Stones River Market:  Market is OPEN -- See you Wednesday

THE STONES RIVER LOCALLY GROWN WEEKLY MARKET IS NOW OPEN for taking orders!

Market opens August 20th Sunday 8:00 AM and Closes Monday August 21st at 10PM.

The Market will always open SUNDAY at 8 AM with or without Weblog. Weblog may occasional be delayed.

Thank you for supporting our local farmers, bakers and craftsmen.
We will look forward seeing you Wednesday August 23rd on the porch of
Quinn’s Mercantile from 5:00 – 6:15pm when you pick up your order.*

PLEASE LET US KNOW IF YOU WILL BE LATER THAN 6:15..we can make arrangements for you to pickup your order.

Growers this week, subject to change

Bead Wench
C&M Valley Farm
Carole’s Herbs (CS3 Farms)
Dogwood Valley Greenhouse
East Fork Farm/ Worm Castings & Luffa
Flying S Farms
Heath Homespun
JillianFaithArt
Lavendar Cottage
McIntosh Field & Flower
Pennie’s Delights
Periwinkle and Pine Co
Pinky’s Micros
Quarter Spring Farm
Quinn’s Mercantile
RC Farms TN
Rainbow Hill Farm
Rus-T-Acres
Sap Creek Gardens
Singing Bee Honey
Sow’s Ear Piggery
Sundae’s Best Dog Treatery
Sweet Beets Farm
Thweatt Things
Yentz Family Farm

Growers News:

Quarter Spring Farm is proud to present a plethora of pastured poultry products for your palate. We also have lots of luscious grass-fed lamb that’s great for grilling. And our usual substantial selection of skin-softening goat’s milk soaps, shampoos, and lotions.

Singing Bee Honey: is back with their delicious local ’Cannon County" Honey. It is available in several sizes.

Lavendar Cottage: (Some samples available Wednesday during pickup time at the Market. We specializes in Dried Fruit and Vegetables. Added this week — Local grown Jalapeno pepper’s. No chemicals, no additives, 100% pure. Great additive to stir fry’s, Soups, Scrambled eggs, Salsa, or even just by themselves as a crispy snack.
Also addded our new: Tomato chunks freeze dried. Bite size healthy snacking goodness. No preservatives no additives 100% natural snack. Great for snacking, Salsa, Powdered for paste/sauce many many more.
Other items are: Cantalope bits, Strawberries, Sun Kist Cherry Tomatoes, Watermelon Bits and Mild Salsa Dry Mix (Find this item in Seasonings & Spices Category.

Sow’s Ear Piggery: we are back on the market this week with some familiar and some new cuts of Pork. Please Browse our products from our free-range, non-gmo, non corn/soy pork.

Rus-T-Acres: All our Black Angus Beef is USDA Certified pasture-raised and selection of produce and Free Range Eggs.

Pinky’s Micros: Microgreens pack 40x more vital nutrients than their mature counterparts. Extremely dense in vital enzymes, minerals, vitamins, omega, and high does of chlorophyll. There aren’t many foods you could eat that are that packed of nutrients and harvested a day before delivery for freshness.
Put them on your sandwiches, top your salads, or use them in place of lettuce.

We love putting them on avocado toast or in a B.L.T Sandwich!

Our new SUMMER Seasonal Chef’s Blend: CANTALOUPE, CUCUMBER, THAI BASIL, RED AMARANTH.

Every season we’ll be creating new blends to represent each season. Along with what we grow all the time.
Peas Shoots, Rose Radish, Broccoli, Basic Salad Mix, and Sunflower Shoots.

Dogwood Valley Greenhouse: we have a large assortment of Fresh to cut herbs: Greek Oregano, Sweet Basil, Julep Mint, Lavender, Lemon Balm, Mixed Thyme, Orange Mint, Pepperment, Rosemary, Sage, Spearment and several herb plants you can plant at your home.

Rainbow Hill Farm: New apple this week is the Ozark Gold it has a Golden Delicious in its breeding. Flavor more tart. The Gingergold Gold is a Green to Yellow Apple. Sweet with some tartness. Crisp and juicy. All our apples are available in 4 different sizes.

Sundae’s Best Dog Treatery
Excited to announce our NEW ….Doggy donuts ….Box of 9 donuts made with the pumpkin/peanut butter recipe. 3 are plain, 3 are drizzled with icing, 3 iced with sprinkles. The sprinkles are unsweetened coconut flakes and natural food coloring.

Our other Dog Treats are Gluten free banana & peanut butter dog treats Pumpkin & peanut butter dog treats Dog Treats – Sweet potato & applesauce they come in 2 oz. or 6 oz. packages.

RC Farms: It has been a very busy growing season on the farm. Thank you for your patience but I think we have everything updated. Cantaloupe and Watermelon and vegetable (A to Z), various meats and prepared frozen meals and fruit.

