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This weblog contains LocallyGrown.net news and the weblog entries from all the markets currently using the system.
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Suncoast Co-op: New products on the market and laundry detergent sale!
To Contact Us
How to contact us:
Suncoastcoop@gmail.com
Our Website: Suncoast Co-op Ordering
On Facebook: Facebook Fanpage
Facebook Group: Facebook Group.
Suncoast Co-op Meet-up: Meet-up
Suncoast Co-op Youtube: Youtube Videos
Membership
Membership is Ownership
For $25 a year you can become a member as well as part owner of the Suncoast Co-op. We are a worker owned cooperative and will give special perks for our member/owners. Patronize from the market and reap the rewards years to come with a vibrant local food economy.
- Receive 10% discount with no market surcharge.
- Half off on any upcoming workshops or events our co-op may host.
- Preferred Patron- If there are 5 apples on the market and 6 are sold, members get preference first on their order being fulfilled.
- Discount Membership to the Tampa Bay Time Bank of $10 www.tampabaytime.org will also give Time bank hours to members who volunteer.
- You own the business Democratic election of board of directors. Each member gets one vote.
- Hiring Opportunity- we are worker owned cooperative we only hire from within. “With us, for us, we hire ourselves”
Become a member this week with a $25 investment!
Suncoast Co-op Market News
Great new Products
- SALE Laundry Detergent: Buy a gallon of laundry detergent from A Sprouts Life before Thursday this week and receive a half gallon free.
- New Herbal Extracts: Vanilla, Orange, Stevia
- Jams: Loquat, Strawberry, Tangerine
- Eggs
- Pesto
- Hummus
- Soup Mixes
- Organic Coffee
- Herbal Ice Tea
- Juice Concentrate
- Cheese
- Milk
- Grass Fed Beef
- Pasture Raised chicken
- Kale
- Tomatoes
- Lettuce
- Live Plants
- Compost, Natural Fertilizer/Pesticides to get your garden growing.
- and so much more are on the market!
Membership Meeting
The members of the co-op came together to host a meeting. We talked about the history of the co-op and started to envision a road map forward that we hope to release to everyone in the future as a well put together plan of action you can help volunteer to see happen. Some big ideas placed forward is in a years time having over 100 growers and hundreds of local products. Multiple pick up locations, Times, and days throughout both Pasco and Pinellas. A farmers market feeling at the Habitat store where we will have more hang out sessions and free education for the community to begin learning how to grow their own food. More outreach to the community about our co-op and how they can get involved. Later down the road 2-3 years out we can imagine getting our own retail location or farm growing food directly for our membership. What can you envision the co-op moving forward growing into? Please share your vision with us and participate by becoming a member today.
In the News
Our Co-op was mentioned in both the Suncoast News and the New Port Richey Patch. Check out the articles and share with your friends and family. Get inspired by positive things happening in your community and come participate in its creation this co-op is brought to us by our community of members.
Patch article: Locals want Co-op to Grow
Earth Charter US: Tampa bay Company in alignment with YES Magazine
Suncoast News: Co-op brings locally grown food to Pasco
Simply Fresh Customer Pick-up 1pm-2pm
Customers can now pick-up their orders from Simply Fresh 1pm-2pm in Tarpon Springs on Saturdays. Make sure you specify what customer pick up location you want to pick-up at on the second page when you place your order. Simply Fresh Produce & Peanuts is located at 1942 S. Pinellas Ave. Tarpon Springs, FL.
Growing in Kinship Garden
Learn how to garden for FREE!
We are having frequent work days on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays 10am-Noon at Kinship Garden behind the West Pasco Habitat for Humanity at 4131 Madison street 10am-Noon. If you are apart of the Tampa bay Time Bank you can receive Time bank hours for your volunteering.
Now accepting all Major credit cards
We are now accepting all major credit cards for a 3.0% additional convenience fee we will use credit cards for your orders.
Looking for Volunteers and Board of Directors
We are always looking for new help in growing the cooperative. For inquire into assisting the growth of the co-op and local food movement please email Suncoastcoop@gmail.com
Coming Events
You can RSVP for these events either on our On Facebook: Facebook Fanpage or Suncoast Co-op Meet-up: Meet-up
Suncoast Cafe
Every Saturday join us for talks about local food movement. $1.50 cup of organic locally roasted coffee and conversations about growing our own food. 10am-2pm at the West Pasco Habitat for Humanity Restore 4131 Madison Street.
Free Film Showing: King Corn
Tuesday, April 30, 2013 at 6:00pm
New Port Richey Public Library
King Corn is a feature documentary about two friends, one acre of corn, and the subsidized crop that drives our fast-food nation. In the film, Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis, best friends from college on the east coast, move to the heartland to learn where their food comes from. With the help of friendly neighbors, genetically modified seeds, and powerful herbicides, they plant and grow a bumper crop of America’s most-productive, most-subsidized grain on one acre of Iowa soil. But when they try to follow their pile of corn into the food system, what they find raises troubling questions about how we eat—and how we farm.
We thank you for your interest and support of our efforts to bring you the healthiest, the freshest and the most delicious locally-produced foods possible!
South Cumberland Food Hub: Time to order Local Food!
Good Morning Everyone,
The South Cumberland Food Hub is open for
orders today until noon. Have a great day!
