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Greetings, Local Food Lovers!
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Place your order from Western Maine Market today or early tomorrow morning for pick-up or delivery this Friday or Saturday.

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Carrabassett Valley & Stratton Deliveries
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We'll be delivering to Carrabassett Valley and Stratton this week and again two weeks from now, on the 20th of June. Carrabassett Valley Public Library and Stratton's Spillover Motel join our weekly list of pick-up options in Farmington, Kingfield, & Freeman.

We will offer delivery to Salem, Phillips, and Avon next week, and on the second and fourth Fridays of the month. Many of our pick-up locations are self-service, meaning you can easily pick up after business hours.

This week, orders can be delivered to homes and businesses anywhere along Route 27 from Farmington to Stratton. Delivery beyond our route may be available with a fee based on your distance from Route 27. For more info: info@westernmainemarket.com or 207-860-0703.

NORHTERN CUSTOMERS - PLEASE NOTE

The fee to transport orders north of Kingfield ($5 to Carrabassett, $7 to Stratton) is not automatically added to your order total. If you choose to prepay with PayPal or credit card, please manually add the fee to your payment either by clicking the link in the table at the bottom of this newsletter or, on our website, by clicking "Delivery Service" from the "Extra" menu below the Food & other menus on the left side. Thank you!
We drive out of our way 30 miles round trip to deliver to Carrabassett Valley and forty-four miles to deliver to Stratton. We can only continue to offer this service if our northern customers are willing to pitch in a bit to help cover that cost.

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New & Returning Products
Giant Soft-n-Chewy SUGAR Cookie
Menu Group: Food
Section: Baked Goods
Category: Cookies
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Vendor: Happy Snowman Alpaca Farm
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Ingredients: All purpose flour, sugar, butter, eggs, vanilla extract, baking powder, baking soda, almond extract, and sea salt.

Allergens: Eggs, wheat
Each cookie is about 2.3 ounces!
Organic River Driver's Espresso
Menu Group: Food
Section: Coffee and Tea
Category: Coffee
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Vendor: Carrabassett Coffee Company
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Traditional Dark Roast Organic Espresso Blend
Multi sized and colored eggs
Menu Group: Food
Section: Eggs
Category: Chicken
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Vendor: Maine Homestead Project
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We know the price of eggs is high, but we have to raise our prices here, our feed costs have gone up to $34/bag. Please help us to keep our hens, which are soy-free pasture-raised. We appreciate all the support!
Horseradish root
Menu Group: Food
Section: Herbs
Category: Horseradish
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Vendor: Rasmussen Farm
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Freshly dug
Fresh apple mint
Menu Group: Food
Section: Herbs
Category: Mints
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Vendor: Rasmussen Farm
**Sale** 5lb Short Ribs
Menu Group: Food
Section: Meat
Category: Beef
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Vendor: Depot Street Meats
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Stock up on our grass fed and finished Belted Galloway short ribs.
Kettle Corn
Menu Group: Food
Section: Prepared Foods
Category: Snacks
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Vendor: The Sweet Life Kettle Corn Co.
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Enjoy our local small batch kettle corn. Every batch of our kettle corn is made with all-natural ingredients - sweet, savory and pure. Made with Corn, Sugar, Canola Oil and Salt. Contains approximately 9.5 oz.

Gluten Free, Non-GMO, Vegan Friendly, Dairy Free
Nettles
Menu Group: Food
Section: Vegetables
Category: Greens
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Vendor: Rasmussen Farm
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Nutritious, delicious, and beneficial to your health, these stinging nettles lose their sting when cooked but should be handled with care when raw. Great in soup.
Bunch of 4 small leeks
Menu Group: Food
Section: Vegetables
Category: Leek
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Vendor: Rasmussen Farm
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Wonderful in soup or sauteed, milder than onions. These overwintered in our gardens and are starting to regrow.
Beet Greens with baby beets
Menu Group: Food
Section: Vegetables
Category: Greens Beet
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Vendor: Porter Hill Farm
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Fresh new crop, naturally grown in Greenhouse.
Microgreens - Sango radish
Menu Group: Food
Section: Vegetables
Category: Greens Micro
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Vendor: Hemlock Hill Farm
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Freshly harvested Sango radish microgreens. Beautiful deep purple color. Full radish flavor.
Fresh lettuce - mixed varieties
Menu Group: Food
Section: Vegetables
Category: Lettuce
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Vendor: Porter Hill Farm
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Different varieties of green with some red also. Large, full leaves, not "micro".
Naturally grown in our greenhouse.
Fresh Spinach - large leaf, but still fresh
Menu Group: Food
Section: Vegetables
Category: Spinach
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Vendor: Porter Hill Farm
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Nice to have fresh greens this time of year! Grown in our green house without synthetic fertilizers or pesticides.
While large leaves, still freshly grown this spring and still tasty either in salads, sandwiches, or cooked!
Sunflower seedlings
Menu Group: Plants and Seeds
Section: Flowers Annual
Category: Sunflowers
Vendor: Rasmussen Farm

