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What's In Season In Kentucky This Week:   
  • Greens:     Mustard, Turnip, Kale
  • Broccoli
  • Cauliflower
  • Turnips
  • Radishes
  • Winter Squash
  • Garlic  
  • Onions
  • Potatoes
  • Sweet Potatoes 
  • Breads
  • Canned items
  • Spices
  • Cheese
  • Pork
  • Beef
  • Chicken
  • Lamb
  • Eggs
  • Honey 














The Lexington Farmers' Market

January 30th, 2013

Wow, what a year 2012 was! During these winter months, the LFM team has been able to reflect on last year's accomplishments while making plans for an interesting and engaging 2013. 

 

This week came news of a particularly wonderful accomplishment in 2012 from our community partner, Faith Feeds|Glean KY. Last year, Faith Feeds gleaned a record 81,410 pounds of fresh fruits and vegetables from LFM vendors, area growers, volunteers and donors.That means over 40 tons of food were delivered to over 28 agencies and individuals that provide food to people who are hungry in 2012!

 

During a time when the United States wastes up to 40% of its food (NRDC,2012) and global food waste estimates reach 50% (IME, 2013), the work of Faith Feeds|Glean KY is more important than ever. Gleaning in 2013 has already begun and when our outdoor markets open in the spring, Faith Feeds will be gleaning 7 days per week.

 

Be sure to thank the Faith Feeds volunteers if you see them at market and check the Market Happenings section of the newsletter to watch the 'pounds gleaned' count go up each week!

 

As always, don't forget:

Our Indoor market, located in the Victorian Square Atrium, is NOW OPEN from 8am-1pm every Saturday. 

 
Parking is FREE on Saturdays on the streets.  We will also validate parking for the Victorian Square parking garage located at 350 W Short Street. This week, there is a 6pm UK home game, so parking will start charging two hours before tip off. Come early, beat the crowd,and as always, we will try to accommodate you to the best of our abilities.

 

See you at market! 

 

Stephanie Hopkins

Lexington Farmers' Market Assistant Manager   

 

P.S.Be sure to check out Good Foods Co-Op's events this month including their Vision2020 event on February 9th. Details can be found in the sponsor's section at the bottom of this newsletter.
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Market Times and Locations
Saturday
Cheapside Park

7am-3pm

 CLOSED

 

Saturday

Indoor Market

Victorian Square

8am-1pm

NOW OPEN

 

Tuesday/Thursday
S. Broadway and Maxwell
7am-4pm  
CLOSED

 

 Sunday
Southland Dr.
10am-2pm
CLOSED

 

Wednesday
University and Alumni Drive
3pm-6pm
CLOSED 
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Recipe of the Week:

Blue Corn Nachos with Homemade Guacamole 

   

  

This weeks recipe, from Cookie + Kate, is a perfect game day appetizer. Serve it up for your friends this weekend and let me know what you think! 

 

Ingredients:

 

Nachos

  • Blue corn chips 
  • 1 1/2 cups shredded raw cheddar or Jack cheese
  • 1/3 cup crumbled feta cheese
  • 1/4 cup chopped red onion
  • 1/3 cup chopped roasted red pepper
  • 1 jalape�o, seeded and membranes removed, finely chopped
Guacamole
  • 2 ripe avocados from Mexico
  • 1 tablespoon fresh lime juice
  • 1 to 2 cloves garlic, minced or crushed through a garlic press
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt (add more to taste)
  • 2 tablespoons chopped fresh cilantro
  • 1/4 teaspoon ground coriander
  • 1/2 to 1 jalape�o, seeded and finely chopped (optional)
  • 3 medium radishes, top and bottom ends removed and finely sliced

Directions:

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Place handfuls of chips on the baking sheet and distribute evenly, minimizing the gaps between chips.
  2. Sprinkle generously and evenly with shredded cheese. Sprinkle veggies over the cheese, then sprinkle on the feta. Repeat to build layers if you're feeding a crowd. Bake until the cheese is melted and bubbling, about 15 minutes for a single layer or 20 minutes for multiple layers. Serve immediately on a heat-safe surface (transfer the parchment paper to a serving platter or at minimum, warn eaters of the hot baking surface).
  3. While the nachos are baking, make the guacamole. Slice the avocados in half length-wise, running your knife around the pit. Twist the halves in opposite directions, then pull apart the halves. Dislodge the pits and use a large spoon to scoop the flesh into a medium bowl. Sprinkle with lime juice, then mash the avocado with a large fork or potato masher. Stir in the garlic, salt, cilantro, coriander, jalape�o (if using) and chopped radishes. Serve immediately.

These products can be purchased from LFM vendors:

  • Cheese
  • Onions
  • Garlic
  • Radishes
Find illustrated instructions online, HERE!

