You definitely want a peach (or a plum, or pear) of this summer fruit before it’s gone!
What’s Fresh?
This week Squirrel is going nuts over new Edinboro Market t-shirts and even more sweet summer goodness! He’s picking up ground cherries from Fat Hawk Farm andHighland Farm, nectarines, red plums, pears, and donut peaches from Orton’s, and washing it all down with a strawberry cream soda from Natrona Bottling Co.
(that counts as fruit, right?)
New Producer Spotlight: Steel Toe Farm
Nate and Morgan Gilmore of Steel Toe Farm are our latest meat producers, offering various chicken cuts and whole chickens at the market. This 40-acre farm, located just northwest of Edinboro in Girard, also sells pasture-raised pork, beef, and turkey, which you can order directly from the farm. Concerned with supporting and developing northwestern PA’s food economy, Steel Toe opened a small licensed processing facility that offers custom-cut butchering to other local farms.
Picture credit: Steel Toe Farm.
New Producer Spotlight: Painterland Sisters
Tioga County, PA is home to the Painterland Sisters business. Stephanie and Hailey Painter are the sisters behind the yogurt created from the happy, pasture-raised cows on Painterland Farms. This 4th generation family-owned and operated dairy farm began in 1941 and uses no chemical fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides, or growth hormones on their animals. This yogurt is done in the skyr (pronounced “skeer”) style hailing from Iceland, which creates a thicker, smoother yogurt that is higher in nutrients and protein. If that didn’t sound good enough, this yogurt is also lactose-free, certified organic, and GMO-free.
Food for Thought:
Thank you for making our Farm to Table Dinner a truly low-waste event!
Our Farm to Table Dinner event on August 14th was a resounding success. Thank you to all who attended, donated, and supported this fundraiser. As you know, we requested that everyone bring their own table setting so we wouldn’t have to fill up a dumpster with disposable dishes and utensils. Teaming up with Conservation Compost allowed us to compost over 500+ pounds of waste from the meal prep and dinner scraps, leaving us with just 3.8 pounds of trash to send to the landfill.
Well done!!
Now accepting Little Free Library donations!
Our library has been thinning out at the market, so we wanted to put the word out that we are in need of new reading materials. We accept children’s literature, cooking and food-oriented books, and gardening and farming books.
Our goal is to provide access to fresh, locally grown food while being an entrepreneurial marketplace for food producers; and an understanding of the importance of both.