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

Sow’s Ear Piggery has new listings this week!

Currently available: Packages of 1" pork chops; pork cutlets; pork shoulder roasts; mild and spicy breakfast sausage, and Italian sausage. As always, our pork is from free-range pigs fed non-GMO feed and fresh vegetables.

***Important note: This pork is especially lean, from a different heritage breed we experimented with. Please keep in mind there is little fat on these cuts and sausage blends. We recommend using marinades, bastes, and methods of cooking that include fat/oil to insure moist pork.

These products (and possibly some additional items) will be listed for the two upcoming weeks prior to Thanksgiving week. However, the week of Thanksgiving we will be unable to deliver, so please plan ahead. (Hint: pork sausage dressing is a yummy side dish on the Thanksgiving table.)

(Top, L to R) Pork chops, pork cutlets.
(Bottom, L to R) Shoulder roast, breakfast sausage.

Deposits are now due for:

Nature’s Wealth’s pasture raised turkeys for Thanksgiving! Take the stress out of Thanksgiving preparations by placing your online pre-order today!

Dogwood Valley Greenhouse’s Christmas wreath and kissing ball orders for an early-to-mid December delivery. Decorating made easy this year with your online order now!

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

Only the best fresh flavorful farm products for your family! No more week-old produce trucked across the country and picked over before you get to the supermarket. All the fresh local farm products listed come from your grower and maker neighbors in Middle Tennessee.

Year-round weekly market is open for ordering from Sunday morning at 8 am till Tuesday evening at 10 pm.

Receiving options:
Thursday afternoon pickup (4:00 – 5:30 p.m.) – Fort Street, Manchester, pavilion.
Friday afternoon pickup (4:00 – 5:00 p.m.) inside “Nature’s Elite”, Tullahoma.
Delivery on FRIDAY afternoon for a small fee.

See the “About” page for details.

Please help support us:
spread the word about our market.
share this newsletter with someone
let us know if you are looking for something special, and we will do our best to locate it for you.

Blessings,
Linda & Michael

To Contact Us

Our Website:
Middle Tennessee Locally Grown
On Facebook:
Middle Tennessee Locally Grown Online Farmers’ Market
By e-mail:
tnmomof10@gmail.com
By phone:
(931) 273-9708

Dothan, Alabama:  Nov. 9, 2019 M@D Newsletter

This Week’s Newsletter:
A Look Back at a Great Day
End of Year Schedule

THIS LITTLE PIGGIE MISSED THE MARKET

Coming home from a Saturday Farmer’s Market is always a goofy mix of exhilaration, fatigue, contemplation and (for me) digging in to get the newsletter done. Today has been no different! I thought I’d share a bit of the day with you.

7:30 am Leave home for Dothan Nurseries, coffee and cold pizza in hand for breakfast on the way.

8:00 am Arrive at Nursery. The gate is still locked. A couple of other vendors park beside and behind me to await the arrival of someone with keys.

8:05 am A sweet lady arrived and unlocked the gate. We wait for her to disable the alarm system so the police don’t come running as we enter.

8:07 am Three of us are parked and starting to unload. It’s COLD outside.

8:15 am More vendors arrive. Everybody is helping each other park, put up tents, etc. The spirit of cooperation is a thing of beauty.

8:30 am EVERYBODY has arrived. The parking lot is a mess with people unloading, setting up and moving vehicles.

9:15 am ALL DONE! Vendor vehicles are replaced with customer vehicles in the parking lot. Folks start visiting booths. Old friends visit, new friends chat, Ms. Laura shares baked goods with the vendors and everyone has a good time selling and sharing.

Mark It With A B Whoopie Pies

Honey Lemon Botique

Bella Eden Farms

Martin Teas

Mayim Farms complete with Greg!

Hortons Farm

Some of the great produce Lewis Farms brought

Mt. Moriah Farms

3LC Apiary

Laura’s Confections

12:30 pm. Foot traffic has slowed down, it’s time to start packing up. The process that happened earlier reverses itself as tents and tables disappear almost as fast as they earlier appeared.

1:00 pm You can’t tell we were ever there!

1:05 pm Stop at Piggly Wiggly for Chicken Feed

1:25 pm Go through McDonalds drive through for $1 coffee because I need the caffine for the drive home.

1: 55 pm Had to stop and tell this guy to get out of the road. He thought I wanted to chat and grunted at me a while before going up his driveway. It didn’t look like anyone was home so I’m hopeful he stayed put till his human arrived.

We hope you enjoyed this peek into one of our crazy fun Market Days and will plan to join us on the next one Dec. 5!

HOLIDAY SCHEDULE

Order Online Nov. 9 – Nov 12 for Pickup on Friday, Nov. 15 Order Online Nov. 16 – Nov 19 for Pickup on Friday, Nov. 22

NO ORDERS FOR THE WEEK OF THANKSGIVING Special Order Pie Pickup Only on November 27 at 3pm

Order Online Nov. 30 – Dec. 3 for Pickup on THURSDAY DEC. 5 at Dothan Nurseries Christmas Open House More info to follow in a few weeks!

Order Online Dec 7 – Dec. 10 for Pickup on Friday, Dec. 13 Order Online Dec 17 – Dec. 17 for Pickup on Friday, Dec. 20 CLOSED TILL JANUARY 4, 2020

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

The Spa City Co-Op online market is now open for ordering at spacity.locallygrown.net. Please place your orders for Arkansas Natural Produce items BEFORE Monday at 9pm, and for all other items by Tuesday at 9pm.
Pick up your order this Friday, Nov 15th, between 3:00 and 4:30pm. If you cannot pick up, please arrange for a friend to do so for you.
And remember, we need volunteers to sort orders at the pickup, so have a look at the Volunteer Spot site by clicking on that button at the top of the marked page.

