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Homegrown Market OPEN for Saturday! New e-mail system.


This post expired on May 09, 2023.

CONCTACT US

2310 N Orange Ave
Orlando, FL 32804
(407) 895-5559
info@homegrowncoop.org
HomegrownCoop.org

ONLINE MARKET

Place your order today on our online market

Saturday Market:
Order online Wednesday 3pm – Friday 9am for pickup or delivery Saturday afternoon.

Wednesday Market:
Order online Saturday 1pm – Tuesday 9am for pickup or delivery Wednesday afternoon.

RETAIL STORE

OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK!

Monday – Sunday
10 am – 7 pm

UPCOMING EVENTS

Friday, 5/10 at 6:30pm
Fermentation Fridays: Cooked Ferments

Saturday, 6/8 from 1-3pm:
Genetically Modified Foods: From Frankenfood to Frankenpeople?

HOMEGROWN NEWS


Please forgive all of the e-mails. *We are trying a new system and still working out the kinks. Please be sure to add us to your address book so we don’t go into your spam folder. Thank you for continuing to support our local food system!*

Local honey from Webb’s is back!

 

Lychee Season is here!

For those of you still wondering why there were not much in the way of lychee fruit in 2012, the basic rason was due to the unseasonably warm winter of that year. Warm winters are detrimental for lychee bloom induction and subsequent fruit set.

Most people who understand and have tasted tropical fruit will agree that lychee is perhaps one of the finest tasting tropical fruits in the “tropical world”. This, of course is not to slight mangos, of which there are some phenomenally delicious tasting varities (i.e. Carrie, Julie, Kent, Keitt, etc.)

A lychee is a rare sub tropical fruit originating in South China where the lychee is very important in their culture and is famed as “the King of Fruits”.

The lychee fruit is about 1½ to 2 inches in size, oval to rounded heart shaped and the bumpy skin is red in color. Once you peel the skin off, the crisp juicy flesh of a lychee fruit is white or pinkish, translucent and glossy like the consistency of a grape, but the taste is sweeter. Lychees have a sub acid sweet taste and have a wonderful freshness to them that is hard to describe. Lychee fruit is high in the antioxidant Vitamin C and the essential mineral Potassium.

Lychee trees are beautiful hardwoods that can grow 20 to 40 feet tall in a primarily dome shaped habit of growth with dense, evergreen leaves. Lychee trees are popular landscape trees in South Florida and other areas of the southern U.S. and container, atrium or greenhouse growing of lychee trees is becoming popular throughout the rest of he country.  - LycheesOnline.com/

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Satellite Pick-up sites

We are looking to set up a few satellite pick-up sites around Central Florida to help reduce delivery fees and offer better access to local food. Are you interested in hosting a pick-up site? Do you know a school or business that would allow us to distribute orders once or twice a week? Let us know.

FOR OUR MEMBERS

Member Mondays!

During regular store hours on Mondays, Members will receive 20% OFF all produce items. This discount will not include meat, dried herbs or shelf items.

Remember to have your member card ready at checkout!

Not a Member yet? Support your local food economy by becoming a member.

Shop at the On-line Farmer’s Market

Place your order before Friday at 9am for pick-up or delivery on Saturday.

Your order is FINAL once placed, and you are responsible for pick-up and payment.

Pickup is from 12pm-7pm on Saturday. Sorry, we cannot accommodate early pickups.

Don’t forget, orders for the following items must be placed by 4:00pm Thursday to satisfy your order
Fresh bread orders from Olde Hearth Bread Company

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