Middle Tennessee Locally Grown:  The Market is Open for Ordering

Dothan, Alabama:  May 14, 2022 M@D Newsletter - Many New & Relisted Items Available!

GROWER & MARKET NOTES

THANK YOU for another great week! We’re so happy for the beautiful weather, the Great Farm Food Products, and the opportunity to serve you.

New & Relisted Products

Yellow Squash – Avalon Farms Fresh Tender Green Beans – Grows In Rows Zucchini – Avalon Farms Turnip Leaves – Grier Acres Zephyr Squash – Avalon Farms Garlic Scapes – Avalon Farms New Basket & Rug – ScrappyChic Kinston Sweet Onions – Avalon Farms _~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Have you looked around our website recently? It’s only natural that the Market Page get 95% of the site use, but there’s a lot of other valuable info in there as well. We’re going to share a few things in the coming weeks, starting with info from our Question & Answer Page. The reason for this is that we’re often presented with questions that are already answered in this section of marketatdothan.com. It is required reading for new vendors but often the rest of us forget it’s there or are too busy to look things up. Hopefully this will help.

What makes your Market different?

FRESH: Fresh produce in your order is picked no more than 48 hours prior to delivery.

LOCAL: Our growers are Wiregrass residents within 50 miles of Dothan. We do not sell anything that is trucked in from out of the area.

SUSTAINABLE: Market at Dothan DOES NOT ALLOW GMO’s, CHEMICAL FERTILIZERS, PESTICIDES OR HERBICIDES. Our vendors are carefully vetted on both their growing philosophy and practices. While most of our growers are too small to invest in organic certification, they DO use organic/sustainable methods to grow your food. You may learn more about each farm on our Grower page.

YEAR ROUND: You read it right. Because we don’t participate in truck farming, you can’t get fresh strawberries in September or corn in January. But, because our growers are super sharp and know what they’re doing, we are able to offer many products outside their traditional growing season.

We make no claims to be like other markets and invite you to check us out! You will find a wealth of information on our Home Page, the Market Page, the Grower Page and hopefully everything else here on the Q&A page. The
Weblog contains newsletters with a wealth of information. There are two Facebook pages for announcements and interaction.

If that’s not enough, just come by and visit us at the Dothan location one Friday morning and take a look for yourself! We would love to meet you!

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GRIER ACRES: Just truying to stay up and at em. Harry has almost got us irrigated with solar power and water from creek with ram pump. We have a new baby goat—a doeling. Jeannie stays busy with her mom. We picked a few turnips for her for mothers day and will have some for sale this week if anyone is interested. Our collards are a little slower. Our gourds died that we planted so we restarted. Irrigation was not set up and I think just dried up.

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AVALON FARMS: Finally! We have squash. All 3 kinds: yellow, green and green/yellow. Ha Ha 
The cukes will show up in a week or 2. My favorite Kinston Sweet Onions are ready! 

Garlic News: The Elephant Garlic has started sending up scapes (flower stalks) which are fun to eat. The scapes also signal that the bulbs are starting to form and should be ready to harvest in 4 weeks. The Music Garlic will start scaping after the Elephant Garlic. Music Garlic is a robust, stronger flavored garlic than the California white usually found in the grocery store. Looking forward to trying that.

We almost lost the squash plants 2 weeks ago. Suddenly the leaves had these yellow spots! A fungus of one sort of another (there are so many when dealing with heat and humidity). After multiple sprayings, alternating between neem oil and potassium bicarb (close cousin to baking soda) the plants are looking better. They’ve started producing but I’m still finding fungus damaged baby squash I have to throw away. 

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. EBT customers must select Statesboro – SCVB drive-through. 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!
You are also welcome to come in to the new market building on Thursday afternoons to pick up your Market2Go order!

Miami County Locally Grown:  Get your orders in today!

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We still have Candy onions, spinach, microgreens, kale, and lots of baked goods and grilling meats available to order for pickup this Tuesday.

I’ll tell you – this heat is a bit much, a bit early, for me. Where’s the in-between weather? That’s what I love…60s-70s please come back for a while longer!

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Northeast Georgia Locally Grown:  Market is open for orders!

Good evening Locavores, Northeast Georgia Locally Grown is open for orders!

Go to the market >>
Fresh Vegetables
Clean Meats
Baked Goods with Organic ingredients
Gluten Free goodies
Pastured Eggs
See all products

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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CLG:  Reminder: CLG Pickup TODAY from 3:00-6pm

Good morning!

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 3:00 p.m. until 6:00 p.m. today at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church at 925 Mitchell Street in Conway.

Even if you didn’t make an order, you can come by to shop the EXTRAS table.

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

Remember to bring any glass jars or egg cartons you got from CLG, and bags for ordered items. Reduce, reuse, recycle! See you this afternoon.

Ashley

Russellville Community Market:  5/13/22 opening

To ensure your order is placed, make sure you click the “Place My Order” button once you have completed your shopping. You will receive a confirmation email.

