JNA Farm market closes at 8:00 tonight

We have had many new items added over the weekend and a new vendor came on the market, Simply OH!. She does all natural bath, beauty, home and pet care items. Take a look at all she offers.

Chanterelle mushrooms are blooming. I took a mushroom foraging class and learned 2 new ways to cook them that I will share in the recipe section. The chanterelles are $8/lb.

Farm Fresh Foods has her Lemon Poppysed bread available this week. Flavor Explosion!

Have fun shopping and browsing all the wonderful foods and treats.

Blessings to all and reflection as we celebrate the Fourth of July.

Mary Beth

The JNA Farm Market is open for ordering.

I opened the front door to let the cat in and just had to stand there and stop; inhale, close my eyes, inhale again then open my eyes to all that is around me. How beautiful to stop and take in what what has been given to us to enjoy. Stop today and enjoy – this life is fleeting but oh, so full of wonder.

We have another week of wonderful foods to choose from. Get out the recipe books and get creative or pull out the standards, either way, you will have a wonderful meal.

Nancy at Harvest Meadows is bringing in her beautiful lettuce blends. The Gourmet blend has added flowers and herbs. It is a piece of edible art and the fresh flavors just burst on your palate. This blend just needs a light dressing and it is ready for the table. Her salad blends are washed and ready to eat from the bag and they last for several weeks without wilting if you leave a bag in the back of the refrigerator and forget it is there.

The Cucumber Mango Salad from Farm Fresh Foods was outstanding last week. Everything Amy makes is fresh, flavor filled, and so good for you. She makes it easy to ‘eat your vegetables’. I am trying combinations I would never make like Carrot Hummus, so sweet and fresh, no crackers needed, spoon please. She grows many of the vegetables and herbs she uses. How awesome if that?
Diabetic Friendly Baking will be on vacation next week. She will have very limited offerings that will be posted later Saturday.

Fourth of July is this Friday, are you ready to fire up the grill? Beer can chicken, ribs, burgers, steaks? The freezer is loaded with pasture raised meats that will suit any recipe.

Joyful Noise Acres Farm will be processing chickens again this week. We are taking them to the USDA processor and coming home with cuts, lots of cuts. We will have boneless, skinless breast meat, thighs, leg quarters, drumsticks, bone in breasts and fresh whole birds. These will not get here until late Wednesday. Because many of you are waiting for cuts, you may pick up your orders on Thursday to get the fresh chicken also. Just make a note when closing out your order that you want to pick up on Thursday. PIck up hours will be 10-12 or 3-5. If I am not outside, ring the doorbell when you get here.

We are blessed with amazing growers and artisans producing the freshest, most nutrient dense foods we can find locally. Thank you for supporting them. Farming is hard work, making a living from the dirt is a passion. You, the consumer, reap the benefit of the harvest.

Blessings,
Mary Beth

The market closes at 8:00pm.

Don’t forget to place your orders. The market is full of wonderful vegetables, meats, breads, and salads.
We look forward to seeing you Wednesday.

The JNA Farm market is open for ordering.

Good morning, good morning!

At Joyful Noise Acres Farm, the next batch of baby chicks are here and the teenagers in the front yard have moved (yea!) to the pasture. Our vegetable farmers are in the thick of growing and that means weeds. Please contact them if you would like to volunteer to lend a hand, intern or work for food. Sunshine and dirt are the best relaxation I know of.

We are so excited about this week at the market. Chrystal Cantrell is going to be helping me with the market. She will be working with the orders, making sure you see all the wonderful samples and extras that are offered and keeping things moving in general.

Speaking of extras, we have another table now that is stocked with many of the extras our farmers and cooks have made. These items are for sale so make sure to grab a goodie or two. This is where samples will be also. This past week we sampled Diabetic Friendly Baking English Muffins, ‘Swamp Honey’ from Paul Foster Apiary and Spicy Carrot hummus from Farm Fresh Foods. The hard part of working the market is not eating all the samples. We had quite a few extra vegetables and baked items for sale. In all the busy, I didn’t have the cheese out to sample but will make sure I do this week.

Now off to the market, the freezers are full of chicken, pork and beef. The eggs are in abundance, the vegetables are beautiful and the refrigerator is full of good things from the kitchens. Grab your grocery list and start shopping or start shopping and then decide what to make this week. Either way, you will not be disappointed – and if you are, you let us know.

We love growing for you and look forward to seeing you Wednesday.
Blessings,
Mary Beth

The Market closes at 8:00pm.

Good morning,
I hope you had a sweet Father’s Day with those you love, we enjoyed a quieter day, a little pool time (in between rain showers) and a steak on the grill. Chip was happy.

