Locally Grown STT:  Your Online Farmers Market is now open!

Happy Saturday Locally Grown Customers!

The Market is open, available this week:

Locally made wines-Tamarind, pineapple hogplum by Wine on the Rock

Thai Eggplants from Paradise Farms

Fresh baked breads from Moringa
Experience

Fresh lettuce, collards, green onions from Drina’s Farm

Fire Ciders a great immune booster from Neighborhood Apoth

Fresh eggs, fruit plant slips from Que Sera Farm

Try Hot Sause, from Shangri La Farm. Made with peppers from her garden

This is the last Market Day-6/30. Then Summer break starts.

During the break Que Sera Farm eggs are available at Four Corners Produce stand.

We want to thank you again for supporting Locally Grown growers. It was a pleasure bringing local growers/producers and customers together.

Laugh, dance, farm
Your Market Coordinators

Champaign, OH:  Happy Sunshine Saturday!

The sun is streaming in, I’m having a bit of a lazy morning before I need to go bake a bit, for special orders, and I just wanted to send a big dose of weekend love your way!

Also, if you are thinking ahead to the holiday weekend, next weekend, you may want to think about all of the amazing local items that you can order, right here, to help you with your celebrations, or just your kick back/easy holiday plans.

It will be a busy weekend, with excitement on the horizon, so why fight the crowds at the big box stores, when you can just drive up on Thursday, while we load your car with the best, the freshest, the products are truly locally grown…

XOXO,
Cosmic Pam

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
• Statesboro – Outreach Center: Thursday evening 6:15 – 7:00
• Sylvania: Thursday afternoon at the Market on Maple 3:30 – 5:00
• Millen: Thursday afternoon at Project for Better Health 3:30 – 4:30
• 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 or Statesboro – Outreach Center as pickup location.
You can get help placing an EBT order on Tuesday evening from 5:30 to 7:00 at the Statesboro Outreach Center, 515 Denmark Street. Or for more information, email [email protected]

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT

Our Saturday markets have returned at Synovus parking lot Downtown Statesboro!
Thank you to this week’s sponsor, the Averitt Center for the Arts. Our featured vendor this week vendor this week is J.R.’s Unique Jelly & Jam. They offer a variety of spreads with amazing flavors and some very unique combinations; pop by his tent for a sweet treat in a variety of fruity flavors and colors!

Our Market2GO will still be available all year for shopping online Friday-Tuesday with Thursday pick up.

Miami County Locally Grown:  FEATURED VENDOR: The Farmhouse Bakery and CREAMERY!!

Passing several gentle, free-range laying hens, I ventured up the walk to see the new Creamery at The Farmhouse Bakery for the first time, with Don MacLean singing goodbye to “American Pie” as an intoxicating smell reeled me in. “Ok, I should go on these visits more often – This is my kind of place!”

Some interviews are easy but formulaic – you go with a preconceived set of questions, they give you answers, you move along, job done. Not so at the home of Carmen and Jonathan White – I left my husband and garage covered in grease and truck parts, our four homeschoolers busy working while the toddler napped, and put zero prep into what we’d talk about – when I asked Carmen where we should start, she laughed, shrugged, and spread her hands around to show her beautiful new work space – sounds good! Let’s start with, What the heck is that delicious smell!! Lucky for me, and my taste buds, it was her homemade caramel sauce that she’d soon add to several of her ice cream varieties, including Cookie Dough Caramel Swirl, now on the Market!!

She may be famous locally for the bakery goods and sweets she’s been selling only since 2017, but Carmen initially met Jonathan when they both worked at The Four Seasons in Phoenix, Arizona. Having recently received her four-year Bachelor of Culinary Arts degree in Mexico City, Carmen began an 18 month internship at the Hotel where Jonathan worked. It must have been fate, because when given the option of her required internship in Phoenix or Spain, she wanted Spain! She wasn’t comfortable speaking English, but her options were to learn our complicated language almost overnight, or pay an obscene amount of money for the necessary visas and plane fare to Spain, much further from home – so thank goodness for us and Jonathan she wisely chose learning English and moving to Arizona!

Fast forward a few years, with both working at The Ritz-Carlton in Naples, Florida. Carmen started in pastries and then jumped into homemade ice creams and gelato, as Jonathan managed the Lounge and Ice Cream/Gelato Shop where folks from all over the world would visit the hotel and tell Jonathan Carmen’s frozen treats were the best they’d ever had. Anywhere. That’s when he knew they had something special, and the dream of a Creamery followed them thru the years, until they moved back to Jonathan’s hometown of Troy.

Ironic that while Carmen explained how they were focused on keeping their new frozen desserts labels “clean”, Lynard Skynard sang about being a “Simple Man” in the background. When bigger companies add name-brand, store-bought cookies to Cookies ‘n Cream ice cream, the ingredient list grows too long with unpronounceable, unhealthy additives – So Carmen and Jonathan focus on homemade brownies, cookies, and caramel, plus farm fresh milk, eggs and fruit, to set their frozen treats apart from anything else you’ll find. Even their mint chocolate ice cream is only flavored (to perfection!) with mint leaves from their own plants – the color is even more vibrant than you’d believe natural could be, without any artificial colorings!

