This week the market had a group of young farm-to-fork entrepreneurs from The Learning Center at Linlee.  The students shown help operate a cafe at their school called "World Cafe & Bistro." The students enjoy cooking, learning about, and growing food. While at the market, Stephanie helped them understand aspects of production and sales that farmers at the LFM encounter. 

Make sure to check out the In Your Community section for weekly updates about Lexington Farmers' Market outreach programs.  If your business, community organization, or school group is interested in partnering, collaborating with, or promoting the LFM please contact me.  We are in the planning stage for our 2014 even calendar and would love your input and cooperation!

See You At Market, 

Josh England

Lexington Farmers' Market Assistant Manager

josh@lexingtonfarmersmarket.com

In Your Community 

Our first round of monthly community center workshops was a success! The Youth Vegetable Literacy Workshop dissected and sampled 8 different varieties of LFM tomatoes, while the Adult Vegetable Literacy Workshop brainstormed ways to overcome common barriers to healthy eating before taking home local apples and instructions for making homemade apples sauce.

This month, we'll host these workshops again at the William Wells Brown Community Center and add on two additional classes at the Winburn Community Center: Vegetable Adventures (K-5) and Your Local Economy (6-12). 

Additionally, we'll continue to bring produce and information to community meetings, scout troops, cooking clubs, public schools, and more!

Keep connected with our Events Calendar & Facebook Page to learn more about where to find us next. When you see us (or one of our new advertisements) around town, send us a message! We'd love to hear your feedback and new ideas for becoming involved in your community.

Stephanie Hopkins 
Food Desert Initiative Coordinator
Stephanie@lexingtonfarmersmarket.com

P.S. Did you hear our radio ad this month? If not, click here for the full audio. 

The 2013 show will include two cooking presentations by celebrity chefs The Deen Brothers in Rupp Arena and cooking demos by award-winning local and regional chefs. The show will also include:

• National & Regional Cookbook Authors
• Culinary Seminars
• Quick Tips booth
• Local Wineries
• Restaurant Row
• Traditional Foodcraft

Now in its 5th year, the Kentucky Proud Incredible Food Show is the event of the year for everyone who loves food, cooking and entertaining. Featuring more than 100 exhibitors including specialty food companies, caterers, restaurants, kitchen accessories and appliance distributers.

Everyone's favorite The Marketplace will showcase products to sample and purchase. Kentucky Agricultural Commissioner Comer sums it nicely by saying "The Kentucky Proud Incredible Food Show is the biggest event of the year for Kentucky food lovers. To have one of the world's most famous chefs and fresh, healthy, delicious Kentucky Proud products all under one roof is something well worth experiencing!"

The Kentucky Proud Incredible Food Show is held at Lexington Center in Lexington, KY. It is easily accessible from I-75 and I-64.   

For more information, call (859) 233-4567.

• Butternut Squash
• Olive Oil
• Cheeses
• Eggs
• Garlic

Fayette/Clark County

 

We plan to be at both markets this weekend, unless extreme weather kicks in.  We will have plenty of cheese (lots of feta!).  Our francophile friend Philippe will be bringing fresh figs from Harrodsburg, but only if they are at the peak of perfection  (you know the French!).  If Mother Nature (we are calling in the French one) cooperates, we will be having the first annual FIG FEST.  Fresh figs with goat cheese, Feta with fig balsamic from Stuarto's, maybe even some fig sorbet at the Sunday market.  Who know what we can come up with between now and the weekend?

 

And stay tuned for roasted chestnuts.  Ooh la la!

 

gourmetgoats@msn.com

www.bleugrasschevre.com

 

This week's photo is of our barn full of garlic!  It's a hard thing to photograph, but I love this one.

This Saturday will be a big tailgating day before UK's evening football game.  Come on down to the market, and we'll fix you up with everything you need to fill hungry bellies and impress your friends!  :-)

We are so pleased to finally have our BABY SQUASH available for you again!  Last year we ended up not even planting squash because of the terribly hot and dry weather, and the year before that our harvest was not good.  So, they're BACK!!  Picked with blooms wherever possible.....weather permitting.  Sweet and tender and beautiful on your plate!  We'll also have some a little bit larger....good for grilling, sauté, or just pop them in your spaghetti sauce to cook!

