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Heirloom Living Market Hamilton Mill:  Just a Reminder....


Market Closes at 8:00pm Today!



As of this writing, the total Market orders are less than $400. There must be a minimum of $650 in orders to make it feasible for delivery, set-up and pickup. If this minimum is not reached, you will be notified at Market close (8:00pm Monday) and given the option to cancel your order or pick it up at the Lawrenceville location. If you have any questions, please contact Maryanne at 404-432-4337.


Please be assured that we are doing everything we can to provide you with what you want from the local Farmers/Growers and Producers; but, please understand that Buying Local means supporting those who are committed to providing ‘Local’!

Hop on over to the Market and place your order…

Thank you for your support! See you at Market on Thursday!


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Florida Suncoast Locally Grown:  New Additions on Market


New additions to on line market this week!
CERTIFIED ORGANIC PARSLEY, CILANTRO, LEMONS, RED ONIONS, AND FUJI APPLES!
We will have certified organic ruby grapefuit at the stand when you come to pick up, unsure of price right now!
Have a great day!

Heirloom Living Market Lilburn:  There is still time to order...Market Closes at 8:00pm!


Market pickup is Thursday 4:30pm – 6:30pm!



Greetings All:

Just a reminder that Market closes at 8:00pm tonight.


Offerings you may want to check out!

Bakery on Brooks is back and Marie has fabulous Gluten Free offerings! Paleo Bites, perfect for an after-work-out-pick-me-up or a part of breakfast or healthy afternoon snack for the kiddos! Cookies to tempt your taste buds; soft and yummy Sandwich Bread perfect for sandwiches for Gluten Free folks! Try any of her delicious Rolls or Cornbread with your favorite soup. We are blessed to have such a wonderful Baker who makes the best Gluten Free items I have ever had!


For those of you who are not Gluten Free, My Daily Bread offers a great variety of Organic Baked Goods! Jams/Jellies/Preserves, (my favorites are the Hot Pepper Peach and Blackberry) all made from Organic ingredients! Check out the two new items Dabrielle has added! Beer Buzzed Cheese Dip, (perfect for snacking with veggies or crackers) and Buffalo Blue Cheese Dip which would go great with some Chicken Wings from Heritage Farm! Beware — Dabrielle says “It’s not for the faint of heart!” She has also added sliced Pumpernickel to her fabulous variety of yeast breads! Dabrielle bakes with passion and loves providing us with fresh Organic offerings and we are blessed to have her at Market!


Greg of Heritage Farm has Whole Duck, Leg of Lamb and Lamb Chops on Special this week. Bacon is back! This Hickory Smoked Bacon is over-the-top in flavor! Try some! Oh the Deli Sliced Ham is delicious. I have had it on sandwiches and added to a Fritatta — FABULOUS! Heritage Farm is a Family run Farm. Greg’s wife, Lainya and their children all participate in the work and running of Farm, so their ‘by-line’ from our family to yours encompasses that truth. I will be highlighting the Farm in next week’s Newsletter and we will have Greg as Farmer of the Day soon! I am grateful Heritage Farm is part of the Heirloom Living Market Family!


Carrell Farms is back with Water Buffalo offerings! Try some Soup Bones for wonderful Bone Broth!


Check your Grocery List and get your orders in before 8:00pm this evening for delivery on Thursday!


Veggies
Peacefield Farm
The Veggie Patch
Milk
Cedar Rock Dairy (Cow)
Little Tots Estate (Goat)
Eggs
Rocky Acres
Golden Farms
Little Tots Estate (Organic, Soy Free, pastured chickens) on Farmers’ Sale Table only
Bakery
Bakery on Brooks
My Daily Bread
Grass Fed Meats
Carrell Farms
Heritage Farm
Microgreens
Cedar Seeder
Honey
Dances With Bees
Natural Products
Carrell Farms
Dances With Bees
So-Koi
Handmade Items
Carrell Farms
Dances With Bees
Peacefield Farm
So-Koi
Flours/Grains/Salt
My Daily Bread
So-Koi

Just a heads-up…this week at Market Kefir and Organic Quinoa will be available on the Farmer Sales Table. There is a limited amount of Kefir, so if you know you would like some, please send me an email.


