Happenings at Kamm's Corners Farmers' Market

KCFM Indoor Farmers Market  Starts Sunday, November 13th  2nd Sunday of each month, November - May We know that summers over, autmn is upon us and snow is right around the corner - but fear not KCFM friends the Market continues! October 30th is our final outdoor market, but starting November 13th and continuing through May join KCFM for our Indoor market the second (2nd) Sunday of each month, 10 AM -2 PM. We will offer local, fresh produce through the end of the year so make sure to stock up before the years' bounty is gone!   >>More Information<<

Green Your Block Energy Efficency Challange    October 15th - November 15th Join with the City of Cleveland and Sustainalbe Cleveland 2019 in their challange to increase energy efficency in Cleveland one block at a time. Register with your block club or area development corporations for challange details and a chance to win energy efficient appliances. Challange runs from October 15th - November 15th and is brought to by the City of Cleveland, Susitanble Cleveland 2019 Vital Neighborhoods Working Group and their generous corporate sponsors! >>More Information<< This Sunday, Final Outdoor Market! Join us Sunday, October 30th as we wraps up the outdoor market season featuring:  MUSIC : 11 -2 : Smokin’ Fez Monkeys : A Modern Jug Band with a Lust for Fun CHEF DEMO : 12:30 : Janelle Reardon : Pumpkin Carvings : Metro Parks Nature Center HEALTHY LIVING : Cleveland EMS : Glucose, Cholesterol & Blood Pressure Screenings ARTIST : Flying Monkeys Tye Dye Stay Connected with KCFM all Year Long: Visit our Website  *   Like our Fanpage on Facebook

Support Wellness in Cuyahoga County take the  HIP-Cuyahoga Survey! The Health Improvement Project (HIP - Cuyahoga) is conducting an online survey of anyone who lives, works, plays & learns in Cuyahoga County. The survey and its results are completely anynomus. Researches hope findings will help to improve the general health of the entire county. (Participate in Survey)

Find out What's Growing in your Neighborhood! Our market is part of a special ODA-grant funded collaboration with Growhio and several other independent farmers’ markets across greater Cleveland. We would like to be able to send you joint updates and newsletters to keep you apprised of this collaboration and what exciting things it will mean for our independent markets, but we want to be sensitive to your mailing preferences. If you would like to stay in the know,please  subscribe now If you are not interested in receiving collaboration-oriented newsletters you do not need to take any action.

Introducing...  the KCFM 2011/2012 Indoor Market Vendor Roster! Blaze Gourmet City Club Catering Crepes by Bonjour Hummingbird Creations Jenny’s Sweets Jimmy’s JamJorgensen’s Apiary Knoble Farms  Lucy’s Sweet Surrender Needham Gardens Noon SharpeningOhio City PastaOhio Farm Direct Ornery Goat Smith Fruit Farm SpicehoundTea Hills Farms The Olive TapTroubadour Coffee  White Family Farm

We proudly accept  Food Assistance Benefits (EBT) and Credit/Debit Cards.

Please support our generous sponsors: Fairview Hospital, Kamm’s Corners Development Corporation, Kamm’s Plaza, Neighborhood Connections(Program of The Cleveland Foundation), Metro Health,Priority Home Health Care, Rocksolid Stone Works, River’s Edge Center, and the Charles and Helen Brown Memorial Foundation.

Get more with your Ohio Direction Card  An Extra $5! When you use your EBT card at KCFM and participating farmers markets, receive an extra five dollars in tokens to spend there. Details here.

EcoWatch's Celebration with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

Come support the efforts of EcoWatch and Waterkeeper Alliance as they celebrate the launch of their national news service on Thursday, Oct. 27 at 6 p.m. at Windows on the River, 2000 Sycamore St. 

Enjoy Cleveland's best beer compliments of the Great Lakes Brewing Company and wine tasting compliments of Laurello Vineyards & Winery. Music provided by Tom Shaper and Rob WIlliams.

Buy your tickets today at www.ecowatchohio.org or call 216-387-1609.

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Also, join us on Thursday, Oct. 27 at 2:30 p.m. at Rivergate Park, 1785 Merwin Ave., the home of the Cleveland Rowing Foundation. EcoWatch and Waterkeeper Alliance will announce the launch of their news service website and celebrate the Cuyahoga River's role in the birth of the grassroots environmental movement and passage of the Clean Water Act.

The event will feature brief remarks from Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson, George Gund Foundation’s senior program officer for the environment John Mitterholzer and Cleveland Foundation’s program officer Nelson Beckford, with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., founder and president of Waterkeeper Alliance, as the keynote speaker.

Refreshments provided courtesy of Windows on the River.

This event is free and open to the public. Please RSVP at spear@ecowatch.org or call 216-387-1609

Happenings at Tremont Farmers' Market

Greetings, Hungry Folks. Oct 25:  An end, but not The End. This is our last hurrah in Lincoln Park for 2011, but next week we trundle inside The Tremont Montessori School to embark upon our newly expanded season.  Details below.

