Tuesday, September 30, 2014

A great deal on organic sweet peppers and Turkey Time! Order before Wednesday at 8pm!

Order at www.baileyslocalfoods.ca/ordering
Order at www.baileyslocalfoods.ca/ordering
KW's year-round online farmers market
We do not have a check out button, please ensure that your shopping cart is empty if you do not intend to order.

Order Here 

Waterloo Pick Up - Friday, October 3rd
Fill your shopping cart by Wednesday October 1st at 8pm

turkey

Gobble Gobble! It's that time!

Thanksgiving is less than two weeks away. Have you thought about getting a turkey? We're glad that the birds from Snyder Heritage Farms are GMO Free and fed grains grown on the farm. All the turkeys we sell are fresh frozen and cryovac packaged to keep them fresher than fresh! If you need time for your bird to thaw and want to ensure you get the size you want, get it this week!

Would you like a peck of peppers?

Will you pickle them or grill them?
Sweet peppers
 from Lena Burkhart are almost half price! They are great for grilling!

Don't miss the tasty fruit from Warner Farms!

We're so excited that there are SIX varieties of grapes and FOUR varieties of pears! All the details are below!

Welcome Harvest season!

So many great foods:
  • Tortilla Chips, Taco Shells, Tostadas and Tamales are available from McKechnie this week
  • J&D Peters have all their flour wraps, pasta and noodles available this week.
  • Look for Honey comb from Bauman Apiaries - So sweet to eat!
  • Organic Sweet Potatoes from Elvina Bauman are ready!
  • We have crisp lettuce and green cabbage from Lester and Irene Brubacher
  • We are stocked up with great Goat Cheese from Gordon's Goat Dairy and tasty cookies from New Moon Kitchen
  • Brenda Knechtel is offering a stirfry kit to make our lives easier
  • Fertile Ground added green onions, mizuna and mixed greens 
  • Gunn's Hill Brie wheels have been freshly made and available this week!
  • Fresh Pressed Apple-Pear Cider from Warner's Farm
  • Kingwood Farm has harvested their Kakai Hulless Pumpkins which have hulless seeds that are great for roasting. They also have Long Pie Pumpkins (very long!) which are virtually stringless and great for cooking.
  • Butternut squash - better than pumpkins for making pie!
  • Escarole (aka leafy endive) - Great in salads or soups!
  • Watermelon Radishes are colourful - they are green outside and red inside!

Beans! Beans!

Due to a customer request, we're offering Rounds Beans products this week! We love their Hillbilly Bean Mix for making chili - it comes with a recipe! Look for their lentils, barley and peas also!
If you have looked at the order form there are also organic dried beans available - Jacob's Cattle and China Yellow Beans (aka Sulphur beans - a horrible name for a great bean!)
Stock up as we only offer these every other month or so!

Niagara fruit including lots of pears and seeded grapes from Warner's Farm:

**Fresh pressed Apple-Pear Cider is back in 1L and 4 L sizes!

Grapes:
  • Concord - Great as table grapes, wine grapes and juice grapes. They are often used to make grape jelly, grape juice and candy
  • Fredonia Blue -  Very large deep purple grape with a thick skin, has seeds.
  • NY Muscat - A dark purple grape with seeds. This grape has great flavour.
  • Vineland Red - A large bunched grape with seeds. mild muscat - crunchy like California grapes
  • Vineland White - A small berry seeded sweet without a distinct flavour
  • White Niagaragenerous clusters of flavorful fruit, plus they are known for their pleasant aroma.
  • Sovereign Coronation - A virtually seedless blue table grape. It is juicy, very sweet, blue grape. Excellent for fresh eating, preserving or juice. We have both IPM and Transitional Organic available!
Nectarines:
  • Fantasia - vivid orange-red fruits with juicy yellow flesh that tastes rich and sweet and a 'free' stone 
Peaches: Please note that these late season peaches are great for canning and stay firm, even when ripe!
  • Cresthaven - A sweet, juicy, medium to large freestone peach that is almost fuzzless. Its bright red skin touched with gold is striking. A non-browning, late-season variety, it is favoured for canning and freezing.
Pears: Should be stored in the fridge!
  • Bartlett -  Light-green to completely yellow in colour. These are the juiciest pears for fresh eating. You can cook them to make pear sauce or pear butter.   
  • Bosc Great for poaching! A high quality, flavourful, dessert winter pear with excellent keeping quality.
  • D'Anjou - This pear has a pale green skin that doesn't change colour as the pear ripens.
  • Flemish BeautySimilar to Bartlett, these large, roundish pears are Reddish blushed on a clear yellow skin. Sweet and aromatic with a musky flavor. Good for eating and drying.
Plums: Once they are ripe, keep them in the fridge or freeze!
  • NY 9 (Blue) - Green flesh and purple skin (covered with waxy bloom). It has a mild taste and is rather sweet. Great for processing. When the flesh starts changing from green to amber, it is good to eat also.
  • Italian (Prune) - Super tasty and great for drying, canning, baking and eating
  • German (Prune) - Smaller but sweeter than Italian Prunes!

