Menomonee Falls' Fresh Thyme Farmers Market is permanently closing, says the company president - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

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Menomonee Falls Fresh Thyme Farmers Market, a retailer which offers fresh, healthy, natural and organic products, will be closing its Menomonee Falls location Aug. 21.

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After three years, Menomonee Falls Fresh Thyme Farmers Market will close Aug. 21, said President Gerald Melville in a written statement.

According to its website, Fresh Thyme Farmers Market focuses on fresh, healthy, natural and organic products.

The 29,050-square-foot Fresh Thyme Farmers Market opened at N89 W16849 Appleton Ave. in May 2017.

“All successful organizations continually review their performance and look for ways to improve. After many months of intense focus and support of this store, we have made the decision to close it," Melville said in his statement. "Our talented team members in this store have worked incredibly hard to engage with the Menomonee Falls community, and we appreciate their efforts."

Melville added that the company will help its employees work at other Fresh Thyme stores in the greater Milwaukee area. The stores in Milwaukee, Greenfield and Brookfield and Kenosha will remain open, he said.

Fresh Thyme Farmers Market launched its five-year plan in 2014 to open 60 new stores and create 5,000 jobs in the Midwest. 

The first store opened in Mount Pleasant, Illinois, in 2014.  The Brookfield location, 17300 W. Bluemound Road, and the Milwaukee location, 470 E Pleasant St., opened in 2015.

Cathy Kozlowicz can be reached at 262-361-9132 or cathy.kozlowicz@jrn.com. Follow her on Twitter at @KozlowiczCathy.

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Fresh produce available at new Oroville farm stands - Chico Enterprise-Record

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OROVILLE — If you head out of Oroville west on Highway 162 you’ll find two new farm stands overflowing with fresh produce.

The first, La Gloria, is on the highway between Oakvale Avenue and Ward Boulevard. Owners Luis and Gloria Soria operate the new stand on 6.5 acres of land recently purchased by their son-in-law.

The stand, which is operated and stocked with everything from watermelons, peaches, plums, berries, peppers and an assort of other vegetable by the Soria’s extended family of 21 people, is open from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily, for now.

“We just opened, just started a couple weeks ago, so we are open all days since then. We’re trying to find a good break day,” said Jonathon Soria, 13, grandson of Louis and Gloria Soria.

Although they just opened, the stand is already popular with folks traveling up and down the highway to and from home and town.

“This is my first time stopping and it’s great. This is a perfect location. I love seeing new people especially families starting new businesses. I really hope they are successful,” said Rebecca Brinton.

In addition to bringing produce grown on the family farm and watermelons picked fresh in Woodland, the family is readying some of the acreage around the new stand to plant more crops.

Everyone staffing La Gloria wears a facemask when handing the produce and serving customers.

If you continue west on the highway you’ll start to see pink signs advertising another farm stand. This one is just off of Forbestown Road at 6176 Old Olive Highway and is only open on Thursdays from 2-6 p.m.

The stand, with plenty of shade and parking, is at the entrance to Peach Jamboree, formerly known as Woodleaf Farm, owned by Danny and Andrew Lazzarini.

“We wanted to provide the community that doesn’t live close to town with good, fresh produce closer to home. It’s fun meeting our ‘neighbors,’” said Danny Lazarrini.

This stand specializes in many varieties of organic peaches from Peach Jamboree and organic produce including potatoes, peppers, specialty plums, garlic, onions, eggplant, tomatoes and olive oil among many other vegetables from Towani Organic Farms, owned by Sharon Casey and Guy Baldwin, out of Bangor.

“We opened just before the Fourth of July and it’s been great. We’re doing more business then I expected,” said Guy Baldwin.

Shoppers at the Peach Jamboree stand are greeted by masked staff and asked not to touch any of the produce but the farmers are there to help make selections.

“Part of the reason for opening the stand was keeping people safer then if they went to a grocery store during this time,” said Danny Lazzarini. “We will stay open through peach season and may continue on through pear season. We’re not sure yet.”

