Yes! We will have a market on Memorial Day. We hope you’ll close your holiday weekend out by joining us and our wonderful vendors for a lovely evening of outdoor dining, fresh local goodies, and more! As always, we’ll be posting a full vendor list on our newsletter on Monday. See you at the market!
Here’s the vendor lineup for tonight’s market. We’re happy to welcome a new farmer, Bramble Tree Farm, to our already wonderful family of vendors. If you’ve been enjoying blueberry season, we’re getting word that growers are hitting peak, so it’s time to start stocking up on that seasonal treat! We’ll also have multiple dining options tonight, including vegan faire from Dixie Dharma & Leguminati; Fish Tacos from Wild Ocean Seafood & Chef Jes Tantalo; Tamales from Tamale Co.; and the full menu from Stardust Video & Coffee.
The full vendor lineup is listed on this week’s newsletter:
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The Audubon Park Community Market is very much a neighborhood event, and we’re really proud to be a part of a vibrant community food hub. This neighborhood is a hot spot for locally-grown food, inventive culinary destinations, exciting new foodpreneurs and more. Fleet Farming is definitely one of the highlights, and their concept is gaining national attention and accolades. We love that we get hyper-local veggies whenever they’re in season, and it’s especially great to know that they were grown in partnership with our wonderful neighbors.
Here’s a link to the article and newscast, which were featured on All Things Considered.
And here’s a neat video profile that features some scenes of our lovely little market!
Fleet Farming is fairly regular vendor at the market, offering up their freshest goods whenever they’re in season.
Here’s what we have on deck for tonight’s market. Click the link below to see the vendor lineup, dinner options, specials and more.
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Here’s the newsletter featuring tonight’s vendor lineup, info about live music, dining options, and more. See you at the market!
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Here’s our vendor lineup, some news, and specials, all at tonight’s market. View it all in this week’s newsletter.
We’ve got a lot of goodies lined up for this lovely Monday evening, including some new vendors and lots of tasty options for dinner. Click the newsletter button below to see tonight’s edition, which includes our vendor lineup, some menu items and specials, and more
See you at the market!
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Here’s the vendor lineup and some specials at tonight’s market!
Read MoreIt’s officially that time of year! Many of us are shopping for the perfect gift, or stocking up for gatherings with family and friends. We’re stocking up the market too, in preparation for all that celebrating. This month you’ll find more variety of handmade crafts and other goods to help you find unique, locally-crafted gifts for your friends and loved ones. We’ll be updating this post throughout the month as vendors submit different promotional offers, so stay tuned! For now, here’s what some of our stellar vendors have just for the season:
Gift Cards from Living Vitalitea Kombucha
Daniel and his team at Living Kombucha have released these snappy gift cards for the market. They’ll be available for purchase every Monday night, and the lucky recipients can use them to pick up growlers of the constantly revolving flavors Daniel brings each week!
Holiday Gift Sets & Stocking Stuffer Specials from Orenda Herbal
Michele will be at the market all month with a variety of gift sets and other fun options, including: Smoking Blend Trio – three tins of Orenda’s popular herbal smoking blend in original, mint, and dream varieties in a collectible kraft box – $25; Tea Lover’s Set – four organic 1 oz herbal teas and a tea mug in a beautiful gift basket – $20; Facial Care Set – a basket or gift bag of Orenda’s entire Facial Care line, including Facial Grains, Facial Toner, Blemish Stick, and Kiss This Lip Balm – $30; Fairy Kit – A small Fairy Dust and a Kiss This Lip Balm in a sweet gift basket – $8; Stocking Stuffer Tea Special – 1 oz teas regularly $4 each, buy 5 and get one free!
Ananda Soy Candle Co. will be at the market all month with a variety of fragrances. They’re featuring the Bayberry Scent as a holiday special, drawing on tradition from the early New England settlers. The scented bayberry candles were coveted for their wonderful fragrance and were saved as a treat to bring out only on very special officiations, such as Christmas Eve or New Year’s Day. These modern-day versions will be at the market in 7oz square containers with a 30hr burn time for $12. The included gift box makes it easy to wrap for a teacher, friend, or coworker this holiday season.
Keely Farms is offering up quarter packages of their Berkshire Pork. A quarter includes approximately 12 pork chops, 6 packages of sausage, 1 ham steak, 1 ham, 1 Boston butt, 1 rib section, bacon, ham hocks, and pork bones. It can be custom packaged for each customer to include either 2 or 4 pork chops in a pack, cured and/or smoked bacon, choice of sausage style, and custom-sized roast. At $5.50/pound, these are some of the best prices we’ve seen on such a high quality product! Visit the Keely Farms Dairy booth at the market to reserve yours now.
