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Stones River Market: Market is OPEN -- See you Wednesday
Welcome to the Stones River Online Farmers Market. We are OPEN – Sunday 8AM, March 20th and Monday March 21st until 10PM.
Please share our market web address with your health-conscious friends, via text, email, or social media (and/or forward this message). https://stonesriver.locallygrown.net The more healthy members we have, the more variety of produce and product we can provide!
We look forward to seeing you on the Porch this Wednesday, March 23rd from 5-6:15, with deliveries following. Know that our growers have the hour prior to get their products organized so things might be a bit hectic (and crowded) if you come early.
If you CAN NOT pick up by 6:15pm, please let us know, we can make your orders available with Quinn’s Mercantile so you can stop by and pick them up. If we are NOT notified, 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.
Delivery Service is available for $10 within a 10 mile radius of Murfreesboro, outside areas additional $1.00 per mile is added. Delivery is also available to Woodbury at a host location for $10. If this is the first time you’ve requested delivery please put your address in the comments before you check out and any special instructions. An Invoice will be emailed to you that includes a $1.00 Invoice fee after your order is Delivered. Again, please make sure your email and address is current. There will be additional $5.00 fee added if Delivery is requested after Market has closed on Monday Evening.
Weblog from a few of our Grower’s:
Bean Man: New this week is our Ready to Mix Cream of Mushroom Soup – all you need is water. Each package contains two packs of Pre-Cleaned, De-Stemmed, Dried, Certified Shiitake Organic Mushrooms. The package also contains two packets of dry mix containing Twice-milled White Bean Flour, Shiitake Mushroom Powder (milled by the us) and dashes of Garlic Powder, Onion Powder and Salt for a super-healthy, Vegan soup mix – you would never know it from the taste. We give you the instructions on the package including how to reconstitute the dried mushrooms in a way that keeps the nutrients as well as their consistency. Each packet set gives you 6 Cups of delicious soup. You can refrigerate and re-use for up to 3 days or freeze for up to 3 weeks. It also makes a wonderful casserole base (especially if you are dairy-free) and gravy so nothing goes to waste!
We have all of our Fresh Dry Beans, Mixes, Scottish Oatmeals, Gluten Free Flours, Pizza Crust Packs and Ready to Mix products available for you to provide healthy options for Breakfast, Lunch, Supper and Snacks.
Quarter Spring Farm: Spring has sprung, which means we have beautiful blue and brown chicken eggs available on the market this week. And if your spring cleaning routine includes cleaning yourself, be sure to check out our selection of skin and planet friendly soaps, shampoos, and lotions. As usual, we have an assortment of delicious, pasture raised chickens for your tasting pleasure. Thanks for your support.
Mama D’s Bakery: Hi everyone! Here is what is available this week, if there is something missing you’d like, message us and we will see what we can do.
Bagels (plain, cinnamon-raisin, blueberry, and everything),
Gluten free/Vegan Bagels, 3 kinds: Cinnamon, Plain, and Everything,
Hummingbird Cake (with a gluten/dairy free option too),
Chocolate Cake Roll, Chocolate Swiss Roll,
Oatmeal Cookies, Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies, Chocolate Chip, Peanut Butter plain or with Chocolate Chips, Sand Cookies
Strawberry Swirl Bread, Raspberry Swirl Bread, and Apple Cinnamon Swirl Bread,
Crusty French Bread, Organic White Wheat Bread, Sourdough Sandwich Loaf, Yeast Breads, Sourdough Breads, and Fruit Scones.
Cinnamon Rolls, Caramel Apple Cinnamon Rolls, Blueberry Lemon Yeast Rolls,
Banana Bread and Pumpkin Bread (with the option of nuts or not),
Donuts (cake and yeast), Cream Cheese Danishes, Mocha Muffins, Blueberry Muffins,
Pies (chocolate fudge, pecan, chocolate chip pecan, pumpkin, and sweet potato),
Granola and Protein Bars,
Thanks so much to everybody for your business!
Terry’s Treasures: We have some cute Succulent arrangements for Easter and any occasion. Vases and paintings make wonderful gifts. If you have a container you’d like an arrangement in, I’m happy to help arrange it for you.
Thweatt Things: Beautiful Easter baskets in small, medium or large. Perfect for anyone and can be used after the holiday has past.
Flying S Farms: As always, Fresh Farm Chicken Eggs and Slowing returning with our products, Cast Iron Skillet Cornbread, our popular Buttermilk Biscuits and Sour Cream Biscuits. What’s the difference you ask…the Buttermilk is a traditional ‘like granny use to make’ and Sour Cream is a lighter texture biscuits. Both are equally delicious with our jams. We’ve added Pomegranate Jelly and our 2 most popular Jams; Seriously HOT Strawberry and Peach Habanero. Other Jams available: Low Sugar Blueberry, Just Peach, Just Strawberry, Tart Sweet Dark Cherry and Strawberry Rhubarb. Where’s the Breads..?.. Doing test runs this week, may have some Wednesday during delivery if everything goes well and add them to the Market next week.