McIntosh Field & Flowers: It is the height of the growing season here in Middle TN and that means loads of color at McIntosh Field & Flower. Cosmos, Sunflowers and loads of fun grasses are in bloom. We’ve also got enough colors of Celosia to make a rainbow! Order a Farmhouse Bouquet to bring some color into your home or office!

Yentz Family Farm: We have several items to select from but this week we would like to highlight our delicious Hand Pies, choose from Peach, Blueberry or Apple! Order single or a combo. Delicious with morning coffee or just a snack during the day. We have several delicious vegetables this week available, Cherokee Waxed Beans, Blue Lake Beans and Red Burgundy Beans, these are available by the pound and we offer a TRIO of all three. Jalapeno, Serrano and Anaheim Green Chili hot peppers to spice things up.

Flying S Farms: Our Cowboy Candy has been restocked, it is a treat for those that enjoy Sweet HOT to FIRE jam! Can be used as a glaze for meats, combine with cream cheese with chips, many uses. Just remember it is my HOT and Spicy. Also have Okra, Yellow Squash, Zucchini, Green Tomatoes, Malibu Pole Beans, Watermelon, Sweet Bell Peppers (green, yellow and/or purple) along with our Fresh Farm Eggs – by the Dozen or Bundle of 3, Popular Brownies, Buttermilk or Sour Cream Biscuits in 2" or 3" Sizes, Several selections of Friendship Breads, Sour Dough and Wheat Bread.

Arrington Bread Co. has had the worse thing to happen to a baker…our oven went out! Sorry had to cancel orders last week but we will be back soon.

NashPhilly: is off the market this week preparing for an event at The Abbey Public House on 215 N. Church Street, Saturday, August 26th from 11am – 4pm will be serving his Ribeye Philly Cheesesteak with choice of sides, your invited to attend.

We look forward seeing you “On the Porch or At the Curb" of Quinn’s Mercantile WEDNESDAY, August 23rd from 5:00 – 6:15 pm, please contact the Manager if you are unable to pick up your order or are running late, please phone, email or text the Manager (615.542.1078) so we can make arrangements to get your order to you.

We will always try and reach you as a reminder about your order, we can make arrangements for you to get your order to you. ""If we do not hear from you, your order will be donated and you will be invoiced for the amount of your order"". We still need to pay our Growers for their products. Remember we do have Delivery Service. If you think you will be later than 6:00 pm, when our Delivery Staff begins delivering orders, please contact us, so we can make arrangements with you.

How to contact us:
Email: [email protected]
Website: https://stonesriver.locallygrown.net
Facebook: www.facebook.com/StonesRiverMarket
Locations: Quinn’s Mercantile on Wednesday

Grumpy Goat:  Saturday afternoon extras in the store

Hi there everybody!
We had a busy day at the market but we’re still loaded with cherry tomatoes, eggplants, peppers.. it’s all set up in the store if something sounds good. There are banana, jalapeño, Serrano, and bell peppers, a variety of cherry tomatoes and some larger slicing tomatoes, basil, edemame beans, garlic, jams.. I’m probably forgetting something but you get the idea. Feel free to stop in and thank you in advance!

Martin's Farmstand:  Melons and sweet corn

We are all back home and in full swing at the farmstand. Last week most of the family was gone to a camp over at Mooers, New York that we are involved in. Mendy and I were part of the kitchen team cooking 400-500 meals each day. It was fun and refreshing in a healthy way but also a lot of work with about 12 hours a day in the kitchen. I came home needing to rest from my vacation. Today the stand is so packed with good food that it is a challenge to fit everything into the display space. Fall spinach is available by the bushel. The first celery is ready. We have a huge selection of watermelons including yellow, crimsom sweet, and seedless. I also have a bin of big watermelon from Henry. His stand out head and shoulders above the other excellant melons we have. last evening I cut a big cantaloupe that was perfect in its texture, flavor and sweetness. The later cantaloupes, which is now, tend to be better than early melons. Now is the time to enjoy one as seasons move on fast. All our melons are gauranteed- if you ever get a disappointing melon throw it out (or bring it back) and tell us. You can get another melon or your money back or any other produce of simular value. The onion crop is excellant this year. Thursday we pulled about 100 crates of sweet onions off of three rows. There are 28 beds of onions total in my patch. The later storage onions are not ready yet. Field tomatoes are starting to ripen so supply is a lot better. Canning tomatoes should be abundant in about 2 weeks with the peak in early- mid September. We have lots of corn today including by the bag. Daniel

Statesboro Market2Go:  Market2Go is Open!

Market2Go Is Open! Are you planning to order this week?

Place your order by 10 pm Tuesday night for pickup on Thursday.

Choose your pickup location or delivery option from the drop-down menu before you check out.