Hop on over to Crossfit Market

Hop on over to the Hamilton Mill Market

Hop on over to the Lilburn Market
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Azure Standard

Azure Standard Deadline for January
Azure Standard Order Deadline: Tuesday, January 6th 6:00pm
Azure Standard Pickup Date: Tuesday, January 13th at 2:30pm
Pickup Location: 963 Buford Drive, Lawrenceville, GA
Drop #: 796431
Drop Name: Heirloom Living Market Lawrenceville
Drop Coordinator: Maryanne Vaeth
Contact Information: Email Drop Coordinator
Phone: 404-432-4337

This Group on Facebook will keep you up to date on the “happenings” with this service!

Azure Standard Lawrenceville Drop Information: My Azure Standard Drop Lawrenceville


I want to check out Azure Standard.

Thanks for your support! See you Thursday!

~Maryanne

Heirloom Living Market Hamilton Mill:  There is still time to order...Market closes at 8:00pm


Greetings All:

Just a reminder that Market closes at 8:00pm tonight.


Offerings you may want to check out!

Bakery on Brooks is back and Marie has fabulous Gluten Free offerings! Paleo Bites, perfect for an after-work-out-pick-me-up or a part of breakfast or healthy afternoon snack for the kiddos! Cookies to tempt your taste buds; soft and yummy Sandwich Bread perfect for sandwiches for Gluten Free folks! Try any of her delicious Rolls or Cornbread with your favorite soup. We are blessed to have such a wonderful Baker who makes the best Gluten Free items I have ever had!


For those of you who are not Gluten Free, My Daily Bread offers a great variety of Organic Baked Goods! Jams/Jellies/Preserves, (my favorites are the Hot Pepper Peach and Blackberry) all made from Organic ingredients! Check out the two new items Dabrielle has added! Beer Buzzed Cheese Dip, (perfect for snacking with veggies or crackers) and Buffalo Blue Cheese Dip which would go great with some Chicken Wings from Heritage Farm! Beware — Dabrielle says “It’s not for the faint of heart!” She has also added sliced Pumpernickel to her fabulous variety of yeast breads! Dabrielle bakes with passion and loves providing us with fresh Organic offerings and we are blessed to have her at Market!


Greg of Heritage Farm has Whole Duck, Leg of Lamb and Lamb Chops on Special this week. Bacon is back! This Hickory Smoked Bacon is over-the-top in flavor! Try some! Oh the Deli Sliced Ham is delicious. I have had it on sandwiches and added to a Fritatta — FABULOUS! Heritage Farm is a Family run Farm. Greg’s wife, Lainya and their children all participate in the work and running of Farm, so their ‘by-line’ from our family to yours encompasses that truth. I will be highlighting the Farm in next week’s Newsletter and we will have Greg as Farmer of the Day soon! I am grateful Heritage Farm is part of the Heirloom Living Market Family!


Carrell Farms is back with Water Buffalo offerings! Try some Soup Bones for wonderful Bone Broth!


Check your Grocery List and get your orders in before 8:00pm this evening for delivery on Thursday!


Veggies
Peacefield Farm
The Veggie Patch
Milk
Cedar Rock Dairy (Cow)
Little Tots Estate (Goat)
Eggs
Rocky Acres
Golden Farms
Little Tots Estate (Organic, Soy Free, pastured chickens) on Farmers’ Sale Table only
Bakery
Bakery on Brooks
My Daily Bread
Grass Fed Meats
Carrell Farms
Heritage Farm
Microgreens
Cedar Seeder
Honey
Dances With Bees
Natural Products
Carrell Farms
Dances With Bees
So-Koi
Handmade Items
Carrell Farms
Dances With Bees
Peacefield Farm
So-Koi
Flours/Grains/Salt
My Daily Bread
So-Koi

Just a heads-up…this week at Market Kefir and Organic Quinoa will be available on the Farmer Sales Table. There is a limited amount of Kefir, so if you know you would like some, please send me an email.


Hop on over to Crossfit Market

Hop on over to the Hamilton Mill Market

Hop on over to the Lilburn Market
.
Azure Standard

Azure Standard Deadline for January
Azure Standard Order Deadline: Tuesday, January 6th 6:00pm
Azure Standard Pickup Date: Tuesday, January 13th at 2:30pm
Pickup Location: 963 Buford Drive, Lawrenceville, GA
Drop #: 796431
Drop Name: Heirloom Living Market Lawrenceville
Drop Coordinator: Maryanne Vaeth
Contact Information: Email Drop Coordinator
Phone: 404-432-4337

This Group on Facebook will keep you up to date on the “happenings” with this service!

Azure Standard Lawrenceville Drop Information: My Azure Standard Drop Lawrenceville


I want to check out Azure Standard.

Thanks for your support! See you Thursday!