This week: 5PM Chef Demo:  Sue Carrara is our Chef Demo Coordinator Extraordinaire!  She will be cooking up sweet potato fries for us this week.  Can't beat that!  Check out Sue's blog, Tremont Eats. Music:  Noon will be bringing her keyboard and her beautiful voice to market.  More about Noon. Featured Non-Profit:   Quest Community School, a progressive public school providing non-traditional paths to graduation through individualized, career-focused academics, is currently accepting application for enrollment.  Click to learn more  A Few Shout Outs today: *To the Murrays for letting us use their garage as storage! **To our first official Market Sponsors:  Jason Muller  and Hubbub Custom Bicycles Each step of the way, we become a stronger market.  Kudos to everyone involved.   Become a Market Sponsor ***Kale Karma (AKA Kale it Forward): A big thanks to Kathy andNate Sonnhalter for help with some market data entry!  My  surplus of free-range, sow-itself kale paid off....  : ) Recycle/Reuse/Reduce:  Please return items clean. Bring your bags, reduce your use of plastic. Return egg cartons to J&R Farms. Return tea containers to t by Sarah. Return glass jars to Auburn Apiary, Blaze Gourmet, Godmother's Pizzas, and Abby's Kitchen. Another way to give: St. Augustine's Church, which is across the street from the market, supports TFM in many ways.  Please consider purchasing food from the market to put in our Hunger Center bucket at the Customer Service Tent; I will personally make sure it is taken to the kitchen across the street.  For years, the folks at St. Augustine's have fed many, many people 7 days a week. **TFM t-shirts ($12) and aprons ($15) for sale at the Customer Service Tent! EBT Proudly accepted! EBT Incentive Program still in effect. Participants who use more than $5 from their Ohio Direction Cards receive an extra $5 to spend at the market. EBT can be used to purchase food plants! WIC and Senior's Nutrition Coupons also accepted. Vendors: Abby's Kitchen, Blaze Gourmet, Erie's Edge Farm, Godmother's, J&R Farms (formerly Hickory Acres Meats), Lucky Penny Creamery, Morning DEW Orchards, Morningside Farm, Ms. Julie's Kitchen, Noon Sharpening, No Whey Chocolates, Ohio Farm Direct, Plant Kingdom Bakery, Pierogies of Cleveland (formerly Posh Pierogies), Por-Bar Farms, Red Basket Farm, Red Cedar Coffee, Spicehound, and Urban Growth Farms. -------- Happenings out in the community: *Thank you for your ongoing interest in the Tremont Farmers' Market! Our market is part of a special ODA-grant funded collaboration with Growhioand several other independent farmers' markets across greater Cleveland. We would like to be able to send you joint updates and newsletters to keep you apprised of this collaboration and what exciting things it will mean for our independent markets, but we want to be sensitive to your mailing preferences.  If you would like to receive these mailings, we hope you'll subscribe now. If you are not interested in receiving collaboration-oriented newsletters you do not need to take any action.  Thanks again for your interest!   ***TFM 2011-2012 Holiday & Winter Markets  are relocating to the auditorium at the  Tremont Montessori School!  Address: 2409 West 10th Street, Cleveland, Ohio 44113-4491. Days: Tuesdays, November 1 through December 20, 2011. Hours: 4-7PM First Market is going to be fun!  We will have a market hiatus through January, then the Winter Markets resume bi-weekly, beginning Feb 7, 2012, until we move outdoors, back to Lincoln Park on May 1, 2012. -------- For your enjoyment:  The Kitchen- w/Keb Mo Come on In My Kitchen: -------------- Peace and Good Eats. Jody Lathwell, Market Manager

Press Release - COG-Pro.com

24 October 2011

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE.

NEW ONLINE RECORD KEEPING SYSTEM FOR PRODUCERS OF CERTIFIED ORGANIC LIVESTOCK.

Eugene, Oregon

Certified Organic Business Solutions, LLC is pleased to announce the launch of a new section of COG-Pro.com specifically for producers of Certified Organically Grown livestock.  COG-Pro.com is a unique new web-based record keeping service that provides a notebook interface for keeping track of the records required for growing crops and livestock to be labeled as organic.

Certified Organically Grown Professional is the online solution to organic record keeping, including:

● Fertility Inputs                       ● Feed and Ration Inputs

● Pest Management                  ● Herd & Flock Inventory

● Weed Control                       ● Health Care Records

● Harvest Records                             ● Sales Records

● Field Plans                            ● Breeding Records

● Equipment Cleaning               ● Pasturage & Ration Records

● Seeds, Plants, Rootstock       ● Track Egg & Milk Production

COG Pro is an easy-to-use system that satisfies the USDA standard for Certified Organically Grown record keeping. All the producer’s records are in one online notebook, available from anywhere in the world. Powered by a secure online database, COG Pro makes generating reports for certification a snap. From headache to problem solved.

