BADSEED Farmers' Market - KCMO - FRIDAYS at 1909 McGee St

Yeah, you want what BADSEED's got...
...fresh, beyond-organic veggies, and then some!
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BADSEED puts out a weekly newsletter...
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24 CARROT GOLD

Farm-Fresh Fanatics -

Carrots are in da' house(!!) and the harvest is in full-effect.  Your dedicated farmers are yearning to temp those taste buds and tame those grumbling bellies.  Bring it on!

Get your jaws on three gourmet varieties of freshly dug carrots from URBAVORE Urban Farm - White Satin (think vegetable flavored creamsicle!), Amarillo(this week's "sexy veggie" winner), andShin Kuroda (a bright orange Japanese heirloom).  These outrageous roots will be complimented by golden & blood red beets, freshly dug garlic, the first of the summer squash, aromatic bunches of fresh coriander, radiant rainbow chard, and a plethora of nutrient-dense flavor-bursting veggies!!!  Other earthly delights include killer shitake mushrooms, French farmstead cheeses, free-range eggs, rustic baked breads, grass-fed meats, freshly roasted specialty coffee, local flour & oats, and sensuous organic body products.  This is "Walmart one stop shopping" for the conscious consumer!!  Come early, come often, and TELL YOUR FRIENDS.  We at the BADSEED are hopelessly dedicated to good farming, good food, and happy eaters.  It starts with healthy soil and ends with peaceful bellies.

Enjoy your 4th of July weekend - be safe, be kind, and hit up the BADSEED if you wanna be well-fed!

Yours Truly, 

Brooke
-farmer & mistress of the BADSEED

White Satin Carrots

Bodacious Beets

Radiant Rainbow Chard

The First Summer Squash!

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WALDO FARMERS' MARKET - Wednesdays - Peaches Blueberries Ice Cream + More Picnic Food Galore!

