The Weblog
This weblog contains LocallyGrown.net news and the weblog entries from all the markets currently using the system.
To visit the authoring market’s website, click on the market name located in the entry’s title.
Statesboro Market2Go: The Market is Open!
The Market is open! Thank you for shopping with us and supporting your local farmers!
Available this week – fresh, local, and delicious – shelled pecans, Tango Mandarins, Fremont Mandarins, fresh frozen blueberries, candied apples, sweet potatoes, butternut squash, onions, herbs, milk, butter, eggs, stone-ground flour, cornmeal, grits, honey, coffee, shrimp, fish, beef, pork, bacon, sausage, native plants, soap, candles, lotions, and dog treats. Plus, there’s prepared foods made from local ingredients- casseroles, quiches, granola, cakes, cupcakes, scones, breads, pickled vegetables, dressings, sauces, jellies, jams, fruit butters, and more!
CLG: CLG Pickup TODAY 3:30-6pm. Bring eggshells, glass jars, & egg cartons please.
Good morning,
This is a pickup reminder for those of you who ordered this week. Thank you for your order! You can pick up your order from 3:30 p.m. until 6:00 p.m. today at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church at 925 Mitchell Street in Conway.
Usually our awesome volunteers have the market ready for customers to pick up before 4pm. If you are out and about and want to know if we are ready, just text me to see: 501-339-1039.
If something comes up that you cannot personally pick up your order today, please contact someone to pick up for you.
Remember to bring your EGGSHELLS, glass jars for recycling, egg cartons, and bags for ordered items. Reduce, reuse, recycle! See you this afternoon.
Come early for the best selection from the EXTRAS table! Even if you didn’t make an order, you can come by to shop the EXTRAS table.
Steve
Suwanee Whole Life Co-op: It's Ordering time!
Happy Friday! It’s time to order for this week’s market! Order before 6pm on Sunday.
Addition to newsletter: JavaGenesis Coffee is on vacation this weekend but will be back on the market the following week
Click link to order: suwanee.locallygrown.net
ORDER CONFIRMATION:
If you don’t get an email 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.
PICK UP:
Pick up is on ***WEDNESDAY*** at 1300 Peachtree Industrial Blvd. Suite 1104, Suwanee at Cultured Traditions from 1 pm to 6:30 pm.
PAYMENT:
We take checks, cash, Zelle, PayPal, and credit cards online. Credit cards can not be swiped at pick up location b/c there is no Wi-Fi.
To pay by credit card on file click “Pay Now” button at the bottom of the check out page. I don’t run credit cards until after pick up on Wednesdays.
If paying by DWOLLA or PayPal, please pay by Wednesday! I pay our vendors on your behalf before you pick up so I need all payments initiated by Wednesdays.
Independence,VA: Market is OPEN for Jan. 2nd pickup!
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Good evening,
We’re back! The Market is open and ready for your orders. If you don’t see what you’re looking for tonight, be sure to check back later in the week. Orders will be ready for pickup at the Grayson Landcare office (108 Courthouse St.) between 4 and 6 pm on Wednesday, January 2nd.
To Shop: Independence Farmers Market.
We sure are thankful for all of you and hope you all had a wonderful Christmas!
Thank you for supporting the Independence Farmers Market!
Abby
The Cumming Harvest - Closed: MARKET IS CLOSED THIS WEEK
Just a friendly reminder that the MARKET IS CLOSED this week.
Happy New Year, and see you in 2019!
Athens Locally Grown: ALG Ordering Window Extended
Hello! Many people were distracted by holidays the past couple days, so I’ve extended the ordering window at ALG until 1pm today.
So, if you realized this morning you missed your opportunity to do your ALG shopping, it’s ok! You’ve got a few more hours to get what you need.
Spa City Local Farm Market Co-op: The market is closed.
The Spa City Co-op is now closed for ordering. Please plan to pick up your orders between 3pm and 4:30on on Friday. Should you be unable to pick up, please arrange for a friend to do so for you.
And don’t forget to look at the Volunteer Spot program accessible thru the market page, and sign up to volunteer for a Friday shift. It’s fun, you get to meet your fellow co-opers, and earn a couple of months extention to your membership PLUS a 5$ gift card.
See you Friday!
Karen Holcomb
Market Manager
ksholcomb@gmail.om
CLG: Tuesday Reminder - Market Closes Tonight after 10pm.
Hello friends!
There’s still time to place your order for pickup this Friday, December 28th.
https://conway.locallygrown.net/market
The market closes TONIGHT after 10pm, maybe even midnight! Come early on Friday for the best selection from the Extras table. See you Friday!
How to contact us:
DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL. Instead…
Phone or text: Steve – 501-339-1039
Email: Steve – kirp1968@sbcglobal.net
Athens Locally Grown: ALG Market Open for December 27
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
However you mark the passing of the season, I hope this week has been a pleasant one for you. I’m the sort who likes to celebrate all the holidays that come around, because why not, but every year each holiday becomes a bit more tinged with sadness when I remember family members and traditions that are no longer here. New traditions (and new family) invariably get added to the mix, but they’re adjacent to, not replacements for, that which is missing. Such a complicated ball of emotions, this time of year creates. It’s part of the human experience, I suppose, and I hope you’re navigating them too as well as can be.
I’m expecting some of the growers have lost track of time, so I’m keeping their side of the market open late. You may want to check back later on Monday or Tuesday to see if new things have been added. Don’t worry about placing multiple orders — we’ll combine them all together come Thursday.
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
Most other area markets are starting to close down for the season or move to winter hours. The Athens Farmers Market has one final Saturday at Bishop Park. You can catch the news on their website. The West Broad Farmers Market is closed for the season, and you can watch for their return 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!
Old99Farm Market: More on the Adaptive Cycle
From the same article, The Big Picture, by Richard Heinberg in Resilence.org.
IG, Dec 24, 2018.
(I fixed the graphic so it fits.)
Why Civilizations Collapse: The Adaptive Cycle
Ecosystems have been observed almost universally to repeatedly pass through four phases of the adaptive cycle: exploitation, conservation, release, and reorganization. Imagine, for example, a Ponderosa pine forest. Following a disturbance such as a fire (in which stored carbon is released into the environment), hardy and adaptable “pioneer” species of plants and small animals fill in open niches and reproduce rapidly.
This reorganization phase of the cycle soon transitions to an exploitation phase, in which those species that can take advantage of relationships with other species start to dominate. These relationships make the system more stable, but at the expense of diversity.
During the conservation phase, resources like nutrients, water, and sunlight are so taken up by the dominant species that the system as a whole eventually loses its flexibility to deal with changing conditions. These trends lead to a point where the system is susceptible to a crash—a release phase. Many trees die, dispersing their nutrients, opening the forest canopy to let more light in, and providing habitat for shrubs and small animals. The cycle starts over.
This model has been applied to social systems as well as ecological ones. So the obvious question is, has the cycle started over for technological civilization?
There is a short essay by Naomi Oreskes, Cultural Historian at Harvard U, called The Collapse of Western Civilization, set in the year 2320 in the Second People’s Republic of China. It is available online too.