The Weblog
This weblog contains LocallyGrown.net news and the weblog entries from all the markets currently using the system.
To visit the authoring market’s website, click on the market name located in the entry’s title.
Athens Locally Grown: ALG Market Open for September 29
Athens Locally Grown
How to contact us:
Our Website: athens.locallygrown.net
On Twitter: @athlocallygrown
On Facebook: www.facebook.com/athenslocallygrown
On Thursdays: Here’s a map.
Market News
It doesn’t exactly feel like it yet, but there are signs that summer is winding down. Sure, the equinox this last week is the official start of Fall, but the weather hasn’t gotten the memo yet. But the nights are longer than the days, and the plants pick up on that really quick. Take the arugula, for example — there are six different listings for that zesty green. It might have some heat of it’s own, but it’s not fond of summer at all. Right on it’s tail we’ll see bountiful spinach, cabbages, broccoli again, and other cool season crops. The summer items will hold on as long as they can — we’ve still got over a months until frost will but an end to those. So, for the next few weeks we’ll get to enjoy the best of both seasons! It’s exciting times in the kitchen, for sure.
Thanks so much for your support of Athens Locally Grown, all of our growers, local food, and our rights to eat it. You all are part of what makes Athens such a great area in which to live. We’ll see you on Thursday at Ben’s Bikes at the corner of Pope and Broad Streets from 4:30 to 8pm!
Other Area Farmers Markets
The Athens Farmers Market is open on Saturdays at Bishop Park and Wednesday afternoons downtown at Creature Comforts. You can catch the news on their website. The West Broad Farmers Market from the Athens Land Trust is open Saturday mornings and Wednesdays from 11am-2pm in the atrium at St. Mary’s Hospital. They have a website too. The Comer Farmers’ Market is open for the season on Saturday mornings from 9am to noon. Check www.facebook.com/comerfm for more information. The Oconee County Farmers Market is open on Saturdays in Watkinsville. Their website is www.oconeefarmersmarket.org. Washington, GA also has a lovely little Saturday market, running from 9-1. You can learn all about them here: www.washingtonfarmersmkt.com. If you know of any other area markets operating, please let me know.
All of these other markets are separate from ALG (including the Athens Farmers Market) but many growers sell at multiple markets. Please support your local farmers and food producers, where ever you’re able to do so!
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!
Green Fork Farmers Market: Weekly product list
Dear Green Fork Farmers Market Customers,
NEW this week! Foundation Farm has certified organic lettuce, arugula, kale, red mustard, bok choy, leeks, onions, sweet Italian frying peppers, celery, cilantro, squash, and eggplant.
Also available this week:
Vegetables—tomatoes, okra, potatoes, sweet potato greens, garlic, pumpkins, butternut squash, and peppers—green bell, sweet banana, poblano, mild jalapeno, regular jalapeno, hot Thai, Aji Criolla Sella, habanero, Tabasco, Datil, Carolina Reaper, and mixed hot peppers.
Honey—Local and delicious.
Herbs—Basil and rosemary.
Eggs—Pastured, free range.
Meat—Pastured beef, chicken, and goat.
Fermented foods—Sauerkraut, okra, and jalapenos.
Salsa—Made with locally grown and organic ingredients.
Olives and Olive Oil—organic and directly from the grower in California.
Live plants—Fig trees.
Go ahead and place your order, then pick up and pay on Wednesday from 4-7 pm at Nightbird Books in Fayetteville.
If you aren’t able to place an order, stop by to shop with us on Wednesday. We will have a variety of items for sale from the table.
See you on Wednesday,
Green Fork Farmers Market
Wednesdays 4-7 pm
Indoors, Year Round
Inside Nightbird Books
205 W. Dickson St.
Fayetteville, AR
To place your order, click on the link below to enter the website. Sign in as a customer, then click on the icon next to each product you wish to order. Proceed to checkout, review the list to make sure it’s correct, then scroll to the bottom and click on Place This Order. Make sure you receive a confirmation email—-if you don’t, your order was not processed. Payment is at the market pickup with cash, check, debit/credit card, EBT, and Senior FMNP coupons. Ask about our doubling program for EBT and SFMNP!
Fresh Harvest, LLC: Fresh Harvest for September 25th
To Contact Us
Fresh Harvest, LLC
Link to Fresh Harvest
Email us!
Tallahassee May
[email protected]
JohnDrury
[email protected]
Recipes
Purple HUll Peas and Sausage Dinner
Try this with some of our sausage and a salad for a full Fresh Harvest dinner!
