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

Molly Cornelison of Kountry Vittles writes:
I know it doesn’t feel like fall, but be patient – the cool crisp air will soon be here. The pumpkins are ripening, and with that comes pumpkin rolls and many other delicious pumpkin items. I have seen a few leaves trying to change their colors to display their beautiful hues of red and orange, painting a wondrous scene, making me crave the mouth-watering taste of my grandma’s “Stay Soft Sugar Cookies” decorated up in Buttercream icing and wonderful sugars in the fall colors. My little licensed kitchen has started getting ready for all the treats of fall baked up fresh just for you.

Fermentation Workshop – Sun, Oct 21

Don’t forget to place your preorders of Ohio Stoneware, starters, and scobys to ensure availability.

Please RSVP and purchase your ticket at https://shortmountaincultures.com/product/workshop/

Learn more at www.wildfermentation.com.

More fall veggies!

Bibb lettuce heads are back, Michael at Frontier Family Farms finally has the head lettuces back after some issues in the system. They are better than before!! I have also seen pics of the sugar snap peas in the greenhouse and they look like it will be about 2 weeks… can’t wait!

Micro greens are back too: Spicy cabbage and kale.

Name That “Bug”
— courtesy of Michael Raines

Riddle: What will this caterpillar grow into?
Bonus: What kind of plant is it on?

All correct answers will be acknowledged in the next edition of the newsletter.

Dothan, Alabama:  Oct. 6, 2018 M@D Newsletter

This Week’s Newsletter:
Fall is in the Air!
Smart Doc Class Info
Market Chitchat
Grower Notes

ROZ’S RAMBLINGS

I freely admit to cheating.

I’m writing from high on a mountain in Tennessee where pumpkins are still in the field and the air is dryer and crisper than what we’ve felt in south Alabama for a long time. It’s been a few years since I’ve made this trip – an annual renewal for the mind, heart and soul, complete with ridiculous laughter, thrifting with girlfriends, outdoor activities, serving and being challenged. It’s a good reset button.

One of the things I LOVE about the Cumberland region is the abundant fall color. The trees are farther along, pumpkins are EVERYWHERE and we can’t stop anywhere without wheat straw blowing around our feet.

If you go by the lunar calendar it’s Fall everywhere in North America and Canada, but if you go by how it manifests itself in our region, ours starts a bit later and isn’t quite as brilliant. Normally our blissfully mind winters make up for that. That’s not going to stop us from celebrating though. A week from today our Fall Farmer’s Market starts and we are excited!

Saturday, October 13 Here’s What’s Happening

10 am – Melody Forsythe -Jesche – Food Preservation Workshop in the Market Shed This workshop will cover EVERY type of food preservation. Melody has extensive experience and will answer all your questions.

10am-2pm Farmer’s Market – Parking Lot of Dothan Nurseries

12pm – “Smart Doc” Virginia Schafer – Healing tips for Seasonal Change

Hope to see you there!

MEET DR. SCHAFER

Dr. Schafer has provided us an overview of the workshop she is offering at noon next Saturday during the Fall Farmer’s Market.

Healing tips for Seasonal Change

Virginia Schafer  BSN, DC, MD    Virginia, a recent transplant to the Dothan area is an alternative healer that has been educated in both Eastern and Western medicine and will be talking briefly about what happens to our body when seasons change.  If you experience allergies, lethargy, muscle aches, sleepless nights, and other maladies….it may be just the change in seasons (and your body).  Virginia will talk about some studies that may link these changes to hormones and our endocrine system and give us some practical tips on how to survive and be healthy when mother earth starts to slow down. (and so do we!)    

Dr. Schafer with some small friends

THIS WEEK’S GROWER NOTES

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

BAIN HOME GARDENS: Marketeers!
   Do you like Pepper Jelly? For the longest time I personally had an aversion to it.  When I was younger, I tasted some that made my tongue numb for days! Yep, that left a mark on my mind! However, last year I had the pleasure of trying D’s Jellies. I really enjoyed it! In fact our entire family did! It made me wonder if it was something I could make myself. Thus when planning out the garden this year, we were sure to include many pepper variations. Well after a beautiful gift of jalapenos (which we had no success with this year) from Mr. Bob Lee of Dothan Nurseries, we decided to go ahead and take a shot with our very own Pepper Jelly.

We are happy we did! We are all very pleased with the flavor! As the weather cools, our peppers will slow and eventually stop producing. Until then, we are harvesting and preparing for our next batch. We are are not listing this at this time but check out D’s Jellies, Hawkins Homestead Farm, & Mary’s Peeps. You won’t be disappointed!

Many well wishes – from our family to yours!

DANNY’S GREENS The cooler nights have been good to the lettuce so we’ve been able to increase the quantities offered.

