelby Township Uncle Peter’s Pasties

ARTICLES

• Growing System Update
• Maple Syrup
• New Websitecoming soon

Market News

NEW SOFTWARE AND WEBSITE COMING SOON!

The new software will be user friendly for customers, it will have accounting included in which customers will be able to see order history and what invoices have been paid, customers will be able to pre-order in bulk on certain items.

We are still working out some bugs on the new system. We anticipate that it will be live April 6, 2017.

On a really good note on our end I will not have to use HTML to write a weblog. There is nothing worse than putting a weblog together and have it crash right before the market opens like it did on me today! Yuck, farmers should not have to know HTML!!

CSA MARKET

NEW PICK-UP Locations

We are please to announce that we have four new pick-up locations.

Rebekah’s Pure Living Grand Blanc this location will have hours as late as 7pm for pick-up.

Uncle Peter’s Pasties Shelby Township this location will have Friday and Saturday hours, they have a lot of Freezer and Refrigerator room so customers can pick up either day and they will be able to pick-up at late as 6:30pm.

The Good Beans Cafe (Flint)pick-up days on Fridays. Great Oasis in the middle of a reemerging community.
Worth the visit Pick-up is on Fridays only.

Video Vault Columbiaville downtown easy to find, in the old Citizens Bank building. Friendly faces that love to support the community. Pick-up is on Thursday only.

Growing Season Update

Plants waiting to go into the hoop-house at White Pine Farm.
There must be a turtles nest in the hoop-house because the babies are emerging.
This baby was found this week.

Maple Syrup Season

It appears the famous Groundhog was WRONG (again) this year! Spring has come a bit early and that is shifting our maple syrup producers into high gear. With these warm days and cool nights, it’s the perfect weather to start catching the sap run. Did you know that it takes about 40 gallons of raw maple sap to get 1 gallon of finished syrup? That’s A LOT of effort…just do that math!

While maple products taste amazing, they’ve got a lot of powerful health benefits, too. Don’t you want some extra nutrients such as B-Vitamins, calcium, iron, magnesium, phosphorus, sodium, potassium and zinc? Yes, Please!

Here is a fabulous maple granola recipe from Koilene Law of Law Family Farms, producers of some of the syrup for CSA Farmers Market:

Recipe for maple granola
In bowl combine
1/4 cup olive oil
2/3 cup maple syrup
1 tsp. vanilla
1/2 cup unsweetened coconut
3 1/2 cups rolled oats
1/2 cup pumpkin seeds
1/2 cup sunflower seeds
1/2 cup lightly chopped almonds

NEW MICHIGAN PRODUCTS

Made in Goodrich Michigan with ingredients that are organically approved.

Sauerkraut! YUMM! Fermented to perfection, made with Michigan Produce from Both Certified Organic Growers and Growers who grow organically but are not certified.Michigan Organic produce.

Certified Frozen Organic Cucumbers. Vacuumed packed for freshness. The excess 2016 crop was frozen at the end of the season. These cucumbers are great for juicing and gives you that summertime fresh flavor. The excess 2016 crop was frozen at the end of the season. These cucumbers are GREAT for juicing and gives you that summertime fresh flavor. Juice Thaw 1 cucumber. Juice cucumber, lemon and ginger/garlic cloves for a wonderfully fresh and nutritious beverage you can enjoy anytime of the day. Tzatziki Sauce is another use for the frozen cucumbers. Recipe 1 Thaw the cucumber, chop and strain. Use a food processor or hand mix the strained chopped cucumber with 2 cups plain greek yogurt, 1 tbsp lemon juice, 4 cloves pressed garlic, 1/3 cup chopped dill, salt and pepper to taste. Recipe 2 You can also make a juice and add small amounts to the yogurt until you have the consistency you want. I thaw and juice the cucumber, lemon and garlic. If you have fresh dill throw that in the juicer too. Salt to taste and add to your yogurt until you get the consistency you want in your sauce. Add some dried dill to add some color and extra flavor. This sauce is great with lamb and used in gyro sandwiches.

BIG HUGE DUCK EGGS

NEW!!

We will be sending a small follow up survey from now on to all customers who have picked up their orders. It is a quick survey asking if there were any problems with the order.
We did it for the first time this week and were pleasantly surprised to get so much positive feed back we also a couple of comments from customers that alerted us to some problem areas in which we promptly fixed.

Thanks to all those that replied.——It is greatly appreciated!!

