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This weblog contains LocallyGrown.net news and the weblog entries from all the markets currently using the system.
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Winnsboro, TX: Market is Open
Good Monday to you again,
The market is open once again this week with all your local favorites.
Thank you for shopping with us!
Stacy
Middle Tennessee Locally Grown: Time to Order Fresh Local Farm Products!
Middle Tennessee Locally Grown market
To Contact Us
Our Website:
manchester.locallygrown.net
On Facebook:
Manchester Locally Grown Online Farmers’ Market
By e-mail:
tnmomof10@gmail.com
By phone:
(931) 273-9708
Our Manchester pickup location is across the street from the Manchester City Schools administration building, at
216 East Fort Street, Manchester, TN
Our new Tullahoma pickup location is inside “Nature’s Elite”, in the Cherokee Square Shopping Center next to Dunham’s Sports, at
1802 N Jackson St, Ste 800, Tullahoma TN
If you don’t see a map, click on the address link.
Good morning!
Welcome to Middle Tennessee Locally Grown online farmers’ market! The market opened for ordering before 8 AM on Sunday, as always. Sorry I didn’t have time to send out a newsletter till now! But remember: you don’t have to wait till you receive the newsletter to place your order. The market is open.
As always, everything you see on our website is the “cream of the crop” from local farmers, the best products picked and made with pride especially for YOU! When you place an order with our farms, you know you are supporting your friends and neighbors, located in Middle Tennessee.
Please look around at various categories, since there may be some new things added to the market after I send out this message. Also please be sure to read the section of the page entitled “Important Ordering and Pickup Information.”
Don’t forget about our pick-up location in Tullahoma in addition to the usual one in Manchester. Now you can avoid the delivery charge and come visit with your market managers! Be sure to let us know via the drop-down menu which location you prefer for pickup.
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Welcome to CS3 Farms from BeechGrove. Carter and Sharmyn Smith have a vision to raise awareness about the beautiful plants that are beneficial to our health both medicinally and for culinary purposes. They offer a variety of unique, intriguing, and beneficial herb-related products. A few are shown here, and more are to be found on the market, mostly listed under “Processed Foods”.
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(Top, L to R) Orange-Oregano Gourmet Mustard; Sunflower Seed Butter.
(Bottom, L to R) Hot Pepper Mint Jelly; Rosemary Thyme Hummus.
From Linda Reed:
Dogwood Valley Greenhouse has a large selection of beautiful perennial plants in stock, including astilbes, coral bells, and The coneflowers and yarrows are just beginning to bloom, and the balloon flowers will bloom all summer. We’ve updated the available ferns, and now have a better selection than the big box stores. For your porch or patio, we have several houseplants and hanging baskets, as well as a new crop of African violets coming into bloom. Get your pepper and tomato plants, as well as your fresh-cut herbs soon, as these are all selling low.
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(L to R, top) Yellow Reblooming Daylily; Astilbe Group.
(L to R, bottom) Japanese Painted Fern; Tomato Plant “Beefmaster”.
Important Ordering and Pickup Information
Ordering will be open until TUESDAY at 10 pm, and your order will be available for pickup at your choice of the following:
- Thursday afternoon between 4:00 p.m. and 5:30 p.m.* under the big pavilion on Fort Street with signs that say “Coffee County Farmers Market.” It’s behind the Farm Bureau building on Main Street, and across the street from the Manchester City Schools administration building, 215 East Fort St, Manchester.
- Or on Fridays between 4:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. inside “Nature’s Elite”, next to Dunham’s Sporting Goods, in the Cherokee Square Shopping Center on North Jackson Street in Tullahoma.
We can also deliver your order to your home (or other location) on FRIDAY afternoon for a small fee, if it’s more convenient for you. If you prefer to utilize this service, please place an order for it, same as other products, selecting your delivery area. Don’t forget to give us your location address in the comments section of the order. Also please text Linda at (931) 273-9708 for specific arrangements.
We thank you for your interest and support of our efforts to bring you the healthiest, the freshest and the most delicious locally-produced foods possible. Please encourage our local farmers by helping to spread the word about our wonderful market to everyone you know. We offer a great variety of local farm products, and our items will be in your hands in time to plan for the weekend. Wonderful local products are available for ordering from the comfort of your own computer.