Quick notes about what you will find at the market.  Is this post not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. Hosted by  303 West 79th KCMO Market Customers Receive a 20% ReStore Coupon Good for One Week! Shop the Market. Shop ReStore. July 3rd Market Highlights Red, White + Blue Food for You! Red: Tomatoes, Potatoes, Beets + More White: Onions, Cucumbers, Ice Cream, Bread + More Blue: Blueberries, Potatoes, Jelly + More Smokin' Fresh Streetside BBQ Doug + Paula Sayles Will not be at the market this week. They return next week rarin' to feed you! Good Dog 2 Go - Food Truck for Dogs Lana + Kyle Robison Peanut Butter/Oat Bones   Bacon Cheese Bones Snickerpoodles   Carrot Cake Begels Pumpkin Flax Seed Bites   Apple Carrot Niblets Gourmet Chew Beef Marrow Bones Snuggums:Frozen Yogurt Bon Bon H&C Ice Cream Erika Massow Flavors of the Week: Chocolate Covered Strawberry  Vanilla Mint Chip Vegan Orange Mint Vegan Mojito    Wolf Creek Family Farm Karin + Arcenio Velez Peaches  Tomatoes  Cucumbers  Zucchini  Yellow + Patty Pan Squash  Candy Onions Bell Peppers Cabbage + Patriot Potatoes (Red, White + Blue) Skyview Farm & Creamery Sheri + Christin Noffke   Cow's Milk Cheeses: Gouda + Colby Co-Mingled: Alpine Prairie, Skyjack + Montasio (Made w/ 3 parts cow's milk + 1 part goat's milk) Hickory Cane Syrups Craig Bobbitt   Shag Bark Hickory Syrup   Hickory Smoked Sea Salts   Hickory Candy Stony Crest Urban Farm Rodger Kube and Diane Hershberger Tomatoes (limited)  Blueberries   Grilling Onions  Green Onions   White Salad Cucumbers   Regular Cucumbers   Yukon Gold + Red Norland Potatoes  Yellow Squash   Zucchini Sweet 'N Neat Cherry Tomato Hanging Baskets Hostas New Roots for Refugees Farmer Training Program Farmer Tula Regmi Tula’s home country is Bhutan. This is Tula’s first year growing for market in the U.S. He is very anxious to share what he has grown. Green Onions  Bok Choi   Beets   Radishes   Several Varieties of Greens  Dill  Mint  Basil  Swiss Chard  Cabbage  Carrots + More! New Roots for Refugees Farmer Training Program Farmer San Win San is from Burma. She and her husband have 5 children. This is San's 2nd season at Waldo providing a good selection of seasonal vegetables  Mustard Greens   Swiss Chard   Kale  Scallions  Mint  Garlic  Beets  Potatoes  Collards  Lettuce   Arugula Spinach and More! Benedict Builders Farm Calvin & Laura Benedict & Daughters 100% Pastured Pork & Beef  Eggs  Garlic Green Shake/Smoothie Fresh HerbBundle Fresh Herbs: Spearmint, Chocolate Mint, Chives, Lemon Balm & Yarrow   Dried Herbs    Maple Syrup   Sorghum Handmade Soap:Lavender, Spicy Scrub, Plain and Simple, Happy Camper (insect repellent), Spicy Swirl, Cedar, Spring Breeze Fresh Cut Flowers K. Kringle &  Co Kevin Edward Bacon Cheddar Bread   Orange Rolls   Pretzel Bread   Spinach Feta Bread   Agave Whole Grain Wheat Bread   Dinner Rolls  Gluten Free Breads  Raspberry Key Lime Habanero Jam   Lemonade Jelly   Cherry Jalapeno Jelly and Much More! Hansan Honey Bill Hansan Will not be at the market this week. Bill will be back July 10th.    For the latest details about market happenings, follow us on   https://www.facebook.com/waldofarmersmarket Copyright © 2013 Waldo Farmer's Market, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you indicated your interest in a Waldo Farmer's Market e-mail when you signed up for the weekly market drawing. Our mailing address is: Waldo Farmer's Market 8740 Brooklyn Kansas City, MO 64132 Add us to your address book Website: www.wholesomewaldowednesdays.org

The U.S. Produce Traceability Initiative (PTI): - Good for consumers, another suppression of small farms, or just big profits for niche businesses?

Yeah... months later, this still reeks of the RFID (livestock animal tagging) proposals in years past... what is *your* take on this?  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

From:International Food and Agribusiness Management Review

Volume 14, Issue 3, 2011

The U.S. Produce Traceability Initiative: 

Analysis, Evaluation, and Recommendations

http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/bitstream/114643/2/20110032_Formatted.pdf

Excerpt:

"...Different members of the supply chain suffer in more or less dramatic ways depending on two factors: the quantity and quality of traceability data maintained as well as level in the supply chain. In defining appropriate quantity and quality, it can be noted that an effective trace-back procedure relies on a quantity of data sufficient to follow individual product lots from entry (source) to exit (recipient) in a given location while the quality of data would allow specific identification for minimal impact in a recall situation. Additionally, the level in the supply chain can dictate the stakes involved in a trace-back. To illustrate, we describe two fictitious examples related to us by several of our industry experts. In both examples, members of the supply chain who dutifully record and maintain trace-back information are harmed by those who do not.

1. Many growers/shippers comply with recordkeeping and labeling by application and maintenance of relevant traceability data by lot/batch. In the event of a recall, product is received from grower/shippers who have provided sufficient information as well as those who have not. Because there is only a partial dataset available for trace-back, a widespread recall on a commodity is initiated, harming all grower/shippers equally.

2. Trace-back information is provided and accurate at a grower/shipper level but maintained only partially at a distribution or retail level. In the event of an outbreak, there is not sufficient data to implicate a single source due to lack of traceability records between distribution 

centers and individual retail outlets such that all product must be recalled for a given commodity or commodities. While all members of the supply chain bear some cost in the recall, the ultimate burden is upon the grower/shipper who must refund the cost of the product through the supply chain in addition to performing a recall.

