Summer Salad Days Labor Day Picnic Salads: Tomatoes This week’s newsletter is themed around easy picnic salads, featuring the end-of-summer favorite, tomatoes. Tomatoes, which are actually a fruit and not a vegetable, are loaded with all kinds of health benefits for the body. They are in fact, a highly versatile health product and due to […]
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Healthy Fair Food Remakes We know what you are thinking – there is no such thing as healthy fair food! Usually, I would agree, but being the farmers market, we thought we should at least try to remake your favorites with a healthy twist. While there’s nothing wrong with a special occasion treat, we’ve come
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Healthy Fair Food Remakes We know what you are thinking – there is no such thing as healthy fair food! Usually, I would agree, but being the farmers market, we thought we should at least try to remake your favorites with a healthy twist. While there’s nothing wrong with a special occasion treat, we’ve come
Bushel Basket Market: August 21st, 2013 Read More »
Chocolate Berry Parfait Makes 4 Servings Ingredients: 1 cup Fresh Strawberries 1 cup Fresh Blueberries 2 ripe avocado 1/2 cup cocoa powder 1/4 cup Honey 1/2 cup Milk 1 teaspoon vanilla extract Optional: Whip cream or Cool Whip for topping Directions: 1. Peel and quarter a ripe avocado. 2. Put avocado, cocoa powder, honey, and
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John LeBlanc is the owner of fresh. roasting. Fresh. is a micro coffee bean roastery, in every sense of the word “micro.” LeBlanc, roasts coffee beans inside of his parents’ garage in Saline. He created fresh. as “something to fall back on” after graduating from Eastern Michigan University, and it’s become a thriving business. LeBlanc
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Cooking with Kids It’s back to school time at the farmers market, and we want to help you prepare young people to get excited about eating healthy and fun with afterschool snacks. There’s so much talk these days about the marketing of high fat, high calorie snacks to kids – so we thought we’d put a new spin
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Cooking with Kids It’s back to school time at the farmers market, and we want to help you prepare young people to get excited about eating healthy and fun with afterschool snacks. There’s so much talk these days about the marketing of high fat, high calorie snacks to kids – so we thought we’d put a new spin
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H & H Sugarbush L.L.C. is a family run business making maple syrup since 2007. The farm has been family run for well over 100 years. Every spring the family taps maple trees throughout the woods and hand collect the sap. In the 2011 season, they produced 50 gallons of syrup. One interesting fact is that
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Build a Better Breakfast We all want to eat something good in the morning, but sometimes we just can’t find the time or the energy – the farmers market is here to help! The following recipes can be made on a lazy weekend morning or pre-made for a quick and tasty meal – either way,
Chelsea Farmers Market Newsletter: August 10, 2013 Read More »
Summer Ratatouille This French classic is sure to please and uses a lot of summer vegetables in the process! Serves 4| Hands-On Time: 10m | Total Time: 30m Ingredients 3 tablespoons olive oil 1 onion, thinly sliced 4 garlic cloves, peeled and sliced 1 small bay leaf 1 small eggplant, cut into 1/2-inch pieces (about 3 cups) 1 small zucchini, halved lengthwise and cut into
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