1 large onion, chopped
3 cloves garlic, minced
1 tablespoon vegetable oil
4 cups fresh purple hull peas
1 quart chicken broth
12 to 16 ounces spicy andouille-style sausage or similar spicy smoked sausage
salt and pepper, to taste
In a medium skillet or sauté pan, sauté the onion and garlic in the oil until softened. Transfer the vegetables to a medium saucepan; add peas and chicken broth. Cover and simmer over low heat for 30 minutes.
Meanwhile, slice the sausage and brown in the skillet. Add to the peas, cover, and simmer for 20 minutes longer, or until peas are tender.
Uncover and increase heat to medium (a low boil); continue cooking for about 3 to 5 minutes to reduce slightly.
Add salt and pepper, as needed.
Serve with cornbread.
Serves 4 to 6..
Market News
Hello!
We’ve got some exciting new items for you this week! In addition to lots of good greens, winter squashes and potatoes, Rocky Glade Farm has their ginger and tumeric up! These are fresh dug roots, and are so vibrant and delicious! They are a far cry from what you get in a store, and if you haven’t tried them yet we suggest you do!
There are lots of green beans, lettuce, peas, and other good items as well!
The Bloomy Rind Cheese shop has an amazing selection of artisan cheeses this week. Really good stuff that is hard to find anywhere else, so please check out their selection!
Thank you so much for all your support!
See you Wednesday!
John and Tallahassee
Coming Events
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 pos
Siloam Springs, AR: Online Market is Open!
Looking forward to the cooler temperatures that come with Fall.
Just a reminder that the outdoor market is also opn Tuesday from 3-7 pm. Our farmers still have an abundance of beautiful produce.
Come shop with us Tuesday or Saturday. Enjoy your week and see you at the market!
Miami County Locally Grown: Market Closes at 8pm Tonight!!
Less than five hours to place your orders for the week! So many new offerings… beef, pork, herbs, body care, pet products… something for everyone!
Middle Tennessee Locally Grown: Time to Order Local Farm Products!
Manchester Locally Grown Farmers’ Market
How to contact us:
Our Website: manchester.locallygrown.net
On Facebook: Manchester Locally Grown Online Farmers’ Market
By e-mail: [email protected]
By phone: (931) 273-9708
On Thursdays: Here’s a map.
Hello, friends!
The market is open as usual, and will remain open for your orders till Tuesday evening at 10 pm. Please be sure to read the section of the page entitled “Important Ordering and Pickup Information.”
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NEWS AND NOTES
Happy fall! This coming week the forecast may actually catch up to the season, as temperatures begin to move into a more tolerable range. We have lots of different herbs, fresh and dried, available from local farmers. Now is the time to stock up for winter cooking!
Solace Farm has added sweet potatoes “Beauregard” and cornflower “Painted Indian” to the market.
Frontier Family Farm has added fall spinach and edible pod peas to the market.
Sand Dragon Farm has added both blackberry and peach jams to her strawberry already on the market.
Dogwood Valley Greenhouse offers a free Stevia plant with any herb plant ordered from her farm. For information about using Stevia, see http://stevia.com and http://stevia.net .
White City Produce & Greenhouses products are off the market this week.
Remember that we also have delicious pork and chicken cuts, organic free-range chicken and duck eggs, jams and jellies, live plants for your perennial border, porch, or patio. Please take note of our great selection of hand crafted farm products, candles, essential oils, and bath & beauty products. Stop by Square Books soon and see our market table, with lots of non-perishable farm products for sale. Pick up some jam or jelly, hand lotion or soap, herbal tea, a candle, or a basket of herb plants to enjoy or to give as a gift.
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(L to R) Sweet Potatoes “Beauregard” from Solace Farm, Gaura Plants in several colors from Dogwood Valley Greenhouse, Spinach and Edible Pod Peas from Frontier Family Farms, Boneless Skinless Chicken Breasts from Tonic Farms.
IMPORTANT ORDERING AND PICKUP INFORMATION
Ordering will be open until TUESDAY at 10 p.m., and your order will be available for pickup on THURSDAY between 4:00 and 5:30 at Square Books, 113 East Main Street, Manchester. We can also hold your order in the refrigerator till Friday, if it’s more convenient for you to pick it up between 11:00 am and 2:00 pm. If you prefer to utilize this free service, please make a note on your order or call my cell at (931) 273-9708. If neither of those pickup times works for you, please make a note on the order, and we will work out an alternative arrangement.
