Farmers Market every Saturday in Seaside, Florida

[Susan Horn]

fresh mistletoe and greenery!

At Seaside Farmer's Market today, we're bringing beautiful broccoli and collards, and some festive "kissing balls" -- sprays of mistletoe with red berries, and fragrant pine and cedar. They make affordable gifts, and deluxe natural "bows" tied onto those special holiday packages.

We'll also be there New Year's Day, so you can get your good-luck greens!

 

[Kurt]

At Seaside Farmer's Market today, we're bringing beautiful broccoli and collards, and some festive "kissing balls" -- sprays of mistletoe with red berries, and fragrant pine and cedar. They make affordable gifts, and deluxe natural "bows" tied onto those special holiday packages.

We'll also be there New Year's Day, so you can get your good-luck greens!

I hope you have some hanging.

 

[Susan Horn]

I hope you have some hanging.

We did. Lots of kissing going on at our booth today, and lots of kissing mistletoe went to new homes too!

 

[Teresa]

Seaside Farmers Market - Saturday Feb 19, 9am - 1pm

Seaside Farmers Market

Saturday February 19th, 2011
9am-1pm
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Located in the Amphitheater in Seaside behind Raw and Juicy on Hwy 30A in Santa Rosa Beach, Florida
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Greetings Localvores!

If you've been to the market recently you know that Spring is upon us, the produce is coming back and with it the bustle of the market! Come support your local food community and check out our new vendors. Ride your bike or walk to the market and bring Fido too! And, don't forget to bring your own basket or market bag to carry home all of your delicious treasures.

This weekend renowned digital artist and illustrator Shantell Martin will join us at the market to share some of her intricate and interesting sketches, and to draw her creative sketches on willing bodies. Come by and say hi!

This coming Tuesday is also the Growing Local Film Series at the REP, sponsored by Raw and Juicy and Twin Oaks Farm. The movie this week is "Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World" which reveals one of the most pervasive, insidious forms of corporate negligence since tobacco. The toxic long-term effects of aspartame are often dismissed as a "hoax" by the sweetener industry; however this new documentary thoroughly unravels something infinitely more alarming than merely a "hoax." About 200 times sweeter than the refined sugar it is meant to replace, Aspartame is the artificial sweetener used in such brands as Equal and Nutrasweet.

See you this weekend!

- Raw and Juicy

"Health, excellent or ill, is passed to our children not through our genes but primarily through our recipes." - Joanne L. Mumola Williams


Time for spring planting!!
Come get your organic Seeds at the Market!

Moonlight Microfarm
Moonlight Micro-Farm Blog
Moonlight Micro-Farm will have fresh sprouts including French Garden & Radish, organic sprout seeds, and heirloom garden seeds. We have new seeds this week including 5 different varieties of tomatoes and several new herbs.

Kinowas Cowboy Cookies
Kinowas Cowboy Cookies
Gluten Free and regular chocolate chip cookies, delicious and addictive...you can't eat just one! Anne wanders the market with a great basket of cookies, catch her for your goodies!

Clear Creek Farms
Come meet Gordon and Lois, long time local bee keepers, they can tell you ANYTHING about bees and the production of honey. Bring your sweet tooth along and catch the buzzzzzzzzzzzz!!!!!!!!!!!

Ocheesee Creamery
Ocheesee Creamery
The Wesselhoeft's will be at the market this weekend with local certified Pure Jersey Products. Skim Milk, Whole MIlk, Butter, Cream and Cheese. If you haven't had fresh dairy this is a real treat and very well priced. All products come in traditional milk bottles and require a deposit, support your local farmer here!

Twin Oaks Farm
www.twinoaksfarm.net
NEW Organic Finger Food
cute scrumptious little snack to hold with 2 fingers made right here at the farm the good old fashioned way. This week : mini orange cake, mini cranberry cake. Made of 100% organic ingredients: sugar and cream and fat and all the goodies your body needs.
Farm Fresh Organic Chicken and Ducks
They roam freely on pasture, we feed them a certified organic mix of Real grain without soy.
They are a slow growing breed that takes 12 weeks to maturity and they range between 4lb and 5lb. NO SOY, plenty of bugs, grass and sunshine, the result is a chicken like no other, experience the taste of Real Food. We sell whole chicken only, frozen, at $8/lb and the ducks at $10/lb.
Chicken broth "starter kit"
include head/feet/gizzard or all you need to make the perfect chicken broth. Please pre-order your chicken/duck, we do not take extra ones at the market.
100% Grass Fed Local Beef
Premium ground beef $8/lb, T-Bone Steak $16/lb, Top Sirloin $16/lb. Vaccum packed and frozen.
Farm Fresh Organic Eggs
They are produced by happy chickens who run in the sun, who eat bugs and grass and are having a good time being at the farm, we feed them a certified organic mix of real grains without soy. Between splashing in the pool and roaming wide for bugs our little ducks find time to produce incredible eggs : big, bold, dense and packed with 3 times the nutrient of a chicken eggs. We have duck eggs at the market every week. Allergic to chicken eggs ??? duck eggs are the alternative ...
Organic Grey Sea Salt and Herbs Rub
Grey Sea Salt is formed as the sea water flows into the Guerande marshes, in France, during high tides. It is hand harvested using skills and methods that are over a thousand years old. We mix it with the herbs we grow in our garden. Use it as a rub or to sprinkle over your favorite dishes, it is divine ....This week :Organic Grey Salt and Lemon
Twin Oaks Farm Organic Dog Cookies
Made with our own organic chicken and chicken broth. A total hit with our Maxwell !!!
Preserves:
New! Cranberry chutney made with fresh organic cranberry, and just divine with our ducks or our chickens ....
Made right here at the farm, we either grow the fruits or buy from small local growers. No pectin, No citric acid, No ascorbic acid.
Just fresh fruits and certified organic evaporated cane juice. Our collection includes : Strawberry, Blueberry, Peach, Fig, 3 Agumes, Pear - Calamondine, Golden Plum, Mango Chutney.

