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Happy Mother's Day -- Market Open


Happy Mother’s Day to All

We hope that you are enjoying your day today.

Market Is Now Reopen For The Week

Spring produce in stock: asparagus, snow peas (Shell peas will be ready in a week or so), three varieties of kale, asparagus, rhubarb, salad mix and lots of new fresh herbs.

This is the last week for potted herb plants. What is not sold this week will be going into our herb gardens next week.

We have lots of red raspberry plants and now hanging baskets of Wandering Jews.

And as always we have lots of other goods such as meats, eggs, dairy, honey, hand-blended teas, bath and body and much more.

Spring continues


No video this week as we have been spending our spare time with weeding and planting.

Most of the inventory remains the same. A few new items this week: Yellow and Purple Snow Peas, Fresh Rosemary and Red Raspberry Plants.

Market is now open for this week’s ordering.

This Week's Video


We did not get this week’s video produced in time for the weekly weblog, so here it is now….
A short tour of where your food and farm goods come from. Enjoy!

https://animoto.com/play/q5dTB7GnphlbNcSm6fb9nA

Back At It Again


We Are Back Open

Thank you everyone for the understanding, thoughts and prayers while I was in the hospital. I am back on my feet (so to speak) and getting back to business. If you had placed an order for delivery on 4/20/18, it was deleted since I was unable to pick up and deliver that week. You are more than welcome to reorder those items if they are still available. I am unable to bring up those orders since they were deleted.

No Longer Sending Out Product Listings

We will no longer be sending out the entire product listings with our weekly weblog, as I have been informed by a few customers that with over 160 products it bogs down their email. I will try to highlight the products offered here in the weblog and you will have to go to the website to see all the individual items listed.

Beef Back In Inventory From Clover Creek

Clover Creek Cheese Cellar has beef back in stock on the market. Available in 1 pound ground beef, 1 pound beef patties, and their popular 10 pound bag to stock your freezer (10 individually packaged 1 pound packs)

They are unfortunately currently out of Honduran Harvest, Pirate Blue, Smokin’ Rodeo, and Tussey Mountain artisan cheeses, but will be making more soon. They have many more varieties to choose from including the recently added Aged and Grated (similar to Parmesan.)

And don’t forget their chuck roast, London broil, rib steak, sirloin steak, and of course, their amazing raw milk.

Vale Wood Farms

And speaking of dairy, Vale Wood Farms offers a full line of dairy products for you including non-fat, 1%, 2% and whole milk, chocolate and strawberry milk, buttermilk, half & half, heavy/whipping cream, cottage cheese, yogurt, French onion dip, butter, and flavored butters (cinnamon brown sugar and garlic herb), as well as orange juice and teas.

Heritage Hills Farm

Brown eggs from free range chickens, chicken legs and wings, a variety of pork sausages and kielbassa, beeswax wraps, cherry smoked grinder salt, and colloidal silver.

Rispoli’s Produce

Farm fresh brown eggs and their own local honey.

Jamboree Farm

Free range brown eggs and morning glory hanging pots.

Green"er" Acres Farm

Fresh produce to include kale (blue curled Scotch, white and red Russian,) green onions, spinach, turnips, Swiss chard, salad mix and herb plants. As well as sassafras root for tea, homemade healing salves and cleaning products and aloe plants.

Golden Farms Malting

Certified organic sprouted spelt wheat flour.

The Skirted Soldier

A large variety of hand blended loose leaf tea blends, including a variety pack so that you can try every variety.

Cherry Hill Farm

A fragrant variety of goat’s milk soap with healthy skin benefits.

And For Your Sweet Tooth

Bake Shop Bakes carries apple dumplings and chocolate chunk peanut butter brownies. And MeMaw’s Sweets and Treats has a variety of sweet goodness.

Hope to see you this week!

Market Reopens This Week


Just a short note to everyone to let you know we will be reopening the online market tomorrow. We will send out our weekly email tomorrow to let you know when we are ready for ordering. Please no early orders, as we are updating our inventory.

No Market This Week


We have to apologize, but ww will not be having market this week. I was hoping to be home by Monday, but am now scheduled for an MRI Monday and further treatment will depend on the results. Will keep you posted.

Spring and Snow?


Spring produce continues as last week. Again in limited quantities.

Can you believe they are calling for snow the beginning of this week? It is springtime in central Pennsylvania.

These things being said… now is a time for some education. We at Green"er" Acres Farm love to teach as much as grow. We also believe strongly in supporting LOCAL agriculture. For these reasons, we only sell items in our marketplace that are grown and/or produced right here in the Southern Alleghenies region. We will never buy from auctions and pass those items off as our own. And for those reasons you will see lulls in some produce items due to the weather conditions. We are blessed to raise some items in a high tunnel through the winter, which allows us to have a small jump on the spring season, but with the roller coaster ride of temperatures recently and the weeks of lots of rain and snow, a lot of the grounds that we all plant into are not quite ready for planting. And we are a few weeks away yet from our anticipated last frost date for our area.

Eating locally is definitely a lesson in seasonality. (You will be hard pressed to find decent tasting tomatoes in Central PA in winter time, even with heated greenhouses.) It is also a lesson on food availability, as you will not see items like bananas and pineapple, as they are not grown here in our area. We do our best to push the limits by using season extension methods and alternative growing methods, but we are still slaves to Mother Nature.