Blue Moon Farm has 5 weeks left at market for this year, and many of you are starting to stock your freezers with our local meat offerings for the winter.  If you need more than a couple of something, we would appreciate your giving us a heads up so we have enough on hand to fill your needs and still have some for others.  Please email us at garlic@bluemoongarlic.com  

We have Stone Cross Farm's wonderful PASTURED PORK products- Bacon; Breakfast sausage- now in Medium, Mild with Extra Sage, or Hot; Piggy Links;  Ground Pork; Chops- bone-in or boneless; Loin Roasts; Shoulder/Boston Butt; Tenderloins; Jowl Bacon to cook with your beans.  European Sausages- Italian- Hot or Sweet; Chorizo- links or bulk; English Bangers;  Knockwurst/Hot Dogs; Bratwurst.

From Colcord Farm we carry GRASS FINISHED BEEF products-  Steaks- Ribeye, NY Strip, Sirloin, Filets, Flat Iron; Whole Beef Tenderloin; Chuck Roasts; Rump Roasts; Short Ribs; Ground Beef; Burger Patties; and Ground Round.  A new product is BEEF BRATWURST!  All STEAKS and the whole tenderloin are 30% off!

Bourbon County LAMB- Ground; Stew Meat; Racks; Chops; Spare Ribs; Shanks, Roasts.  

GARLIC BRAIDS are traditionally the best way of storing garlic for the winter.  The plant is left intact, which helps to slow the dehydration process, and it looks great hanging in your kitchen to boot!  Handmade by Jean and Leo, we'll have at least 3 varieties from which to choose.  Lots of BAGGED GARLIC, and single BULBS, and our own GARLIC POWDER, smoked or not.  PEPPER POWDERS also!  GARLIC SCAPE PESTO will keep in your freezer all winter too!

Stone Cross Farm's handmade SOAPS make a perfect birthday or holiday gift....a great stocking stuffer!  9 different kinds in wonderful scents!

Sunrise Bakery's ARTISAN BREADS and PASTRIES have become a weekend habit for many of our customers.  Start your day with a sticky CINNAMON BUN or BLACKBERRY MUFFIN, or try a GARLIC BAGEL!  We now have Bleugrass Chevre's soft GOAT CHEESE to top them!  Lots of different BREADS for school lunch sandwiches, to accompany your family dinner, or for breakfast toast!

FRESH CUT BASIL and CILANTRO, hydroponically grown BUTTERHEAD (Bibb) and ROMAINE LETTUCE, and ARUGULA from Vibrant Greens in Madison County.

See you this weekend........rain or shine!

Special orders? garlic@bluemoongarlic.com

Blue Moon Farm

"Garlic Makes Good Scents!"

www.bluemoongarlic.com

www.facebook.com/bluemoongarlic

We were featured on Food News and Chews on Fox TV Sunday night. Here's a link.  

Our cheese is made from all natural JD Country Milk, a family owned Mennonite dairy farm in Logan County. The cows are pasture grazed and never given any antibiotics or hormones. Instead they are fed a vitamin enriched diet and all the grass they can eat. The milk is not homogenized and is pasteurized at just 145 degrees, then quickly cooled to preserve the natural flavor and enzymes that Mother Nature intended. We think the milk tastes better because the cows are happy.

You won't see hydraulic presses and fancy modern equipment around here. Instead, we make our cheeses by hand using traditional European techniques to protect the delicate curds. This is a lot more work and very time consuming, but we believe it creates better cheeses with rich complex flavors. We hope you agree.

Thanks for your support. See you at the market.

Boone Creek Creamery

859-402-2364
www.boonecreekcreamery.comed2@kycheese.com

Everyone at Elmwood wants to thank you for your support of local farms and let you know how much we appreciate your attendance at the Lexington Farmers Market week after week.  As the seasons change, we continue to work to offer you the highest quality USDA Certified Organic produce, eggs, and meats that we can.

We will be set up each Saturday downtown (Cheapside Park outdoors through Thanksgiving and Victorian Square indoors all winter long), and each Sunday on Southland Drive through October.