• Statesboro – SCVB Drive Through: Thursday afternoon 4:00 – 6:00
• Statesboro – Saturday Pick Up: at the market Token & Information booth 9am-Noon on Saturdays
• Sylvania: Thursday afternoon at Road-Tisserie 3:30 – 5:00
• Home Delivery – must add delivery to cart and prepay

Online Payment Available Register your debit or credit card at Your Account and click “Pay Now” when you check out. Your card will only be charged after you have received your order, including any adjustments for missed items or other credits.

Use your EBT/SNAP card to purchase authorized EBT items through the Market2Go, and you can receive matching “bonus” fruits and vegetables and raw nuts through the Georgia Fresh for Less program – with NO Limit. Please write “EBT” in the order comment field and select the Statesboro – SCVB drive-through pickup. For more information, email [email protected]

Market News

Please welcome new vendor Savannah Syrup Company, a Georgia Grown company that produces cane syrup and flavored syrup!

We are now offering a new option for your Market2Go order pickup in addition to our Thursday afternoon drive thru. During the market season, you can choose the option at checkout to pick your Market2Go order at the Saturday market Information and Token Booth from 9am till Noon.

The Statesboro Mainstreet Farmers Market is open each Saturday morning for the 2023 season! The farmers market is located directly behind Visit Statesboro, at 222 South Main Street! There’s a new bridge and boardwalk connecting the Blind Willie McTell Trail to the market venue! Come out and visit your local farmers and neighbors!


Our Sylvania pickup location is now at Road-Tisserie Takeaway Store, 115 Ennis St, Sylvania


Thank you to our sponsors who are helping our market grow! If you are interested in becoming a sponsor of the Statesboro Farmers Market you can find more info here.


Sustaining
Clayton Digital Reprographics
Visit Statesboro
Kiwanis Club of Statesboro

Sowing
Great GA Realty
Ogeechee Technical College
Statesboro Properties
Personal Finance Service of Statesboro
Quality Inn & Suites
Queensborough National Bank & Trust
RE/MAX Preferred Realty
Southern Palace Restaurant
Statesboro-Bulloch County Library
Vyve Broadband
ExperCARE Health Statesboro

Sprouting
Citizens Bank of the South
Synovus
Bulloch County Farm Bureau
Institute for Coastal Plain Science, Georgia Southern

Seedling
Georgia Southern University Libraries
Bulloch Solutions

Friends of the Market
Michelle Oliver
Anna Clifton
Jennifer Moran
Debra Chester
Cynthia Frost
Sam Wainford
Ann Smith-Wilson
Laura and Patrick Wheaton
Becky Sanders
Bruce Field
Kathy and Larry Smith
Kristin Fretwell
LaShai Campbell
Martha Joiner
Patrick White

Happy Shopping!

Northeast Georgia Locally Grown:  Market is open for orders!

Locavores, Northeast Georgia Locally Grown is open for orders!

Go to the market >>
Produce
Baked Goods with Organic Ingredients
Pastured Meats
Cultured/Fermented Foods
Pastured Eggs
See All Products

Market is open Fridays at 9 p.m. through 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 after you finish the checkout process, then your order is NOT complete. Head back to the market page, 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.

Once you place an order, be on the lookout for the order reminder email on Wednesday with further pickup and payment notes. Thanks for your support!

Dothan, Alabama:  Aug. 19, 2023 M@D is OpEn! Organic Updates in Newsletter

MISC MARKET NOTES

”Organic” Shift

It’s well known that our USDA owns the word “organic” and its use is prohibited outside their agency parameters and permissions. Terms like “organically grown” and our favorite, “sustainable” are often used to describe growing conditions that would readily be certified if only the farmer had the means (meaning $) to do so. So actual “organic” certification is pretty well limited to those growers with operations large enough to pay those fees. There are many wonderful growers out there who do the hard work to meet true organic standard guidelines, but there’s also a growing trend to grow “organic” and cut corners without actual soil.

This is important because maintaining soil health is at the heart of what organic farming was all about originally. Healthy soil produces healthy plants that can resist disease and pests naturally without chemical intervention. Soil grown plants are higher in nutrition. Hydroponics were the earliest soil-less grown products, and by switching to organic fish emulsion as their fertilizer/nutrition source, hydroponic growers were able to achieve organic certification. This has in turn led to other “organic” soil-less growing systems utilizing plastic ground cover, plastic pots and inert substrates. Actual ground is treated merely as a surface to be leveled, compacted and covered with plastic containers. Rainwater leaches plastics into the soil and eventually the plastic remnants go the the landfill. There’s nothing regenerative or sustainable about that.

