Russellville Community Market:  The Market Is Open!

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 PM – 7:00 PM this Tuesday outside the Downtown Russellville Train Depot.

IMPORTANT NOTICE – the Depot has been closed to the public due to the ongoing COVID outbreak. Please remain in your car, and your order will be brought out to you in a full-service fashion. You may ask an RCM worker about any available extra items! We are happy to serve you, and we thank you for your patience during this public health crisis.

Happy Friday everyone! We are quickly approaching Christmas and have lots of goodies perfect for gift-giving season!

Highlighted on the Market – Apricot Hand Pies, Classic Gingerbread, Holiday Farm Crafts, Tri-Tip Roasts, LOTS of greens, collards, and salad mixes, Colorful Handwoven Scarf’s, and Locally Roasted Coffee Beans!

We also have swoon-worthy scented soy wax candles, farm-fresh eggs, an assortment of baked goods, freshly-picked veggies, handmade farm crafts, and a vast selection of roasts, sausages, steaks, and pork available!

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

Thank you for choosing to shop and eat locally!
Photo of Canale from Kuroki Bakery

Russellville Community Market

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Champaign, OH:  Christmas Tune

Well, way up north where the air gets cold
There’s a tale about Christmas that you’ve all been told
And a real famous cat all dressed up in red
And he spends the whole year workin’ out on his sled…

Can anyone guess the song? Artist?

Anyway…the market is ready to greet you on this Friday morning, and I also wanted to announce that we have added another new vendor to the fun!

3 Chick-A-Dees is now on with their kettle corn, in various sizes of bags!! How fun!! Just in time for all of your holiday parties!!

The market is just the most remarkable little market, and I want you all to take advantage before we go into holiday break!

XOXO,
Cosmic Pam

Champaign, OH:  Deck The Halls!!

…and, get ready for the last market before we go into holiday shutdown for holiday break!!

Yes…this will be your last week of ordering, until the market reopens for the week following the new year!!

Also, your market manager…your tired market manager…is going into vacation mode, a week early!

I am in NEED of a full holiday break!!

But, the market is open, and we are so very fortunate to have all of you, as customers!

Here we go…the last market of the 2021 year!!

XOXO,
Cosmic Pam

CLG:  Wickles! CLG Pickup TODAY 3:00-6pm. Bring eggshells, glass jars, & egg cartons please.

Good morning!

Maria will be set up with a fine selection of her jams, jellies, pickles, etc as well as a crock pot full of BBQ pulled pork. And a crock pot of that amazing chicken tortilla soup.

Please wear a mask today when you pick up your ordered items. Thank you.

You need more Wickles in your life. We’ll have 10 pints of Steve’s zesty dill pickles on the extras table today. You might want to leave work early to be sure and get some! 4 have already been reserved so there’s 6 left. Probably the last of the wickles until next summer.

We will continue our contact-less delivery to your vehicle when you are parked outside the lobby. Just text me your name and vehicle description and we will bring your order out. 501-339–1039

Don’t forget to feed the birds. We’ll have 20 suet cakes on the extras table for only $1 each.

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.

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

Remember to bring your EGGSHELLS, glass jars for recycling, egg cartons, and bags for ordered items. Reduce, reuse, recycle! See you this afternoon.

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

Champaign, OH:  Happy Thursday!!

Just a friendly reminder to all of the market customers with orders for this week…pick up is this evening, between 4pm-6pm!!

If you need a Friday pick up, those times are between 10am-12pm! And, a Saturday pick up is between 10am-4pm!!

Kindly let me know if you need the Friday or Saturday pick up, if you are not already on my regular list!!

See you, this evening…

XOXO,
Cosmic Pam

Old99Farm Market:  Old 99 Farm, week of Dec 5 2021

Apologies to all for not getting this weeks blog post out to you. Reminder that the market is only open thursdays 4 to 6 now, not Friday. Or by arrangement its fine to come friday or saturday, but I’d really like your freshpicked veggie order by Thursday noon.

Thank you to the regulars who already have your orders in. I’m going to be short on eggs this week, already have orders till saturday’s lay! Right now we have celery, mixed greens (aka mesclun), spinach, chard, collards and kale. Root vegetables include carrots, leeks, fennel, potatoes, turnip, rutabaga, squash varieties, and beets. Of course the freezers are full of beef, pork and chicken.

This was a big week in Hamilton for the Climate Emergency. Their taskforce presented the report so-called action plan today after two years and a pandemic. They reacted with urgency for Covid, but not at all for Climate.

Below is the submission I sent it. I will surely be the minority voice but see what you think. I would enjoy a conversation with any of you on this uber-important matter.

Memo to: Hamilton City Council and Sr Managers
Re: Corporate-wide Climate Change Action Plan Update
From: Ian Graham
Date: Dec 7 2021

It needs to be said at the outset, climate is a symptom,not a cause for the tremendous woe and loss that is unfolding on this planet in real time now. What is the cause, briefly put, of climate disruption? It is ecological overshoot and human habitat loss. We stand to misinterpret and misdiagnose our predicament if we fail to accept this reality. The endgame is there must be fewer people consuming less energy on this finite planet. That may not mean fewer people living in Hamilton but it certainly means living within a smaller carbon footprint.
We can and should act with urgency on climate disruption until such time as leadership and policy makers reframe the situation to be about overshoot in population and consumption.

Hamilton can help in that reframing by speaking out and walking the talk. One way of doing that is to root out the culture of Growth and Development and replace it with a culture of Climate and Ecology Stewardship. Make that Climate Lens paramount. Do not brag about $2B in building permits any more. Do not build more roads or suburbs.

