Saturday, August 29th is Celebrate our Heritage day at De Soto Farmers’ Market. We hope you will come join in the fun. We will have several demonstrations including: blacksmith skills, rope making, grist mill operation, antique engine operation, basket weaving, wood lathe operation, chair caning, spinning, antique gas engine operation, painting, broom making, antique tractor operation, wood carving, and soap making. Every year Celebrate Our Heritage day is a great family day at the market. We hope you’ll stop by. Please see our flyer for more information about the special market day and our regular market wares!
DFM Blood Drive
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The market will be hosting a blood drive on Saturday, August 22nd. We’ve partnered with St. Andrew’s and the Mississippi Valley Regional Blood Center to hold the drive from 9-12 in the fellowship hall.
The Mississippi Valley Regional Blood Center provides donor and blood services to Mercy Hospital Jefferson just down the road. The blood donations won’t just go to the hospital though, and we’re excited to be hosting our first blood drive with a regional agency that serves much of the greater St. Louis area.
From the Mississippi Valley Regional Blood Center website:
Mississippi Valley Regional Blood Center is the exclusive provider of blood products and services to 88 hospitals in Illinois, Iowa, Missouri and Wisconsin. The Blood Center is based in Davenport, Iowa, where MVRBC’s testing, processing and primary distribution center handles more than 250,000 units of blood components each year. MVRBC is a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization. MVRBC collects blood at 19 fixed site donor centers and at more than 4,000 mobile blood drives held each year. The population of the Blood Center’s service region exceeds 4-million residents and donors give more than 180,000 donations each year.Blood donations are used to treat many illnesses, not just the car crash victims that come to mind first. In fact, blood transfusions are given for a host of different illnesses, including kidney disease, cancer, pernicious anemia, and hemophilia, and is commonly needed after surgeries.
Please consider donating on August 22nd!
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School’s about to Start Again
A Reminder about Bicycle Safety
School is about to be back in session, and there will be lots of kids out on the roads headed to and from school during your normal commute. Please watch out for them, and if one of those kids is yours, please be sure they know the rules of the road and are careful out there!
Click here for a parent guide to bicycle safety.
DeSoto Dash for Dystrophy
The DeSoto Dash for Dystrophy streaked through the streets of DeSoto one fine morning in early June. There were approximately 80 participants! The top male was Mike Aitken from St. Louis, and the top female was Trish Coleman. Over $6500 was raised, with all the money going to the Muscular Dystrophy Association, helping to fund research and provide camps and services for people with muscular dystrophy.
National Eat Your Vegetables Day
Today is National Eat Your Vegetables Day! Since June is National Fresh Fruit and Vegetables Month, it only makes sense to celebrate these fine, healthy foods.
Enjoy vegetables as part of a meal or as a snack. For more information about nutritional content of various vegetables, check out this chart from the FDA. Just imagine! If you had a leaf lettuce salad with cauliflower, you’d have met your Vitamin A and Vitamin C recommendations for the day. Not to mention the other minerals that are contained in vegetables that help promote healthy skin and hair and can boost your immune system.
It is recommended by the USDA Dietary Guidelines for Americans, to consume 3 to 5 servings of vegetables per day. For most vegetables, one serving is 1/2 to 1 cup and can be eaten either raw or cooked.
So here’s to shopping at the DeSoto Farmers’ Market and healthy eating on National Eat Your Vegetables Day!
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