CLG:  CLG Pickup TODAY 3:30-6pm. Bring eggshells, glass jars, & egg cartons please.

Good afternoon,

If you ordered plants, please bring a box to put them in.

This is a pickup reminder for those of you who ordered this week. Thank you for your order! You can pick up your order from 3:30 p.m. until 6:00 p.m. today at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church at 925 Mitchell Street in Conway.

If something comes up that you cannot personally pick up your order today, please contact someone to pick up for you.

Remember to bring your EGGSHELLS, glass jars for recycling, egg cartons, and bags for ordered items. Reduce, reuse, recycle! See you this afternoon.

Come early for the best selection from the EXTRAS table! Even if you didn’t make an order, you can come by to shop the EXTRAS table.
Steve

Champaign, OH:  Welcome Back!!

We are opening the market, again, for the week!

Show us some love, and watch for new products, incoming seasonal products, and new vendors!!

XOXO,
Cosmic Pam

Suwanee Whole Life Co-op:  Market is Open for ordering! Group Buy this Weekend

Happy Friday! It’s time to order for this week’s market!

Additional News:
*Marview Farms has their pasture raised whole chickens listed! They will list weekly until Back in Time Farm has more in stock mid May.

• Carrell Farms on the market this week. We order every other week.

Click link to order: suwanee.locallygrown.net

Order before 6pm on Sunday!

ORDER CONFIRMATION:
If you don’t get an email right after you order then your order is NOT complete. Log back in and your order will still be there waiting for you to check out.

PICK UP:
Pick up is on ***WEDNESDAY*** at 1300 Peachtree Industrial Blvd. Suite 1104, Suwanee at Cultured Traditions from 1 pm to 6:30 pm.

PAYMENT:
We take checks, cash, Zelle, PayPal, and credit cards online. Credit cards can not be swiped at pick up location b/c there is no Wi-Fi.

To pay by credit card on file click “Pay Now” button at the bottom of the check out page. I don’t run credit cards until after pick up on Wednesdays.

If paying by DWOLLA or PayPal, please pay by Wednesday! I pay our vendors on your behalf before you pick up so I need all payments initiated by Wednesdays.

Suwanee Whole Life Co-op:  Farm Tour: Please register so we don't cancel

Hi there, if you are interested in attending the FREE farm tour at Back In Time Farm this Sunday, April 28th from 2 – 4pm, please let us know by 7pm Friday. Right now we only have 9 people signed up so if there’s not enough interest we’ll cancel since it’s a lot of work for Bill and Ruth. We’ll make a decision and if we cancel we’ll let everyone know.

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

Feel free to forward to friends and family that might be interested in the Farm Tour and market.

Thanks so much!
Nora

Miami County Locally Grown:  You know what we need?

Maybe you know how exciting it can be to come across a real treasure at a flea market or yard sale. I have the fondest memories of scouring the vendor tables at the stock yards with my grandma in their tiny Michigan farming town.

When she died last year I was heartbroken. And it was more difficult than it should have been to visit the Yards later that summer, knowing she’d never go with me again.

But lo and behold did I find a treasure of which she would have approved – a collection of glass milk bottles, which represented our little homesteading family perfectly, both because of the sizes (2 quarts for my husband and I, and 4 pints for our 4 children) and because the name of the old dairy family happened to be our last name as well!

Now, my in-laws have always been very sweet about asking if there’s something in particular we need for a Christmas or birthday present. So when happily we found I was pregnant with our 5th child, we knew just how to break the news to them!

When they asked their usual “So think about what you need for Christmas, and let us know”, we showed them the milk bottles lined up so smartly on the shelf, with a very conspicuous gap at the end, and told them we had everything we needed except a 5th pint… and it was immediately evident by their dumbfounded stares they caught on right away :-)

And we haven’t found our newest addition’s bottle yet, but we’ll keep on looking, and are thankful little Anna Rose (FINALLY) arrived this week, as healthy and vocal as the rest of the clan (and just in time for a very tired Daddy to go finish the chores and bring in the morning’s milk)!

Knowing in her matter-of-fact way, Grandma would say “Well I like babies, I had 10 you know”, she was always the first person we told when we’d find out we were having another, and I do love looking up at those bottles, sure of how happy she’d be as our little family and our farm dream continues to grow.

Miami County Locally Grown:  Tea at the Tavern May 4th!!

Our very own McGuffey Herb and Tea Co. and the historic Overfield Tavern in Troy present the Second Annual “Tea at the Tavern” on Saturday May 4th!!

Experience early 19th century elegance as you sip historically inspired teas and sample pastries – all served by authentically costumed volunteers!

