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his Scotts area farm of 30 acres and
selling it at area farmer’s markets,
like this one that occurs weekly in
downtown Battle Creek. (Shopper News
photo by Shelly Kehrle-Sulser)The Leila Farm Stand, which not only
operates at Leila Arboretum but also
vends produce at the Battle Creek
Farmers Market, grows most of its
own produce. (Shopper News photo by Shelly
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of the government rules and guidelines. (Shopper News photo by Shelly Kehrle-Sulser)pests.”
The Battle Creek Farmer’s Market
continues each Wednesday through
Oct. 9.
“My favorite part of all this is just
meeting and talking to people,” she
said. “It’s a lot of fun. I meet a lot of
interesting folks.”
Jalinn Pennock is the Leila
Arboretum Farm Stand Manager,
a job that not only involves grow-
ing produce to sell there weekly, on
Tuesdays and Saturdays, but also
goes to the Battle Creek Farmers
Market.
“Sometimes we buy from local
farmers stuff that’s more intensive,”
said Jalinn, “things like watermelon
and sweet corn that we just don’t
have the space or the time to make
but our goal is for everything we sell
to be very local so if it’s not grown
by us, it’s grown by others locally.”
The growing season for Jalinn has
been good and tomatoes ripened
right on time.
“Our aim is to offer the same
amount of variety of produce that
you’d be able to find in the grocery
store,” said Jalinn. “So, things like
summer squash, winter squash, fresh
tomatoes, green tomatoes and cherrytomatoes. We also try to offer a lot
of greens so collards, kale, mustard
greens, potatoes, bulb onions and
greens onions are super popular. A
ton of hot peppers and sweet corns.
There’s so much produce.”
Another unique opportunity for
residents of Burmese heritage is the
Urbandale Garden, started by Kathy
Antaya who also started the Leila
Farms Stand years ago
“We don’t directly manage it,”said Jalinn, “but there are Burmese
families and also several different
families from Africa.”
Jalinn said Antaya still manages
the Urbandale Garden where the par-
ticipants share the space at Leila