PRODUCE we are offering now includes Green Beans, Beets, Cabbages, Rainbow Swiss Chard, Summer Squash, Fall Squash, Kohlrabi, Leeks, Garlic, Bell Peppers, Hot Peppers, Turnips, Onions, Green Onions, Sweet Potatoes and more as new things are coming on each week.

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, each egg is hand washed and inspected for cracks. 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.  Each hen's diet includes certified organic grain which is non-gmo.

MEAT and POULTRY  Each week we bring a complete inventory of our 100% grass-fed Angus organic
beef, along with our certified organic whole chickens, cut-up chicken pieces, and flavorful hearty stewing hens.  In addition, we have specialty beef sausages, chicken liver, bones for broth, and even bones for your pet!

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, and other quantities packages.

HERITAGE TURKEY TIME  We take pre-orders for our holiday turkeys in person at the market or by email.  At Elmwood, we care year-round for our own breeding flock in order to raise Bourbon Red (named after Bourbon County KY), Narragansett (the oldest known American turkey breed), and the Slate turkeys (also found on Slow Food's Ark of Taste that promotes the survival of near-extinct foods).  Stop by the market or email the farm for more details on breeds, sizes and pricing.

ALL TURKEYS are Organic Certified free ranging turkeys that are raised outdoors on grass pasture.  They are raised the old-fashioned way, on fresh green grass and clover pastures with wholesome grains, resulting in moist, flavorful turkey.  Not only are Elmwood turkeys raised naturally, free from any synthetic inputs, flavor additives, or stimulants, but everything that every turkey eats is organically raised grain or grass pasture.  You can taste the difference and you will know you are serving the best!

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 contact Elmwood for more information (scroll up a little for a quick

link!)

Elmwood Stock Farm

859-621-0755

There may be a chill in the air but our homegrown produce is far from being over.  There are still 4 more weeks of Sunday market and we will always have the Saturday market after that.  So, just because school has started and retail 

stores are already gearing up for the holidays don't let the flavors of summer fade away before their time.  Our late tomato planting is just starting to produce as well as a pepper and eggplant planting that is the most beautiful and bountiful we have seen in years.  The late basil and cilantro plantings are thriving, the lettuce mixes will be ready soon and the broccoli planting is starting to form heads as well so don't hesitate to come see us at the market, we are still going strong!

Look for us and our big box truck at the corner of Short and Upper on Saturday and at Southland Drive on Sunday.   All of our offerings are sustainably grown, Kentucky Proud, 100% homegrown, and pesticide free.  We are delighted to inform you that we do not sell anything that we do not grow.  We will have the following:

-Heirloom and hybrid tomatoes, multiple colors

-Multi colored cherry tomato pints

-Heirloom Roma tomatoes, great for sauces and salsa

-Fresh cut basil

-Fresh cut cilantro

-Tomatillos

-Beautiful sweet banana, mild hot Hungarian wax, Hatch chile, and poblano peppers

-Multi colored bell peppers

-Lots of eggplant, multiple varieties

-Our popular Uglies But Goodies

Check out all of the exciting things going on at the farm as well as lots of market pictures on our Facebook page.  We look forward to seeing you at the market!\

We have been busy!  Lambing started this morning with a set of triplets!

 We will not be at Saturday Market on October 5th or 12th.  We will be back October 19th!   

We have started taking order for all your holiday needs.  Contact us for roasts, chops, and specialty cuts!

-Eileen

Local Raw Honey by Nick and Bev Nickels {Website}

Southland Drive, Sunday, October 6th (10am-2pm)

Quarles Farm

We had SO much fun making pumpkin and gourd bouquets last week and it was even more fun seeing how popular they were! Each week they will be a little different, so we can take full advantage of the most colorful and longest lasting flowers, foliage and berries ... everything that says "It's Fall"!

We'll also have several varieties of big, fragrant stems of blooming Oriental lilies and lush jewel-toned bouquets of Dahlias, along our Oriental and hybrid lily bulbs that are perfect for planting in early Fall.

If you'd like to reserve flowers or have us make up a special pumpkin bouquet or Fall arrangement, don't hesitate to give us a call or message us on Facebook.

Many thanks for all of your support and we hope to see you soon!

- Charlie Hendricks, Elizabeth Hendricks Montgomery and Val Schirmer

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Stonehedge Farm Produce {Facebook}