Oct
19
2012

Wellness Fair Scheduled for Greenwood This Sunday

This Sunday, October 21st from 1-5 p.m. we will be participating in a South side Wellness Fair. Admission is totally free, and it will take place at the corner of SR 135 & Fairview Road in Greenwood (located behind the Mike’s Car Wash). This fair is designed to help you meet local practitioners from various areas in wellness to help you and your family be healthy! Of course we will have all of our products with us, but will also make ourselves available to speak with you about the differences between local vs. supermarket meats, including the nutritional benefits.

If you would like to take this opportunity to place a pre-order for product, simply use our online order form and we’ll have it waiting on you when you arrive!

Greenwood Family Chiropractic is located at 520 N State Road 135, Suite R in Greenwood, IN 46142.


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Other Featured vendors include:

  • Thermograph of Indy
  • Nature’s Pharm
  • Nancy Beals – Drug Free Marion County
  • “Transitions in Healing” author, Norma Lee
  • Holistic Body Scans
  • Healing Touch
  • Celiac Expert, Paige St. Claire
  • Studio 135 for the Green Community
  • A Piece of Cake (gluten free/vegan options)
  • Yoga Evolution
  • Doterra
  • Juice Plus
  • Shaklee
  • Wild Tree

Come on out and see us and all these other great vendors on Sunday, October 21st from 1pm – 5pm.

2012 Wellness Fair – Greenwood Family Chiropractic (Download PDF Flyer)

Jul
26
2012

Beer Dinner at The Indigo Duck

This is the menu created by Chef Joseph for the Simpson’s Farm Market and Flat 12 Bierworks all inclusive beer dinner to be held on Monday, July 30th at the Indigo Duck.  Seats are still available, call the “duck phone” for reservations at

Amuse

Simpson’s Farm Chicken Lollipop w/ FLAT 12 Kiwi Kiwi BBQ Sauce

First

Yellowfin Tuna Carpaccio.  Cucumbers & Onions. Puffed Jasmine Rice. Red Thai Chili Aioli. FLAT 12 Amber Ale

Second

Simpson’s Farm Pulled Pork Shoulder Roast & Heirloom Tomato Tamale. Tillamook Cheddar Fondue. Sage Oil. Amish Kettle Corn. FLAT 12 Walkabout Pale Ale

Third

Simpson’s Farm Jowl Bacon Wrapped Dayboat Sea Scallops. Flat 12 Lacto-Matic Milk Stout Chocolate Mole Sauce. Wilted Farm Indy Greens. Sour Cherry Filled Bleu Cheese Gougeres.
FLAT 12 Lacto-Matic Milk Stout

Intermezzo

FLAT 12 Half Cycle IPA & Carrot Sorbet

Fourth

Simpson’s Farm Dueling Grassfed Heritage Beef. Lemon Pepper & Kolsch Marinated Country Fried Ribeye. VS. Apricot & Kolsch Braised & Smoked Brisket Hash Brown Casserole.
Slow Cooked Haricot Vert. Black Pepper & Shallot Cream. FLAT 12 Kolsch

Dessert

Pogues Run Porter Chocolate & Peanut Butter Pie. Crushed Cookie Crust. Chantilly Cream. Honey Roasted Peanut Brittle.        FLAT 12 Pogues Run Porter

Executive Chef Joseph Hewett                                                                                                                                                                                 Sous Chef Ryan Kernodle

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May
04
2012

An Update on the Greenwood Farmer’s Market & City Market

We really respect our customers, especially those from the Greenwood area and downtown Indy.  Without those two markets, we wouldn’t have gotten our start on the direct retail side of this farming venture and we are so very thankful for our time spent in those two markets.  But I also feel that if you are taking the time to read this, then you deserve to know the “why” behind the decisions.  Anyone who knows me at all knows I’m a black and white kinda guy, so here it is…..

