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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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Lake Placid Online Farmer's Market: Say cheese!
Hello again,
This just in!! North Country Creamery has updated the item inventory for their cheeses, so there are more cheeses available to purchase!
If you have ordered already and wish to add to your order, you can email me at lponlinefarmersmarket@gmail.com and I will be glad to add your selection(s) to your order.
As always, Asgaard also has a selection of cheeses, so now April’s market has an abundance of cheese available!
Look forward to seeing you on Wednesday!
Christie
Green Fork Farmers Market: Weekly product list
Dear Green Fork Farmers Market Customers:
Figgieville has Kalamata olive oil and Green Sevillano olives on sale this week!
Also available this week:
Vegetables— Arugula, spinach, swiss chard, kale, beet greens, red mustard greens, green onions, lettuce, pac choi, and radishes.
Herbs—Cilantro and mixed herb bunches.
Eggs—Pastured, free range chicken and duck eggs.
Meat—Pastured beef, chicken, goat and lamb.
Fermented foods—Sauerkraut, okra, and jalapenos.
Salsa—Made with locally grown and organic ingredients.
Olives and Olive Oil—organic and directly from the grower in California.
Plants—herbal, medicinal, and pollinator plants ready to plant in your garden.
Place your order from now until Tuesday at noon for pickup on Wednesday from 4-7 pm at Nightbird Books in Fayetteville.
If you aren’t able to place an order, stop by to shop with us on Wednesday. We will have a variety of items for sale from the table.
See you on Wednesday,
Green Fork Farmers Market
Wednesdays 4-7 pm
Indoors, Year Round
Inside Nightbird Books
205 W. Dickson St.
Fayetteville, AR
To place your order, click on the link below to enter the website. Sign in as a customer, then click on the icon next to each product you wish to order. Proceed to checkout, review the list to make sure it’s correct, then scroll to the bottom and click on Place This Order. Make sure you receive a confirmation email—-if you don’t, your order was not processed. Payment is at the market pickup with cash, check, debit/credit card, EBT, and Senior FMNP coupons. Ask about our doubling program for EBT and SFMNP!
Peru Online Winter Farmers Market: online ordering now open
Good evening following a couple of gorgeous days (at least in the hoophouse). This may be the last week for spinach. So, stock up on spinach, and freeze some. Spinach does not like lengthening days, so I am not going to fight it with spring spinach seedlings. I do have asian greens slowly growing, maybe (or maybe not yet) for next time.
North Country Creamery’s cows are no longer “on vacation”, so they have plenty of dairy products.
Irina has a great variety of high quality snacks.
Enjoy. We will be open for orders through Tuesday evening.
Plattsburgh Online Ordering: market open for ordering
Good evening following a couple of gorgeous days (at least in the hoophouse). This may be the last week for spinach. So, stock up on spinach, and freeze some. Spinach does not like lengthening days, so I am not going to fight it with spring spinach seedlings. I do have asian greens slowly growing, maybe (or maybe not yet) for next time.
North Country Creamery’s cows are no longer “on vacation”, so they have plenty of dairy products.
Irina has a great variety of high quality snacks.
Enjoy. We will be open for orders through Tuesday evening.
Berea Gardens: Fro Wednesday, 4/13
Hi Friends,
Temperatures last night gave us quite a worry, but the field grown cauliflower, cabbage and broccoli survived the 20* night with a little help from a frost-cloth covering and a lot of prayer. Still, without much decent growing weather, things are proceeding slowly. The kale and lettuce are in our high-tunnels and are doing very well.
Our grain mill decided to spontaneously disassemble itself a few days ago and I will be waiting for parts until after Wedneday’s market, so I regret that we cannot offer the Multi-grain Bread this week.
Thanks to all of you that ordered last week! We had a nice start to the season.
Blessings,
Bob
Fresh Harvest, LLC: Fresh Harvest for April 10th
To Contact Us
Fresh Harvest, LLC
Link to Fresh Harvest
Email us!
Tallahassee May
tally@wildblue.net
JohnDrury
john.drury@att.net
Recipes
*Mushroom Lettuce Wraps *
makes 12 boats or serves 4
2 large garlic cloves – skinned and crushed (use a microplane grater)
2 teaspoons finely grated fresh ginger root (use a microplane grater)
1/4 teaspoon sea salt
1/8 teaspoon ground cayenne
2 tablespoonsTamari soy sauce
1 tablespoon toasted sesame oil
3 tablespoons peanut or grapeseed oil
1 lb fresh mushrooms – stems removed and discarded, caps cut in 1/4? cubes
4 scallions – root ends trimmed, top trimmed 3? from edge and very finely sliced (3/4 cup)
3 tablespoons roasted peanuts – coarsely chopped (use a mini food processor)
1 tablespoon lime juice
12 medium large lettuce leaves (4? long) – rinsed and spin-dried
Place the garlic, ginger, salt, cayenne, Tamari and sesame oil in a small bowl. Whisk until well blended and set aside.
Heat a large non-stick frying pan over high heat. Add the peanut or grapeseed oil and mushrooms. Sauté for 7 to 8 minutes until the mushrooms are golden-brown, tossing only from time to time. Reduce heat to medium. Drizzle with the ginger-soy mixture. Quickly toss and sauté for only 15 seconds. Transfer mushrooms to a large bowl and cool until slightly warm to the touch.
When ready to serve, add the scallions and peanuts to the mushrooms. Drizzle with the lime juice and stir until well blended. Spoon about 2 tablespoons’ worth of the mushroom mixture into each lettuce leaf. Arrange the boats on a platter and Serve immediately.
Market News
Hello!