Julie Alexander
This week’s market manager
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The Wednesday Market:  Order Now; Start Planning for Thanksgiving

Good evening.

The Wednesday Market is open for orders. Please place your order by 10 p.m. Monday. Orders are ready for pick up between 2 and 4 p.m. Wednesday. See the website for this week’s product offerings. Here is the link: https://wednesdaymarket.locallygrown.net/market

Please note the shift in our pick up times – between 2 and 4 p.m. Since the switch back to Eastern Standard Time, it gets dark before 6 p.m. For the safety of our volunteers and customers, we would like to get finished at the Market before dark.

Please start making your plans for Thanksgiving, and consider ordering from our producers. You may want to order early to make sure you get what you need for your special celebration.

Here is a note from Terry Helms at Top Shelf: “I will be out of town next week, Nov. 11th, 12th, and 13th. I will be back open the week of Nov. 20th but will be out of town Thanksgiving week. If you think you are going to want anything for Thanksgiving please make sure you get your order in for the 20th. I can go ahead and freeze it for you if you like, just let me know. I can also pre-cook it for you to cut down your time Thanksgiving day; then, you only have to heat it up. Either way is fine. All you will need to do is put it in the fridge on Nov. 26th to thaw and it will be ready to cook on the 28th. Thank you so much for all your support and hope everyone has an awesome family holiday.”

Be sure to check out our new vendors. Thank you for supporting locally grown agriculture and for buying locally. We hope you have a great weekend, and we’ll see you at the Market.

Thanks,

Beverly

Northeast Georgia Locally Grown:  MARKET IS OPEN FOR ORDERS!

Good Evening Locavores, Northeast Georgia Locally Grown is open for orders!
Go to the market >>
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: Open every week. Closed Christmas Day and New Years Day.

Statesboro Market2Go:  Market2Go is Open!

Thanks for shopping with us! All of our products are grown by local farmers in Bulloch and nearby counties.

This week, we have the first of the season satsumas – fresh locally grown Georgia citrus from Franklin Farms!

We also have pomegranates, cabbage, green beans, broccoli, Red Hull Javey peas, peppers, tomatoes, cucumbers, blueberries, squash, zucchini, pumpkins, herbs, honey, eggs, coffee, bread, grits, cornmeal, milk, butter, cheese, seafood, wild caught Georgia shrimp, local pastured chicken, beef, pork, candles, soaps, lotions, as well as full meals and goodies 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!

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

Our featured vendor this week is Azure’s Gourmet & Sweets, who started selling her delicious sweets at the market in Spring of 2012. That following year, Paula Deen opened the door for her cooking career. Since then, she has gotten calls from Shark Tank, been “tweeted” by Southern Living for her Derby Cake Pops, had her Pecan Pralines featured on the Pottery Barn Blog, and taught classes at William Sonoma in Savannah. You can find her products at the Saturday Main Street Farmers Market.

Our featured sponsor this week is the Downtown Statesboro Development Authority, who is committed to the economic development, historic preservation, and beautification of Statesboro’s downtown area. Their purpose is to revitalize downtown economically and socially within the context of historic preservation by increasing financial viability and ensuring the success of businesses.

CLG:  Location change. CLG pick up today 3:30 PM until 6 PM.

Good morning!

We will be meeting in the lobby today instead of the parish hall. Who knows what goodies you’ll find on the extras table today. I know there will be some suet cakes for the backyard birds…

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.

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

Spa City Local Farm Market Co-op:  Food for thought

Dear Spa City Co-op Members,

Lest we forget that in modern times, our food system is complex and often wasteful. Here’s an article that addresses that issue:
https://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/energy/stories/look-path-your-food-takes-get-your-plate?utm_source=Weekly+Newsletter&utm_campaign=a87d5b468a-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_FRI1108_2019&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_fcbff2e256-a87d5b468a-40275741

Remember that local farmer’s markets, like SCC and the market downtown bring fresh food and help make the supply of food more secure. We help sustain the farmers of Arkansas every time we order or buy from them, and they in turn are there for us.

The Spa City Co-op market opens this Saturday at 9 am. This will be the last market before Thanksgiving.

Russellville Community Market:  The Market Opens at Noon!

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 Opens at Noon!
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Apple Cinnamon Scones, handmade soaps, Collard and Mustered Greens, Farm Fresh Eggs, an assortment of Squash, Whole Chicken, Shelled Pecan Halves, Stew Meat, and more, all listed on The Market this week!
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Photo of Pleasant View Farm’s Apple Cinnamon Scones

Russellville Community Market

FRESH.LOCAL.ONLINE

Augusta Locally Grown:  The Market is Open!

The Online Market is OPEN! Place your order before 8 PM, Sunday and pick up on Tuesday evening.

UPCOMING EVENTS:

November 8th & 9th
Augusta Boucherie

Join world class chefs and food champions for a 2 day foodie event at White Hills Farm.

YOU DO NOT WANT TO MISS THIS EVENT!

Tickets for Augusta Boucherie are on sale now! Visit www.augustaboucherie.com to get your ticket. Chefs from all over the country are coming to Augusta Boucherie to showcase our local foods!

Information about our delicious local food events can be found at augustalocallygrown.org.

Questions? Please text Kim at 706-288-7895