I'm off Thursday and Friday to an exciting conference in Kitchener called Bring Food Home. www.bringfoodhome.com
I'm especially looking forward to hearing Joel Salutin, the American farmer who popularized saladbar beef, pastured pork and happy chickens.
Kelda is in Alberta celebrating her mother's birthday and attending a friend's senior recital, so please be patient and kind with the very generous people who are minding the store in our absence (thank you Ron, Brad, Jon, Nancys, Lloyd and Susan).
The freezer is full of Brenda's delicious soups including lentil and new Italian chicken noodle. Did I mention that her turkey pie has a little scoop of stuffing under the crust, and that Marketside's Magnetewan relish is a perfect touch with the lamb pie? Mother Hen fruit sorbets, Trudy's apple crisp and Soundview ready to bake apple pies are in that freezer too.
The snow should be off the barbecue this week, so check the red freezer for GrassRoots beef striploin, and look on the shelf above the other display freezer for the grilling oil. We always have Ontario potatoes, and this week you can also choose Ontario organic potatoes. And of course, remember the garlic.
We always try to find new products when customers ask - this Friday we'll be filling the requests for organic tomato juice, organic dates, and raw milk parmesan.
Every week more people ask for gluten-free options and are delighted with the range of treats MarJenny's has in the freezer. We also have gf waffles, New Moon's Mackies cookies,Dawn's gf mixes, and a new gf mannicotti in the freezer. Many of Maria's rotinis are made from gluten-free flours like buckwheat, chickpea and green pea - delicious alternatives even for the wheat-eater.
All sorts of local celebrations of International Women's Day next week - March 8 - breakfast with Mayor Ruth Lovell at Inn on the Bay sponsored by the Women's Centre (more information at 519-376-0755) and Elizabeth Manley will speak at the CAW Centre in Port Elgin in the evening (376-1560)- March 10 at 7 p.m. Women in the Arts with artists and a silent auction hosted by the Zonta Club at St. Mary's Parish Hall (519-794-2350)
AND mark your calendar for a great all local farm dinner at the Grey Granite Club on April 7 hosted by the National Farmers Union, Grey County - limited tickets will be available at Around the Sound, 100 Mile Market and GrassRoots.
I taped a commercial for CFOS, and it plays right after a vintage Bosco ad to celebrate their 70th anniversary. Crazy!
Around the Sound Local Food Market is open Thursday and Friday 10 until 7 and Saturday 10 until 4. We're loving our bright new store at 685 6th Street East at the 7th Avenue lights.
See you there!
Anne
519-370-2333
www.aroundthesoundfood.com
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