Made by Amy
Homemade Sweets and Treats. We sell fresh baked sweet breads and other homemade goodies. We used local farm fresh eggs, local honey, fresh milk from the farm and the freshest produce from the farm. Bread flavors include: Chocolate chocolate chip, chocolate peanut butter, apple cinnamon, pumpkin cheesecake, dark chocolate with pecans, banana walnut, lemon poppy, zucchini, vanilla chocolate chip, and butterscotch. Upon special order any of these can be done gluten free, dairy free, splenda, stevia, truvia, raw sugar, mutli-grain.

Ali Baba
Come get your ready -to-eat eastern Mediterranean Greek lunch! Gyros, Hummus, Tzaziki Sauce, Dolmas, Feta Cheese, Potato Salad, Pita Bread, Bean salad, and Pickles.

Artesano Jewelry
Artesano Jewelry
We make handmade jewelry using natural resources from Peru. Our products range from butterfly wings, seeds, and tagua nuts, to fish scales and cow bones. Artesano means artisan in Spanish. Sano translates to healthy, and that is what it is, healthy art. So you can feel good about wearing it!

Joe Arnold
Joe will have Pumpernickel rye, whole grain artisan, and baguettes of the whole grain and white varieties. Also Joe makes jalapeno jelly and the cranberry-jalapeno jam to top the bread!

Soap Peddaler
Along with all of the other fabulous products that the Soap Peddaler brings on her bike, Celeste has great soaps made from Farmers Market products. Sandalwood soap made with Ocheesee cream, Sweet Orange and peppermint soap made with Twin Oaks Farm duck egg yolks and Oatmeal, Milk and Honey soap with Clear Creek Farms honey!

The Seaside Farmers Market is a producers market focused on food, produce, cooking demonstrations, specialty items, artisan cheeses and breads, novice and professional gardeners, seed exchanges, educational aspects of growing and preparing food, and the celebration of eating and sharing great ingredients. We look forward to developing these concepts and to your participation.

Have something to sell at the market? Call to reserve your place. 850-687-3494 or email jlkuntz@mac.com

Seaside Farmer's Market Sponsors:

 

[Teresa]

 

[TreeFrog]

We've gotten some really good things to eat at the Farmer's Market, and it's really gratifying to see that both the sellers and Seaside have found it successful enough to continue.

They're all great, but the delicious dairy products from Ocheesee Creamery have become a happy habit at Casa TreeFrog. See you again next week!

 

[Teresa]

Saturday, February 26, 9am-1pm

Seaside Farmers Market
Saturday February 26th, 2011
9am-1pm

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Located in the Amphitheater in Seaside behind Raw and Juicy on Co. Hwy. 30A , Santa Rosa Beach, Florida

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Greetings Localvores!

If you've been to the market over the past few weeks you know that Spring definitely here, the produce has returned and with it the bustle of the market! Come support your local food community and check out our wonderful new vendors. Ride your bike or walk to the market and bring Fido & your kids too! And, don't forget to bring your own basket or market bag to carry home all of your delicious treasures.

Last weekend, we had a blast with artist Shantell Martin, who headed back to NYC the day after the market. The weather was beautiful and there were an incredible amount of people in town and at the market. This week, come for the farmers market and stay for the Seaside Mardi Gras celebration.

Please check out our independent film series called Growing Local: The Naked Truth About Your Food. The film series is presented by Raw & Juicy and Twin Oaks Farm. It is the last Tuesday of the month at the Seaside Repertory Theatre at 6:30. Artesano Jewels hosts a film on the second Tuesday of the month at Fountain Square in downtown Fort Walton Beach.

See you this weekend!
- Raw and Juicy

"One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating."
~Luciano Pavarotti and William Wright,
Pavarotti, My Own Story
Time for spring planting!!
Come get your organic Seeds at the Market!

Knowing Where Your Food Comes From...
These days, it seems like everything is "natural" or "organic" in the stores. It has become very commonplace to see these terms all over the place, including in large-scale box stores. We assume that because the term is there that we can trust that our food is truly what the labels say. Many people comment that organic food in the grocery stores is not really any different from conventional food. Is that true or false? Where do you find the answer? If it is true, what are the options for the average consumer?

