Visit The Market any time between now and 7:00pm Tuesday evening to place your order.

Pick up is every Thursday, 3:00pm – 7:00pm, at Sandra’s home in Roswell.

FRESH & LOCAL

Don’t forget to order your produce boxes today!
Produce Box orders must be submitted by Monday evening – instead of the usual Tuesday for everything else.

There are three box types (vegetable, fruit, or mixed) and three sizes of each. They are listed in The Market under FRESH & LOCAL > Destiny Organics.

We are still in our trial period for Destiny Organics. I am going to wait a couple more weeks to decide for sure if we will continue ordering from them. I was happy with the quality and selection but, so far, not enough people have shown an interest to make it worth my time. We need to get up to 20 boxes to qualify for free delivery. In the mean time I have to drive down to the State Farmers’ Market in Forest Park to pick up or pay a delivery fee. The prices listed in The Market include that delivery fee. As more people order, the price will go down since we are splitting the delivery fee.

GROUP BUYS

No new group buys this week. There are still a few pantry staples listed in the GROUP BUYS category, left over from previous orders.

Bio-Kult
In the past we have done group orders of Bio-Kult probiotics. This is the probiotic formulated my Dr. Natahsa Campbell-McBride to go along with her GAPS protocol. I just came across single packages of Bio-Kult on Amazon.com for $31.79 with free shipping if you have Amazon Prime. This price is lower than we ever got as a group. I will not go through the trouble of posting it in The Market (and therefore having to mark it up to pay our website fees) but if you click on that link above and order through Amazon, the co-op will get a small kick-back :)

If you follow that link and the price is higher than $31.79 please let me know. Sometimes Amazon does strange things, charging different prices to different people based on their spending habits. And if, for some reason, you are not able to order from Amazon I will consider buying a case again and posting them in The Market but I will have to mark it up to cover my costs.

WORKSHOPS & EVENTS

The Bone Broth workshop last week went great! I enjoyed meeting new people and sharing my information with them. I am looking forward to our next workshop on February 21 – Making Kombucha Tea. Hope to see you there!

I have a couple of other ideas I want to throw out. From our last Mother Earth Meats order I got 10 lbs of beef fat and 10 lbs of pork fat. I am planning on rendering them into lard. If anyone is interested in learning how to do this please let me know. If there is enough interest, I might just make that another workshop.

Also, once the beef fat is rendered I want to make soap and lotion with it. I don’t have a lot of experience with soap making so if any of you out there would like to lead a workshop and show us I will be happy to host that at my house as well.

FARM SPOTLIGHT

East West Farm

My friends over at East West Farm in Marietta have some fun events coming up that you might be interested in. They are a small family farm, working hard to be sustainable and produce the cleanest, most nutrient-dense food possible. I enjoy going over there whenever I can and will be attending these events:

Mar 9, 2013 – Biodaynamic Compost Workshop
Mar 23, 2013 – Spring Fling Farm Tour and Easter Egg Hunt
Apr 6, 2013 – Chicken Processing Class

Read more about the farm and register for events at their website http://eastwestfarm.wordpress.com/events

They are also taking orders for their upcoming chicken CSA. The chickens are raised on pasture and given only organic, soy-free feed. Here are all the details. I have already signed up for the CSA so I will be going over there to pick up my own chicken once a month. I encourage you to go see the farm for yourself but, if you decide to do the CSA too, I will be happy to pick up your chicken and bring it back to my house in Roswell. Once you have signed up just email me to let me know.

CONTACT INFO

Sandra Walker
Melody Lane Co-op Coordinator
melodylanecoop@yahoo.com
770-841-3437

www.MelodyLane.LocallyGrown.net