Two Around the Sound farmers were honoured with the Premier's Award for Agri-Food Innovation Excellence last week.
Axel Meister, of WoolDrift Farm in Markdale, was the first dairy sheep farmer in North America. He supplies yogurt, pecorino cheese, feta and feta in olive oil to our store, as well as delicious small lamb pies.
Johannes Schneider and his partners have been making Saugeen Country Yogurt on their farm between Markdale and Durham since 1994. It was served to President Obama on his visit to Ottawa and you can buy it right here at Around the Sound.
The Grey-Bruce Agricultural and Culinary Association was also honoured for their culinary map, available free at our store. When the new map comes out in July, everyone will be able to find Around the Sound!
Did you know that asparagus can grow, in ideal conditions, an inch an hour?! Farmers swear they can watch it grow.
Mary Anne at Forget Me Not Farms in Desboro is providing us with more of her organic, hand-picked asparagus this week - good to the very bottom, with no woody bits.
And, she has used Sean's GrassRoots eggs and flour to make us some lightly-allspiced aparagus bread. Yet another reason to shop on Thursday!
Also in the veggie department, we are expecting the very first lettuce (and perhaps a little bok choy) from Twin Creeks Organic Farm out near Woodford. Those with shares in the CSA will be served first, but we hope to have a nice variety of Gerald and Shari-Lynn's produce this season.
Brenda from Forsyth Farms filled us up with pies - including a tortiere - and soup - including lamb dizi, and a lovely assortment of lamb and some Berkshire pork sausages. On top of the cooler was this note from Brenda
"I had this great chef from Toronto show me how to make these mini lamb roasts and I thought they were terrific so I wanted to share them with you. Mini Lamb Roasts give you all the great flavour of steaks but slice beautifully onto a plate"
She's included barbecue directions too.
Kelsey is very excited that she is only a few weeks from completing her fully-renovated bakery, and she is hoping you'll all come up to see. We're thinking of organizing a tour which would include TWO bakeries and end with lunch at Mimi's Rooftop Cafe at the Wiarton Airport. Of course, this would be after the Tragically Hip plays Wiarton on June 27th, because Mimi's (and Rocky Raccoon) are two of the exclusive caterers!
If you're not going to see the Hip, don't forget to mark your calendar for a tour of Sean McGivern's GrassRoots Organics farm and mill that day.
Please ask for our beautiful gift certificates for a welcome gift for teachers, going-away, showers, retirement, get-well or hostess gifts.
Around the Sound Local Food Market is at 972 1st Avenue West
- just up the street from the library. We're open Thursday and Friday 10 until 7 and Saturday 10 until 4.
Please note our new phone number - 519-370-2333
www.aroundthesoundfood.com has a link to the first episode of our video moments with our producers.
See you soon.
Anne