Orders will be ready for pick-up from 4:00 PM – 7:00 PM this Tuesday at the Downtown Russellville Train Depot.
Please allow an RCM worker to help you pack your order and check your invoice to make sure you recieve all your purchases:)

WELCOME – The Depot is open! Please come in and check out the extras or remain in your car and your order will be brought out to you in a full-service fashion.
We are happy to serve you!

REMINDER- We can no longer accept credit or debit cards. We will be able to process SNAP and EBT transactions! We apologize for any inconvenience!

Time to plan a picnic or cookout! We have everything you need for a tasty meal!
Grill some juicy steaks, bratworst or polish sausages from Hoien, R & D or Bluff Top. Or maybe wrap some appetizers in local bacon from Holland Farms!
Make a salad with the freshest and most interesting ingredients around from Happy Horseshoe, Shoal Creek Farms, Bluff Top, Holland Farms or Pine Ridge Gardens!

Our baked goods are awesome! We have everything from rolls, buns, and loaf breads to decadent desserts! We have baked goods to accent every course of your delicious cookout!

No meal is complete without dessert! Cool off with some delicious ice cream from Meadowlark Valley; they have several flavors to choose from!
RCM can even provide you with fresh flowers for your table!
If the bugs are nibbling on you try Bug Off Balm from The Purple Gypsy or Bug Repellent Skin Cream from Meadowlark Valley!

Check back frequently as our farmers regularly update what they have available. Multiple orders are encouraged. :)

Russellville Community Market

FRESH.LOCAL.ONLINE

Champaign, OH:  And, I Love You, I Love You, I Love You

And the songbirds are singing
Like they know the score
And I love you, I love you, I love you…
(Fleetwood Mac-Songbird)

This verse sums up how I felt about all of you, this evening, at market pick up. I’m finally back, I’ve missed you all, and I loved the chats and catching up, this evening!

I’m also so happy to announce that I am back for baking!! The Flourish girls are back with florals, and S&S is back with elderberry!!

I love you, I love you, I love you…

XOXO,
Cosmic Pam

Miami County Locally Grown:  Spinach, spring Candy onions, Winterbor kale...

Shop here for spinach, Winterbor kale, and spring Candy onions from Burns’ Green Leaf Market. Bring on the fresh produce – woohoo!

What is GMO?

As with so much in our food system, relatively new terminology comes along that is poorly understood by many shoppers. Genetically Modified Organisms (sometimes just GM) has been in our food supply for around twenty years; it continues to be controversial, and is banned in many countries, including 19 of the 27 countries of the European Union.

The gist of the technology is that genes (DNA) from one species are mechanically inserted into the DNA of a different species, to achieve a particular physical trait. The best known example is Bt corn. A soil bacteria called Bacillus thuringiensis makes a toxin that kills caterpillars; its genes were inserted into corn to resist the corn borer—a built-in insecticide. Roundup-ready soybeans are engineered to withstand glyphosate (Roundup) that kills broadleaf weeds.

The problem is that Bt corn also kills the caterpillars of Monarch butterflies, and perhaps other species in the same taxonomic genus. Glyphosate has been linked in studies and court cases as a likely cause of lymphoma. These “unintended” consequences are not mentioned in marketing data.

Saying genetic engineering is the same as selective breeding is a rationale sometimes used as a justification. Selective breeding is choosing seeds or offspring exhibiting desirable traits, as the sole progenitor for the next generation within the same species.

As with any technology, there are benefits and costs, good and bad. No technology is all one or the other. My personal opinion is that genetic engineering of crops and derivative foods are marketed without adequate or objective testing as to the possible dangers, thus my attitude is guilty until proven innocent when it comes to my personal food choices. Were it not for labeling laws, we wouldn’t know the difference. The label has been changed recently to an innocuous looking blue and green logo termed Bio-engineered. Interestingly, fresh produce is exempt from these labels.

Caroline McColloch
Chez Nous Farm
[email protected]

shop here to support MCLG!

Independence,VA:  Market is OPEN for pickup May 18th!

GOOD EVENING!

*The Online Market is open! Check out the new items on the market this week! Pickup will be Wednesday, May 18th, at the Grayson Landcare office (104 Courthouse St.) between 4-6 pm.

Last call! THIS market is the last online market that you can order chicken parts from Southern Fork. They will still keep whole birds online a while. This will also be the last week that you can order from Laurel Springs. Stock those freezers and support those wonderful farmers!

If you’d like to schedule a curbside pickup to conveniently have your box awaiting upon your arrival, please feel free to schedule a time using the Calendly link below. Otherwise, You can drop by and pick up your order inside the office any time on Wednesdays between 4-6 pm.

Thanks again and happy shopping!

To shop: https://independencefarmersmarket.locallygrown.net/

Schedule Your Pickup Time (OPTIONAL): Calendly.
After you click “Confirm” on your time, be sure to enter your information and click, “Schedule an Event”. You will get a confirmation e-mail. If you do not receive a confirmation, you are not scheduled and need to try again.

Thank you for supporting the Market!

-Jordan