Holly Caangay has been a practicing intuitive and healer for 7 years. Sit down with her and you will receive insights into life, love, health, and inspiration that you never saw coming. Services include Tarot, Palmistry, Angel Cards, and Empathetic Body Scan. Holiday Package deals at the market (good through January 31) include: Any Two Services – $30, Any Three Services – $50, All Four Services – $70. Holly is also offering special prices on Full Session Packages, and will have Colorful Gift Certificates available for purchase at the market.
JJ Juice is a delicious, locally-made Aloe vitality drink from John Jacobs. A 64oz bottle of the freshly-made drink is available for seasonal pricing of $15. Spending so much time growing and working with the versatile Aloe plant means John has a lot of beautiful plants in action, so he’s offering special $10 pricing on the dwarf varieties in solid wood blocks or copper cups. Show your support for this new local business with a new JJ Juice T-shirt. T-Shirt and plant combos are available for $25.
In addition to the variety of blends available all year, Sereniteas & Soothers is offering some holiday flavors, including a Holiday Russian Tea. Made from a very old family recipe, it will only be available for a limited time. All teas will be available at a discounted Three for $13 price this month!
By Jimmy Sherfey
When we think about a dairy cow, we might picture the classic black and white Holstein as well as what they promise to bring – a cool glass of milk, maybe at a sun-washed breakfast nook. However, we don’t always think of the distance between these two images. For instance: the cow’s habitat, quality of life, diet, and its general drain on time and resources. All of these can vary from breed to breed, farm to farm. In the case of the famous Holsteins, it can take quite a lot of imported, processed feed to produce a gallon. By contrast, the Jersey Cows at Keely Exum’s Dairy Farm in New Smyrna Beach do not require the endless amounts grain forked into the maw of a typical heavy breed. In fact, the cows at Keely’s don’t eat grain, feeding primarily on the grass growing in the farm’s ample pasture with a just a little help from non-gmo Alfalfa (a forage crop beneficial to livestock for millennia). Add to this grazing philosophy, the freedom for cows to grow naturally, free of hormones and antibiotics, and you’ve got pure happy, healthy dairy.
“On unlimited pasture they choose what they want,” Keely says holding her infant son Arthur. Her farm offers one hundred acres of grassland to seventy head of cattle and the general public is welcome to witness the milk being drawn from udders every evening from 5-7pm, as they pump out around 60 gallons of raw dairy a day.
While in attendance visitors won’t have to look hard to spot happy livestock elsewhere on Keely’s idyllic property. A team of charcoal-colored Berkshire hogs, when not wallowing in the nearby spring, can be found at the fence of their 20 acre pig pen waiting for the day’s ration of dairy. This rare heritage breed of pig yields a well-marbled pork with chops bearing a close resemblance to steak.
Adding to the farm’s riches, and more or less there for good company, are chickens, ducks, alpaca, and horses all enjoying their own section of the farm.
The farm doesn’t stop at raw, grass-fed milk*. Keely also makes fresh cream*, yogurt* (greek, icelandic, and drinkable), cottage cheese*, kefir*, buttermilk* and even milk-based soap.
In addition to being able to live on the grass based diet that the farm provides, Jersey cows also produce superior milk. Jersey cows produce a more digestible milk protein (a2) than other breeds and richer, creamier milk with a higher fat content than Holsteins. Fresh, raw milk has a rich cream layer on top, an attractive attribute given the preponderance of thin homogenized, pasteurized milk.
Though she may be a little biased, you’ll never be able to accuse her of not caring about the farm and the animals that populate it. Exum treats her cows more like trusted employees, rather than expendable resources to be sapped. While large scale farms obsessed with the bottom line might turn less-productive cows into ground beef, each of Keely’s enjoy the range life long after prime output, free to raise their calves.
“How can you eat them when they’ve given you everything?” Exum says.
Keely Farms Dairy delivers to homes and businesses in Brevard, Volusia, and Seminole Counties as well as the greater Orlando area, free of charge.
In addition to raw dairy products, you can order $20 farm boxes overflowing with delicious assorted veggies from their neighbors at Tomazin farms. Order online here: http://www.keelyfarmsdairy.com/order-here.html
*As required by the Federal Pasteurized Milk Ordinance and Florida Statute 502.091, which forbid the sale of unpasturized milk products for human consumption, this farm’s products are labeled: “Not for Human Consumption” and sold as “Feed for Calves.“
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