It’s finally local food time
From our latest newsletter…
Hope to see you Saturday morning to celebrate the first produce offerings.
For CSA members, we’re gearing up for the first pickup on Thursday, May 22nd from 3 pm until 7 and will have some wonderful fresh produce and eggs for you to enjoy.
You will receive an email with details about your basket next week. Instead of using boxes this year we decided to utilize reusable shopping totes and encourage our customers to bring their own tote (or basket) if they wish. We have some for CSA members offered at our cost, which is $2.50. Of course, we have plastic and paper bags on hand for backup.
Thanks, Susie
This Saturday come by the farm stand (in front of the store) for some of our first pickings from the garden. We’ll also have the first local tomatoes on the market – hydroponically grown in Manchester, KY. I’m usually not a fan of greenhouse tomatoes but these really are tasty (and have a wonderful tomato aroma) so until real summer tomatoes are ripe and ready let’s enjoy this preview!
We have some gorgeous hanging baskets that are Kentucky grown and gorgeous… just the thing to brighten up your porch this summer.
We also have a wonderful organic soil amendment we’re selling exclusively called ‘Starting Gate’ and I can bear witness to it kick starting our landscaping around the entrance. The compost, comprised of horse manure and straw, comes from Lantern Hill Farm of Midway where it has been well tended and composted for 3 years. We are selling it in 20 and 50-pound sacks. It lightens the soil, adding organic matter and nutrients to your garden. Just mix it in the top 2 inches of soil and watch your garden grow!
In addition we will also have some baby cooking greens from the farm, which are also good to eat dressed as a salad. Also, some fresh watercress from the farm, romaine lettuce, assorted herbs; and from the market, hot coffee; muffins; and fresh baked bread from Sunrise Bakery; a new delivery of local eggs and milk; and many prepared foods.
Not sure if we will have strawberries for this Saturday but we will have some next week along with more local asparagus.
We will be opening at 9 am Saturdays throughout the summer so we look forward to seeing you there bright and early!
Store hours are:
Wednesday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Saturday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Produce this week:
The First Local Tomatoes!
Hydroponically grown (and tasty) raised in Manchester, KY
Honest Farm baby cooking greens: Collards, Kale, Spinach, Rainbow Chard Honest Farm Watercress (freshly gathered from the spring)
Fresh Herb Bundles (mint, lovage, oregano, marjoram and more)
Texas Extra Sweet Onions and Extra Large Yellow Onions
Our Prepared Food Menu:
Spring Vegetable Soup
Housemade Pimento Cheese with Roasted Peppers and Jack Cheese
Tuna “Health” Salad with Local Eggs, Capers, Bell Peppe, and Grated Carrots
House special Chicken Salad with Local Honey-Djon Dressing,
black grapes, celery, and pecans)
Blueberry Muffins
Cowboy Cookies
Weisenberger Sweet Corn Muffins
‘Pure Kentucky’ items:
On tap: Heine Brothers’ organic, free-trade ‘Terrazu’ coffee and Midway Morning Whistle Organic Coffee
Brown’s Tastee Beer Cheese – Japapeno and ‘Regular Unleaded’
Fresh local pasture-raised eggs from Waterworks Farm, Shelby County
“Blue Butt” pork chops, and sausage from Larry and Mary Harp of Shelby County
Bluegrass Meadows Belgian Blue all-natural beef,
Schrock Family whole milk and chocolate milk with the cream on the top in glass bottles
Country Rock sorghum
Weisenberger Mills Products
Hosey Family Midway Honey
Bourbon Barrel smoked seasonings, Worcestershire sauce and soy sauce
Directions: Follow the signs to the end of Main Street (towards the bank). Make a left over the railroad tracks towards Midway Market. Take the first right onto Dudley Street. We’re in the large white building on the left with the red door @ 208 Dudley Street.
About Us: The purpose of the Honest Farm ‘Pure Kentucky’ Market is to create a year-round venue for Kentucky farmers and to raise community awareness of the value and healthfulness of locally grown foods. Our goal is to provide customers with a taste of the finest and most delicious foods grown or produced within a 100-mile radius of Midway. The market is a nonprofit enterprise of Honest Farm, Inc., a 501(c)3 organization dedicated to sustainable farming practices. For more information, go to www.honestfarm.org, or call (859) 846-4155 or (859) 533-0085.
