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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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Independence,VA: Market closes Monday night at 8 pm!
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Good morning,
Please don’t forget to place your order before the Market closes Monday night at 8 pm. Orders placed this week will be ready to be picked up on Wednesday at the Grayson Landcare office (108 Courthouse St.) between 4 and 6 pm.
To Shop: Independence Farmers Market.
Thank you for supporting the Independence Farmers Market!
Abby
Green Acres Atkins: Opening bell!
Good chilly morning!
Hope you all had a great week it is time to place those orders at greenacresatlins.locallygrown.net
See ya Friday
Thanks
Tom and Kami
Stones River Market: Market is OPEN - 'Super Sweet Specials' this week
Good Morning, WOW January is almost over, the days are getting longer and for some of us seed catalogs are spread out on the desk, table and floor, planning for Spring Planting!
We still need to get through some of the upcoming colder weather and this week several of our growers have just the items to help you do that!
Here are some great choices this week from our Growers:
Mo’ Scrubs by Toya:
Find in Lotions, Balms and Salves -Body Butter and Wound Care….
Cold weather = low humidity = dry skin…enter, Mo’ Scrubs!!!
Our limited edition body butters will keep your skin nourished and moisturized. Available in 8oz and 16oz jars and we have butters for everything from stretch marks to eczema!
Also added is our S.O.S., the scrub and salve duo with organic tumeric to aid in relief from conditions such as hidradenitis supprativa, acne, psoriasis, wound care and more.
Sow’s Ear Piggery has new pork products available this week. See the news ads for 1"-thick pork chops, pork cutlets, Boston butt, tenderloin, and jowls. Adding more in coming weeks. As always, our pork is non-GMO, non-antibiotics, humanely raised, free-range, heritage breed pigs.
CS3 Farms has a Valentine’s Day Tea called Chocolate and Flowers! Get your valentine (or yourself) this blend of cacao husks with roses and hibiscus flowers, with a sweet and healthy-heart treat that is naturally delicious and “Aww, you shouldn’t have” delicious.
Farrar Farms has a “Steak Dinner Special” this week. Buy 3 Bone In NY Strips, get the 4th one Free.
BB’s Gourmet Pretzels has Pretzel Party Packs are available for sports parties and other events. Be sure to check out The Garlic, Lemon Pepper and the Delicate Heat along with CC’s Smudges.
The Creole Diva has Creole Mixes are great for any occasion; warm up with Camellia Red Beans and Rice, Creole Jambalaya and or Dirty Rice, sure to make any event or gathering special.
Short Mountain Cultures: Sauerkrauts Caraway, Dilly, Gold Zinger, Kimchi and Tennessee Krauts are always delicious as appetizers or side dish. Several of our Bulks items from dried fruit, nuts and nips are a good snacks to have.
Flying S Farms has added Chai Spice Snickerdoodle bars, delicious bars spiced with Cinnamon, Ginger, Cloves and Allspice. Sour Dough rolls are always great at any event.
See you “On the Porch” at Quinn’s Mercantile Wednesday January 30th 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!
Manchester 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 pickup location is across the street from the Manchester City Schools administration building, at
216 East Fort Street, Manchester, TN
If you don’t see a map, click on the address link.
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
News this week from Andra Martens of Sow’s Ear Piggery:
Sow’s Ear Piggery has new pork products available this week. See the new ads for 1"-thick pork chops, pork cutlets, Boston butt, tenderloin, and jowls. Adding more in coming weeks. As always, our pork is non-GMO, non-antibiotics, humanely raised, free-range, heritage breed pigs.
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(L to R, top) 1" thick Pork Chops; Pork Cutlets, Boston Butt.
(L to R, bottom) Tenderloin, Jowls, Breakfast Sausage.
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Albert Lynn from Viola has joined our market. This week he has added delicious “Beauregard” Sweet Potatoes, available in small packages of about 6 potatoes, or as a bushel boxful.
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Deb Wittig of Knottynuffacres will be off the market for a few more weeks.
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.
Suwanee Whole Life Co-op: Don't forget to Order by 6pm TODAY!
Just a friendly reminder, if you haven’t already placed your order, that market orders are due online by 6 pm TODAY. Order now so you don’t forget :-)
Click Here to Place Your Order For WEDNESDAY pick up in Suwanee
Thank you for placing your order and supporting local farms and businesses!
