Suwanee Whole Life Co-op:  Don't forget to order...

Just a friendly reminder, if you haven’t already placed your order, that market orders are due online by 6 pm TODAY. Order now so you don’t forget :-)

Click Here to Place Your Order For WEDNESDAY pick up in Suwanee

Thank you for placing your order and supporting local farms and businesses!

Green Acres Atkins:  Opening Bell...........good morning to a hot October fall!

Good Morning to a hot October fall!

Hope you are having a good weekend we are still working on a fall crop this weather is making it a challenge!

Please place your orders at greenacresatkins.locallygrown.net by Wednesday at noon.

have a great week

Tom and Kami Green

Stones River Market:  Good Morning - Market is OPEN!

Hard to believe its “Fall” when the temperatures were in the 90’s last week. The heat takes a toll on some of the Fall crops but they will jump back when it starts getting cooler again.

Our Market is full of a great selection of Meats, Fresh Produce and Fruit, Fermented Produce and Dried Fruit and Nuts. Pumpkins are still available for Fall Decorations and eating. This is also the time to plant bulbs and shrubs for next Spring.

Please tell your neighbor, co-worker, family and friends about our On-line Market. Several ‘Live’ markets are closing for the season BUT REMEMBER WE “DO NOT CLOSE” (except after the Holiday briefly)

REMINDER: Halloween will be on a Wednesday this year, we will have DELIVERY ON TUESDAY.

News from our GROWERS:

Rainbow Hill Farms: has green beans and yellow wax beans available, they are delicious mixed together or separate, as a side dish or on salads. Apple Varieties change weekly as they become available, be sure to check the Fruit Section out.

Erdmann Farm: Pumpkins are still available as well as peppers and okra.

Short Mountain Cultures: has a large selection of Bulk Items from seeds, flours, nuts and dried fruit along with their Fermented items of Kvass, Kefir, Sauerkraut, Hot Sauces and Tempeh.

If you’ve ever had an interest in fermented foods this will be a great Class to attend…… Also from Short Mountain Cultures: Spend the afternoon with Sandor Katz in our space at The Arts Center of Cannon County. You’ll learn the basic principles behind familiar fermented favorites such as beer, sourdough and yogurt and see demonstrations of intriguing live foods like kombucha and kefir. Snack on a beautiful spread including delicacies from Short Mountain Cultures and get juicy in a hands-on lesson in sauerkraut-making. Leave with a jar of your very own kraut to ferment at home.

All of Sandor Katz’s books with be available for purchase day of, including the revised and expanded edition of Wild Fermentation.
Preorder Ohio Stoneware crocks/weights/lids, tempeh starter culture, kombucha scoby, or jun scoby to ensure availability. Cultures come with instructions for fermenting at home. Local pickup the day of the workshop or pick up at The Franklin Farmers Market or Richland Park Farmers Market of Saturday, October 20 if you are not coming to the workshop.

Sunday, October 21
1:00 pm –5:00 pm

Short Mountain Cultures
1424 John Bragg Hwy
Woodbury, TN
(Inside the Art Center)
$50* Includes a jar of sauerkraut and ferment-laden appetizers from Short Mountain Cultures.

Looking forward seeing you on “The Porch” at Quinn’s Mercantile Wednesday.

How to contact us:
Our Website: stonesriver.locallygrown.net
On Facebook: www.facebook.com/StonesRiverMarket
On Wednesdays: Here’s the map: https://goo.gl/maps/GAkJS1wawbr

Independence,VA:  Market closes Monday night at 8 pm!

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Good morning,

Check out the abundance and variety of produce on the Market right now! Be sure to get your order in by Monday night at 8 pm.

To Shop: Independence Farmers Market.

The Apple Festival (and our last outdoor Market of the year) is coming up this Friday, October 12th. There will be a free community cider pressing. Apple cider will also be available to purchase, all proceeds go to the Independence Farmers Market. We’ll also have an apple dessert contest. 1st place prize, $100, second place, $30, and third place, $20! Be sure to have your dessert at the Market no later than 10:15 am on the day of.

Thank you for supporting the Independence Farmers Market!

Abby

The Wednesday Market:  We're Open! You Can Order Now

Good evening.

The Wednesday Market is open for orders. Please place your order by 10 p.m. Monday. Orders are ready for pick up between 3 and 6 p.m. Wednesday. Please see the website for this week’s product offerings. Here is the link: https://wednesdaymarket.locallygrown.net/market

Have a great remainder of your weekend, and we’ll see you at the Market.

Thanks,
Beverly

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

Molly Cornelison of Kountry Vittles writes:
I know it doesn’t feel like fall, but be patient – the cool crisp air will soon be here. The pumpkins are ripening, and with that comes pumpkin rolls and many other delicious pumpkin items. I have seen a few leaves trying to change their colors to display their beautiful hues of red and orange, painting a wondrous scene, making me crave the mouth-watering taste of my grandma’s “Stay Soft Sugar Cookies” decorated up in Buttercream icing and wonderful sugars in the fall colors. My little licensed kitchen has started getting ready for all the treats of fall baked up fresh just for you.

Fermentation Workshop – Sun, Oct 21

Don’t forget to place your preorders of Ohio Stoneware, starters, and scobys to ensure availability.

Please RSVP and purchase your ticket at https://shortmountaincultures.com/product/workshop/

Learn more at www.wildfermentation.com.

More fall veggies!

Bibb lettuce heads are back, Michael at Frontier Family Farms finally has the head lettuces back after some issues in the system. They are better than before!! I have also seen pics of the sugar snap peas in the greenhouse and they look like it will be about 2 weeks… can’t wait!

