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
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The Lexington Farmers' Market
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February 20th, 2013
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The Indoor Market is not the only place you can find the Lexington Farmers' Market vendors and staff through the winter. Keep an eye out at local food and agriculture events around central Kentucky and you just might run into a familiar face or two!
Next week might be just one of those cases.The Good Foods Board Film Series is screening Food Stamped, 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. Speakers include Dr. Sherry Robinson of Grace Now and our very own, Jeff Dabbelt! Here are the details if you'd like to join us:
When: Tuesday, February 26, 6 - 9 pm
Where: Central Library Theatre
Fee: Free!
And just in case you forgot:
Our Indoor Market, located in the Victorian Square Atrium, is OPEN from 8am-1pm every Saturday. Parking is FREE on Saturdays on the streets and 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 (and around town)!
Stephanie Hopkins
Lexington Farmers' Market Assistant Manager
P.S.Be sure to check out Information from our Sponsors for more information about upcoming events at Good Foods Co-Op and Market Happenings to discover how many pounds of food Faith Feeds has already gleaned this year!
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WUKY Farmers Market Report
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Market Times and Locations
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SaturdayCheapside Park7am-3pm CLOSED Saturday Indoor Market Victorian Square 8am-1pm NOW OPEN Tuesday/ThursdayS. Broadway and Maxwell
7am-4pm
CLOSED
SundaySouthland Dr.10am-2pm
CLOSED
Wednesday
University and Alumni Drive
3pm-6pm
CLOSED
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Recipe of the Week:
Winter Fruit Salad
This week's recipe, from Smitten Kitchen, is a delicious fruit salad that will satisfy your desire for fruit without requiring expensive berries from the other side of the world.
Ingredients:
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 3 star anise
- 1/2 of plump vanilla bean, split in half lengthwise
- 8 dried apricots, cut in half
- 4 dried figs, quartered
- 4 2-inch long pieces lemon zest
- Juice of the zest lemon
- 3 firm pears
- 1 firm tart apple
- Seeds from half a pomegranate
Directions:
- Fill a medium saucepan with 4 cups water. Add the sugar, star anise, vanilla bean and lemon zest. Bring to a boil, and cook until all the sugar is dissolved. Let it cool for just a few minutes (it should still be hot) and then stir in the dried figs and apricots. Let it cool completely.
- Meanwhile, peel and core pears and apple. Slice thinly lengthwise and place in a large bowl, and toss with the lemon juice.
- Once the syrup with dried fruit has cooled, pour it over the apples and pears. Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and chill it overnight in the refrigerator.
- The next morning, using a slotted spoon, ladle the fruit into a serving bowl, sprinkle with the pomegranate seeds and serve. Remove the vanilla beans (you can rinse and save what is left of them for another use) and lemon peels if you wish, or leave them in for decoration.
Do ahead: Syrup can be made in advance and kept in the fridge for a day or two. Hot syrup can be poured over the dried fruit and kept in the fridge for a day or so. Prepared salad keeps in the fridge for a day or two, but is best fresh.
These products can be purchased from LFM vendors:
Find illustrated instructions online, HERE.
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HERE'S A BIT OF WHAT YOU'LL FIND AT THE MARKET THIS WEEK...
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Shelby County
Spring is rolling right along here on the farm. We've had our first set of lambs and several other ewes look like they could lamb any day. There are lots of new baby calves in the field and more to come. If we have any luck today, the plows will go in the ground and the garden will be turned by the end of the day. Life is starting to awake from barren ground and soon we'll be moving back outdoors at the market.
In the meantime, we're still having market in Victorian Square each weekend. We'll have our coolers full of beef and a few cuts of lamb still available. We still have a good selection of winter squash, potatoes, turnips and maybe even a little kale if it grows a little this week. The breads table will be full and we'll have plenty of salsa, relishes, jams and other items made with locally grown items. Our new item will be apple blueberry jam which, along with hot biscuits, is excellent.
Stop in and have lunch with us. We'll have beef stew, chili, brats and jumbo hot dogs. These items were all made with our beef. Check it out. Wholesome, good food.
Drop in on our website for beef and lamb prices and check out our Facebook page. Last week we got some baby pictures up and we'll continue to add other pictures as spring rolls out!
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 not be at the following Lexington Farmers Market this weekend:
Downtown at Victorian Square across from Rupp arena, Saturday, February 23rd (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
We will be set up this Saturday in Victorian Square.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!
We will be set up this Saturday in Victorian Square with ground turkey and chicken. We will also have chicken parts (legs, thighs, and breasts). Eggs will be coming soon.
See you Saturday!
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.
If you would like your name removed from the Lexington Farmers' Market Weekly Newsletter mailing list, please send a reply message with "REMOVE" as the subject. You can do the same thing if you've changed your email address, just reply with your new information and your name. If you received this email from another source and would like to be added to our list, send a message to jeff@lexingtonfarmersmarket.com with "SUBSCRIBE" in the subject line.
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MARKET HAPPENINGS THIS WEEK
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!
Continue to check this section of the newsletter to watch the pounds gleaned go up each week!
2013 pounds gleaned - 2,975
Pounds gleaned since June 2010 - 195,095
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!
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.
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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 CAFÉ
LEXINGTON, KY - Good Foods Market & Café has a variety of classes and events for you this February. All classes and events are held at Good Foods Market & Café, 455 Southland Drive, unless otherwise noted.
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
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, March 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, March 2, 11 am - 2 pm
Fee: FREE
Good Foods Market & Café 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.
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