The Wednesday Market:  We're Open

Good afternoon.

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. Please see the website for this week’s product offerings. Here is the link: https://wednesdaymarket.locallygrown.net/market

It’s a beautiful day today. We’ll be doing some yard work at our house, and we’re so glad for the pleasant weather.

Thank you for your support of locally grown agriculture. We’ll see you Wednesday at the Market.

Thanks,

Beverly

Russellville Community Market:  Opening Bell

Hey everyone, and welcome to a new market week!

Be sure to check out the newly listed items this week! Lots of great, local products to be had!

Happy shopping! Eat Local!

Check out the “Featured Items” section as well as the “What’s New” section at the top of the market page for all the latest products available.

Be sure to “Like” our Facebook page for updates and food-related events in your community!

To ensure your order is placed, make sure you click the “Place My Order” button once you have completed your shopping. Remember, you have until 10:00pm Tuesday evening to place your orders.

Happy Shopping! See you on Thursday!

Russellville Community Market

FRESH.LOCAL.ONLINE.

Suwanee Whole Life Co-op:  Reminder: Place your order now!

Just a friendly reminder that market orders are due online today by 6 pm.

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!

See you on Tuesday!

Click Here to Place Your Order

Dawson Local Harvest:  HI GUYS!

Dawson Local Harvest for May 20

HI EVERYONE!

Every family has problems and issues which have to be dealt with, and I don’t want to bother people with personal problems, but my Mother is in assisted living. Yesterday (Sunday) they had to take her to the emergency room in Atlanta and we had to deal with all that. She’s OK, but as a consequence I am opening the Market later than usual.

We will have more of Tom’s Awesome Fresh Shrimp and a full listing of Vegetables, Milk, Eggs, Pork and Beef and all the natural products from Hanalei Bath and Farmhouse Essentials. My Daily Bread is not listing and I haven’t been able to update Bruce Will’s condition after surgery because of my own family circus, but please send thoughts and prayers to him when you can.

THE MARKET IS NOW OPEN!

REMEMBER! You can now order until Tuesday night at 9pm. Pick up your order at Leilani’s Gardens Friday afternoons from 4 to 7pm.

You’ll find the DAWSON LOCAL HARVEST at http://dawsonville.locallygrown.net

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! We guarantee your satisfaction with all products in the DAWSON LOCAL HARVEST.

Have a happy and healthy week!

Alan Vining
Market Manager

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

Hello, friends!

The market is open this morning as usual, and will remain open for your orders till Tuesday evening at 10 pm, so come see all the great new products this week. Also be sure to read the section of this message entitled “Important Ordering and Pickup Information.”

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NEWS AND NOTES

Wow! Spring vegetables are here! Added this week:
Onions & red potatoes by Wayne Diller.
Asparagus, green cabbage, Dinosaur kale, Romaine lettuce, spinach, & radish mix by KIC Produce.
Carrots by Solace Farm.
Edible pod peas by Frontier Family Farm.
Be sure to look for more new vegetables as the season progresses.

Be sure to check out the perennial and herb plants, as well as houseplants, from Dogwood Valley Greenhouse, as well as the vegetable and flowering plants from White City Produce & Greenhouses. Remember that, in addition to vegetables and garden plants, we also have delicious pork and beef cuts, fresh and dried herbs, rich creamline milk, organic free-range eggs, jams and jellies. 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 MLG 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) Dinosaur kale & Radishes from KIC Produce, Red potatoes & Onions from Wayne Diller, Edible pod peas from Frontier Family 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 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 10:00 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. Although the Saturday markets are closed for the season, 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, calling their attention to the later pickup hours, which may be more convenient for them. 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.

Stones River Market:  Check out what this week's offerings!!

Market News

Apologies for the announcement of berries last week and then had to pull them back out. Rocky Glade Farm WILL have some this week and they are sure to sell quickly! Here’s a list of what they are listing this week:

24 quarts and 3 gallons berries
Swiss chard
Gai-lan (chinese broccoli)
Broc raab
Kohlrabi
Parsley
Spinach
Hakurei turnips
Happy rich
Garlic scapes—NEW
Collards
Kale

Seeds of Success adds Cocoa Doodle-Doo (Sun Granola), a crunchy sunflower seed “granola”. Sunflower seeds, oats, and almonds are sweetened with a cocoa agave mixture. This granola has the appeal of cocoa krispies (without the refined sugar). Sunflower seeds provide protein, minerals, and vitamins. Enjoy this granola on its own, or add it to: cereal, oatmeal, yogurt, and fruit (sliced bananas).

Chef Jenny brought some in for us to taste last week and it is DELICIOUS and chocolaty. Try some with West Wind Farms yogurt or kefir or simply pop some in the mouth for a quick snack on the go!

Double Star Bar Farms has added an incredible Pesto that is wonderful with any of his breads… even the bagels! This is a summer must-have for quick meals or additions to more formal cooking.

SweetPea, White City Produce, and Rainbow Hill have new plant additions for your summer garden and perennial herb beds.

See you all 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.

CSA Farmers Market:  May News 2016

Senior Project Fresh

We will be accepting project fresh coupons for seniors this summer. They are free and available to lower income seniors over 60 years old in every county in Michigan. Contact your Local Cooperative Extension service to inquire and acquire the coupons. Each County has an extension service to find your county click Here
and than click on your county.

Chocolate

Good Stuff Cocoa gets their chocolate through Fair Trade Chocolate companies who are Certified organic and they use local raw honey plus other organic ingredients.
Since they have not certified the kitchen where they make the chocolate they cannot claim that their final product is certified organic although they do use organic ingredients.

To learn about where they get their chocolate check out this You-tube video

Growing Season

Come visit us at White Pine Farm and see how things are growing.

CSA Farmers Market:  Egg Prices

If a dozen Jumbos Costs $5.50 your price per lb on the eggs are $2.93

If a dozen Extra Large Costs $5.25 your price per lb on the eggs are $3.11

If a dozen Large Costs $5.00 your price per lb on the eggs are $3.33

If a dozen Medium Eggs Cost $4.75 your price per lb on the eggs are $3.62

This is a general chart to let you know Jumbos are the best deal.

Quality of the egg as a determining factor for value varies depending on the grower and the time of year the eggs were laid.

ALFN Local Food Club:  Market Is Open

ALFN Members,

Welcome to another week of fresh produce and local-sourced products. The market is starting to show signs of summer produce with the first appearance of squash this past week from Barnhill. Let’s give Debe from ABC Nature Greenhouse a warm welcome back. I’m so happy to see her mushrooms, plants, herbs and veggies back in the market after the set back from the vandalism of her greenhouse earlier in the spring. Make sure you check out her stuff!

Also, make sure you check out the new listings posted by Crimmins Family Farm. They have twelve new items including lettuce and exotic greens!

Backyard Permaculture III

So the last two posts have been heavy on the theory and framework of permaculture. I always find it helpful to see principles expressed concretely where strategy meets reality. The Verge Permaculture is an urban homestead in Canada that has attempted to integrate permaculture into every inch of the living space. I have linked a video that is the first of three explaining how they integrated permaculture into their home. Instead of reading, enjoy watching this application of permaculture in the urban space.

The Verge Video: Backyard Permaculture

Have a great week!

Kyle Holton
Program & Market Manager

Siloam Springs, AR:  Online Market is Open!