Coming in June: The Urban Homesteading Fair
Do your friends drool over your special cake recipe? Do you make delicious homebrews? Do you dabble in cheesemaking, food fermentation, or pickling? If you have a killer hot sauce recipe, bake great pies, or whip up excellent salsas, then you will love our first ever Urban Homesteading Fair! Think county fair with an urban twist.
The categories for judging will be released next week and entries are encouraged by everyone. Here is your chance to have your prize backyard chicken judged by a panel of professional chicken farmers, or have your homemade pilsner taste tested by St Louis brewery owners. And, yes, blue ribbons will be handed out!
Look for all the details next week.
Local Harvest Carrot Recipe Contest
Do you have a carrot recipe that blows everyone away? Are you up to the challenge of developing one? Local Harvest Grocery & Cafe wants to see your best carrot recipes. Local Harvest chefs will judge the recipes and the winning recipe writer will get a $50 gift certificate to Local Harvest and their recipe will be served at the cafes for a week!
Email us your recipes at: contact(at)tgmarket(dot)org
The deadline for entries is May 20. The winner will be announced in that week's TGFM email newsletter.
Rules: None. Get cooking!
What's Fresh This Week
Strawberries are starting! Better get there early if you want some, though. Asparagus and tender spring greens are in abundance, also carrots, early cabbage, and radishes. Lots of plants for your garden still.
This Week's Vendor List
Season Long Vendors
Baetje Farms
The Big Cheese
Biver Farms
Black Bear Bakery
Buila Family Farm
Centennial Farms
City Seeds Urban Farm
Companion Baking Company
Country Sprout Organics
del Carmen
Double Star Farms
The Farmers' Larder
The Garden Basket / Westover Farms
Hanley Fold Farm
Holy Crepe!
Hot Skillet Farms
Ivan's Fig Farm
Kakao Chocolate
Kitchen Kulture
Kuva Coffee Company
Liberty Farm
Live Springs Berries & Produce
Live Springs Farm
Lulu's Local Eatery
Marcoot Jersey Creamery
Might As Well Ranch
Missouri Grass Fed Beef
Murray's Orchard
Our City Farm
Our Garden
Ozark Forest Mushrooms
Pie Oh My
Queen's Cuisine
The ReTrailer
Robins Apiaries
Salume Beddu
Silent Oaks Farm
Sunflower Savannah
Three Rivers Community Farm
Traveling Tea
Utterback Farms
Whetstone Farm
Whisk: A Sustainable Bakeshop
Windy Lake Farm
YellowTree Farm
Yoder's Produce
Occasional Farm Vendors
Crown Valley Organics
Freeland's Vegetable & Berry
Kimker Hill Farm
Kreilich Farm
Occasional Artisan & Non Profit Vendors
Amanda O'Rourke
Washington Avenue Post
Tim Ryan, Market Treasurer, 1942-2013
Many of you met, laughed, and visited with Tim Ryan, our market manager and treasurer (organic bean counter), as well as father and father-in-law to us, the market founders. Tim battled cancer in 2012 and it went into remission, but it came back in early 2013. This time treatment did not work and his health deteriorated quickly. Tim passed away on Wednesday, April 3.
Tim has been part of the market since our first opening day in 2006. What he thought would be one day helping at our booth, turned into seven years of deep involvement with the market. He has been key to the market's success. He secured our 501c3 status, managed our daily booth operations, organized vendor applications, recorded donations, and problem-solved as the market grew rapidly. For seven years he faithfully showed up at the market every Saturday, rain or shine, cold or heat. Even after multiple surgeries in the spring of 2012 for his melanoma, he still did not miss a market all season.
Tim loved being at the market and seeing everyone there, getting to know many of you, always ready to help, always wanting to help the market succeed. We, at the market, all learned a lot from him, and we will do well if we can follow in his footsteps and be as good and kind as he has been.
Thank you for keeping Tim in your thoughts and prayers. Thank you all for the kindness you have shown him and for the great community that you have brought to the market. This thriving sense of community was an inspiration for Tim, and it is an inspiration for all of us.
Sincerely,
Jenny Ryan & Patrick Horine
