Itty Bitty Micro Farm

Tomorrow is going to be a great day The LMH Market!

👕 Wear your LMH Market shirt for a chance to win a $50 Market Gift Certificate
🎭 Catch scenes from Lincoln Community Theatre's upcoming production, Rumors, at 9:00 and 10:30
🍅 Fresh Pick Giveaways every 30 minutes
🛍️ Local vendors
☀️ Saturday morning fun

Vendor Lineup:
Aunt B’s Sweet Treats
Brew 66 Coffee
Homemade Passions by Bryce
Itty Bitty Micro Farm
Samantha Danosky desserts
Triple I Garden Shop and Ioerger Family Farms
WAR FOOD FARM
Thehealthycrumb
MKS Livestock
Food Girliez

We'll see you from 8:00 a.m. to Noon at the Logan County Fairgrounds. Come early, stay awhile, and make a morning of it!

Don't have an LMH Market shirt yet? Stop by The Market booth to purchase one and get entered into the drawing.

The brown shield-shaped bug on your tomato plants isn't always a pest. Two stink bugs that look almost identical share the same garden, and one of them is on your side.

The spined soldier bug is native and one of the most useful predators you have. It is brown, shield-shaped, and small, around a third of an inch. Look at its shoulders: they end in sharp points, like little spikes. It also has a dark streak across the tips of its folded wings. It hunts caterpillars, beetle grubs, and other soft-bodied pests, including the invasive stink bug it resembles.

The brown marmorated stink bug is the invasive one from Asia. It is a little larger, and its shoulders are smooth and rounded, with no spikes. The clearest giveaway is the antennae, banded with white. It feeds directly on tomatoes, peppers, beans, and tree fruit, and gathers on warm walls in fall.

The quick read: sharp pointed shoulders is the native predator, leave it. Smooth rounded shoulders with white antenna bands is the invasive pest worth removing.

The bug most people flick away is often the one eating the pests. The one quietly draining your tomatoes is the look-alike with the rounded shoulders.

When the pantry gets low, the creativity gets good. 🥣✨

Tonight’s dessert bowl came together with a few of the last bites of some favorite small batch finds:

Vanilla fat free Greek yogurt, a little whipped cheesecake filling, chia seeds, the last of our Simply Grace Bakery granola, and the final drizzle of Glacier’s End Berry Butter.

I was genuinely sad to scrape the last of that berry butter from the jar, but paired with the creamy yogurt, cheesecake filling, and crunchy granola, it made the perfect end of the day treat.

One of my favorite things about buying from small producers is that you can taste the care that goes into what they make.

Every jar and every bag feels special, especially when you get down to the last serving.

Now I guess it is time to restock. 😊

What is one local favorite you never want to run out of?

Harvest Day Snack Break!

Strawberry nonfat Greek yogurt, fresh berries, and this absolutely delicious healthy granola from Simply Grace.

I picked it up during our Saturday at the Old Capitol Farmers Market, the first market of the season. It rained for a good part of the market, but honestly, that didn't detour people from stopping by!

This snack was simple, filling, and just enough sweet.

Full confession though… I pick out all the dried fruit and put it in Mike’s yogurt. 😂