Friday, November 6, 2015

SFM Newsletter- November 6, 2015


Hey Market Friends,
We've got a couple vendors gone for this week. But don't despair! They'll be back.
 
Here's what we've got lined up for tomorrow!
Bread Basket
New ! Persimmon pudding, apple dumpings, also wheat and sour dough breads.  Zucchini and cinnamon breads. Apple and pecan pies.  Cookies, granola, and donuts.
 
How Sweet It Is
New this week: spooky cut out cookies. Added to the usual list: morning muffins (lemon and harvest), pound cake, coffee cake, chocolate chip cookies, peanut butter cookies, brownies (Butterscotch & triple chocolate), cookies: sugar, choc. chip, molasses, peanut butter. Special cinnamon buns & "black bottoms". Cakes: pound cake, chocolate, lemon, vanilla.
OBX Seafood
Last week's list: Oysters, Halibut, Spanish Mackerel, Swordfish, Red Drum, Flounder (filets/whole), Grouper, Striped Bass, Mahi Mahi, Wahoo, Yellowfin Tuna, Scottish Salmon, Rainbow Trout, Cod, Whole Snapper, Lump Crab meat, Lg Sea Scallops, Jumbo & Large Shrimp, (21/25), Jumbo Peeled & Deveined Shrimp (16/20) , Littleneck Clams, Oysters (shucked & in shell available)
 
Pruett Farm
Mustard Greens, tenderleaf greens!, kale, turnip greens, collards, sweet potatoes and NC Grown Apples!

The Soap Shack
Newly returned to the market, Pat Killian is mostly making wreaths right now for the holidays. She also has poison ivy soap.
 
Treehouse Soaps - see the folks at UpsideDown Farms
This week, Jean is at the Cox Mill Elementary Fall Festival. And UpsideDown Farms is helping vend her wares. There are so many different soaps it's hard to keep up. NEW ginger/white tea, beer soap, peppermint-eucalyptus, several lemony varieties, lavenders, manly ones, cedar spice, shaving, charcoal/ pumice, and others plus the classic unscented ones. Plus rich solid lotion sticks for dry skin.
 
Two Pigs Farm (Accepts WIC/Senior FMNP Vouchers)
Veggies including tatsoi, Swiss chard and ARUGULA. They've also got their usual assortment of free range eggs, beef, pork, chicken, duck AND turkey. If you're looking for a specific cut you may want to email them in advance: twopigsfarm@gmail.com
It's been getting cooler and their socks, hats and other alpaca wool products are very popular gift items!

UpsideDown Farm
Fresh shiitake mushrooms available. Plus dried. Plus microwavable potato bags and reusable Christmas bags. And custom painted "corn hole bag toss" boards available.

Absent or likely Absent:
Bame Farms - Out this week
 
The Funky Pepper - Probably not (their labels can't handle the rain)
 
 
Lee's Fresh Flowers and Vegetables - Out this week
 
McCombs & Company - Out this week

Mean Mug Coffee - Not 100% sure they'll be there.

 
Other updates:
Rowan County Fair!
After all that rain, the Rowan County Fair is this weekend! Check it out! http://rowancountyfair.net/
 
Winter Harvest
Bread Riot's "Winter Harvest" boxes source from a number of Salisbury Farmers' Market vendors during the Winter months after the market closes. Get fresh local food products (Including bread from Emma's Bread Basket and eggs (mostly from Two Pigs farm) every other week. More details at breadriot.org/winter-harvest (Delivery and downtown pick up at St. John's Lutheran Church are available)
 
Best,
-Eric
Executive Director, breadriot.org
 
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