HERE'S A BIT OF WHAT YOU'LL FIND AT THE MARKET THIS WEEK...

 

 
QUARLES DAYLILLIES AND FARM 
 [WEBSITE | FACEBOOK]
Shelby County
This time of year is chuck roast weather.  Pull out the roaster, drop that jewel in and pop it in the oven.  Before it's done cooking peel some potatoes, a few carrots, turnips and onions and drop them in to simmer in the beef juices.  Turnips?  Well, yes.  Turnips are a great root vegetable that often gets a bad rap.  Turnips are also a great addition to any plate of roasted veggies. 

 

We'll have plenty of turnips as well as potatoes, butternut squash, delicata, acorn, and spaghetti squash this weekend.  We have a few apples that make excellent cooked apples as well as apple pies and other apple desserts. 

 

The coolers will be full of beef and lamb and the tables full of breads and canned goods.  If you're not into chuck roasts, we have an excellent selection of steaks available along with plenty of ground beef, chuck and round.  Brats is a good change of pace.  Try some with some sauerkraut.  Excellent.

 

Visit our website or Facebook page. We welcome and appreciate your thoughts and comments.
   
ELMWOOD STOCK FARM  [ WEBSITE FACEBOOK | CSA NEWS]
Georgetown, KY

  

We will be attending market each Saturday morning all winter long. 
Several new items are available at our Indoor Market booth including a 
selection of Organic Heirloom Dried Beans, Organic Heirloom Corn Meal, and our jarred Salsa, Diced Tomatoes, Ketchup, and Marinara Sauce, all 
professionally packed in BPA-free glass. What a nice treat on a cold 
winter day! 

In addition, we have have a selection of Certified Organic produce,
organic chicken & turkey, organic beef, organic farm eggs, dried pantry 
staples, and much more. 

EGGS We offer each market our certified organic eggs from free-ranging

hens who live outdoors on grass pasture.  Both whole dozen and half-dozens available. Our hens are always outside, enjoying the green growing grass & clover and rewarding us with beautiful big brown eggs packed full of flavor, orangey color, and healthful omega-3-fatty acids.

MEAT and POULTRY  We have restocked our inventory of grass-fed Angus
organic beef, along with a full selection of certified organic hens and
cut-up chicken pieces.  In addition, we have chicken liver and ground
chicken.  Feel free to order ahead for quantity amounts or a particular
cut for that special meal, and we'll have it ready for pickup at any of
the farmers markets.  View our website for special Beef & Chicken Bundles,popular this time of year.

These days, more than ever, it's important to know the source of your
family's food and you can look to our local organic farm to meet your
body's nutritional needs resulting in good health.  Visit our website to
learn more, review our price lists, pre-order your special items, or to
contact Elmwood for more information.

Information on our Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program for the 2013 summer season is coming soon.

Elmwood Stock Farm
859-621-0755 

  

  

"Local Raw Honey" by NICK and BEV NICKELS   [WEBSITE]

Fayette County
You may purchase honey, pollen, and/or beeswax candles from us anytime from our home at 1909 Nicholasville Road in Lexington. Call us first at 859 276-0258, and we will put what you want on our back porch for you to pick up. You may also call to make an appointment to look at Bev's candle selection.

Out home is located one block north (toward downtown) of the intersection of Southland Drive and Nicholasville Road. Turn on Goodrich Avenue and take the first driveway on your right, and you will be in our back yard. There will be a silver travel trailer (Airstream) under an awning directly in front of you. Your honey will be on the back porch. If we are not home, just leave the money on the counter.  There is change in a small jar on the counter if you need some.

Thank you,  Nick & Bev Nickels

  

WILDFLOUR SCONES & TEA  [FACEBOOK]
Scott County

We will be set up this Saturday in Victorian Square. Come enjoy a locally made breakfast or afternoon treat before the UK game!

Our flavors this week will be:
-Buttermilk & Kentucky Honey featuring raw honey from Bev and Nick Nickels
-Apple Cinnamon (Reed Valley Orchard apples)
-Maple Bacon Date featuring Brownings Applewood bacon (Grant County)

We will be brewing English Breakfast: a caffeinated, full bodied black tea and Honeybush: a decaf red herbal tea, similar to Rooibos.

Visit our Facebook page for more info and flavor postings on Fridays.
 
See you Saturday!


BLUE MOON FARM***Sustainably Grown***  [WEBSITE | FACEBOOK]
Madison County
 

Happy 2013 everyone!  We hope your Christmas and New Years' holidays were filled with love, laughter and family! 

  

The weather was so great before Christmas that we managed to get the bulk of our 2013 garlic crop in the ground in relative comfort!  Nice for a change!  We are watching the little green sprouts emerging from the soil already...hearty plants!

