Stones River Market:  Weblog Entry

Market News

Happy rainy morning!! While the rain desperately needed, I am sure the folks who attending “Wine Around the Square” last night were happy that it waited to drop!

The cast of The Legend of Pocahontas performed a wonderful number!

Speaking of the Center for the Arts, Suite Surrender, a comedy, opened this weekend and features TWO of our Market makers, Mandy and Michael Jones of Ridiculous Chocolate.

If you have any community news you would like to have featured in our newsletter, please drop a line to stonesrivermarket@gmail.com or text Tracey at 931.952.1224 by each Saturday evening before the market opens.

Chef Jenny with Seeds of Success will have Carrot Ginger Soup! This soup combines local baby ginger, carrots, SOS Tur-miracle (turmeric seasoning) together to create an antioxidant rich soup. Enjoy it warm or cold. It can also be served over quinoa, rice, pasta, or veggies!

Valentine Family Farm has added some wonderful new pickles Three Sisters Mix (two varieties) and a spicy version! Be sure to check these out and how creatively delicious this family’s products are!

SweetPea added Chestnuts! Large bag and small bag!

Get some exquisite cut flowers from Erdmann Farm John also has great cucumbers for slicing or pickling!

Rainbow Hill has several varieties of apples! Don’t miss your chance to have these incredible, local, in-season apples while they last!

Plenty of amazing summer vegetables still available along with all your packaged and convenient foods, skin care and more for your week’s grocery needs!

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

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.

CLG:  Opening Bell: Potatoes, Squash, Apples, Kale!

Good afternoon!
Here’s something you won’t find at any other market in the state: MEALWORMS! You may be asking yourself, “Why would anyone want mealworms?” Although it has been over 40 years ago, I still remember my first mealworm operation. It gave me valuable experience in animal husbandry: a young boy caring for living creatures, checking on them daily, feeding them, watching their life cycle, and fishing with them! If you have young kids, grand-kids, chickens, or a husband, you should order a starter set now! Feed them to birds during the winter too! I have had my current colony for over 10 years. Never buy fishing bait again! They are clean and dry, and can be kept in the garage. I have mine in a 3-tier Rubbermaid chest on wheels. They live in chicken feed, and the only moisture they need is an occasional banana peel, peach pit, apple peelings, or piece of bread. The beetles lay eggs on potato peelings. Text me if you have any questions (501-339-1039).I could go on and on, and it looks like I have, but these guys are so interesting. Great for kids age 3 and up. They like to be held and will crawl on your hand, and never bite you. If you accidentally eat one, it’s OK. They’re high in protein and don’t have any bones! Get your starter set today!

Oh, and we also have lots of vegetables, meat, eggs, and canned goods available. :-)

Browse the market categories. Find your favorite items, or try something new. You may want to try the stuffed peppers and Cheesy spaghetti squash that I made for Carissa last week. It’s under the RECIPES tab. I have also asked Caleb to post the picture on our Facebook page Monday morning. Easy to make, and so delicious! Have something local at every meal this week!

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!

Check out over 600 wonderful items listed right now. See you on Friday!

Come early on Friday for the best selection from the EXTRAS table. And save your eggshells throughout the week for the laying hens! :-)

The market is now OPEN for orders.

Please check your email about 5 minutes after you place your order to make sure you get an order confirmation. Thank you for being a valuable part of CLG!
Have a great week!
Steve
ONLINE PAYMENT OPTION. When you are done shopping, just hit the “proceed to checkout” button in your cart. You will then see the option to “Pay Now” with credit card near the bottom. Just follow the prompts to add your card. Be sure to read the screen until you see “Thank you for your order” on the top. If you need help, please call 339-7958. A 3% online payment convenience fee will be added when your card is charged.
How to contact us:
DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL. Instead…
Phone or text: Steve – 501-339-1039
Email: Steve – kirp1968@sbcglobal.net

The Wednesday Market:  We're Open!

Good morning.

The Wednesday Market is open for orders. Please place your order by 10 p.m. Monday. Orders are ready for pick up between 3 and 6 p.m. Wednesday. See the Market website for all of this week’s product offerings. Here is the link: https://wednesdaymarket.locallygrown.net/market

St. Simons Island Shrimp Specialist is back to the Market this week. Orders will be delivered the first week of October.

Even though the calendar will soon mark the beginning of the Fall season, our weather is not yet cooperating. The National Weather Service in Atlanta reported the following in its report on September 15:

Due to consistent very warm temperatures in the 80s and 90s with high evaporation rates, the soil moisture continues to decline in areas that received less than 2 inches of rain across North and West Central Georgia during the past two weeks. Consequently, a severe to extreme drought prevails over North and West Central Georgia, which includes the Atlanta Metro area. The driest areas were from Summerville to Dalton, Canton to Marietta, and LaGrange through Barnesville and McDonough to Madison.

The report went on to say:

For October, the outlook for North and Central Georgia is above normal temperatures and below normal rainfall. The drought conditions will persist.

It doesn’t take a climatologist to tell us that the dry weather has affected our plants. My husband’s little garden is just about spent. The squash and tomato vines are shriveling as I write this blog.