A few links from Cornucopia Institute will show you that what you read on the label is not always what you get. First of all, there is the Organic Egg Scorecard.. You will see that even though a label says "organic," even "USDA Organic," that does not mean that every company strives for the same standards. The same goes for dairy, here on the Dairy Scorecard. Actually, there is a full article that was published on Wednesday about an illegal, synthetic additive used by the largest, corporate, organic dairy in the U.S. You will also find similar scorecards about soy, infant formula and info about organic foods processed with hexane.

One of the most amazing and eye-opening topics is "Who Owns Organic." Since the implementation of the USDA Organic Standards in 2002, it is pretty amazing at the changes in the industry. There are charts that show who the major independent companies are and charts that show you just exactly how many organic labels are owned by large-scale food processors.

Personally, I remember many small farmers getting knocked off the playing field when the USDA Organic Standards were enforced. These farmers were then required to follow the protocol to get certified, which meant being labeled as "transition" produce in the local health food store or they were forced to be labeled as conventional, even though their practices were a far cry from industrialized, conventionally grown produce.

Because you cannot always know who you are buying your food from when you shop at large supermarkets, doesn't it make sense to buy as much as you can, if not all, of your food from your local farmers? When you do that, you can ask each one personally where the food came from and how it was grown or processed. This allows you to feel confident in feeding yourself and/or your family the best food possible.

This Week at the Market​

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Raw & Juicy
Raw & Juicy

Raw and Juicy will have their delicious raw vegan and gluten free granola and kale chips.

Moonlight Microfarm
Moonlight Micro-Farm Blog
Moonlight Micro-Farm will have fresh sprouts including French Garden & Radish, organic sprout seeds, and heirloom garden seeds. We have new seeds this week including 5 different varieties of tomatoes and several new herbs.

Kinowas Cowboy Cookies
Kinowas Cowboy Cookies
Gluten Free and regular chocolate chip cookies, delicious and addictive...you can't eat just one! Anne wanders the market with a great basket of cookies, catch her for your goodies!

Clear Creek Farms
Come meet Gordon and Lois, long time local bee keepers, they can tell you ANYTHING about bees and the production of honey. Bring your sweet tooth along and catch the buzzzzzzzzzzzz!!!!!!!!!!!

Ocheesee Creamery
Ocheesee Creamery
The Wesselhoeft's will be at the market this weekend with local certified Pure Jersey Products. Skim Milk, Whole MIlk, Butter, Cream and Cheese. If you haven't had fresh dairy this is a real treat and very well priced. All products come in traditional milk bottles and require a deposit, support your local farmer here!

Twin Oaks Farm
www.twinoaksfarm.net
NEW Organic Hot Chocolate Mix: Just raw organic cacao powder and evaporated cane juice... It's hot chocolate the swiss way. NEW Organic Finger Food: Cute, scrumptious little snacks to hold with 2 fingers, made at the farm the good old fashioned way. This week there's mini orange cakes & mini cranberry cakes. They are made of 100% organic ingredients in easy to carry around little bags and yes they will contain sugar and cream and fat and all the goodies your body needs.
Farm Fresh Organic Chicken and Ducks: They roam freely on pasture, and are fed a certified organic mix of real grain without soy. They are a slow growing breed that takes 12 weeks to maturity and typically range between 4lb and 5lb. NO SOY, plenty of bugs, grass and sunshine, the result is a chicken like no other, experience the taste of Real Food.
Twin Oaks Farm sells whole chicken only, frozen, at $8/lb and the ducks at $10/lb.
Please pre-order your chicken/duck, we do not take extra ones at the market.
Chicken broth "starter kit" includes head/feet/gizzard or all you need to make the perfect chicken broth.
100% Grass Fed Local Beef: Premium ground beef $8/lb, T-Bone Steak $16/lb, Top Sirloin $16/lb. Vaccum packed and frozen.
Farm Fresh Organic Eggs: Yes, just a few days of decent temperatures ... that's all what they were asking for !!! They are produced by happy chickens who run in the sun, who eat bugs and grass and are having a good time being at the farm, they are fed a certified organic mix of real grains without soy. Between splashing in the pool and roaming wide for bugs the little ducks find time to produce incredible eggs : big, bold, dense and packed with 3 times the nutrient of a chicken eggs. We have duck eggs at the market every week. Are you allergic to chicken eggs? Duck eggs are the alternative. Organic Grey Sea Salt and Herbs Rub: Grey Sea Salt is formed as the sea water flows into the Guerande marshes, in France, during high tides. It is hand harvested using skills and methods that are over a thousand years old. It is mixed with the herbs grown in the Twin Oaks Farm garden. Use it as a rub or to sprinkle over your favorite dishes, it is divine. This week: Organic Grey Salt and Lemon.
Twin Oaks Farm Organic Dog Cookies: Made with our own organic chicken and chicken broth.
Cranberry Chutney: Made with fresh organic cranberry and just divine with ducks or chickens ....
Preserves: Made right at the farm, we either grow the fruits or buy from small local growers. No pectin, No citric acid, No ascorbic acid. Just fresh fruits and certified organic evaporated cane juice. The collection includes: Strawberry, Blueberry Peach Fig 3 Agrumes, Pear - Calamondine & Golden Plum Mango Chutney.