More new farmers are considering joining our market, if they can expect enough sales to help pay their transportation costs. Please help us grow the market by sharing this e-mail with your friends and inviting them to give us a try. And if you haven’t ordered from Manchester Locally Grown for a while, please check out our wide variety of offerings this week. Also please let us know if we can improve our selection or scheduling in any way to better suit your needs.
Blessings,
Linda & Michael
Here is the complete list for this week.
Athens Locally Grown: ALG Market Open for May 30
Athens Locally Grown
How to contact us:
Our Website: athens.locallygrown.net
On Twitter: @athlocallygrown
On Facebook: www.facebook.com/athenslocallygrown
On Thursdays: Here’s a map.
Market News
It’s a holiday Monday, where we remember those fallen in our wars. It’s also the symbolic beginning of summer, marked with cookouts and other outdoor activities. If you’re out there, grilling your locally grown burgers and veggies, please remember those who have left us.
There’s not much new to report this week. Summer veggies are really starting to come in now, and this record heatwave might be the death knew for all those cool weather crops that were hanging on. We’re at the change of the season now, and everything is very weather dependent. Just a little too much heat will end the spring items, and just not enough sun will keep the summer goodies from ripening. If we get a few more days in a row on the hot and dry side the spring crops will begin struggling, but that can all change day to day.
Cathy Payne will be at our “Meet the Grower” table this week. You may remember her from her farm Broad River Pastures, but she recently sold that farm and moved back into town. She’s written a book about an important part of her farm, preserving the Guinea Hog. This heritage breed of pork, not to be confused with little guinea pigs, very nearly became extinct due to the conglomeration of our pork industry (and other factors), but small farmers like Cathy have been working hard to bring this animal back. She’ll be there with copies of her book and would love to talk with you in person about her experiences.
Thank you so much for your support of Athens Locally Grown, all of our growers, local food, and our rights to eat it. You all are part of what makes Athens such a great area in which to live. We’ll see you on Thursday at Ben’s Bikes at the corner of Pope and Broad Streets from 4:30 to 8pm!
Other Area Farmers Markets
The many other area markets are starting to return! The Athens Farmers Market is open on Saturdays at Bishop Park, and Wednesday evenings downtown at Creature Comforts. You can catch the news on their website. The West Broad Farmers Market is back as well, Saturdays from 9 to 1, and you can watch for weekly news here: http://www.athenslandtrust.org/west-broad-farmers-market/. The Comer Farmers’ Market is open on Saturday mornings from 9am to noon. Check www.facebook.com/comerfm for more information. Washington, GA also has a lovely little Saturday market, running on winter hours now on Saturdays from 1-4pm. Folks to the east can check out the Hartwell Farmers Market, which starts bright and early on Saturday morning from 7am to noon, and Tuesday afternoons from noon to 4pm. You can learn all about them here: www.washingtonfarmersmkt.com. If you know of any other area markets operating, please let me know.
All of these other markets are separate from ALG (including the Athens Farmers Market) but many growers sell at multiple markets. Please support your local farmers and food producers, where ever you’re able to do so!
We thank you for your interest and support of our efforts to bring you the healthiest, the freshest, and the most delicious locally-produced foods possible!
Magney Legacy Ridge Farm: CSA #9
Dear CSA-ers,
This week’s preassembled bag will include: mixed radishes, Lovelock head lettuce, kale bunches, spinach, cucumbers, garlic scapes, Ellianora basil. Custom orders can be placed on the website at https://magneyfarm.locallygrown.net/market
Wow! It got hot, fast! That’s good news for some of our vegetables like summer loving squash, cucumbers, and tomatoes. Others, like our lettuce and greens mixes, will become more challenging. Nonetheless we carry on utilizing the collective knowledge and experience of our team to grow the healthiest vegetables for you and your family. On that note, two of our team members, Hannah and Patrick, will be traveling to Berea, Kentucky this coming weekend to attend a cover crop and high tunnel symposium through the University Kentucky. Likewise, you won’t see Hannah or Patrick at Farmers’ Markets this weekend. Be sure to be extra kind to Caroline and Angela as they are going to be very busy this week managing the farm short staffed. It is our hope that furthering the education of our team will pay off in the quality and sustainability of vegetables we deliver to you.
The big exciting event on our farm this past week was our third-party inspection for the USDA Organic Certification. As you may know, our farm has grown organically since its inception, striving to bring you clean, healthy vegetables grown in an Earth-friendly way. It has been our goal to become certified such that we can use the “USDA Organic” label on our produce. This is an immensely bureaucratic process involving detailed record-keeping, transition experts, and inspections. Though it does not change the way we grow for you, official certification does open many opportunities for us as a growing farm and business. Our inspection on Friday went very well, and we are excited as we near the final steps towards achieving this goal.