We’ll cover the easy one first:  City Market was a pure business decision.  I love downtown.  I worked professionally in the engineering industry from 1997-2011, every day of it in downtown Indy.  And I love, love, love the summer market outside of City Market.  I love the brick street, I adore the tall buildings and there is a very cool atmosphere at City Market that isn’t easily explained, nor duplicated.  However, City Market was our worst market financially speaking and the leadership there saw fit to raise the vendor fees 50% this year.  No explanation was provided, and it just didn’t sit well with us.  We also had this idea in the back of our minds about doing a free home and office delivery route, and decided the time required to do the City Market (7.5 hours each week) would be better invested in trying this new idea out.

Now the hard one:  Greenwood was our home for nearly 9 years.  From 1996-2004, we lived and breathed all that is Greenwood.  Our home was there, our church was there and many of our closest friends are still there.  While we don’t miss the traffic, we still consider it our second home and miss so much about it.  Our first full time farmers market was in fact the Greenwood Farmers Market, all the way back in 2008!  Many of our best customers today are some of the same folks we met back in 2008 at the GFM.

Our issue really arose last year due to the growth and popularity of the market.  Greenwood is the only market we attend where the full season vendors are not assigned a permanent spot to set up in each week.  This may not sound like a big deal, but when customers can’t find you each week, it’s a big deal.  Lots of our customers couldn’t find us or missed us each week due to this reason.

Really, in our opinion the market has outgrown its current location and needs a larger site with more parking.  This is a result of it being a good market with good leadership.  But, we were told by the leadership that there is no place else to move the market to in Greenwood.  That seemed odd to me, but being an engineer I simply began to problem solve using the current location.  I asked some questions and made some suggestions about how we might tweak a few things and assign permanent spots for full season vendors.  Again, I was told that this wouldn’t work and there was nothing that could be done.  I respect the decision of the leadership there, but these issues were wrecking havoc with customers not finding us.

The proverbial straw came when we were told late last year that we would not be allowed to sell our 100% grassfed beef at this market.  This was a big blow to us.  Being the longest standing meat vendor at Greenwood, with a product our customers were clambering for in hand, we were not allowed to sell it.  A new vendor was selling beef at the market, so we were told “no”.  What was most disturbing to us was that this beef was corn fed, making it in our opinion a totally different product.  Again, we respect the decisions of the leadership at the market.  We were to say the least very disappointed, but it wasn’t our decision to make and we honored the boundaries given to us.

Over the years, we have passed on a lot of larger markets who have recruited us in order to stick with Greenwood, our second home.  In the end however there were too many obstacles for us to overcome.  It sincerely saddens us to no longer be participating at the GFM but we didn’t really feel like we had much choice.  We are hopeful that someday we will be able to return to this market with all of our products.  We wish the leadership and vendors at the GFM well and hope that they are successful.  They are great people who work hard to orchestrate a good farmers market, and we don’t hold any ill feelings towards them.

In the meantime, we are going to take this opportunity to roll out our free delivery program for those on the Southside and in downtown Indy.  We believe that, at least for the time being, this is the best way we can serve you our loyal customers.

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Apr
21
2012

South Side Holistic Family Health Fair

Check out this event happening on the south side of Indianapolis.

Holistic Family Health Fair

Holistic Family Health Fair PDF

Jan
12
2012

Tasty Turkey Contest Winners!

This year we held our first ever “Tasty Turkey Contest”.  Folks who purchased their Thanksgiving turkey from our farm had the opportunity to submit the recipe they used and have it graded by our good friend Chef Joseph Hewett at The Indigo Duck in Franklin, IN.  After careful review, our contest winners are:

  • First Place – Sue Mogel – $40 Dinner Gift Certificate to The Indigo Duck in Franklin, IN
  • Second Place – David Feinburg – $35 Gift Certificate to Simpson’s Farm Market
  • Third Place – David Feinburg – $25 Gift Certificate to U-Relish in City Market
  • Fourth Place – Despi Ross – One pound of locally roasted coffee beans from Harvest Cafe
  • Fifth Place – Meaghen Nelson – One bottle of extra virgin aged olive oil from Artisanos Oils & Spices
  • Honorable Mention –  Lynne Goodin – Breakfast box from Fermenti Artisan, local chefs using local foods

Be sure to check-out Sue’s winning recipe and photo of her finished Thanksgiving Turkey.

 

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