Stone's Throw Market Co-op featured in the Troy Daily News!

Our Taste of Troy Farmer's Market Needs Your Help!

Hello Miami River Foods friends!

I’m sure you’ve heard that we’ve been invited to participate in the Taste of Troy (10am – 4pm on Saturday, September 18th). We are very excited for this opportunity to officially launch Stone’s Throw Market Co-op to our community. But we need your help (and a few of your belongings!).

We’ve been given the Southwest quadrant of the downtown Square. We will be setting up a mini farmer’s market featuring several of our wonderful food suppliers, local food to sample & purchase (what's for sale?), and an information booth about Stone’s Throw Market.

We already have the tents & nametags, but we need a few more key items to make our farmer’s market a success. We’ll have to buy anything we can’t borrow, and that might be expensive … so we’d really appreciate your help!

Do you have any of the items listed below?

  • Outdoor patio tables & chairs
  • 2 Igloo type water coolers for hand washing stations (click for photo)
  • 1 wooden bookcase
  • 3 plastic basins for washing dishes
  • 4 concrete/cinder blocks
  • 4 clear display jars to show off our bulk items
  • 3 trash cans
  • grocery bags (plastic or paper)
  • 4 lawn chairs
  • If you could make available any of these items available to us for a few hours on the 18th, please contact Angi Sprang at angi13@woh.rr.com or 937-552-7819 by Wednesday the 15th at 8pm. We’ll need to have them dropped off at the project office (map) by Friday at 6pm, or please bring them to pickup with you this week.

    Please tag items with your name & email on masking tape before you drop them off, and we’ll be sure they find their way back home!

    Thank you, and see you at the Taste of Troy!

    Angi Sprang, on behalf of the whole team

    Stone’s Throw Market

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    Angi Sprang, Co-op Organizing Team

    Angi13@woh.rr.com

    937-552-7819

    Watch our Toledo Conference Presentation!

    Finally, the moment we've all been waiting for ...our Toledo Conference presentation is finally available online!

    Click here to watch the Miami River Foods Project organizers at the Local Food Systems in Old Industrial Regions Conference (Friday, August 6th, 2010)

    Laura and Jake with fellow presenters at a post-presentation reception, Toledo Museum of Art

    New recipes this week

    Check out the Beta Test recipe collection at http://www.miamiriverfoods.org/Beta_Recipes for this week's new recipes for Broiled Flank Steak Salad, Yellow Pear Tomato Sauce with Pasta Elbows, and Homemade Peach Ice Cream!
    You can also take a sneak peak at this week's Happy Box Newsletter in the archive, or attached. Enjoy!

    CIVI training is here!

    by Erica Baer
    On Thursday, September third, I began learning to use CIVICRM, the open-source software that pilots the Miami River Foods Project! It's user-friendly, intuitive, and makes communication within the cooperative easy!

    Homemade mac n' cheese

    We've been joking about starting up a food blog to document all the delicious recipes we've concocted with local & organic ingredients from Stone's Throw Market. I just watched the film Julie/Julia, about a food blogger in New York who works her way through Julie Child's epic Mastering the Art of French Cooking. Needless to say, it inspired me.

    Last night's culinary adventure was nostalgic. Homemade mac n' cheese with organic whole wheat pasta, Amish yogurt cheese, and local organic greens. Find the complete recipe at http://MiamiRiverFoods.org/Beta_Recipes

    Featuring Eden Organics Kamut Pasta Elbows, Heini's Amish Yogurt Cheese, Minerva Amish Roll Butter, and Happy Box Yellow Pear Tomatoes & Lettuce.

    Buy your local food at the Taste of Troy Farmer's Market!

    Please join us for the official launch of Stone's Throw Market and a demonstration farmer's market at the Taste of Troy on Saturday, September 18th from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on the Square in Troy!
    A variety of local and organic foods will be available for sampling and/or sale, featuring:

    • The Happy Box Organic CSA at Fulton Farms - organic fruits & veggies
    • Marrs Farm - organic fall veggies, popcorn, homemade treats
    • Hidden Pond Farm - veggies (lettuce, spinach, herbs, & more!)
    • Blue Jacket Dairy - fresh artisan cheese
    • Farmer, Miller, Baker - whole spelt bread
    • E.A.T. Food for Life - grass fed, antibiotic & chemical-free meats
    • Snowville Creamery - pastured milk
    • King's Poultry Farm - natural chicken
    • Aullwood Audubon Farm - pastured beef & pork
    • Rum River Food Arts - homemade artisan crackers & jam
    • The Tin Roof - homemade local baked goods
    • Winans' Coffee - organically sourced & fairly traded coffee
    • Angry Hippie Farms - fresh herbs, homemade lotions, & handmade jewelery

    To learn more, or to volunteer for a two-hour shift, please email info@miamiriverfoods.org

    More delicious pumpkin recipes!

    Check out this week's edition of the Happy Box newsletter, complete with a new set of delicious pumpkin recipes! Remember, you can find all these ideas and more at http://www.MiamiRiverFoods.org/Beta_Recipes

    Organizing Team meeting tonight at 7:30 p.m.!

    We hope you're able to join us for our Organizing Team meetings on Mondays from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. in the Project office (9 North Market Street, Troy). These weekly gatherings are our chance to check in about all the goings-on of the cooperative organizing process, and everyone is welcome!

    Join us tonight to participate in the planning for the public launch of Stone's Throw Market on September 18th at the Taste of Troy!

    If you can't attend in person, you can also dial into our conference call, or listen to the recording online. Stay tuned on the What's New page for the link tomorrow.

    Tomatoes and parsley, oh my!

    Enjoy this week's edition of the Field Notes: the Happy Box CSA program in collaboration with Stone's Throw Market.

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