Monthly Archives: December 2009

Produce Markets!!

We have been very busy growing, selling and eating our really fabulous produce.  Since the beginning of the fall season we have sold at the Lakeland Downtown Farmers Curbmarket www.ldda.org/curbmarket on some Saturdays (now mostly by pre-order only) and Sweetwater Organic Community Farm www.sweetwater-organic.org on Sundays.  More recently we added the Friday Tampa Downtown Market www.tampadowntownmarket.com and started up order deliveries at the Health Food Center of Winter Haven bi-weekly. We are totally humbled by the response of customers everywhere we go.  Thank you!!  And please consider shopping at your local farmers markets for many necessities–and unique, personal gift items made by local artisans.  It’s all about community–and really good karma.

Pay attention to this —–>

It appears that our state has spent the federal stimulus money on more inspectors to crack down on small farmers, home cottage industries and herbalists that sell their wonderful and healthy products at various public markets.  Recent ‘busts’ at Tampa Bay area markets are extremely disturbing., and involve dumping entire inventories of healthy FOOD and natural products…It’s already illegal to buy and sell raw milk, cheese and other ‘live’ dairy products for human consumption, not to mention virtually any edible or medicinal product not produced in a Certified Kitchen, as defined by the State of Florida (some states are even worse).  Lately it’s obvious that Big Ag is running scared, and they have the government thugs behind them.

Electrathon Race

Sustainable Living Show November 30, 2009

On December 8th the Pinellas Chapter of the Florida Native Plant Society and the St Pete Audubon Chapter will be having their annual Holiday Conservation Celebration at the Pinellas County Extension Center on 12520 Ulmerton Road, Largo.  This event will start at 6:30PM and the speaker will be Professor Douglas Tallamy, author of “Bringing Nature Home”. Douglas Joined the program for a short interview about how native plants sustain wildlife, and related topics he will speak about next Tuesday. Then we shifted gears to a new age NASCAR program, with students from three of our local schools. This coming Saturday at the Brandon High School Stadium, on 1101 Victoria St., starting there will be the final Electrathon race of the year.  Students design, build and drive these small electric powered cars,  powering their cars  for one hour on similar sized batteries, with the winner completing the most laps. This will be the future of human transportation as our fossil fuel reserves decline. Check out their web site www.electrathonoftampabay.org    

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