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This weblog contains LocallyGrown.net news and the weblog entries from all the markets currently using the system.
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Dothan, Alabama: July 16, 2022 M@D NoTeS - We R OpEn!
GROWER & MARKET NOTES
At the Robinson homestead we believe in living life the healthiest so that we may live our happiest & most fulfilled lives! We eat and therefore cook/bake “partially paleo”, meaning from our business you can find baked goods made with natural and usually all organic &/or local ingredients! We use Paleo flours like almond, coconut, cassava, sweeteners like coconut sugar, monk fruit, maple syrup, etc! You’ll also find active sourdough starter to make all kinds of amazing things from breads to brownies! We make nutritious bone broth & I have an amazing recipe for Bone Broth hot chocolate that has so many benefits and it’s delicious! You can also buy my mini recipe book featuring sourdough cinnamon wreaths, sourdough pancakes/waffles, sourdough tortillas, pizza dough, & more!
AVALON FARMS: Things are really slow on the farm right now. It’s sad. But soon the green house will be full of fall and winter transplants; broccoli, cabbage, lettuce, kale, chard, spinach, bok choy. Direct seeded will be; carrots, beets (try again), turnips, winter and summer squash, cucumbers, radishes…All the things?
Any other suggestions? Requests? Maybe napa cabbage?
Send me your thoughts at [email protected]
Meet The Grower: We love the community and friendship of our Market family, and while it may take a couple of visits to correctly match names and faces it’s a joy serving both growers and customers. Your market manager knew folks by name only before 2016 and it’s still that way with some growers and vice versa just because paths don’t cross.
Alabama Homestead gave me the idea to to bridge the gap a little bit after volunteering in the Market shed early yesterday. And below is Christine who refered to herself as “Raggedy Alabama Homestead” in this photo. We think she looks exactly like a Master Gardner inner city organic medicinal herb farmer should look. Don’t you?
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!
Martin's Farmstand: Corn, Pickles, Beans today
We have lots of little pickler cukes, beans, zucchini, blueberries, tomatoes and basil today. The first 20 dozen sweet corn is ready today. (started from transplants). We have lots of other vegetables too. Come and get it. Daniel
Statesboro Market2Go: Market2Go is Open!
Market2Go Is Open! Time to order!
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
- Sylvania: Thursday afternoon at the Market on Maple 3:30 – 5:00
- Home Delivery – must add delivery to cart and prepay
Please pay online. 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 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]
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT
The MainStreet Farmers Market is open on Saturday mornings – at the new location – 222 South Main St. – behind Visit Statesboro!
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
Clean Meats
Baked Goods with Organic ingredients
Gluten Free goodies
Pastured Eggs
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Market stays open from Fridays 9 p.m. until at least 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 right after you order then your order is NOT complete. Log back in 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.
COVID19: Thanks for recognizing we can all do our part in operating in the safest way possible. Be on the lookout for the order reminder email with any changes to pickup or ways you can help minimize risk for our volunteers and each other. Thanks for your support!*
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Miami County Locally Grown: Pruning: a Science and an Art
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Anyone who has ever seriously cultivated tomatoes knows how the vines can become a kind of out-of-control monster like that plant in Rocky Horror Picture Show. They are so prolific that too many days of neglect makes you throw up your hands and let nature win. Personally, I’ve sworn off growing tomatoes at present.
So what did I do? Set up shop with 230 raspberry plants…HA. Raspberry canes are at least as aggressive as tomato vines. The science of pruning is as follows: cut back the “suckers”, e.g., small starts, leaving the biggest canes, and the plant will use its energy exclusively for the best producing parts. Also, the lowest leaves tend to be insect bait and provide cover for all sorts of unwanted bugs. Remove all of that, and more light and air can circulate, which deters pests.
There is also an art to pruning. Every cut (and there are hundreds), requires a decision, and some can be somewhat subjective. It comes down to a kind of dynamic judgment, not a formulaic thing that requires no thought.
It occurs to me that the concept of pruning has parallels in the realm of the spirit as well. This business of cutting away unnecessary parts of one’s life (whether deliberately or by “misfortune”) though painful, often results in a renewing of strength and purpose which could not come by any other way. “My son, do not despise the Lord’s discipline and do not resent his rebuke, because the Lord disciplines those he loves, as a father the son he delights in.” (Proverbs 3:11-12). And a corollary in James 1:2-4: Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance. Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.
