What's available for the July 18 pick-up event
Many thanks to all who have been ordering from us. The Sitka Local Foods Network will have produce available for purchase from 5 p.m. on Tuesday, July 14, through 8 p.m. on Thursday, July 16, using the Salt and Soil Marketplace website, http://www.saltandsoilmarketplace.com. Our pick-up event will be from 10 a.m. to noon on Saturday, July 18, at St. Peter's Fellowship Farm (located by the See House behind St. Peter's By The Sea Episcopal Church, 611 Lincoln Street). Here is what's available for purchase this week.
This week we will have 10 small farmer's choice veggie boxes, five boxes of greens, 10 salad bags, five small rhubarb bundles, five bags of basil, two bundles of broccolini, and three bags of snap peas.
Keep watching our Salt and Soil Marketplace page, because sometimes we have new items become available after the order period opens (for example, last week we added salad bags to our offerings). All of our produce is grown in Sitka and has a Certified Naturally Grown designation for sustainable agriculture practices.
Farmer's choice basket for July 18
The farmer's choice basket, at $20 each, will include a bundle of baby carrots, lettuce, a bundle of leeks and zucchini. Our greens boxes, at $20 each, will include a salad bag as well as bundles of chard and kale. Rhubarb bundles are $10 each, basil baggies $4 each, and salad bags $7 each.
New this week are our bundles of broccolini and bags of snap peas.
Broccolini bundle
Broccolini tastes similar of broccoli without the need to first cut them up. It can be eaten in the same way you would eat broccoli.
Snap pea baggie
Snap peas and sweet and crunchy. They are great for simply snacking on or adding to a salad. Snap peas are a hit with kids.
Once again, we will have our 2020 Sitka Local Foods Network tote bags, with our new logo designed by Alyssa Russell and Lisa Gilardi of The Hullabaloo Studio in consultation with our board of directors. These tote bags will be available for $12 each, and the funds raised will help support our efforts to grow food, host the farmers market, connect people to garden education classes, and sponsor the Sitka Food Business Innovation Contest. We also have some of our 2019 Sitka Farmers Market tote bags left in stock for $10 each, and once they are gone they are gone. These make great gifts and help cut down on plastic waste.
2020 Sitka Local Foods Network logo tote bag
We accept WIC farmers market coupons and SNAP Alaska Quest EBT cards, with matches provided thanks to grants from the White E, Sitka Legacy Fund, and The Alaska Community Foundation. We will provide one $20 small produce basket for one $5 WIC coupon or $5 in SNAP benefits with this grant (limit one per family per week, and limited by our available baskets each week). People using WIC and SNAP benefits aren't able to use their benefits through the Salt and Soil Marketplace, so they will need to reserve their basket by calling the Sitka Farmers Market phone at 738-7310 or emailing sitkafarmersmarket@gmail.com. WIC users will need to bring their coupon and SNAP users their Alaska Quest card to the pick-up so we can process your order. Reservations need to be placed starting at 5 p.m Tuesday and by 8 p.m. Thursday for that Saturday. Due to the limited amount of available produce, this service is provided on a first-come, first-served basis. When we are out, we are out for the week.
When you go to the Sitka page of Salt and Soil Marketplace website, http://www.saltandsoilmarketplace.com, to order this week, you might notice a couple of other Sitka vendors. Andrea Fraga of Middle Island Gardens will share our pick-up event and have her own produce baskets for sale. Lisa Sadleir-Hart of Anam Cara Family Gardens will have jams and jellies available this week, but will distribute those from her house. Spinning Moon Apothecary has herbal preparations for sale, and those will be distributed from their store. There may be new vendors from Sitka added later in the season.
As always, we look forward to seeing you this Saturday. Thank you for supporting local foods.
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