Dothan, Alabama:  April 6, 2019 M@D Newsletter

This Week’s Newsletter:
Outdoor Farmer’s Market
In Season
Market Chitchat
Grower Notes

NEXT SATURDAY!

Don’t forget that the following Saturday the first ever GET GREEN ALABAMA event will be taking place at Dothan Nurseries. Market at Dothan will be there along with some of our regular vendors. We hope to see you there!

RADISHES

Those of you who picked up in Dothan last week may have seen these lovelies from Avalon Farms.

Radishes are one of those vegetables that you either like . . or don’t. Many of us fall in the don’t category. Kathy (of Kathy’s Churpers) nas been sharing on Fridays that radishes are not limited to spring salads and cute culinary roses, but may in fact be roasted and seasoned like other root vegetabes. A quick internet search confirmed that along with many recipes for both roots and the greens. So here’s to trying something different!

Top Left: Braised Radishes with Shallots & Bacon Top Right: Cinnamon Sugar Radish Chips Bottom Left: Radish Leaf Pesto Bottom Right: Grilled Radishes with Brown Butter, Thyme, and Sea Salt

THIS WEEK’S GROWER NOTES

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

AVALON FARMS:

What a crazy time of year it is! And what a crazy year for weather! (Over here in Kinston, I’ve actually had frost on the ground twice in the last 2 weeks!! Scared me LOL)

Succession planting allows you to have a continuous supply of quality vegetables available. To do that I have planned to plant squash successions every 3 to 4 weeks. Sounds simple enough, right? In reality the 5 rows of squash planted 3 weeks ago have just come up. I’m assuming it is due to the unusually cool temps. Then, right on schedule, I planted 7 more rows this week. 50 days from now there should be squash everywhere. Ha Ha

Been working on root crop production. So proud of my raised beds of carrots. Finally, good germination. Woo Hoo Tried an old trick I’d heard of and covered the beds with burlap bags. Watered twice a day. And surprise, baby carrot plants!

Other root crops currently available and coming soon: red radishes, Easter egg radish assortment, watermelon radishes, just right turnips, salad turnips, red potatoes and 2 kinds of fingerlings.

Smart Doc Resources Virginia is headed back to Africa for a few more weeks. If you have any summer clothing or children’s arts supplies to donate please take it to the donation box at the Market Shed ASAP. Microgreens will continue to be on the Market as Clifford will be holding down the fort here in Dothan in her absence.

Heritage Farm :  Chicken, Eggs and turkey!!!

We have lots of chicken, eggs and turkey at Peachtree Road Farmers Market till noon today!!!

Come on out!!!!!!

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.

Hi! I’m Diana Murray, owner of Nature’s Elite in Tullahoma! I am excited to be the newest pick-up location for Middle Tennessee Locally Grown. At Nature’s Elite we strive to help improve the quality of life of our customers by offering nutritional supplements including high-quality CBD, bone broth, bee pollen, and local honey. Not sure what CBD is? Come on by and see me and I will provide you with education about CBD and how it might benefit you! Also, we offer free samples daily!

Check out our website, www.natureselitetn.com, or find me on social media @natureselitetn for more information. I look forward to seeing you soon!

Diana Murray, Owner
Nature’s Elite
1802 North Jackson St., Suite 800
Tullahoma, TN 37388
931-222-4258

Farm News of the Week

At Frontier Family Farms this week, everyone loaned a hand – er, in some cases, paw – to get all the vegetable seeds sown. Morris was a great help!

Meanwhile, Hefty kept his eye on the chicks under their heat lamps. There will be lots of eggs this fall!

Hope Harrison of Hope for Health is still on “vacation” after the birth of her child.

Terra Hills Natural Products and Casey Family Farm products will both be unavailable for several more weeks.

Don’t forget about Wayne Diller’s special on whole frozen chickens. Get yours while they last!



Add some spring color to your garden! The weather is great for planting perennials and shrubs, but please don’t buy your tomatoes or peppers yet! (We will have those in about three weeks.)

Dwarf Coreopsis, Dianthus; Japanese Painted Fern, Foam Flower; Woodland Phlox, Pincushion Plant.

Please remember to send us your comments about your favorite products or farms, for publication in a future newsletter. The best advertising is always word of mouth, and our farmers really appreciate your encouragement.

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.

Northeast Georgia Locally Grown:  MARKET IS OPEN FOR ORDERS!

Good Evening Locavores, Northeast Georgia Locally Grown is open for orders!
Go to the market >>
Fresh Vegetables
Clean Meats
Baked Goods with Organic ingredients
Pastured Eggs
See all products

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

Statesboro Market2Go:  The Market is Open!

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

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

We have big news for you – Doug’s Wild Alaska Salmon brought extra when he delivered and has stocked us up with salmon. We will keep them listed online for pickup each week until we run out. We also now have some smaller packages for sale.

Now is the time for Spring planting – find a wide variety of native fruit trees, vegetables, herbs, and flowering plants from Southern Native Plantings. Support your local nursery, farmer, and market by ordering them through Statesboro Market2Go!

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.

Opening day for the Statesboro Main Street Farmers Market is April 6th!

Our featured vendor this week is Three Tree Coffee Roasters They are a locally owned and operated coffee roaster in Statesboro whose mission is As a tree is a source of life, we want to use specialty coffee to give life in three ways… Empowering the Farmer, Ending Human Trafficking, and Engaging our Community.

Our featured sponsor this week is Synovus with locations on East Main Street, Fair Road, and Lovett Road in Statesboro. Their location at East Main Street is our host for the Saturday market each week.

Old99Farm Market:  apr 4 2019

Lots of lovely greens in the hobbithouse. Take a look.
We have Russian Red and ‘Dino’ kale, spinach, perpetual green chard, rainbow chard and buttercrunch lettuce.
In the store freezers we have a nice variety of pork and beef cuts, and roasting and stewing hens. We have soup bones for making broths and soups.

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.

Healthy eating,
Ian and Cami

Russellville Community Market:  The Market is Open!

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 Is Open! We have Carrots, T-Bone Steaks, Buttercrunch Lettuce, Local Honey, Pita Bread, Free Range Eggs, Fudge, and so much more on the Market this week.
Make sure to check it out and place your order!

Russellville Community Market

FRESH.LOCAL.ONLINE

Augusta Locally Grown:  THE OINE MARKET IS OPEN AT AUGUSTA LOCALLY GROWN!

Visit the Events Calendar on our OTHER website: augustalocallygrown.org. From fermenting workshops to farm tours … we’ve got it “growing on” at Augusta Locally Grown!

Happy seasonal eating!!

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

Good morning,

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.

Usually our awesome volunteers have the market ready for customers to pick up before 4pm. If you are out and about and want to know if we are ready, just text me to see: 501-339-1039.

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

Suwanee Whole Life Co-op:  Ordering time! The Market is open

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

No Newsletter this week… I’m taking a news break this week but check out all the great items on the market!

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.