Stones River Market:  Welcome to the first February Market

Welcome to February, BRRRR it will still be a cold month but hopefully not as cold/freezing as last week week! We are in Tennessee after all, it can be freezing one day and feel like Spring the next day.

The market is full of some great things again this week, please look over the listings and support our local growers.

News from our Growers:

Farrar Farm: Their SPECIAL this week is ‘Buy $25’ of beef and get a free pound of ground beef!

Flying S Farms: ‘Eggcellent Special’
Save $1 when you buy 2 dozen of our Free Range Chicken Eggs, price will be adjusted at delivery. Buy even more..and save more!

CS3 Farm: Have your ever had a Elderberry Einkorn Muffin? Not your light and fluffy muffin, these are hearty. Not only do these muffins contain immune-boosting elderberries — they are made with Einkorn Flour! The elderberries come from the syrup-making process, and include some honey, cloves, cinnamon, and ginger residue.

See you “On the Porch” at Quinn’s Mercantile Wednesday February 6th 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

RAF Buying Clubs :  Time to Order!

Hello Buying Club Members!

We have an exciting Buying Club this week as we have our PORK back in stock and Great Day Gardens is back from vacation so lots of VEGGIE options!

Head over to

buyingclubs.locallygrown.net

to place your order.

Have a wonderful and warm day!

Green Acres Atkins:  Opening bell!

Good morning !

We hope you are enjoying this spring weather this weekend

It sounds like we will have an early spring since the groundhog didn’t see his shadow!

Please place orders by Wednesday at noon at
Greenacresatkins.locallygrown.net

Thanks
Tom and kami

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

Good morning!

Welcome to this week’s offerings from your online farmers’ market. 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, most located within 30 miles of Manchester, 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

(L to R) Baby Portobello Mushrooms from Frontier Family Farms; Parsley Plants from Dogwood Valley Greenhouse.

Michael Raines surprised me with a $3 bag of unknown goodies. Baby Bella mushrooms! Sliced raw on a salad, the most flavorful mushrooms I have ever had! I sliced some up and sauteed with chopped onion and lard for topping of hamburger. Delicious! Get them while you can!
~ Andra Martens

Deb Wittig of Knottynuffacres will be off the market for a few more weeks.

The pork products from Sow’s Ear Piggery will be unavailable this week, but Andra hopes to return next week.

Weaver Farms meats are unavailable this week only.

Hope for Health products will be off the market for a few more weeks.


We would like to invite you to send us comments about the market products you have tried. I will try to print them in the next issue of the newsletter.

Important Ordering and Pickup Information

Ordering will be open until TUESDAY at 10 pm, and your order will be available for pickup on THURSDAY between 4:00 and 5:30 at the pavilion across from Manchester City Schools administration building, 215 East Fort Street, Manchester.

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:  Opening Bell: Eggs, Cheese, Coffee, Pork!

Good afternoon!

We have Cheese…lots of Cheese! Check out the varieties available in the Dairy section.

Lots of Chicken, Pork, and Beef items available now so load up the freezer. And look at the new varieties of Coffee, all roasted just up the road in Rose Bud, Arkansas.

Be sure to SEARCH for your favorite items using the search field. We have over 625 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 Cumming Harvest - Closed:  This week on The Cumming Harvest

Miami County Locally Grown:  My Abominable Snowman

While I was snug in our house, appreciative that the woodstove was able to maintain a 50-60 degree difference between the outside and inside temps, and I only had to run out once in a while with the kids to get more wood, my dear husband of course went out to milk and finish evening chores, so he could sleep a few hours before getting back up to do morning chores, prior to beginning his real day :-)

Lucky for us he’s crazy enough to have chosen this life, as I realize we probably use an abnormal amount of milk alone, for daily drinking and baking, or making other staples such as yogurt, cheese and butter. And what between the flour, meats, eggs, and produce, a doctor once looked oddly at me and said, “You do realize you eat like kings?”