Please show our farmers your support through this drought.

Thanks,

Beverly

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

Good morning, everyone!

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

It’s that time of year when there are lots of different herbs, fresh and dried, available from local farmers. So stock up for winter cooking!

Frontier Family Farm has added sweet potatoes to the market.

Linda from Dogwood Valley Greenhouse writes:
Perfect fall herb-planting time is here! Buy any herb plant offered by Dogwood Valley Greenhouse on the market (designated by “Herb Plant” in front of the name), and I will also give you a Stevia plant for free! I have some nice Stevia plants (see picture in listing), but they aren’t winter-hardy, and I have no way to overwinter them safely. However, if you move your new Stevia plant to a slightly larger pot, you will be able to bring it inside toward the end of October, and enjoy its sweetness in your drinks and baked goods all winter. For more information about and uses of Stevia, see http://stevia.com and http://stevia.net . Place your herb order soon, while my Stevia supplies last.

White City Produce & Greenhouses products are available this week.

We have these yummy summer vegetables available this week from local farmers: beans, beets, carrots, cucumbers, eggplant, garlic, kohlrabi, lettuce, okra, onions, bell peppers, and red potatoes. Also you will find a great selection of fresh-cut herbs to help to bring out the flavor of those vegetables and your other summer cooking.

Remember that we also have delicious pork and beef 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.

(L to R) Fresh Cilantro and Sweet Italian Basil from Loftus Family Farm, Sweet Potatoes from Frontier Family Farm, Stevia and Dwarf Red Carnation Plants from Dogwood Valley Greenhouse.

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 Square Books, 113 East Main Street, Manchester. We can also hold your order in the refrigerator till Friday, if it’s more convenient for you to pick it up between 11:00 am and 2:00 pm. If you prefer to utilize this free service, please make a note on your order or call my cell at (931) 273-9708. If neither of those pickup times works for you, please make a note on the order, and we will work out an alternative arrangement.

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

Here is the complete list for this week.

ALFN Local Food Club:  Market Is Open!

ALFN Members,

Welcome to another week on the market full of amazing produce, fresh meats and hand-crafted products.

New Program & Market Manager

This past week, the board welcomed a new member into the ALFN community. Claire Hodgson will take over as the program manager at the end of this month. Yesterday, she was introducing herself to all of our members who came through the market. Truly, I’m excited to see how ALFN will continue to develop with Claire at the helm. She has a wheelbarrow full of ideas and passion that will benefit our local economy. Please extend a hearty welcome to Claire if you see her over the next few weeks.

I will continue to help and volunteer for various needs of ALFN, and I am excited to help with whatever ALFN projects come my way.

Voluteer Shifts

I would like to request renewed help for Saturday market volunteers. We had a fantastic team yesterday, but we’ve been a bit low over the last few weeks. If you haven’t tried volunteering for the market on Saturday, I would highly recommend you give it a try. The shifts are only two hours long starting with the Early Shift at 8:00 and the Late Shift at 10:00. Volunteers get to know more ALFN folks, drink good coffee, and earn credit towards the market ($5 credit per shift, or to monthly membership fee). Volunteers are an important part of what makes ALFN such a unique non-profit food hub. We can’t do it without you. Please sign up for weekends that work for you! Here is where you can sign up: Volunteers.

Thank you!!

Kyle Holton
Program & Market Manager

Siloam Springs, AR:  Online Market is Open!

We held our 2nd Annual Farm to Table, a Summers’ End Farm Supper, September 11th and it was a very successful event! Thank you to all who were able to attend and thank you to R Family Farm for hosting the event.

Fall will soon be upon us and the outdoor market will be seeing some winter squash, an increase in greens, and the return of root vegetables like turnips, carrots, radishes and sweet potatoes.

The outdoor market will remain open through October 29th and then we will transition to the online market with Saturday morning order pick up at the Main Street Conference room.

Enjoy this beautiful weekend and see you at the market!

Old99Farm Market:  Old 99 Farm week of Sept 18 2016

This week something different: Cami is running the farm solo! I’m away for a men’s conference in Minnesota till sunday next.
So please get your orders in by friday 9am so she has time to pick and sort.

The cool weather is helping the vegetables growing outside, but the greenhouses are now needing close up at nighttimes.

We have tomatoes, peppers, sweet and hot, green and yellow, cabbage, sorrel, potatoes, carrots, beans (three colours), kale, arugula, spinach, lettuces, garlic, leek, onion, eggplant, herbs (basil, lovage, sweet cicely, parsley, cilantro) and beets and chard. Hows that for a lot?

The lamb sausage is picking up aficionados, if you’ve never had it time to try. Chicken in halves and quarters, grown here, no wholes left. The pigs are fattening up quickly and very friendly towards humans. We’ll soon be moving them to the orchard to clean up groundfalls.

Lots of eggs, chicken and duck.

Cami is making sauces and preserves, like tomato sauce and juice, so if you want some, give us a note on your order.

We will be having our cider making day in early October. No date finalized yet.

Remember the cheese making workshop, Nov 12-13. $100 registration.

