Thursday, July 26, 2012

WIC and Senior Nutrition Program

We are an approved grower  for the Farmers Market Nutrition Program.  This means that we can take WIC FMNP and Senior FMNP checks.

If you or someone you know is a WIC participant, you can go to the local WIC office to get your Farmers Market checks.  Or, you can come to the Millwood Market and pick your checks up there.  This year, WIC participants are given $20 of checks in $5 denominations.

If you are a senior living on a low income, you may want to check out the Senior FMNP
  • Seniors apply for SFMNP benefits through local agencies. Eligible seniors (income below 185% of Federal Poverty level, a gross income of $1,678.91 a month for one in 2011 AND 60 years and older.) ** Source WSU Extension

 Senior FMNP particiants are given $40 of checks in $4 denominations.





We accept both WIC and Senior FMNP checks.  Look for this sign to determine growers who are participating in this program.

At the market yesterday, we created a $5 special to match the amount of the WIC checks (and for anyone to take advantage of).  For $5, participants received 1 head of lettuce, 1 bunch of carrots, and one small box of potatoes.  This gave the buyer a $1 savings over buying all the items separately.

As always, contact us to purchase produce or to see when we will be at the Millwood Farmers Market.  We don't sell there every week because we have so many family obligations this summer too!

Monday, July 16, 2012

Lettuce, Radishes, and Kale

We are selling lettuce, radishes, and kale from our farm this week.  We will not be at the Millwood Farmer's Market.  We are taking Wednesday evening off since it is our wedding anniversary.  Fourteen years!

We will be open selling produce on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday this week from 1-5pm.  Come on out!

We have almost 50 heads of Red Cross Butterhead Lettuce for sale at $2/head.  This lettuce has a nice delicate texture and is beautiful to look at.

Red Cross Lettuce


Our kale is $2/bunch or $4 for a large bag.

Radishes are $2/bunch and we have two types of radishes available: a round red radish and a long french radish.

 Tomatoes and cucumbers should be available next week. Yum!

"Socrates" Cucumbers

"New Girl" Tomatoes

Pictures of cucumbers and tomatoes trellised in the greenhouse.  To see our greenhouse made from recycled materials, click here.  A recycled greenhouse was one of our projects last year.

Monday, July 9, 2012

This Week at the Market

I believe Spokane has joined the rest of the country in a heat wave. Temperatures in the 90's are expected all week. Heat loving plants like tomatoes, peppers, and eggplant rejoice!

It is hard to keep lettuce and greens looking good and not wilting at the farmers market. We are careful to harvest our lettuce very early in the morning. The roots will still be attached to allow us to keep the plant cool in cold water. We will also offer produce for sale directly from our farm. Contact us to find a time to come and select your veggies!


Our Baby Lettuce Mesclun Mix comes bagged and is ready for the salad bowl and includes many types of lettuce and other greens. Currently we use red lettuce, green lettuce, spinach, chard, and beet leaves. We don't include any spicy greens in our lettuce mix. The spicy greens are found in our Asian Greens Mix.


Available this week:

Red Early Potatoes
Adirondack Blue Potatoes (All Blue)
Garlic
Lettuce
Baby Lettuce Mesclun Mix
Radishes
Sugar Snap Peas
Spinach
Kale
Swiss Chard
Turnips
Golden Beets
Pink Baby Beets
Kohlrabi

There is still time to reserve your all natural chicken too. These chickens are guaranteed to have no antibiotics or hormones and are fed a local blend of dry peas, wheat, and barley without any feed additives.

Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Millwood Farmer's Market

This is our first year selling our vegetables and other farm products beyond our family and friends. Last summer, we ventured out to many Spokane area Farmer's Markets to see if this would be an option for us. We ended up applying as a vendor to only one Farmer's Market - the Millwood Farmer's Market that is held on Wednesdays from 3-7pm in the parking lot of Millwood Presbyterian Church in the Spokane Valley. We chose this market due to its smaller size and family friendly atmosphere.


We are selling vegetable starts (including tomato plants with ripening tomatoes on them!), vegetables, handmade aprons, and handmade woodworking. For the month of July, we will take reservations for our naturally raised meat chickens. Chickens are $15 each for approximately a five pound bird, or roughly $3/pound.
We are not selling at the market every week. We have a few family commitments that will keep us home on some Wednesdays. The vegetables keep growing even if we don't get to the market, so if you are looking for fresh locally grown produce, contact us! We may be able to supply your needs directly from our farm located near the Spokane International Airport and approximately five minutes from downtown Spokane.

We also are happy to host visitors or groups of kids. We have received visits in the past from preschool groups, homeschool kids and parents, and individuals.

Available this week:


Baby Leaf Lettuce Mix
Full heads of Asian Greens
Kale
Spinach
Swiss Chard
White Turnips
New Potatoes
Fresh Garlic

Also potted plants of:

Tomatoes
Bell and Hot Peppers
Kale
Cabbage
Cauliflower
Broccoli
Bok Choy
Greek Oregano

Monday, July 2, 2012

Naturally Raised Chickens!

We are raising meat chickens over the next couple of months. They will be raised without antibiotics, sulfa drugs, hormones, or anything of that sort. Hormones are not legal for use in chickens, but both sulfa drugs (not considered an antibiotic by the FDA) and antibiotics are used by large chicken operations that supply the meat at the grocery stores. We believe that the taste is so much better than supermarket chicken too!

We are feeding a local feed mixture of wheat, barley and peas from farmers in E Washington and N Idaho (much of it comes from the Palouse). This is not organic feed, but we love that it is local to this area. We intentionally are not feeding any soybeans or corn as they are both not local and also the two most genetically modified feeds in the US.

The price of the chickens is $15/each or approximately $3/pound for an average bird of 5 pounds. A $5 deposit per bird is due with your order to hold your chicken(s). The remaining $10 is due when picking up your chicken. We have a limited number of birds available. In the event that we are unable to deliver a chicken to you (death loss is possible with any animal), we will refund your deposit. The earliest orders will be filled first.

You will take home a whole "dead" chicken in a plastic bag - just like in the grocery stores. The chickens will be "bone-in" - you won't be receiving just chicken breasts. You will need to pick up the cooled and bagged chicken within 4 hours of butchering.

Butchering date is estimated at Saturday September 1 - Labor Day weekend. If you plan to be away, a friend or relative can pick your chicken up for you.

Please contact us to reserve your chickens.