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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

February 13th, 2013

It is easy to forget about eating local during the winter when the days are short and the air is cold, but a little winter weather never stops our vendors from bringing a great spread to Victorian Square every Saturday.
 
Farmers and producers from around Central Kentucky bring just-picked vegetables, freshly frozen and prepared meats, honey and other canned delights, and some very delicious baked goods each week. All are expertly grown and produced for you, the customers of the Lexington Farmers' Market.
 
Read through the updates from our vendors below and make your way to market to meet with these lovely folks in person. They'll be happy to talk to you about their products and why winter weather won't deter them from serving you to the best of their abilities.

  

Here are the details:

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. Come early, beat the crowd,and as always, we will accommodate you in any way we can.

 

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. 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:

Chicken and Okra Gumbo

   

This week's recipe, from Taste of Home, is an award winning creole dish featuring several ingredients you can find at the market all year long.

 

Ingredients:

  • 1 broiler/fryer chicken (2-1/2 to 3 pounds), cut up
  • 2 quarts water
  • 1/4 cup canola oil
  • 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
  • 2 medium onions, chopped
  • 2 celery ribs, chopped
  • 1 medium green pepper, chopped
  • 3 garlic cloves, minced
  • 28 ounces canned tomatoes, drained
  • 2 cups fresh sliced okra
  • 1 teaspoon dried basil
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1/2 teaspoon pepper
  • 1 to 2 teaspoons hot pepper sauce
  • 2 tablespoons sliced green onions
  • Minced fresh parsley
  • Hot cooked rice

Directions:

  1. Place chicken and water in a large kettle. Cover and bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 30-45 minutes or until chicken is tender.
  2. Remove chicken; reserve broth. Set chicken aside until cool enough to handle. Remove chicken from bones; discard bones and cut into meat into cubes; set aside.
  3. In a soup kettle, combine oil or drippings and flour until smooth. Cook over medium-high heat for 5 minutes, stirring constantly. Reduce heat to medium. Cook and stir about 5 minutes more or until mixture is reddish-brown (the color of a penny). Turn the heat to high. Stir in 2 cups reserved broth. Bring to a boil; cook and stir for 2 minutes or until thickened.
  4. Add the onions, celery, green pepper and garlic; cook and stir for 5 minutes. Add the tomatoes, okra, basil, salt, pepper and pepper sauce. Cover and simmer for 1 hour. Add chicken; heat through.
  5. Garnish with green onions and parsley. Serve with rice. Yields 8-10 servings. 

These products can be purchased from LFM vendors:

  • Chicken
  • Onions
  • Garlic
  • Green peppers, tomatoes, okra, basil and green onions, seasonally.

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

 

 
QUARLES DAYLILLIES AND FARM 
 [WEBSITE | FACEBOOK]
Shelby County
This Thursday is Valentines Day and we have the perfect dinner for the day of love.  Pull out the best china and light the candles to go along with one of our superb filet mignons and see your dinner guest's eyes light up in appreciation.  We'll have plenty in the coolers Saturday at Victorian Square.  We'll also have plenty of New York strip and ribeyes if those run more to your taste. 

  

We still have plenty of potatoes, winter squash and turnips for fresh vegetables this time of year.  These were all grown with no sprays applied.  The breads table will be full and we still have a wide array of canned goods such as salsas, relishes, jams and jellies. 

  

Visit our website or our 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
We will be at the following Lexington Farmers Market this weekend:

Downtown at Victorian Square across from Rupp arena, Saturday, February 16th (opens at 8 am)

See you at the market this weekend.

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.

Our 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 *weather permitting* I will post on Facebook this Friday if the weather decides to not cooperate. Hopefully it won't!
 
Come enjoy a locally made breakfast or afternoon treat! 
 
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 [email protected]

  

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...

 

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:  [email protected] or 859-444-4769.

 

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

 

2013 pounds gleaned - 2,678

Pounds gleaned since June 2010 - 194,798

 

 

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 [email protected] 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.

 

February Fusion Buffet

Good Foods' February Fusion combines Mardi Gras and Chinese New Year celebrations by fusing the traditional style of Chinese cuisine with the Cajun and Creole influences of New Orleans.    

When: Friday, February 15, 11 am - 8 pm

             Saturday, February 16, 3 - 8 pm       

Fee: $7.99/lb.

 

Food Stamped

Food Stamped is an informative and humorous documentary film following a couple as they attempt to eat a healthy, organic, well-balanced diet on a food stamp budget. Through their adventures they consult with members of U.S. Congress, food justice organizations, nutrition experts, and people living on food stamps to take a deep look at America's broken food system. Please bring donations for Grace Now's Food Drive.
When: Tuesday, February 26, 6 - 9 pm 

Where: Central Library Theatre

Speakers: Jeff Dabbelt, Executive Director of Lexington Farmers Market and Dr. Sherry Robinson, Founder/Director of Grace Now

Fee: Free
Movie: www.foodstamped.com

 

The 30-Minute Vegan and Vegetarian

So you're on a whole foods, plant-based diet - or you're considering it - and need some help? Don't cave in and become a "junk food vegan/vegetarian". . . eat well! You will learn tips and guidelines for making this lifestyle diet easy and accessible. We'll also prepare and taste recipes that take less than 30 minutes to prepare, start to finish. This is an abbreviated version of the full class held at The Wholesome Chef.

Instructor: Chef Carolyn Gilles, The Wholesome Chef

When: Thursday, February 28, 7 - 8:30 pm

Fee: $15 owners/$17 others

 

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.