Suwanee Whole Life Co-op: CARRELL FARMS ON THE MARKET THIS WEEKEND
Carrell Farms will have their pasture raised buffalo, lamb, and alpaca on the market this weekend. Water buffalo is a delicious substitute for any beef recipe! Alpaca meat is like pork without the pig. It is a lean meat and has the lowest cholesterol of any meat you’ll find, even skinless chicken. Bone broths, ground, and sausages are available. Carrell Farms sells on the market every other week. Order on our market website www.suwanee.locallygrown.net before 6pm this Sunday!
Northeast Georgia Locally Grown: MARKET IS OPEN FOR ORDERS!
Good Evening Locavores, Northeast Georgia Locally Grown is open for orders! (Sorry for the late email (I was made aware that I didn’t hit “send email” when I opened the market last night)
Go to the market >>
Fresh Vegetables
Clean Meats
Baked Goods with Organic ingredients
Pastured Eggs
See all products
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!
Dothan, Alabama: January 26, 2019 M@D Newsletter
This Week’s Newsletter:
Organic and Sustainable
Market Chitchat
Grower Notes
THIS IS US
This quote was lifted from a 2012 article on The Atlantic.com. I had to chuckle – the four words they chose are very close to Market at Dothan’s four core values: Fresh, Local, Sustainable, & Year Round.
The word “organic” is pretty much a household word now and most people have a pretty good idea of what it means: crops grown without artificial pesticides, fertilizers, GMOs, irradiation, or sewage sludge, and animals raised without hormones or antibiotics. Organic food production can take place in a bucket on a balcony or a monstrous farm using tons of machinery on thousands of acres. As long as the production meets certain standards the food is considered organic with or without certification. Certification means an agency has examined the practices and bequethed the USDA stamp of approval. For small farms producing under 5k in revenue use of the word is allowed but without the green & white seal. Fines for claiming “organic” without following the guidelines are substantial for any size farm.
Sustainability goes beyond production methods focused primarily on the end result to consider the manner in which land, man and beast are treated. The grand goal of sustainable farming is that mankind will be able to continue living off the land without depleting natural resources and ruining the earth. Using cover crops and green manures to nurture the soil for the long haul is one example of sustainable methods. This the primary reason why Market at Dothan chooses to use the word “Sustainable” over “Organic.” You can grow organic without being sustainable, but you cannot be sustainable without utilizing organic practices.
One of the things that sets our Market at Dothan vendors apart from most local food sources is that all of our growers/vendors use sustainable methods, meaning we grow organically while tending to the welfare of the earth & animals and with human welfare in mind. This means we’ll probably never be a big business as so few growers are up to the extra work invoved, but it does mean that you can trust the food we offer to be clean . . . to be safe. Each of us nurture the land God has provided. We treat our animals with dignity. Some, as one recently shared, work family land with years of records knowing what has and has not been used in and on the soil. Others are working hard to transform urban plots with unknown history and most of us are somewhere in between.
A few weeks ago I shared with our growers that I plan to visit their farms. I’ve been to many but there are still a few that I’ve not had the privilege of seeing yet. This year we’re fixing that! I’ve seen the Richter’s Red Waddle pigs but I’ve not seen Smith’s Dexter cows or sheep yet. I’ve seen Mayim’s aquponics but not the mahaw trees down in Cottonwood where D’s Jellies are made. The plan is to share with you the unique ways your M@D growers balance organic methods with sustainability. Stay tuned – it will be fun!
MARKET CHITCHAT
This week we say Goodby to Hawkins Homestead. They’ve done a marvelous job building their farm and their business in preparation for this this next big step. No doubt they’ll do well and we wish them the best! Many of you received their goodbye statement by email and if not you may view it here.
If you’re up for doing something crazy cool Wiregrass Beekeepers (WBA) starts their 2019 Beginning Beekeeper Classes next month. Normally we don’t publish notifications like this but since several Market customers have mentioned beekeeping we’re sharing in case there are others interested. WBA is partnered with the City of Dothan to help new beekeepers if that is a concern. Class participation does not require anyone to get bees, but who knows, you might find yourself excited like a little kid again!
Have you tried to join our Market at Dothan Discussion Group and failed to connect? This is a problem we’ve been working on for a while and we’re happy to announce it’s recently been fixed. This page is where our Market family can stay in touch during the week.
THIS WEEK’S GROWER NOTES
We have the best Growers in the Wiregrass! Please learn more about them on our Grower Page.
MAYIM FARMS: Greg and Carole of Mayim Farm will be travelling on to Little Rock Arkansas to the Southern Sustainable Ag Workshop Group (SSAWG) conference this week so no market on the 26th. We’ll return on the Feb 2 market…thank you all for your generous support!