We hope you are all able to enjoy this beautiful spring we are having! There have been a few freeze scares over the weekend, but thankfully all the crops pulled through with no damage. The strawberries are flowering and setting fruit, and those were our biggest concern. However, never fear! All is well!
We will be continuing our every other week delivery schedule through April, until the first strawberries appear. Please keep this in mind as you order, and stock up on eggs, frozen items, and good greens!
We have a lot of lettuce this week, so think delicious salads for lunch and dinner!
The Bloomy Rind Cheese shop has a great selection of items this week! The sheep’s milk butter is a great treat to try on some Dozen Bakery fresh baked bread, along with some yummy radishes and a sprinkling of salt!~
We look forward to seeing you on Wednesday! Thank you so much for all your support!
John and Tallahassee
Coming Events
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!
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Athens Locally Grown: ALG Market Open for April 14
Athens Locally Grown
How to contact us:
Our Website: athens.locallygrown.net
On Twitter: @athlocallygrown
On Facebook: www.facebook.com/athenslocallygrown
On Thursdays: Here’s a map.
Market News
The average last frost date for Athens falls this week, but you never know when a weird cold front will blow through, wreaking havoc on the little plants. It may be that last night was the last blast of cold for the year, but ten days from now we might have to crank up the heaters again. If you’ve put out summer plants like tomatoes, peppers, squash, and eggplants, keep an eye out on the forecast for the next week or two, just in case you need protect them. The average last frost date for some of our growers won’t come for another month, further up in the mountains, but that just means more variety for our market.
It’s really never too late to put something in the ground, and it’s prime planting season now. I was one of the founding farms of Athens Locally Grown, back in 2002, but these days I’m living back in the city of Athens and lucky enough to have a community garden right outside my font door. Springtime weather makes me want to throw seeds in every bit of dirt I can find, wherever I find it, so maybe this week I’ll also make some native wildflower seed bombs for use in bare patches I run across.
If you’ve been preparing your garden, or just thinking about starting one, be sure to check out all of the live plants offered by our growers through Athens Locally Grown and the other area farmers markets. Sure, you could run off to Home Depot and buy some mass-produced seedlings soaked in synthetic fertilizers and sprayed with fumigants, but you can also get hardy seedlings grown by the same people cultivating plants for their own vegetable beds, free of synthetic chemicals, for the same prices.
Why am I encouraging you to grow your own food when I’m in the business of helping growers sell you food they grow? For one, studies have shown (and my own experience confirms) that people who grow their own gardens tend to actually increase their yearly purchases at their local farmers markets. Once they take an interest their food so strong that they begin growing what they can, they find that they can rely even more on their local growers for things that they used to get at the grocery store. And besides, my goal is for every community to become less reliant on food grown elsewhere and shipped in from long distances. And you having your own little patch of garden in your yard is a big step in helping Athens do just that.
Thank you so much for your support of Athens Locally Grown, all of our growers, local food, and our rights to eat it. You all are part of what makes Athens such a great area in which to live. We’ll see you on Thursday at Ben’s Bikes at the corner of Pope and Broad Streets from 4:30 to 8pm!
Other Area Farmers Markets
The Athens Farmers Market opens this coming Saturday. You can find more information on their website. The Comer Farmers’ Market is open for the season on Saturday mornings from 9am to noon. Check www.facebook.com/comerfm for more information. The Oconee County Farms Market is open on Saturdays in Watkinsville. Their website is www.oconeefarmersmarket.org The other area markets are also all closed for the season, I believe. If you know of any markets operating, please let me know.
All of these other markets are separate from ALG (including the Athens Farmers Market) but many growers sell at multiple markets. Please support your local farmers and food producers, where ever you’re able to do so!
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!
Central Arkansas : Friendly Reminder
Afternoon Marketers
I hope everyone is enjoying this beautiful Sunday!!
I wanted to remind everyone to please get those orders in before 10:00 pm this evening.
We have some great products to go w/ this beautiful day!!
Meats, cheeses, jams, jellies, live plants, veggies, herbs, eggs, breads & baked goods, tons of handmade crafts & much more!!
Get those orders in & don’t forget to share us w/ your friends
centralarkansas.locallygrown.net
Happy Marketing. Eat Local
-CAM Market Mama
Lake Placid Online Farmer's Market: Friendly Reminder--Order period ending Monday April 11 @ 10 pm
Hello everyone,
Just a friendly reminder to order if so inclined before the market closes tomorrow Monday April 11 at 10 pm. If you already ordered and have an order confirmation in your email account, you can disregard this message. ;)
Please email with any questions!
Christie
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
On Thursdays: Here’s a map.
Good beautiful spring morning, everyone!
The market is open this morning as usual, and will remain open for your orders till Tuesday evening at 10 pm, so come see what we have to offer this week. Also see the section of this message entitled “Important Ordering and Pickup Information.”
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NEWS AND NOTES
Dogwood Valley Greenhouse has listed a few more new perennial plants this week, as they break dormancy. The herb plants are big, full, and beautiful. Spring is here for sure, and it’s planting time for perennial and herb plants. We have a selection of herb plants available at Square Books, if you’d like to see them before purchase.
Remember: April 25 is the deadline to sign up for a share of the Summer/Fall CSA by White City Produce & Greenhouses.
Remember to look for wonderful early spring vegetables, 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, bath & beauty products, and house and garden plants.
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, herbal tea, or a basket of herb plants to enjoy or to give as a gift.
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(L to R) Broccoli florets from Frontier Family Farm, Summer/Fall CSA Membership from White City Produce & Greenhouses, several colors of carnations, Dwarf Coreopsis, and Dianthus in several colors from Dogwood Valley Greenhouse.
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 9:00 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.
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