Period music will complement the company of friends and family in the warm, intimate environment of Troy’s oldest structure.

Tea will be served at two seatings, at 1 pm and again at 4 pm. Tickets are $20 each and may be purchased through Eventbrite (subject to fee), or by mailing a check payable to the Overfield Tavern Museum and mailed to the museum at 201 E. Water St., Troy, OH 45373. Please specify number of guests in your party and with whom you would like to be seated!

Visit the Overfield Tavern Museum Facebook page for more information :-)

And remember we close the Market tonight at 8pm!!

Old99Farm Market:  Old 99 Farm, week of Apr 22, 2019

Please take alook at the greens in our greenhouse: we got them through -28dC and hail and wind, now are prime for harvesting. Two bunches for price of one: red russian kale, Nero kale, rainbow chard, perpetual green chard, buttercrunch lettuce, Rouge d’hiver leaf lettuce, parsley, collards, something for every one.

Beef selection is tops and so is pork, you can buy individual cuts or 20lb packs or halves or quarters. I like the bacon this time compared to last; more smoke and salty flavour.

Pork is on special this week: 15% off market price. Ribs, shoulder roasts, butt and loin chops, smoked cuts.

There are tree saplings now diggable, quite large, about 8 ft tall: Locust, eastern chestnut.

Eggs are three doz for price of two, in other words, buy two doz and get the third free.

Compost for your garden, organic inputs from cow, chicken and pig manure, lots of straw and wood chips, innoculated with beneficial organisms, biochar and rock flours. $4/bushel (35L) or $60/cu yd (22 bushels).

Climate site of the week: Dark Mountain. Has been around for 10 years or so, very personal exploration of how we creatively react to the news and science of abrupt climate change, possibly stabilizing to a world we humans have never experienced before in all our history. Here are some quotes from a recent blog post on the global climate rebellion:

- [you will feel] the need for quiet spaces where bridges can be built between troubled insiders, an awakening grassroots and the ‘knowledge-carriers at the edges’; spaces of negotiation, away from the frontlines.

‘What you people call collapse means living in the same conditions as the people who grow your coffee.’

- part of Roger Hallam’s argument [for Extinction Rebellion] is that the rational, secular logic of mainstream Western activism, with its dependence on promises of progress, is the anomaly, while the stance for which he speaks has more in common with what has sustained grassroots movements in other times and places, and continues to do so.

…this is the first activism around climate change in the West…that has roots this deep, that draws on spiritual traditions. Roger speaks about ‘the dark night of the soul’, the need to move through the darkness rather than avoid it. This is a call to rebellion that is framed in the language and draws on the traditions of mysticism.

…the observation, backed up by research on social movements, that those whose willingness to act endures the longest are not the activists who are motivated by outcome, who need to be given hope and to believe in their chances of success, but the ones who are motivated by doing the right thing.

Independence,VA:  Market is OPEN for May 1st pickup!

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Good evening,

It’s time to place your order! Thank you all for your support! We’re really proud of what we have going here in Independence, but we couldn’t do it without all of you!

To Shop: Independence Farmers Market.

Upcoming Events:

Join us for the opening of the 2019 Market Season in Town Park on Friday, May 10th from 9 am- 1 pm! We’ve invited area artisans to join us Opening Day so you can find a perfect gift for Mother’s Day.

Join us Sunday, May 26th from 2- 5 pm for Farm Day at Wagon Wheel Farm, 1132 Gold Hill Rd, Independence VA for an afternoon of hands-on activities. See and try out some of the best market garden tools. If you’ve taken our “Grow More Vegetables” class, you’ll see those spacings and planting ideas in the ground and growing! Tour the greenhouse, high tunnel and field. Free kids activities. Rain date is Sunday June 2, same time and place.

Thank you for supporting the Independence Farmers Market!

Abby

Foothills Market:  Your Last Chance...

This is the last day Foothills Market will be open this season, so get your shopping done before 5:00 p.m., and we’ll see you tomorrow for pick-up.

Thank you for your business this season – we appreciate you all!

The Cumming Harvest - Closed:  April 24 2019

The Online Market is open for ordering from 8 AM Wednesday till 8 PM on Thursday.

Please feel free to make your selections from the great products available this week.

Remember the New Customer Referral Program

From March 20 through June 30

How it Works
1. Tell a friend about the CUMMING HARVEST farmers market.
2. Have them register at cumming.locallygrown.net. (the market managers will contact all new customers to ask who referred them)
3. After their third purchase (3 different weeks), your credit will be applied to your account.
Thank you for sharing your love of healthy food and for helping to support our local growers!

Stephen Daniels
770-905-9155