Micro greens are back too: Spicy cabbage and kale.

Name That “Bug”
— courtesy of Michael Raines

Riddle: What will this caterpillar grow into?
Bonus: What kind of plant is it on?

All correct answers will be acknowledged in the next edition of the newsletter.

Dothan, Alabama:  Oct. 6, 2018 M@D Newsletter

This Week’s Newsletter:
Fall is in the Air!
Smart Doc Class Info
Market Chitchat
Grower Notes

ROZ’S RAMBLINGS

I freely admit to cheating.

I’m writing from high on a mountain in Tennessee where pumpkins are still in the field and the air is dryer and crisper than what we’ve felt in south Alabama for a long time. It’s been a few years since I’ve made this trip – an annual renewal for the mind, heart and soul, complete with ridiculous laughter, thrifting with girlfriends, outdoor activities, serving and being challenged. It’s a good reset button.

One of the things I LOVE about the Cumberland region is the abundant fall color. The trees are farther along, pumpkins are EVERYWHERE and we can’t stop anywhere without wheat straw blowing around our feet.

If you go by the lunar calendar it’s Fall everywhere in North America and Canada, but if you go by how it manifests itself in our region, ours starts a bit later and isn’t quite as brilliant. Normally our blissfully mind winters make up for that. That’s not going to stop us from celebrating though. A week from today our Fall Farmer’s Market starts and we are excited!

Saturday, October 13 Here’s What’s Happening

10 am – Melody Forsythe -Jesche – Food Preservation Workshop in the Market Shed This workshop will cover EVERY type of food preservation. Melody has extensive experience and will answer all your questions.

10am-2pm Farmer’s Market – Parking Lot of Dothan Nurseries

12pm – “Smart Doc” Virginia Schafer – Healing tips for Seasonal Change

Hope to see you there!

MEET DR. SCHAFER

Dr. Schafer has provided us an overview of the workshop she is offering at noon next Saturday during the Fall Farmer’s Market.

Healing tips for Seasonal Change

Virginia Schafer  BSN, DC, MD    Virginia, a recent transplant to the Dothan area is an alternative healer that has been educated in both Eastern and Western medicine and will be talking briefly about what happens to our body when seasons change.  If you experience allergies, lethargy, muscle aches, sleepless nights, and other maladies….it may be just the change in seasons (and your body).  Virginia will talk about some studies that may link these changes to hormones and our endocrine system and give us some practical tips on how to survive and be healthy when mother earth starts to slow down. (and so do we!)    

Dr. Schafer with some small friends

THIS WEEK’S GROWER NOTES

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

BAIN HOME GARDENS: Marketeers!
   Do you like Pepper Jelly? For the longest time I personally had an aversion to it.  When I was younger, I tasted some that made my tongue numb for days! Yep, that left a mark on my mind! However, last year I had the pleasure of trying D’s Jellies. I really enjoyed it! In fact our entire family did! It made me wonder if it was something I could make myself. Thus when planning out the garden this year, we were sure to include many pepper variations. Well after a beautiful gift of jalapenos (which we had no success with this year) from Mr. Bob Lee of Dothan Nurseries, we decided to go ahead and take a shot with our very own Pepper Jelly.

We are happy we did! We are all very pleased with the flavor! As the weather cools, our peppers will slow and eventually stop producing. Until then, we are harvesting and preparing for our next batch. We are are not listing this at this time but check out D’s Jellies, Hawkins Homestead Farm, & Mary’s Peeps. You won’t be disappointed!

Many well wishes – from our family to yours!

DANNY’S GREENS The cooler nights have been good to the lettuce so we’ve been able to increase the quantities offered.

HAWKINS HOMESTEAD: Hello Market Friends! Welcome to October! Hasn’t the year flown by? Yes!! Here on the farm, the chickens have been in a molt and are slowly coming out of it. Hopefully we will be able to catch up on egg orders soon. The one thing we can usually count on is eggs, but now even the chickens decided to take an early break. Even still their eggs are beautiful as always. The picture below is one of our worst days, but yet the eggs were just so pretty. The chickens need this time to shed and grow new feathers so we will just keep packing them up with proteins! See you guys next week!

HORTONS FARM: Thank you for your patience during our recent absences. Two weeks ago we were at the Alabama Beekeeper Association’s Fall Conference where Ros happily handed the baton for her seat on the state board these last 3 years to another fine beekeeper lady from the Mobile area. So happy to see more women involved in beekeeping at this level.

This photo was taken at Cedine Camp in Tennessee early Friday morning. It’s been four years too long since taking in this view.

We’ll be busy next week bottling honey and preparing for the Fall Farmer’s Market on Saturday, October 13. Hope to see you there!

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
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Clean Meats
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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!

The Market is open! Thank you for shopping with us and supporting your local farmers!

Our new Farmers Market Logo is up. T-shirts and insulated bags featuring the new logo are available online!

Available this week – fresh, local, and delicious – persimmons, zucchini, cucumbers, tomatoes, squash, herbs, onions, milk, butter, eggs, duck eggs, coffee, shrimp, fish, beef, pork, bacon, sausage, dog bones, native plants, and cut flower bouquets. Plus, there’s prepared foods made from local ingredients- casseroles, quiches, granola, desserts, scones, breads, pickled vegetables, dressings, sauces, jellies, jams, fruit butters, and more!

Limited time – guest vendor Michael’s Pumpkins – decorative pumpkins with a mix of colors ranging from orange and light orange with yellow and stripes of orange and yellow to white to variegated blue.

B&G Honey will be back online in a few weeks.

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

Good morning!
Strack farm will have lots of mini gourds and pumpkins on the extras table today! Come early for the best selection.

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