Strawberries are ready!

Anyone want strawberries early this week? Kenny and I have been in the patch all morning picking. They won’t last till Saturday. With rain expected this week we probably won’t have them Saturday morning. They are kinda fickle and don’t do we’ll in the extreme heat and rain.

I will be at the market from 4-7 on Wednesday with Strawberries and a few other items.  We have some asparagus, green onions, radishes and a few new heads of ithaca lettuce; that’s about it for us on Wednesday. If you want to pre-order just send me a quick e-mail and I will be sure to set them back for you.

A few other vendors will be there as well… Laura from Road Side Stand will be there with her fresh bread, and word has it there will be “Strawberry Bread” available.  Chef Walker will also be at the market cooking up his goodies. Valerie, the honey lady will also be there.  There may even be another vendor there with homemade crafts.

Hope to see some of you there. Have a great week!

There will be NO pre-orders this week (that’s my department and I’m slacking my duties) but they will continue next week… uninterrupted thru September!

Available this week… Swiss chard, spinach, and kale. A variety of lettuce… Red Sails, Simpson Elite and Grand Rapids.  Kenny will have radishes, green onions, asparagus, and rhubarb. If Kenny remembers to cut this week there will also be fresh mint. Strawberries should be ready for the Memorial weekend!

We will have plenty of fresh herbs and garden plants available this weekend. We have basil, dill, parsley, cilantro, oregano, thyme, sage, tarragon and rosemary. Kenny also has a nice variety of heirloom tomatoes, grape and cherry tomato plants.

Don’t forget to pick up your farm-fresh, free-range eggs at the market; we have quail eggs available as well.

Thanks for supporting us with your purchases at the market,

Val & Kenny

Reminder:  My friend Valerie Shealy’s local honey will also be available this weekend.

Shealy Farms ~ Floyds Knobs, Indiana

This week we will be taking orders for the greens we have available… Swiss Chard, spinach, and kale. A variety of lettuce… some mixed baby lettuce, Red Sails, Simpson Elite and Grand Rapids.  Kenny should have some radishes again this week, as well as green onions and cabbage. Just a reminder that we have been selling out early each week… so come early or pre-order to make sure you get the items you need.

We will have plenty of fresh herbs and garden plants available this weekend. We have basil, dill, parsley, cilantro, oregano, thyme, sage, tarragon and rosemary. Kenny also has a nice variety of heirloom tomatoes, grape and cherry tomatoes.

Don’t forget to pick up your farm-fresh, free-range eggs at the market; we have quail eggs available as well.

Thanks for supporting us with your purchases at the market,

Val & Kenny

Reminder:  My friend Valerie Shealy’s local honey will also be available this weekend.

Shealy Farms ~ Floyds Knobs, Indiana

This week we will be taking orders for the greens we have available… baby lettuce, spinach, and kale. Kenny should have some radishes again this week. Just a reminder that we have been selling out early each week… so come early or pre-order to make sure you get the items you need.

Don’t forget to pick up your farm-fresh, free-range eggs at the market; we have quail eggs available as well.  I plan on having some of my Strawberry Balsamic Jam and  Spiced Blueberry Jam at the market Saturday.

Thanks for supporting us with your purchases at the market,

Val & Kenny

Reminder:  My friend Valerie Shealy’s local honey will also be available this weekend.

Recycling facts that may interest you…

• About one-third of an average dump is made up of  packaging material!
• The U.S. is the #1 trash-producing country in the world at 1,609 pounds per person per year. This means that 5% of the world’s people generate 40% of the world’s waste.
• The highest point in Hamilton County, Ohio (near  Cincinnati) is “Mount Rumpke.” It is actually a mountain of trash at the Rumpke sanitary landfill towering 1045 ft. above sea level.
• Out of every $10 spent buying things, $1 (10%) goes for packaging that is thrown away. Packaging represents about 65% of household trash.
• Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to run a TV for three hours — or the equivalent of a half a gallon of  gasoline.
• More aluminum goes into beverage cans than any  other product.
• Because so many of them are recycled, aluminum cans account for less than 1% of the total U.S. waste stream, according to EPA estimates.
• An aluminum can that is thrown away will still  be a can 500 years from now!
• There is no limit to the amount of times an  aluminum can be recycled.
• We use over 80,000,000,000 aluminum soda cans  every year.
• At one time, aluminum was more valuable than  gold!
• If you had a 15-year-old tree and made it into  paper grocery bags, you’d get about 700 of them. A busy supermarket could use
  all of them in under an hour! This means in one year, one supermarket can go  through over 6 million paper bags! Imagine how many supermarkets there are just  in the United States!!!
• The average American uses seven trees a year in paper, wood, and other products made from trees. This amounts to about 2,000,000,000 trees per year!
• The amount of wood and paper we throw away each year is enough to heat 50,000,000 homes for 20 years.
• Approximately 1 billion trees worth of paper are thrown away every year in the U.S.
• Americans use 85,000,000 tons of paper a year; about 680 pounds per person.
• The average household throws away 13,000 separate pieces of paper each year. Most is packaging and junk mail.

