Water Garden Organic Farmers' Market & Living Creative Arts Market Member Weekly Report 2014.05.10

Weekly Newsletter Contents

● [Mother's Day Dishes from the Stars] Appearing at the Water Garden Organic Farmers' Market

● Give Mom the Comfort of Love – A Demonstration of Natural Handmade Comfrey Salve

● Gengmu Tian Organic Farm

● Qingxin Yuan Organic Farm Brings Back an Abundance of Zucchini

● Welcome to the New Partner of the Water Garden Life Creative Market – Sodapi

● Introduction to the Stalls of the Water Garden Organic Farmers' Market

● Introduction to the Stalls of the Water Garden Life Creative Market

● The Market Is Expanding Its Partner Recruitment!!!

● The Market Reduces Plastic and Seeks Clean Secondhand Bags

● Market Opening Hours and Location

[Mother's Day Dishes from the Stars] Appearing at the Water Garden Organic Farmers' Market

Mother's Day Goes "Star" and "Chicken": Gourmet Shu Huanxin Personally Teaches Dishes That Keep "Dufen" Moms Healthy and Happy!

Nothing says love like a dish made with your own hands, not even the rarest delicacies. The star craze has swept through the mothers' circles, and the Water Garden Organic Market will also hold a "star"-flavored seasonal cooking demonstration on May 10 (Saturday), on the eve of Mother's Day! This star meal, however, is not beer with fried chicken, but an "organic" authentic Korean feast specially designed for mothers by the well-known gourmet teacher Shu Huanxin. Whether or not you are a "star-chasing" mom, you can eat healthily and happily. The Water Garden Life Creative Market will also present a demonstration of "natural handmade comfrey salve" on the same occasion, allowing mothers to care for both body and soul, perfect for personal use or as a gift.

Gourmet Shu Huanxin's Authentic Korean Cuisine – Heavy on the "Star" and "Chicken"!

Teacher Shu Huanxin's "Mediterranean" Mother's Day feast designed for the Water Garden Organic Market last year was widely praised. The big Mother's Day gift brought this year is quite "trendy": she will demonstrate three classic Korean drama dishes on site, including Korean japchae (stir-fried glass noodles with mixed vegetables), three-color cold salad, and spicy stir-fried rice cakes. The main ingredients include organic cabbage, organic eggplant, organic carrots, organic onions, organic scallions, extra virgin olive oil, Jiangzi cold-pressed sesame oil, and other healthy ingredients from the market. Market friends are encouraged to learn on the spot and cook a healthy and delicious "star" and "chicken" feast on Mother's Day. Whether honoring your mother or treating yourself, it is sure to be a gift with endless aftertaste!

 

Welcome to the New Partner of the Water Garden Life Creative Market – Sodapi

About Sodapi

Sodapi has two little munchkins

One is Dandan, the other is Pidu

Dandan loves refinement, Pidu loves abundance

Refinement and abundance, what a gentleman seeks…

Refinement and abundance, sought waking and sleeping…

We use seasonal fruits and various natural ingredients and herbs, not fixed, to make refreshing soda water. (Actually, 99% of it is still made by Dad Pi and Mom Dan; the two major shareholders contribute 99% just by talking ~).

What we make is not fancy, nor is it low-calorie

But it is real, delicious, abundant, and delights those around

 

Regarding today's food, Sodapi has again and again discovered many inexplicable chemical additives. Many are things Sodapi does not need and does not want. Just glance for a second… squint…. peek~ at a food label, and your brain immediately goes blank into a state of oxygen deprivation. Wow, this label is incredibly learned. (Whoever wrote this label must be very smart~)

From chemical colorants, to chemical flavorings, to chemical saccharin and syrups, to chemical preservatives and chemical bleaching agents… a whole bunch, too many to finish. In short, most are chemicals that ordinary folks like Sodapi cannot pronounce and cannot figure out.

So… Sodapi uses fruits, berries, and natural herbs that you and I recognize; combining them together into healthy soda water. Returning to simple, pure, natural.