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Don't know what to do with all that fresh produce? Make a chilled summertime soup - STLtoday.com

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Summer soups, clockwise from top left, Chilled Stilton and Pear Soup, Cold Carrot-Coconut Soup, Lightly Spiced Tomato Soup, Cherry Soup, and center, Curried Avocado Soup, photographed Wednesday, July 15, 2020. Photo by Hillary Levin, hlevin@post-dispatch.com

This is the best time of the year for people who cook. Also, for people who eat.

The fields are laden with produce. Vegetables and fruit hang heavy from every leafy branch. Goodness is fresh and abundant.

And with the sun blazing down on us like a broiler, the key is to enjoy all of this wonderful produce and cool down at the same time.

That is where chilled summertime soups come into play. Refreshing and crisp and just a little unusual, cold soups make the best of what summer has to offer.

To get some relief from the heat, I made five summertime soups. Each took full advantage of the harvest: avocados from the tree, carrots from the ground, tomatoes from the …

OK, to be honest, the tomatoes came from a can in the form of tomato juice. I got so caught up in the idea of chilled soups that I forgot I was supposed to be using fresh ingredients. But the can was newly purchased, so that's something. Besides, it has onion in it, and the onion was fresh.

Though it was less straight-off-the-vine than it might have been, the tomato soup — or actually Lightly Spiced Tomato Soup — was delightful.

Yield: 4 to 6 servings

The tomato juice serves as the base, its flavor mellowed and deepened with sautéed onions and vegetable stock (or water, but use the vegetable stock if you have it). Still, it is the light spices that make the soup come alive.

With a nod to the Indian subcontinent, the soup is embellished with cumin, turmeric, cardamom and cloves, plus a pinch of cayenne for extra heat.

And if that much heat is too hot for you, especially in the summer, you can cool it off with a spoonful or two of tangy yogurt.

As easy as the tomato soup was to make, I next made one that was even faster and easier. Curried Avocado Soup does not even need to be cooked at all, yet it boasts a big flavor.

Yield: 4 to 6 servings

All it needs are avocados blended with vegetable stock, with curry powder, heavy cream and salt and pepper mixed in. Chill it and you have a surprisingly good dish.

Surprising, because who would have thought avocados and curry powder would go well together? It's like hot and cold, night and day, black and white. That's why you need the cream. It melds, it blends, it softens and tempers and it makes everything better.

If the Curried Avocado Soup was the easiest to make, Chilled Stilton and Pear Soup was the most involved. Of course, the results were also the creamiest, richest and, if you are looking to impress your guests, the most impressive.

Yield: 8 servings

Pears and Stilton cheese are one of those all-time classic combinations. The smooth and rich — yet pungent — blue cheese harmonizes brilliantly with the mild sweetness and the unique, softly granular texture of a pear.

But how do you transport that heavenly pairing to a soup?

You cheat a little, is how.

You begin with a base of chicken stock cooked with celery, onion and leeks in it, which you then thicken and enrich with a roux. Next, you dump in a whole lot of grated Monterey Jack cheese and then stir in some half-and-half.

It tastes even better than it sounds, and we haven't even gotten to the pears and Stilton yet. That's because you use them almost as a garnish, diced into small pieces and floating on top.

Next up was a Cold Carrot-Coconut Soup. The coconut part, fortunately, comes from coconut milk. The other flavors come from ginger and Madras curry powder — two flavors that happen to enhance the taste of both carrots and coconut milk.

Yield: 6 servings

The soup is rich and powerfully flavored, so I would recommend it only as appetizer. The only problem is that it is so delicious that it is likely to overshadow anything else that you would serve.

For my last summertime dish, I made a soup that could be served either as a dessert (it comes from Finland, and that is how they like it there) or a first course.

Cherry Soup (you'll forgive me if I don't call it Kirsikkakeitto) is lightly sweet and absolutely gorgeous. It gets its entrancing red color from the cherries — lots of cherries that you have to pit yourself — that are simmered in water with a cinnamon stick.

Yield: 6 to 8 servings

Lemon juice brightens the flavor, sugar or honey sweetens it and white wine or cherry liqueur brings an intriguing element that you might not be able to identify but you will know it is there.

I served mine as an appetizer with yogurt in it. If you serve it for dessert, you could always instead add heavy cream or even whipped cream.

Live it up. This summertime bounty won't be with us forever.