These recycling facts have been compiled from various
sources including the National Recycling Coalition, the Environmental
Protection Agency, and Earth911.org. While I make every effort to provide
accurate information, I make no warranty or guarantee that the facts presented
here are exact. We welcome all polite corrections to our information.

Kenny is at home working, he planted broccoli, cauliflower and cabbage last week and is planting our “candy onions” this week for the market. He just keeps working and I keep traveling, what a guy!  I’ll be home just in time to get the greens washed and the eggs packed for market on Saturday.

This week we will be taking orders for the greens we have available… baby lettuce, spinach, and kale.  Don’t forget to pick up your farm-fresh, free-range eggs at the market. We have quite the variety… brown, green and quail eggs too. Just a reminder that we have been selling out early each week… so come early or pre-order to make sure you get the items you need.

My friend Valerie Shealy’s local honey will also be available this weekend.

Thanks for supporting us with your purchases at the market,

Val & Kenny

Recycling facts that may interest you…

• About one-third of an average dump is made up of  packaging material!
• The U.S. is the #1 trash-producing country in the world at 1,609 pounds per person per year. This means that 5% of the world’s people generate 40% of the world’s waste.
• The highest point in Hamilton County, Ohio (near  Cincinnati) is “Mount Rumpke.” It is actually a mountain of trash at the Rumpke sanitary landfill towering 1045 ft. above sea level.
• Out of every $10 spent buying things, $1 (10%) goes for packaging that is thrown away. Packaging represents about 65% of household trash.
• Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to run a TV for three hours — or the equivalent of a half a gallon of  gasoline.
• More aluminum goes into beverage cans than any  other product.
• Because so many of them are recycled, aluminum cans account for less than 1% of the total U.S. waste stream, according to EPA estimates.
• An aluminum can that is thrown away will still  be a can 500 years from now!
• There is no limit to the amount of times an  aluminum can be recycled.
• We use over 80,000,000,000 aluminum soda cans  every year.
• At one time, aluminum was more valuable than  gold!
• If you had a 15-year-old tree and made it into  paper grocery bags, you’d get about 700 of them. A busy supermarket could use
  all of them in under an hour! This means in one year, one supermarket can go  through over 6 million paper bags! Imagine how many supermarkets there are just  in the United States!!!
• The average American uses seven trees a year in paper, wood, and other products made from trees. This amounts to about 2,000,000,000 trees per year!
• The amount of wood and paper we throw away each year is enough to heat 50,000,000 homes for 20 years.
• Approximately 1 billion trees worth of paper are thrown away every year in the U.S.
• Americans use 85,000,000 tons of paper a year; about 680 pounds per person.
• The average household throws away 13,000 separate pieces of paper each year. Most is packaging and junk mail.

These recycling facts have been compiled from various
sources including the National Recycling Coalition, the Environmental
Protection Agency, and Earth911.org. While I make every effort to provide
accurate information, I make no warranty or guarantee that the facts presented
here are exact. We welcome all polite corrections to our information.

Now lets get back to farmer’s market news… this week we will be taking orders for the greens we have available… baby lettuce, spinach, and kale.  Don’t forget to pick up your farm-fresh, free-range eggs at the market. We have quite the variety… brown, green and quail eggs too. Just a reminder that we have been selling out early each week so come early or pre-order to make sure you get the items you need.

My friend Valerie Shealy’s local honey and fresh pecans from their South Carolina farm will be available this weekend.

Thanks for supporting us with your purchases at the market,

Val & Kenny

Roatan, Honduras

I’m back… and what a vacation!  The weather was gorgeous, everything was so luscious green and blooming; white sandy beaches, beautiful blue water, sunshine and warm breezes. No one could ask for anything better, I even managed to get a start on my summer tan!

This week we will be taking orders for the greens we have available… baby lettuce, spinach, and kale.  Don’t forget to pick up your farm-fresh, free-range eggs at the market. We have quite the variety… brown, green and quail eggs too. Just a reminder that we have been selling out early each week so come early or pre-order to make sure you get the items you need.

Honey will also be available at the market this weekend.  My friend Valerie Shealy’s local honey will be there, fresh from farms in Starlight and Floyds Knobs Indiana.

Thanks for supporting us with your purchases at the market,

Val & Kenny