Fwd: This Week at the Allen Street Farmers Market: Start-of-Summer Produce, Red's Smokehouse, Strange Matter Coffee, and Temesgen!

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From: Allen Street Farmers Market <li...@allenneighborhoodcenter.org>
Date: Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 9:55 AM
Subject: This Week at the Allen Street Farmers Market: Start-of-Summer Produce, Red's Smokehouse, Strange Matter Coffee, and Temesgen!
To: Jennifer <LNCnei...@gmail.com>

*The Allen Street Farmers Market can be found during the outdoor season on the corner of E. Kalamazoo and Allen St in Lansing, just west of Allen Neighborhood Center (1619 E. Kalamazoo)*   This Week: Start-of-Summer Produce, Tannin, Strange Matter Coffee Co., and a Performance by Temesgen! Wednesday, June 25 2:30 - 7:00 pm   The market is now bursting with the bounty of early summer, filling out a rainbow of locally grown produce ready to be cooked up in your kitchen. In addition, we'll have all the breads, meats, cheeses, and sweet treats you'll need to round out your meal. Tannin will have their famous Cornetti pastry (and lots more), Strange Matter will be making cups of delicious coffee (hot and iced) to order, The Country Mill will have their market-favorite apple cider slushies, and Temesgen will perform from 4-6. Also, Red's Smokehouse will be operating out of the Allen Market Place, serving up pulled pork nachos, smoked portabella sandwiches, BLT's, gluten-free chicken salad wraps, bbq baked beans, and more. Finally, Allen Neighborhood Center will be celebrating it's 15th birthday this week and we're marking the occasion with cake around 3:00 at the Outreach table in the center of the market! p.s. Good Bites food truck will be back next week!   * Want to show your ASFM love? Become a member of our Yard Sign Corps! Help us advertise by putting out an ASFM yard sign every Wednesday morning to help passersby remember that Wednesday is market day on the Eastside! Visit the outreach table in the middle of the market to get your sign and get started.     The Double Up Food Bucks (DUFB) program has started! All SNAP-recipients are eligible to participate. For any amount up to $20 in EBT (in multiples of 2), the bank will match that amount in DUFB. Learn more about this too-good-to-be-true program here.   Here are just a few offerings from each of our farmers and vendors:  American Delicacy Ramp cloves, fresh Mushrooms (morels, crimini, shiitake, oyster, portabella), dried mushrooms, gourmet mushroom butter CBI's Giving Tree Farm Kale, Swiss chard, carrots, broccoli, lettuce, beets, herbs, flowers Green Eagle Farm Starter plants, spinach, cilantro, dandelion greens, zucchini, sugar snap peas, basil Hillcrest Farms Red romaine, strawberries, spinach, lettuce mix, spring mix, eggs Khoua's Veggies New this week!  Mac's Market Strawberries, Radishes, asparagus, bulb onions, carrots, beets, eggs, homemade jam Nightengale Family Farms Strawberries, asparagus, green onions, lettuce, eggs, maple syrup Tomac Pumpkin Patch Saskatoon berries!  Urbandale Carrots, turnips, beets, kale, lavender, garlic scapes Vang's Strawberries, sugar snap peas, flowers, herbs, amaranth, lettuce Wildflower Eco Farm Basil, rhubarb, lettuce, starter plants    Capital Village Trade Cooperative Mini pies, herbal teas, crafts The Country Mill Apple Cider Slushies! Glory Bee Sweet Treats Hummingbird bread, chocolate chip cookies, gluten free granola bars Good Bites Back next week! Hickory Knoll Farms Creamery Award-winning goat  and cow milk cheeses including feta, drunken goat, 4 flavors of chevre, and delicious-smelling goat's milk soap from Touch of Eden, goat and rabbit meat by order Kolache Kitchen Czech pastries, Cabbage Rolls, Pierogies, and Bratwurst Ofilia's El Burrito  Ready-to-eat burritos, chips and salsa, and enchiladas and tamales to take home Olmsted Piedmontese Beef Local, pasture-raised beef, non-GMO pork, and chicken! Posey Honey Company Local honey  Stone Circle Bakehouse Focaccia and other delicious bread varieties Strange Matter Coffee Pour-over iced coffee, hot coffee, bags of locally roasted beans Tannin Cornetti, lemonade, handmade pasta, fresh mozzarella ~ Featuring ~ Operating out of the Allen Market Place Kitchen from noon till 7. Offerings include pulled pork nachos, smoked portabella & spinach dip sandwiches, BLT's, gluten free chicken salad wraps, bbq baked beans, and more!    Temesgen will perform 4-6!   Good Bites They'll be back next week!   A word on market currency: Got to the market only to realize you're out of cash? No worries! Visit our Market Bank where you can use your debit or credit card to get the amount you need to make your purchases in Market Money Tokens, worth $5 each. All of our vendors accept these and they are used just like cash. For example: if you buy a $4 item from a vendor with one Market Money Token, they will simply give you a $1 back in cash. Don't worry about having to run to the ATM before coming to the market! Similarly, EBT cards can be used to purchase EBT tokens, worth $1 each. With EBT tokens, however, you cannot buy something for  $1.50 with 2 EBT tokens and get .50 back in change - you would need to use .50 of your own change. Questions? Just stop by the bank table and our friendly banker, Aris, will be happy to help!   See you at the Market! Lizy Ferguson, Market Manager  517-999-3911 Li...@allenneighborhoodcenter.org  follow on Twitter | friend on Facebook | forward to a friend   unsubscribe from this list | update subscription preferences

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517-393-9883
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From: Joan Nelson <jo...@allenneighborhoodcenter.org>
Date: Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 3:18 PM
Subject: Fwd: This Week at the Allen Street Farmers Market: Start-of-Summer Produce, Red's Smokehouse, Strange Matter Coffee, and Temesgen!
To: Joan Nelson <jo...@allenneighborhoodcenter.org>

It's our 15th Birthday today!!! Come celebrate with us at the Market, 2:30 - 7:00 pm.  We'll be singing and cutting cake around 5 pm and enjoying the first dry Wednesday in a month!

See you soon!

Joan

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Joan Nelson, Director
Allen Neighborhood Center
1619 E. Kalamazoo St., Lansing, MI 48912
517-999-3912