Miami County Locally Grown:  Tuesday's the Big Day!!!

Our Spring Farmer’s Market is TOMORROW from 4-7pm at First Place!

And that means Virtual Market pickup will also open early Tuesday to run in conjunction with the Farmer’s Market, starting at 4pm!!

We are excited to offer fresh Spring produce in addition to a huge variety of meats, artisan sourdough, baked goods and desserts, maple syrup, herbs, teas, jams, candy, pasta, pet products, and more!

Plus home crafts and cleaning products, wool and fiber items, gardening staples, kitchen tools, and too much to list!!

We’ll even have the Director of the First Place food pantry for the first time, as well as a local Butterfly enthusiast with info on saving the Monarchs and free seed! Wow!

Independence,VA:  Market closes Monday night at 8 pm!

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Good morning,

Be sure to place your Online Market order this week before the Market closes tomorrow night at 8 pm!

To Shop: Independence Farmers Market.

Thank you for supporting the Independence Farmers Market!

Abby

Stones River Market:  Market is OPEN -- See you Wednesday

Good Morning everyone, the past few days have been wonderful, little windy but who can complain when you can see the SUN SHINNING! While I was driving home after market delivery last week I had a wonderful show of the Full Worm Moon coming over the mountains, it was amazing! Spring is really here, everyday I’m witnessing something new growing and coming out of hibernation.

Market is open with some great new items and some returning items. Farrar Farm LLC and Wedge Oak Farm is taking a brief break this week. Thank you for supporting the Stones River Market and please share it with your family and friends.

From Our Growers:

Welcome Back…Trinity Rose Oberhasli Dairy Goats has a limited amount of “Pet Milk” available this week with more coming soon.

Sow’s Ear Piggery: has delicious Pork items available this week.

Mo’s Scrubs by Toya: Added CBD Massage Oil, this all natural massage oil along with other essential oils to help relax your body and boost your mood.

Carole’s Herbs (CS3 Farm): Field Salad (known as Corn Salad, Mache, and a number of other names, especially Valerianella Locusta) is a small, cold hardy, annual plant that is eaten as a leaf vegetable is popularly served as salad that can be combined with their Mustards. Also Easter Bath Fizzies and Foot Soak Fizzies!

Flying S Farms: has Baby Leaf Turnip Greens this week, eat raw, such as in salads. Eggcellent Sale continues.

Update from Erdmann Farm: they are in the process of rebuilding and will have produce and flowers available this season.

Please step into Quinn’s Mercantile and find some of their great selections of Easter/Spring items that are available along with some other great things. They are a wonderful Host for our Market.

See you “On the Porch” at Quinn’s Mercantile Wednesday March 27th from 5:00 – 6:30pm, please contact me if you are unable to make delivery or are running late, please phone, email or text me so we can make arrangements to get your order to you.

How to contact us:

Email: stonesrivermarket@gmail.com
Website: stonesriver.locallygrown.net
Facebook: www.facebook.com/StonesRiverMarket
Locations: Quinn’s Mercantile on Wednesdays: 307 North Spring Street, Murfreesboro
map: https://goo.gl/maps/GAkJS1wawbr

Middle Tennessee Locally Grown:  Time to Order Fresh Local Farm Products!

Good morning!

Welcome to the brand-new “Middle Tennessee Locally Grown” online farmers’ market! Yes, you are in the right place. This is the new, improved, and expanded version of “Manchester Locally Grown.” We now have a delivery location in Tullahoma in addition to the usual one in Manchester. Be sure to let us know via the drop-down menu which location you prefer for pickup.

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.”

Farm News of the Week

This week we have more new items from Amy Rae at Solace Farm:

(Top, L to R) Tallow Balm lotion; Goat Milk & Lard Soap in your choice of scents (Eucalyptus Mint; Lavender, Anise, & Patchouli; Lavender; Orange Vanilla; Spiced Tobacco; Unscented; Ylang Ylang Lavender).

(Bottom, L to R) Liquid Lard Soap, Old-Fashioned Lard Soap, and Olive & Shea Vegan Bar Soap, all in your choice of scents.

Hope Harrison of Hope for Health is still on “vacation” after the birth of her child.

