Stones River Market:  Market is OPEN -- See you Wednesday

Welcome to this weeks Market. The Market opens 8am on Sunday Morning and closes 10 pm Monday evening. Order early before quantities available run out! www.stonesriver.locallygrown.net

THIS IS THE LAST MARKET OF 2019!…So be sure to “STOCK UP”. The Market will be closed the week of Christmas and New Years and will reopen January 5th 2020.

*This has been a great year for the Stones River Locally Grown and we are very appreciative to our wonderful Customers and Growers for making this happen. We are looking forward to what will be ‘growing’ on next year! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. *

Special THANK YOU to Tracy Toy of Quinn’s Mercantile for hosting us on "The Porch’ each week. Be sure to stop into the store, there are some wonderful items for any occasion and will make your Holiday gift giving extra special.

News From Some Our Growers:

Stones River Market: Can’t decide what to get a friend, family, teacher for Christmas and/or the New Year…think GIFT CERTIFICATES to the Market! Let’s them select what they want from our list of Growers.

Farrar Farm LLC: Great Special this week, SPEND $25 and get a FREE pound of Korean style short ribs.

Caney Fork Farms: We are excited to be back this week on the Market. Be sure to Stock UP, our Winter Season schedule with the Market is monthly, next times will be January 22nd, February 26th and March 25th, returning weekly in April 2020.

Quarter Spring Farm: We are super excited to have several sizes of our pasture raised chickens listed during the holiday season, including our jumbo birds! We are also Happy to gift wrap bars of soap, they will arrive wrapped in tissue paper, tied with a pretty raffia bow and a note card so you can add your special message, just leave a note in comments, a $3 charge will be added at delivery.

Carole’s Herbs (CS3 Farms): Our Shrubs (drinking vinegar/tonics) can be warmed to make your favorite beverage oh-so-good. Multiple Shrub orders (any size) will be discounted 10% at delivery. Stock up on our Mustards and Honeys to get you through 2019! Have a Great Christmas.

Rainbow Hill Farm: Thank you for a wonderful year, our Apples have sold out. We will back on the Market in the Spring of 2020.

Flying S Farms: Our Jams and Breads make wonderful gifts as well as hostess gifts during the Holiday.

Look forward seeing you “On the Porch” at Quinn’s Mercantile Wednesday December 18th 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: 301 North Spring Street, Murfreesboro
map: https://goo.gl/maps/GAkJS1wawbr

Green Acres Atkins:  Good morning

Hello all this is the last week before Christmas for the market! Remember to shop local we can provide you with great stocking stuffers and gifts

Please place those orders by Wednesday at noon

Thanks
Tom and kami

CLG:  !selamaT Opening Bell: Cheese, Coffee, Honey, Gifts,

Happy holidays!
Reminder: This Friday will be our last pickup of 2019. Stock up on all your favorites.

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Pork, chicken or jalapeño & cheese.
Five for $7.
At market this Friday, December 20th.
Text me your order.
501–339–1039

Chicken tortilla soup will be available Friday, along with a full assortment of Maria’s jams & jellies.

Remember to feed our feathered friends during the colder months when fewer bugs are available. We will have suet cakes for birds on the extras table every Friday for only $1.

We’ve been having a lot of excellent items on the extra table lately. Earlier shoppers get the best selection. We are normally ready for customers to start arriving around 3 PM if you happen to be out and in the area. Just text me to see if we’re ready.

Be sure to SEARCH for your favorite items using the search field. Four instance, type in the word “sale” and see what pops up. We have over 500 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. Thanks!
Steve

Russellville Community Market:  Ordering on the Market Closes at 10 PM tonight!

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!

Ordering on the market closes at 10 PM tonight!
We will be closed during the holiday weeks of Christmas and New Year’s.
The market will re-open on January 3, 2020.
THANK YOU FOR A GREAT YEAR!!!
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Holiday Fruit Cake, Brandied Fruit Cake, Pumpkin Cinnamon Rolls, Hot Cocoa Rolls, Butter Mints, Fresh Eggs (YOU NEED THESE FOR YOUR EGGNOG), Chicken Drumsticks, Chicken Breasts, Beef Stew Meat, Sunnie’s Fudge Sampler, Raw Honey (YOU NEED THIS FOR YOUR HOT TODDIES), Chuck Roast, Ground Beef, Smoked Ham, Kune Kune Loin Chops, Fresh Roasted Coffee, Live Turmeric Plants, and more are all available on the market this week!
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Thank you for choosing to shop and eat local.