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Staunton Salvation Army sending kids to school with supplies, fresh haircuts - WHSV

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STAUNTON, Va. (WVIR) - On Friday, the Salvation Army in Staunton is hosting Summer Celebration, celebrating the end of summer and the start of school less than a month away.

They’re sending children back to school with school supplies and fresh haircuts for free, but this year, they’re giving away even more because of the COVID-19 pandemic. That includes food and baby supplies.

Staunton Salvation Army Officer, Lieutenant Johnathan Meredith, says they continue to help people with rent and utilities.

"We've also been helping out a lot more people. As many as 300 percent more in the past several months than we have previously," said Meredith. "We've just seen a major increase in the number of people we've been able to help."

Summer Celebration is Friday, July 31, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m in the Salvation Army gym at 2100 West Beverley Street in Staunton. It’s by appointment only to adhere to social distancing guidelines. To make an appointment, call 540-885-8157. Masks are required.

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Fresh Thyme store in Menomonee Falls to close - BizTimes - Milwaukee Business News

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The Fresh Thyme Farmers Market store in Menomonee Falls will close in less than a month.

Located in the Colonial Plaza shopping center at N89 W16849 Appleton Ave., the 29,000-square-foot grocery store will close on Aug. 21, according to a written statement from Fresh Thyme president Gerald Melville.

“All successful organizations continually review their performance and look for ways to improve,” Melville said in the statement. “After many months of intense focus and support of this store, we have made the decision to close it.”

Fresh Thyme will work with employees of the Menomonee Falls location and provide them other opportunities at one of its other area locations. It did not specify how many employees work at the Menomonee Falls store.

Fresh Thyme is a grocery chain headquartered in Downers Grove, Illinois. It has stores locally in Brookfield, Greenfield, Kenosha and Milwaukee, according to its website.

The company began opening stores in Wisconsin in 2016, with its first location being at the North End development in downtown Milwaukee. The Menomonee Falls store opened about three years ago.

The portion of the Menomonee Falls shopping center that houses Fresh Thyme changed ownership in recent months. According to state records, a Waukesha investors’ group known as Miller Five LLC purchased the space for $5.45 million from an affiliate of Brookfield-based Somerstone LLC.

The 56,000-square-foot Colonial Plaza was originally built in the 1960s and was redeveloped in 2016. The Fresh Thyme space was newly constructed in place of a portion of the building that was razed.

Alex Zank covers commercial and residential real estate for BizTimes. Alex previously worked for Farm Equipment magazine and also covered statewide construction news at The Daily Reporter. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, where he studied journalism, political science and economics. Having grown up in rural western Wisconsin, Alex loves all things outdoors, including camping, hiking, four-wheeling and hunting.

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Germantown native launches CSA business to provide fresh produce bundles to local farmers, area residents - WPVI-TV

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ELKINS PARK, Pennsylvania (WPVI) -- Germantown native, Christa Barfield is a strong advocate for healthy eating and believes the decision for organic foods should never have to come down to affordability.

"Organic foods are without chemicals, and chemicals cost money," said Barfield. "So, it makes no sense for you to have to pay extra money for something that's not in the foods your eating."

Barfield, owner of Farmer Jawn Greenhouses, a community-supported agriculture business that provides local farmers the ability to offer fresh produce bundles directly to area residents.

What began as a local effort in Germantown, Barfield has now expanded its reach into Elkins Park, Montgomery County.

"The reason why I started in Germantown, was to help the people that were around me," said Barfield. "I could only at first take on 10 families as a responsible grower and responsible farmer."

Barfield says now with the expansion of Elkins Park greenhouses she's been able to open up the opportunity to grow even more food for communities across different counties.

At FarmerJawn, customers have the option of paying $100 upfront, followed by $25 per week for 25 weeks worth of fresh produce.

"For 10 years I worked in health care, and I understand working 40 hours a week and not being able to have an adequate food supply at home and healthy options at home," said Barfield. "So to me, it makes sense if I could afford a deposit to put down, so I can have food that's grown locally, I know my farmer and where the food is coming from. Everybody should be able to have that right."

