Bailey's Local Foods: Order before Wednesday July 2nd at 8:00 pm for Bailey's Local Foods Friday pickup (Yes, we've extended the ordering deadline!)

Tuesday, July 1, 2014

Order before Wednesday July 2nd at 8:00 pm for Bailey's Local Foods Friday pickup (Yes, we've extended the ordering deadline!)

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 WEDNESDAY July 2nd at 8pm

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

Welcome back to weekly ordering - Our order form will be open until Wednesday!!

Thank Maryrose again! She has decided to extend ordering to Wednesday this week since we have a Tuesday holiday! Take a moment to make sure you have all you need for the week ahead. If you want current updates between emails, be sure to check out our facebook page and twitter feed for the freshest news!

Peas, Peas and Zucchini

Finally! We have the first of the zucchini (aka summer squash) from Brenda Knechtel in the 'vegetables' section under 'squash' and peas from three different growers!

You can get organic peas in the shell from Jonas Brubacher or organic snap peas (with an edible pod) from Lena Horst as well as shelled peas from Winfield Produce which are available in 1 lb or 10 lb bags! We love the 10 lb BULK bags to throw right into the freezer and enjoy all winter long in soups, curries and fried up with mushrooms and onions! **Please note that the shelled peas are very perishable and should be eaten or frozen right away!

Look for:

Strawberries. The season is short. Get your organic or conventional berries to make jam or freeze. You'll thank me in January!
Spray frr bouquets and edible flowers. Beautiful and good enough to eat!
Lighthouse Lemonade - a bottle of concentrate so that you can enjoy a refreshing drink any time!
Lettuce is at it's peak! Enjoy amazing salads now!
Tired of cooking? Make sure you get prepared food including dips, soups and kim-chi from Green Table Foods,
We love Mexican food in our house and it's so easy with taco shells and wraps from McKechnie Foods and J&D Peters as well as all the fixings from Taco Farm. Dinner last night was amazing with the cabbage curdito and smoky pineapple hot sauce! My kids wanted the organic blue tortillas! Don't forget the burritos and empanadas from Taste and Colour

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 larger 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 of product, the paper boxes are pints and there are also smaller paper baskets 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 or 6 quarts). 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!