~Maryanne

Princeton Farm Fresh:  The Market is Open


I guess the old saying about time flying while you are having fun is true. I can hardly believe that 2015 is here already. I am looking forward to this year. It is a time of change and renewal, to leave the old habits behind and look forward to improving ourselves and our communities.
That is just what I want to do right here in our hometown. Improve our access to locally grown food. I am still running into folks that have not heard of Princeton Farm Fresh. How can that be? I need to do a better job of marketing our farmers market! I could really use your help with this. I am looking for new ways to get connected in our town. We always have room for new farmers and customers. Most of all I am looking for feedback from you our customers. What can we do better this year? What items are you looking for? Is there someone that you can connect me to, that I can share our market with? Where do you want our market to go?
I am open for any and all thoughts and suggestions. I have some fun stuff planned for this year, and I really want to bring more local food to our community. With your help, I think we can do just that. Send me an e-mail with your thoughts and suggestions and I will do my best to act upon them.
See you Friday,
Angela

Heirloom Living Market Lawrenceville :  There is still time to order...Market closes at 8:00pm


Greetings All:

Just a reminder that Market closes at 8:00pm tonight.


Offerings you may want to check out!

Bakery on Brooks is back and Marie has fabulous Gluten Free offerings! Paleo Bites, perfect for an after-work-out-pick-me-up or a part of breakfast or healthy afternoon snack for the kiddos! Cookies to tempt your taste buds; soft and yummy Sandwich Bread perfect for sandwiches for Gluten Free folks! Try any of her delicious Rolls or Cornbread with your favorite soup. We are blessed to have such a wonderful Baker who makes the best Gluten Free items I have ever had!


For those of you who are not Gluten Free, My Daily Bread offers a great variety of Organic Baked Goods! Jams/Jellies/Preserves, (my favorites are the Hot Pepper Peach and Blackberry) all made from Organic ingredients! Check out the two new items Dabrielle has added! Beer Buzzed Cheese Dip, (perfect for snacking with veggies or crackers) and Buffalo Blue Cheese Dip which would go great with some Chicken Wings from Heritage Farm! Beware — Dabrielle says “It’s not for the faint of heart!” She has also added sliced Pumpernickel to her fabulous variety of yeast breads! Dabrielle bakes with passion and loves providing us with fresh Organic offerings and we are blessed to have her at Market!


Greg of Heritage Farm has Whole Duck, Leg of Lamb and Lamb Chops on Special this week. Bacon is back! This Hickory Smoked Bacon is over-the-top in flavor! Try some! Oh the Deli Sliced Ham is delicious. I have had it on sandwiches and added to a Fritatta — FABULOUS! Heritage Farm is a Family run Farm. Greg’s wife, Lainya and their children all participate in the work and running of Farm, so their ‘by-line’ from our family to yours encompasses that truth. I will be highlighting the Farm in next week’s Newsletter and we will have Greg as Farmer of the Day soon! I am grateful Heritage Farm is part of the Heirloom Living Market Family!


Carrell Farms is back with Water Buffalo offerings! Try some Soup Bones for wonderful Bone Broth!


Check your Grocery List and get your orders in before 8:00pm this evening for delivery on Thursday!


Veggies
Peacefield Farm
The Veggie Patch
Milk
Cedar Rock Dairy (Cow)
Little Tots Estate (Goat)
Eggs
Rocky Acres
Golden Farms
Little Tots Estate (Organic, Soy Free, pastured chickens) on Farmers’ Sale Table only
Bakery
Bakery on Brooks
My Daily Bread
Grass Fed Meats
Carrell Farms
Heritage Farm
Microgreens
Cedar Seeder
Honey
Dances With Bees
Natural Products
Carrell Farms
Dances With Bees
So-Koi
Handmade Items
Carrell Farms
Dances With Bees
Peacefield Farm
So-Koi
Flours/Grains/Salt
My Daily Bread
So-Koi

Just a heads-up…this week at Market Kefir and Organic Quinoa will be available on the Farmer Sales Table. There is a limited amount of Kefir, so if you know you would like some, please send me an email.


Hop on over to Crossfit Market

Hop on over to the Hamilton Mill Market

Hop on over to the Lilburn Market
.
Azure Standard

Azure Standard Deadline for January
Azure Standard Order Deadline: Tuesday, January 6th 6:00pm
Azure Standard Pickup Date: Tuesday, January 13th at 2:30pm
Pickup Location: 963 Buford Drive, Lawrenceville, GA
Drop #: 796431
Drop Name: Heirloom Living Market Lawrenceville
Drop Coordinator: Maryanne Vaeth
Contact Information: Email Drop Coordinator
Phone: 404-432-4337

This Group on Facebook will keep you up to date on the “happenings” with this service!

