Siloam Springs, AR:  Online Market is Open! **M & D Speciaslty Grower Sale**

Make sure you check out the plant sale online! M & D Specialty Growers have decided to focus on growing figs and chestnuts, so they are clearing out the greenhouse by offering reduced prices on all the other plants they offer!

Check out the cheese selection available from White River Creamery. They have added Raw Goat Gouda and more feta to their inventory.

R Family Farm has a great selection of grass fed beef, pastured pork and poultry available.

If you want to make sure you get your favorite baked goods on Saturday be sure to pre-order online!

Happy 4th of July!

Green Fork Farmers Market:  Weekly product list

Dear Green Fork Farmers Market Customers:

NEW this week:

Green Fork Farm has tomatoes available this week! Slicers and cherry tomatoes in limited amounts, as well as green tomatoes, squash blossoms and onions.

Green Fork Farm is also offering sweet potato slips for planting this week. These decorative vines are beautiful in flower beds or the vegetable garden, and will produce a lot of sweet potatoes to be harvested in October.

Also available this week:

Vegetables—Tomatoes, squash, cucumbers, collards, kale, green onions, sorrel, potatoes, onions, garlic, and beans.

Honey—Local and delicious.

Herbs—Basil, mint, sage, oregano, fennel, and mixed herb bunches.

Eggs—Pastured, free range chicken and duck eggs.

Meat—Pastured beef, chicken, goat and lamb.

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.

Edible flowers— Nasturtium flowers, Nasturtium leaves, and squash blossoms.

Live plants—Sweet potato slips.

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!

CLG:  Opening Bell: Cantaloupe, Peppers, Peaches, Melons!

Good afternoon!
It’s time to enjoy all the great foods of summertime! Cut a cantaloupe in half, scoop out the seeds, and drop in some vanilla ice cream. Delicious dessert in a cantaloupe bowl! Or make a stir fry with several fresh peppers, onions, garlic, and local meat. Served over rice or noodles, it’s sure to please your diners!

Don’t forget to check out the recipe page on Conway Locally Grown!

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!

Usually our 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.

Check out over 500 wonderful items listed right now. See you on Friday!

Come early on Friday for the best selection from the EXTRAS table. And save your eggshells throughout the week for the laying hens! :-)

The market is now OPEN for orders.

Please check your email about 5 minutes after you place your order to make sure you get an order confirmation. Thank you for being a valuable part of CLG!
Have a great week!
Steve
ONLINE PAYMENT OPTION. When you are done shopping, just hit the “proceed to checkout” button in your cart. You will then see the option to “Pay Now” with credit card near the bottom. Just follow the prompts to add your card. Be sure to read the screen until you see “Thank you for your order” on the top. If you need help, please call 339-7958. A 3% online payment convenience fee will be added when your card is charged.
How to contact us:
DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL. Instead…
Phone or text: Steve – 501-339-1039
Email: Steve – [email protected]

The Wednesday Market:  We're Open!

Good afternoon!

The Wednesday Market is open. Please place your orders by 10 pm Monday. Orders are ready for pick up between 3 and 6 pm Wednesday. Check the website for this week’s product listings. Here is the link: http://wednesdaymarket.locallygrown.net/market

Have a safe and happy Fourth!

Thanks,

Beverly

Tullahoma Locally Grown:  It is July and Your Market is Open

Happy July!

YOUR MARKET IS CURRENTLY OPEN.

Now is a great time to order meat for cookouts and other items you need for the week. You can order meat, bread, eggs, milk, vegetables, herbs, freshly roasted coffee, flowers, candles, and more. Consider a made-to-order loaf of English Breakfast Toasting Bread or a half-dozen Jumbo Pretzel Rolls. Both of these breads are made from scratch on market day.

After the fire works fizzle, it is time to start thinking about your Thanksgiving Turkeys. They are available for pre-order from Fountain Springs Farm. There are only a few left to pre-order and the early market gower gets the bird.

Your local market closes at noon on Wednesday. Order now before your favorite items run out.

Here is the link to the market: Tullahoma Locally Grown Market

Thank you for your support. Have a great day,
Fuel So Good Coffee Roasters

Suwanee Whole Life Co-op:  Reminder: Place your order before 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!

Have a safe and happy 4th of July! See you on Tuesday!

Click Here to Place Your Order

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

Happy 4th of July Weekend!

The market is open today as usual, and will remain open for your orders till Tuesday evening at 10 pm. Please notice several new items on the market this week, and be sure to read the section of the page entitled “Important Ordering and Pickup Information.”

