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

Good morning!

Welcome to Middle Tennessee Locally Grown online farmers’ market! As always, everything you see on our website is the “cream of the crop” from local farmers, the best products picked and made with pride especially for YOU! When you place an order with our farms, you know you are supporting your friends and neighbors, located in Middle Tennessee.

Please look around at various categories, since there may be some new things added to the market after I send out this message. Also please be sure to read the section of the page entitled “Important Ordering and Pickup Information.”

Don’t forget about our pick-up location in Tullahoma in addition to the usual one in Manchester. Now you can avoid the delivery charge and come visit with your market managers! Be sure to let us know via the drop-down menu which location you prefer for pickup.

Farm News of the Week

Welcome back to Triple B Farms. Natasha has added several products. Some of them are:

(top, L to R): Coffee, Dairy Goat.
(Middle) Herbs Dried or Fresh.
(Bottom): Several Rag Quilts.

Dogwood Valley Greenhouse* is offering a special this week on Dwarf Coreopsis blooming perennials. Spruce up your perennial garden with these little beauties. Regularly $6.50 each, these full blooming plants are now 2 for $10.

Don’t forget to get your tomatoes and peppers soon. Heirloom tomato varieties I have this year are: Brandywine, Supersweet 100 Cherry, Mortgage Lifter, Mr. Stripey, Rutgers, and Beefmaster. Pepper varieties are: Purple Beauty, Sweet Banana, and California Wonder. If you don’t see one of these, please request that I restock!

(L to R, top) Dwarf Coreopsis, Tomato Plant “Rutgers” (and several others).
(L to R, bottom) “True Love of Mine” herb basket.
Herb Plants in Embellished Terracotta Pots.

Important Ordering and Pickup Information

Ordering will be open until TUESDAY at 10 pm, and your order will be available for pickup at your choice of the following:

• Thursday afternoon between 4:00 p.m. and 5:30 p.m.* under the big pavilion on Fort Street with signs that say “Coffee County Farmers Market.” It’s behind the Farm Bureau building on Main Street, and across the street from the Manchester City Schools administration building, 215 East Fort St, Manchester.
• Or on Fridays between 4:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. inside “Nature’s Elite”, next to Dunham’s Sporting Goods, in the Cherokee Square Shopping Center on North Jackson Street in Tullahoma.

We can also deliver your order to your home (or other location) on FRIDAY afternoon for a small fee, if it’s more convenient for you. If you prefer to utilize this service, please place an order for it, same as other products, selecting your delivery area. Don’t forget to give us your location address in the comments section of the order. Also please text Linda at (931) 273-9708 for specific arrangements.

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. 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. 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 and inviting them to give us a try. 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 & Michael

Here is the complete list for this week.

Dothan, Alabama:  April 27, 2019 M@D Newsletter

This Week’s Newsletter:
Roz’s Ramblings
Food For Thought
Market Chitchat
Grower Notes

A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE

This has been a BUSY spring! We hope everyone has taken advantage of the beautiful weather and opportunities to visit Dothan Nurseries when tents were up.

Last weeks Get Green Alabama Marketplace gave me a fresh perspective on all the wonderful things that are and that take place at Dothan Nurseries. Normally I participate by working, and while I did invest some work for Get Green Alabama, on Saturday when it took place I attended as anyone else from the public, as part of the crowd.

To be honest, the shift in gears didn’t happen immeiately, but being with family who had never been to the Nursery was a huge help. My trendy, hipster, city slicker kids picked up right away that Dothan Nurseries is a special place . . . and they were in no hurry to leave long after Get Green Alabama had packed up and gone home! They had all made new friends and great memories before leaving. On the way back to Echo they remarked that they were quite surprised to find a place “like that” so close to home.

I suspect this guy will be looking for a porch swing “like that” for his home in Raleigh.

“Like that” indeed! We count our blessings to work alongside JD and all the Nursery staff. It truly comes across that it’s not all business, but about being a blessing to our community. Thanks guys! You’re the Best!

MARKET CHITCHAT

It’s that time of year!