A note about our fruit from Niagara

All our Niagara fruit is Tree Run, which means that the fruit is not sent to the grading station. The fruit is picked riper (and tastier) and avoids fungicidal baths and defuzzing in the case of peaches. You will find smaller and larger fruit together in your box. Enjoy the ripest fruit first!
Apricots, Peaches and Nectarines - Enjoy the ripest fruit first and for the rest, spread your fruit out at room temperature on newspaper on their side or bottom (not stem down) and not touching each other and they'll ripen over the next few days.
Keep peaches and apricots out of the fridge until they are ripe as they can get a mealy texture when chilled.
Grapes and Pears - Best kept in the fridge

Thank you for nominating us in the Favourite Specialty Food Store category!


Please vote for us and all your favourite local businesses at http://readerawards.therecord.com/vote/food-and-drink/favourite-specialty-food-store until October 5th at midnight. 
Upcoming pickup dates
at First United Church
  • Friday, Oct. 3rd
  • Friday, Oct. 10th
  • Monday, Oct. 20th
  • Monday, Nov. 3rd
  • Monday Nov. 17th
  • Monday Dec.1st
  • Monday Dec. 15th
  • Monday Dec. 22nd

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Friday, September 26, 2014

What supplier is back on our order form this week? Ordering is open for the October 3rd pickup!

Order at www.baileyslocalfoods.ca/ordering
Order at www.baileyslocalfoods.ca/ordering
KW's year-round online farmers market
We do not have a check out button, please ensure that your shopping cart is empty if you do not intend to order.

Order Here 

Waterloo Pick Up - Friday, October 3rd
Fill your shopping cart by Wednesday October 1st at 8pm

Beans! Beans!

Due to a customer request, we're offering Rounds Beans products this week! We love their Hillbilly Bean Mix for making chili - it comes with a recipe! Look for their lentils, barley and peas also!
If you have looked at the order form there are also organic dried beans available - Jacob's Cattle and China Yellow Beans (aka Sulphur beans - a horrible name for a great bean!)
Stock up as we only offer these every other month or so!

Niagara fruit including lots of pears and seeded grapes from Warner's Farm:

**Fresh pressed Apple-Pear Cider is back in 1L and 4 L sizes!

Grapes:
  • Concord - Great as table grapes, wine grapes and juice grapes. They are often used to make grape jelly, grape juice and candy
  • Fredonia Blue -  Very large deep purple grape with a thick skin, has seeds.
  • NY Muscat - A dark purple grape with seeds. This grape has great flavour.
  • Vineland Red - A large bunched grape with seeds. mild muscat - crunchy like California grapes
  • Vineland White - A small berry seeded sweet without a distinct flavour
  • White Niagaragenerous clusters of flavorful fruit, plus they are known for their pleasant aroma.
  • Sovereign Coronation - A virtually seedless blue table grape. It is juicy, very sweet, blue grape. Excellent for fresh eating, preserving or juice. We have both IPM and Transitional Organic available!
Nectarines:
  • Fantasia - vivid orange-red fruits with juicy yellow flesh that tastes rich and sweet and a 'free' stone 
Peaches: Please note that these late season peaches are great for canning and stay firm, even when ripe!
  • Cresthaven - A sweet, juicy, medium to large freestone peach that is almost fuzzless. Its bright red skin touched with gold is striking. A non-browning, late-season variety, it is favoured for canning and freezing.
Pears: Should be stored in the fridge!
  • Bartlett -  Light-green to completely yellow in colour. These are the juiciest pears for fresh eating. You can cook them to make pear sauce or pear butter.   
  • Bosc Great for poaching! A high quality, flavourful, dessert winter pear with excellent keeping quality.
  • D'Anjou - This pear has a pale green skin that doesn't change colour as the pear ripens.
  • Flemish BeautySimilar to Bartlett, these large, roundish pears are Reddish blushed on a clear yellow skin. Sweet and aromatic with a musky flavor. Good for eating and drying.
Plums: Once they are ripe, keep them in the fridge or freeze!
  • NY 9 (Blue) - Green flesh and purple skin (covered with waxy bloom). It has a mild taste and is rather sweet. Great for processing. When the flesh starts changing from green to amber, it is good to eat also.
  • Italian (Prune) - Super tasty and great for drying, canning, baking and eating
  • German (Prune) - Smaller but sweeter than Italian Prunes!

A note about our fruit from Niagara

All our Niagara fruit is Tree Run, which means that the fruit is not sent to the grading station. The fruit is picked riper (and tastier) and avoids fungicidal baths and defuzzing in the case of peaches. You will find smaller and larger fruit together in your box. Enjoy the ripest fruit first!
Apricots, Peaches and Nectarines - Enjoy the ripest fruit first and for the rest, spread your fruit out at room temperature on newspaper on their side or bottom (not stem down) and not touching each other and they'll ripen over the next few days.
Keep peaches and apricots out of the fridge until they are ripe as they can get a mealy texture when chilled.
Grapes and Pears - Best kept in the fridge

Help us give back to the Meals on Wheels volunteers!

We are contributing prizes to the fundraising campaign for  Meals on Wheels! Can you donate? Check out the perks at 
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/giving-back-4thevolunteers
Upcoming pickup dates
at First United Church
  • Friday, Oct. 3rd
  • Friday, Oct. 10th
  • Monday, Oct. 20th
  • Monday, Nov. 3rd
  • Monday Nov. 17th
  • Monday Dec.1st
  • Monday Dec. 15th
  • Monday Dec. 22nd

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