Russellville Community Market

FRESH.LOCAL.ONLINE

Middle Tennessee Locally Grown:  Late Notice: If You Need to Order This Week, Email Manager

Check out shrub concentrates from CS3 Farm for a delicious sweet/sour drink or salad/dessert enhancement. We’ve added several varieties this week. Our herbal honeys make anything taste excellent – especially leftovers.

(top, L to R) Crimson Passion and Ginger Fig Shrub Concentrates;
(bottom, L to R) Cardamom and Cinnaomon Infused Honeys.


Click here for the complete list of available fresh local farm products for this week.

Upcoming order and pickup schedule:

Order Sun 12/15 thru Tues 12/17
Pickup

• Manchester Thurs 12/19
• Tullahoma Fri 12/20
  

No market week of 12/22 thru 12/27

Have a wonderful blessed Christmas!


Order Sun 12/29 thru Tues 12/31
Pickup

• Manchester Thurs 1/2
• Tullahoma Fri 1/3

Regular times and locations

Dothan, Alabama:  Dec. 14, 2019 M@D Newsletter - This Is The Last Order Cycle for 2019!

This Week’s Newsletter:
This Year in Agriculture
Market Chitchat
Grower Notes

SOME CRAZY STUFF!

With this newsletter starting the last order cycle of 2019 we’re getting a jump on the seasonal “year in review” stuff. Soon we’ll start seeing sports, medicine, entertainment, science, political, etc type programs about the significant events of 2019. Some will go down in history as trivia. Some will have impact for years to come. We thought we’d take a look at a couple of interesting events in US agriculture for 2019 that have impact.

The big story for 2019 is HEMP. The 2018 Farm Bill paved the way for legal hemp production in the United States. It was declassified as a Schedule 1 drug and deemed as an agriculture commodity. This legislation defines “hemp” as all parts of the plant containing less than 0.3% THC.  Farmers cannot grow hemp without federal or state approval and only under strict guidelines.

This is the second year Alabama has accepted applications for growing hemp and the number is expected to double as it is used more in manufacturing. Ag Commissioner Rick Pate said industrial hemp has a lot of uses. “It’s used in cars, plastics, it’s biodegradable. It would help with plastics getting out of the water” To become a hemp farmer potential growers in our state have to pay a $200 application fee and submit a background check. If approved a $1,000 location fee is required.

Another event highlights the continuing confusion over the definition of “waters of the United States” aka, WOTUS, under the Clean Water Act. An August 19, 2019 ruling found that the Obama administration’s 2015 “Clean Water Rule” is an “impermissible construction of the statutory language”, in other words, an overreach of federal authority. The Obama 2015 rule seized federal regulatory control over virtually all water, something Congress never authorized. The impact on farms and farmland was devastating.

“Continuing confusion” of this issue is an understatement. Many states including Alabama, Georgia and Florida weighed in on the Obama rule with lawsuits. The whole thing boiled down to a power struggle over federal and state control of water. It started back in 2006 because there was no original clear definition of exactly what constitutes “waters of the United States”. The result has been a struggle for control for the nations water ever since and despite the 2019 decision, is yet to be resolved.

This Missouri ad campaign showed how the Obama rule brought millions more acres under federal government regulation and harmed valuable farmland. The 2019 decision reversed that rule and sent the whole issue back to lower courts to be hashed out. Hopefully this latest event will give farmers nationwide some much needed relief.

GROWER NOTES

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

DANNY’S GREENS ARE BACK! There will be 10 salad greens and 6 onions available to order this week.

AVALON FARMS:
I tried to think of something clever and fun for this Christmas newsletter, but couldn’t think of a thing. So I’ll stick with the truth of the season…

God bless you one and all!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

From Avalon Farms

LAURA’S CONFECTIONS: I am very fortunate to have the constancy of your patronage since I joined the Market and offer my most sincere thanks for making this a most successful year. It has been a great pleasure to serve you the finest quality confections doing what I love best. I wish everyone peace and joy this Christmas season and a very Happy New Year filled with the realization of all your hopes and dreams.

D’S JELLIES Jellies are unique and delicious gifts for Christmas or any occasion. Whether it was Mother’s Day Open House, Market orders, or Christmas Open House, I sincerely Thank You for purchasing D’s Mayhaw Jelly, Hot Pepper Jelly, & BlackBerry Jelly. Merry Christmas!   Dianne Herring 

HORTONS FARM Progress continues on restoring infrastructure around here. This week my beloved garden shed (an 8×14 hoop house constructed by my mr. and sons) went on the trash heap. Plans are in the works for another plus expanding that garden into part of the back pasture. New fencing is completed on one side and part of another. During Christmas my old raised beds will be leveled and the perennial veggies (walking garlic, asparagus and horseradish) stored or moved. I’m pretty happy they have continued during their prolonged neglect.