Terra Hills Natural Products and Casey Family Farm products will both be unavailable for several more weeks.

Please remember to send us your comments about your favorite products or farms, for publication in a future newsletter. The best advertising is always word of mouth, and our farmers really appreciate your encouragement.

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.

CLG:  Tamales! Opening Bell: Flowers, Honey, Spinach, Chicken!

Good afternoon!

You probably saw American astronauts doing a space walk outside the International Space Station this week, but what you didn’t know is what they were looking for. Turns out they were looking for Maria’s delicious BBQ Pork! Fortunately for us earth-dwellers, we can find Maria and her crock pot full of hot BBQ Pork at market pick-up this Friday! How easy is that?!?

It’s Tamale time! This Friday we’ll have Doña Estela’s amazing homemade Tamales! She will make them Friday morning and have them at market Friday afternoon. You can get 5 Pork tamales for $7, or 5 Chicken tamales for $7, or 5 jalapeño and cheese tamales for $7. To place an order, please add a note to your CLG order, or text me at 501-339-1039. Delicious with sides of re-fried beans and rice, topped with a bit of salsa and sour cream.

Has this ever happened to you? You’re piddling in your garden to see what survived with winter, and come across something you don’t know what it is? Is it a weed, or is it something you planted last year? If you text me a picture of it, I will try to identify the plant for you. Just text 501-339-1039. We’ve got a good variety of plants listed on the market now. To see the plants available on the market now, search the word: PLANT.

Be sure to SEARCH for your favorite items using the search field. Over 725 items available now!

Most items are listed by 6pm Sunday, but check back again before the market closes Tuesday night to see if any other items are ready to be harvested for you! Eat fresh! Eat local! Eat for better health!

And save your eggshells throughout the week for the laying hens! :-)

The market is now OPEN for orders. Click here to start shopping:

https://conway.locallygrown.net/market

Please check your email a few minutes after you place your order to make sure you get an order confirmation. Thank you!
Steve

The Wednesday Market:  Spring has Sprung; Place Your Orders Now

Good evening.

The Wednesday Market is open for orders. Please place your order by 10 p.m. Monday. 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

I spent some time outside this afternoon walking in the sunshine. How long has it been since we were graced with several consecutive days of warm sunny weather? The weather man said the last time we had such a fair stretch of days was in September!

Spring arrived this week, so I thought I’d share a poem about this blessed season.

A Prayer in Spring
by Robert Frost

Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers to-day;
And give us not to think so far away
As the uncertain harvest; keep us here
All simply in the springing of the year.

Oh, give us pleasure in the orchard white,
Like nothing else by day, like ghosts by night;
And make us happy in the happy bees,
The swarm dilating round the perfect trees.

And make us happy in the darting bird
That suddenly above the bees is heard,
The meteor that thrusts in with needle bill,
And off a blossom in mid air stands still.

For this is love and nothing else is love,
The which it is reserved for God above
To sanctify to what far ends He will,
But which it only needs that we fulfil.

We hope you all have a relaxing Sunday, and we’ll see you at the Market.

Thanks,

Beverly

Dothan, Alabama:  March 23, 2019 M@D Newsletter

This Week’s Newsletter:
Focus On . . . .
Upcoming Schedule
Market Chitchat
Grower Notes

GLUTEN FREE

With the 2013 study about the link between gluten intolerance and glyophospate use becoming more well known, it was rather refreshing to stumble onto what follows this week.

Let me introduce Julia Kuiper. Julia is from a large homeschool family and at age 14 found herself missing home baked goods because she was gluten intolerate. Rather than be deterred or discouraged, she studied and developed her own mixes and recipes that seriously rival traditionally baked foods.

Julia has a few recipes to try on her blog and tells her story here where her cookbook is available. Even if you’re not gluten sensitive we hope you’ll check it out.

COMING SOON

In between our next two tent type Farmer’s Markets something special is taking place at Dothan Nurseries. Market at Dothan along with some of our market vendors will be in attendance at the area’s first GET GREEN ALABAMA marketplace event. This will take place on Saturday, April 20. We hope you’ll put both dates on your calendar and plan to join the fun.