Be assured the seasons will soon stabilize (hopefully) and full time growing will start again. Many of us have greenhouses and grow rooms full of plants waiting to go out to their summer homes. We are as anxious as you are.

No video this week, stay tuned for next week.

Spring Produce in Limited Quantities


Spring Produce Back on the Menu

We have limited quantities of some spring produce back in stock. Kale in three varieties, mixed salad greens, green onions, and spinach. We also have herb plants still available.

Video of the Week

Featuring Cherry Hill Farm

This week’s video features a long time friend and farmer, Beth Futrick and Cherry Hill Farm. Beth and her family raise met goats and some produce to include cherries. After the goat have had their babies, they take some of the milk to make soap. By adding lye and locally-sourced lard and some natural coloring and fragrance, a few simple ingredients are turned into beautiful bars of goat’s milk soap.

See their short video at the link below:
https://animoto.com/play/icPnp2bhRizUEz6QGZwtew

New Vendor -- The Skirted Soldier


A great big welcome to our newest vendor

The Skirted Soldier is a female veteran owned operation that specializes in hand blended, loose tea. They source their products from member cooperatives and community supported agriculture groups. Each order is hand blended by a veteran and carefully prepared in food grade packaging and heat sealed for flavor protection. The Skirted Soldier donates 10% of proceeds to female veteran organizations.
They hand blend each package to contain 12 cups of fine loose tea, complete with 12 diffuser bags. Packages are prepared when ordered.

They offer 6 standard flavors:

At Ease At Ease decaf blend will have you relaxing in no time. Enjoy hot or cold. Contains NO ammo (caffeine).
At Ease is a great choice for bedtime or anytime you need to unwind. Our specially blended herbal tea features zero gluten or caffeine so you can enjoy it around the clock. The natural sweetness of the soothing chamomile mixes with the gentle mint flavor to create a smooth satisfying flavor.

Basic Training Basic Training Blend will get you moving in the morning. A smooth breakfast blend that is great for 1st timers. Enjoy hot or cold. Contains ammo (caffeine). Basic Training compares to a traditional blend of teas originating from Assam, Ceylon, and Kenya. It is one of the most popular blended teas. Basic Training is a black tea blend usually described as full-bodied, robust, rich and blended to go well with milk and sugar, in a style traditionally associated with a hearty English breakfast.

Commander The Commander is sure to take charge with this smooth Earl Grey blend. Enjoy hot or cold. Contains ammo (caffeine). The Commander is a tea blend which has been flavored with the addition of bergamot oil, a variety of orange that is often grown in Italy and France. The rind’s fragrant oil is added to black tea to give Earl Grey its signature elite flavor.

Fatigues Blend into the background with a cup of our Gunpowder green tea. Enjoy hot or cold. Contains ammo (caffeine). Gunpowder tea is a form of Chinese tea in which each leaf has been rolled into a small round pellet. Its English name comes from its resemblance to grains of gunpowder. When steeped, gunpowder pellets unfurl into long, luscious leaves with a mildly smoky, yet smooth and refreshing taste. This process releases the flavor and nutrients. Gunpowder green tea may taste much stronger than common green tea varieties so you may not want to use full amount recommended.

First Sergeant Improve morale with our delicious First Sergeant blend. A fusion of Earl Grey and smooth creme with every sip. Enjoy hot or cold. Contains ammo (caffeine). The First Sergent blend combines our Commander, which parallels Earl Grey varieties and blends in a creamy vanilla layer adding a very smooth balance to the bergamot. This blend makes a superb London Fog (just add milk and sugar).

SNAFU great way to mix things up. A comingling of Basic Training and fine German coffee will leave your tastebuds wanting more. Enjoy hot or cold. Contains ammo (caffeine). SNAFU is anything but “situation normal”. It’s great for Reveille or anytime really! The unique blend of Basic training and the finest German coffee is a tangled “situation normal” on your tongue.

Their sampler pack contains 2 servings each of their 6 specialty blends.

Coming soon- they will launch short term deployments of seasonal varieties!

Check out this weeks video featuring The Skirted Soldier at:
https://animoto.com/play/GYNHOp9i4kAKDpDj40i0Yw

New Items from Clover Creek Cheese Cellar

Aged & Grated We had a few wheels that we have aged for over two years like a parmesan. We have grated them for you, making them perfect for flavoring your favorite dish or sprinkling atop your favorite salad.

Smokin’Rodeo Lasso up an adventure with our smoked horseradish cheese.

Happy Easter


Happy Easter to One and All

This week we celebrate Good Friday and Easter Sunday. We wish that God Blesses you and yours. (and, yes, we are open and will be delivering on Friday)

Clover Creek Cheese Cellar

For this week’s video, we are featuring Clover Creek Cheese Cellar. They are one of our original fellow vendors. We have done farmers markets with them for the last 10 years, and Anthony is the current Market Manager for the Altoona Station Farmers Market.

They are currently sold out of their Tussey Mountain and Honduran Harvest cheeses, but just began making cheese again this week.

To see this week’s video, simply go to:

https://animoto.com/play/aSbTBmxh50JE8IunXJzElg

It will open in a new window for your viewing.