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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.
Naples,FL: Milk
We have had a rough week here and milking cycle is off so we will be taking all available milk to Food and Thought on Tuesday. They will be getting some glass for their regular customers and the rest we will be sending in plastic for our customers price should be comparable.I was in hospital from Tuesday till Friday night and Mike was trying to do all milking and everything by himself so it through everything off and couldn’t put a number on for market. Mike doesn’t do computer either. Our apologies for leaving everyone hanging.
Suwanee Whole Life Co-op: Reminder: Place your order by 6pm today
Just a friendly reminder that market orders are due online by 6 pm TODAY. Place your order now so you don’t forget!
Please remember that we need to hit certain minimums in order for our farmers and vendors to deliver to us.
Thank you for placing your order and supporting local farms and businesses!
Click Here to Place Your Order
Russellville Community Market: Time to order from Russellville Community Market
There are lots of new incentives and promotions in the works for RCM! Be sure to read each week’s emails for information. Our goal? Get the word out about the Market and encourage the RCM family to order every week!
BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR AN EXCITING PROMOTIONAL ANNOUNCEMENT THIS WEEK. WE WILL SEND IT THROUGH EMAIL AND IT WILL BE POSTED TO OUR FACEBOOK PAGE
This week, everyone who places an order will be entered in a drawing for a batch of fresh homemade rolls courtesy of Pleasant View Farm – so be sure to place an order this week!! The winner will be notified via email Wednesday morning.
Our Grower of the Week is Phyllis Campbell of Pleasant View Farm. Phyllis (who is also the market manager) and her husband Chuck tend a herd of Dwarf Nigerian Dairy Goats, a flock of free range chickens, and an extensive spring and fall garden. Their goal is to eventually raise a substantial portion of their own food, plus sell some at various farmers markets. Phyllis also bakes bagels and grinds fresh cornmeal and wheat flours. Looks for more baked goods being listed this winter!
Show your support for local farmers and our local market – order this week’s groceries from RCM!
Like us on Facebook for up to date news and exciting RCM announcements. Our page is full of great info on local food issues and upcoming events! RCM Facebook
Be sure you click the *“Place My Order” *button once you have completed your shopping.
Remember, you have until 10:00 pm Tuesday evening to place your orders.
Happy Shopping! See you on Thursday!
Stones River Market: PLEASE read! A welcome back, a new feature and more eco-friendly :).
Stones River Market
How to contact us:
Our Website: stonesriver.locallygrown.net
On Facebook: www.facebook.com/StonesRiverMarket
On Wednesdays: Here’s a map.
Market News
It truly is Fall!
First, we wish to welcome *Wild Flours * back to the market! They will be adding old favorites and have some new Elderberry Syrup for immune boosting during the cold/flu season! “It’s a flu shot in a bottle” They are offering 3 sizes for differing needs! We are excited to have this family back with the market as I know many of you are and have missed them!
DELIVERY We are proud to announce a delivery option for pickup! We know we cannot choose a day that would work for everyone and hope this option helps!
There is a fee of $10 to cover all the necessaries to get your things to you with quality care and service! A square invoice will be emailed to you after the market closes and must be paid before delivery. If you wish to pay cash or check and do not use credit cards, please contact us so we can discuss.
West Wind Farms and Wedge Oak are taking holiday turkey reservations and have different size options available. You place the order, pay the deposit with your normal pickup and that is subtracted from your total when the turkey arrives! FRESH and local for the holidays!
Botanical Harmony Farm has got you covered with skin care needs! Everything from bar soaps, liquid soaps, tooth powder (including a NEW cinnamon and clove option!), salves AND whipped body butters that are luxurious, protecting and healing for dry skin!These items are all-natural, no synthetic anything is used and never someone else’s base. These are our decades of research, playing in nature, working with the plants and math skills to come up with products we proudly stand behind 100%!
Stones River Market strives to be sustainably minded and we will no longer provide plastic bags at pickup. Please remember your bags. We can always combine items that have been delivered in plastic, should you forget. We have the Reusable Market bags for sale on the website and at pickup for $3. This is a fundraiser for the market to purchase more bags and other market related items coming soon!
There’s abundance on our market right now! We hope you will take the time to browse some new things this week (or even old favorites you’ve been meaning to try).
Rainbow Hill has several varieties of apples! Don’t miss your chance to have these incredible, local, in-season apples while they last!
As always, we thank L & L Contractors for their hospitality and generosity in hosting our market! Please remember them in your contracting needs! They support us so please return the support to them!
See you Wednesday!