Often you can look at an ingredient list to know what a product contains – that same list, however, doesn’t begin to describe the care that goes into products such as the White’s create. Just starting up a Creamery business with today’s nightmarish regulations could have been a herculean task, but Jonathan knew they had to take it a step further. Simply purchasing a high end, Italian ice cream/sorbet/gelato maker wasn’t enough. They wanted their products to stand out because you’d taste the farm-freshness of the ingredients – raw milk they’d pick up as soon as it was out of the cows, freshly laid brown eggs, vine-ripened fruits – and they were willing to jump all the extra hurdles to become a Licensed Dairy Plant, legally allowed to take those fresh ingredients to their Troy creamery! Amazing.

It’s no joke that every person I’ve ever met who knew Carmen well, and had watched her work, all initially used the exact same adjective to describe her – hard working – and for good reason. When I teasingly asked if she ever got to take a break, she laughed, “Only if I’m good – sometimes I even sleep til 6 or 7am until my body protests and says, Get up! Get up!” When she was describing both her and Jonathan’s crazy work schedule back in their Naples days at The Ritz, I asked, “So only time for Hi and Bye if your work hours never matched up?” She nodded, saying they literally met in the parking lot to pass Baby Emma’s carseat carrier back and forth as one went in to work and the other took the baby home. What a far cry from now being so close to having a home business where they can work fulltime, side by side each day!

Carmen’s smile is as infectious as her confections – same with Jonathan’s passionate nature, whether discussing his talented wife or their current and future dreams for the business, which include the 18 fruit trees planted around their beautiful homestead which will go into both their creamery and bakery products. Each day getting closer to him working full time from their home business only sweetens their already delicious days and plans. And their three young, energetic children are working on fitting, funny names for each ice cream flavor – with a family business this sweet, everyone wants to be involved, starting as the best tasters around!

Hands down best part of my afternoon? It happened to be the very first time they’d ever made Gelato, and ignorant me didn’t even know how it was different from ice cream until I put it in my mouth. I’ve never tasted anything that velvety. I thought Jonathan had to be joking, that the creamy gelato I was savoring is actually lower in fat and calories than ice cream, but he insists it’s true, due to the higher milk and lower cream content – the secret is in the amount of air and the speed with which it’s churned. His comment after the first taste? “That’s everything I hoped it’d be, and more! It’s exciting to think we’ll introduce people to gelato for their first time!”

Stay tuned for Part Two of their Creamery Story, as we learn the craziness it took to find a licensed local dairy supplier, meet Carmen’s new intern, and their newest drool-worthy flavors, as well as their plans for the future!

Over the past decade, our travels have taken us on interviews, workshops, farm tours, and field days to almost 100 farms and businesses, yet only a rare handful were so genuine I was made to feel not just welcome, but part of the family – and that’s the feeling with which I came away from The Farmhouse Bakery and Creamery. I respect their deep-rooted commitment to not only quality products but truly fresh products with all the local ingredients possible – you want to cheer them and support them on their passionate, dedicated way, even before you’ve tasted their Gelato (but trust me, even more so after)!

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!

Martin's Farmstand:  U-pick Saturday June 26 Still abundant berries

We will open the strawberry and pea patches for u-pick in the morning (Saturday, June 26) at 7 am. This is the last formal u-pick day for this year. I just came in from walking through the fields. There are a lot more berries out there than I expected and some of them are bigger than I was expecting to see. They liked the cooler weather and sized up nicely. I am estimating that if we have enough pickers we can harvest 1,500 quarts tomorrow. The late berries are so very good. I ate my fill as I was scouting the fields. Some of those little gems are almost like candy.
The patch in the front behind the barn and the little patches out past post two are in half price gleaning status. Those patches are almost finished.
The patches at the top of the hill after post 1 and the big one way back past post three still have better picking and are open for picking at regular price.
Starting Monday June 28 all the strawberry patches will in self service, half price gleaning status. Come to the stand after you are finished for check out. There are still some green berries that will be ripening over the next week. Any patches in gleaning status are open every day except Sunday during normal stand hours.

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

Good afternoon!
Bring those kids and let them get a frozen popsicle. :-)

We have a few jars of Wickles available today. Get them while you can. Delicious and zesty refrigerator pickles! Only $5 per pint!

We will have blackberries, cucumbers, squash and more on the extras table today, so come early for the best selection :-)

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.

We have volunteers who can bring your order to your car if you prefer. Just call or text 501-339-1039. Tell me your name, where you are parked and what kind of car you are in.

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

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 4PM – 8:00PM this Tuesday at the Downtown Russellville Train Depot. You may now come inside the Depot, or your order will be brought to your car in full-service fashion!

NEW this week – We have TOMATOES! We also have Carrots, Cucumber or Squash Relish, Red and Yellow Onions, Potatoes (Red, Viking Red, Purple, or Yukon Gold), Elephant Garlic, Fresh Lettuce, Locally-Raised Meats, and more!
Check back frequently as our farmers regularly update what they have available. Multiple orders are encouraged. :)

Russellville Community Market

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Champaign, OH:  Love Vibes

All the love, all the time!

The market opens, tonight, with nothing but love!

It was an amazing market, tonight, and it was lovely to be back with all of you!

Get ready to order all of the market goodness!

XOXO,
Cosmic Pam

Miami County Locally Grown:  CLOSED NEXT WEEK!

Just a reminder we’re closed next week! So get those orders in by 9pm Saturday for any Fourth of July needs!

So many grilling options – patties, brats, chops, breasts, wings, steaks, even bacon – Mmmm :-)