Stones River Market:  Weblog Entry

Market News

Hi all!

Thank you so much for responding to the extras email. Both of the breads were located and we appreciate your assistance in solving the mystery!

Erdmann Farm is back and has Swiss Chard listed and says that Kale is not far behind!

Rocky Glade Farm is back this week and has loaded the market with wonderful variety! New Red Fire lettuce, Green Romaine Lettuce, white choi, Tatsoi, Swiss Chard, Spinach, Kale, Kohlrabi, Mustard greens, Collards, Radishes and Carrots!!!

We wish Michael with Frontier Family Farm swift and full recovery from his surgery last week!!

Linda at Dogwood Valley Greenhouse has listed many new spring items.

Botanical Harmony Farm has their Baby Skin balm, infused with wild harvested herbs which aid in rash care, wind burn, chaffing and with their beeswax provide a wonderful barrier in winter or summer. Cloth diaper safe, it is a fantastic rash cream as well. Try using on red, sore noses and to protect cheeks on blustery days! While the Whipped Body Butter is luscious and decadent (excellent makeup remover and night time moisturizer) , the Baby Skin balm is perfect for skin protection! Comes in 1ounce tin or 2 ounce glass jar!

BREATHE salve, a petroleum-free vapor rub for congested chests and sinuses is available in the large 3 oz tin or a new smaller 1 oz tin! Infused with wild-crafted Goldenrod and our farm-grown peppermint to break congestion and cool the bronchials along with soothing Eucalyptus for sinus soothing and bronchial support. Don’t be without this wonderful allergy support salve this season!

ALSO Stones River Market has gift certificates listed! What an incredible gift to share with someone…. as a housewarming, a new friend, Mother or
Fathers day or just to something wonderful to share with someone who doesn’t quite understand “buying and supporting local” or whole foods eating.

Again, we thank you for the support of this market and the growers/makers who rely on you for their livelihood. What an incredible community this market truly is!
See you Wednesday,

Ashleigh & Tracey
Market Managers
(931)952-1224
stonesrivermarket@gmail.com

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.

ALFN Local Food Club:  The Market Is Open

ALFN Members,

The market is open! We are entering the ides of March full of surprises and delights. Keep an eye out for perennial crops to emerge out of the ground whether they be asparagus spears or labrynthine morels on the forest floor.

Updates/News

We are excited to announce that ALFN won a $1000 grant from the Super Service Challenge which supports volunteer-based initiatives. Thanks to your votes, we were able to receive this money…wahoo!

Reflection

The world of cost benefit analysis attempts to count all objects, creatures and possibilities into quantifiable units. When a capitalist, market-driven culture meets the natural world, it reduces all ecological relationships and individuals to discrete units…numbers. Our whole system of money is based on the assumption everything can be counted. A market culture believes everything from the sand on the seashore, to the fish in the sea, to the minerals in the ground, to the cabbage above the ground can be counted. From the counting, markets assess value. On a counting scale, we assign worth. Our labor is counted and assigned value based upon how many units are counted. For the capitalist country, even the worth of citizens is assigned worth based upon quantifiable units called currency.

But all this counting raises a simple question. Can everything be counted? Are some aspects of Earth uncountable? Unfathomable? What happens to the aspects of earth we can’t count? Do they just disappear under the bulldozer’s blade of market interest? Consider the pressure put on managers of the land…farmers who are in relationship to the land? The market squeezes interest and attention only into objects that can be counted and valued. The wetland is drained so we can count more lettuce heads. But there is a deep in the wetland and a deep in the sky that we cannot count. From the complexity of land and sky, life is supported. The unfathomable places of our landscape are where the gifts of life emerge. Human-made markets may not be able to quantify weeds, butterflies and frogs, but these are natural individuals that help weave a tapestry of life onto our planet. Our counting civilization has wrecked havoc on what cannot be counted with green numbers.

When we exchange green numbers for produce, we aren’t identifying the true worth of kale, carrots or cabbage. The money merely counts an exchange made for a much deeper gift we truly cannot count. Our economics are built on a deeper mystery we cannot fathom, nor quantify.

“To sum up: a system of conservation based solely on economic self-interest is hopelessly lopsided. It tends to ignore, and thus eventually eliminate, many elements in the land community that lack commercial value, but that are (as far as we know) essential to its healthy functioning.” (Leopold in The Land Ethic)

Have a great week,

Kyle Holton
Program & Market Manager

Peru Online Winter Farmers Market:  winter farmers market open for orders

Good evening. We are open for orders through Tuesday evening.

We have switched from the sweet Candy onions, which stored much better than expected but no longer, to great yellow storage onions.

Irina Hagar (Nature’s Touch) has added quite a few products.

The cows at North Country Creamery are starting to calve.

Spring is coming!

Plattsburgh Online Ordering:  winter farmers market open for orders

Good evening. We are open for orders through Tuesday evening.

We have switched from the sweet Candy onions, which stored much better than expected but no longer, to great yellow storage onions.

Irina Hagar (Nature’s Touch) has added quite a few products.

The cows at North Country Creamery are starting to calve.

Spring is coming!

Spa City Local Farm Market Co-op:  Notice of change of hours for pickup

Pickup will now be from 3 pm to 5 pm. Please make every effort to pick up on Friday, or arrange for a friend to pick up for you. Set an alarm on your cell to remind you if necessary.

United States Virgin Islands:  This week in VI Locally Grown

Greetings Friends,

The Market is now open for orders. Thanks for supporting your local producers. See you Wed! :)

Best,

Your VI Locally Grown Growers

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

The market is open for ordering at this link.
http://spacity.locallygrown.net/market
Please place your orders before Tuesday at 9 pm, and plan to pick up your order on Friday between 3:30 and 5:30, before 5 pm if possible.

You’ll need to place orders for Arkansas Natural Produce by Monday night as they have an earlier closing period in order to harvest on time.

Please make every effort to pick up on Friday, or arrange for a friend to pick up for you. Set an alarm on your cell to remind you if necessary.

Julie Alexander
this week’s manager
dragonlaughter @ gmail.com
501 six five five 9411

Suwanee Whole Life Co-op:  Halibut Update - there's more coming soon!

Wild Alaskan Halibut Update

In my newsletter on Thursday I wrote that Doug added the last of the Halibut catch to the market. I spoke with him yesterday since all 40 pieces sold out in a matter of hours. What he listed was what he allocated to our market since he has several other markets he provides wild caught fish.

Since halibut does so well at our market Doug wanted to let you all know that he will plan to make another trip in early April to bring us more. So if you missed out on this order, there will be another opportunity.

As we get closer I will send out info to let everyone know when halibut is back on the market. We may do a pre-order so he can have a better estimate of how much to bring since he severely underestimated this week..

Thank you all for your support,
Nora and Doug

Champaign, OH:  Lovely Lavender

Swisher Hill Herbs is gearing up for spring. As we welcome spring we start packing away those winter clothes for the season. If you like the more natural approach to moth proofing your closets and drawers, lavender is your friend! Lavender is a natural flea and moth repellent.

As I pack away coats and jackets I tuck Lavender sachets in pockets and in drawers with sweaters and blankets, I also rub lavender oil on unfinished wood closet shelves, I put drops of lavender oil in the corners of every room on baseboards and on carpeted floors.

Swisher Hill Herbs have information handouts with recipes and hints to help guide you. contact us swisherhillherbs@gmail.com

Our aromatherapy products are in the featured products section of the www.champaignoh.locallygrown.net check us out.

Statesboro Market2Go:  The market is open!

Thank you for shopping with us!