Made by Amy
Homemade Sweets and Treats. We sell fresh baked sweet breads and other homemade goodies. We used local farm fresh eggs, local honey, fresh milk from the farm and the freshest produce from the farm. Bread flavors include: Chocolate chocolate chip, chocolate peanut butter, apple cinnamon, pumpkin cheesecake, dark chocolate with pecans, banana walnut, lemon poppy, zucchini, vanilla chocolate chip, and butterscotch. Upon special order any of these can be done gluten free, dairy free, splenda, stevia, truvia, raw sugar, multi-grain.

Ali Baba
Come get your ready -to-eat eastern Mediterranean Greek lunch! Gyros, Hummus, Tzaziki Sauce, Dolmas, Feta Cheese, Potato Salad, Pita Bread, Bean salad, and Pickles.

Artesano Jewelry
Artesano Jewelry
We make handmade jewelry using natural resources from Peru. Our products range from butterfly wings, seeds, and tagua nuts, to fish scales and cow bones. Artesano means artisan in Spanish. Sano translates to healthy, and that is what it is, healthy art. So you can feel good about wearing it!

Joe Arnold
Joe will have Pumpernickel rye, whole grain artisan, and baguettes of the whole grain and white varieties. Also Joe makes jalapeno jelly and the cranberry-jalapeno jam to top the bread!

Soap Pedaler
Along with all of the other fabulous products that the Soap Pedaler brings on her bike, Celeste has great soaps made from Farmers Market products. Sandalwood soap made with Ocheesee cream, Sweet Orange and peppermint soap made with Twin Oaks Farm duck egg yolks and Oatmeal, Milk and Honey soap with Clear Creek Farms honey! In addition to her regular fare, Celeste will be serving lemon poppy seed soap cake slices.

Please note:
We work very hard at providing up-to-date info about the products that each vendor has at the weekly market. However, in providing a timely weekly newsletter, there are times when the vendor cannot verify what he/she will have that weekend at the market by the time we are publishing the newsletter. Thanks so much for understanding!

The Seaside Farmers Market is a producers market focused on food, produce, cooking demonstrations, specialty items, artisan cheeses and breads, novice and professional gardeners, seed exchanges, educational aspects of growing and preparing food, and the celebration of eating and sharing great ingredients. We look forward to developing these concepts and to your participation.

Have something to sell at the market? Call to reserve your place. 850-687-3494 or email jlkuntz@mac.com

 

[Teresa]

Saturday, March 5, 2011, 9am-1pm

Seaside Farmers Market
Saturday March 5, 2011
9am-1pm

Located in the Amphitheater in Seaside behind Raw and Juicy on Co. Hwy. 30A , Santa Rosa Beach, Florida
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Greetings!

Hi, Friends! We hope to see you at the Seaside Farmers Market on Saturday morning from 9:00am to 1:00pm.. Remember to come early because this weekend will be bustling. There is the Seaside Half Marathon on Sunday, with the expo & silent auction from 12-6 on Saturday. Also, this weekend kicks off the tourist season, so our community will be full of fun and activities.

Come support your local food community and check out our wonderful new vendors. Ride your bike or walk to the market and bring Fido & your kids too! And, don't forget to bring your own basket or market bag to carry home all of your delicious treasures.

This week's article is located at the bottom of the newsletter. It is about antibiotics in our food system. Personally, this hits home this week because our nine year old is on her second prescription of antibiotics ever. Part of me feels really great about the fact that she hasn't had any in seven years. The other part of me realizes that my first thought is not true. She has not voluntarily been given antibiotics in the last seven years, but she has had them any time she has eaten the average factory-processed meat. This is something that many of us do not think about on a day-to-day basis, but it is important to our health & well-being.

Finally, please check out our independent film series called Growing Local: The Naked Truth About Your Food. The film series is presented by Raw & Juicy and Twin Oaks Farm. It is the last Tuesday of the month at the Seaside Repertory Theatre at 6:30pm, the next screening will be a series of shorts about our food system on March 29th. Artesano Jewels in Fort Walton Beach hosts a film on the second Tuesday of the month at Fountain Square in downtown Fort Walton Beach, this coming Tuesday March 8th we will be showing The World According to Monsanto. This is an important film, and relevant as alfalfa was just approved to be GMO, joining others on the market, Sugar beets, soy beans, and corn. None of these products are required to be labeled at this time and most of them are found in processed foods. If you missed the screening of this film in Seaside be sure to join this gathering for insight into the genetically modified food industry.

See you this weekend!

- Raw and Juicy
The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.~ Michael Pollan

Spring is here!!
Come fill your pantry at the Market!
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This Week at the Market​

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Raw & Juicy
Raw & Juicy
Raw and Juicy will be in full swing this weekend and all of their delicious and healthful offerings will be available at the airstream. Come by for oatmeal or a yogurt parfait, fresh juice or spring rolls, and of course the KALE CHIPS and GRANOLA will be there too!

