Welcome to Swartz Family Farm in North Amherst, MA. Swartz Family Farm is also home to the Meadow Street Farmer's Market and the Sky Vegetables Research and Development/Grower Training Facility.
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Our Farm operates 12 months per year, continually growing crops in our climate controlled greenhouses. We produce high quality, pesticide-free lettuce,micro-greens, culinary herbs, cooking greens, and salad mix for sale in select local grocery stores, specialty food stores, and every Saturday at the Meadow Street Farmer's Market.
The Meadow Street Farmer's Market
EVERY SATURDAY-10AM till 2PM
At the BIG BLUE BARN
11 Meadow Street
North Amherst Center
We would like to welcome two new vendors: Earth's Touch Natural Makeup & Natural Body Products and LaSalle Florists!
And happy NATIONAL ICE CREAM FOR BREAKFAST DAY! We are celebrating this wonderful holiday (always the first Sat, of Feb.) in style in The Big Blue Barn!
* What will we have on the menu for you?
*Sumptuous Maple Valley Creamery Ice Cream
including a NEW FLAVOR: White Chocolate & Cherry, THE RETURN OF A SEASONAL FAVORITE: Maple Bacon, Malted Chocolate & Brownie and (good old yummy) Vanilla.
HOW DO YOU WANT YOUR ICE CREAM? WE HAVE IT WITH:
*1)warm organic, hand milled waffles from Backyard Bakery topped with your choice of:
a)-pure maple syrup from North Hadley Sugar Shack
b)- warm preserves from Harvest Market (flavors to be announced)
c)- Cabot whipped cream
d)-Atkins Farm's M&M and Chocolate Chip Cookies
e)-Auntie Elsie's Oatmeal or Ginger Oatmeal Cookies
*2)An old fashioned cone or in a cup!
*We will also be serving Pierce Brothers hot coffee and hot chocolate (topped with Cabot whipped cream!)
Please see the list below for everything that will be available this week. (note that we have many new delicious items!!!)
We have had a number of concerned people ask about the availability of SALAD MIX. Apparently, there is not a lot of local salad mix available. However, dont worry! WE HAVE IT FOR YOU!! Still (0:
There will be well over 100 bags of fresh cut SALAD MIX waiting for you when you walk in the door!
ITS GIRL SCOUT COOKIE TIME!!
(cookies on hand for sale&&no pre-ordering needed!)
Our local Amherst Girl Scout troop will be on hand this week, selling their fabulous girl scout cookies!!
You dont need to order. Simply drop by, and pick out your favorites!!
What goes great with Girl Scout Cookies??
How about Mapleline MILK, or WHIPPING CREAM?
Or how about Maple Valley Creamery ICE CREAM???
*Please visit The Meadow Street Farmers Market on FACEBOOK for great recipes for these!!!
This week Harvest Market will have hot Curried Butternut and Mushroom to warm you up after all that ice cream (0: Or perhaps for your eating pleasure you would like to try some hot homemade chili or meatballs made from fresh local beef rom Barstows Farm? Both Harvest Market and Barstows offer these products frozen and ready to carry out! Eat it for lunch at the market or pick up a container to go!
So what will you find at the Market this week??
AMHERST GIRL SCOUT TROOP:
" Fabulous Girl Scout Cookies!!! Yum!
AUNTIE ELSIES COOKIES:
" Elsies famous OATMEAL CRISPS! In regular and ginger
BACKYARD BAKERY:
" Dories scrumptious SOURDOUGH BREAD, WAFFLES, and RYE BREADS!
BARSTOWS LONGVIEW FARM:
*Bakery:
> Scones, Turnovers, Muffins, Cinnamon Swirls, Danishes, and Macaroons
> *Cabot Cheeses:
> Seriously Sharp Cheddar, Reduced Fat Cheddar, Monterey Jack, Muenster,
> Horseradish, Tomato Basil, Tuscan, Buffalo, Chipotle, Pepper Jack, &
> Habanero
> *Beef Cuts:
> Ground Beef, Ground Beef Patties, Brisket, Stew Meat, Chuck Steak, NY
> Boneless Sirloin Steak, Boneless Rib-Eye Steak, Tenderloin Steak, and All
> Beef Sausage Links (Chorizo, Hot Italian, & Sweet Italian)
> *Additions to the freezer:
> Meatballs and Chili (in quart containers)
> *Served Hot:
> Barstow's Absolutely Local Chili, Pierce Brother Organic Fair Trade Coffee
> and Hot Cocoa
CLARKDALE ORCHARDS:
" Apple Cider
" Mutzu, Empire, Johnny Crisps, and Golden Delicious Apples
CZAJKOWSKI FARM:
" Winter medley Vegetable Mix
" Sweet Potato Fries
" Whole Sweet Potatoes
" Beets
" Bagged Carrots
" Parsnips
" Organic Kabocha Squash
" Organic YUKON GOLD Potatoes!
