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1 July 2012 / V2N4
Fresh Picks
Bobbis Bees: A Honeyof a Vendor
Visit the Gilmer County Farmers Market on the Web!Be sure to
check out our web site at the NEW address:
www.glenvillemarket.blogspot.comUpdates on events and vendors
will be posted. And you can see pictures
of Reta Kights calla lily (left) in full color!
Saturdays
9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.through the end of October
720 North Lewis Street
Glenville, West Virginia
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Mary Lee: 304-853-2440304-462-7039
John: 304-871-3198Larry: 304-462-5631
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Brianna Powell (pictured) often helps
her mom, Michele Powell, at the GilmerCounty Farmers Market,
brightening the Bobbis Bees table with her
cheerful disposition and bright smile. Bobbis Bees offers a wide
variety
of items, from pure honey to soap made with bee products.
One
particularly interesting item is the propolis soap. Propolis is
the resin
produced by bees to protect their hives from parasites and
bacteria. As
such, propolis has been studied for its medicinal properties and
has been
found to provide antibacterial and antifungal protection as well
as relief
from minor burns and skin inflammation. As gardeners, we are
often
digging in the soil, exposing our skin to any number of
unsavory
microbes and stinging insectsjust the sorts of things a good
scrubbingwith propolis soap may help us combat. Why not give it a
try.
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Farmers Market Helps Send
Tuba Player to Austria
Butterfly Corner
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Vendors and patrons alike love to eat lunch at the
Farmers Market, and the menu is always a
surprise, which makes the experience all the more
fun. Getting together with friends to catch up on
the weeks happenings, greeting folks we havent
seen in too long, and simply relaxing at a shady
picnic table are reasons enough to visit the market
around lunchtimethe food is just incidental. For
a couple of weeks in June, GSC music major
Brittany Lott provided lunch in the form of hot
dogs, beans and weenies, and cornbreadall to
raise money to pay the $1,900 she needed for a
plane ticket to Austria, where GSCs Tuba and
Euphonia Ensemble, led by Professor Lloyd Bone, was invited to
perform at an international conference
June 23-30. In addition to selling lunch, Lott sold copies of
Kermit the Frogs bookIts Not Easy Being
Green. In addition, several market
patrons donated something extra to
help Lott on her European journey.
Im very proud of you, said Judy
Meads. And Im very grateful,
said Lott. Thanks to everyonewho helped Brittany Lott
make it to Austria!
The Master Gardeners have continued to add plants to the
butterfly
garden at the entrance to the Farmers Market parking area.
Donna
Vavrek (left) planted a purple butterfly bush as the gardens
centerpiece. Red bee balm (center) was in bloom, drawing one
of
the gardens first visitors, a common yellow cloud butterfly.
Remember us when you clean out your beds this fall;
donations
of your excess perennials would be most welcome!
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Feeling a Little Fruity
Try something truly refreshing for lunch with
this summer recipe
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Cantaloupe Salad
2 small cantaloupes, cut into small pieces
1 cup strawberries, sliced
1 cup seedless green grapes, halved
Mix together
1/2 cup sour cream
1/4 cup Miracle Whip
2 tbsp packed brown sugar
1/4 chopped nuts of your choice
Arrange fruit on a lettuce leaf; spoon creamed mixture on
top. Sprinkle with nuts.
Makes 6 servings
CantaloupeDid you know . . .
Cantaloupe, also known asmuskmelon, is related to
cucumbers, squash, and gourds.
This sweet fruit has fewer than 10
calories per ounce.
Its rich in lutein, a substance
suggested to improve eyesight.
Hey, Mary Lee, do you know why melons have fancy weddings?
Why sure, Reta. Its because they cantaloupe!
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Fresh Plum Chutney
INGREDIENTS
12 cups sliced plums(about 5 pounds)
4 cups sugar
1 1/2 cups raisins
1 cup crystallized ginger,cut up
1/2 cup green pepper,finely chopped
3 cups vinegar
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp whole cloves
1/2 tsp whole allspice
3 sticks cinnamon
DIRECTIONS
Mix first 6 ingredients in
Dutch oven. Tie spices indouble-thickness cheese-cloth and place
in Dutchoven. Heat to boiling,stirring frequently. Simmerabout 2
hours.
Remove spice bag and spoonmixture into half-pint jars.Seal
properly. Makes 8 jars
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Im one a them hippies
who moved to West
Virginia in the 70s, had akid, built a house, worked a
team of Percherons . . .
hitchhiked and drove all
over the U.S. and Canada.
So says Eugene Brezas
Facebook profile, swiped
from the Internet to introduce
one of the Gilmer County
Farmers Markets most
interesting vendors.
A leathercraftsman,
Eugene made his first
pair of moccasins as a
Boy Scout back in his
home state of Pennsyl-
vania. He moved to Wes
Virginia in 1974 and got
more serious about
leather crafting when hebought a pair of horses
and needed to fix their
harnesses.
In 1983, Breza started a business
rebuilding saddles, but today his
craftsmanship extends to the creation of belts,
wallets, keyrings, and many other colorful and unique
items. Brezas Tanner Leather Works, located in the
unincorporated
community of Tanner, West Virginia, also provides handcrafted
items
for Mountain Made, anartisan market place devoted
exclusively to West Virginia
arts and crafts. And Breza has
been president of the Central
Appalachian Arts and Crafts
Cooperative, which has kept
him very busy for many
years. The Farmers Market
welcomes Breza as a vendor!
Hell Tan Your Hide!
