Stones River Market:  Market is OPEN - Last week of February

Last week of ‘What a February’ we’ve had! Hope everyone will be drying out from this past weeks rains and flooding. Woke up this morning with the Sun shining and Blue skys. Ready to go outside and plant something lol.

Market has some great items to offer this week. Enjoy your week and see you “on The Porch”.

From our Growers:

Wedge Oak Farm is on the market this week, time to stock up!

Farrar Farm LLC: Beef Special this week, Buy $25 of beef and receive a free pound of ground beef.

Dogwood Valley Greenhouse: You need some cheering up during this ongoing dreary, wet weather! Dogwood Valley Greenhouse has just the thing to brighten your week, your home, your desk – bouquets of beautiful yellow-and-white daffodils. Each vase contains more than a dozen beautiful blooms and is tied with a colorful florist bow. This cool, cloudy weather has prolonged the bloom season of the daffodils, and as of this week, we are anticipating two more weeks of daffodils.

Does your garden need some early spring color? The pulmonaria and several colors of primrose are already beautiful. All these will do best in a spot where they will be in good shade during our hot Tennessee summers. They will combine well with ferns and hostas, with the pulmonaria’s variegated foliage adding summer interest as well.

BB’s Gourmet Pretzels: Excellent alternative to chips CC’s Smudges, Delicate Heat, Garlic or Lemon Pepper Gourmet Pretzels. All flavors are also available Gluten Free.

Flying S Farms: This is definitely the last week of our Carrots, still in bundles but with the greens removed. Eggcellent Egg Special continues, Buy 2 Dozen, receive $1.00 off, buy 3 Dozen, receive another $1.00 off etc.

The Creole Diva: Anytime is a good time for Camellia Red Beans and Rice, Creole Jambalaya, Dirty Rice along with Cajun Salt Free Seasonings and Creole Seasoning will warm your ‘heart’ this week. Top off your special meal with Ma Maws Bread Pudding with Rum Sauce, Sweet Potato Pie or Creole Cushaw Pie!

Short Mountain Cultures: Our Coconut Kefir: was our Top Seller of 2018, Think Greet Yogurt/Sour Cream substitute, tangy. Awesome with sweet and savory dishes. Top your taco or top it with granola and fresh fuits.

Mark your calendar for another great class on Fermentation Workshop Sun, March 17 at 1-5pm.
Review the Category Section and thank you for supporting our Growers and the Market.

See you “On the Porch” at Quinn’s Mercantile Wednesday February 27th from 5:00 – 6:30pm, please contact me if you are unable to make delivery or are running late, please phone, email or text me so we can make arrangements to get your order to you.

How to contact us:

Email: [email protected]
Website: stonesriver.locallygrown.net
Facebook: www.facebook.com/StonesRiverMarket
Locations: Quinn’s Mercantile on Wednesdays: 307 North Spring Street, Murfreesboro
map: https://goo.gl/maps/GAkJS1wawbr

CLG:  Tamales! Opening Bell: Honey, Beef, Lettuce, Donutses!

Good afternoon!

It’s Tamale time! This Friday we’ll have Doña Estela’s amazing homemade Tamales! She will make them Friday morning and have them at market Friday afternoon. They will be 5 for $7 in 3 flavors: Pork, Chicken, or Jalapeño & Cheese. To place an order, please add a note to your CLG order, or text me at 501-339-1039. Delicious with sides of re-fried beans and rice, topped with a bit of salsa and sour cream.

Thanks to Kim Doughty for hosting a seed starting class at the library on Tuesday. Dozens of people showed up to learn how to grow some of their own food. And the library was abuzz again on Saturday for the seed swap. Hundreds showed up eager to get some new varieties of seeds for this year’s garden. We should have Tomato and Pepper plants available in late March so get your garden spot ready now! Cedar Rock Ridge has lots of Atomic Grape Tomato plants and Shishito Pepper plants growing now, and others.

Bar C has Country sausage and Italian sausage on sale this week. Stock up! Great for making lasagna!

Be sure to SEARCH for your favorite items using the search field. Over 600 items available now!

Most items are listed by 6pm Sunday, but check back again before the market closes Tuesday night to see if any other items are ready to be harvested for you! Eat fresh! Eat local! Eat for better health!

And save your eggshells throughout the week for the laying hens! :-)

The market is now OPEN for orders. Click here to start shopping:

https://conway.locallygrown.net/market

Please check your email a few minutes after you place your order to make sure you get an order confirmation. Thank you!
Steve

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

Good morning!

Welcome to this week’s offerings from your online farmers’ market. 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, most located within 30 miles of Manchester, 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.”

Farm News of the Week

Some of you discovered the new item on the market last week, the one that wasn’t posted yet when I wrote the newsletter. So here’s the “news”, a little late: Michael Raines of Frontier Family Farm has added a 5 inch round pan of Cornbread.

Deb Wittig of Knottynuffacres will be off the market for a few more weeks.

Weaver Farms meats are unavailable this week.

Hope for Health products will be off the market for a few more weeks.

