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Magney Legacy Ridge Farm: CSA #33
Dear CSA-ers,
This week’s Preassembled Bag will include Bok Choy/Tatsoi Mix, Spring Mix, Lacinato Kale, Pie Pumpkins (Amish Grown), plum radishes, and carrots. Custom orders may be placed between now and Tuesday evening on the website at: http://magneyfarm.locallygrown.net/market
REMEMBER NO DELIVERIES THE WEEK OF THANKSGIVING.
Wow! Last week hit some record setting lows! We had a chance to survey the farm while doing harvest for CSA. Regrettably, some vegetables were irreparably damaged earlier than we had hoped. In particular, the head lettuces were hit especially hard. Collectively this will probably mean that the remaining 4 CSAs will be somewhat similar in composition. However, we are happy to report that we anticipate being able to fill them. In some ways, events like this early deep freeze help us learn. We’ve collected a lot of information about the absolute endurances of vegetable varieties as well as learning what does and doesn’t work for frost-proofing. That information can only truly be obtained by experience and we will use it to become a better farm in the future.
The vegetable we’d like to highlight this week is Tatsoi. Tatsoi is fairly new to us, but hails from Asia where it is used much in the way we would spinach. It is delicious raw in salads, cooked down like a Southern green, or as an authentic addition to stir-fry. Tatsoi has a great crunch to it, and differs from bok-choy in that it does not have the “bulb” formed from enlarged leaf bases. Tatsoi is superlative in its Vitamin C content among leafy vegetables and has a smattering of vital trace minerals as well. We hope you are able to stay healthy this cold and flu season with the help of this delicious green!
As always, we thank you for your enduring support of our local farm. It is with your help that we hope to continue to grow.
Sincerely,
The Magney Legacy Ridge Farm Team
Berea Gardens: It's cold!
Hi Friends,
Last Wednesday morning our temperature dropped to 9* putting an end to the availability of some of our offerings. Still, we have a few things for you this week, including our half-bushel boxes of potatoes for you holiday needs. Keep warm.
Blessings,
Bob
Independence,VA: Market closes Monday night at 8 pm!
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Good morning,
Don’t forget to place your order this week!
To Shop: Independence Farmers Market.
Thank you for supporting the Independence Farmers Market!
Abby
Green Acres Atkins: Good morning!
Good morning
Hope you are making plans for a great thanksgiving!
Don’t forget to place those orders by Wednesday at noon
Have a great week
Tom and kami
Champaign, OH: Alice's Restaurant
This song is called "Alice’s Restaurant
“It’s about Alice, and the
Restaurant, but “Alice’s Restaurant” is not the name of the restaurant,
That’s just the name of the song
That’s why I call the song “Alice’s Restaurant.”
You can get anything you want at Alice’s restaurant
You can get anything you want at Alice’s restaurant
Walk right in, it’s around the back
Just a half a mile from the railroad track
You can get anything you want at Alice’s restaurant…
(Arlo Guthrie)
Good morning on this sunshine filled Sunday morning…
Your market manager is working, this morning, on your market, on my own market orders, on my Thanksgiving menu, dividing up all the items that I assign to all who attend Thanksgiving dinner, arranging seating plans, and set up for desserts, food, cocktails…well, you get the picture.
I love tradition. I love Thanksgiving, and I love that it is also my daughter’s birthday, and even though she is turning 26, and off on her own, she still comes home, now with her long term boyfriend in tow, and we celebrate just as hard as if I was still planning her elaborate birthday parties of her youth.
Another one of my personal traditions is to watch the movie, Alice’s Restaurant, during my prep times in the kitchen, and then making sure I listen to Alice’s Restaurant, at noon, on Thanksgiving day, on WYSO. I know, I could easily pop it up on social media, but I have been listening to it, on the radio, since I was in my teens…and, I have to stay true to my traditions.
Anyway…you can get whatever you want…at our market…now, go, pop on Alice’s Restaurant, and get in ordering mode for your own traditions…
XOXO,
Cosmic Pam
CLG: Opening Bell: Cheese, Coffee, Sweet Taters, Beef!
Good afternoon!
This will be our last market of November since we won’t have market the Friday after thanksgiving. Stock up on all your favorites. And don’t forget to try the frozen ground chicken frames from Bradford Valley Farm for your dogs. Mine go crazy for it.
Bonus gift! This week as you make your order, add all the things you will need and when your total is $50 or more, add a half pint of jam or jelly from Maria to your shopping cart ($5.75 value). When you check out on Friday, you’ll get that jar for free! Happy thanksgiving from CLG.
We will have freshly made smoked paprika on the extra table this Friday. Isn’t that fancy!?!
Black walnuts and pecans now available for all your holiday baking needs. And if eggs are not available when you order, plan to pick up early on Friday. I anticipate having several dozen on the extras table, depending on how the hens produce this week.
Maria will be joining us this Friday with a specialty extras table that includes not only the usual goodies, but also spinach dip, boxes of chocolate covered cherries, and this year’s first WASSAIL! (available by the cup or different sized container).
Come early, though, because she has to leave by 5:15 due to family obligations!
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 almost 400 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
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*
The delivery this week is Wednesday but NEXT week it will be on Tuesday. Enjoy the Market this week and thank you for supporting our Growers.
From Our Growers:
Quarter Spring Farm: Has added WHOLE Chicken Birds to the market this week. One addition is extra Large Chickens for Thanksgiving, some weigh 7.5-8.5 pounds.
Caney Fork Farms: Is back on the Market this week with several great items. Be sure to Stock up, our next time on the Market will be December 15th.
Carole’s Herbs (CS3 Farms): We have two healthy peanut butter alternatives – Sunflower Seed Butter and Pumpkin Seed Butter. Also check out our new sweet/tart Crimson Passion Shrub.