Moonlight Microfarm
Moonlight Micro-Farm will have heirloom garden seeds, organic sprout seeds, French Garden and Radish sprouts, wheat grass (naturally grown from organic seed) for juicing, and micro-greens. Visit our website at www.moonlightmicrofarm.com or follow us on facebook for market updates www.facebook.com/moonlightmicrofarm

In NW Florida, zone 8b, it's time to start thinking about planting warm season crops like eggplant, tomatoes, squash, and melons. The weather is perfect for prepping the garden beds, building that compost bin you've always wanted, and planning the summer garden. March is the last month for starting faster growing tomatoes and most cool season crops. Find a spot in the garden that won't be blazing hot in a couple of months and plant herbs, lettuce, beets, Swiss chard, radishes, carrots, arugula, and mustard greens. Be sure to save any left over seed in a cool, dry place because all of these vegetables can be planted again in the fall. Continue to harvest your winter greens, knowing that most of them will be bolting soon. Happy gardening!

Kinowas Cowboy Cookies
Kinowas Cowboy Cookies
Gluten Free and regular chocolate chip cookies, delicious and addictive...you can't eat just one! Anne wanders the market with a great basket of cookies, catch her for your goodies!

Clear Creek Farms
Clear Creek Farms will have the first of our new jelly's at this week's market. We will have Mayhaw butter, Mayhaw jelly, Fig preserves, Blackberry, Raspberry and Strawberry preserves and 2 other surprises. Please come enjoy our new sweet offerings along with our wonderful local Honey!

Ocheesee Creamery
Ocheesee Creamery
The Wesselhoeft's will be at the market this weekend with local certified Pure Jersey Products and their warm smiles. Skim Milk, Whole MIlk, Butter, Cream and Cheese. If you haven't had fresh dairy this is a real treat and very well priced. All products come in traditional milk bottles and require a deposit, support your local farmer here!

Twin Oaks Farm
www.twinoaksfarm.net
NEW Organic Hot Chocolate Mix: Just raw organic cacao powder and evaporated cane juice... It's hot chocolate the swiss way. NEW Organic Finger Food: Cute, scrumptious little snacks to hold with 2 fingers, made at the farm the good old fashioned way. This week there's mini orange cakes & mini cranberry cakes. They are made of 100% organic ingredients in easy to carry around little bags and yes they will contain sugar and cream and fat and all the goodies your body needs.
Farm Fresh Organic Chicken and Ducks: They roam freely on pasture, and are fed a certified organic mix of real grain without soy. They are a slow growing breed that takes 12 weeks to maturity and typically range between 4lb and 5lb. NO SOY, plenty of bugs, grass and sunshine, the result is a chicken like no other, experience the taste of Real Food.
Twin Oaks Farm sells whole chicken only, frozen, at $8/lb and the ducks at $10/lb.
Please pre-order your chicken/duck, we do not take extra ones at the market.
Chicken broth "starter kit" includes head/feet/gizzard or all you need to make the perfect chicken broth.
100% Grass Fed Local Beef: Premium ground beef $8/lb, T-Bone Steak $16/lb, Top Sirloin $16/lb. Vaccum packed and frozen.
Farm Fresh Organic Eggs: Yes, just a few days of decent temperatures ... that's all what they were asking for !!! They are produced by happy chickens who run in the sun, who eat bugs and grass and are having a good time being at the farm, they are fed a certified organic mix of real grains without soy. Between splashing in the pool and roaming wide for bugs the little ducks find time to produce incredible eggs : big, bold, dense and packed with 3 times the nutrient of a chicken eggs. We have duck eggs at the market every week. Are you allergic to chicken eggs? Duck eggs are the alternative. Organic Grey Sea Salt and Herbs Rub: Grey Sea Salt is formed as the sea water flows into the Guerande marshes, in France, during high tides. It is hand harvested using skills and methods that are over a thousand years old. It is mixed with the herbs grown in the Twin Oaks Farm garden. Use it as a rub or to sprinkle over your favorite dishes, it is divine. This week: Organic Grey Salt and Lemon.
Twin Oaks Farm Organic Dog Cookies: Made with our own organic chicken and chicken broth.
Cranberry Chutney: Made with fresh organic cranberry and just divine with ducks or chickens ....
Preserves: Made right at the farm, we either grow the fruits or buy from small local growers. No pectin, No citric acid, No ascorbic acid. Just fresh fruits and certified organic evaporated cane juice. The collection includes: Strawberry, Blueberry, Peach, Fig, 3 Agrumes, Pear - Calamondine, Golden Plum & Mango Chutney.

Made by Amy
Homemade Sweets and Treats. We sell fresh baked sweet breads and other homemade goodies. We used local farm fresh eggs, local honey, fresh milk from the farm and the freshest produce from the farm. Bread flavors include: Chocolate chocolate chip, chocolate peanut butter, apple cinnamon, pumpkin cheesecake, dark chocolate with pecans, banana walnut, lemon poppy, zucchini, vanilla chocolate chip, and butterscotch. Upon special order any of these can be done gluten free, dairy free, splenda, stevia, truvia, raw sugar, multi-grain.