HORTONS FARM: We will not be listing some of our prepared products for the next two weeks to accommodate participating in the annual Auburn Beekeeping Symposium and the Alabama Master Beekeepers Recertification Program. THANK YOU for your understanding.
AVALON FARMS:
I’ve definitely lost my mind. LOL I borrowed the tractor and disced up a new garden patch 100 ft by 300 ft. This will double the garden area, bringing it up to 1.25 acres in total. Insane, I know! But I don’t plan for all of this to be planted in vegetables at one time. This extra space will allow me to put more in cover crops to build the soil and reduce weeds. Creates time and space to utilize the chickens to help recycle and fertilize old garden areas. It will also allow space for more long term crops like onions and garlic that take 4 to 6 months to grow.
Oh, man! Today is a beautiful sunny day! I wish we would have a week of these. The plants could sure use the sunlight. Even though our day length is once again over 10 hours a day the lack of actual sunshine is still hampering growth. For this reason I have decided to not list kale this week. I’m going to pamper them with some organic fertilizer and spray them with some soap to help with the aphids.
The broccoli will also be removed from the market. It has basically run its course and it’s time to let the chickens have the rest.
FOOTNOTES
We would love to hear from you! If you have a favorite recipe, want to write a product review, have an idea or request for an article or information, let us know! You can reply to this newsletter or write marketatdothan@gmail.com.
Order Saturday 5pm to Tuesday 5pm weekly for Pickup the following Friday
Dothan Pickup: Dothan Nurseries, 1300 Montgomery Highway, Dothan, AL 36303
Daleville Pickup: Daleville Chamber of Commerce Office
Our Website: marketatdothan.locallygrown.net
Our Email: marketatdothan@gmail.com
On Facebook: www.facebook.com/MarketatDothan
Join our Online Discussions! www.facebook.com/groups/MarketatDothanDiscussion
Be sure to use our hashtag! #marketatdothan
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!
Champaign, OH: Sunshine Daydream
Sunshine daydream
Walking through the tall trees
Going where the wind goes
Blooming like a red rose
Breathing more freely
Light out singing
I’ll walk you in the morning sunshine
Sunshine daydream
Walk you in the sunshine…
(Sugar Magnolia-Grateful Dead)
Create your own sunshine daydream when you log into our little local market of love, to release all of the amazing products that will come bursting out at you, just like the most powerful rays of sunbeams!!
We’ve got it all, just for you, to help make each week, a sunshine week!!
Go ahead, personalize your own order, for your own needs, and then let us wrap it all up in our own form of sunshine for you!
Our market is perfect for each of you to make it your own!!
XOXO,
Cosmic Pam
The Cumming Harvest - Closed: This week on The Cumming Harvest
To Contact Us
The Cumming Harvest
thecummingharvest@gmail.com
Facebook
This Week
Market opens at 10AM
ON THE MARKET:
Click here for Vegetables
Vegetables on the market include Napa cabbage, carrots, collards, kale, lettuces and much more!
Click here for Eggs
Duck eggs are now sold by the dozen!
Click here for Probiotic and Fermented Food
Cultured Traditions has your favorite beet kvass, ferments and Jun.
Click here for Microgreens and Sprouts
Connie’s Cornucopia has nasturtium microgreens this week!
Click here for Bakery Goods
Are you watching the Super Bowl? Let My Daily Bread supply your snacks! Serve Spicy Buffalo Blue Cheese Dip, Beer-Buzzed Cheese Dip or their new, creamy Spinach Dip. Add a sourdough bread bowl for serving, and you’re set!.
Click here for Meats
Southern Grass Meat grass-fed beef
Indian Creek Angus grass-fed beef
Back in Time Certified Naturally Grown pastured chicken- try their Soy-free chicken bone broth!
Carrell Farms pastured alpaca, lamb and water buffalo
Click here for Seafood
Doug’s Wild Alaskan Salmon and Halibut will be replenishing February 8
Click here for Bath and Beauty Products
For many other products sold on the market, including mushrooms, honey, sauces, jams, jellies, and essential oils, click HERE
THE CUMMING HARVEST is a volunteer-run organization and needs your help. We are looking for a few volunteers to occasionally assist with Saturday morning pickup, SATURDAY MORNINGS FROM 9:30AM TO 12 NOON!EMAIL JENNIFER TO SIGN UP.
Pick-Up
Market Location and Pick Up
Pick Up every Saturday from 10am-12pm.
Located in a small building directly behind The Episcopal Church of the Holy Spirit.
724 Pilgrim Mill Road, Cumming, GA 30040
Google Map
To view the harvest today and tomorrow till 8pm, visit “The Market” page on our website, The Cumming Harvest
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!