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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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The Cumming Harvest - Closed: Labor Day Holiday Closure Sept. 4th, 2021
Happy Wednesday! As a reminder, the market is closed this weekend, September 4th, 2021 for the Labor Day holiday. We hope everyone has a fantastic weekend!
We will reopen the market on Wednesday, Sept. 8th for the Saturday market on Sept. 11th. See you all then!
In the meantime, please enjoy these farm jokes:
1. How did the farmer fix a hole in his trousers? With a cabbage patch.
2. How do you fix a broken berry? With a strawberry patch!
3. Why did the farmer want to bury all of his money? To make the soil rich.
4. What part of a chicken is the most musical? The drumstick.
5. What do you get if a chicken lays an egg on top of a barn? An eggroll.
6. Why shouldn’t you tell secrets in a vegetable patch? Potatoes have eyes, the beans-talk and the corn have ears.
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
CLG: Tuesday Reminder - Market Closes Tonight after 10pm.
Hello friends!
Just a reminder: There’s still time to place your order for pickup this Friday, September 3rd.
Check out the chicken and pork items available from Bradford Valley Farm.
Please wear a mask at Friday pick-up. We have volunteers who can bring your order to your car if you prefer, just call or text 501-339-1039 when you get parked.
The market closes TONIGHT after 10pm, maybe even midnight! Come early on Friday for the best selection from the Extras table. See you Friday!
The market is now OPEN for orders. Click here to start shopping: *https://conway.locallygrown.net/market
How to contact us:
DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL. Instead…
Phone or text: Steve – 501-339-1039
Email: Steve – [email protected]
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 – 8:00 PM this Tuesday outside the Downtown Russellville Train Depot.
IMPORTANT NOTICE – the Depot has been closed to the public again 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.
Highlighted on the Market this week – Red Amaranth Romaine Microgreens, Sourdough Olive Bread, Okra, Arm Roast, Flank Steak & Depot Roast Ground Coffee!
We also have plenty of pretty flowers, farm crafts, farm-fresh eggs, yummy veggies, an assortment of baked goods, and a huge selection of roasts, steaks, pork, and chicken!
Check back frequently as our farmers regularly update what they have available. Multiple orders are encouraged. :)
Photo of Certified Organic Mixed Heirloom Tomatoes from Prestonrose Farm & Brewing Co
Thank you for choosing to shop and eat local!
Russellville Community Market
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Old99Farm Market: Equinox Celebration Invitation to all on our list
Summer’s End Equinox Celebration and Climate Mobilization
Ian and Cami are hosting friends, customers and relations to celebrate a great harvest and kick off more local climate action in the Dundas valley. Bring your family to enjoy the farm scenery and animals. Find out real actions to reduce the worst of climate disruptions. Our intent is to host a celebration of summer’s end, a bountiful harvest, and local climate initiatives we can all do. Family friendly of course. Register at Eventbrite here. Limited for first 100 people.
The Menu: Saturday Sept 18
2pm to 4pm: arrival for welcome and sharing a marketplace of ideas (see below)
4pm to 6pm: assembly of citizens: to hear the science and grieve the consequences
6pm to 7:30 dinner(bring your own utensils), and drumming
7:30ish to 10ish Celebration. Live music by The Rewynds, a pop rock group with climate connections. Break loose! Dancing and Open Mic
Closing when last dancers leave.
Climate Mobilization Marketplace
We’re arranging groups and individuals to set up kiosks about their ideas for local climate mobilization. Do you have a pet action you’d like to share? This includes activities like food harvesting and preserving, seed saving, treeplanting, downsizing and rightsizing, tiny houses, nature walks, deep renovation of homes, repurposing yards, neighbourhood resilience clubs and block captains, energy/carbon footprint checkups, suburban retrofitting, and etc.
This event will be rain or shine, renting a bigtop tent. We will use eventbrite to keep track of numbers so we don’t go over the covid outdoor gathering limit.
Special Offer: Pick up your non-partisan election sign here announcing ‘Climate Emergency’ for your front window, apartment door, or lawn. $10 at cost, a project by Grant Linney, Climate educator and long time resident of Dundas. #climategrant on Facebook.
Remember to place your order before 7am Thursday. Orders placed after this time may not be processed so check your inbox before coming out.