Ali Baba
Come get your ready -to-eat eastern Mediterranean Greek lunch! Gyros, Hummus, Tzaziki Sauce, Dolmas, Feta Cheese, Potato Salad, Pita Bread, Bean salad, and Pickles.

Artesano Jewelry
Artesano Jewelry
We make handmade jewelry using natural resources from Peru. Our products range from butterfly wings, seeds, and tagua nuts, to fish scales and cow bones. Artesano means artisan in Spanish. Sano translates to healthy, and that is what it is, healthy art. So you can feel good about wearing it!

The Citrus Organic Cafe
The Citrus Organic Cafe will be featuring: Chicken Pot Pie, Chicken Spinach Casserole, Quinoa and White bean Chili, Artichoke and Fontina Dip, Chicken and Kale Hand Pies, Citrus Signature Power Bars, Tofu Blondies, Chocolate Biscotti, Rosemary Greuyere Biscuits, Chewy Carmel Popcorn Pretzel Bars, Lasagna Roll Ups, French Green Lentils. Plus, they will have Sugar Scrubs, Bath Salts & Muscle Rub.

Joe Arnold
Joe will have bread: Whole grain rounds and baguettes, Herbed French Baguettes, Pumpernickle loaves, and Honey Oatmeal loaves. Jellies: Jalapeno, Kumquat and candied jalapenos. Plants: Camellias and tomato starters

Soap Pedaler
Along with all of the other fabulous products that the Soap Pedaler brings on her bike, Celeste has great soaps made from Farmers Market products. Sandalwood soap made with Ocheesee cream, Sweet Orange and peppermint soap made with Twin Oaks Farm duck egg yolks and Oatmeal, Milk and Honey soap with Clear Creek Farms honey! In addition to her regular fare, Celeste will be serving lemon poppy seed soap cake slices.

Please note:
We work very hard at providing up-to-date info about the products that each vendor has at the weekly market. However, in providing a timely weekly newsletter, there are times when the vendor cannot verify what he/she will have that weekend at the market by the time we are publishing the newsletter. Thanks so much for understanding!

Featured Article​

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Today's Food System: All Drugged Up
by Laurie David (The Huffington Post)

The next time you're feeling sick, think twice before going to your doctor for answers. Look down at your plate, instead. Hidden in your hamburger or smoked ham may be something you didn't want or expect on the menu -- antibiotic-resistant superbugs. Instead of protecting you from infectious diseases, antibiotics might simply be making you sick. Just last month, the FDA confirmed that 80 pecent of all antibiotics used in the U.S. go to animal agriculture. No joke, 80 percent! This is true insanity and scientists fear that this extreme overuse of antibiotics is putting our children, elderly and families at serious risk.

When antibiotics are used (as they have been since the 1940s), they kill off all targeted bacteria, except for those that by chance have a favorable mutation. These survivors go on to multiply, producing a drug resistant army of bacteria. It's evolution at its finest. The bottom line? The more we use antibiotics, the more resistant strains develop. In many cases, these can infect humans, leading to prolonged illness or even death because the standard treatment no longer works. People stay sick longer, spreading resistant bacteria to others, all while putting a huge strain on our medical system. According to the Natural Resources Defense Council the scientific consensus is that non-therapeutic use of antibiotics in livestock animals is a serious threat to public health. Yet, the vast majority (the previously mentioned astounding 80 percent) of antibiotics used in the U.S. is used on livestock animals, much of it on animals that are not sick. In fact, the FDA has recognized, since at least 1977 that the use of some antibiotics (and 80 percent is a heck of a lot more than "some") for non-therapeutic uses in livestock animals poses a risk to human health because of the rise of antibacterial resistance. They have acknowledged themselves the danger so its not much of a stretch to demand the FDA move quickly to withdraw the use of these antibiotics for livestock animals who aren't sick. If the FDA does not act quickly, as it should, then Congress should move ahead with legislation to ban such uses (Congresswoman Louise Slaughter from NY is introducing a bill she first submitted in 2009. Email her your support).

It's just common sense: antibiotics should be protected, used only when necessary and in the most effective manner as determined by medical professionals. But that's not what's happening. In our corporate-controlled food system, factory farmers routinely feed antibiotics to their cattle, pigs, chickens and other animals. Sometimes these antibiotics are meant to cure illnesses but often they are used to spur growth and weight gain in their animals, fattening them up for our growing American appetites. Meatless Mondays, anyone?

And even when antibiotics are needed to actually cure infections in livestock, these illnesses are anything but natural -- caused instead by horrible conditions, in which animals are crowded into filthy, confined spaces, spreading disease at alarming rates, all to keep up with growing American appetites. As has been reported, every year more than 90 thousand Americans die from bacterial infections that have developed a resistance to antibiotics. That's number exceeds the death toll from AIDS, car accidents and prostate cancer combined. In many cases, these deaths might have been prevented if only the appropriate antibiotic still worked. It's shameful and repulsive that so much of our scientific genius goes into producing drugs for our livestock -- allowing big factory farming operations to keep animals in vile conditions, forced to gain weight at excessive and unnatural rates. The reckless use of these drugs puts the lives of our children in danger. When rushed to the hospital, patients deserve to be given the most effective medicines, not told that the best drugs were already used up on ill-treated livestock.