EARTH'S TOUCH NATURAL MAKUP & BODY PRODUCTS:
" a fantastic array of natural makeup, brushes, nourishing and luxuriant face and body balms and butters.
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HARVEST MARKET:
" Breakfast Sandwiches on PREZEL BREAD!
" Soft Pretzels
" Jams, Jellies, and Preserves
" -Curried Butternut and Mushroom--Hot and ready to eat!
" Rolls
JEKANOWSKI FARM:
" Red and White 5-lb bags of Potatoes
LASALLE FLORISTS:
" beautiful locally grown freesias for a well deserved treat for some one you love (hey, how about yourself?). Soon to come in many colors!
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MAPLELINE FARMS
" Milk! Whole Milk, Skim, 2%, flavored and white, in singles, quarts, and half gallons
" Half and half and Whipping Cream
MAPLE VALLEY CREAMERY:
" Ice Cream---Come pick your favorite flavors!
" USDA inspected Veal Sausage
* Butter in half pound and pound containers
NORTH HADLEY SUGAR SHACK:
" Maple Syrup, homemade maple BUTTER, granulated maple sugar
" Maple Candies
" Eggs
" USDA inspected WHOLE CHICKEN
" Gift Boxes
PLAINVILLE FARM:
" Green Cabbage
" Red Cabbage
" Rutabagas
SWARTZ FAMILY FARM:
" Salad Mix!
" Lettuce
" Cilantro
" Cooking Greens
" Upland Cress
" Micro greens SALAD SPIKERS and Broccoli Micro greens
" Eggs
Every Saturday, come visit us and other great local Family Farms! (Please see us on Facebook @ The Meadow Street Farmer's Market)
We are located in the Big Blue Barn (see photo at right), here at the farm at 11 Meadow Street, North Amherst Center. Our winter hours are from 10am till 2 pm and our Summer hours are from 9am till 1pm. If you would like to be put on our mailing list for news, upcoming events, vendor profiles, and to receive our weekly email newsletter, please just send us an email request by clicking the "contact" button on your left.
*You asked to be able to have a full line of our greens available to you seven days a week. We love our customers and we listen. You will be able to find a full line of Swartz Family Farm Greens all nestled together in one spot at these handpicked wonderful local markets:
*Amherst - ATKINS MARKET - corner of Rt. 116 & Bay Road / * Visit them @ http://www.atkinsfarms.com/ (to link simply cut and paste) or on facebook at Atkins Country Market!
*Cushman- THE CUSHMAN MARKET - 491 Pine Street (ONLY selling salad mix). * Visit them online @ http://www.cushmanmarket.com/ ( to link, simply cut and paste) or on facebook at Cushman Market!
*Northampton: STATE STREET FRUIT - 51 State Street / * Visit them online @ http://www.statestreetfruit.com/ (to link, simply cut and paste) or on facebook at Sate Street Fruit!
*Florence- COOPER'S CORNER- 31 Main Street - * Visit them online @ http://www.statestreetfruit.com/coopers_corner/index.php (to link, simply cut and paste) or on facebook at Cooper's Corner!
Sky Vegetables is a leading urban rooftop farming company (see www.SkyVegetables.com)
Farming on the rooftops? Yes! That's right! While we take our local farms for granted sometimes, most urban areas rarely see fresh, nutritious produce. Since there is a lack of available farmland in our urban areas, they are forced to rely on a cumbersome and ineffecient food transportation and distribution system. Sky Vegetables brings local food production back! Joe, who is the director of Farming, and the rest of the Sky Vegetables Team, design, build, and operate pesticide free hydroponic farms on otherwise unused rooftops in our cities. We currently have a farm under construction in the Bronx, NY, and a second development slated to begin in 2012 in Brockton, MA. The cities of Boston, MA and San Francisco, CA are also working with Sky Vegetables for rooftop farms to be located in their cities in the very near future. With our R & D/Grower Training Facility located here at the farm, we are always looking for new and dynamic people who want to get invovled! If this sounds like something that you might be intested in, please hit the "contact" button and let us know!
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