And that was what ran thru my head as he came back into the mudroom in a rush, resembling an abominable snowman, with the most darling ice crystals formed in thick, intricate patterns along his eyebrows and eyelashes, as that little strip of his eyes was the only part of his person not completely covered and unrecognizable.

We disagree so seldom, yet I’m sure had I been able to see more of his face that he didn’t quite appreciate how wonderfully adorable he looked to me at that moment. How can your hot chocolate NOT taste better when you know what kind of work you, a loved one, or a neighborhood farmer put into producing it for you?

Ah the noble farming profession – that’s sometimes easy to question when it’s below zero with a vicious wind chill, and you must go out multiple times a day, whether to care for your livestock, repair damage to shelters and buildings, or protect with an extra layer of plastic the seedlings and young plants in your greenhouse that your customers are expectantly awaiting.

Keeping animals fed, watered, and as comfortable as possible, taking a heater to the milker so it doesn’t freeze up, gathering the eggs more often than normal so they don’t freeze and crack… there are weather disadvantages to farming all throughout the year, but a fun winter such as this may take the cake – and here we prayed for the ground to freeze so we could have a respite from the mud and haul manure! There are only so many layers one can dress in!! What a give and take ;-)

How many of our neighbors have committed themselves to the same? And how fortunate are we to be surrounded by folks with that crazy farming addiction who are wanting and willing to produce our food?

We all probably know people who, like my former middle and high school students in Huber and Dayton, had no idea the cellophane-wrapped ground hamburger packaged in the grocery store actually came from a bovine creature. And one particularly darling, unforgettable 8th grader, upon learning such an astounding fact, declared, “But that’s how I know I’m smarter than you, Mrs. Ruff! You’re a farmer – you’re no better than the hunters and gatherers. I know I can just go to Kroger!” At that moment I promised myself my own future children would never suffer from such a disconnect.

I think of one of our newer customers who came by the farm last week, and as he was leaving with his goods, stopped to thank us, that "During Christmas Day dinner I told my wife, ‘Can you believe Lee is probably doing chores right now?’ I never thought about my food before.” Or at our little sorghum-making demonstration on our farm, hearing one of our long-time CSA customers tell a group of ladies, “I know it’s great – it’s MY farm!”

Having a relationship with your customers is such a big part of the “fun”. Yes we’d do it for ourselves – but being able to share what we love and value with others, and having them understand and appreciate what goes into the food we offer them, makes this life so much sweeter.

That’s what I couldn’t help thinking when I helped my husband into our cozy house,
frozen stiff – and happy.

Spa City Local Farm Market Co-op:  The market is open for ordering

The market is open for ordering
Please place your orders before Tuesday 9pm and plan to pick up your order at Emergent Arts this Friday between 3p and 4:30p. If you are unable to pick up your order at this time, please make arrangements to have your order picked up for you.

But remember to scroll all the way down and click to place this order.

The Spa City Co-Op Market has no paid positions, so we need volunteers to run every market. You receive a $5 gift card and your membership is extended by two months. You also learn about locally grown foods, crafts, and the farmers that produce them here in Arkansas.
Have a great week, a very Merry, and we will see you Friday.

This week’s manager
Julie Alexander
datajunkiejulie@gmail.com

GFM :  New Vendor, other vendors with Fresh Homemade Bread, Jellies, Crafts Available Now

WELCOME TO NEW VENDOR: “CHRISTY DID”

Christy tells us “I do machine embroidery on towels, burp cloths, etc. If it stands still, I will embroider it. I also make totes, Alzheimer’s activity mats, doll clothes and anything else that catches my fancy. I also machine embroider some of the items that I have made. You never know what will be under my needle in any given day.”

Christy will be one of our talented vendors at our first market of the season, our “Mothers Day Event” May 11, 9 am to 1 pm. 690 Erwin Hwy, The Doak House Museum, on Tusculum University Campus.

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
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PICKUP TIME is Wednesday from 5-6:30pm!

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!