It's Spring @ JLF!

Just Local Amig@s,

As you may have felt, smelled, heard or generally sensed, spring has officially sprung! Our nights are just about as long as our days, buds are popping, gardens are being planned and started (indoor seed starts are a great idea around this week or possibly next), bikes are being tuned up, picnics are now possible, spring cleaning of our homes and our general hibernating state is continuously crossing our minds.

Some new ideas that have come to fruition this spring at your neighborhood grocery store...

Dr Bronner's Sal Suds is now in BULK! Bring in your own container or use one of ours to enjoy this versatile cleaner in your home.

Think Easter with Obsession Chocolate, fresh free range eggs (brown or white), freshly cut salad and micro greens, fair trade, organic and kid friendly easter basket fillers, many selections of ham, lamb or grillables for family and friends, cake and brownie mixes... Come on in and look for examples of spring baskets around the store!

Piney Hill Farm Salad Mix with "pizzazz"

New this week!

Piney Hill Farm spring mix - spicy, pre-washed, hyper-locally grown (and farm direct, from Glenwood City, WI). Truly a local, natural (no herbicides or pesticides) and fair trade product.

disclaimer: please wash your produce

Local Spring Mix has Sprung

Eau Claire, WI (Super Local) Spring Mix is in!

Pam Herdrich has just started bringing us wonderful spring mix and will continue to do so every Monday and Thursday throughout this season.

Here's the rundown on the new greens... "We grow our greens hydroponically, in a peat and perlite mix. The greenhouse looks like a forest of short "trees" growing alternately a lettuce and a mesclun mix. Unfortunately, for this year, we are using commercial fertilizer, but hope to find and organic alternative for next year. We are not using any pesticides.

Here's what's in the mix: Mesclun mix: Arugula, Red Giant mustard, Bianca Riccia endive, Kyona Mizuna, red lettuces (generic). Lettuce mix : Sulu, Barbados, Antago, Blackhawk, Defender, Garrison and Annapolis leaf lettuces. (You're getting a mix of approximately half Mesculun and half lettuce mixes.)

The greens will be cut fresh in a cold (50's F) greenhouse, refrigerated immediately and delivered to you within 24 hours... It won't be traveling for two weeks to get to you, or harvested in hot weather."

We sell the best local and/or organic produce we can get - while these greens are not organic, they are far from conventional. They are more fresh (when were the California greens picked?) and have a higher degree of food safety because of the known origin... we think you will love it.