Azure Standard Lawrenceville Drop Information: My Azure Standard Drop Lawrenceville


I want to check out Azure Standard.

Thanks for your support! See you Thursday!

~Maryanne

Joyful Noise Acres Farm:  Ordering ends at 8:0pm.


Please get your orders in before the market closes at 8:00 tonight.
If you are attending the Sourdough class on Saturday, you can wait until then to pick up if you want.
Blessings,
Mary Beth

Atlanta Locally Grown:  Available for Saturday January 10


I hope this finds you all doing well. Happy New Year! Here we go, kicking off 2015 with a great selection for the market. While my garden is gone to the pigs for the winter Taylorganic has lots of great produce available this week. The cabbage, collards, kale and more will enhance any meal. Order up, you will eat 28 times over the next week. Hopefully we can be apart of those meals. Carroll farms has some fantastic water buffalo available this week. Our farm has eggs, mushrooms and plenty o pork.

Let’s welcome 2 new producers this week; Mana In Our Foods, with prepared meals and Red Cactus Tamales with tamales or a varietal of flavors.

Please order up, we appreciate all your support and don’t forget to share us with a friend.
The market is open until 8pm on Wednesday and pick up is on Saturday at your selected delivery location; Piedmont Park, Sandy Springs Farmers market or Brookhaven Farmers market, we will be in touch with you about the time.
Thank you,
Brady

Old99Farm Market:  Old 99 Farm, week of Jan 4 2015


First thank you to the thoughtful Old 99 loyalists who gave us a gift of something home cooked or brewed, or a card and well-wishes over the Holiday Season. You reeally made our day!

I learned recently that Jan 1st is a very important day for chickens in California. Yes their new egg law is being implemented. Proposition 2,(2008)requires that all shell eggs for sale in the state come from hens afforded enough space to turn around and stretch their wings and fly, well, maybe walk and hop.

How much space do the scientists think a hen needs to comply with the new law? A spacious 116 square inches, as it turns out. That’s a nice upgrade from the very stingy 67 square inches (less than a piece of writing paper) afforded to hens unfortunate enough to be born into the battery cage neighborhood.

To comply many egg producers are just reducing the number of birds per cage which in the short run, means fewer eggs laid. Out of state producers have to comply too, if they want to sell in California.

The industry spin is generally the same; California voters approved the measure ultimately causing a decrease in the size of the flocks supplying the egg market *with a corresponding increase in the cost of eggs. *

There’s an economy of scale example to illustrate in real-life why small pastured producers have eggs that cost more. But are eggs at today’s prices expensive?

If a price of eggs costs $6 per dozen, that’s really 50 cents per egg. That means two sunny-side up eggs for breakfast is $1. You can’t buy a latte, a 20 ounce root beer, a pack of cigarettes, or a gallon of gas for a $1. The US pastured poultry average for a dozen of eggs is $5.20 per dozen with premiums paid for organic and soy-free production.

While the hens supplying California’s cheap egg markets have more space to live, it doesn’t result in a better quality egg. And it doesn’t eliminate cages. This is part that nobody is really talking about. Here in Canada, there is no law forbidding confinement cages for layers. That’s why you can buy eggs for $2/doz. But do they taste good? Are they nutritious? do you care about animal rights to not subsidize that industrial mode of egg production?

I figure pasture produces better quality and provides a suitable welfare environment for the chickens. There are many studies to back up the nutritional differences in pasture-raised eggs. Also, there is no caged production and the living space for pastured hens can be measured in square feet with additional space for foraging. My 90 birds have 400 sq ft inside and 8000 square feet of outside space and were eating grass on Xmas day! (Mild winter helps:)

That is the context for my “Let’s all eat eggs” campaign here for the next while. I have happy hens producing more eggs that you’all are buying. So puleez, get your neighours and co-workers interested in pastured eggs. I’m offering a free dozen with every 3 you buy. That works out to $4.50 a dozen. Buy three, get four. Sounds like an omelet to me!

The greenhouse offerings are still plentiful, with salad greens, kale, collards, spinach, green onions, and carrots. More root crops in the cold cellar. Lots of meats in the cooler, including stewing hens.