Thanks so much for your support of Manchester Locally Grown Market, and your friends and neighbors who have grown and produced these items. 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
The Wednesday Market: Ordering Time is Upon Us Again; New Growers
Good afternoon.
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. See our website for all of this week’s product listings. Here is the link: https://wednesdaymarket.locallygrown.net/market
Several new growers joined our market this week.
S & H Seafood sells wild caught Georgia shrimp. Royce and Regina Skaggs of Pike County are the company owners. Gina grew up on the coast, and her mom still lives there. Some of you may have already met them, as they sold their shrimp in person at the Market for the past two weeks, and they also sell at Saturday’s Market on the Square in Zebulon.
Patricia Pfrogner of Patty’s Bakery makes Brigadeiros (Brazilian sweets) – handmade, freshly, with fine chocolates and other ingredients.
Mary Jo Jester of Mary Jo’s Repurposed Crafts upcycles feed bags for general use totes and garden aprons.
Please welcome these new sellers to our Market. Also, be on the look out for the listing of seasonal goodies from our existing vendors.
Thank you for your support of locally grown agriculture and for choosing to purchase goods right here at home. We hope you all have a glorious Sunday, and we look forward to seeing you on Wednesday.
Thanks,
Beverly
Suwanee Whole Life Co-op: Reminder: Place your order by 6pm today
Just a friendly reminder that market orders are due online by 6 pm TODAY. Place your order now so you don’t forget!
Please remember that we need to hit certain minimums in order for our farmers and vendors to deliver to us.
Thank you for placing your order and supporting local farms and businesses!
Click Here to Place Your Order
Dawson Local Harvest: Free-range Pork joins Fall Vegetables!
Dawson Local Harvest for Sept. 30
Free-range Pork joins Fall Vegetables!
HI EVERYBODY!
Fall is officially here, the heat has finally breaking, and fresh tastes are becoming available again. First up, FIVE HENS has their free-range Pork available, with Sausage, uncut Bacon, Boston Butt, Pork Chops, and other cuts now available. Word to the wise, FIVE HENS is small and their Pork availability depends on the readiness of the next “candidate”, so it’s a good idea to take advantage and stock up as you can.
GREEN BEANS ARE BACK at LEILANI’S, fresh-picked and tender, along with several varieties of Lettuce and Chard. We thought Turnips would be ready last week (they weren’t), but they are this week, both the White and the spicy Red. Both are wonderful in salads for taste, texture, and color, and you can saute’ them as an excellent side dish as well. Check the Vegetable section to see everything that’s available.
Other notables at the Market include fresh Eggs of different sizes, raw Milk, and wonderful Breads and Baked Goods from DAILY BREAD. High on the list is Organic Pumpkin Roll, Apple Bread, Pumpkin Bread, Everything Bagels, and Ezekiel Bread, but there’s a lot more to see in their listings. Take a good look.
THE MARKET WILL OPEN Sunday night at 8pm!
REMEMBER! You can order until Tuesday night at 9 pm. Pick up your order at Leilani’s Gardens Friday afternoons from 4 to 7pm.
You’ll find the DAWSON LOCAL HARVEST at http://dawsonville.locallygrown.net
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! We guarantee your satisfaction with all products in the DAWSON LOCAL HARVEST.
Have a happy and healthy week!
Alan Vining
Market Manager
ALFN Local Food Club: The Market Is Open!
Hello ALFN Members!
The market is open!
This week is my first time writing for the ALFN blog, and it’s making my transition into the Program & Market Manager position feels a little more real! Let me start off by saying how lucky I feel to be a part of this incredible community. Urban food systems are one of my passions, and I can’t think of a better way to fuel that passion and serve my neighbors than by working with ALFN. I’m excited to expand the network of producers and buyers and support all our Localvores.
I’ve already had the chance to meet many of you, and will hopefully start to learn names in the upcoming weeks (although I will confess that is a weak spot of mine, so please be patient as I say the wrong one a few times!). If you see a new face at market, chances are it’s probably mine, so feel free to say hi.
This week is also an exciting one because ALFN was featured in Soiree Magazine! Check out the link below to read the article, and please PLEASE share it on your social media pages. Let’s spread the word about what we’re doing!
Again, thank you all for the warm welcome. I’m happy to be here doing this work. Now, if you’ll forgive me the pun…Let’s go grow!
Claire Hodgson
Program & Market Manager