This Saturday's items:

● Lemon Thyme Soda Water - a light lemon fragrance paired with the herb thyme

● Plain Soda Water

What is good to drink in the hot summer? Now the market has a new friend. Every Saturday Sodapi will offer different items of natural fruit soda water. Market supporters are welcome to come and taste!

 

Stall Name	2014/5/10 Agricultural Products
Gengmu Tian	Cucumbers, cabbage, purple kohlrabi
Qingxin Yuan	Zucchini, wild amaranth, sweet potato leaves, baby bok choy, water spinach, butterhead lettuce
Bangcha Organic Farm	Sweet corn, red amaranth, cucumbers, eggplant, romaine, cabbage, white rice, black glutinous rice
Dali Farm	Various lettuces, broccoli, cabbage, kale, cherry radish
Hongqi Leisure Organic Farm	Pineapple, dried pineapple, black beans, banana
Datong Organic Farm	Purple onion, fruit corn, chives, green pepper, cherry tomato, yam, carrot, potato, onion, guava, cabbage, beetroot, asparagus, burdock, pink beans, pumpkin, scallions, eggplant, water spinach
Yuanyi Organic Farm	Banana, papaya
Baili Tianyuan Organic Farm	Onion, sweet potato, eggplant, beefsteak tomato, potato, carrot, scallions
Organic Garden Farm	Plum enzyme, pineapple Showa hundred-herb enzyme, plum preserves, olives
Beautiful Organic Ecological Farm	Sweet peach
Yixian Mushroom Organic Farm	Corn mushroom, red wood ear, oyster mushroom, willow pine mushroom, abalone mushroom, snow fungus
Gengji Organic Farm	Cauliflower, broccoli, ginseng fruit, banana, canna, beetroot, tomato, onion
Nan'ao Gene Organic Farm	Rice, turmeric, lemon, black beans, sprouted rice, gamma oryzanol
Baoshu Natural Ecological Tea Garden	Wild-grown black tea, Four Seasons winter tea, oolong tea, Jinxuan green tea, wild-grown tea, GABA tea
Meifu Hang	Organic ginger oil, honey black beans, miso, chili sauce, red yeast, Sichuan chili sauce, fermented bean curd dipping sauce

 

At this Saturday's Life Creative Market, we will likewise have simple yet profound displays, including:

– Sodapi Lemon thyme soda water - a light lemon fragrance paired with the herb thyme; plain soda water

– Driftwood No Longer Wandering Using the wisdom of indigenous handmade wood joinery, various driftwood works including: chairs, coasters, cypress essential oil... etc., giving driftwood a new life!

– Jialiu Shapu Farm Brother Yang Wenxian and his wife jointly provide natural farming method natural compound fruit and vegetable enzymes, including green papaya enzyme, pineapple enzyme, plum enzyme, lemon enzyme, beetroot enzyme, radish enzyme, orange enzyme, aged pine vinegar, apple cider vinegar, chili vinegar, radish vinegar, vinegar apple preserves, enzyme lemon, enzyme beetroot, enzyme radish, enzyme carrot, toon sauce... etc. The energy of the enzymes, you will know by tasting it yourself

– Spring Flavor Dumpling Kitchen Uses vegetables from the organic farmers' market, organic olive oil, non-GMO tofu skin, organic dried tofu, Xiyuan whole wheat flour, organic flour, etc. to make unique handmade vegetable healthy boiled dumplings. Items include: dumplings, stuffed pancakes, hot and sour soup, millet porridge.

