The Weblog
This weblog contains LocallyGrown.net news and the weblog entries from all the markets currently using the system.
To visit the authoring market’s website, click on the market name located in the entry’s title.
CLG: Opening Bell: Shiitake Mushrooms, Honey, Chicken, Pork!
Good afternoon!
Bell Urban Farm welcomed a new farmhand on July 17th. Leo Wolf McCannon was born to Kim and Zach, and will join his older brother tending the garden and chickens. Congrats!
We have a good variety of vegetables in season now: potatoes, okra, tomatoes, peppers…
Be sure to SEARCH for your favorite items using the search field. We have over 650 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
Green Acres Atkins: Opening bell
Good morning!
If you refer a friend and they place an order you will receive $5.00 credit on your order
Please place orders by noon on Wednesday
Have a great week
Tom and kami
Four Seasons Farmers Market: Four Seasons Farmer Market July 28-30
Good morning, the market is open.
Vegetables, meat, eggs flowers and more!
Your purchases will be available from 3-6 PM on Wednesday afternoon at our new pickup location in Fayetteville:
Berry Natural
3059 N College Ave
Fayetteville, AR 72703
Thanks!
Suwanee Whole Life Co-op: Reminder - Don't forget to order!
Just a friendly reminder, if you haven’t already placed your order, that market orders are due online by 6 pm TODAY. Order now so you don’t forget :-)
Click Here to Place Your Order For WEDNESDAY pick up in Suwanee
Thank you for placing your order and supporting local farms and businesses!
Independence,VA: Market closes Monday night at 8 pm!
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Good morning,
Be sure to place your Online Market order by tomorrow night at 8 pm!
LANDCARE ROCKS THE RIVER IS HAPPENING THIS AFTERNOON IN FRIES ON THE BANKS OF THE NEW RIVER FROM 1-7!!!
To Shop: Independence Farmers Market.
Thank you for supporting the Independence Farmers Market!
Abby
Stones River Market: It that time again...Market is OPEN -- See you Wednesday
Welcome to this weeks Market, Open now until 10 pm Monday. Order early before quantities available run out!
News From Our Growers:
Trinity Rose Oberhasli Dairy Goats: Due to my work schedule this week, we will not be able to bring our products to market this week. See you next week.
Oakview Farm: Will have Whole Chickens available this week! Our Chickens have access to a new patch of grass everyday and we supplement their diet with squash and other veggies from our garden, along with layer crumbles. We do not use chemicals on our garden. The proceeds from everything we sell will go towards starting our summer camp for children with hearing loss, Oakview Farm Camp.
Mo’s Scrubs by Toya: Back from a brief break, plenty of helpful and useful things available for your face and body. Don’t forget the Bug-a-Boo Mosquito repellent, DEET FREE and safe for the whole family.
Carole’s Herbs (CS3 Farms): We have a ‘just not enough’ habanero honey designed to deliver just enough heat to wake up your mouth up so it’s ready for the incredibly nutritious sweetness of the 100% Tennessee Honey that follows. We have been told it makes vanilla ice cream taste amazing.
Flying S Farms: We’ve added Star of David Okra this week. It is a thicker walled okra that can be roasted or grilled and does not have as much ‘slim’ as other varieties do. It is wonderful fried, makes nice size medallion. Pair it with onions and tomatoes for a really Southern treat!
Have you ever had a Blue potato? Our Blue Majesty Potato are now available. They are great roasted or fried, can be boiled but will loss their color but still delicious gray taters.
The Sugared Spoon: Key Lime Chess Bars, Lemon Chess Bars, Peanut Butter, S’mores Cookies, Oatmeal Raisin Cookies, Chocolate Chip Cookies and Snickerdoodle Cookies. Perfect for snacks, dessert or gatherings.
Reminder!!! This is the last market to be entered in our Market Celebration Drawing. This is a Drawing for my 1st year as Manager and the upcoming Markets 11th Birthday!!! During June and July your name will be put ‘in the hat’ when you place your order. There will be a 1-$25, 1-$10 and 2-$5 Gift Certificate drawing August 7th, be sure to place an order each week to increase your chances for our Gift Certificates.
Look forward seeing you “On the Porch” at Quinn’s Mercantile Wednesday July 31st 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: 307 North Spring Street, Murfreesboro
map: https://goo.gl/maps/GAkJS1wawbr
Middle Tennessee Locally Grown: Time to Order Fresh Local Farm Products!
Middle Tennessee Locally Grown market
To Contact Us
Our Website:
manchester.locallygrown.net
On Facebook:
Manchester Locally Grown Online Farmers’ Market
By e-mail:
tnmomof10@gmail.com
By phone:
(931) 273-9708
Our Manchester pickup location is across the street from the Manchester City Schools administration building, at
216 East Fort Street, Manchester, TN
Our new Tullahoma pickup location is inside “Nature’s Elite”, in the Cherokee Square Shopping Center next to Dunham’s Sports, at
1802 N Jackson St, Ste 800, Tullahoma TN
If you don’t see a map, click on the address link.