If you didn’t pick up on it, this year’s Open House theme is an old timey Ice Cream Social. And we have a lot of great vendors lined up to participate in the Farmer’s Market:

Order Pickup will take place starting 2 pm on Thursday, May 9 instead of Friday this week only.

There will be no Daleville or Enterprise delivery that week. We hope our friends from Dale & Coffee County will visit us during Open House and meet your growers! These guys are signed up so far:

Avalon Farms	D’s Jellies	Casablanca Ranch
Fostering Hope	Hortons Farm	Martin Teas
Smart Doc Resources	Panda Organics	Mark It With A B Whoopie Pies
Throckmartins Table	Koning Pottery	Mary Opiary

New & Relisted Products

• Avalon Watermelon Radishes are back!
• New: English Breakfast Radishes
• Sugar Snap Peas (in case you didn’t see them last week)

THIS WEEK’S GROWER NOTES

We have the best Growers in the Wiregrass! Please learn more about them on our Grower Page.

AVALON FARMS: I’m writing this as I wait to be wheeled back for foot surgery. As you can imagine this will have quite an impact on the next few weeks of farm work. With the help of my stupendous husband and my favorite  daughter, I’m hoping to keep the minimum things going.

The sugar snap peas are in full production mode. The English peas finally have baby peas. I’m secretly hoping they will come in this week while there’s extra help!

Watermelon radishes are finally sizing up so I will be listing a few.

English Breakfast Radishes, new to the market this week, are cylindrical and known for their coloring which changes from a vivid fuchsia-red to bright white at the tip. They are a very crispy radish with a mild spicy flavor. Roasting or grilling brings out a slight nutty and sweet flavor. Have fun experimenting!

Potatoes are blooming. Onion and garlic are sizing up.

Cukes will be appearing in the next few weeks, as they are just setting fruit.

Everything seems behind. Normally I would be picking squash by now. Those late cold snaps held things up. But we’ll get there soon.

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

The Spa City Co-op online market is now open for ordering. Please place your orders by Monday at 9pm for Arkansas Natural Produce and by Tuesday at 9pm for all other vendors. Do’t forget to scroll down and hit the place this order button.

Please plan to pick up your order by 4:30pm on Friday at Emergent Arts. If you cannot pick up by that time, please arrange for someone to do so for you.

See you Friday!

Northeast Georgia Locally Grown:  MARKET IS OPEN FOR ORDERS!

Good Evening Locavores, Northeast Georgia Locally Grown is open for orders!
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Fresh Vegetables
Clean Meats
Baked Goods with Organic ingredients
Pastured Eggs
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Market stays open from Fridays 9 p.m. until at least 9 p.m. Mondays!

Thank you for choosing Northeast Georgia Locally Grown as a way to support your local producers. This online farmers market allows you to buy directly from multiple farms committed to chemical-free and local produce all year long! CHEMICAL-FREE means produce and pastures grown without synthetic fertilizers, herbicides, fungicides, or insecticides. LOCAL means within 80 miles from the market pickup locations (usually much much closer). Do you know someone who grows chemical-free food in the area? Get them in touch with us. Know someone who wants fresh food? Spread the word. Put the two together, and that’s growing organically!

PICKUP TIME is Wednesday from 5-6:30 p.m.

If you do not get an email ORDER CONFIRMATION right after you order then your order is NOT complete. Log back in and your order might still be there waiting for you to check out! If you have any trouble or questions at all, we are here to help; simply reply to this email or call Andrew at 770.530.3287

Suwanee Whole Life Co-op:  Farm tour is happening this Sunday!

It’s a go! Thank you to everyone that signed up! You still have time to sign up to attend the farm tour!

The weather should be beautiful so if you know you can make it please register at
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/farm-tour-back-in-time-farm-tickets-60612897809
(no need to print out tickets; register only)

or if you use Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/events/669509243492854

HAY RIDE will be provided for little ones and those that can’t walk for long periods of time!

Feel free to bring a snack to have by the gentle flowing creek at the back of property.

