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Where:
2216 Penn Avenue in Pittsburgh’s bustling Strip district, perfect for multi-tasking and lunch. Look for the market’s green awnings next to the historic No. 7 firehouse, now home to the Firehouse Lounge.
Market Hours:
Saturday 9:00 to 1:00
The high quality of seasonal, mostly organic produce and goods makes this farmers market preeminent among markets in the area.
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Farmers@Firehouse mission:
We will work the land with the respect it deserves, grow our products with the care it takes, deliver to our customers the quality they expect and treat each other, always, with the respect we have worked so hard to earn. By doing this, we will help build a sustainable future for our families and for our customers’ families. Further, to achieve this, we will:
--Stay at the forefront of best practices in organic and sustainable farming.
--Build strong relationships with our customers through excellent and consistent service, education and quality.
--Create a partnership of local organic and sustainable farmers built on a foundation of integrity and mutual respect.
--Stay true to our belief that few things in life are more satisfying, or better for you, than the tastes and flavors of fresh, locally grown farmers’ products.
--Pursue our goal of making Farmers@Firehouse the most admired and enjoyable farmers’ market in the Pittsburgh area.
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Pittsburgh’s only
mostly organic farm market
Saturday, June 28, 2008
New Hours: 9:00 am – 1:00 pm
THIS WEEK: FRESH COPPER RIVER salmon, fresh halibut. Kenai River sockeye, $9/lb. Seabeef $10/lb. Heilman's pastured pork, Steve Misera's certified organically raised pastured chix, averaging 6 lb, $2.90/lb.
Amish conventional strawberries, shell, sugar and snow peas, broccoli, frisée, radicchio, green garlic, garlic scapes, baby Hakurai turnips (try in salad), lambsquarters (greens, nutritional powerhouse), head lettuces, kale, chard. Freshest mushrooms, various. Zucchini, scallions, green candy onions. Giant Italy flat leaf parsley, chervil, dill, basils. Pastured eggs, Mediterra bread, pastries. Local raw milk, artisan raw milk cheeses.
Small-batch Lebanese foods: hummus and baba “improvs,” savory hand pies, sweet pastries. Cut and edible flowers. Not so local: La Prima Fair Trade coffee.
SLOW FOOD TASTING: Dan and Sherry Leiphart, he of Isabella on Grandview, she of Le Pommier, back for another Slow Food tasting--people are still talking about last year's.
ORDER THANKSGIVING TURKEYS-yes, we need to know how many to grow! Maggie Henry raises heritage and conventional birds in Lawrence County on 100% certified organic local grain, free-ranged on organic pasture. A $10 deposit holds your bird for fresh delivery at F@F the Saturday before Thanksgiving.
VENDOR UPDATE: Pastured chicken: Steve Misera of Misera Farm, selling this week, will alternate with Dave Chirico of West Liberty Farm. Windy Hill CNG produce will be back next week. Deron Johnson's honey back July 12. Puckerbrush Farm lamb and Wil-Den Family Farm pork, end of July.
FOOD PRICE SNAPSHOT: If you noticed the price of pastured eggs is creeping up, consider this: chicken and eggs cost more to produce. F@F vendor Dave Chirico, West Liberty Farm in Dubois: “Since last year the price of corn has increased 30 percent, soybean meal 35 percent, organic mineral 50 percent! The grinding fee for the oats we grow has gone up too. And that's not counting fuel.”
STANDARDS: All produce is organic, transitioning organic or labeled conventional. Meat, poultry: no hormones, antibiotics, pesticides, herbicides, no animal confinement. Prepared foods: artisanal, traditional, local sources our first choice.
Meet the vendors
You’d be amazed at the amount of talking that goes on between farmers and customers. It's great to meet the farmer and build up a relationship.
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Laptop Butchershop
Local, pastured, organically-raised meat and poultry including Thanksgiving turkeys.
Operated by Slow Food Pittsburgh celebrates four years of connecting consumers with small-scale producers of quality meat and poultry. E-mail your order for organic and carefully raised pastured meat and poultry, pick it up at the Firehouse market.
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