Market times are Thursday and Friday 4pm to 6pm or by special request, text ahead.
Fayetteville Farmers' Market: ONLINE ORDERS STILL OPEN UNTL 6 AM WED
Flash! Sweet corn added from Dickey Farms and Bartlett pears from Charlie’s Vegetables!
To order:
https://fayettevillearkansas.locallygrown.net/market.
Ordering closes at 6am on Wednesday morning. Pickup is on THURSDAY afternoon 4:30 until 6:00 pm.
A few notes:
-Labor Day is this weekend so stock up! Beef, beefalo, chicken, lamb, goat, pork all great on the grill!
-More products are sometimes added on Tuesday so check back!
- Fresh Produce is selling fast, but there are potatoes, basil, bell peppers, cukes, eggplants, zucchini, yellow squash, red and green onions and okra are still available.
-Plenty of local eggs, meats, cheeses, baked goodies are available as well as local crafts, salsas and more.
—Flower bouquets, locally processed foods, and craft items available too.
Statesboro Market2Go: Squash!
Just added – acorn squash and butternut squash! We also have spaghetti squash, yellow squash and zucchini squash. (And lots of other vegetables – all local and delicious!)
Wedge Oak Farm: Pre-Order for Labor Day Weekend Now!!
Hi Friends of Wedge Oak!
It looks like the weather is going to clear and be a beautiful Labor Day Weekend! Pre-order everything you need now to get outside and enjoy the long weekend.
We just processed two beautiful hogs and are loaded up with coppa steaks, bone-in and boneless chops, ribs, and more. We also just made a fresh batch of Hot Breakfast Sausage, as well as a fresh batch of Bratwurst just in time for the fall weather and football season! Keep your eyes peeled for a NEW pork sausage this weekend also!
We still have plenty of spatchcocked chickens for the grill, bone-in breasts, leg quarters, some beautiful grass-fed beef.
Have an amazing week and we hope to your faces on Saturday!
Best
WOF
Miami County Locally Grown: What are our favorite crops?
Matt Bayman asked me to write an article about which crops grow best in our area, to compliment his story, “Nature’s Grocery Store”, concerning what can be foraged in our area. He had posed the question, “What would happen if you only had nature to rely on for food and you lived in western Ohio?”
So my husband Lee and I discussed all the 70+ fruit and vegetable varieties we’ve grown the past twelve years, for our family, our CSA and herdshare programs, and farmers markets. Our conclusion? Focus on dual-purpose and storage crops!
Backyard gardeners, including the “container-pots-on-the-patio” variety, know the fun freshness of summer favorites such as tomatoes, peppers, cut-and-come-again greens, perhaps even sweet corn. But while we as a family may enjoy those every season, our focus is on what will last long into winter, until our finnicky Ohio spring lets us again grow most of our diet.
Our family goal? Raise 100% of the food we consume. Right now we’re over 90% (we still enjoy bananas and oranges, or have to purchase favorites when our growing year wasn’t perfect for every crop – although we know if we were back in a position to have to do without, we certainly could) – unconventional and unusual, perhaps, but we love the lifestyle and the benefits of eating what we raise, knowing exactly what our children are putting in their mouth (usually! Ah, gotta love toddlers).
What crops are essential for anyone wanting or needing to raise a portion of their diet? Our key criteria for ease and longevity –
1. Low-hassle (even for beginners)
2. Hardy (during a poor season… drought, excessive rains, inexperience, pests)
3. Shelf-life (Assuming most folks don’t can/preserve to our extent, long-term storage was important)
4. Seed-saving (can you save enough seed to plant again, simply?)
Just like everything else, any crop will produce best under ideal conditions, with regular fertilizing, mulching, watering… but with five young children and living off the land, believe me, there’s no such thing as “ideal conditions” for anything around here! Yet we still raise almost all the food we consume and enjoy! Also, I’m nothing resembling a medical professional, and am not suggesting you try or eat anything. I’m simply sharing what has worked for the health and nutrition of our growing family and livestock!
GARLIC – #1 hands down. Simple to grow, a major player in our home medicine cabinet, and best of all, delicious! Its health benefits have been touted for thousands of years, whether you or your livestock are eating it regularly, or using it during a specific illness.