Growers on the Market this week (subject to change during the week):
A&J Naturale
Barefoot Acres Herbs
Bead Wench
Beaded Beauty
Bean Man
Bluhen Farms
Body & Soul Teas
C&M Valley Farm
Canna Pham Farm
Dogwood Valley Greenhouse
East Fork Farm/ Worm Castings
Emerald Acres
Ewe and Me Creamery
Flying S Farms
Handmade by Andrea
HempinShrooms
JillianFaithArt
Mama D’s Bakery
Periwinkle and Pine Co
Quarter Spring Farm
Quinn’s Mercantile
RC Farms TN
Rus-T-Acres
Sap Creek Gardens
Singing Bee Honey
Sow’s Ear Piggery
Terry’s Treasures
Thweatt Things
The Market methods of Payment is Cash, Checks or Credit/Debit Cards, Invoice ($1.00 fee) or Venmo. Reminder, please make sure your email and address is current.
Thank you for supporting your Locally Grown Market, it means a lot to our Growers and Community by Shopping Local and Staying Local!
Special THANK YOU to Quinn’s Mercantile for their support of our Locally Grown Market and the use of the front porch. Please be sure to check out the Store, several great gift and useful items, along with items made or produced in Tennessee
We look forward seeing you “On the Porch or At the Curb" of Quinn’s Mercantile WEDNESDAY, March 16th from 5:00 – 6:15 pm, please contact the Manager if you are unable to make delivery 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.
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 Wednesdays: 301 North Spring Street, Murfreesboro
map: https://goo.gl/maps/GAkJS1wawb
Middle Tennessee Locally Grown: We Have Lamb Cuts
Middle Tennessee Locally Grown market
will be open for your orders till Tuesday evening at 10 pm.
Solace Farm lamb is available in several cuts, some of which I don’t have photos to share. The lambs, as the other livestock, are raised with intensive grazing, moving to fresh pasture every day except in the winter. We never use any hormones, and only use antibiotics in medical situations. We never feed grain – only grass, hay and mineral supplements, with a protein supplement in winter.
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(L to R) Leg Roast, Liver, Neck.
(Not pictured) Lamb Chops, Stew Meat.
To Contact Us
Our Website:
Middle Tennessee Locally Grown
On Facebook:
Middle Tennessee Locally Grown Online Farmers’ Market
By e-mail:
[email protected]
By phone:
(931) 273-9708
Our Pickup Locations
Our Manchester pickup location is under the Coffee County Farmers’ Market pavilion, across the street from the Manchester City Schools administration building, at
216 East Fort Street, Manchester, TN
Our Tullahoma pickup location is in front of “Nature’s Elite”, now located in the Kroger Shopping Center, at
1905 N Jackson St, Tullahoma TN
Our McMinnville pickup location is outside Martin Chapel Fellowship, near the big water tower and the Warren County Farmers’ Market pavilion, at
110 Market Street, McMinnville, TN.
For a map, click on the address link.
Only the best fresh flavorful farm products for your family! No more week-old produce trucked cross-country. All the fresh local farm products listed come from your grower and maker neighbors in Middle Tennessee. The freshest produce is picked the day you receive it!
Your year-round weekly market is open for ordering from Sunday morning at 8 am till Tuesday evening at 10 pm.
Receiving options:
THURSDAY afternoon pickup (4:15 – 4:45 p.m.) at the market pavilion on Fort Street, Manchester.
THURSDAY afternoon pickup (5:30 – 6:00 p.m.) outside “Nature’s Elite”, Tullahoma. Please note new location in Kroger shopping center.
THURSDAY afternoon pickup (5:30 – 6:00 p.m.) outside Martin Chapel Fellowship, McMinnville.
Delivery on THURSDAY evening for a small additional fee, or at other hours by arrangement.
See the “About” page for details.
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Dothan, Alabama: March 19, 2022 M@D Newsletter - TiMe 2 OrDeR!
GROWER & MARKET NOTES
Good Afternoon! We hope you’ve enjoyed this glorious day after the beating Mother Nature gave us yesterday. THANK YOU to everyone who got those orders before the downpours yesterday and you great Enterprise folks who graciously collected your orders today.
April 9, 2022: Farmers Market Saturday
May 7, 2022: Mother’s Day Open House
AVALON FARMS:
We are trying folks. My inspectors keep me honest. Ha ha These 2 we’re keeping a close eye on the installation of this ground cover. This will be the 3rd season this piece of row cover has been used. Baby lettuce transplants will be going in tomorrow.
