Now you have it.  Your "normal" local Farmer's Market at Findlay, outdoors under the pavilion, where you can meet and talk to your local farmers ... AND NOW an indoor Farmer's Market that you can visit all week long to purchase that same produce.

At the corner of Elm and Essen Strasse, next to the Chocolate shoppe, Maverick Chocolate, you will find us, and other food products that celebrate what is unique and best about a community – local crops, ethnic traditions and creative populace – while keeping a greater percentage of food dollars circulating in the local economy.  The  goal is to encourage healthy eating, expand the market for local growers and producers, and promote community involvement and sustainable living. 

Today I was all psyched-up to meet Tim Farmer and do my very first cooking with honey demonstration at the Kentucky FarmFest in Crestwook, KY.  But, as nature would have it, a popup storm with tornadic winds and heavy flooding thwarted everyone's plans.  So, because all that I planned and wanted to say must come out, I'm going to blog it!

My first memories of honey were at my Grandmother's house.  She had a jar of 'spun honey' sitting on her kitchen table.  I remember it very distinctly - YUCK!  Luckily that wasn't my last.  As a farmer's market vendor, talking to people about our honey, I sometimes hear the comment, "Oh I don't need to taste it - I know what honey tastes like..."  Yea, I thought I did too.

REAL honey has so many tastes.  So many, that it's sometimes very difficult to tell what kind of honey you're tasting.  It all has to do with the flowers.  I've read that there could be "thousands" of different kinds of honey, some call it "honey varietals".  If you think about it, there are lots of different kinds of flowers that have nectar.  And the bees don't collect nectar from just one kind of flower, or the same amount from any one source.  So, with the large number of different flowering plants and all the combinations that could occur, it's understandable why there would be so many different kinds.

One time, Keith brought in some frames from one of our hives.  That honey taste was amazing.  It immediately registered as a taste that I had tasted before, but completely eluded me.  For three days, I grabbed up bottles and cartons in my kitchen, opening and smelling each one, frantically trying to identify that wonderful taste.  Then, somehow, it came to me - Maple Syrup!  How could that be?  Honey comes from bees, maple syrup comes from trees.  Thank goodness for the internet.  :-)  Yes, indeed.  Maple trees blossom and bees can collect the nectar from maple trees.  An amazing thing.  You can guess what I did.  I quickly whipped up a batch of whole wheat pancakes and drizzled that sweet intoxicating syrup, without butter even, and enjoyed a little slice of heaven.  A long way away from Grandma's "Spun Honey".

In case you don't get Channel 11, Louisville WHAS, you can catch our Crigger Farm TV promo online.  Watch us on streaming video at 9:00 am EST, or visit the website later to see our special feature on "Great Day LIVE!"

Here's the link:  http://www.whas11.com/features/great-day-live/

Be sure to pass the word along!

Live on TV, this Friday morning 9:00 am on WHAS, channel 11 out of Louisville, KY, Crigger Farm will be promoting the Kentucky Farm Fest by sharing a small portion of the cooking demonstration that they will be conducting this weekend at the Farm Fest.

Come check us out and participate in the Crigger Farm Honey Tasting and Cooking demonstration!  Be sure to click here to see the full lineup:  http://www.kyfarmfest.com/cooking.html 

DETAILS:

• Farm Fest Hours:  Saturday 9 - 6, Sunday 10 - 6,  
  
• Crigger Farm Cooking Demonstration: Sunday 3:30, right after Tim Farmer
  

               (at the custom-built outdoor kitchen)

• Address of Farm Fest: 6826 W. Highway 22, Crestwood, KY 40014
  

If you missed the ratio broadcast promoting Farm Fest on "The Local Life" on WCHQ, Radio 100.9FM, you can listen at this link: http://www.kyfarmfest.com/kentucky-farm-fest-news.html.  Kim Buckler is interviewed and describes all the activities that are planned for the first ever KY Farm Fest to be held in Oldham County, everything from Cooking demonstrations, over 100 hands-on workshops, all the Farmers booths, and some of the biggest BlueGrass bands in the land.  

About 8:00 minutes into the interview, Kim talks about a couple of the big Foodie names that are coming, Brown-Forman’s Executive Chef Mark Williams, "The Spirited Chef", and Tim Farmer, whom you probably have seen on local Kentucky stations in "Tim Farmer's County Kitchen".  Then she talks about "a lady who's doing honey, how to use different honeys.  She also has a Foodie Market booth." -- that's us, Crigger Farm!

Stay tuned... I hear that Crigger Farm will be doing a LIVE portion of their cooking demo as a promo for FarmFest on a local Louisville TV station!