On a different note, a RECIPE! We recently roasted one of Avalon’s Georgia Candy Roaster Squash. Talk about easy! I sliced it, removed the seeds and baked at 350 till tender. When cool, remove the peels, cube and warm in a skillet or saucepan with ¼ c maple syrup. 1 – 2 tbs butter, a sprinkling of cinnamon and nutmeg and a handful of chopped nuts. Easy peasy and delicious!

Lastly, a Product Review. Mrs. Laura shared a slice of her Skyscraper Cake and . . . oh. my. word!!! This thing is heavenly! Don’t take my word for it. Rictor Farms and Eagle Grove Services got to share the love and can attest to the opinion!

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.

Market Schedule
Order Saturday 5pm to Tuesday 5pm weekly for Pickup the following Friday
Dothan Pickup: 10am – 12pm, Dothan Nurseries, 1300 Montgomery Highway, Dothan, AL 36303
Daleville Pickup: 11am – 11:30am, Parking area behind Daleville Chamber of Commerce
Enterprise Pickup: 12pm – 12:30pm, Grocery Advantage, 1032 Boll Weevil Circle, Enterprise
Our Website: marketatdothan.locallygrown.net
Our Email: marketatdothan@gmail.com

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Spa City Local Farm Market Co-op:  correction

A wee correction to the previous email announcing the opening of the market:

The market address:

spacity.locallygrown.net

Lots of great Christmas gifts out there so order lots and often.

If we don’t make 10 orders we’ll have to cancel again, and may close the market down until springtime. If you want to continue to have SCC, you’ll need to order. It’s as simple as that.

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

The Spa City Co-op online market is now open for ordering at spa city. locallygrown.net.
Please place your order by Monday at 9pm for Arkansas Natural Produce and by Tuesday at 9pm for all other vendors.
Please plan to pick up your order Friday the 20th from 3-4:30. If you can not make it please arrange for a friend to do so for you.

Wishing you and yours a glorious holiday season.

Northeast Georgia Locally Grown:  LAST MARKET OF THE YEAR - OPEN FOR ORDERS!

Good Evening Locavores, Northeast Georgia Locally Grown is open for orders!
Holiday schedule: Closed Christmas Day and New Years Day. Reopening Jan 3rd.

Go to the market >>
Gift Certificates
Fresh Vegetables
Clean Meats
Baked Goods with Organic ingredients
Pastured Eggs
See all products

Market stays open from Fridays 9 p.m. until at least 9 p.m. Mondays!

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!

PICKUP TIME is Wednesday from 5-6:30 p.m.

If you do not get an email ORDER CONFIRMATION right after you order then your order is NOT complete. Log back in and your order might still be there waiting for you to check out! If you have any trouble or questions at all, we are here to help; simply reply to this email or call Andrew at 770.530.3287

Holiday schedule: Closed Christmas Day and New Years Day. Reopening Jan 3rd.

Statesboro Market2Go:  Market2Go is Open!

Thanks for shopping with us! This is the last market before Christmas, and we have lots of holiday treats!

Doug’s Wild Caught Alaska Salmon is here – stock up while it lasts!

You can do your Christmas shopping right on Market2Go! There’s gift sets like honey, soaps, or candles, insulated market bags, t-shirts, and gift certificates. There’s also pies, cakes, and lots of other holiday goodies available!

Fisheads lettuce is back with five different varieties to choose from, and we have satsumas and Georgia Kisses – fresh locally grown Georgia citrus from Franklin Farms!

We also have pecans, sweet potatoes, peppers, peas, tomatoes, cucumbers, pumpkins, frozen blueberries and strawberries; herbs, honey, eggs, coffee, bread, grits, cornmeal, milk, butter, cheese, seafood, wild caught Georgia shrimp, local pastured chicken, beef, pork; candles, lotions, and soaps; as well as full meals that are already prepared and ready to eat.

Bootleg Farm and Southern Swiss Dairy both have their delicious products online on Market2Go. They are no longer regulars at the Saturday Market, so look for them here online. Eggnog is available for the holidays!

No more membership fees! To maintain support for the market, we add a surcharge of 7% on each order.