Healthy eating,
Ian and Cami

Dothan, Alabama:  September 17 Market Newsletter

Dothan’s Sustainable Market is Now Open

Get Your Game On!

Alabama weekends are made for football! With high school games on Friday evenings, college and pro games on weekends and those memorable trips for Troy, Alabama or Auburn games there’s no shortage of good clean sports entertainment in the fall.

The problem with “game days” is the temptation to indluge in typical game day bad eating habits. We don’t want that. We want to have our fun and treat ourselves right in the process.

salsa, guacamole and hummus photo courtesy of https://hoosierpartygirl.wordpress.com

To that end this Market newsletter is dedicated to healthy football party and tailgate food. We hope you’ll find something you can take the ball and run with.

Be sure to check out our vendor notes this week. There are new products and fall tweaks on existing products, Most is very good . . . but we are sadly saying goodbye to friends.

Market Info

UPCOMING ORDER SCHEDULE Order Sept. 17-Sept. 20 for Pickup Sept. 23 September 24 – September 30 Market Closed

Order October 1-October 4 for Pickup October 7
Weekly ordering resumes till November 18

NEW PRODUCTS FROM ANGIES, CASABLANCA, DOTHAN NURSERIES, HORTONS FARM

ANGIE’S PASTA – aH-MaZ-iNg gourmet Pasta made with fresh ingredients, dececant cakes and fresh herbs. Angie has been a busy girl! Be sure to read the descriptions of her new product line. We’re excited to promote her SAFE and SUSTAINABLE home products.

AUGHTMON – Artisan bath and body products made locally.

New Listing for Volume Discounts from CASABLANCA RANCH. Read more about them: http://casablancaranch.com/.

Football season and tailgating is a good time for snacking on D’s Hot Pepper Jelly with Ritz Crackers and Cream Cheese. D’S JELLIES are made locally from locally grown products. They make the only true Mahaw jelly in the region!

The Market has been selling No Natz for DOTHAN NURSERIES for a long time, and this week they have something special – APPLES! Get yours while they last!!

HORTON’S FARM – GREAT products for Christmas Baskets. New Item – Pumpkin Spice Buckwheat Pancake Mix. Your source for Local HONEY, fresh Lettuce greens, Bee Bath and Body Products.

KATHY’S CHURPERS 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 – back from vacation – excellent heritage pork products

SANDSPUR FARMS – Bulk meat bags available. You can also list what items you want in your bag or I can choose an assortment for you. Kinsley, my 14 year old daughter, is taking her first culinary class in high school so she’s committed herself to making the banana nut bread from now on. Thank you to everyone that orders from our family farm.

SMITH FARMS – Ground Lamb and Dexter Beef

SPRING HILL FARM – Spring Hill Farm – To all our special customers – We have made the hard decision to close our business doors for a while. This is a busy season in our life and with much prayer, we have decided to switch gears and slow down.  We will miss the special friendships that we have enjoyed and are grateful for all the wonderful people we have met here locally.  This market is an awesome resource and the vendors are just amazing!  We were blessed to be a part of it for the past 1½ years! Thank you all for your support of our business.

SWEET ACRES FARM: Off this week

Football Food Inspiration

As if this week’s photos have not already inspired you, we thought it would be fun to score a few more points with healthy and tasty ideas. Enjoy!

Zucchini Pizza Bites found at http://www.blisstree.com


Mini Taco Bowls found at http://www.passionforsavings.com/mini-taco-bowls-recipe/

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!

Russellville Community Market:  Russellville Community Market Open for Business!

Hello RCM community – another week of local food awaits!

The fall harvest is coming in, so be sure to check out our new listings:

Drewry Farms has a great selection of gala, golden delicious, and jonathan apples.

Bluebird Hill now has grass fed, pasture raised beef.

Boyd Farms has a great selection of pasture raised chicken.

All of our growers are still producing lots of fruits, vegetables, and meats. Enjoy the last of summers bounty and order your weekly groceries from the market!

I would encourage you to invite a friend to order this week as well. New customers are always welcome :)

Looking forward to seeing you on Thursday afternoon!

Phyllis Campbell
Market Manager

Like us on Facebook for up to date news and exciting RCM announcements. Our page is full of great info on local foods issues and upcoming events! RCM Facebook

Check out the Featured Items and *What’s New *sections at the top of the market page for all the latest products available.

To ensure your order is placed, 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!

Russellville Community Market

Miami County Locally Grown:  Ohio Fish and Shrimp Festival, and Piqua Bike Fest!

Piqua Bike Fest, right downtown, finishes up today… it’s worth going to their website if only to check out the great WWI-era photos in front of the Piqua Milling Company with so many Harley Davidson bikers lined up!

Also, the 2016 Ohio Fish and Shrimp Festival kicked off yesterday at Freshwater Farms in Urbana, where our very own Tin Roof Mobile Food will be on hand to cook up cheesy grits and shrimp, fish chowder, and even their rockin’ ribeye steak sandwiches for your dining pleasure!

With live music and a ton of kids’ activities, the Festival runs tonight until 10pm, and tomorrow from 11-5pm…