Our highlighted vegetable this week is Garlic Scapes! Garlic Scapes are a once a year delicacy produced by our hardneck variety garlics. The term “hardneck” actually refers to the flower stem that grows through the center of the bulb, as opposed to “softnecks” which do not form this flowering structure. The “scape” is the flower’s stem. The flower bud itself should be removed, but the stem is tender and full of garlic goodness. Texturally it’s reminiscent of asparagus and it can be utilized similarly. You will find no shortage of great recipes for scapes online, and for your convenience we’ve included one for Garlic Scape Pesto Fettuccine. Likely, scapes share many of the heart and vascular protective properties that garlic bulbs themselves do, though scapes themselves have been less extensively studied. If nothing else, it’s a seasonal treat that we hope you come to look forward to as much as we do.
Garlic Scape Pesto Fettucine
Ingredients
• 1/4 cup pine nuts
• 3 garlic scapes
• 1 cup fresh basil
• salt and pepper
• 1/2 cup olive oil
• 1/2 cup grated parmesan
• 2 pounds fresh fettuccine or one pound dried fettuccine, cooked al dente
• 1/2 cup reserved pasta cooking water
• 2 ripe tomatoes, seeded and chopped
• 2 tablespoons heavy cream
Instructions
1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Spread the pine nuts out in a single layer on a baking sheet. Toast the pine nuts in the oven for about 4 minutes, stopping to stir with a metal spatula about half way through. Keep a close eye on the pine nuts as they can go from toasted to burnt very quickly. Remove from oven and allow to cool.
2. Rinse the garlic scapes and cut off the point end and discard. Chop the garlic scapes into 2 inch pieces.
3. Combine the pine nuts, garlic scapes, basil, salt and pepper in the bowl of a food processor and pulse until finely chopped. With the machine running, gradually stream in the olive oil until the mixture is smooth and thick.
4. Use a spatula to transfer the pesto to a bowl. Add the parmesan and mix well. Season with additional salt and pepper to taste, and add an extra drizzle of olive oil if needed.
5. Transfer the cooked pasta to a large serving bowl. Add the pesto, heavy cream and tomatoes to the pasta and toss well. Add reserved pasta cooking water slowly, a splash at a time, as you toss the pasta; this will help to make the sauce creamy and rich; note that you will probably not need to use the entire 1/2 cup of reserved pasta water. Serve with extra grated parmesan.
As always, we thank you so much for your support of our farm! We love hearing from you and seeing your recipes, ideas, and feedback. If you make something awesome with our vegetables, we’d love to see it. Tag us on facebook with “ @Magney Legacy Ridge Farm “ to share. We hope you have a great week!
Sincerely,
The Magney Legacy Ridge Farm Team
Russellville Community Market: Ordering on The Market Closes at 10PM!
To ensure your order is placed, make sure you click the “Place My Order” button once you have completed your shopping. You will receive a confirmation email.
Orders will be ready for pick from 4PM – 6:30PM this Tuesday at the Downtown Russellville Train Depot!
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Ordering on The Market Closes at 10PM!
From beautiful eggs, to grass fed beef, fresh kale, carrots, asparagus, strawberries, live plants, raw honey and delicious pastries – we have it all on the market this week!
Russellville Community Market
FRESH.LOCAL.ONLINE
RAF Buying Clubs : Time to Order!
We have a full selection of locally grown and produced foods available this week!
Ordering is now open and will remain open until Tuesday night at midnight.
Head over to
buyingclubs.locallygrown.net
to view our products and place your order for pickup on Wednesday.
Thank you and enjoy the rest of your holiday weekend!
Fresh Harvest, LLC: Fresh Harvest for May 26th
Contact Info
Our Website: freshharvest.locallygrown.net
On Facebook: www.facebook.com/freshharvestllc
Email:
John Drury john.drury@att.net
Phone:
John 615-838-0428
Market News
Hello!
Fresh Harvest has been selling the Hershberger family’s produce for 15 years. Mattie, Abraham and their 4 children are Amish and farm with horses using no machinery. Somehow they are always the first to have summer crops like squash, cucumbers and beans. They are offering small quantities of those items this week with larger quantities available soon. They beat me again! Two other items of interest from the Hershbergers are snow peas ($5 1/2 lb.) and small heads of Winter Density lettuce – $1.00 a head.