With the expansion of two full greenhouses in Elkins Park, Barfield hopes to work with the Department Of Agriculture to extend her efforts not just for farmers, but Pennsylvania Snap recipients and families directly affected by food insecurity.

"For me, it's important that all people can be able to eat wholesomely," said Barfield.

Barfield also hopes to expand on one of the greenhouses as a non-profit initiative to soon provide free produce for families in need who can not afford fresh produce.

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Gold futures tally a fresh record settlement as U.S. consumer confidence declines - MarketWatch

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Gold futures climbed Tuesday to notch another record-high settlement as a fall in U.S. consumer confidence boosted the precious metal’s haven appeal.

The gains came after the Conference Board reported that the index of consumer confidence fell to 92.6 this month from a revised 98.3 in June. The U.S. dollar, meanwhile, stabilized after a sharp decline this month, while investors waited for the outcome of the Federal Reserve’s policy meeting on Wednesday.

“The arguably epic rally in gold continues,” said Jason Rotman, director at Everplus Capital, in emailed commentary. “The demand for gold as a safe haven to central bank funny business has gained momentum and I still believe under current conditions $2,200 is my next price target.”

“However, there is always a counterpoint to any investment thesis. The counterpoint to gold not hitting $2,200 would be a massive momentum shift in the spread of COVID and GDP really starts to pick up again above expectations,” he said. “This seems like a long shot at this point.”

August gold GC00, +1.20% GCQ20, +1.20% rose $13.60, or 0.7%, to settle at $1,944.60 an ounce, the highest finish on record for a most-active contract. It traded as high as $1,974.70 to top the intraday record set on Monday, but it also fell to as low as $1,900.20 to mark a wide Tuesday trading range.

Read:Gold rides to a record, with prospects for $2,000 an ounce stronger than ever

The moves came as the ICE U.S. Dollar Index DXY, +0.12% was little changed at 93.62, following a recent drop to a two-year low, and it is down by 0.9% week to date. Weakness in the dollar can provide support for dollar-denominated commodities.

Silver futures also tapped a seven year, intraday high, at $26.275 an ounce—the highest most-active contract price level since April 2013, before ultimately ending the session lower. September SIU20, +0.05% fell 20 cents, or 0.8% to $24.30 an ounce.

Silver prices had settled Monday at their highest since August 2013. “This silver rally is a combination of being a technical correction as well as silver been bought as its industrial application may be more prevalent with the fundamental expansion of technology,” said Rotman.

Meanwhile, overall weakness in the U.S. dollar, “low-to-negative U.S. real yields, rising inflationary pressures, the possibility of global stagflation and the slippery market conditions remain supportive of a strong gold in the medium, long run,” said Ipek Ozkardeskaya, senior analyst at Swissquote Bank, in a recent note.

“However, the rapid surge in gold prices also increases the risk of swift profit taking and a sharp downside correction,” she said, noting that gold rallied more than $500 an ounce since March. “There is room for a decent retracement.”

So far this week, gold still has stormed higher, and gained more than 26% this year.

Read:Goldman Sachs has a new blowout forecast for gold

The rollout of the U.S. Senate Republican $1 trillion stimulus plan added to concerns about monetary financing of government spending, with the Federal Reserve on Tuesday starting its two-day interest-rate-setting meeting. The gains for gold also come amid the tense relationship between the U.S. and China.

Among other metals on Comex Tuesday, September copper HGU20, +0.46% rose 0.7% to $2.9175 a pound. October platinum PLV20, +2.39% tacked on 2% to $986.20 an ounce and September palladium PAU20, -0.32% lost 0.2% at $2,365.50 an ounce.

“Gold had a good shot at the number one main precious metal, but palladium did not stand still and is giving gold a good run for money for the top spot,” said R. Michael Jones, chief executive officer of Platinum Group Metals Ltd. PLG, -7.28%, noting that palladium has climbed from around $1,900 on July 10.

“It is interesting that both metals are precious and running up as fears of inflation circulate,” he told MarketWatch Monday. “However, gold and palladium are very different as gold is thought of as a safe haven form of money and palladium is used in the tail pipes of cars as a catalytic converter.”

“Personal transport is super important in these times and car sales are coming back fast—driving demand for palladium,” he said.

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