Vendor Spotlight: I expect 3C Apiary won’t be happy with us for “outing” them a little, but we felt it only fitting that with the bees a buzzing and Mr. Steve spending many hours every week with his own hives and serving others through beekeeping that we spill a bit of the honey about these great folks.
Steve Loveland started keeping bees in 2017 after retiring from Forestry. It was a natural fit for him and he took to the craft like a fish to . . . no, a better analogy would be like a bee to a flower. He spent a lot of hours studying, learning, working with his own bees and became a conscientious beekeeper within a short time. He and Mrs. Anne have a heart for ministry and service and became lovely friends as well. (no pun intended)
Steve has volunteered with Aunt Katie’s Garden for several years now and recently taught an extended course that included beekeeping to a homeschool group. We have it on good authority that he included God’s original “shake your bootie” dance that honeybees do on comb to communicate where food sources can be located. In addition he is the webmaster for wiregrassbeekeepers.com.
Market at Dothan had a honey supplier (wink, wink) before 3LC joined the Market. We were glad to welcome them as their honey is produced within the city limits of Dothan, making it more LOCAL for some of our customers than the other which is produced in the countryside.
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: Free Cabbage/ sweet potatoes today!
The farm stand is open today (Saturday, March 19) from noon till 5 pm.
We have a bin of cabbage that needs a good home. It is still in fairly good condition however not every head is perfect inside. I am giving this away today for free. Take as much as you can use. ( no purchase needed) Pick up some for a friend also if you wish. My desire is to see this good food used rather than wasted. Also there is several hundred pounds of slightly blemished sweet potatoes that will go on the free cart. Likewise I desire for them to be on somebodies table if possible. Come and get it!
Last of all I just wish to remind us to be thankful even if it is a dreary rainy day. This mud will go away and then it is springtime with little bits of green poking up. 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. You must write “EBT” in the order comment field. EBT customers must select Statesboro – SCVB drive-through.For more information, email [email protected]
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
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!*
Miami County Locally Grown: We have carrots!
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We have carrots – yay! Burns’ Green Leaf Market still has the sweeter winter carrots coming up, and we lucked out with having them available here.
Also, Grumpy Goat has her beautiful Salad Mix of mild mustard greens, and there are just a few of Simple Living’s Microgreens left. Grab these delectable and nutritious veggies while they’re still available!
The Market is open just until 9PM tonight, so order today if you want your goodies this coming Tuesday, March 22nd.
See everyone Tuesday!
Erin
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Champaign, OH: Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
Your half Irish market manager, on vacay, is celebrating the luck of the Irish in Florida, as I open up the market!
XOXO,
Cosmic Pam
Miami County Locally Grown: The Long View of Farming (and more kale!)
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Grumpy Goat has added some organic White Russian Kale today (excuse the name!), salad mustard greens, and fresh cilantro – mmm that smell! – all organic. Grab them before they run out!
-Continuing along the theme of what working conditions make farming somewhat unique as far as vocations go… as previously mentioned, farmers are intimately in contact and have concern for seasons, weather, and climate, because these directly affect activities and income. Another interesting aspect of farming is how one’s thinking and planning are invested over a long term: seasons and years.
For example, one of the main principles of organic practices is maintaining healthy, living soil. Many factors go into this practice: crop rotation (e.g., over 3 to 5 years), allowing some areas to be fallow, using cover crops as “green manure”, and producing/using compost (as opposed to chemical nitrogen fertilizers that negatively affect climate by their production and use).
Of course, depending on the size of the crop production, fertilizing needs and methods can be greatly varied. Basically, any time you remove a crop from the soil, be it hay, or vegetables, or fruits, something has to be put back, because the minerals in the crops are being removed from the system. In my case, container raspberries and flowers and vegetables in raised bed gardens receive regular addition of compost. That is how I justify keeping two horses and three goats and cleaning stalls daily in winter: they’re making excellent compost! There’s a really big pile just outside the field gate that gets turned with the tractor loader bucket at every opportunity when the ground isn’t too wet—a tricky proposition in Ohio!
And so, all of these considerations come into play in a very long dance, so to speak, as I plan over the seasons and years to maintain the soil health and therefore viability of my farm production. Anyone who is seriously into farming, is in it for the long haul, which begins with the complex business of conserving fertility in the soil. Healthy, fertile soil produces healthy food, which equals healthy people.
Caroline McColloch
[email protected]
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Siloam Springs, AR: Last Call For This Week's Orders!
SiloamSprings.LocallyGtown.net
We are FINALLY getting some great weather, perfect for that breaking out the grill and serving up some chicken, brats, or burgers.
The Online Market closes tonight at 5pm, so there’s still time to get your order in for the week!
Happy shopping and see you Saturday.