Risa
McColloms Market: Reminder of FFFN Pick Up
Just wanted to remind you guys that today is FFFN Pick-Up day (and, of course, hump day.) Although the pick-up is officially from 5-7, I hope to be ready by 4:30. If you can make it before 6:30, that would be great but if you can’t, no worries.
See you later at 103 Helen.
Best,
Melinda
Vista Marketplace: BASKET ORDERS
Please order your baskets by Thursday evening 6pm. Please comment whether you would like a delivery or you will pickup at the Vista Marketplace at Whaley on Saturday morning between 10-2.
Everyone’s invited to come out and enjoy the market, the food, produce, breads and cakes, arts and crafts. See you there!*
The Cumming Harvest - Closed: Newsletter - April 3, 2013
RECIPES
Beef Jerky from an online site called “Against All Grain”.
Ingredients
1 pound london broil steak or flank steak
1/4 cup coconut aminos*
3/4 teaspoon all natural liquid smoke**
3/4 teaspoon chili powder
1/2 teaspoon sea salt
1/4 teaspoon fresh cracked pepper
1/4 teaspoon garlic salt
1/4 teaspoon onion powder
1/4 teaspoon smoked paprika
dash of cayenne pepper
*You can substitute Tamari for the coconut aminos but omit the sea salt.
*I buy All Natural Wright’s brand liquid smoke. Ingredients should just be Natural Hickory Smoke Concentrate and Water)
Directions
Place the steak in the freezer for 2 hours to firm it up and make it easier to slice thinly.
Remove it from the freezer and trim any visible white fat. Any fat left on the meat will spoil after drying.
Slice the steak into 1/8 inch pieces. For London broil slice it with the grain, for flank steak slice it against the grain.
Whisk together the ingredients for the marinade and combine the marinade with the beef slices in a shallow dish or a ziploc bag. Cover and marinate in the refrigerator overnight or up to 24 hours turning occasionally to evenly coat.
Remove the meat from the marinade and pat it dry with paper towels.
Dehydrator Method
Evenly place the strips on dehydrator sheets lined with parchment paper, careful not to let them overlap.
Dehydrate the beef for 3-4 hours at 145 degrees F, flipping once half way through.
Oven Method
Preheat oven to the lowest setting, usually 150-170 degrees F.
Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper or foil and place a heavy wire rack over both (an oven safe cookie cooling rack will do).
Place the strips of beef on the racks leaving space between each piece so they’re not touching. Place the trays in the oven, leaving it open a crack to allow air to circulate.
Dehydrate for 8-10 hours, depending on the thickness of the meat, turning 1 time half way through.
*If you have a convection setting this process will probably take about half the time. Check for dryness around 5 hours and continue dehydrating if the strips are still moist.
Store the beef jerky in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 1 week. *The research I’ve done shows that this method results in jerky that can last on the shelf in a well sealed container for as long as 2 months. It never lasts long enough in our house to test that out though!
Market News
I hope you’re enjoying your Spring Break week, especially all the beautiful weather before the rain comes tomorrow. Thank you for visiting us on Saturday at the Easter Eggstravaganza event, I got a lot of new interest for the market and met the people at Chuiced. They make a unique blend of fruits, veggies, nuts and seeds in two flavors. It’s juice you chew and although sounds odd, it’s really good!
I don’t know if you heard but Toula Argentis of 2B Whole lost her son last week to complications of the flu. We offer her and her family our condolences and hope they are able to find peace in their hearts soon. Keep them in your thoughts and prayers.
Questions?: Please feel free to contact the farmers directly, they are available to answer your questions and concerns. If you have questions about the market, I am always available. If you don’t know who to ask, email us both. :)
LOCATION & PICK-UP
Building 106, Colony Park Dr. in the Basement of Suite 100, Cumming, GA 30040. Pick up every Saturday between 10-12pm.
Google Map
To view the harvest today and tomorrow till 8pm, visit “The Market” page on our website, The Cumming Harvest
We thank you for your interest and support of our efforts to bring you the healthiest, the freshest and the most delicious locally-produced foods possible!
Spa City Local Farm Market Co-op: The Market is Closed
The Spa City Co-op on-line market is now closed. The market is closed
Orders can be picked up between 3:30 and 5:30 p.m. this Friday at the Art Church. Please set yourself a reminder and do come before 5:00 if you can.
Many thanks for supporting our local food co-op. See you Friday!
Denise Marion
Market Co-manager
501-655-3130
www.spacity@locallygrown.net
Heirloom Living Market Lilburn: Bakery Items Deadline Tonight
Greetings:
Just a quick reminder that orders for yummy bakery items from My Daily Bread, must be in tonight to guarantee delivery on Thursday at Market pickup!
Thank you for your support!
~Maryanne
Click this link to go to the Market
lilburn.locallygrown.net
Citrus County Locally Grown: Just After Easter
Hi,
As many of your know our Market Manager Michael, was born in the UK. He shared that Good Friday is the traditional day to plant potatoes. Well this past Good Friday the ground was frozen with a hard frost overnight and snow flurries at his brothers house in Lincolnshire. So you can see it is not just us having unseasonably cold weather.
This weather is causing a lot of produce from our local growers to be delayed.
As I write this it is a bright sunny and warm spring day, full of promise for the produce to come.
Just a reminder that your market is open until late this evening.
As always we appreciate you supporting your On-Line Farmers Market.
Supporting Local Growers and Vendors
See you at Pickup
Your CCLG Team
Link to CCLG Market.