The Cumming Harvest - Closed:  Market Closes Soon

Just a friendly reminder that the market orders are due today by 8 pm.

Thank you for placing your order and supporting local farms and businesses!
See you on Saturday!

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Independence,VA:  Market is OPEN for Oct. 3rd pickup!

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Good evening,

Time to place your Market order and happy Squashtober in a few days!

To Shop: Independence Farmers Market.

It’s FERMENTATION FRIDAY! Please join us in Town Park this Friday for an awesome fermentation demonstration by Carrie and Donna of Bird and Hopper Farm. Fermentation kits will be available to purchase (they make great gifts!) and fermentation samples will be available for free.

Cooking Day with Chef Jen is October 5th. Join us in Town Park for some tasty free samples as well as a free winter squash tasting!

The Apple Festival is coming up on October 12th. There will be a free community cider pressing. Apple cider will also be available to purchase, all proceeds go to the Independence Farmers Market. We’ll also have an apple dessert contest. 1st place prize, $100, second place, $30, and third place, $20! Be sure to have your dessert at the Market no later than 10:15 am on the day of.

Thank you for supporting the Independence Farmers Market!

Abby

Old99Farm Market:  2018 Climate Report from ECO issued Sept 25

I hope you could spare a minute to read my post about this on the Ontario Environmental Commissioner (Dianne Saxe) website.

I am writing in support of urgent action from government for the climate emergency. Cancelling the Cap-and-Trade bill is foolish short-term opportunism by the government in power. Stewart says they are only doing what they said they would do, but that is very selective. Finding the government accounts are in worse shape than reported is also grounds for revising even retracting campaign promises.
While it is true that 44 of 45 cap-and-trade plans world wide have not worked, it is because of political pressures to issue too many allowances at start up, downgrading the rules of engagement and manipulating the credit auctions to keep the price low.
But a rigorous plan is better than no plan at all. See analysis here.
There is no easy fix to the climate emergency. Even the 2018 Greenhouse Gas Progress Report, Climate Action in Ontario: What’s Next? lowballs the cost and impact of CO2e pollution. More on that later.
This could be the end of the ECO office, given current government priorities and ideology. I think it is therefore incumbent on Dianne Saxe to point out all the consequences of her politically nuanced report. Just a few examples:
- new nuclear plants but no cost for waste and decommissioning included,
- saying electricity generation has been decarbonized already (off coal but still on nat gas),
- major increase in bioenergy from wood considered decarbonized (it’s not, mainly due to timelag for replacement forest storage),
- industry emissions reduced by still-uninvented Carbon Capture Use and Storage technologies,
- makes least current cost the criteria for proposals (which discounts the future – they use 4%/pa) so lowballs cost by delaying outlays, and
- no recognition of drawdown potential for immediate net reductions from agriculture.

Ontario targets (per Paris) of 30% below 2005 and 70-90% by 2050 (COP22) are inadequate to stabilize below 2dC warming in any humanly relevant timeframe. For reference: Actual Ontario emissions 1990: 179Mt, 2005 205 Mt, 2016 161 Mt, targets 2030 143Mt, 2050 36Mt, all per year. (Ontario’s own target for 2030 in the 2016 Act was actually 113Mt/yr, about 20% steeper than Paris.)

You can comment too and it is important that many of us do. The Ontario govt has introduced Bill 4 to cancel Cap and Trade legislation, at great expense to the public Treasury and the Climate. We have till Oct 11 to comment.
The full report is here.
Webinar (1 hr) with Dianne Saxe Oct 1 signup is here.

Thanks for listening.

Miami County Locally Grown:  Weblog Entry

Miami County Locally Grown:  Join us at our Fall Farmer's Market!!

Thanks to everyone who’s shared our in-person Farmer’s Market event on Facebook, Next Door, My Miami County, Bravo Troy, or by passing along our postcard flyers, and please keep helping us spread the word!!

We’ll again accept donations at the Fall Farmer’s Market for the First Place Food Pantry – they’re very grateful to our general local food community, and we’re making a huge difference!!

Hope to see you there!!

The Cumming Harvest - Closed:  This week on The Cumming Harvest

Statesboro Market2Go:  Order Before Midnight!

Remember to place your order for this week before midnight tonight.

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Miami County Locally Grown:  We're OPEN with Bagels, Pizza Crusts, Marble Potatoes, Caramel Corn, and Cinnamon Rolls!!

Rachel Lusk again is offering several Bagel and Pizza Crusts varieties, plus her melt in your mouth Cinnamon Rolls! :-)

D and D Potato is back with us, with his famous purple and red potatoes, plus everyone’s favorite colorful Marble Potato Mix – so versatile, and so delicious!!

And Live Simply Live Richly Farm returns with their Old Fashioned Caramel Corn – the perfect sweet snack!!

Welcome Back, everyone!! We’re so glad to have you with us :-)

CLG:  Tamales! Tuesday Reminder - Market Closes Tonight after 10pm.

Hello friends!

Just in time for this cooler weather, Strack farm will have lots of colorful fall mini gourds for decoration on Friday’s extra table. Pick any you want for only 50 cents each.

Shiitake mushrooms from Sweden Creek Farm are once again listed as a regular weekly item. 8 ounces for only $5.

There’s still time to place your order for pickup this Friday, September 28th.

If you want to pre-order Tamales, just text me what you want. 5 freshly made Tamales for $7, Chicken, Pork, or Jalapeno & Cheese. Sold in packs of 5 of the same type.

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

Champaign, OH:  Rainy Days and Tuesdays

It’s just that kind of dreary evening…sort of drizzling after a couple of days of rain. It’s not cold, outside, but looking at the dreariness, out the windows, makes me think it’s a bit on the chilly side.

So, why not get all comfy, grab your grocery list, and while you are enjoying this early ease into the fall season, place your orders, based on everything that we can help you check off your list.

It’s easy, it’s fun, it’s all from goodness that practically comes from your own backyard, and, you just have to breeze in, on Thursday, and grab your order while chatting it up with your market managers!

That’s right…we are back, we will be in action, and we can fill you in on what’s up in the local scene…like, oh, you know…the upcoming State Of The Plate!! We can explain it, sign you up, and get you on your way to tickets!!

All you have to do is pull us up, and get your ordering done…

The market closes at 8am, tomorrow morning, so don’t wait around, too long!! We want EVERYONE getting in on the fun!!

XOXO,
Cosmic Pam