  

Now we are busy doing yearly bookkeeping and taxes, ordering seeds for next year, working on projects around the house and farm, and keeping up with twice weekly deliveries to restaurants around Lexington for Blue Moon and other local farms.  Busy as ever!

  

We are still delivering MUSIC GARLIC and GARLIC SCAPE PESTO to Good Foods Market on Southland Drive.  Please ask for it if you don't see it!   If you need GARLIC POWDER, we can easily mail it to you, just drop us an email garlic@bluemoongarlic.com

  

We really miss seeing all you folks at market, and especially our market helpers!   We had a great team last year, and hope to have them all back again for 2013.

  

Watch for updates on our Facebook page, or visit our website.

  

If you need any of the products we carry at market, please get in touch and we'll do our best for you!  See you in the spring!

  

 

 

Remember to visit our website at 
for more information about the market.

 

 

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MARKET HAPPENINGS THIS WEEK   

 

Homegrown Authors 

Thank you to the Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning and the Morris Bookshop for cosponsoring the Homegrown Authors Series this summer at the Lexington Farmers' Market. Look for this opportunity to meet a local author and buy a signed copy of his or her book at market next year!   

 

DLC'S ARTIST MARKET:

 

The artist market has officially come to an end for the year.  Many thanks to the DLC and the numerous artists who helped make the market possible.   

 

SPECIAL GUESTS AT THE LFM...     

 

Central Baptist Hospital will continue selling their cookbook, Beyond the Fence, at the Friends of the Farmers' Market table. Recipes from their cookbook were featured in this year's farm dinner, Taste of the Farm!

 

KID'S ACTIVITIES AT THE LFM...

 

LFM kids' activities provided this year were great!  Thanks to all the special organizations throughout town who brought all these interesting activities to market. We will see you again next year!

 

 

GLEANING with Faith Feeds...

 

Faith Feeds|Glean KY Completes Record Year - 81,410 pounds in 2012; 191,955 pounds between 2010-2012!

 

Thanks to the support of the Lexington Farmers' Market, numerous other growers, volunteers, donors and others, in 2012 Faith Feeds gleaned 81,410 pounds of fresh fruits and vegetables that otherwise would have gone to waste.  That is over 40 tons of food that was delivered to more than 28 agencies and individuals that provide food to people who are hungry.  Approximately 125 volunteers made 314 trips, putting in 1,474 hours, to glean and deliver the produce.  Through December 31, 2012, we had gleaned a total of 191,955 pounds of fresh food!  When LFM opens in the Spring, we will be gleaning 7 days per week!  If you would like to volunteer or if you have any questions, please contact us:  faithfeedslex@gmail.com or 859-444-4769.

 

Continue to check this section of the newsletter to watch the pounds gleaned go up each week!

 

2013 pounds gleaned - 2037

Pounds gleaned since June 2010 - 194,158

 

 

VOLUNTEER WITH THE LFM!

 

Looking for a way to contribute to the local food movement in Lexington?  We are always in need of volunteers at our markets! Send an email to stephanie@lexingtonfarmersmarket.com if you're interested!   

 

 

PARKING is always FREE at all of our markets if you know where to look!

 

On Saturday it's as easy as parking for FREE on the street and we can validate tickets for the Victorian Square Garage. We appreciate your patronage, so support the LFM year round!

Saturday Parking Map

 

Finally, if you have ever lost items at any of our markets and they have not been returned, please check with Jeff, the executive director, during market hours or by phone at (859) 608-2655.

 

INFORMATION FROM OUR SPONSORS

 

SULLIVAN UNIVERSITY

 

Many thanks are in order to Sullivan University, a returning sponsor of the Lexington Farmers' Market that has provided us with seasonal cooking demonstrations at our Saturday markets as well as the cooking and assistance at our farm-to-fork dinner: A Taste of the Farm in the City.   

 

Many, Many thanks to Chef Foster and the Sullivan University team for cooking up a fantastic spread this year at the Taste of the Farm Dinner.

 

 

GOOD FOODS MARKET AND CAF�        

  

LEXINGTON, KY - Good Foods Market & Caf� has a variety of classes and events for you this February. All classes and events are held at Good Foods Market & Caf�, 455 Southland Drive, unless otherwise noted.

 

Free Store Tour!

Enjoy Good Foods store tour during Sampling Saturdays on the first Saturday of the month. Tour the store with staff Dietitian Beth Loiselle, savor samples, and enjoy exclusive offers while learning about our products and services. Free. Sign up at the Customer Service desk.           

Instructor: Beth Loiselle, RD

When: Saturday, February 2, 11 am - 12 pm

Fee: FREE

 

Sampling Saturday

Meet our local producers and sample their unique products during our monthly Sampling Saturday event.