Back to those nutritional differences . . . the problem is, hydroponic farms aren’t required to disclose how their “organic” products are grown. It’s obvious with lettuces, you can pretty well tell by looking, but blueberries and other products, how would you know? This issue has developed to the point that there is a second movement to identify what is and what is not grown in the good earth God created. This is why the farmers who started the organic movement began the REAL ORGANIC PROJECT (ROP). The ROP label identifies the integrity of actual organic products with a label, shown below, to identify USDA organic products that are actually grown in soil using real organic, SUSTAINABLE, means. To date over 1000 farms have joined this movement.

We here at M@D want you to shop our LOCAL lovingly organically grown SUSTAINABLE foods as much as possible, but we also understand that if it’s out of season in this region, you may look for the same product that’s been shipped in from a different part of the country. One of the beautiful things about M@D is that your growers are local, friendly and glad to answer questions. That’s not possible with big grocer produce. So no judgment. We just want you to know what’s going on the organic food world so you can be safe out there. And know what label identifies the best products.

For more info visit www.realorganicproject.org.

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Upcoming Schedule: Order September 2-5 for pickup Friday, September 8 SKIP Order September 16-19 for pickup Friday, September 22 SKIP Order Sept. 30 – October 3 for pickup Friday, October 6

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D’S JELLIES: D’s Hot Pepper Jelly is available now! My jalapeno, cayenne, sweet banana, and bell peppers are all red and I am making lots of pepper jelly. Thank you for being longtime customers! Dianne Herring

JBW FARM FRESH:Now that we have started harvesting our pigs, we have lard to be able to make body products! Lard is made through a process called rendering. The fat from the pig is cooked slowly until it is melted. We already are aware of this process because of our Tallow! Tallow is made by rendering suet, the fat of cows, generally found surrounding the animal’s organs. Lard comes from pigs and Tallow comes from cows!

What is the difference? Pastured lard is rich in Vitamin D (something more than half all Americans are lacking), while tallow is rich in a slew of pro-metabolic fatty acids and vitamins. 

How does this help our skin and hair? When we use lard on our skin, we’re soaking up all of that Vitamin D, which helps to minimize dark spots and lines, reduce acne, promote collagen production and reduce inflammation which is a common factor in conditions such as psoriasis and atopic dermatitis. Given the molecular structure of our skin and the suet used to make tallow, it is naturally more compatible with our skin, allowing it to act as natural sebum, locking in moisture and nutrients without clogging pores. BE SURE TO CHECK OUT OUR TALLOW SOAPS & LOTIONS!

MOUNT MORIAH FARMS:  If you follow us on social media then you probably have already seen our exciting news!!! The news is, we made it on the news!!! We were very excited to get a last minute call from WTVY about being interviewed for their “Proud to be a farmer” segment! It aired on Tuesday of this week. I am so thankful for the opportunities the Lord sends our way. I am thankful for allowing me to be a proud farmer. I am thankful to my parents for raising me up on a farm. I am very blessed and want to say thank y’all for your continued business! 

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AVALON FARMS

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CLG:  Tuesday REMINDER: porch swing pork!

Good afternoon!

Last day to put in your orders for the week. The market closes at 9pm
*https://conway.locallygrown.net/market

Be sure to check out the meat/pork section Porch Swing farms has new cuts listed!!

It is Tamales Week
Use this link to order
*https://forms.gle/B8TLG3sz3bRNYYkQ7

CLG:  Opening BELL: buffalo and tamales

Good afternoon

The market is now OPEN for orders. Click here to start shopping: *https://conway.locallygrown.net/market

Ratchford has all his cuts of buffalo available again, so be sure and try some bison!

It is Tamales Week
Use this link to order
*https://forms.gle/B8TLG3sz3bRNYYkQ7

Most items are listed by 6 pm 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!

How to contact us:

You CAN reply to this email or…

Phone or text: Sandra – 206-890-7460

Email: Sandra – [email protected]

CLG:  CLG Pickup TODAY 3-6pm

Good morning

This is a pickup reminder for those of you who ordered this week—last week before school starts and the parking lot gets full between 230-330 (just a heads up)

You can pick up your order starting at 3:00 p.m. until 6:00 p.m. at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church at 925 Mitchell Street in Conway.

Please remember that although the doors are open before 3pm, we are still getting everything ready for the market. If you arrive before 3pm, you are welcome to come in and sit while you wait. In order to avoid mistakes, we will not check anyone out before 3pm. Thank you for understanding.

If something comes up that you cannot personally pick up your order today, please contact someone to pick it up for you.

Don’t forget your reusable market bags. Reduce, reuse, recycle! See you this afternoon!

How to contact us:

You CAN reply to this email or…

Phone or text: Sandra – 206-890-7460

Email: Sandra – [email protected]

Champaign, OH:  Welcome Back!

Well, it was a stormy, gloomy, rainy pick up, but thank you, to all of you!

The market reopens, with all of it’s goodness, ready to take your weekly orders!!

XOXO,
Cosmic Pam