There's something seriously wrong with a food system that requires 80 percent of the country's antibiotics just to maintain itself. This food isn't healthy, and it's making -- and keeping -- us sick.

Seaside Farmer's Market Sponsors:

 

[Susan Horn]

spring delicacy

I'm so proud of and grateful for the Seaside Market and its progress. Jen and all the vendors have worked so hard to make delicious, clean, locally produced foods available to our area, and the market's loyal customers are a huge part of the success too.

I'm just saying thanks to everybody who's been a part of this process in any way. And to say if you haven't, do yourself a favor and check it out!

Disclaimer: although we do own a small farm in Alabama and have from time to time been vendors at the market, we're not actively involved with the market at this time. i.e., I'm not hawking my own wares!

I must say, though -- if you get a chance to sample lightly braised or sauteed brassica buds, do so without a second thought. (Maybe Charles and Shueh Mei of Dragonfly Farm will have some at the market?) Our collards are bolting, and we cut the buds out of them as an experiment in prolonging their leaf production (experts disagree on whether this will work).

We'd heard recently that these little almost-flowers are quite a delicacy, so we cooked up a batch last night and tossed them in with fingerling potatoes, sauteed bell pepper, maple cured bacon, sauteed grape tomatoes, lemon zest; and sauced with olive oil, garlic, black pepper and really good parmesan cheese. A squeeze of lemon at the table.

The buds had a texture sort of like rapini but a much milder flavor.

 

[Teresa]

Saturday March 12, 2011. 9am-1pm

Seaside Farmers Market
Saturday March 12, 2011
9am-1pm


Located in the Amphitheater in Seaside behind Raw and Juicy on Co. Hwy. 30A , Santa Rosa Beach, Florida

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Greetings!
Hi, Friends! We look forward to see you at the Seaside Farmers Market this beautiful & sunny Saturday morning from 9:00am to 1:00pm. Remember to get here early because this weekend means Spring Break is fully upon us!

Come support your growing local food community! Ride your bike or walk to the market and bring Fido, your kids & your friends too. And, don't forget to bring your own basket or market bag to carry home all of your delicious treasures. Come taste a sampling of delicious and nutritious food from variety of vendors.

Finally, please check out our independent film series called Growing Local: The Naked Truth About Your Food. The film series is presented by Raw & Juicy and Twin Oaks Farm. It is the last Tuesday of the month at the Seaside Repertory Theatre at 6:30pm, the next screening will be a series of shorts about our food system on March 29th. Artesano Jewels in Fort Walton Beach hosts a film on the second Tuesday of the month at Fountain Square in downtown Fort Walton Beach.

See you this weekend!
- Raw and Juicy

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them? Rose Kennedy

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This Week at the Market
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Raw & Juicy
Raw & Juicy
Raw and Juicy will be in full swing this weekend and all of their delicious and healthful offerings will be available at the airstream. Come by for oatmeal or a yogurt parfait, fresh juice or spring rolls, and of course the KALE CHIPS and GRANOLA will be there too!

Moonlight Microfarm
Moonlight Micro-Farm will have heirloom garden seeds, organic sprout seeds, and fresh sprouts. This week's sprouts are French Garden and China Rose Radish. New heirloom seeds this week include several varieties of organic lettuce - Flame & Baby Oakleaf, organic tomatoes - Evergreen & Moonglow, and flowers - Empress of India nasturtium, Night-scented tobacco, and Mongolian giant sunflowers! If all goes well, we'll also have our first batch of sunny's (sunflower shoots), grown naturally from organic seed. Check our facebook page on Friday for the sunny progress report and photos.

All our garden seeds are select heirlooms from reputable sources that we hand package in re-sealable paper envelopes. All our sprout seeds are certified organic and hand packaged in polyzip bags. All our micro-greens and sunny's are grown from certified organic seed using fresh water and worm tea collected from our own worm farm. The worm tea boosts the nutritional value, helps shed seed hulls, and provides the necessary nutrients for optimal flavor. Become a fan on our facebook page! http://www.facebook.com/moonlightmicrofarm

Kinowas Cowboy Cookies
Kinowas Cowboy Cookies
Delicious and addictive, these organic morsels of delight are baked with love and music. Kinowa's Original Cowboy Cookies...bet you can't eat just one! Gluten Free variety available, too. Anne wanders the market with a great basket of cookies...catch her for your goodies!

Clear Creek Farms
Clear Creek Farms will have the first of our new jelly's at this week's market. We will have Mayhaw butter, Mayhaw jelly, Fig preserves, Blackberry, Raspberry and Strawberry preserves and 2 other surprises. Please come enjoy our new sweet offerings along with our wonderful local Honey!

Ocheesee Creamery
Ocheesee Creamery
The Wesselhoeft's will be at the market this weekend with local certified Pure Jersey Products and their warm smiles. Skim Milk, Whole MIlk, Butter, Cream and Cheese. If you haven't had fresh dairy this is a real treat and very well priced. All products come in traditional milk bottles and require a deposit, support your local farmer here!

