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GROW YOUR OWN: The Benefits of Weeds

Yes, the roots of weeds have the power to help your garden grow and your veggies to flourish. Here is Nathan’s take on “Weed Power!” filmed during one of his backyard gardening classes. Here is how you can benefit from the weeds in your yard. BEFORE you decide to eat weeds, do some checking at “www.eattheweeds.com” to gain more insight.

Summertime Volunteer & Training Opportunities

ATT: RAW DAIRY LOVERS
Our recent plan for getting raw dairy to you from The Dancing Goat has been cancelled due to a well deserved promotion and additional responsibilities for our would-be volunteer. Congratulations to Miss Carol! I am back asking for a volunteer to pick up dairy in Oldsmar every other Thursday afternoon. Pam says picking up anytime after Noon until 4 or 5pm will work well. Volunteer will pick up crates (2 or 3 to transport the egg cartons) and 2 or 3 large styrofoam coolers/ice at our home on Thursday on the way to Pam’s. There is a back up person who is ready to help on an emergency basis with 3 or 4 days notice whenever the primary volunteer has something come up. We will not be able to continue carrying The Dancing Goat’s products as of Oct. 1st without a volunteer to go to Oldsmar and pick up every other Thursday for our Market. Only THREE Markets remain to train someone to fill this spot. Please respond to make arrangements for training with Nathan this week (on 8/20) if at all possible.

FRIDAY DELIVERIES – We would like to train more delivery people to prepare for the fall wave that will descend upon us sometime in October or November. We have three shifts to fill for Friday deliveries of about 2.5-hours each sometime between 1130AM & 630PM. Delivery volunteers are asked to attend a 20-minute phone conference orientation at their convenience. How does it work? Volunteer teams of two deliver via a large air-conditioned cargo van throughout St. Petersburg, near Largo, and into Gulfport. Volunteers must be detail oriented to manage checkoff sheets and distribute invoices. If this sounds like YOU, please call Tina right away at 727-515-9469.

Details of volunteer needs for the following folks are listed at the links below.
St. Pete Locally Grown Market is the hub for selling & delivering fine products of many of St. Petersburg’s urban entrepreneurs.
Pioneer Settlement Garden in St. Pete
The Dancing Goat in Oldsmar
Alexandra Lake Farm in Dade City

Message from Your Market Manager

CHANGE IN MARKET SHOPPING DATES
Effective on October 5th, our Market Calendar has been revised to change dates that St. Pete Locally Grown Market will be open for end of year holidays. Here is the Revised Calendar which you can always access via a link from the Weblog page. I suggest you save it as a Favorite. The calendar timeframe is now different in the weeks of October 12th through November 13th. They are now the opposite of what they were on the old calendar. In other words, the weeks that were open for that timeframe are now closed and vice versa.

VOTE FOR ST. PETE LOCALLY GROWN
Your support is needed! Just go to Stage 3 at this link to cast your ballots. Here is where you’ll find us listed: Within Goods & Services, please vote for us as Best Farmer’s Market, Best Place to Shop Green, and at the bottom of the list under “Best Category We Forgot” please select Best Online Farmers Market to get it on next year’s ballot. (For Best Farmer’s Market VENDOR, please select “The Dancing Goat”) Within People, Places and Politics, please declare us the Best Place to Volunteer.

SPLG’S FRUIT BASKET
Ginger Gold Apples, Cantaloupe melons, local avocados, local star fruit (aka carambola), Medjool dates, luscious peaches, red Starkrimson pears, and green papayas grown in St. Pete!

Upcoming Events

All these and more are posted on our Calendar of Events

WORKSHOPS & EVENTS

• “Monthly Potluck Social”, Aug. 22th, Nathan’s Garden Tour Begins at 5:30PM for active Market customers, growers, and volunteers. BY Whoozin.com e-vite ONLY. Want to Learn about Cooking with Essential Oils? Attend this month and Learn How to Incorporate Essential Oils in your Daily Cooking. Jennifer Gilman, Master Herbalist and Owner of The Herbal Cabinet, will teach us how to use these precious oils to enhance the flavor of our food. You’ll learn conversions from teaspoons to drops and how to adjust your favorite recipes. She’ll be bringing a couple dishes for us to sample…Yum…and she’ll have a few “Cooking with Essential Oil Sample Kits” for sale to get you started. The kits will have a variety of oils for just $15. Jennifer uses only PURE Essential Oils that have the FDA Supplement Facts Panel on them which shows that they can be ingested.
• NO WORKSHOPS BY NATHAN IN SEPTEMBER