Ideally, plant both a hard and soft neck variety – hards are easier to peel, stronger in flavor, and have larger cloves, yet soft necks store longer when cured well. For ten years we’ve had soft necks to use until the next year’s garlic crop was ready to harvest!
Garlic is also a huge helper in surprising ways – we nurture our seedlings with garlic-soaked water to prevent damping off among our new seeds! The benefits are almost endless for this Garden Glory.
And it’s the perfect time to save back the best looking/largest cloves of your favorite variety (from several bulbs, maintaining genetic diversity!) to plant late this October! I love garlic’s hardiness – no matter if we’ve planted either late or early, thru a cold winter, nasty wet spring, and drought-like summer, it always produces for us.
ONIONS – Up there with garlic due to its versatility in your cooking and home remedies. Bulb onions, whether raised from seed or sets, are like garlic – even if the end result is small, they always produce!
Our green onions overwintered uncovered in a sheltered location (yes, here in Miami County!), producing seed we planted the following year – they simply continued to expand in place, growing more onions to use as we needed them! They’re my husband’s favorite enjoyable crop to grow.
And when we experienced major problems with both the carrot rust fly and onion maggots, we started growing carrots and onions in the same bed to repel each other’s pests! No more problems!
POTATOES – I can fix them daily for a week, different every time, they completely fill us up, yet we never tire of potatoes! Many varieties store well. If you dig a few at a time, it’s not overwhelming! We went 8 years before the potato bugs found us – but if you have several short helpers who catch/squish potato bugs while dreaming of Yukon Golds sliced thin, fried in bacon grease, even better!
Determinant potatoes don’t need hilled – they grow as big as they’ll get, all the plants die at once, yet we simply dig what we need to eat as we go, and dig a few extra plants at a time to set aside in a cool, ventilated, dark area to dry for winter use.
WINTER SQUASH – Best suggestion? Grow a solid stem variety (c. moschata) such as Tahitian Melon. No vineborers (the bane of squash growers!), no fuss, and in taste they replace pumpkin for pies, jam, puddings, soup! Hearty, versatile, healthful, and stores into spring+!
PEAS – This garden candy can’t be beat for fresh eating, in spring and fall! Try a shell pea… easy to let plants dry in place, harvest the pods, and keep those dried peas for winter soups/porridge and next planting!
Planted on St. Patrick’s Day (with potatoes on a good year) then again mid-summer for fall crops, your tall varieties can grow up a trellis, fence (even yard sign frames), or bend cattle panels over to make a walk-thru tunnel! Such easy picking (for our beans, peas, and cucumbers)!
POLE BEANS – Same versatility as peas – good eaten as fresh green beans, yet they dry down on the vine easily to be harvested for seed. All winter, use the dried beans in soups/chili/chowder/you name it!
These are our personal go-to crops. Area libraries have wonderful gardening collections to expand your growing horizons (some of our favorite we’ve borrowed are The Market Gardener by Jean Martin Fortier, Carrots Love Tomatoes by Louise Riotte, anything by John Jeaves, Gene Logsdon or Eliot Coleman, and any Small Farmer’s Journal).
Our favorite seed source? Sand Hill Preservation Center in Calamus IA
A favorite local and social media source? Grower extraordinaire Jenna Monnin on Youtube – Growfully with Jenna!
Our favorite gardening resources? Other growers and gardeners!
miamicounty.locallygrown.net
www.facebook.com/miamicountylocallygrown
Champaign, OH: Tuesday Reminder!
Here we are…looking at a Tuesday morning, and the market will close for weekly orders at 8am, today!!
Like you, I am racing to make sure that I also get my ordering in because it’s just been a crazy working weekend into a crazy work week for me, and catering. But, like you, I know if I think I’m too busy to order, I will be crying my eyes out on Thursday.
And…an observation that I have been making, while out and about…in our catering, we use quite a bit from this market, from our own businesses, and as local/organic as we can. Sometimes, though, I have to venture out to buy things like pans/gloves/serving items…and this past weekend, I’m noticing such dwindling supplies due to no deliveries, etc. This worries me as a business, but it also drives home the fact that this little market stays strong, each and every week. And, because you are getting items that are coming straight from the producer, to you, we all are able to supply. And, you know where your food is coming from. And, no dependency on trucking things in from parts unknown.
We are here, we are strong, and we remain dedicated to all of you…
XOXO,
Cosmic Pam