Tracey & Ashleigh
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Recipes
Please, share your recipes with us on the Recipes tab. We’d all love to know how you use your Stones River Market products, so we can try it too!
I am taking a break from recipes. Look for them to return soon.
See the complete list of products at http://stonesriver.locallygrown.net/
Middle Tennessee Locally Grown: Time to Order Local Farm Products!
Manchester Locally Grown Farmers’ Market
How to contact us:
Our Website: manchester.locallygrown.net
On Facebook: Manchester Locally Grown Online Farmers’ Market
By e-mail: tnhomeschooler@yahoo.com
By phone: (931) 273-9708
Good morning!
The market is open as usual, and will remain open for your orders till Tuesday evening at 10 pm. Please be sure to read the section of the page entitled “Important Ordering and Pickup Information.”
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NEWS AND NOTES
First, please note that we will have pickup at our NEW LOCATION this week! We will be at Manchester Farm Center, 251 Interstate Drive, Manchester. Look for us under the big tents to the left of the store. We really appreciate Dorothy & Larry Scott allowing us to hold our expanding market next to their store. If you need directions, please call Linda at (931) 273-9708.
Second, please let me give my thanks to Michael Raines of Frontier Family Farm for offering to assist in the weekly management of our growing market. Michael brings many years’ experience as a farmer, and in management and participation in several local farmers’ markets, both virtual and booth markets.
Welcome to Grown By Grace Nursery & Farm from Gruetli-Laager. This week John & Tricia have added several flavors of fruit jams, including some interesting mixes, as well as some frozen berries.
Wayne Diller has added his delicious freshly-harvested fall popcorn.
Dogwood Valley Greenhouse has some new fall items: four colors of Ornamental Kale, which will be a decorative and unusual addition to your fall garden or border. The “Basket of Fall Plants” and the “Fall Planter,” both for indoor use, also feature the Ornamental Kale.
White City Produce & Greenhouses vegetables will be back on the market this week. As we transition to fall produce, some of Tami’s old “regulars” have been replaced by broccoli, cabbage, arugula, and sweet potatoes.
Remember that we also have delicious pork and chicken cuts, organic free-range chicken and duck eggs, jams and jellies, live plants for your perennial border, porch, or patio. Please take note of our great selection of hand crafted farm products, candles, essential oils, and bath & beauty products. Stop by Square Books soon and see our market table, with lots of non-perishable farm products for sale. Pick up some jam or jelly, hand lotion or soap, herbal tea, a candle, or a basket of herb plants to enjoy or to give as a gift.
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(L to R) Broccoli and Cabbage from White City Produce & Greenhouses, ‘Nagoya White’ Ornamental Kale from Dogwood Valley Greenhouse, Frozen Prime Raspberries and Black-and-Blue Jam from Grown By Grace Nursery & Farm.
IMPORTANT ORDERING AND PICKUP INFORMATION
Ordering will be open until TUESDAY at 10 p.m., and your order will be available for pickup on THURSDAY between 4:00 and 5:30 at our tents located outside Manchester Farm Store, 251 Interstate Dr., Manchester. We can also deliver your order to your home on Friday, if it’s more convenient for you. If you prefer to utilize this $4.00 service, please make a note on your order or call my cell at (931) 273-9708.
Thanks so much for your support of Manchester Locally Grown Market, and your friends and neighbors who have grown and produced these items. 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
Dothan, Alabama: October 22, 2016 Market Newsletter
Pumpkin Contest Announcement
When I was a kid there were two things you did with Pumpkins: 1) You carved them for Halloween. 2) You made Thanksgiving and Christmas pies with them.
When I went to college I learned that people DECORATE for fall with them. This was a thrilling disovery and there was no shortage of outdoor fall décor in northern Indiana. By the time I moved back south the trend had traveled and was becoming popular.
Pumpkins are timeless and remain THE hot fall decorating item. Every year new uses for real, man-made and crafted pumpkins hit the public domain. New foods too!
So we want to have some fun with it this week. We’re asking that you share YOUR pumpkin crafts with us! Send photos by email or post them on our Facebook page this week. Cutoff time is Wednesday at 9 pm. Our vendors will vote on their favorite and the winner can pick up their prize at the Market on Friday, October 28.
Welcome back SANDY VALLEY! We are pleased as punch to have Scotty and his beautiful vegetables back at the Market!
A hearty THANK YOU to everyone who donated to the Haiti Relief Project. It was a blessing to see the outpouring of generosity from our Market customers. Together we raised over $100 within an hour of Market opening and were able to send a total of $312 to the farmers in Petit Tros de Nippes. Several of you got to meet Christine Lamere who is the contact person on this project. She reports that our donation is just about right to fund a much needed tree nursery.