Good morning!
Welcome to Middle Tennessee Locally Grown online farmers’ market! As always, the market opened for ordering Sunday morning at 8 am (usually earlier), and will be open till Tuesday evening at 10 pm.
Everything you see on our website is the “cream of the crop” from local farmers, the best products picked and made with pride especially for YOU! When you place an order with our farms, you know you are supporting your friends and neighbors, located in Middle Tennessee.
Please look around at various categories, as I may have missed some of the new items. Also please be sure to read the section of the page entitled “Important Ordering and Pickup Information.”
Pick up your order in either Manchester or Tullahoma, and let us know via the drop-down menu which location you prefer for pickup. Your location may change from week to week as you prefer.
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Next week (August 4-10) will be National Farmers Market Week. Plan to introduce a friend to our fresh local goodies next week!
Farm News of the Week
We have news!!!
Solace Farm has added Fig Leaves to the market. Give them a try in wraps or in cooking rice.
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Dogwood Valley Greenhouse has added a few new items. Look for more next week!
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(L to R) Citronella geranium (“Mosquito Plant”) and Pilea nummulariifolia (“Creeping Charlie”).
We had a great time at Nature’s Elite in Tullahoma last week, meeting customers, handing out samples, and selling some great items too! Here’s what you missed:
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We greatly appreciate Nature’s Elite for hosting this event and for allowing us to share their space on Fridays!
Important Ordering and Pickup Information
Ordering will be open until TUESDAY at 10 pm, and your order will be available for pickup at your choice of the following:
- Thursday afternoon between 4:00 p.m. and 5:30 p.m.* under the big pavilion on Fort Street with signs that say “Coffee County Farmers Market.” It’s behind the Farm Bureau building on Main Street, and across the street from the Manchester City Schools administration building, 215 East Fort St, Manchester.
- Or on Fridays between 4:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. inside “Nature’s Elite”, next to Dunham’s Sporting Goods, in the Cherokee Square Shopping Center on North Jackson Street in Tullahoma.
We can also deliver your order to your home (or other location) on FRIDAY afternoon for a small fee, if it’s more convenient for you. If you prefer to utilize this service, please place an order for it, same as other products, selecting your delivery area. Don’t forget to give us your location address in the comments section of the order. Also please text Linda at (931) 273-9708 for specific arrangements.
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. Please encourage our local farmers by helping to spread the word about our wonderful market to everyone you know. We offer a great variety of local farm products, and our items will be in your hands in time to plan for the weekend. Wonderful local products are available for ordering from the comfort of your own computer.
More new farmers are considering joining our market, if they can expect enough sales to help pay their transportation costs. Please help us grow the market by sharing this e-mail with your friends and inviting them to give us a try. And if you haven’t ordered from Manchester Locally Grown for a while, please check out our wide variety of offerings this week. Also please let us know if we can improve our selection or scheduling in any way to better suit your needs.
Blessings,
Linda & Michael
Here is the complete list for this week.
Dothan, Alabama: July 27, 2019 M@D Newsletter
This Week’s Newsletter:
Diet, Weight Loss & Common Sense
Market Chitchat
Grower Notes
A FOUR LETTER WORD – PART 2
Diet – that four letter word again. Most people change their eating habits simply to lose weight, but there are many other sound reasons to change the way you eat. Regardless of the why, it should be done with good information and a sensible plan to work. The goal of this series of articles to is give you good tools and good information to make YOUR right choices whether you are happy where you’re at or looking to make improvements.
What follows is adapted from the Mayo Clinic along with information from other sources. While is geared toward weight loss, the recommendations are solid for any purpose.
Look for a safe, effective program
It’s tempting to buy into promises of rapid and dramatic weight loss, but a slow and steady approach is easier to maintain and usually beats fast weight loss for the long term. A weight loss of 0.5 to 2 pounds (0.2 to 0.9 kilograms) a week is the typical recommendation.
In some situations, faster weight loss can be safe if it’s done right — such as a very low-calorie diet with medical supervision, or a brief quick-start phase of a healthy-eating plan.
Successful weight loss requires a long-term commitment to making healthy lifestyle changes in eating, exercise and behavior. Behavior modification is vital, and could have the greatest impact on your long-term weight-loss efforts.
Be sure to pick a plan you can live with. Look for these features:
- Flexibility. A flexible plan doesn’t forbid certain foods or food groups, but instead includes a variety of foods from all the major food groups. A healthy diet includes vegetables and fruits, whole grains, low-fat dairy products, lean protein sources, and nuts and seeds. A flexible plan allows an occasional, reasonable indulgence if you like. It should feature foods you can find in your local grocery store and that you enjoy eating. However, the plan should limit alcohol, sugary drinks and high-sugar sweets because the calories in them don’t provide enough nutrients.