Caroline McColloch
Chez Nous Farm
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CLG: Tuesday REMINDER: tell a friend!
Do you love CLG? Take a second to forward this email to a friend who doesn’t know about this great online farmers market, which lets you conveniently place orders from the comfort of your house, and provides a one-stop quick pick-up for local veggies, meats, eggs, baked goods, jams, jellies and more!
It’s Tuesday, last day to put in your orders for the week. *https://conway.locallygrown.net/market
How to contact us:
You CAN reply to this email or…
Phone or text: Sandra – 206-890-7460
Email: Sandra – [email protected]
CLG: Opening BELL: pickles and cookies!
Good afternoon,
Better get your pickles while they last! This was a tough year for cucumbers, so supply is limited. Also, Julie’s is back! Get those cookies you missed the last couple weeks :)
The market is now OPEN for orders. Click here to start shopping: *https://conway.locallygrown.net/market
Just a few reminders:
-if you would like to help CLG, please consider volunteering on Fridays from 2-6pm. Contact me for details :)
-if you order milk, select W/EXCHANGE if you are bringing a bottle back. Otherwise, select W/DEPOSIT
-tell your friends about CLG!
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! Eat local! Eat for better health!
How to contact us:
You CAN reply to this email
Phone or text: Sandra – 206-890-7460
Email: Sandra – [email protected]
CLG: CLG Pickup TODAY 3:00-6pm: no eggshells please!
Good morning!
Quick Note: We are no longer accepting egg shells, or egg cartons/containers that did not come from CLG growers. Please reuse/recycle at home :)
This is a pickup reminder for those of you who ordered this week. Even if you didn’t make an order, you can come by to shop :)
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 to bring back your milk jars, those of you who bought fresh milk!
Remember to bring your reusable market bags. Reduce, reuse, recycle! See you this afternoon!
Sandra
Phone or text: Sandra – 206-890-7460
Email: Sandra – [email protected]
Champaign, OH: It’s A Brand New Week!
And, it’s time to rock and roll!
The market reopens, Old Souls is back with us, and our amazing vendors bring you all the local fun!
Let’s get those orders started!
XOXO,
Cosmic Pam
Miami County Locally Grown: Michael's Pastured Poultry - update!
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Often times I’ll be standing in line and someone will say, “I enjoyed watching you grow up”. I’m always a little bit shocked. Sometimes I’ll actually know the person and other times not! They’ve watched me grow up through blogs on MCLG, through newspaper articles, and Facebook posts. It might be a picture
of me showing a cow at the fair, or an article on my business, Michael’s Pastured Poultry, or my accomplishments through FFA.
I reflect on those days and all the memories made and smile and thank all of you for supporting me. I would never have reached my goals without the support of awesome customers like you! I can’t thank you enough!
Many of you ask my Mom, ‘What’s Michael up to?” My plans are to eventually step into managing Bair-Trax Dairy and add my pastured poultry business to the farm. Before this can happen there are a few requirements from Mom and Dad. One requirement is to go away! Can you believe that? My parents wanted me to experience something other than the dairy, work for someone else, be out on my own, and make sure I actually wanted to come back to the dairy.
So, I did! I’m in Colorado currently, interning for a year on a farm in the Aspen area. Their main enterprise is a vegetable CSA and poultry. I am spending lots of time at farmer’s markets and learning to process chickens. A big thank you to King’s for processing my chicken. I have definitely learned that is something I don’t want to do.
I’ve spent numerous weekends helping neighboring ranches brand cattle and I’m learning how to move irrigation and how to irrigate properly. I’ve also had some time to go on some incredible hikes and I’m hoping to have time this winter to learn to snowboard.
Don’t worry! Thanks to my Mom and Dad, Michael’s Pastured Poultry is still providing Certified Organic, Pasture-Raised, Non-GMO and soy-free chickens for you and your family! My parents keep me abreast of what’s happening and we discuss any changes or new products that we want to try. If you haven’t tried the new brats – hot Italian and tomato basil – you should! We also added drum quarters, which are the drum and thigh packaged together. I haven’t had them, but my Mom says she loves them on the grill!
I’m learning a lot and making lots of new friends and memories. I miss home and the dairy, so I’m still planning on being back. And I look forward to continuing to grow Michael’s Pastured Poultry… all because of you! Thank you!
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