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NEWS AND NOTES

This week Solace Farm has added several types of garlic to the market. White City Produce & Greenhouses has added Swiss chard.

Welcome back to Frontier Family Farms lettuce, after a short break. Michael has also added red potatoes, garlic, and red onions.

We have lots of other delicious spring and summer vegetables available: arugula, beets, carrots, cucumbers, kohlrabi, onions, bell peppers, red potatoes, spinach, yellow squash, and zucchini. Also you will find a great selection of fresh-cut herbs to help to bring out the flavor of those vegetables and your other summer cooking.

Remember that we also have delicious pork and beef cuts, rich creamline milk, 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.

(L to R) Red potatoes and Bibb lettuce from Frontier Family Farm, Swiss chard from White City Produce & Greenhouses, Double Orange Daylily from Dogwood Valley Greenhouse, Magnesium Oil Spray from Terra Hills Natural Products.

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 10:00 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, calling their attention to the later pickup hours, which may be more convenient for them. 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

Here is the complete list for this week.

United States Virgin Islands:  Happy July 4th Weekend - online market open!

Hope you all re having a lovely long weekend! See you for pick-up on Wednesday.
As a reminder, we still have lamb cuts available!
LB

Stones River Market:  Happy Independence Day!

Market News

Freedom is a wonderful thing and a true blessing but with much responsibility to our communities and neighbors and local producers/makers and business people! Freedom’s pricetag is a good burden to have: caring for each other and the bigger picture!

As always, thank you for choosing Stones River Market. This is truly a community market and we love what we do for you!

Plenty of summer veg from Flying S Farm and White City Produce

Have you tried Seeds of Success seasonings on roasted corn? You may find yourself slightly addicted!!

Don’t forget the dogs in your life! Nom Noms is dedicated to providing quality, researched nutrition treats for your loved ones. Your dogs will beg for them!

The weather may be hot, but a second planting of herbs, flowers and veggies (or even a first planting for some) can still happen!
Rainbow Hill Dogwood Valley Greenhouse Sweetpea and White City Produce may still have what you are looking for!

Erdmann Farms has absolutely GORGEOUS cut flowers!!

The Stones River Market L & L Contractors market bags are still available for purchase. Through the month of July, all $100 purchases receive one FREE bag. No limit through the month. If you spend $100 each week, then you receive a bag each time. Use them, share them… your choice! Thank you!

See you all Wednesday,

Ashleigh & Tracey
Market Managers
(931)952-1224
[email protected]

Recipes

Please, share your recipes with us on the Recipes tab. We’d all love to know how you use your Stones River Market products, so we can try it too!

I am taking a break from recipes. Look for them to return soon.

ALFN Local Food Club:  Market Is Open

In the middle of July 4th weekend, don’t forget to plan your eats for next week. The fourth may pass, but the vines are still growing and the chickens keep laying. The market is open!

NEWS

Canning Workshop
The Southern Center for Agroecology and The Root Cafe will be conducting three workshops over the next three months. The first one is next week! Check it out:

Please join us at the Kitchen at Christ Church (509 Scott St, Little Rock, AR, 72201) and learn how to preserve the abundant summer produce of Arkansas! The Root Cafe’s Angela Gardner will share and demonstrate the important steps and subtle nuances of preserving the harvest safely and efficiently so that you can enjoy the delicious flavors of summer all winter long! Sign up today as space is limited for this workshop series brought to you by The Southern Center for Agroecology and The Root Cafe.

There will be three workshops ($35 each):

• July 7, 2016 6-8pm: Salsa Canning — For our first session, we will discuss the tools and basics of water bath canning as well as ways to change the pH to ensure food safety. Using this knowledge, our recipe for the evening will be a sunny summer infused salsa incorporating tomatoes, peppers and peaches.

• August 25, 2016 6-8pm: Pickled Cucumber Canning — A classic Dill Pickle will be the recipe for the evening. Expect to learn tips to keep cukes crunchy and take home a jar of pickles to share with friends.

• September 15, 2016 6-8pm: Fig & Jalapeno Canning — With summer coming to an end we will wrap up our last session with a course on preserves and a discussion on ways to make jams and jellies."

For sign-up details you can visit the Facebook "event"https://www.facebook.com/events/1732174990387727 or purchase tickets here: Canning Workshop.

Dry Goods

So far the dry goods have been a success! We’ve had good sales and a strong response. If you are interested to pre-order for the next shipment, go ahead and order this week or next. Thanks!

Kyle Holton
Program & Market Manager