ALFN Local Food Club:  Market Is Open

ALFN Members,

The “market” is open and busting with spring energy! As most of you know, the market will be open for orders from Sunday at noon until Wednesday at noon. Early orders can grab items that are high in demand or low in quantity. But don’t worry, every time I get on the market Wednesday morning, there is still an abundance of produce and high-quality items.

Upcoming Events

Make sure you mark your calendar for April 2nd. The Southern Center for Agroecology will be hosting a Spring Planting Festival with plant sales as well as speakers discussing seed saving, composting and planting for pollinators. The event will also host a seed exchange. The event will take place at Fletcher Library as well as on the premise of Little Rock Urban Farming down the road from Fletcher. For full details and schedule, go to their facebook event page or to the Southern Center for Agroecology Website.

Related to seed saving, I’m sure many of you are making preparations for a veggie garden this year. I’ve always enjoyed looking through seed catalogs. The variety, color and uniqueness of various breeds always entice my vision of what is possible and cultivate my curiosity. However, there is also a resilience in using saved seed as well. When we save our own seed, we winnow generality into local opportunity. ALFN takes pride in providing local food to local consumers. But can you imagine not only local food economies, but a local farming culture that grows local varieties specific to our own bioregion? When we save seed, we encourage breeds from catalogs to adapt to our own particularity whether it be humidity, heat and drought or specific local diseases. By selecting seed, our food base becomes more robust. I’m a fan of Carol Deppe, an author, gardener and promoter of saving seed. In one of her recent books, she provides the broader reasons for saving seed…in this case corn seed:

“Corn is at the core of modern agribusiness, the most important food crop in North America. In no other crop are the values of modern commercial agribusiness as thoroughly embedded. There is nothing we can do that is ultimately subversive – there is no act of gardening that is so profound a rebellion, there is no act of eating that is so potent a blow for food quality and food system sanity – as to take back the corn crop in our own backyards, and grow, breed, eat, and save seed of corn based upon an entirely different set of values.” (from The Resilient Gardener: Food Production and Self-Reliance in Uncertain Times)

Doesn’t Deppe make you want to put a bandanna on and get out in the garden? Plant away!

All the best,

Kyle Holton
Program & Market Manager

Stones River Market:  Weblog Entry

Market News

Beautiful morning to you all!

First, we want to say a huge thank you to L & L Contractors for providing us with the beautiful space to hold market pickup! PLEASE check out their website and support these local craftsfolk in kind turn for them supporting us!
http://www.landlcontractorsmurfreesboro.com/

Our market is amazing and has so many incredible offerings! More and more is listed each week and we thank all of you for your support! We, the growers/makers rely on you and appreciate you so very much!!

Since it is a holiday weekend, the Giveaway we want to hold will be next ordering cycle so be ready for that! Refer someone to the market and if they order (next week), that gains you another entry!

Alfresco Pasta has some items ON SALE!! Stock up on your favorites or try something new.
These items are on sale:
Braised Beef Ravioli
Butternut Squash Ravioli
Mozzarella Spinach Ravioli
Andouille/Crawfish Ravioli
Portabella Spinach Ravioli
Seafood-Shrimp Cannelloni
Sweet Potato Gnocchi
Tri-Color Cheese Filled Tortellini

Double Star Bar Farms lists the radishes and purple mustard greens, and new this week baby turnip greens!

Rocky Glade Farm has:
Starbor Kale
Collards
Kohlrabi
Concept Leaf Lettuce
Ruby Sky Leaf Lettuce
Swiss Chard
Green Romaine Lettuce
Spinach
and one of my favorite’s Clio Dandelion greens. Their listing states: The leaves are rich in potassium, antioxidants, and vitamins A and C. Dandelion greens can be eaten raw, steamed, boiled, sautéed or braised. All parts of the dandelion are edible and have medicinal and culinary uses. It has long been used as a liver tonic and diuretic. In addition, the roots contain inulin and levulin, starchlike substances that may help balance blood sugar, as well as bitter taraxacin, which stimulates digestion.

Dandelions are amazing plants and can even be dehydrated on very low heat for use as a nutritious seasoning. Stock up and try this!

We want to welcome Sweetpea to the site! Linda and family create lovely cloth napkins, a wonderful alternative to paper and for everyday use! She has crocheted items and a variety of plant starts that will be different from our other providers! Welcome Sweetpea to our market family!

We have a wonderful variety of delicious baked goods from Hope for Health Double Star Bar Farms, Flying S Farms,along with mid-day or lunch box snacks from Seeds of Success. Don’t forget your canine treats from Nom Noms

Have a beautiful day market family and we will 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.

Plattsburgh Online Ordering:  open for online orders

Greetings from Nebraska! Will be back in time to harvest spinach and deliver your goodies Friday. We will be open for ordering through Tuesday evening. Thank you for supporting us all.

Peru Online Winter Farmers Market:  online ordering now open

Greetings from Nebraska! Will be back in time to harvest spinach and pack your goodies Friday-Monday. We will be open for ordering through Tuesday evening. Thank you for supporting us all.

United States Virgin Islands:  This week in VI Locally Grown

Hello friends,

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

Best,

Your VI Locally Grown Growers

Naples,FL:  eggs, cream added Market closes tonight

market closes tonight

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

The Spa City Co-op market is now open for ordering at spacity.locallygrown.net.

Please place your orders before Tuesday at 9 pm,, fresh greens before Monday at 9 PM, and plan to pick up your orders at Emergent Arts on Friday April 1, from 3PM to 5:00PM, the earlier the better. If you’re unable to pick up your order at this time please make arrangements to have your order picked up for you.

Don’t forget – this market has no paid positions, so we NEED VOLUNTEERS to run every market. It’s fun, you get a $5 gift card, and you learn so much about local foods in Arkansas.
Have a great Easter and see you on Friday!

this market’s manager
Karen Schuman
karenschuman9@gmail.com
501-276-3318

Statesboro Market2Go:  The market is open!

Thank you for shopping with us!

Northeast Georgia Locally Grown:  Market is Open for Orders!

Good Evening Locavores!

Northeast Georgia Locally Grown is open for orders!
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Tullahoma Locally Grown:  Your Market is OPEN - March 25th

Good Afternoon.

Your Tullahoma Locally Grown Market is open. There are great selections from our growers including pork, beef, chicken, lamb, eggs, milk, candles, organic coffee, sprouts, bread, fudge, cheesecake, and so much more. Please feel free to browse the online market. Be sure to select your items between now and Wednesday at noon.

Here is the link to the market: Tullahoma Locally Grown Market

Have a great weekend!

Thank you for your support.
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