The Sugared Spoon: Pumpkin Swirl Brownies and Caramel Stuffed Apple Cookies this month! Both of these will only run through November. Also our Blondie’s with Walnuts and Chocolate Chips are available this week. Can’t decided..choose an assortment of our cookies.
BB’s Gourmet Pretzels: Delicate Heat, Garlic, Lemon Pepper, Smudge (Sugared) these are also available Gluten Free along with our Peanut Butter Cookies.
Rainbow Hill Farm: Apples available this week; Arkansas Black, Gold Rush, Mutsu, Pink Lady, Red Delicious and Yellow Delicious. Reminder when the Arkansas Black Apples are the last apples of the season. So be sure to get your apples order before you miss out!
Flying S Farms: Seasonal Christmas Jam made with Strawberries & Cranberries and Black Raspberry with seeds are back in stock along with our Seriously HOT Strawberry and Peach Habanero Jams. Carnival Winter Squash and Spaghetti Squash available this week and Salad Onions.
The Creole Diva: Camellia Red Beans and Rice, Creole Jambalaya and Dirty Rice, Ma Maw’s Bread Pudding with Rum Sauce, Pumpkin Cranberry Bread Pudding, Apple Cobbler, Mini Loaves of Chocolate Cherry Bread, Lemon Zucchini and Sweet Potato Orange Pecan Breads, Smoked Tomato Jam and Tandoori Tomato Jam serve with your favorite cheese or as a glaze on your favorite meat, Cajun Salt Free Seasoning and Regular Creole Seasoning, a favorite New Orleans Gift Basket of Creole Mixes and Seasoning.
Crossing Creeks Farm: Will return December 1st.
Look forward seeing you “On the Porch” at Quinn’s Mercantile Wednesday November 20th 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
Dothan, Alabama: Nov. 16 M@D Newsletter - LAST order cycle before Thanksgiving!
This Week’s Newsletter:
Market Chitchat
Blast From The Past
Grower Notes
THIS AND THAT
I trust each of you are rejoicing in this glorious day after the dreary weather we’ve experienced this week. And I hope and pray each of you are counting your blessings as we are deep into the Thanksgiving Season this year. This past week I found myself thankful for Elderberry Syrup and Chickweed Tea. Diligent use of Market natural remedies kept your newsletter editor from having to see a physician!
So this is our LAST order cycle before Thanksgiving. We here at the Market are thankful there are plenty of good healthy greens and root vegetables available. And if you’re ok with traditional sweets this is the last week Mrs. Laura’s pre-ordered pies can be ordered. If you’ve missed it she will deliver fresh pies to the Nursery for pickup the day before Thanksgiving.
New & Relisted Products – Woo-Hoo!
- Turnips from Avalon Farms
- Watermelon Radishes from Avalon Farms
- Mini Carrot and German Chocolate Cake from Laura’s Confections
- GEORGIA CANDY ROASTERS and other Winter Squash from Avalon Farms
- Peppermint Bark Lotion from Bella Eden Farms
- Mocha Cream Toffee Torte from Laura’s Confections
- Christmas Soaps from Bella Eden Farms
Year End Calendar
HEALTHY THANKSGIVING TREATS
Many of you have not seen these great ideas shared in 2016.
GROWER NOTES
We have the best Growers in the Wiregrass! Please learn more about them on our Grower Page.
AVALON FARMS: The Kinston Sweet Onions have reached their season end and are starting to sprout. The Creole Reds are still available. Pungent onions, like the Creoles, store better.
Turnips and watermelon radishes are relisted.
Newly listed are Winter Squash. Georgia Candy Roasters (top). 3 kinds of kabocha squash, Sunshine (mid left), Black Forest (mid right) and Shokochi Green (lower 2) and a small spaghetti squash, Angel Hair (not pictured). I had planned to bring the winter squash to the farmer’s market last Saturday, but family issues took me out of town. But here they are finally!
LAURA’S CONFECTIONS: With only 12 days left we’re getting down to the Thanksgiving wire and I would gently remind everyone that this is the final ordering cycle for holiday pies. Preorder pies will be delivered to Dothan Nurseries at 3pm the day before Thanksgiving.
Christmas will be upon us in 6 1/2 weeks. Each year I make, what others have described as melt-in-your-mouth peanut brittle and am always on the lookout for tins. If you have any that are essentially collecting dust I’d be interested in purchasing them. They must be rust-free and I pay $.25 per tin. Generally speaking, they must hold a pound of brittle or measure approximately 7? × 2 1/2". Thank you for your wonderful patronage and trust you place in me to provide you with the highest quality, delectable desserts to which I could ever aspire.
DANNY’S GREENS: Danny is taking a couple of weeks for his new planting to mature. His products will be available again Nov. 30 and he’s hopeful his carrots and onions will be ready to list too!
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: 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
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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: Cosmic Charlie
Cosmic Charlie how do you do
Truckin’ in style along the avenue…
(Cosmic Charlie-The Grateful Dead)
Today…a word from your market manager…
First, if you are thinking about dinner rolls for your Thanksgiving holiday, consider your favorite market manager, and hippie bakestress. You can order my rolls, for this week’s market, pop them into your freezer, and they will be lovely, and like just baked, when you pull them out for your guests…
Just a thought on this Saturday morning.
And, don’t stop with dinner rolls…our market has so many, many offerings for your holiday needs, and beyond…
XOXO,
Cosmic Pam
Northeast Georgia Locally Grown: Market is open for orders!
Good Evening Locavores, Northeast Georgia Locally Grown is open for orders!
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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: Open every week. Closed Christmas Day and New Years Day.