Healthy eating
Ian and Camelia

Athens Locally Grown:  ALG Open for January 8


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

Welcome to 2015, and another year of Athens Locally Grown. This will be our fourteenth(!!) year in operation, and we are looking forward to many more. Many of our growers are have slowed down for the winter, delivering every other week or otherwise reducing their availability. Many others, however, are still going strong thanks to greenhouses and other season-extending methods. Now that the holiday season is behind us, we’ll be going every single week from now until our next week off — Thanksgiving.

Each year, I devote the first few mailings of the year to the behind the scenes operation of ALG. This week, I’m going to talk about the many legal issues surrounding our market. Even though many people call us “the co-op”, ALG is legally a market owned and operated me, so I can have a place to sell items I occasionally offer from my own garden. There’s no board of directors, no shield corporation, no pot of grant money. It’s just me, and while that keeps things very simple, it also exposes my family to a ton of potential liability. It’s never been an issue (except when the whole raw milk thing erupted a few years ago) but there are several things I do specifically to minimize that risk:

  • The growers list their own items and set their own prices. When you buy from them, it is from them, not from me, and not from Athens Locally Grown.
  • Athens Locally Grown never takes ownership or possession of the food. The growers drop it off, and you pick it up.
  • Everything at the market has a customer’s name attached to it when it arrives. ALG does not repackage any items, or buy in bulk for redistribution.
  • When you pay, you’re paying into a shared cash box for all of the growers. This lets you write a single check or swipe your card once for convenience, but you are really paying all of the growers directly and individually. Your money goes in, and the software I wrote to keep everything going spits out checks for each of the growers you buy from.
  • The growers give a small percentage of their sales, generally 10%, back to the market to cover the many expenses of keeping the market going. I’ll cover the details of finances another week.
  • ALG never buys from a grower and resells the items to you. Never.
  • When a grower sells items that need licenses from either the state or the federal government, ALG verifies that the proper licenses have been obtained.

The ownership issue is key. It’s one of the reasons why we don’t offer delivery, and why we usually can’t hold items for you if you aren’t able to pick up your orders. Delivery might be a good business for someone (if they could figure out all the legal requirements), but it’s not at all what I personally want to be into. I think it would be a valuable service for you, and I’m hoping someone will be able to partner with me for this. Many food co-ops and even some farmers markets aren’t as careful with keeping ownership straight as I try to be, and that has gotten other groups similar to us into serious legal trouble (deserved or not) over the years. There are so many grey areas in all this, and the written regulations still don’t even consider that something like Athens Locally Grown might exist. We’re so firmly in the grey areas with most everything we do that it’s just too risky for me to bring us into the areas that are clearly black.

So, these are the sorts of things that guide my thinking as Athens Locally Grown has grown over the years. Everything we do has legal ramifications, and the state of Georgia has a reputation for being no nonsense when it comes to enforcement — with the little guy, anyway. That has became extra obvious in recent years, and the FDA is also putting pressure on groups like us too. I’m not a lawyer, but every time we enter those grey areas, I make sure we follow the intent of the laws, don’t flaunt anything, and have a good defense and a paper trail should we need it. And when that doesn’t work, the good folks at the Farm to Consumer Legal Defense Fund are behind us. They have consumer memberships, too, and I do encourage everyone who is able to become a member of the FtCLDF.

The FtCLDF was my legal counsel in the federal lawsuit against the FDA I (and one of our members) was a plaintiff on. The lawsuit was in response to the seizure and destruction of 110 gallons of South Carolina milk purchased by ALG members in October 2009. During the pre-trial phase, the FDA moved to dismiss the suit, and went so far as to claim that the milk dumping, filmed and placed on YouTube, with an FDA agent clearly identified, never happened. The judge refused to dismiss, and gave the FDA six months to give a yes or no answer to whether what we did is really considered illegal. Exactly six months later, they responded that it was illegal, but also claimed that even though an FDA agent was at my house giving direction, they had no hand in the dumping. They also went on record stating that individuals were legally free to cross state lines and buy raw milk to take home with them (something that the FDA agent at my house said, on camera, was completely illegal under all circumstances). After that, the judge dismissed the suit without fully ruling whether ALG was also free to facilitate our members collectively ordering and picking up milk across state lines. In any case, the state of Georgia still says what we were doing was illegal, so raw milk is still very hard to come by.

And there in a nutshell is the legalities behind ALG. In the following weeks, I’ll get more into the nuts and bolts of finances and other aspects of how we work.

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 has closed for the winter. You can watch for news during the offseason on their website. The other area markets are also all closed for the season, I believe. If you know of any winter markets operating, please let me know. And they might all be closed, but we’ll be here all year round!

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!