Growing Season Jan 2017

Plants are hunkering down, not willing to grow just yet.
During January there is not enough heat and sunlight for them to grow.
Right about the middle of February the day length, the sunshine and the warmth is enough to kick start them back into growing.
Right now farmers are ordering their seeds or plants and planning for their new plantings.

The Topaz Apple

It’s a known fact that some babies and toddlers like to bite. Thankfully, that’s a phase they grow out of! Some people, however, like their food to bite them back and they never grow out of that. Many people enjoy a flavorful Topaz apple because it has enough flavor to pack a bit of a punch, without being acidic. This spicy apple isn’t a beauty queen by any means, but it’s flavor makes up for that small deficit in spades. It is a crisp and complex eating apple but also cooks well. (We’ve made some fabulous apple crisp with Topaz!) Read more about Topaz, here

FRESH CIDER IS BACK

Are you missing our Almar Orchards fresh organic apples? Well, some people regard our cider as the best they have EVER had because of the fabulous apples it’s made from! Simply put, we choose only the best apples to go into our apple cider. There will not be any ground-picked apples in our batches of cider – the pigs get those. The trained professionals at our Almar Orchards pick all the apples, beginning in July and going strong until just before a freeze, around Halloween. Then, the 16-bushel bins are stored at very specific temperature and humidity settings in our giant walk in storage coolers. When they have been properly seasoned, they are hand sorted, although we may run them on the sorting machine for a preliminary grading. The prettiest apples are sold in our store and in our partner establishments, like CSA Farmer’s Market. The apples that have more than a blemish or two are sent to the juice bin and then ground and squeezed.

Here is a great article stating some health benefits of apple cider:

Apple Cider Article

Lettuce Loves The cooler Temperatures

YES—Dale from White Pine Farm grows some wonderful lettuce. When the weather turned super hot this last summer for a long time it made the lettuce bolt and become bitter, so the ground was reworked and eventually new lettuce was planted. Again NOW there is wonderful lettuce on the website.

Growing Season Update Aug 25, 16

YES!!! Rain and cooler temperatures. It is too late for many of the crops, although others it will benefit. For some extremely hot and dry crops they were overly thirsty and drank too much so they sometimes can explode overnight. Kind of like us humans when we have been out in the heat too long we drench ourselves drinking so much water we get a belly ache. We are very glad the heat wave is over with and some growers had to plow under there failed crops to start preparing the ground for other crops.

Lettuce loves the cooler weather so you should be able to have some lettuce soon. When the heat wave hit the lettuce became bitter.

Sweet Potatoes are looking good, they like the heat.

THANKS for your patience and understanding!!

Please at all times let us know if there are any problems with your order or produce. We want to fix, fix, fix. We are motivated to give you the best Michigan Organic Grown Product possible. Even if they are totally beautiful when they leave here things can happen and we need to know so we can correct the problem.

NEW!!

We will be sending a small follow up survey from now on to all customers who have picked up their orders. It is a quick survey asking if there were any problems with the order.
We did it for the first time this week and were pleasantly surprised to get so much positive feed back we also a couple of comments from customers that alerted us to some problem areas in which we promptly fixed.

Thanks to all those that replied.——It is greatly appreciated!!

Now Accepting Credit Cards

We are finally accepting credit card payment, but only over the phone. If you would like to pay your invoice with a credit card please call us at 810-688-7442.

CUSTOMER COMMENTS

Farming this year has been rough for those that live in Lapeer and Genesee County. The intense heat and the lack of rain has created havoc. I truly have learned greater appreciation for the farms out West, that the last few years have experienced extreme drought.
Michigan’s west coast, Saginaw Bay and some other areas in Michigan historically get more rainfall than the farms in our area. Even though we would much rather be selling our own corn which unfortunately did not make it a Saginaw Bay Organic Farm (Englehard) is harvesting his sweet corn for us.
Here is a letter we received thanking us for this.