When: Saturday, February 2, 11 am - 2 pm         

Fee: FREE

 

Wellness Wednesday

On the first Wednesday of the month, all customers will receive 5% off all supplements, body care, and bulk herb & spice items. Customers can special order Wellness Wednesday items ahead of time and pick them up on Wellness Wednesday.  

When: Wednesday, February 6, 8 am - 10 pm

 

Good Foods Vision2020: Participate. Innovate. Create. 

Join Co-op friends, fans, and food industry experts to dream the future of Good Foods Co-op!

 

Good Foods is creating a provocative, compelling vision for the next seven years and invites you to participate in this process. You will be joined by industry experts for a dynamic, educational, and creative exploration.

 

Who: You! Good Foods owners, customers, local food producers, and all community members interested in the Co-op

What: Good Foods Board Vision2020 Community Meeting

When: February 9, 2013, 10 am - 3 pm (coffee and conversation at 9:30 am)

Where: Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning, 251 West 2nd Street, Lexington, KY 40507

Why: We want your ideas on the future of the Co-op.

How: Simply bring your ideas and vision for our future.

 

Register: Online or at the Good Foods Customer Service desk.

Lunch provided, registration required.

 

Good Foods Board Vision2020 Community Meeting Schedule:

9:30 am: Coffee, tea, and conversation

10 am: Welcome, sessions begin

12 - 1 pm:  Lunch (provided with preregistration)

3 pm: Closing and door prizes

 

For more information contact: board@goodfoods.coop

 

Eating "Whole": A Better Health Workshop

If you have health concerns, "cleaning up your diet" is a fundamental step you can't afford to ignore. No matter how poorly you currently eat, if you are ready to make changes, you will discover amazing benefits that can last a lifetime. Good Foods' Registered Dietitian and author Beth Loiselle will offer valuable information, group guidance, and individual support in this 3-part workshop held monthly, January through March. To get results, commit to attend all classes by reserving the dates and time on your personal calendar. Register today, as workshop is limited to 15 participants.

Instructor: Beth Loiselle, Good Foods' Registered Dietitian

When: Saturday, February 9, March 9, 2 - 3:30 pm

Fee: Owners $18/$20 per class

Required Textbook: Revised 2nd Edition of The Healing Power of Whole Foods, available in Good Foods' Wellness Department

Pre-class Assignment: Bring a detailed 2-day Food Diary with you to the first class.

 

Good Foods Market & Caf� is a locally owned and operated cooperative business where everyone is welcome to shop. Good Foods has served the Lexington community since 1972.  

 

455 Southland Drive, Lexington, KY 40503, 

(859) 278-1813 

www.goodfoods.coop 

 

 

THE FAYETTE ALLIANCE

 

The Fayette Alliance is Lexington's ONLY land-use advocacy organization that regularly educates and lobbies local government for a sustainable growth model that benefits all of us.

We believe that preserving our signature Bluegrass landscape, creating a dynamic and equitable cityscape through infill redevelopment, and improving our natural waterways by fixing our sanitary sewer and stormwater systems are key components to achieving our economic and environmental promise here in Lexington-Fayette County.

We are an alliance of citizens from the entire community, including stakeholders from the agricultural, neighborhood, and infill sectors. We are a united voice for responsible growth, and only weigh-in on those land-use issues that have countywide implications. Together we can chart our future, and positively impact local zoning decisions-the very building blocks of our community.

If you want a better quality of life for all of us, please join The Fayette Alliance today for free.  Visit www.fayettealliance.com for more information.

 

 

WUKY

  

WUKY was founded in 1941 as the radio voice of the University of Kentucky. Our mission then-as now-was to bring information and enlightenment to the people of central Kentucky. Back then we even hauled radios to remote areas so people could hear our programs. Today we're pioneering the use of digital technology to bring multiple streams of great non-commercial programming to this region. Whether you're a Lexington resident or a visitor, please take a moment this weekend to tune your radio to WUKY at 91.3FM, and, when you get home, stream our signal on line at www.wuky.org. There you'll enjoy NPR's Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Car Talk and Fresh Air all supplemented by award-winning WUKY news. On weekdays from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Saturdays from 2 to 5 p.m., you'll hear a unique blend of music that we call "Adult Rock", featuring a wide variety of artists from Talking Heads to Norah Jones to Lucinda Williams. In addition, our weekend schedule includes everything from A Prairie Home Companion to the big bands, the Grateful Dead Hour, and Wait Wait Don't Tell Me. WUKY 91.3FM truly has something for everyone. We are able to accomplish all this only because of community support. Income from this and other special events, underwriting by area businesses, and contributions from individual donors account for over two-thirds of our budget so please pledge now and thank you so much for supporting WUKY.