We must proceed with action at the levels we are positioned to affect to reduce the impact of this symptom on our city. I submit that this action can be visualized as a rubiks cube: Emissions x Population x Impact.
Emissions can be arising from existing infrastructure, or from yet to be built infrastructure or they are the carbon legacy emissions in the atmosphere already.
Populations could be categorized as the citizenry, the corporate sector and the civic governance sector.
Impacts can be characterized as the Biological environment, The Build environment and the Behaviours.
Now it can be seen there are actions in each cell of the cube that will be effective and target populations who can be expected to act. For example:
The city can build bike paths but that doesn’t help if people don’t use them instead of driving.
The people can modify their homes and properties to reduce carbon pollution but the city can help with enabling policies and even grants, e\ducation and public promotion of retrofitting suburbia.
The corporate sector can reduce existing sources or not build more or fund sequestration programs to drawdown existing carbon pollution.
These are examples that come to mind. Each cell has costs and benefits associated with the actions that fit.

Net Zero by 2050 must be called out for the charade that it is. There is no technology to remove carbon at scale from the atmosphere and if there were, there is no way to build out enough capacity to make a difference in that time frame. The whole world has taken up the chant of Net Zero by 2050 but should be “Just Zero”. In both senses of the word ‘just’. Toronto has set the benchmark at 2040 which is even more impossible to imagine relying on technology not yet proven.

Your climate change taskforce is woefully underfunded and understaffed. That it took two years to produce this modest document is evidence enough. It’s a wonder that the core team has not resigned or been hired away by a more ambitious climate savvy municipality. Staff most likely understands that Council is not prepared to get on a war footing against climate disruptions. The Covid response by contrast shows that serious mobilization is possible.

I have been told that the climate action consultants retained by the City do not believe that Nature-based solutions are cost effective in reducing emissions. That has been proven wrong and obsolete thinking, dangerously so. For example the maintenance of green vegetation on farmlands and fallow spaces, all year long, will immediately reduce the heat stored in soils, reduce runoff in heavy precipitation and cool the local micro-climate by stabilizing the hydrological cycle. The taskforce needs to update their information and challenge these consultants.

The steel companies are clearly an atrocious example of carbon pollution and fully a third of all carbon emitted in our bio-region is their fault. Policy should be polluter-pay at a level that makes good business sense to their management and owners to clean it up. Funding from these companies can be invested in infrastructure and public awareness every year through the Climate Change Reserve fund.

We need demonstration sites up and running so that people can see what a 1.5 degree lifestyle looks like. There is only so much carbon we can burn to keep global heating between 1.5 and 2 degrees C and avoid a Hothouse Earth and runaway climate chaos. That translates as a carbon budget for every one of us. (Currently the average north american produces 16 tCO2e per year: we have to get to 4 T by 2030 and 1 T by 2050. It shows up in our buildings, our vegetation and our lifestyle choices. Bylaws changes seen through a climate lens, not growth and development, will mean enabling capability to withstand shocks and disruption, household resilience.

All these claims can be backed up with documentation and practice. I am pleased to provide them on request.

The people need you to lead, to tell the story like it is. You can’t feed false hope, in fact we must be hope-free. You can’t hide from this responsibility to the public who elected hou. Your awareness of the situation has grown over the years, from being dead asleep to recognizing one problem or two. Now (some of) you clearly see there are many interconnected problems encompassing all aspects of daily life. This is our predicament to minimize and adapt to but it will not go away. Your city vision statement includes being a great place to bring up a child; a climate stable bioregion is the foundation for that place.

Independence,VA:  Market is OPEN for Dec. 15th pickup!

Good evening!

The Online Market is open for new orders!

Seeds are in stock for the 2022 growing season! Support the Market and surprise your loved ones with the seeds they love to grow this holiday season!

If you’d like to schedule a curbside pickup, please feel free to schedule a time using the Calendly link below. You can also 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: Independence Farmers Market.

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!

Abby

The Cumming Harvest - Closed:  FM AQUAPONIC FARM HUGE PLANT CLEARANCE!

From Farmer Joanne at FM Aquaponics Farm:

Thank you for being part of our Story. Adopt our plants of “mystery”. Tell how fishes fed them and our Meals by Grace families. Soon our FM Aquaponic Farm will be History.

Please check out the huge plant Clearance sale through FM Aquaponic Farm as well. If you are in the area, you can stop by the farm Monday to Friday from 9AM to 3PM (6405 Bennett Road, Cumming).

Our address is: 3540 Keith Bridge Road, Cumming 30041 (behind Hollywood Feed).

As a reminder the market is open from Wednesday morning through Thursday at 8pm for orders. All orders must be picked up on Saturday from 10am until 12pm noon. Please be respectful of our volunteers’ time and plan to pick up early and not right before noon.

Please feel free to reach out with any questions or concerns.

Thanks,
Angie Breindl
Local Support for Cumming Harvest Market and Meals by Grace
404-426-4055

Statesboro Market2Go:  Order Before 10pm!

Market2Go has lots of holiday items – gift baskets, eggnog, and more!

Support your local farmers and Click to order at Market2Go!

Champaign, OH:  Fa La La Fun!

It’s early Tuesday morning, lovely little local market customers, and that means you have until 8am to get those weekly orders in!!

Look at your list, check it twice, and then jump on to get all of the holiday, and every day, goodness!

Falalalalala…

XOXO,
Cosmic Pam