Twin Oaks Farm
www.twinoaksfarm.net
NEW Organic Hot Chocolate Mix: Just raw organic cacao powder and evaporated cane juice... It's hot chocolate the swiss way. NEW Organic Finger Food: Cute, scrumptious little snacks to hold with 2 fingers, made at the farm the good old fashioned way. This week there's mini orange cakes & mini cranberry cakes. They are made of 100% organic ingredients in easy to carry around little bags and yes they will contain sugar and cream and fat and all the goodies your body needs.
Farm Fresh Organic Chicken and Ducks: They roam freely on pasture, and are fed a certified organic mix of real grain without soy. They are a slow growing breed that takes 12 weeks to maturity and typically range between 4lb and 5lb. NO SOY, plenty of bugs, grass and sunshine, the result is a chicken like no other, experience the taste of Real Food.
Twin Oaks Farm sells whole chicken only, frozen, at $8/lb and the ducks at $10/lb.
Please pre-order your chicken/duck, we do not take extra ones at the market.
Chicken broth "starter kit" includes head/feet/gizzard or all you need to make the perfect chicken broth.
100% Grass Fed Local Beef: Premium ground beef $8/lb, T-Bone Steak $16/lb, Top Sirloin $16/lb. Vaccum packed and frozen.
Farm Fresh Organic Eggs: Yes, just a few days of decent temperatures ... that's all what they were asking for !!! They are produced by happy chickens who run in the sun, who eat bugs and grass and are having a good time being at the farm, they are fed a certified organic mix of real grains without soy. Between splashing in the pool and roaming wide for bugs the little ducks find time to produce incredible eggs : big, bold, dense and packed with 3 times the nutrient of a chicken eggs. We have duck eggs at the market every week. Are you allergic to chicken eggs? Duck eggs are the alternative. Organic Grey Sea Salt and Herbs Rub: Grey Sea Salt is formed as the sea water flows into the Guerande marshes, in France, during high tides. It is hand harvested using skills and methods that are over a thousand years old. It is mixed with the herbs grown in the Twin Oaks Farm garden. Use it as a rub or to sprinkle over your favorite dishes, it is divine. This week: Organic Grey Salt and Lemon.
Twin Oaks Farm Organic Dog Cookies: Made with our own organic chicken and chicken broth.
Cranberry Chutney: Made with fresh organic cranberry and just divine with ducks or chickens ....
Preserves: Made right at the farm, we either grow the fruits or buy from small local growers. No pectin, No citric acid, No ascorbic acid. Just fresh fruits and certified organic evaporated cane juice. The collection includes: Strawberry, Blueberry, Peach, Fig, 3 Agrumes, Pear - Calamondine, Golden Plum & Mango Chutney.

Made by Amy
Homemade Sweets and Treats. We sell fresh baked sweet breads and other homemade goodies. We used local farm fresh eggs, local honey, fresh milk from the farm and the freshest produce from the farm. Bread flavors include: Chocolate chocolate chip, chocolate peanut butter, apple cinnamon, pumpkin cheesecake, dark chocolate with pecans, banana walnut, lemon poppy, zucchini, vanilla chocolate chip, and butterscotch. Upon special order any of these can be done gluten free, dairy free, splenda, stevia, truvia, raw sugar, multi-grain.

Ali Baba
Come get your ready -to-eat eastern Mediterranean Greek lunch! Gyros, Hummus, Tzaziki Sauce, Dolmas, Feta Cheese, Potato Salad, Pita Bread, Bean salad, and Pickles.

Artesano Jewelry
Artesano Jewelry
We make handmade jewelry using natural resources from Peru. Our products range from butterfly wings, seeds, and tagua nuts, to fish scales and cow bones. Artesano means artisan in Spanish. Sano translates to healthy, and that is what it is, healthy art. So you can feel good about wearing it!

The Citrus Organic Cafe
The Citrus Organic Cafe will be featuring: Chicken Pot Pie, Chicken Spinach Casserole, Quinoa and White bean Chili, Artichoke and Fontina Dip, Chicken and Kale Hand Pies, Citrus Signature Power Bars, Tofu Blondies, Chocolate Biscotti, Rosemary Greuyere Biscuits, Chewy Carmel Popcorn Pretzel Bars, Lasagna Roll Ups, French Green Lentils. Plus, they will have Sugar Scrubs, Bath Salts & Muscle Rub.

Joe Arnold
Joe will have bread: Whole grain rounds and baguettes, Herbed French Baguettes, Pumpernickle loaves, and Honey Oatmeal loaves. Jellies: Jalapeno, Kumquat and candied jalapenos. Plants: Camellias and tomato starters plus herbs Catnip and Santo Cilantro.

Soap Pedaler
Along with all of the other fabulous products that the Soap Pedaler brings on her bike, Celeste has great soaps made from Farmers Market products. Sandalwood soap made with Ocheesee cream, Sweet Orange and peppermint soap made with Twin Oaks Farm duck egg yolks and Oatmeal, Milk and Honey soap with Clear Creek Farms honey! In addition to her regular fare, Celeste will be serving lemon poppy seed soap cake slices.

The Cranky Yankee
Tomato plants, pepper plants, some miscellaneous herbs and swiss chard


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