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| Buy Fresh Buy Local News |
October 2009 |
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We are always hearing, "Where can we get your products in the winter, when the farmers markets are over for the season?" I hope to help answer this question in this newsletter. The addition of the Winter Market at the Fairgrounds will help with some of that, but we also have other options. So many of our members products are available year round, such as the beef, pork, lamb, eggs, etc. What we need to help our consumers with is knowing what produce items might still be available so you can continue to eat local all year long. Every time you buy a local item you are helping to support your local economy.
Basic Roots Community Foods is a CSA in Indianapolis who are being profiled this month, they do deliveries year round. B.E.S.T. Natural Foods has a drop off of pre-ordered products in New Palestine twice a month. Several of our members allow you to pick up products at thier home or do deliveries. Tuttle Orchards and Waterman's Farm Market are open year round, and they also carry products from other members.
We hope to increase the availability of recipes to help you prepare items that are available in season, feel free to submit recipes for us to include.
We hope this newsletter will help keep you informed of Hancock Harvest Council activities and keep you connected to your local food and farmers. We meet on the 1st Monday of every month at the Purdue Extension office at 802 N Apple Street in Greenfield at 7 pm. Everyone is welcome to attend our meetings. We are always looking for more producer as well as consumer members. Contact us if you have an interest in joining, if you are not already a member.
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| Harvest Market at the Fairgrounds -
New Winter Farmers Market
Opens Saturday, November 7th.
It will be held on the 1st and 3rd Saturday's of each month startiing in November thru April
Location:
Hancock County 4H Fairgrounds 620 N Apple Street
Greenfield IN 46140 inside the 4H Show Arena (heated building).
Hours 10 am-1pm.
We are currently signing up vendors but you can expect to see the followng vendors & products: (list is not yet complete)
Dairy products:
- Blue River Natural Foods - Organic and conventional cheese & butter, Goat Cheeses from Swissland Cheese and Organic Valley
Produce (winter greens and squash, apples, etc)
Baked Goods, Jams & Jellies
- A Couple of Sweet Things - cookies and cakes
- Swiss Maid Bakery - breads, rolls, pies, cookies, noodles, etc.
- Meadow Creek Farm - baked good and eggs
Honey and Maple Syrup
- Distributed by Blue River Natural Foods - provided by Brendle Honey Farms and Sunny Slope Farms
Local crafts and Community Booth
.*Sign-up for FaceBook or Twitter for updates of available products and venors. |
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 Basic Roots Community Foods
Is a year round community cooperative that began by Kay Grimm and Sue Spicer in 2005 in the heart of downtown Indianapolis. Their mission is to make good food accessible by giving you the tastes to drive your desire to eat better. They network with appoximately 125 local farms, including several Hancock Harvest Council members, for a farm fresh food delivery once a month. By subscribing, to their "third-party" CSA (Community Supported Agriculture), members reap the health benefits of eating local and natural foods while helping to build a sustainable community of growers. Several of their farmers grow a variety of heirloom crops as well as other produce, eggs, grains, dairy products, personal products and occasionally even local wines.
The also include with each delivery, Digest This! newsletter full of food facts and recipes. Deliveries are made to your home or workplace in uptown or downtown Marion County. Basic program includes sustainable grown produce & eggs. Deluxe program include quality cuts of meat, dairy, grain and other items from the farm. The Gourmet program contains seasonal organic exotics, emphasizing fruits. For more information.
We are pleased to have them as a Buy Fresh Buy Local member of Hancock Harvest Council. |
 B.E.S.T. Natural Foods
Brendle Honey Farm, Engleking's Country Beef Shop and Smith's Blue River Natural Foods are working Together to bring you local foods during the off market season. They do a drop of of pre-ordered items at the New Palestine Lions Club on the 2nd and 4th Mondays of November thru April from 4:30-6:30. For more information
List will be updated soon with available products and pricing for 2009-2010 season. |
Census finds bumber crop of 'hobby' farms
By Rick Callahan
Associated Press
GEM, Ind. -- Most evenings, Gary Mithoefer can be found at the end of a long gravel driveway off a busy highway, tending two garden plots filled with white sweet potatoes, squash, cabbages and a dozen other vegetables still thriving in early fall.
The 62-year-old, who gardens after his workday ends at his state highway job, is one of a growing number of Americans rolling up their sleeves and digging into the dirt to raise crops or livestock on a small scale.
The produce and meat raised by these small farms, sometimes called "hobby" or "lifestyle" farms, provides much of the food found at the nation's farmers' markets and roadside stands, said Maria I. Marshall, an associate professor of agricultural economics at Purdue University. Many of the farms raise specialized crops and practice organic or sustainable farming.
Mithoefer, who sells whatever produce his family doesn't eat, freeze or can at a Saturday farmer's market, said he loves working outdoors with a nephew who helps him till, plant, weed and harvest plots covering about a half-acre just east of Indianapolis along U.S. 40, the famed National Road.
The Greenfield, Ind., resident recently sat in the fall sunshine near his fields vigorously washing buckets of cucumbers, squash, turnips and beets for the farmer's market as the air hummed with the din of cicadas and crickets.
"We do it for the enjoyment," Mithoefer said as he scrubbed dirt from a cucumber.Click here for the full story
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| Closing Remarks |
| Thank you for your interest in Hancock Harvest Council and your support of local foods.
Each month we will feature one of our members. Please share this information with your friends and invite them to join our mailing list. |
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