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Don’t know how to cook your new veggies? Google recipes for Market veggies. Then share your cooking experiences, and find new ones, on our Market Community Food Blog!
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- Please share this video with friends who want to know more about St. Pete Locally Grown. Thank you!
- edible Tampa Bay Featured Fall 2013 Issue
- 83 Degrees Media Featured Jan. 15, 2013 Issue
- In Creative Loafing Featured Sept. 6-12, 2012 Issue
- On local Fox News Interviews from May 2012
- “Charlotte Smiled” Blog Post with review of our Market business model and exemplary products!
What Are We Up To?
- Follow our Pinterest project to document all the great food growing right here in the St. Petersburg Community St. Pete’s Urban Growers on Pinterest Want to participate by posting your veggies? Just email tlevy@tampabay.rr.com
- Check out our weekly fun preparing for Friday deliveries as we document this journey with wonderful volunteers! The Art of Distributing Food to the St. Petersburg Community
- Check Out New Posts on our Market Community Blog on Google: stpetelocallygrownnet.blogspot.com ; Like to author on our blog? Just email tlevy@tampabay.rr.com
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- We are now listed on Green Me Locally where you can find many other local eco-friendly companies in the Tampa Bay Area or leave us a review.
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Featured Volunteer, Rita Sewell
My decision to volunteer in Nathan’s garden started soon after my initial visit Summer 2011. I wanted to learn to grow my own food and knew nothing. My experience with the extension service was uninspired. Now this place was like nothing I had ever seen. My idea of farms were long rows of vegetables in the hot sun with folks bent over toiling in the heat. Nathan’s is the" Garden of Good Eating". with patches of shade, raised beds, birds chirping, flowers blooming, no toxic spray or evil overseer and such peacefulness! My Friday mornings were free so I started coming. Now I find that the time I spend in the garden is renewing to my spirit. I am double blessed by playing with a a team of wonderful volunteers. Chris, Brenon, Christy and Phyllis are mellow and their low key style fits right in with the garden vibe.
When I am not hanging around in the garden I work as a nurse advocate in my own business, part time in a physicians office, work part time as a health screener, garden in my own yard, volunteer at my Lutheran Church, play guitar at a monthly meet-up and try to do God’s will for my life every day. As a recovering junk food junkie I know eating fresh local food is the key to my total well being.
Rita
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VOLUNTEERS IN ACTION
Here are some generous folks comprised of growers, customers, and volunteers who helped to make all of our Holidays better with fresh delivered veggies. We thank them all! view photo album
NEW VIDEO FROM VOLUNTEER JEFF YENTZER
Jeff has done it again, this time he’s produced a video about raising red wrigglers. We are glad to share this great info for those wondering how it’s done! Thank you, Jeff!
COMMUNITY MARKET BLOG
Lots of new posts in our Market Community Food Blog this week. I spent some of my time off last week catching up with new recipes I wanted to try.
WELCOME TO OUR NEWEST CUSTOMERS!
Once you have submitted your order, if in doubt about what you owe, you can always confirm what you have been charged for by checking your account history and viewing your most current invoice. Instructions on how to do that are on our Q&A page under the question entitled Since you don’t provide an invoice with delivery, how do I know what I owe? . Also, since your vegetables are picked fresh within 24 hours of delivery, they should be lasting for WEEKS in your refrigerator. When you accept delivery, please take a few minutes to inspect your order to protect your vegetables from unnecessary spoilage. Lastly, it is imperative that you understand our policy on Unclaimed Orders found on our Q&A page. When you make a purchase you are agreeing to abide by this policy.
Market News
EGGS AND RAIN
Just so you know, when the weather is rainy, chickens don’t know enough to wipe their feet before they get in the laying nests, i.e. dirty eggs! If the eggs were to be washed before you get them, the bloom on the egg would be removed by washing and they won’t be as fresh. Please put dirty eggs in a bowl and wash in tepid water just before you use them.
TAMPA VEGGIE CO-OPS
We are moving our co-op drop from Yogani Studio in South Tampa to the Westshore area on Gandy Blvd. If you have friends in the vicinity of that intersection please let them know that we are trying out a Friday drop there for the next few weeks to see if there is enough demand.
DOES A FRIEND PICK UP YOUR ORDER FOR YOU?
Customers who have backups picking up for them at co-op locations are required to provide Market Manager the contact names and numbers so we can call the backup if we are running late. This will help us do a better job if we get ahead of schedule too! It will also keep your friends (& us) from getting stressed out…
Grower News
VETERAN GROWER RETURNS THIS WEEK!
It’s wonderful to welcome back Toad Stool Pond this week. Check out one of Jan’s best-selling products, now available to our Market Customers: “Aquaponic Water – The Highly Nutrient filled water from our Aquaponic Gardening System. Common Uses include: Sprouting; Transplanting; Relieving Plant Shock; Rejuvenating or Energizing your plants. How It All Works: Fish produce ammonia in their waste. This waste water is continuously running through four aerated biological filters. In which nitrifying bacteria convert this fish waste into a high nitrate content. Nitrate is a natural fertilizer used by plants to make protein. Plants just love it! NEVER FOR HUMAN OR PET CONSUMPTION. A COUPLE SUCCESS STORIES 1.) In winter (2010) Jenee Tropicals of St. Petersburg, had lost just about half of their business, due to the hard freeze we were having. There were about 100 plants that were struggling, so we decided to make an experiment out of 60 of the worst plants. I had heard of how well this Aquaponic Water worked and I wanted to see for myself if it was true. They diligently applied the Aquaponic Water to the 60 plants, and to our surprise those were the only ones that survived. 2.) I planted 21 fruit trees in my front yard, I use no other fertilizer than my Aquaponic Water. I used a gallon a week per tree to establish and then once a month. I have impressed Certified Permaculturalist design artist, Robert Segundo, of Fire of Hope, with how well they are growing and how well they look.”
Volunteer Opportunities
We are currently organizing our volunteer needs by Grower and by Market. So when you are interested in learning how to garden and/or how to run an urban market, consider volunteering for the organizations below. Check back for more Growers to be listed.
Nathan’s Natural Veggies
Oakdale Community Garden
Pioneer Settlement Garden
St. Pete Locally Grown Market
The Faith House
Upcoming Events
All these and more are posted on our Calendar of Events
We thank you for your interest and support of our efforts to bring you the healthiest, the freshest and the most delicious locally-produced foods possible!
