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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!!