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This weblog contains LocallyGrown.net news and the weblog entries from all the markets currently using the system.
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Old99Farm Market: Old 99 FArm, week of July 4 2017
We have raspberries, picked and u-pick this week, not the peak crop but abundant. Also green garlic, garlic scapes, some pod peas, new baby chard, new purple potatoes, and kale, NZ spinach, maybe some tomatoes.
Special on eggs has terminated, regular fair price resumes.
Bumper crop on currants and gooseberries not quite ripe.
Meat selection remains good: lamb, beef, pork, soup chickens, turkey and goose.
Healthy eating
Ian and Cami
ALFN Local Food Club: Market Reminder
Hey Everyone!
Don’t forget to place your orders on the market before noon, and to sign up to be a volunteer for this weekend.
The Cumming Harvest - Closed: This Week at The Cumming Harvest
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This Week
Happy Independence Day! I hope you all had a great 4th!
Culured Traditions is introducing a new product to the market called, Russian Dumplings. I’m excited to try these since they are similar to potstickers, which I love.
They also have a special on Dill Pickle Spears, only $6 for 32 oz.!
Check out this Awesome Sauce – Cultured Traditions made awesome Kimchi and had lots of beautiful brine left after packaging. It is a thick, spicy and very flavorful brine that still has chunks of napa cabbage in it! It is absolutely delicious on rice, meats, eggs and just as a dipping sauce. It is also a wonderful soup base. Just like our Kimchi the sauce is living and vibrant, full of naturally occurring probiotics, never heated, and as with all of our ferments, its flavor continues to evolve with time. Ingredients: Napa Cabbage, Cucumbers*, Daikon Radish*, Scallions*, Apples*, Onions*, Garlic*, Ginger*, Rice Flour*, Himalayan Pink Salt, Gochugaru Red Pepper Flakes, Sugar*
Carrell Farms & Buffalo Gal will deliver THIS WEEK.
Indian Creek Angus will deliver THIS WEEK.
Pick-Up
Market Location and Pick Up
Pick Up every Saturday from 10am-12pm.
Located in a small building directly behind The Episcopal Church of the Holy Spirit.
724 Pilgrim Mill Road, Cumming, GA 30040
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To view the harvest today and tomorrow till 8pm, visit “The Market” page on our website, The Cumming Harvest
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: Shaking The Cobwebs
Yes, it’s just me letting you know that it’s not a Monday, it’s a Wednesday, and that means the market will close at 8am!
The holiday haze has left me forgetting that we are already in the middle of the week, so I thought maybe we could all use the reminder!
Go ahead, there is still time…
XOXO,
Cosmic Pam
Russellville Community Market: RCM Order Reminder
Russellville Community Market closes at 10 p.m. this evening – be sure to place your order!
Pick up is Thursday at All Saints Episcopal Church on Phoenix from 4 – 6:30 p.m.
See you on Thursday!!
Russellville Community Market
FRESH.LOCAL.ONLINE.
Dawson Local Harvest: Late Additions to Dawson Harvest and a REMINDER!
Dawson Harvest for July 7th
Late Additions and a REMINDER
We have some LATE ADDITIONS to The Market today including Green Beans, Purple Bell Peppers, Eggplant, Leeks, and Blackberries!!
REMINDER! Order Great Vegetables, Pork, Eggs, wonderful Breads and Desserts, Honey, and More before the Market Closes Tonight at 9 pm!
Thanks
Alan, Market Manager
Miami County Locally Grown: Craving Food Freedom...
On this glorious Independence Day, as we open the Market and give thanks for the wonderful country and community in which we live, what is dwelling most on my mind?
The necessity of Food Freedom…
A difficult aspect of this job is the many conversations with vendors, both current and potential, who have ideas for creative, unique products they’d like to sell… and wading through the regulations, licensure, and requirements necessary for the legal production of those items in the State of Ohio. Miami Co Public Health, and Food Safety with the Ohio Dept of Ag, are so encouraging when I call to verify how to make a lawful product – one guy always tells me “You can do anything you want! Here’s how” – then explains the steps we need to take… sometimes it’s simple and inexpensive… sometimes it’s cost prohibitive and impractical for a small-scale producer… and other times it’s literally impossible, a great idea but not allowed.
