Seasonal
Kaw Valley Farm Tour
October 2-3, 2010
10am-6pm
$10 per carload
Join us for a great family event featuring 21 local farms. Get a weekend of farm tour fun and family entertainment for only $10.
- Explore 21 family farms in the Kaw Valley
- Breakfast on a farm
Saturday · October 2 · 8:30-9:45am
Vesecky Family Farm Breakfast Buffet
1814 North 600 Road Baldwin City
$10 adults · $6 kids
Sunday · October 3 · 9-11am
Pendleton's Country Market
1446 East 1850 Road Lawrence
$5 adults · $3 kids
- Drive your own car or take the family bus tour or winery bus tour
Family Bus Tour
Saturday · Octoner 2 · 11am-3pm
Get on the yellow school bus with the Merc and load up on family fun!
Together we'll take a mini-tour of some of the kid-friendly highlights on this year's Kaw Valley Farm Tour. We'll stop first at Prairie Moon Waldorf School's Okanis Garden. Then we will head to Pendleton's Country Market where we can take a hayride, visit the Butterfly Bio-Villa, and eat our sack lunches. Then on to Lawrence Landscape's Tree Farm where kids and grownups alike can chuck pumpkins with the trebuchet - or paint them! Our last stop will be the West Junior High School Garden where student gardeners will be our tour guides. Bring reusable shopping bags for purchases and dress for the weather. This tour is rain or shine! The Merc will provide PB&J sandwiches, juice and fruit for the kids.
$5 per person, or $20 per family of 4 or more. Adults bring a sack lunch, PB&J sandwiches provided for kids. Limited enrollment. Register as you would for any Merc class.
Winery Bus Tour
Saturday · October 2 · 11am-3pm
Take a mini-tour of wine country - in Kansas! Come get on the bus with The Merc and visit the three wineries that are on this year's Kaw Valley Farm Tour. We'll start out from 9th & Iowa at 12:30 and ride along old Kansas highways to Basehor to tour Holy-Field Vineyard and Winery. Then, down to Eudora along beautiful country roads, where we'll stop off at Davenport Orchards & Vineyard to get close up with the wine and the vines. Finally, we'll stop at nearby BlueJacket Crossing Vineyard and Winery and return to The Merc by dinnertime.
Bring reusable shopping bags for your purchases, wear sturdy shoes, and dress for the weather. This tour is rain or shine!
$5 per person. Tour open only to those 21 years of age or older.
Bottled water, snack, and tour guide provided! Limited enrollment.
Register as you would for any Merc class.
- Two chef cooking demos
For more information go to www.KawValleyFarmTour.org.
September is Organic Month
In this month's Merc News...
Learn how our Certified Organic Produce Department keeps your organic produce perfect.
See how our West Junior High Gardeners use organic growing methods in the school garden.
Discover Prairie Star Farm and learn how Margit and Bart Hall went from organic inspectors to organic growers.
West Junior High Farmers' Market
Every Thursday, 3-5pm
If you haven't driven by West Junior High lately it's worth taking a small detour from The Merc to see the beautiful and bountiful garden along Crestline Drive. Our student gardeners are holding a West Farmers' Market every Thursday evening from 3-5pm. Students are selling garden produce, herbs, fresh flowers, shopping bags, t-shirts and cookbooks, with 100% of sales going into a savings account to support next year's garden. Farmers' Markets will continue as long as weather permits. Come out and meet these great students and support a wonderful project that has the potential to change the way youth eat.
West Junior High Garden Project Farmers' Market begins July 12
If you haven't driven by West Junior High lately it's worth taking a small detour from The Merc to see the beautiful and bountiful garden along Crestline Drive. Beginning Monday July 12 the West gardeners will be staffing a West Farmers' Market on Monday and Thursday evenings from 4-6pm. The market will be on the south side of the school, under the protection of the main entrance. Students will sell garden produce, herbs, fresh flowers, shopping bags, t-shirts and cookbooks, with 100% of sales going into a savings account to support next year's garden. Come out and meet these great students and support a wonderful project that has the potential to change the way youth eat.
The Merc Now Offers 100% Sustainable Seafood
At the Merc Meat & Seafood Department, we are committed to being your source for sustainable seafood. We now only offer fish and shellfish that the Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch lists as a Best Choice or Good Alternative. For 40,000 years, we have relied on a seemingly endless supply of fish and shellfish to nourish our bodies. Over the last couple of centuries, particularly the last 50 years, the world's oceans, lakes, rivers, and streams have been depleted of the vast abundance they once provided so reliably. Global warming, invasive species, and pollution are all contributing to the decline, but the vast majority of the damage has been done by the methods we use to catch and farm seafood. For more information about our Sustainable
Seafood Case please see pages 8-9 of the July Merc News
Meet, Greet & Eat
One Saturday each month we invite local producers into the store so you can meet the friendly faces behind some of our great local products. The Merc is proud to be the Lawrence leader in local. Everyday you'll find over 600 local products on our shelves. Stop in and make a connection between your food and the people who produce it.
Need a gift idea?
Give a gift of good taste with a Merc Gift Card or Merc Cooking Class Gift Certificate. Our cashiers at the Customer Service Desk will be happy to help you.