HAWKINS HOMESTEAD: Hello Market Friends! Welcome to October! Hasn’t the year flown by? Yes!! Here on the farm, the chickens have been in a molt and are slowly coming out of it. Hopefully we will be able to catch up on egg orders soon. The one thing we can usually count on is eggs, but now even the chickens decided to take an early break. Even still their eggs are beautiful as always. The picture below is one of our worst days, but yet the eggs were just so pretty. The chickens need this time to shed and grow new feathers so we will just keep packing them up with proteins! See you guys next week!

HORTONS FARM: Thank you for your patience during our recent absences. Two weeks ago we were at the Alabama Beekeeper Association’s Fall Conference where Ros happily handed the baton for her seat on the state board these last 3 years to another fine beekeeper lady from the Mobile area. So happy to see more women involved in beekeeping at this level.

This photo was taken at Cedine Camp in Tennessee early Friday morning. It’s been four years too long since taking in this view.

We’ll be busy next week bottling honey and preparing for the Fall Farmer’s Market on Saturday, October 13. Hope to see you there!

Northeast Georgia Locally Grown:  Market is open for orders

Good Evening Locavores, Northeast Georgia Locally Grown is open for orders!
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Fresh Vegetables
FRUIT
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!

Statesboro Market2Go:  The Market is Open!

The Market is open! Thank you for shopping with us and supporting your local farmers!

Our new Farmers Market Logo is up. T-shirts and insulated bags featuring the new logo are available online!

Available this week – fresh, local, and delicious – persimmons, zucchini, cucumbers, tomatoes, squash, herbs, onions, milk, butter, eggs, duck eggs, coffee, shrimp, fish, beef, pork, bacon, sausage, dog bones, native plants, and cut flower bouquets. Plus, there’s prepared foods made from local ingredients- casseroles, quiches, granola, desserts, scones, breads, pickled vegetables, dressings, sauces, jellies, jams, fruit butters, and more!

Limited time – guest vendor Michael’s Pumpkins – decorative pumpkins with a mix of colors ranging from orange and light orange with yellow and stripes of orange and yellow to white to variegated blue.

B&G Honey will be back online in a few weeks.

CLG:  CLG Pickup TODAY 3:30-6pm. Bring eggshells, glass jars, & egg cartons please.

Good morning!
Strack farm will have lots of mini gourds and pumpkins on the extras table today! Come early for the best selection.

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

Russellville Community Market:  Market Opens at Noon! - New Vendor! Rural Route Farms Honey!

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!

Russellville Community Market

FRESH.LOCAL.ONLINE.

Patchwork Online Market:  Patchwork Urban Farms Market Open

Hey everyone,

A few announcements this week.

First of all, please remember to bring back your wax boxes when you pick up your order. Better yet, just bring your own grocery bag and leave the box at your pick up location. The boxes are designed to be reusable and are expensive.

Second of all, we wanted to remind everyone that as the days are getting shorter, the produce season is winding down. Our CSA box program has just 3 weeks left. Over the next month you can expect to see exciting stuff like fresh roots, greens, broccoli and cauliflower. By mid-November availability will start to drop off, and by December there will only be a few products. Please keep this in mind when you manage your remaining account balances.

The market is now open! Please place your orders before Sunday at noon.

Augusta Locally Grown:  THE ON-LINE MARKET IS OPEN AT AUGUSTA LOCALLY GROWN

Your support of local farmers is crucial to the wellbeing of our food system. Thank you to all of you who make a well-informed choice each week about how and with whom to spend your food dollars. You make a difference.

Happy good-food shopping.
- Kim

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.

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, DWOLLA, 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.

Champaign, OH:  Howlin' For You

Well now
I must admit
I can’t explain
Any of these thoughts
Racing through my brain
It’s true
But baby I’m howlin’ for you…
(Howlin’ For You-The Black Keys)

Continuing our October theme of Halloween, haunting, howling…and, what better song to continue on our party playlist for Halloween, than the Black Keys…Howlin’ For You…

But, seriously…this market? Yeah, it’s got me totally howlin’! Baby, I’m howlin’ for you! First…the beat of this market has turned up to crazy levels. The excitement is back. The customers were groovin’ and swingin’ and happy as a piece of Halloween candy, tonight!

We are back, we are totally taking this market back to it’s crazy levels, and I invite all of you to join in the howlin’ good time. The howlin’ fun.

We had the debut of Old Souls Farm lettuces…and, baby, let me tell you…a howlin’ treat. A feast for the eyes.

All of your favorite vendors had their products, in your baskets, and ready to rock and roll.

So, how are we going to do this week’s market? The same? Nah…let’s totally take this to the next level…let’s totally howl.

Go ahead…give me what you got…‘cause baby, I’m howlin’ for you…

XOXO,

Cosmic Pam

*Go ahead…throw some Black Keys on, and you will totally get the vibe of my post, tonight…