– Dou Zhi Wei Tofu Workshop Organic tofu master Huang Xuewei's organic firm tofu, organic soft tofu, organic white dried tofu, organic braised dried tofu, organic braised thousand-layer tofu, organic tofu pudding, organic soy milk, Taiwan tea soy milk, tofu puffs, fried tofu, tofu gizzards, turmeric dried tofu... etc. Sister Wang will share various tofu dishes on site

– Jiangzi Black bean jar-brewed soy sauce, black bean soy sauce paste, wild camellia seed oil, peanut oil, black sesame oil, olive oil, pure natural, cold-pressed, first-pressed, traditionally settled and brewed seasoning treasures; season-limited humane-harvested natural unheated precious wild honey that lets bees have honey to overwinter, retaining complete active enzymes,

– QC Hall Provides highly creative 304 stainless steel straws with cleaning sets, and 316 stainless steel straws with cleaning sets, hoping to let everyone no longer need to use plastic straws that often pollute the environment and harm health. Safeguarding health and the environment, and if kept properly, they can even become heirlooms...

– Banshan Farmstead's various natural oil-free breads including original, coffee walnut, honey apple, candied kumquat, cranberry... etc. Huiying and her husband, a couple who went from designers to bakers, insist on 100% natural handmade healthy authentic pure baking, and can only prepare eighty to one hundred loaves of bread each Saturday

– Chimmuwa Handicraft Workshop The handwoven brand Chimmuwa is a social enterprise friendly to both production and sales. It encourages mountain villages on the Thailand-Myanmar border not to use pesticides, to grow cotton naturally, and to dye with traditional methods. Chimmuwa studio staff enter Karen villages located in remote mountain areas, share their ideas with local residents, and gain the support of Karen women, who join the Chimmuwa project together. To integrate the strength of Karen women, Chimmuwa cooperates with them: women in remote villages spin, dye, and weave, while the workshop handles post-production cutting and sewing, thus completing each piece.

– Mi Duo Xing Fu Handmade rice cookies baked from Taiwan rice, using no flour, leavening agents, flavorings, or other artificial additives, suitable for health-conscious friends. The rice cookies use self-milled organic rice, trehalose, and organic fruits and vegetables, with no eggs, protecting the environment through action while also caring for your body and mind.

– Manna Organic Culture Life Promotion Association / Mei Tai Group Story Travel Agency Taiwan indigenous tribal development of organic agricultural processed products combined with cultural life experiences and tribal exploration (Tsou tribe farm experience tourism). Organic agricultural processed products include organic qiaogao bamboo shoot buns, organic qiaogao bamboo shoot braised buns, indigenous organic coffee, organic high-mountain tea bags.

 

The Market Is Expanding Its Partner Recruitment!!!

Organic farmers who share the market's philosophy are welcome to join the big family of the Water Garden Organic Farmers' Market

We have invited sincere and excellent organic farmers from all over Taiwan to jointly establish a farmers' cultural market in the greater Taipei area that insists on pure organic farming. Each has their own persistence and dedication to farming methods, and many special farmer crops are rare, distinctive organic ingredients that are currently hard to find in ordinary mass-market channels.

The market was established precisely in the hope of getting to know more friends who cherish health, ecology, land, and local agriculture, and jointly building a market community that supports sustainable agriculture and healthy ingredients.

Market philosophy:

Organic Persistence in pure organic ingredients

Fresh Freshness from farm to table

Abundant A gathering of organic farmers from all over Taiwan

Heartfelt Intention Truly feel the farmer's intention

Aesthetics A cultural market of life aesthetics

Stall online registration http://www.lifenext.com/p/blog-page_6.html

The Market Reduces Plastic and Seeks Clean Secondhand Bags

The Water Garden Market has been promoting being plastic bag-free for some time now, with quite good results. We are grateful for the joint response of all friends; almost most of our old friends use their own shopping baskets or shopping bags. Therefore, we hope everyone can donate clean secondhand plastic bags and paper bags that are no longer used at home to the market, to avoid constantly using new plastic bags while leaving plastic bags that were used only once unemployed. We hope plastic bags do not just shine once, but can continue to glow and give warmth until the day they retire. And this long-term task needs everyone's help~~

Market opening hours are every Saturday 11:00-17:00. You are welcome to donate clean secondhand plastic bags and paper bags to the market's service desk!