You need some cheering up during this ongoing dreary, wet weather! Dogwood Valley Greenhouse has just the thing to brighten your week, your home, your desk – bouquets of beautiful yellow-and-white daffodils. Each vase contains more than a dozen beautiful blooms and is tied with a colorful florist bow. This cool, cloudy weather has prolonged the bloom season of the daffodils, and as of this week, we are anticipating two more weeks of daffodils.

Does your garden need some early spring color? The pulmonaria and several colors of primrose are already beautiful. All these will do best in a spot where they will be in good shade during our hot Tennessee summers. They will combine well with ferns and hostas, with the pulmonaria’s variegated foliage adding summer interest as well.

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 on THURSDAY between 4:00 and 5:30 at the pavilion across from Manchester City Schools administration building, 215 East Fort Street, Manchester.

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:  Feb. 23, 2019 M@D Newsletter

This Week’s Newsletter:
Announcement
Market Chitchat
Grower Notes

SPRING FARMERS MARKET

We are excited to announce that we will be setting up in the Dothan Nursery parking lot on the three Saturdays listed above.

LOCAL – all food sold is produced within in the Wiregrass
FRESH – Always, and usually just picked!
SUSTAINABLE – Our regular Market vendors use organic growing methods, however for special occasions like this we do allow guests who are not part of our weekly operations.
YEAR ROUND – this means the produce offered is in season. You’ll probably not find tomatoes or cantaloupe, but you will find what nature deems good and necessary this time of the year. As we get further into spring the produce will change.

THIS WEEK’S GROWER NOTES

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

HORTONS FARM: So Excited!
Part 1: When I was a kid my dad grew the BEST watermelons in the world. They were a roundish yellow variety with tan seeds and Dad told us the reason you didn’t see them in stores was because they did not travel well – they were so juicy they would burst in transit. As an adult I’ve enjoyed the occasional yellow watermelon, but none ever as good as the ones Dad grew.
Part 2: Many of you know my mom came to our home mid December to recover from pneumonia. She’s doing very well now and has left to spend some time with one of my sisters. Right before leaving she told me she’d found my Dad’s watermelons in a catalog.

Somebody just across the county line from where we grew up gave this local variety a name and introduced it to the rest of the world. Mom thinks The Catfish Preacher Zenus Windsor is responsible but I’ve not been able to confirm that. We only knew the melons as “yellow watermelons” and saved seeds every year that were shared and replanted the following year. It’s now known as a Clay County (Alabama)Yellow Watermelon and Ashland, AL even has a yearly festival in honor of them.

Seems I’ve missed a lot since moving from the area! Regardless I’m thankful to find them and am hoping they’ll take as well to our sandy south Alabama soil as well as they’ve done for generations in the rocky clay soil of my childhood. We shall see!

AVALON FARMS:

It’s taters, Prescious! (Yes! I love Lord of the Rings! Books and movies.)

Putting in 8 rows of red potatoes. We’ll move enough dirt into the furrows to just cover the potato pieces. Then in a few weeks when the potato plants are about 6 inches tall, we’ll cover them again. And probably 1 more time after that. That is referred to as “hilling” the potatoes. In a few months we’ll have new potatoes!

SMART DOC RESOURCES: Exciting news from SmartDocs! I just returned from a lengthy trip to West Africa and fell in love with the local people . I toured many facilities of like minded people (and nonprofits) that did everything from skill training to farming techniques.  Most of these nonprofits were sponsored by Norwegian folks,  Jamaican and British. We formed a nonprofit – Earth Farm Gambia collaborating with Art Farm and are in the process of putting hydroponics in the compound.  Our R&D guy, Terry, who just patented a fish serum nutrient is from England and my best friend in from Canada so we have an international group. Terry also has been working with other nonprofits and putting in Terry Gardens (terrace gardens using compost) in many areas. BTW  we will be shipping supplies once a quarter to Gambia, so any throw aways (clothes, children books, toiletries, etc) we will be collecting. No electronics please….they don’t work on the european plugs!

Here is our progress:

Editors Note: If you wish to donate usable items we will have a secure plastic tub at the Market Shed designated for this effort. You may drop off items at any time starting Friday March 1.

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

PICKUP TIME is Wednesday from 5-6:30pm!

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!

Statesboro Market2Go:  The Market is Open!

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

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.

920 Cattle & Co. has some new combo packs, and Sugar Magnolia Bakery & Cafe now has many of their products listed online.

Ma’s Country Pantry is running a February special on their 7 different types of salsa.

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.

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

There’s so much growing on at Augusta Locally Grown. Visit our events calendar at augustalocallygrown.org!!

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

Good morning,

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

Russellville Community Market:  The Market Opens at Noon!

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! We have vegan gluten free peanut butter cookies, a variety bouquet of jonquils, daffodils, and narcissus, Ralston Rice, free range eggs, beef brisket, kale, beeswax lotion bars, dog treats, and tons of other goodies on the market this week. Make sure to check it out and place your order!

Russellville Community Market

FRESH.LOCAL.ONLINE

Spa City Local Farm Market Co-op:  Market Day

The Spa City Co-op market pickup is today from 3-4:30 pm at Emergent Arts. Please pick up your order in that period or arrange for someone to do it for you.

Many thanks,
Karen Holcomb
Market Manager