I’ve always been a stickler for rules – there are so many we may not like, or agree with, but we follow every day. And of course we want to offer clean, safe products and don’t want anyone to get sick! So we in the food business comply, with the best interest of our customers at heart.
Warehouse license… Cannery license… Mobile Food license… Retail Food Establishment license… Egg producers license and inspection… Home Bakery license and inspection… Commercial Kitchen inspection… Rinse but don’t wash your produce… Butcher chicken for a neighbor but not beef or swine… Find a commercial kitchen if you want to sell dehydrated or frozen fruits and foods, prepared foods, cooked foods, etc…
Yet in Wyoming none of this is necessary, if I sell to informed consumers directly!! In 2015 they passed the Wyoming Food Freedom Act, introduced by State Rep Tyler Lindholm, to restore the food rights of all Wyoming citizens, and allow access to homemade and home-processed foods sold directly to consumers.
Small dairy herds are a reality, complete with raw milk, cheese, yogurt, ice cream… No certified kitchens and licenses necessary to offer pre-shredded chicken, dehydrated and frozen fruits, and the list continues. Eggs at a farmer’s market? No licensing required!
And in the two years since all this became legal in Wyoming NO ONE has gotten sick!
NOT ONE case of foodborne illness outbreak due to the passage of their Food Freedom Act?!?! Incredible! Now, I realize Wyoming has always been progressive, from way back when they were first to grant women the right to vote… but my hat is sure off to those folks now, as they show the rest of us just how truly backwards and over-regulated we are.
Not only was the initial act passed, but it was so well received, their State Ag Commission is actively looking for ways to strengthen it! What a model to follow!
But it doesn’t have to be unique to Wyoming! North Dakota, Colorado, and California are all in various stages of taking similar steps. And Ohio can be just as forward-thinking, and healthy! I get chills thinking of ways to encourage a wider diversity of local food options. So many farmers operate at a loss… producers receive an average of 20% of consumer’s food dollars – with Food Freedom, think of the impact when the return of direct sales would give local access to the other 80% of those food dollars!
Wyoming is working to build their local economies, sustain struggling farmers, prevent the further disappearance of their rural communities… and do you know what? It’s working. The number of actual food producers at some of their farmer’s markets has tripled, and as Rep Lindholm put it, “Wyoming’s local food options have exploded!”
Ken Akopiantz, in the inspiring article “Rebuilding Rural Communities and Economics Through Self-Determination” for THE enlightened brilliant publication (our absolute fave) Small Farmer’s Journal, stated “We the people, farmers, food producers, and consumers of the United States have lost control over the food that we eat, our local food systems, and our self-determination. It is time that we awaken to what has been lost and put forth the effort to regain our food rights and Food Freedom.”
Is all of the regulation we see in Ohio then truly necessary, or could we follow Wyoming’s progressive example to truly bring Food Freedom to our own State? Wow, I have goosebumps just thinking about the possibility! YOUR representatives are only a phone call or email away…
Oh, the joys of living in America, where the impossible dream of Food Freedom can become a reality, with the support of consumers like you! No matter how different we are,
EVERYONE EATS… and nothing else can connect us all as can food.
www.miamicounty.locallygrown.net!
New Field Farm's Online Market: peas and beets
Greetings,
Pea season has begun. It’s hard to guess how much will be available before picking so if they’re sold out and you want some you could request an amount in the comment section and we might be able to provide. This applies to a lot of the crops.
Enough beets are sizing up to begin offering those, and eggplant are back with the first flush from the field.
Blueberries may begin next week.
Planting in the field and greenhouse continues, as do the weeds. It’s busy month on the farm!
I hope people are enjoying this sunny fourth of July.
Tim
CLG: Tuesday Reminder - Market Closes Tonight after 10pm.
Hello friends,
There’s still time to place your order for pickup this Friday, July 7th.
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
Our Website:
www.conway.locallygrown.net
On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Conway-Locally-Grown/146991555352846st
Fresh Harvest, LLC: Fresh Harvest!! Order Now before the 4th!
Hello!
We know everyone is thinking about and planning for the holiday- but remember you’ve got to eat after the holiday, too!!
We’ve got lots of great vegetables, blueberries, flowers, and maybe s few cantaloupe left for you, as well as all the other delicious items!
Please go the the Market page of freshharvest.locallygrown.Net to place your order.
Have a safe and happy 4th of July! We look forward to seeing you on Wednesday!
Thanks!
John and Tally