Please do not forget Haiti as we approach the holiday season. We plan to have a seed drive in the spring and are keeping the donation listings on the Market for anyone who may have missed last week’s drive and wants to help. If this is all new to you please visit here for more information.
Viki Richter will be managing the market this Friday, October 28 as Ros is called to family duty out of town.
Be sure mark December 1 on your calendar. That is the day for Christmas Open House and our Market vendors will be here in person with fresh seasonal produce, samples of products and a wonderful assortment of local, handmade food and gift items to get your Christmas season off to a good start.
Market Info
HORTON’S FARM Local HONEY, Lettuce greens, Bee Bath and Body Products. TUPELO restocked. Good supply of Cinnamon Cream Honey for Holiday Dining and Gifts
KATHY’S CHURPERS Farm fresh eggs from happy chickens.
MARY’S PEEPS Hand made cakes and muffins. Mary’s Peeps provides good bakery items from a Mom and Grandmother who has been cooking for 40 plus years.
RICHTER FARMS: Red wattle pork. This product is listed as an endangered food in the Ark of Taste. The Ark is an initiative, developed in 1996, and managed by the global Slow Food movement that includes foods, livestock, fruits, and vegetables, and is designed to preserve at-risk foods that are sustainable produced, unique in taste, and part of a distinct ecoregion. The Ark of Taste includes over 2200 products from over 50 countries.
SANDSPUR FARMS “We hope that when you taste our pork that you can taste the difference that humanely raised pork makes in the meat. We enjoy pork tasting like pork used to taste. And hope you do too. Since Friday is National Dessert Day, and being hog farmers, we will have samples of our “Pig Pickin’ Cake.” Orders of $25 or more gets you a special dessert bag! You don’t want to miss this! Also, be sure and look at our dinner & breakfast meat bags.”
SANDY VALLEY Local Sustainable Vegetables
SMITH FARMS – Ground Lamb and Dexter Beef
SWEET ACRE FARMS:, "I made pumpkin butter with my pumpkins lol…..there is still some available on the Market!
THIS WEEK! Check out WHITE ACRE PEAS, blanched and frozen, ready to cook. Grain free Waffles – frozen- just pop them in the toaster or oven and they are ready in minutes. Also I have listed a new crocheted coffee cozy- with a cute popcorn stitch! Thank you for your support!
AUGHTMON Off for a few weeks for job training. Congratulations and Good Luck!
CASABLANCA RANCH. Read more about them: http://casablancaranch.com/. Locally Grown Hormone Free Santa Gertrudis Beef
D’S JELLIES – D’s Jellies are LOCALLY MADE with LOCALLY GROWN Fruits and Vegetables. Diane has the only Mahaw jelly in the Wiregrass.
GINTHER FARMS Fresh UNFERTILIZED eggs from young chickens.
Footnotes
Our Website: marketatdothan.locallygrown.net
Our Email: marketatdothan@gmail.com
On Facebook: www.facebook.com/MarketatDothan
For Friday Pickup: Dothan Nurseries, 1300 Montgomery Highway, Dothan, AL 36303
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!
Dothan, Alabama: October 15, 2016 Market Newsletter
SPECIAL MARKET EDITION
Haiti Relief Issue
The Wiregrass was thankfully spared the devastation that Hurricane Matthew brought to our country, but our neighbors in the Caribbean were not so fortunate. Haiti in particular was hit hard barely 2 years ago by an earthquake, and now with Matthew having leveled much of the country the needs are astronomical.
Market customer, Chris Lamere, is spearheading an effort to help rural farmers in Haiti and this week the Market is matching all donations made this week to help the farmers of Petit Trou de Nippes rebuild both local infrastructure and their farms. This means that if you donate $10, the farmers will receive $20. We hope you’ll read Chris’s letter and check out the young couple who have adopted these farmers and are going back in a few days.
We have made it easy for you to donate. There are several new Market “items” of donations in several amounts to choose from. Whatever you donate will added to your invoice total and matched by the Market.
There are other things we as a market community can do as well. The people of Petit Trou will be needing both tree and vegetable seeds going forward as they rebuild. Please start NOW saving topical tree seeds, especially mango and avocado seeds if possible. If anyone has any 2016 seed they don’t anticipate using in the near future it could help save lives and help rebuild the lives and economy of this village. Chris is a regular at the Market and has volunteered to mail all seeds we collect.
