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Summer Market Schedule 2014

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FIRST TIME CUSTOMERS You are invited to watch our Market Tutorial before you begin. If you do not receive an email confirmation immediately after you order, then you did not click the SUBMIT ORDER button and we did not receive an order from you. Call your Market Manager for help.

MARKET TUTORIAL
Don’t miss our helpful shopping hints now posted as a link at the top of every web page on St. Pete Locally Grown. Check it out and then share it with anyone who asks about us!

MICROGREENS!

Glory Road Gardens rejoins us this week and Kevin reports that they are a Featured CNG Producer reflected on the home page of “Certified Naturally Grown”. Congratulations to the GRG team! More great news… Keen Greens Grower Aubrey Hanford reports that his summer experiment of growing microgreens and selling live in kitchen counter containers has been too difficult to continue. HOWEVER, the next step will be to offer microgreen kits within the next month through our online Market so you can grow your own right in your kitchen. St. Pete Locally Grown is committed to helping folks grow their own food!

Message from Your Market Manager

FEATURED FRESH FRUIT THIS WEEK ==>Red seedless grapes! We ordered cantaloupes but we rejected them due to a quality issue. Please shop early. The more often our Market sells out of fruit, the higher the indicator that I must order more to meet demand.

CUSTOMER APPRECIATION
Thanks to all for your patience in the past three weeks due to our unexpected closure. We are SO ready to get moving again! we know that many of you have had to find alternative resources for veggies so we don’t know what to expect for the coming week. Please just do the best you can to support us and remember we are open every other week right now.

CREATIVE LOAFING BEST OF THE BAY 2014
If you haven’t already done so, please follow-up with our previous weblog notice on casting a vote for St. Pete Locally Grown before 8/31/14 in all of the following categories: Best Farmers’ Market, Best Place to Shop Green, Best Health Food Market, and Best Place to Volunteer. Once again, Here is the link. If you have already voted please go back in and add your vote for us. Help us get on the Best of the Bay List for 2014! Need suggestions to help you meet the 30 entry requirement? Get help from Keep St. Petersburg Local’s (KSPL) list at this link.

UPDATE ON GROWERS
Faithful Farm reports that their lettuce heads are smaller due to the late summer heat. Also some of them do not form a tight head. We have adjusted our pricing to better suit the size of head.

MORE VOLUNTEERS NEEDED NOW
Our volunteer opportunities remain the same this summer and we have lost a few valuable resources recently. We are recruiting new folks to serve the St. Petersburg Community from 2 to 4 hours “per Market week” on Wednesdays thru Fridays. We will train and we promise you will have fun! Please call or email me if you want to meet some fabulous, like-minded people!

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.

SATISFACTION GUARANTEED
Our Market has high standards for what it sells. Despite that—as seasons transition—the challenges of evolving weather and pesky insects can take its toll on the crops. Market Growers are being very selective about what they are willing to present to you. No, it won’t always be picture perfect (which is part of its charm) and sometimes an insect is going to evade capture! But we won’t send you anything that we wouldn’t eat ourselves. If for any reason we have goofed and you are dissatisfied, please report it to me right away so we can rectify the situation. That’s how we get better and we all benefit from that. Your satisfaction is key to our success as a resource for St. Petersburgs’ lovers of chemical-free, organically & locally grown vegetables.

Upcoming Events

All these and more are posted on our Calendar of Events

WORKSHOPS & EVENTS

• “Monthly Potluck Social”, August 23rd, Garden Tour Begins at 5:30PM for active Market customers, growers, and volunteers. BY Whoozin.com e-vite ONLY. Our Speaker is yours truly, Tina Levy, YOUR Market Manager, who will share her secrets to making super flavorful dressings with fresh healthy ingredients. You’ll get to taste them all on samples of Nathan’s summer salad greens sold on our online Market. When you see how easy it is, you will never buy store bought salad dressing again.

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—including a model for great delivery service for the Market—consider volunteering for the organizations below. Check back for more Growers to be listed.
Nathan’s Natural Veggies
Pioneer Settlement Garden
St. Pete Locally Grown Market