- Balance. Your plan should include adequate nutrients and calories. Eating large quantities of certain foods, such as grapefruit or meat; drastically cutting calories; or eliminating entire food groups, such as carbs, can cause nutritional problems. Safe and healthy diets do not require excessive vitamins or supplements.
- Likeability. A diet should include foods you like, that you would enjoy eating for life — not ones you can tolerate over the course of the plan. If you don’t like the food on the plan, if the plan is overly restrictive or if it becomes boring, you probably won’t stick to it, so long-term weight loss is unlikely.
- Activity. Your plan should include physical activity. Exercise plus fewer calories can help give your weight loss a boost. Exercise also offers numerous health benefits, including countering the muscle mass loss that occurs with weight loss. And exercise is an important factor in maintaining weight loss.
MARKET CHITCHAT
A hearty THANK YOU for your kind understanding of last week’s unplanned closing, and on a personal note from your Market manager, THANK YOU for your kindness and prayers during this past week. They were keenly felt and are greatly appreciated.
Barring another providential intervention, we plan to be open every week till Thanksgiving. We also plan to have monthly Fall Farmer’s Markets in October, November and December. Dates will be announced once the schedule is confirmed.
New & Relisted Products
- Cucumbers – Avalon Farms
- Chocolate & Raspberry Browniers from Laura’s Confections
- 6 Layer Chocolate Torte from Laura’s Confections
- German Chocolate Cake from Laura’s Confections
- Apricot Meringue Bars from Laura’s Confections
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THIS WEEK’S GROWER NOTES
We have the best Growers in the Wiregrass! Please learn more about them on our Grower Page.
AVALON FARMS: Cucumbers are finally producing. I’m wondering if they got a little too much nitrogen because they have big luscious leafy vines but very few fruit.
Poplar Head Farmer’s Market is over for the year. So many people at the market this morning expressed surprise that it was over. This opens the door wide open for me to tell them about our M@D market and how things are available year round. Even one of the other vendors of a big farm expressed interest in the M@D market because they don’t grow year round. How crazy is that?!?
It’s time to get started on growing fall transplants. It’s still crazy hot, but the recommended time to start was actually July 1, so I’m officially behind. But with this summer being extra hot I’ve decided I don’t want to start planting them out till September. Lots of broccoli, cabbage, kale, spinach, turnips, chard and senposai coming in a few months.
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
Our Email: marketatdothan@gmail.com
Join our Online Discussions! www.facebook.com/groups/MarketatDothanDiscussion
Be sure to use our hashtag! #marketatdothan
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!
Patchwork Online Market: Place your Market Orders for delivery next week!
The market is now open 24/7 for ordering. Just a reminder to put your order in before Monday to get your delivery next Wednesday!
https://patchworkfarmstand.locallygrown.net/market
Statesboro Market2Go: The Market is Open!
Thanks for shopping with us and supporting your local farmers!
Keep the Farm to Table distance short – all of our vendors grow locally in Bulloch and nearby counties. Find delicious produce like butter beans, peppers, tomatoes, cucumber, potatoes, onions, garlic, blueberries and peaches.
Try the recipe Butter Beans with Rosemary and Garlic, all local items available on Market2Go!
Don’t miss the ice cream from Southern Swiss. There’s a wide variety of flavors of online made with local peaches, strawberries, and blueberries, as well as classic vanilla and chocolate!
We also have fresh, local herbs, honey, eggs, coffee, bread, milk, butter, cheese, seafood, shrimp, beef, pork, chevon, garden supplies, candles, soaps, lotions, as well as items that are already prepared and ready to eat.
Bootleg Farm and Southern Swiss Dairy both have their products online on Market2Go. They are no longer regulars at the Saturday Market, so look for them here!
Did you know that Market2Go has items for your pets? You can find pet food, bones, Wagz Dog Treats, and pet grade raw goat milk from Bootleg Farm.
Remember we have changed locations for our Statesboro pickup to the Statesboro Convention & Visitors Bureau at 222 S. Main St. Hours will remain the same, and our Sylvania pickup will remain the same at Victory Garden General Store.
We eliminated the annual membership fee – read about the changes here. To maintain support for the market, we added a surcharge of 7% on each order, beginning on March 1st.
Our featured vendor this week is Jacobs Produce, a family owned and operated farm in Rocky Ford. They are a long-time vendor at the farmers market with a wide variety of fruits and vegetables that can be found at their farm stand, the Saturday market, and on Market2Go. Visit them this Saturday, July 27th, at the Farmers Market for Summer in the South!