“Thank you for allowing me to present this idea to you. After Hurricane Matthew hit Haiti so hard, I was looking for a way to help that would be localized and targeted to the specific needs of the Haitians. I came across a couple with an amazing story that actually started with the devastating earthquake in 2010. Since then, they have created and nurtured a project which has brought together around 30 small farmers in the village of Petit Trou de Nippes. These are not farmers that use heavy machinery to help them work, either. They dig roots up by hand, build retention ponds by hand and water with water pails when the small generator quits on them. The efforts were successful in helping those farmers in the village come together and work to improve their lands, their lives and the small economy around them. In fact, those efforts were so successful that prominent Haitian politicians had reached out to find ways to duplicate those methods around the country. Hurricane Matthew has destroyed about 80% of the village and eradicated most of the agricultural accomplishments they had been able to make. Mackenzy and Kirsty are returning to Haiti in less than two weeks to start the arduous task of rebuilding.
I hope you will read their blog to fully understand what they have done and what they have ahead of them now. https://haitiansforchange.wordpress.com
I thought that the participants in our Market might think the same way that I do: that it is the perfect match for us to support Mackenzy’s Vision. A local sustainable market reaching out to another in need. In the immediate future, they are in need of funds to secure basic necessities, food and shelter. They will also need certain help to re-establish the farming community itself, such as rebuilding a seed supply. The Haitians are a resilient people and particularly the people of Petit Trou. If anyone is interested in donating organic or heirloom seeds, they can contact me and I will cover the cost of shipping to Haiti.
For donations of funds, people can visit the blog site listed above or https://freefunder.com/campaign/Haiti-Hurricane-Relief
Thank you,
Chris Lamere"
Market Info
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GINTHER FARMS Fresh UNFERTILIZED eggs from young chickens.
HORTON’S FARM Local HONEY, Lettuce greens, Bee Bath and Body Products. TUPELO restocked. Good supply of Cinnamon Cream Honey for Holiday Dining and Gifts
KATHY’S CHURPERS Farm fresh eggs from happy chickens.
MARY’S PEEPS Hand made cakes and muffins. Mary’s Peeps provides good bakery items from a Mom and Grandmother who has been cooking for 40 plus years.
RICHTER FARMS Zimmermans said this about Red Wattle pork chops: “The flavor is rich, herbaceous, even a little sweet. It packs more flavor than I’ve ever had in a pork chop. The crowning glory of Red Wattle pork, however, is its fat. It marbles the meat and wraps the chop in a soft, opaque band. When cooked it melts within the meat and softens its edge to a luscious, lip-smacking bite. This is melt-in-your mouth fat, the kind of succulent experience you expect in great steaks and some cured meats. It’s never a sensation I’d experienced in a pork chop until I met this one. The pork comes from hogs that are raised impeccably. The pigs are not confined, have access to the outdoors, and never receive antibiotics or hormones. This lifestyle is good for the pigs, but it doesn’t make for uniform pork—the chops may vary a bit from piece to piece, rather than being identical.”
SANDSPUR FARMS “I hope everyone enjoyed the samples of our “pig-pickin’ cake.” We do have it available for sale as well.“
SMITH FARMS – Ground Lamb and Dexter Beef
SWEET ACRE FARMS: NEW PRODUCTS THIS WEEK! Roasted Red Pepper Hummus, Whole Wheat Cinnamon Bread and Subtly Sweet Peanut Butter! Don’t forget to try the Natural Peanut Butter and the Roasted Garlic Hummus. I also still have Pumpkin and Pear Butter! Check out the crocheted items for cute and cozy Christmas gifts!
Coming Soon: Almond and Cashew Butter as well as Spicy Hummus! Thank you so much for your continued support of Sweet Acre Farms and EVERY vendor in our Marketplace!
ANGIE’S PASTA Angie is off at this time
AUGHTMON Off for a few weeks for job training. Congratulations and Good Luck!
CASABLANCA RANCH. Read more about them: http://casablancaranch.com/. Locally Grown Hormone Free Santa Gertrudis Beef
D’S JELLIES – D’s Jellies are LOCALLY MADE with LOCALLY GROWN Fruits and Vegetables. Diane has the only Mahaw jelly in the Wiregrass.
Footnotes
Our Website: marketatdothan.locallygrown.net
Our Email: marketatdothan@gmail.com
On Facebook: www.facebook.com/MarketatDothan
For Friday Pickup: Dothan Nurseries, 1300 Montgomery Highway, Dothan, AL 36303
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: Sunshine Saturday!
An early start to a sunshine kind of beautiful day!
Perfect for a cup of coffee or a mug of tea, kicking back or revving up. While you are deciding which kind of day you will have, why not place your orders at our little local market of love?
It will make the sun, shine, it will make your soul, shine!
Peace, Love, Good Vibes…
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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