Lots of options on flowers – Bountiful Blessings Farm has some lovely bouquets, plus straight runs of Sunflowers and Forget Me Nots. If asked the color of FMNs, I would have failed the test. We continue to have a mix of peonies that are not only fragrant, but will last at least a week.
Pig and Leaf Farm has listed over 30 plants for sale consisting of tomato, pepper and herb plants. There are options where you can get a mix of different plants.
Since we have so much frigging kale, I’m going to do a rerun of last week’s Recipe or maybe I’m just being lazy. Disregard the making of pashtida this morning. That was last week.
Lots of mushrooms.
Rumor has it that blueberries and blackberries will be available in a couple of weeks.
Meats, eggs, granola, honey, and coffee are in abundance.
Deliveries every week until Thanksgiving Week.
A reminder that pick up will be under the trees unless there is bad weather.
If an item sells out, be sure to write in the Comment section what you would like if more becomes available.
Hemp Honey and Sorghum are available under Honey.
You have until Tuesday night to place your order.
Thanks for your support, and I will see you on Wednesday!
If you need to text me, my number is 615-838-0428.
John
Recipes
Ruth’s Pashtida
Susie made a great batch of pashtida this morning. This is the very best thing to eat right away and also the best to have in the fridge when you are starving and need something substantial! She makes it differently every time and it’s always good. The basics: eggs, cheese, veggies and a 9×13 pan. This morning, Susie cooked an onion, a red pepper, and a huge bunch of kale (stems removed). She squeezed out any excess moisture from the greens after sautéing. She added some Italian seasoning and salt and pepper. After cooking the veggies, she pulsed them a few times in the food processor. She added the veggies to 12-14 eggs (beaten) and a handful or two of sharp cheddar cheese and then put all that in the baking dish and baked at 350 for about 40 minutes until firm. So good! You can use any kind of veggies and any kind of cheese or a mix of cheeses (cottage, feta, provolone!). Susie says to make sure to credit her friend Ramit’s mom, Ruth, who first showed her how to make it.
Yalaha, FL: Hot Now
Order now through 5 pm Thursday May 30th for Sat June 1st Pickup, or tell me when you want to pick up and we may have some flexibility.
Remember to tell me when you want to pick up!
If you have any particular requests, let me know I’m happy to grow to order. Also, we have cultures; water and milk kefir as well as kombucha, let me know if you are interested.
Sign in to order. https://yalaha.locallygrown.net/market
You have to sign in to see the add to cart button. Then set the number and click the add to cart button on the items you want to buy (it is the little picture right next to the quantity box.) Remember you need to check out before your order will be placed.
Remember to let me know when you want to pick up on Sat or maybe even Friday late afternoon or on Sunday. (If I don’t send you an e-mail confirmation of your order and pick up time, please make sure you checked out and completed your order.)
Suwanee Whole Life Co-op: Don't forget to order!
Yikes!! I almost forgot! I’ll leave the market open until 7pm tonight for orders since it’s a holiday weekend…Just a friendly reminder, if you haven’t already placed your order, that market orders are due online by 7 pm TODAY. Order now so you don’t forget :-) * Happy Memorial Day!
Click Here to Place Your Order For WEDNESDAY pick up in Suwanee
Thank you for placing your order and supporting local farms and businesses!
The Wednesday Market: Happy Memorial Day from The Wednesday Market
Good afternoon, and Happy Memorial Day.
The Wednesday Market is open for orders. Please place your order by Monday at 10 p.m. Orders are ready for pick up between 3 and 6 p.m. Wednesday. See the website for this week’s product offerings. Here is the link: https://wednesdaymarket.locallygrown.net/market
Ah, summer! We are as busy as bees at our house. My lovely niece Hannah is getting married in our yard on June 8. We are working to get everything pruned and prepared for the big day. Wisteria and English ivy took over our yard for decades, and we have launched a new battle against them, and we are winning at the moment! Now, we are praying for clear weather, perhaps a bit cooler than the last week, for our big day. And, even if we have an unseasonably hot day, we’ll manage. Just hope that it doesn’t rain that day. That’s the risk when one plans an outdoor wedding!
Well, I’m putting on work clothes and heading outside for another afternoon of yard work. We hope you all have a relaxed long weekend, and we’ll see you at the Market.
Thanks,
Beverly