Bailey's Local Foods: Bailey's ordering for FRIDAY July 4th is OPEN!

KW's year-round online farmers market

Click baileyslocafoods.ca/ordering to log-in and order.
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If you do not intend to order, please ensure that your shopping cart is empty.

Items that you have placed in your shopping cart will be ordered on your behalf TUESDAY July 1st at 8pm

for pickup on Friday July 4th at First United Church, Waterloo

***Special BULK Strawberry pickup on Wednesday July 2nd at Entertaining Elements.
Order until noon on Tuesday or until they sell out at baileyslocafoods.ca/ordering!***

Welcome back to weekly ordering!

We're back to weekly Friday pickups and Tuesday order deadlines (yes, we'll be emailing and calling while the fireworks are going off). I hope that you are enjoying this long weekend but take a moment to put your order in before the end of Tuesday!

Edible Flowers and spray free bouquets

They change with the season, but we are lucky to have edible flowers from two of our growers. The flowers from Garden Party and Nith Valley are all safe to eat whether you make them into tea or add them to a salad. The lovely bouquets from Garden Party are not sprayed, so you can enjoy them in your home!

Strawberry sizes

I'm re-posting from previous years as the sizing on berries and cherries is always so confusing.

A pint is half a quart (12 pints = 6 quarts = 1 flat)
A dry quart is a bit smaller than a litre (2 pints = 1 quart = 1.1 Litres) according to http://www.metric-conversions.org/volume/us-dry-quarts-to-liters.htm
Dry quarts and liquid quarts measure differently
We've been calling the darker green, more sturdy looking plastic baskets with rounded corners litres, but they are quarts and you are getting 1.1 Litre or product, the paper boxes are pints and there are also smaller paper bakets which are half pints
Farmers are generous and tend to top up whatever container they are using.

And one other thing - Why isn't there a big discount for buying a flat? Well... it takes a while to fill up one pint and twelve times as long to fill the whole flat (of 12 pints). We let the farmers decide the prices that pay them for the work they do!

Fruit from Niagara: An update from Torrie at Warner's Farm
Torrie emailed us to say "I am hoping to start cherries, gooseberries, raspberries, mulberries July 6-8. Apricots about the middle of the month, peaches and plums the end of July." We hope you are as happy as we are to read this!