What's available for the July 4 pick-up event
Welcome to our third Sitka Farmers Market newsletter. Also, thank you to everybody who ordered produce from us and picked it up on Saturday, June 20, for our first Sitka Farmers Market pick-up day of the summer. We took a break last week, and now we will be happening every week through the end of September.
The Sitka Local Foods Network will have produce available for purchase from 5 p.m. on Tuesday, June 30, through 8 p.m. on Thursday, July 2, using the Salt and Soil Marketplace, http://www.saltandsoilmarketplace.com. Our pick-up day will be from 10 a.m. to noon on Saturday, July 4, at St. Peter's Fellowship Farm (located by the See House behind St. Peter's By The Sea Episcopal Church, 611 Lincoln Street).
This week we will have 15 small farmer's choice produce baskets at $20 each. They will have a salad bag, garlic scapes, zucchini, and maybe a chard-kale bundle and maybe a bit of broccoli (if it's ready by Saturday). We will have two sizes of rhubarb baskets — four large baskets with 4-5 bundles for $20 and five small baskets with two bundles for $10 (NOTE: you might have to look for the dial-down menu to see the different sizes). New this week is five greens baskets for $20 that will include a salad bag and bundles of chard and kale. We also will have five baggies with basil for $4 each.
Another new item this week is 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 about 25-30 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.
Our July 4 pick-up day will be the first one this summer where we will 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 on 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.
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.
A slideshow of scenes from our June 20 soft opening produce pick-up day can be found by clicking this link.
This section of the newsletter will be updated each week to let you know what's available during the season.
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