Companion logbooks are planned for tracking data related to Good Agricultural Practices (G.A.P.) and other food safety auditing.  Also in development are mobile apps to allow data entry from smart phones directly in the field or barn.  Expected release date for these products is first or second quarter of 2012.

Use of the COG Pro logbook is based on a yearly fee.  Access to the system is available for an introductory price of $60 per year for each module; merely $5 per month.  Subscriptions have a 30 day satisfaction guarantee with a full refund if the user chooses to leave the system within the first month.  Growers and ranchers can try the logbook out for free by logging in as a guest.

Certified Organic  Business Solutions, LLC is led by Richard Wilen, Ph.D. and a design team composed of  graphic designer Kathy Kifer and programmer Ben Brinkley.  In addition to 40 years experience in database design and management, Dr. Wilen has been involved in organic agriculture for 35 years.  The COG-Pro notebook evolved out of his experience with operating a certified organic farm for over 20 years and frustration with the limited tools available for farmers to meet the ever burgeoning requirements for record keeping.  The result is an effective, easy to use system developed by a farmer for other farmers.

Organic certification - simplified.

www.cog-pro.com

For more information email: ServiceDept@cog-pro.com
P.O. Box 50172, Eugene, OR 97405

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Happenings at Gordon Square Farmers' Market

Hello fellow eaters:

I am happy to report that in spite of the seriously foul weather last weekend--including the weather that I find the absolute worst (raining and below 48 degrees) at the market last week-- some folks in the neighborhood managed to acquire and scavenge some apples (and pears) and make cider.  As I have mentioned in past years, the neighborhood is dirty with cider presses--there are t least three-- and it is a very good problem to have.  The press involved this weekend was one of the mechanical ones; that means folks have to grind and press the apples and pears by cranking levers attached to gears.  Although I disdain this practice, some folks get competitive and try to see how fast they can turn the  gears; not coincidentally, this sometimes causes fruit to jump out of the hopper as it gets tossed in, which can be startling.  Last year (or maybe two years ago) my dog stuck her snout in the bucket and had a drink during one of these contests; she may be crazy, but she is not stupid.  Most of the cider that was pressed last weekend will be turned into hard cider in the course of the next six months, but we sampled the fresh goods as well and both apple and pear were delicious.  I know that there is a local hard cider maker based in a far-flung  western suburb, but its distribution is rather limited, gentle eater, and I want cider much more frequently than I can eat out  or wait for a seat at a certain bar and grill in Lakewood that carries it.  I feel that there should be lots of local ciders, apple and pear, drier and sweeter, single fruit and blended, barrel aged and bottled conditioned, smoky or not (ok, I made that one up, but you get the point).  Perhaps one of our intrepid cider maker will turn professional, please, please.  In the interim, I hope that the weather for the market this week does not require a bourbon and a toweling off upon return home.

EcoVillage Produce will have lots of greens: collard, gourmet lettuces, red head lettuce, kale, arugula, spinach, swiss chard, mustard, and green cabbage. They will also have veggies and fruit including yukon gold potatoes, kennabach potatoes, radishes, eggplant, red and green tomatoes, jalapeno peppers, hungarian wax peppers, sweet bell peppers (red, yellow, and green), and green beans. They will also have herbs and other things: parsley, basil, thyme, sage, chives, rosemary, peppermint, lemon balm, and goat cheese .

Old Husher will have beets, mizuna, garlic, onions, kale, italian eggplant, basil, sweet annie air freshener

Golden Gate Gardens:  hmmm …they will probably be there.

Berry Good Farm will probably have honey, grains, jams, and perhaps sunflower and pumpkin seeds.  They will also have zucchini and applesauce breads and their famous-on-the-west-side “Lazy Daisy Oatmeal Cake."  They have had eggs recently, so check your 'fridges.

Mobite Products did not check in, so I do not know whether they will be at the market.

Origins Beanery  will have temperature appropriate coffee as well as jams.

Cathy Brenkus has ended her regular season, but will be back for the holidaze and december markets.

ReMemories will be a the market this week with her really gorgeous quilts and purses and her whimsical chairs.

Bethany Presbyterian will have plants as well as really tasty tamales and empanadas (I hope).

Neighborhood table had a last-minute cancellation.

While there is no yoga at the market this week, we will have two more sessions this season: October 22nd and 29th from 11-12.

Every Saturday during market season, the Gordon Square Farmer’s Market provides our neighborhood with healthy, affordable food while recreating local food systems, building community pride, and supporting local entrepreneurs. Your support and enthusiasm for the market has helped make GSFM a successful independent farmers' market. As GSFM continues to grow, there are many opportunities to contribute to the market’s success.  Throughout the remainder of this season and next the GSFM is expanding opportunities for volunteers. GSFM volunteer coordination meetings are held each Wednesday during market season at 6:30pm at alternating locations in Detroit Shoreway. I hope you can join us to learn more about opportunities to volunteer with market. Please email emily.holody@yahoo.com or call me 330-256-6641 if you have any questions.