THIS WEEK’S GROWER NOTES

We have the best Growers in the Wiregrass! Please learn more about them on our Grower Page.

SMART DOC RESOURCES Exciting news from SmartDocs! Back to Africa via England in April.  We have been working with an engineer that has recently patented a hydrostat fish nutrient (in research on our farm in Gambia).  We also are coordinating with a scottish scientist who has a new formula for all natural insect repellent and pest control ( who knew a lot of folks in Africa are working on farm initiatives!?)  Our hydro facility is enlarging getting ready for these folks to come later in the year to present our place as a site farm! More news soon!

DANNY’S GREENS Well, Danny didn’t have much to say this week but he did have a lot to show . . . . in particular the onions and carrots (with a little lettuce in there to boot) that will be available next month. It was just too purty not to share!

AVALON FARMS: To quote one of my favorite movies, “Looks like meat is back on the menu, boys!”

Spent all morning taking half of our current batch of Freedom Ranger meat birds to “freezer camp”. Didn’t take as long as last time, but still lots of room for improvement. Next time will go even better.

Remember Freedom Rangers have more dark meat. These guys are awesome foragers and really enjoy being moved around on fresh pasture twice a day. They are fed supplemental rations that are non-GMO and no soy. And of course, no antibiotics or hormones.

They will be in the market today!

Northeast Georgia Locally Grown:  Market is open for orders!

Good Evening Locavores, Northeast Georgia Locally Grown is open for orders!
Go to the market >>
Fresh Vegetables
Clean Meats
Baked Goods with Organic ingredients
Pastured Eggs
See all products

Market stays open from Fridays 9 p.m. until at least 9 p.m. Mondays!

Thank you for choosing Northeast Georgia Locally Grown as a way to support your local producers. This online farmers market allows you to buy directly from multiple farms committed to chemical-free and local produce all year long! CHEMICAL-FREE means produce and pastures grown without synthetic fertilizers, herbicides, fungicides, or insecticides. LOCAL means within 80 miles from the market pickup locations (usually much much closer). Do you know someone who grows chemical-free food in the area? Get them in touch with us. Know someone who wants fresh food? Spread the word. Put the two together, and that’s growing organically!

PICKUP TIME is Wednesday from 5-6:30 p.m.

If you do not get an email ORDER CONFIRMATION right after you order then your order is NOT complete. Log back in and your order will still be there waiting for you to check out.

Statesboro Market2Go:  The Market is Open!

Thanks for shopping with us! Find lots of fresh, delicious, local produce, fresh herbs, milk, seafood, and meats. We also have items that are already prepared and ready to eat, made from local ingredients.

Strawberries and Asparagus are coming in now – look for them from Jacobs Produce.

24/7 House has strawberries, bibb lettuce, and tomatoes.

We have big news for you – Doug’s Wild Alaska Salmon brought extra when he delivered and has stocked us up with salmon. We will keep them listed online for pickup each week until we run out. We also now have some smaller packages for sale.

Now is the time for Spring planting – find a wide variety of native fruit trees, vegetables, herbs, and flowering plants from Southern Native Plantings. Support your local nursery, farmer, and market by ordering them through Statesboro Market2Go!

Find new items from 920 Cattle & Co, Sugar Magnolia Bakery & Cafe, Scratch Made, Caribbean Feast, and Southern Soaked.

Ma’s Country Pantry is running a March special on their Jams and Fruit Butters. There’s a variety of flavors to choose from, including their FROG Jam! (Fig, Raspberry, Orange, Ginger)

Remember we have changed locations for our Statesboro pickup to the Statesboro Convention & Visitors Bureau at 222 S. Main St. Hours will remain the same, and our Sylvania pickup will remain the same at Victory Garden General Store.

Click to read about our exciting changes. We are eliminating the annual membership fee and in its place — because we have to maintain support for the market — we’re instituting a surcharge of 7% on each order, beginning on March 1st.

Augusta Locally Grown:  THE ONLINE MARKET IS OPEN AT AUGUSTA LOCALLY GROWN

Your support of local farmers is crucial to the revitalization of our local food system. Thank you and happy eating!