Hi, Marian,
Just wanted to say that your efforts to find another sweet corn supplier are very much appreciated – the corn was great! I picked up my order late on a Friday, didn’t store them very well other than throwing them in the refrig, and didn’t get to roast the ears until late Sunday. I expected the kernels to be soft and lacking in flavor. To my surprise, they were still sweet and crisp-fresh! We had gone to another corn roast (but boiled) on Friday, with corn from another local farmer. The ears looked great, but the flavor wasn’t quite there; it paled in comparison to your supplier’s!
Thanks again! For the best stuff!
Blessings!
Pat Gall

Cucumber Problems also occurred this year, under normal weather conditions short stays in the walk in cooler have not been a problem, this year the drastic temperature change created condensation on the cucumbers causing them an earlier demise.
We have since remedied the problem and given credit to many customer.
In the mass emails that went out asking for feedback we also heard good things.
My cucumber was perfect! Deb
The cukes I received were perfect and tasty No complaints here. Thx Dale Mike
We are grateful to a customer who brought this to our attention the cucumber problem. Cukes sales went down somewhat after our experience and Because of this we are now pursuing a license through MDA to can product so we can now preserve and sell the excess over the full year.
Milk from Hilhof!!! Does not like getting over 50 degrees and we are sticklers to make sure that it doesn’t although accidents do happen and not all customers are aware of the temperature. In an email sent to all who ever bought the milk we also received some nice feedback.

I have their cream and love it! Martha
I opened a bottle of ours and it is perfect. Pamela
My milk has been good!!! Tina
I ordered milk from Hilhof one time a few weeks ago. It was good. It lasted at least two weeks. Alicia
I love the milk & cream! No problems with spoilage here. Thanks Barb
The milk I’ve gotten from Hilhoff has always been wonderful. Karen
I’m always impressed with how long the milk lasts in our refrigerator. Amy
We fairly regularly buy your wonderful organic chocolate milk. My spouse puts a generous amount in his morning coffee,so very decadent. Every quart has been fresh and sometimes lasts almost two weeks. So, not only do we have no complaints, we do have loads of kudos to offer the farmers who provide this delicious treat. Many thanks Donna

We love all feedback!!! Good and bad!!!
The sooner we hear that there is a problem the sooner we can rectify it, so all feedback is important to us.
By your supporting CSA Farmers Market you are helping to preserves thousands of acres of farmland in Michigan that are in organic production. By giving us feedback you are helping us to improve.
We love the partnership and the relationship we develop with our customers and all customers are welcome to visit the farms.
When we do not hear from a regular customer we worry. Sometimes the system kicks them off because of internet email problems which we have very little control over (although we will be working to rectify that) and sometimes they have moved, or become ill. We also worry that they may be unhappy with us.
Please everyone stay in touch with us, we are very busy farming getting very little sleep while trying to keep up and we never want to neglect anyone, there just isn’t always enough hours in the day.

APPLES ARE HERE

Jersey Mac Apples, one of the earliest apples in Michigan.
They are a medium sized red apple with yellow/green splashes. Flesh is crisp and juicy with a tart flavor that is somewhat sweet. They are good for fresh eating, pies and applesauce, the tender flesh cooks quickly, so add a thickener if making a pie.
These early apples Do Not Store well and will need to be refrigerated.

Almars have chosen to put these in a cooler at about 34 degrees for a week before selling them to make sure the flavor is to their standards.

Next week there will be Paula Reds and

Now Accepting Credit Cards

We are finally accepting credit card payment, but only over the phone. If you would like to pay your invoice with a credit card please call us at 810-688-7442.

Open Air Farmers Markets

Visit us at the Rochester Farmers Market on Saturday, between 8am to 1pm and Law farm is at the Lapeer Farmers Market between 9am to 3pm.

PICK UP LOCATION NEWS

If you would like to pick up your order on Saturday at the Rochester Farmers Market, select Breadwinner and make a comment at the bottom and email us that you want us take your order to the Rochester Farmers Market.

Growing Season Update July 28, 16

Another Long Dry Spell for our Farmers, it has been a couple of weeks since Laws, White Pine Farm and some other farms have had rain. Sweet Corn is stunted and other crops are stunted. Time to pull out the catalogs and look at irrigation.

Apples will be coming soon. Within the next couple of weeks you should see some apples on the website. The early summer apples need to be refrigerated as they do not keep as long as the hardier fall apples.

Sweet Corn is out from near the Saginaw Bay Area, The Saginaw Bay area on average gets 4 more inches of rain as compared to the Thumb area. Dennis Engelhard grows the organic sweet corn, so while the participating farmers (ones who help make the market operate) have no corn Dennis came through.

Fresh Blueberries the Law family has been picking from a small orchard locally who does not use any chemicals and grow organically.

Now Accepting Credit Cards

We are finally accepting credit card payment, but only over the phone. If you would like to pay your invoice with a credit card please call us at 810-688-7442.

Open Air Farmers Markets

Visit us at the Rochester Farmers Market on Saturday, between 8am to 1pm and Law farm is at the Lapeer Farmers Market between 9am to 3pm.