Please make sure to arrive about 15 minutes before the tour starts. We will promptly start at 2pm. Bring water & sunscreen!

You’re more than welcome to invite friends and family that might be interested in the farm and our market but please have them RSVP or add them to your count.

Have a wonderful weekend!
Nora

Statesboro Market2Go:  The Market is Open!

Thanks for shopping with us! Find lots of fresh, delicious, local produce, fresh herbs, milk, butter, goat cheese, seafood, shrimp, beef, and pork. We also have items that are already prepared and ready to eat, made from local ingredients.

Prosser’s Seafood is catching some big shrimp – find them online or at the Saturday market for his first fresh-caught Georgia shrimp of the season!

We also have a small supply of Dougs Wild Alaska Salmon that he stocked us up with. We will continue to list it until supplies run out.

Strawberries, Asparagus, and Green Onions are coming in now – look for them from Jacobs Produce.

We are pleased to welcome Bootleg Farm to Market2Go! You may have seen them in years past at the Saturday market with their delicious goat cheeses. They now have their chèvre, mozzarella, Parmesan, and feta cheeses online!

Remember we have changed locations for our Statesboro pickup to the Statesboro Convention & Visitors Bureau at 222 S. Main St. Hours will remain the same, and our Sylvania pickup will remain the same at Victory Garden General Store.

Click to read about our exciting changes. We are eliminating the annual membership fee and in its place — because we have to maintain support for the market — we’re instituting a surcharge of 7% on each order, beginning on March 1st.

The Statesboro Main Street Farmers Market is having a Strawberry Fest this Saturday, April 27th. Vendors will be selling delicious, farm fresh strawberries plus they will have demonstrations and samples of unique ways you can use them, including strawberry salsa!

Our featured vendor this week is Toni D Studio. an arts and crafts vendor specializing in the Japanese art of amigurumi, or adorable crocheted dolls and creatures! You can find her creations at the Saturday Main Street Farmers Market.

Our featured sponsor this week is Statesboro Magazine. Pick up your subscription today for some of the finest feature storytelling Statesboro has to offer!

Growing Together :  First Order Period Open!

We’ve got a lot of great products listed for our first order period!
Some highlights include:

• Chrysanthemum greens (shungiku), which are young and tender and flavorful additions to salads
• Fenugreek leaves (because where else in Nashville can you get fresh fenugreek leaves??)
  *And many varieties of beautiful spring greens!

The market is open from Friday evening until Monday at noon each week. Restaurant orders will be delivered on Tuesday afternoon and all other orders will be available for pickup at The Nashville Food Project’s California kitchen on Wednesday evening at the farm stand or Thursday all day. Orders are filled on a first come, first serve basis. If we are out of an item, please let us know in the comments section of your order and we will do our best to fill your request.

In this market, you’ll find products offered from the Growing Together collective as well as from individuals farmers in the Growing Together program. All of our products offered are grown using natural, sustainable methods. No chemicals are used on the vegetables we offer you through our market! You can read more about the Growing Together farmers on the “Our Growers” page.

Thank you for supporting Growing Together!
If you have any questions, please contact Sally Rausch at [email protected].

Patchwork Online Market:  Online Market Open for Ordering!

Hello,

The market is open. Please have your orders in by Sunday night.

https://patchworkfarmstand.locallygrown.net

Augusta Locally Grown:  THE ONLINE MARKET IS OPEN AT AUGUSTALOCALLYGROWN

How lucky are we to live in a place where winter, spring and summer crops co-exist so flavorfully together? Spinach and peas and basil … yes please!

Thank you for supporting local farmers.

Russellville Community Market:  Weblog Entry

To ensure your order is placed, make sure you click the “Place My Order” button once you have completed your shopping. You will receive a confirmation email.

Orders will be ready for pick from 4PM – 6:30PM this Tuesday at the Downtown Russellville Train Depot!

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The Market Opens at Noon!
From beautiful eggs, to grass fed beef, fresh spinach, carrots, radishes, live plants, raw honey and delicious pastries – we have it all on the market this week!

Russellville Community Market

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