Sunflowers, mixed colors: Tall sturdy plants with many beautiful blooms. Feed your spirit, feed the birds, we even use them as beanpoles! Mixed color volunteer seedlings


Vendor: Shady Maple Farm Products

Sunflowers: Variety pack
Vegetable seedlings
Menu Group: Plants and Seeds
Section: Vegetable Starts
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Vendor: Rasmussen Farm
Sales tax included in price of all our seedlings

Cauliflower seedlings, "Symphony"

Chard: “Bright Lights Rainbow or Fordhook: good green Swiss chard.

Asian greens mix: A mixed 6-pack of tasty Asian greens from our homegrown seed. We use these in our wild woman salad mix and as braising greens. A variety of flavors, shapes, colors, and tastes. Prone to flea beetles early but will keep going through the season and thrive after frost. Some may go to seed and produce tasty edible flowers.

Ground cherry seedlings: People who recognize these tasty treats say, "My grandmother used to have these!" These sweet, delicious, orange fruits are the size of small cherry tomatoes. They're great eaten out of hand as snacks, can be used to make pies or jam, and I first saw them as garnishes, with the husks peeled back decoratively, in a restaurant in Europe. Some folks say they taste a bit like pineapple. They are related to tomatillos and also have husks, but the fruits are sweet, and the plants spread out closer to the ground. Harvest late in the season, when the husks turn yellow,and the fruits drop from the plants. Don't eat the immature green fruits. Plants should be spaced 18-24" apart.

Kale: Rainbow lacinato or Red Russian

Pumpkin: Rouge Vif d'Etampes Cinderella pumpkin: Beautiful deep orrange, large, flattened fruits, like the one converted into a carriage by Cinderella's fairy godmother

Squash – Winter: Delicata

Tomatoes - Beefsteak
- Aunt Ruby's German Green: Delicious, large, green beefsteak tomatoes. One of our favorites.
- Black Krim: Fedco says "(80 days) Open-pollinated. Indeterminate. Don’t wait too long to harvest this delicate heirloom tomato. At half green and still firm they are already dead ripe and perfectly delicious. If you wait till they are fully purple, you will not be able to get them from garden to table intact (to say nothing of market) and they will disintegrate like a hunk of road-kill. Krims are strikingly iridescent purple on the outside, usually with dark green-black shoulders and noticeable catfacing. Interiors are part black, too, with an unusual juicy yet meaty taste and texture, described as having “…a smoky flavor like a good single malt scotch.” Fruits average 12–18 oz. Krim hails from Krymsk on the Black Sea in Russia"
- Butter N Bull Oxheart: Lovely large red oxheart tomato
- German Johnson: Fedco says "(80 days) Open-pollinated. Indeterminate. An old heirloom probably from Virginia or North Carolina. This large regular-leaf plant, one of the parents of Mortgage Lifter, is known for its copious yields of pink meaty fruits often exceeding 1 lb, mild with more than a touch of sweetness."
- Old German
- Paul Robeson

Tomatoes - Cherry
- Green Grape tomato: Tasty large green cherry / grape tomatoes, 70 day determinate
- Spoon - tiny red cherry: Tasty and adorable - can fit several tomatoes on a spoon. Entertain the kids picking these toy-sized tomatoes!

Tomatoes - Paste
- Vilms Plum Paste Tomato: Small plum tomatoes, highly productive, disease-resistant plants

Tomatoes - Slicing
- Garden Peach - very low acidity: Fedco says: "Yellow fruits blush pink when ripe and have thin fuzzy skins somewhat like peaches, soft-skinned, juicy and very sweet. Light fruity taste is not what you’d expect in a tomato. Burpee in 1893 called it: “delicate, melting in the mouth like a grape.” Fruits brought indoors before frost keep for several weeks.
- Green Zebra: Beautiful and delicious green slicing tomatoes. You can tell when they're ripe both by feeling them and when they yellow slightly.
- Rutgers: Classic, smooth, round, red tomato, great for fresh eating or canning


Vendor: Shady Maple Farm Products

Tomatoes, 3in cow pots
- Blush - Larger cherry/plum type. Yellow with orange streaks. Delicious!
- Goldie Yellow
- Mt. Princess - Slicer variety: Productive, early, determinate
- Oxheart Red -paste type variety
- Pantano Romanesco Slicer
- Principe Borgese - Small type variety great for making sun dried tomatoes!
- Pruden's Purple Slicer
- Rose de Berne - Rose-pink Swiss Heirloom Variety
- Rutgers Slicer
- Sungold - Cherry
- Vilm's Paste -small paste type
- Wisconsin
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