Locally Yours, a gift basket service that makes baskets with local goods, will be offering a special during this week:

Locally Yours will be offering 15% off all gift baskets orders of $50 or more during the ‘Look for Local Week’. This includes all future orders for the holiday season that are placed and paid for during this week. Locally Yours creates gift baskets featuring all local products from Windsor and Essex County for any occasion.

Free delivery is offered throughout the county and shipping to all of Canada is available. To place an order, please contact us at (519)253-0888 or visit us on-line at www.locallyyours.ca.

After six long days we are reopening our doors at 4:00 P.M with a fresh crop of beautiful fall vintage fashion !

Stop in for a glass of delicious local wine and have fun catching up on fashion and with friends.

Enter to win a $200 Jones & Co. Vintage Gift card with every purchase or one of five DB Clay wallets.

Linda says:

Natural Earth Organics web page will be out of commission for the month of August. We are going to reconstruct and reformat.

For information please conctact Linda at 980-5995 or email neoveggies@hotmail.com

NEO will be at the Windsor downtown market on Saturdays from 8:00 a.m. till 1:00 p.m. Thank you for your patience while we regroup.

Sorry to have to do this but due to the rain this morning and chance for thunderstorms today we have decided to push back the date for the bike tour. The rain date will be Saturday, September 4th at 1pm.

The Kent Federation of Agriculture (KFA) held their Regional meeting Wed.
August 18th at Roesch Meats and more.  This year’s guest speakers were Doug
Aspinall and Earl Pollock from OMAFRA speaking on Soil Classification maps.

Elections were also held for the Policy Advisory Council and for delegates to
attend this year’s Ontario Federation of Agriculture’s (OFA) Annual
convention.  The following are the results:

Kent Northwest: (Camden, Dover, Chatham)
PAC:                    Mark Richards
Delegates:              Clayton Crow, Ron Faubert, Mark Huston
Alternates:             Dennis Owen

Kent Southwest:  (Raleigh, Tilbury E., Romney)
PAC:                    Frank Byrne
Delegates:              Leon Leclair, Rachel Christensen

Kent East: (Zone, Orford, Howard, Harwich)
PAC:                    Louis Roesch
Delegates:              Alice Uher, Bill Parks, Mike Vannieuwenhuyze
Alternate:              Lynn Girty, Kathy Delanghe

The three Policy Advisory Councilors will represent Chatham-Kent over the next year and the 9 delegates will attend the upcoming OFA convention in Toronto later this fall.

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Kathy Delanghe
Sec./Mgr. KFA
519-674-1595
kent@ofa.on.ca

Check out the video and send your vote his way!

http://www.proteinu.com/videos/video_05.html

Other events at the market this weekend for Healthy Lifestyles Day include:

* FREE bicycle tune ups by One Good Earth Cycles
* FREE 5-minute massages
* FREE draws & kids can make their own trail mix!

Events:

* 10am Kids Love Yoga demonstration (bring your yoga mat!)
* 10am Taste Bud Food cooking demonstration
* 11am Ten Thousand Villages – Hidden Cost of Food Production
* 12pm Taloola Cafe demonstration

Local vinegar is one of the things we are lacking in this region and that has always surprised me since we grow so many grapes.  While many grape growers set aside the grapes for wine, why not set some aside for some vinegar?

Niagara Vinegar has a variety of options from $8 to $23 for 200ml bottles.  “Minus 8″ vinegar is $30 for a 100ml bottle and is apparently a highly sought item.  Come on grape growers, let’s get experimenting!

Want to make your own?  Mother of Vinegar Culture is available from LocalHarvest for $8.99.

The County Connect Meat Share Program was created to bring high quality, naturally raised, healthy, local meat to the people of our community.

Through County Connect, you can purchase a “share” of an animal lovingly and sustainably raised by local farmers you know and trust. Meat from the whole animal is used giving you a variety to enjoy with your family.

Benefits of Participation…

Know where your food comes from and how it was grown and raised. Feel good about eating a high quality natural product that is safe for your whole family. Also, know you are supporting the farmers in our community who love what they do, nurture the animals they share and have a commitment to quality of food you can enjoy.

Discover many ways to enjoy beef. The whole animal is custom cut by our Butcher, Jamie Waldron who believes some of the most flavourful cuts are often ignored and/or overlooked. Each share gets a selection of both the popular cuts which include the well known steaks, and other cuts for you to discover and enjoy. Tips and recipes will be included to ensure you enjoy every portion.

Save Money. By purchasing a share, your overall cost of the premium product that you receive will be lower than what you would pay for an equivalent quantity and quality of pre-cut meat at retail. In addition, you can feel great about knowing you are supporting a sustainable local economy.

Help farmers. With your commitment in purchasing a portion of the animal and paying a deposit up front, you allow farmers to plan yields and grow their farms. Farming is hard work that is not always profitable. By supporting our local farmers, you help to ensure a sustainable supply of fresh, quality food.

Register today to reserve your share. Quantities are limited. To register, please complete the registration form found on the County Connect website www.countyconnect.ca/beef-share-registration/

If you have any questions, please call us anytime 519-816-7813. Deadline for this first meat share registration is August 17, 2010. All orders will be confirmed no less than 4 weeks prior to delivery.

All the beef offered has been naturally grown and fed here in Essex County. No hormones, steroids or antibiotics have been used, nor are the animals fed any animal by-products or GMO grain. Grain and hay are used during the winter months and at the end to add greater fat content and marbling which creates tenderness and develops the flavour in the beef. The beef is then dry aged for 4 weeks to maximize the flavours and tenderness.

Cost

The shares are available as follows: 10 lbs = $89 = ($8.90/lb) 25 lbs = $210 = ($8.40/lb) 50 lbs = $399 = ($7.98/lb) 100 lbs = $649 = ($6.59/lb) 200 lbs = $1230 = ($6.15/lb)

Contact us about purchasing a whole or side of beef for even better savings. All meat is cut and aged at a provincially inspected local abattoir. Included in a Share: A share is a portion of the beef that is available for sale. The animals are custom cut and divided equally so that everyone gets a selection of the popular cuts such as T-bone steak, rib steak, sirloin steak, flank steak, roasts, ground beef, stew beef and stir fry strips. In addition, premium cuts including the bavette steak, skirt steak, flat iron steak and beef brisket are included. Optional: soup bones, heart, liver, tongue. Delivery The beef share ordered is packaged and can be delivered either fresh or frozen. The first delivery date will fall between September 21-23. As additional dates are added they will be posted.

*Deadline for this first meat share registration is August 17, 2010. All orders will be confirmed no less than 4 weeks prior to delivery.

Izabela Muzzin

Quality Local Food Culture throughYour Online Local Farmers’ Market

www.countyconnect.ca

mail@countyconnect.ca

Tel: 519.816.7813

Now Nana’s Bakery and Specialty Bakery are both using Sartaj.  It took some time to adjust the recipes but the results are fantastic!  Taste the great results by visiting the bakeries or stopping in at the Downtown Windsor Farmers’ Market each Saturday from 8 am to 1pm.

Nana’s Bakery & Lunch Bar

2936 Dominion Boulevard
Windsor, ON N9E 2M8
(519) 966-2434

http://www.nanas-bakery.com/

Specialty Bakery

2109 Ottawa Street
Windsor, ON N8Y 1R8
(519) 253-4555