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"Rain, rain go away..."
Cure the rainy blues with some local foods.
Check out the selection of meats, veggies and breads. Want a special treat? Try Dandelion Jelly made fresh from Upchurch Meats and more.
We’ve also got a new recipe online featuring local foods available this week. Look under the recipe section to find out more.
Eat those weeds! They're local, delicious and nutritious!
We will be featuring different recipes each week featuring the local products and wild crafted edibles that can be commonly found. This weeks recipe features dandelion blossoms and wild morels, oyster or shiitake mushrooms that you grow yourself from Upchurch Meats fruiting mushroom logs.
Local and Wild Wrap:makes 8 servings can be frozen
6 *eggs (lightly beat with fork)
1/2 lb *pork sausage thawed
1/2 cup *wild or shiitake mushrooms chopped
*seasoning salt to taste
2 *green onions finely chopped
1/2 cup torn dandelion blossoms(forage from a chemical free yard)
1 cup GMO free farmers cheese
fill wraps with egg/sausage mixture and top with onions and dandelion blossoms.
you can disguise the dandelions by cooking them with the eggs and sausage mix instead of serving raw.
WOW! Upchurch Meats and More is selling Shiitake mushroom logs that are already fruiting. Tiffany has been carefully tending her logs for 2 years and imagine how excited she is to see them burst with mushrooms finally…and she’s sharing them with us, so we can grow our own shiitakes! Woohooo!!! If cared for they can produce for 5 years!
Support your local growers!
Eggs and seasoning salt available from Manoor Manor
Maple Cottage Farms also has eggs this week.
Upchurch Meats has pork sausage
Green’s Garden has green onions
Seeds, Plants and Food for Spring!
Is your green thumb ready to grow? Support other local growers this garden season!
Null Farms Produce has lots of vegetable starts this week that can be planted now.
Hughey Homestead has organically grown heirloom seeds available also at great prices.
We welcome new grower Upchurch Meats and More. They offer pork raised with GMO free corn, no hormones or antibiotics.
We're in the News!
If you haven’t seen it already, check out our story this week in the Southeast Missourian here
“We’re in the Newspaper!”
But, let’s get back to reality. We’ve got more great deals this week! With your order of $25 or more, get a free pint of fresh peach ice cream from Cream of the Crust! Buy two loaf breads from Green’s Garden get a small Italian flatbread free!
Plants are beginning to grow as spring is springing! Stay tuned for more veggies to come in the next few weeks. As always, thanks for your support and for your work in creating our local food system.
The growers and artisans of Cape Locally Grown
Free peach ice cream with every $25 order! Celebrate Spring!
Yeah! Warm temps are here! March has come “in like a lion”…we’ll see if the saying holds true and it “goes out like a lamb.”
Cream of the Crust, your local hometown ice cream maker, is offering a free pint of fresh peach ice cream with every $25 order!!!
Double B Ranch is restocking the freezer! Everything is available, even roasts! We’ll be updating amounts soon.
Lettuce and Spinach will be back! Null Farms has recovered after losing lettuce due to heater failure and will have some available soon. Green’s Garden’s low tunnels are free of snow and growing again!
Thanks for your patience and support!
Loving Local!
Happy Valentine’s Day Friends! Check out our LOVING LOCAL Specials!
Celebrate this Valentines Day with locally made ice cream by Cream of the Crust and chocolate syrup made by The Hughey Homestead, 10 PERCENT OFF THIS WEEK. All grass-fed steaks from Double B Ranch are 10 PERCENT OFF THIS WEEK also. They sell them for a great price compared to any other grass-fed steaks we could find. Just another reason to celebrate LOVING LOCAL.
Faithfully Fed is a new take out food service in Cape that is commited to buying locally grown products for their menus. Thank you Faithfully Fed! Please show them your support.
Why Local Rocks!
Why buy local?!?
Produce is more nutrient dense.
The more time it takes from the farm to your plate the less nutrition you end up with.
Your $$$ is supporting the local economy. When the local economy is flourishing you contribute to a more stable future.
Small producers can produce a higher quality product.
You make some great friends!!!
Be part of the solution! BUY LOCAL!
Spring Fever
Yes! We get a “Spring Break” this winter with this warmer weather! It’s time to plant broccoli, cabbage and other cole crops. We are gearing up for spring!
We welcome Barbi Kelley from Kelley’s Green Acres. She has hardy homemade cotton dish/washcloths for sale. Her and her husband are looking forward to growing more on their green acres! They are also great customers of Cape Locally Grown! Thanks for your support!
Thanks to all of you for your interest and support of local growers and local artisans.
Happy New Year!
Happy New Year! We hope your Christmas was great and you’re having a happy new year in 2015!
As we are looking at seed catalogs, tree nurseries and poultry hatcheries, we all are looking forward to a great new year and to an increase in both quantity and diversity in your local food supply. It has been challenge to grow food in the winter, but we are learning to do the things necessary to take one step at a time. We thank you for your patience!
Take a look at our offerings this week. We welcome The Hughey Homestead offering unique organic food products to our list of growers.
Let us hear from you! We want Cape Locally Grown to meet the local food needs of our community, but we need your feedback. Let us know what is working or not working in your experience with us. Your responses are confidential and we promise not to cry from constructive criticism!
Thanks again and thanks for supporting your local growers and artisans!
Christmas Time!
