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 delighted to welcome Blaney Family Garden back to the market! This is also the LAST WEEK to order Poinsettias!

Highlighted on the Market – Handmade Christmas Decor & Pre-Wrapped Gift Boxes, Whole Hog Shares, Maitake Mushroom, Russell Roast Coffee, Cream Cheese Pound Cake, and Arugula!

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 Poinsettias from ATU Agriculture

Russellville Community Market

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Grumpy Goat:  Weblog Entry

The store will be set up with all our holiday offerings this coming Tuesday. Come on out for gift baskets, bird houses, wooden Christmas trees, goat bearded gnomes, lots of homegrown yarn, honey, maple syrup, goat milk soap, and wool ball garland!

Just a reminder to come and see us and some other great vendors this weekend! We’ll be at Brukner nature Center 9-4 on Saturday and in Russia Park 5-7pm Sunday!

And we will be set up at Aullwood Nature Center on Saturday December 12th!!!

Plenty of opportunities for you to support and shop local!!!!

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

Good morning!

Come early for fresh baked bagels!!!

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

You need Wickles in your life. We’ll have 12 pints of Steve’s zesty dill pickles on the extras table next Friday.

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

It’s time to train the birds to stay around your house during the upcoming winter months. Hang a suet cake basket now and get them in the habit of stopping by your house for all their nutritional needs. You’ll see more of them this winter when it’s cold and possibly snowy. 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:  Wonderful Christmastime

The moon is right
The spirit’s up
We’re here tonight
And that’s enough
Simply having a wonderful Christmastime
(Paul McCartney)

Happy Thursday, and happy month of December, and happy celebration time as we head into the fun of the holiday season!

As the Christmas spirit grows, so does my love of Christmas tunes! And, I hope that you all loved your Christmas playlists that I tucked into your orders, as well as your candy canes!

It was just so wonderful to see all of you, this evening, and being able to spend time with each of you, chatting the pick up time away. I love catching up with you, sharing a laugh, and sending you on your way.

It was simply a wonderful evening…

And, just a note to remember…the market will be closing, as usual, the two weeks of Christmas and New Year.

So, your last market pick up of December will be on Thursday, December 16! We will have the first market pick up of 2022 on January 6!

Get those orders and gift selections in, these next two markets!!

As always, I love giving the vendors those two weeks to regroup, and enjoy the holiday time, I like to give customers a bit of time off, and your market manager is looking forward to having a lovely holiday break!

So, the market reopens, this evening, and we are so excited to take your orders!

XOXO,
Cosmic Pam

Martin's Farmstand:  The farmstand is open today!

The farm stand is open today (Thursday December 2nd) from noon till 5 pm. From now till December 23rd we will be open Thursday, Friday and Saturdays from noon till 5 pm. After the new year we plan to be open Saturday afternoons from noon till 5 pm through out the rest of the winter.
There are still leeks, brussel sprouts, onions, garlic, carrots, beets, kale and lots more. A new item is peeled garlic. It is available both freshly peeled (intermittent) and also in the freezer. We also have lots of our homegrown frozen blueberries, strawberries and black raspberries.
A number of years ago I bought a little garlic peeler from China. It is very slow and does a poor job most of the time with only about half of the cloves actually peeled. The other day I was looking at that somewhat frustrating machine and a brainstorm came for a way to make another peeler that would much simpler and hopefully work better. My son Phillip has some metal working skills and he built what I had in mind and we tried it out. The result is a very simple machine that is much faster with close to a 100% peel rate. The product is clean and nice. Yesterday afternoon I peeled a blue crate full (about 50 lbs. of garlic) in one hour. If you buy the frozen peeled garlic it keeps for long time. The unfrozen peeled garlic has a fairly short storage time of perhaps a few days or a week. To use just reach in the bag and get out as many cloves as desired and place of a plate on the countertop for a few minutes to soften (do not finish defrosting) and then it can be crushed or cut as you wish and used. Daniel

Foothills Market:  Market Reminder

Don’t forget Foothills Market is still open until 5:00 p.m. today!

Independence,VA:  Market is OPEN for December 8th pickup!

Good evening!

The Online Market is open for new orders! A huge thank you to everyone who supported the Market by ordering trees and wreaths!

Please join us on Courthouse St. this Saturday from 11-2 for our final Holiday Market of the season! The first 20 kids will receive $5 in Kids Bucks which can be spent on anything at the Market! We’ll have crafts and yummy foods galore! It’s never been so easy to shop locally!

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.

Have a happy Thanksgiving!

Abby

Statesboro Market2Go:  Please Help!

We’re short on volunteers to help with Market2Go drive-through pickup this week and the following two Thursdays in December:

• Tomorrow, December 2
• Next week, December 9
• Last market before Christmas, December 16

Time: 4:00 – 6:00 pm (partial shifts are fine but come early to get training)
Location: Statesboro Convention and Visitors Bureau, 222 South Main Street

We need folks who can assemble orders to customer invoices and walk them out to customers in the drive through. High school and college students welcome!

If you can help, please
email [email protected]
or text 912.481.2263

Let us know which days and times you are available. We’ll respond with confirmation.

The Cumming Harvest - Closed:  BIG NEWS - ONLY 3 WEEKS REMAIN FOR THE CUMMING HARVEST MARKET

Fill Ministries Inc. is closing the Cumming Harvest Market on December 18th. That
means there are only three more weeks that the Cumming Harvest Market will be open.

We have enjoyed working with everyone, but the market continues to shrink in size and is becoming unprofitable. Therefore,

Fill Ministries must close the market once pickup is complete at noon on Saturday, December 18th.
If you would like to contact your favorite growers, please email us at, and we will
forward your request to the growers so they can provide you the details that they will operate under in the new year.

Please check out the huge plant 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

Miami County Locally Grown:  Holiday Farmer's Market TODAY!!!

Please join us!! The Holiday Night Market is TONIGHT, 3:30-6:30, at First Place Christian Center in Troy!!

Yes, we’re still Open for Virtual Market pickup – the Night Market will run just down the hall, so stop in and see us!

The perfect time to not only grab some Holiday goodies, stocking stuffers, and yummy samples, but to meet your favorite local producers and farmers in person!

This is a super fun night, and we’ve got such a great variety of vendors who’ll be set up with a wide selection of products (more than they have on the Market!) and information/pictures of their businesses/operations!

And we even have new faces who’ll join the familiar faces from the Virtual Market! So tell your family, friends, coworkers, and join us TODAY :-)