While these two examples are not intended to provide the full breadth of potential issues in which some players “follow the rules” while others do not, they are provided to support the idea that traceability, in order to be effective, must be implemented (without exception) chain-wide.  ..."

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Wal-Mart prompts traceability compliance

06/28/2013 11:29:00 AM
Melissa Shipman

The recent announcement by Wal-Mart and Sam’s Club Inc. that the stores will begin rejecting produce from suppliers that do not comply with Produce Traceability Initiative guidelines by Jan. 1 has breathed new life into the traceability movement.

PTI was launched in October 2007, with the milestone for supplier compliance to be completed by September 2010. Additional milestones were set for the end of 2012.

Nearly six years after its beginning, PTI is beginning to pick up speed.

In a letter sent May 29, the company described the process it will take to enforce the deadline schedule for PTI compliance at U.S. stores.

The schedule includes a grace period.

Suppliers must begin using PTI-compliant labels by Nov. 1 or their products will be marked as received but “out of spec.”

Effective Jan. 1, produce received at distribution centers without PTI-compliant case labels will be rejected, according to the letter.

No longer waiting

Todd Baggett, chief executive officer of RedLine Solutions Inc., Santa Clara, Calif., says his company’s phones have been ringing constantly by companies ready to implement PTI systems...READ THE FULL ARTICLE AT:http://www.thepacker.com/fruit-vegetable-enewsletter/packer-daily/Wal-Mart-prompts-traceability-compliance-213532561.html

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From:

http://perishablepundit.com/index.php?date=06/06/2013

June 6, 2013 —
Perishable Pundit Overview:

With Wal-Mart’s PTI Mandate And 100% Guarantee On Produce, One Wonders If Local Is Included Or Is There More Fluff Than Real Stuff; Unions Will Be Watching Carefully

We have written a great deal about Wal-Mart. Now, like a one-two punch, Wal-Mart has roiled the produce industry with two separate announcements. It declared that it would begin to enforce the requirements of the Produce Traceability Initiative (PTI) on vendors and that it would “recommit” to providing consumers with the freshest fruits and vegetables by rolling out a “100 percent money-back guarantee” for consumers. Significant organizational change would also be executed in order to accomplish this goal.

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Wal-Mart’s PTI announcement falls into the category of “interesting, if true.” The letter to suppliers is robust:

Date:   May 29, 2013

To:        Wal-Mart and Sam’s Club Produce Suppliers

Re:      Case Labeling Standard

Greetings supplier partners.

As you know, both Wal-Mart and Sam’s Club are longtime supporters of the Produce Traceability Initiative, its milestones and standards. Along with that, we are corporately placing a heightened focus on freshness, quality and satisfaction of the produce we sell to our customers. In the past months, we’ve invested significant resources to improve our freshness, flow, and store-level execution. To ensure customer confidence in produce industry-wide, food safety and traceability continue to be one of the most important focus areas.

To that end, we’re ready to take the next big leap towards standardized case labeling and product track and trace. We recognize and commend those of you that are already there. We appreciate your trailblazing efforts. The fundamental pieces are in place, and are being demonstrated on a commercial level by many small, medium, and large suppliers. It is now the time for us to move it to the norm; ...

(THE TEXT OF WALMART'S LETTER IS INCLUDED IN THE PERISHABLE PUNDIT BLOG POST - http://perishablepundit.com/index.php?date=06/06/2013 -)

Perhaps just as important is what is not said in the letter. Wal-Mart has strong initiatives for produce, from “Heritage Agriculture” to buying “local,” and there is nothing in this announcement to indicate that Wal-Mart will insist that such vendors also conform to the standard. Since this is obviously an issue of great concern, both to the supplier community and those concerned with public policy, Wal-Mart’s silence on this matter is deafening...
READ THE FULL PERISHABLE PUNDIT BLOG POST - http://perishablepundit.com/index.php?date=06/06/2013 -)