The on-line market closes this evening so be sure to get your orders in.
Please let me know if you would like to order lamb for pick-up next week:
Lamb Chops at $15.00/lb
Ground Lamb at $10.00/lb *
Neck Bones at $4.00/lb
Shoulder Roasts at $11.00/lb
Whole legs at $10.50/lb (avg. 4-6 lbs)
Lamb Ribs at $11.00/lb

Linda at White Gates Farm raises Suffolk sheep for their wool and meat. I will have one of her wool blankets here on Tuesday for you to look over. They are soft, beautiful and will last a lifetime. She also has throws and blankets for every size bed.

Thank you for supporting your local farmer and artisan – it doesn’t get any fresher!
Have a great week and we look forward to seeing you on Wednesday.
Mary Beth

The Market is open for ordering.

A heartfelt thank you for all the condolences this week. We appreciate your understanding and apologize for the inconvenience of having to close the market so suddenly. We are doing well and finding our new ‘normal’. It is never easy to say goodbye but he was ready – physically, spiritually, emotionally.

There are so many yummy foods to choose from this week. We have loads of vegetables coming in. salad blends, squash, kale, cabbages and more. The freezers are full of delicious beef, pork and chicken just ready for your favorite recipe.

We still have the cheeses in the fridge for you to try on Wednesday. I look forward to getting feedback on how to proceed with ordering. We can order a pound, 2.5, 5 or 10 pound blocks.

Thank you for letting us grow for you!
Blessings,
Mary Beth Sellars

Family emergency, no market this Wednesday

I am sorry to announce that we have to close the market for this Wednesday. My father passed away this morning so I will not be able to coordinate delivery and pick-ups. Thank you for your understanding and I will look forward to seeing you next week.
Blessings,
Mary Beth Sellars

The JNA Farm Market is open for ordering

Now that was a gully washer last night! Hope you all enjoyed the watering with no adverse effect on your homes or land. The drivewaay has a few ruts but nothing too bad.

The market is open for ordering and filling up with delightful offerings from our many vendors.

This week we have cheese from Mountain Valley Farm. They are not local as I cannot find local raw milk cheese but they are a grass based dairy that produces some really nice cheeses. Our family has been buying Mr. Stolzfus’ cheese for 3 years. We have 2.5 lb blocks of gouda, swiss, cheddar, jalapeño, Havarti and Colby for sale and I will have samples on Wednesday.

Blessings to each of you,
Mary Beth Sellars

JNA Farm Market closes at 8:00pm tonight

The biggest challenge this week is staying in budget considering all the great offerings. It is going to be easy to eat all your veggies this week! Then treat yourself to some of Farm Fresh Foods, strawberry or blueberry breads.
We will have samples of Good Shepherd Herbals, Wise Woman Tea (men can drink it also) and fresh spearmint tea.
Look forward to seeing you Wednesday.
Mary Beth

JNA Farm Market is open for ordering.

Another beautiful day today… a few years ago I took my father-in-love to the doctor. He was beginning stages of dementia and the doctor was doing a cognitive awareness test on him. He was not having a good day and could not remember many details; date, year, president, that sort of thing. The last question asked of him was to write a sentence, any sentence. He wrote, ‘I love this beautiful earth’. There are some things we never forget.

We are so excited to see the market offerings growing weekly. We are currently talking to a farm about offering their cheeses on the market. I am ordering a variety so that we can sample them. It may have to be a group buy item versus having it on the market weekly but we will see how you like the cheese and go from there.

Chicken – *Joyful Noise Acres Farm *will have a limited amount of chicken available on Wednesday, these will be whole birds, no cuts yet. You can reserve the number of chickens you want, maximum of 3 per family.

We have a great variety of vegetables available again this week, our farmers have been so busy. They have a bounty of herbs also. The best way to preserve your herbs is to chop them, fill ice cube trays with the herbs then pour olive oil over them. They will freeze but it is a soft freeze and then transfer them to a baggie and keep frozen. It will be easy to add a cube at a time to sauces, soups, etc. and you don’t loose the fresh flavor of the herbs.

At the end of the week, when you have a few extra veggies, salad leaves and what nots, toss them all in olive oil and a splash of Home Appetit Dark Balsamic Vinegar and roast them. This is great for eating now or puree the roasted veggies and freeze them to add to sauces and soups or meat loaf. We don’t want any of the goodness to go to waste.

We want to share what we do with everyone because we want everyone to eat good, clean food. For the month of June, if you refer someone to the market and they join, we are offering a $5 credit to you. Be sure to tell them to give us your name when they join.

Off to the market with you… see you Wednesday.

Mary Beth
Joyful Noise Acers Farm