The Weblog
This weblog contains LocallyGrown.net news and the weblog entries from all the markets currently using the system.
To visit the authoring market’s website, click on the market name located in the entry’s title.
Fayetteville Farmers' Market: ONLINE ORDERS STILL OPEN UNTL 6 AM WED
Online ordering is still open—until 6 am tomorrow.
Order at:
https://fayettevillearkansas.locallygrown.net/market.
DELIVERY REQUEST DEADLINE IS THURSDAY 9 AM. Instructions are in your order confirmation.
Local eggs are in good supply this week and spring vegies available. Plus locally produced cheese and meats (lamb, beef, pork, chicken, goat), baked goods, candy and local crafts.
REMINDER: PICKUP DAY AND TIME:
4:30pm to 6:30 pm on THURSDAY.
PICKUP LOCATION AND PROCESS:
The OUTDOOR parking area at the south end of the new part of the Fayetteville Public Library. Approach on School Street and turn west into the outdoor parking lot.
Put your name on a piece of paper in the passenger side window and follow the signs to the pickup point in the lot.
Someone will meet your car, and direct you to a parking spot to wait a few moments while we bring out your order.
Thank you for your continued support of the online market!
Fayetteville Farmers' Market: ONLINE ORDERS STILL OPEN UNTL 6 AM WED
Online ordering is still open—until 6 am tomorrow.
Order at:
https://fayettevillearkansas.locallygrown.net/market.
DELIVERY REQUEST DEADLINE IS THURSDAY 9 AM. Instructions are in your order confirmation.
Local eggs are in good supply this week and spring vegies available. Plus locally produced cheese and meats (lamb, beef, pork, chicken, goat), baked goods, candy and local crafts.
REMINDER: PICKUP DAY AND TIME:
4:30pm to 6:30 pm on THURSDAY.
PICKUP LOCATION AND PROCESS:
The OUTDOOR parking area at the south end of the new part of the Fayetteville Public Library. Approach on School Street and turn west into the outdoor parking lot.
Put your name on a piece of paper in the passenger side window and follow the signs to the pickup point in the lot.
Someone will meet your car, and direct you to a parking spot to wait a few moments while we bring out your order.
Thank you for your continued support of the online market!
Miami County Locally Grown: We're Back with New Products, New Specials, and a New Vendor!
Welcome to the Market in April!
First we Welcome our newest young entrepreneur and grower, Rosemary’s Garden from Laura! She’ll be offering herbal jellies and goodies seasonally as her flowers and gardens bloom – first up… Forsythia Jelly!!
New from Hidden Springs Farm in Troy – Rolled Rump Beef Roasts, Fresh Ham Steaks and Pork Shoulder Steaks! From their Pasture Raised, Non-GMO cattle and hogs – and they don’t use any chemicals or antibiotics!
Plus a New Special this week from King’s Poultry Farm – 20% off their Cheddar Jalapeno Chicken Brats!! Just the perfect touch of Jalapeno in their tasty Cheddar Brat!
So whether you’re looking for sweet, savory or spicy, there’s plenty of excitement on the Market as we roll full steam ahead into Spring!!
Champaign, OH: Tuesday Love Note
Let this be your reminder that the market will be closing at 8am, this morning!!
Still time to get those orders in…just like your market manager who forgot, until now, to get her own orders in!!
You don’t want to miss out on all of the great products we have to offer!!
XOXO,
Cosmic Pam
Statesboro Market2Go: Order Before 10pm Tuesday!
Order before 10 on Tuesday night!
Root vegetables like radishes, turnips, and rutabagas are ready for harvest, so it’s time to enjoy some seasonal recipes! We suggest trying out:
- Georgia Shrimp and Radish Salad for a unique blend of flavors,
- Cabbage and Rutabaga Slaw for a quick chilled side dish,
- Au Gratin Turnips for a savory dinner highlight,
- And Roasted Spring Root Vegetables for a real seasonal sampler!
Be sure to check out our recipe section for even more ideas.
Siloam Springs, AR: Online Market is Open!
siloamsprings.locallygrown.net
Good morning! Two more Saturdays and we will be seeing you at the outdoor market which opens at 8 a.m. Saturday, April 17th!
Our first Kids Day of 2021 will be on Saturday, May 9th! To participate in this year’s POP Club please click the link below and register your kiddos for the Power of Produce Club. Register here: https://www.jotform.com/siloamfarmersmarket/2021-power-of-produce-registration
Vandevoir Farms Chicken is available this week – ground chicken, chicken frames, feet, livers, and pet food. They should be getting their first batch of chicks soon which will restock their full product line sometime towards the end of May or first of June.
Opossum Hollow has a great selection of beef and pork and some produce as well.
Lee Family Farm has beautiful flower bouquets and produce.
Be sure to order your eggs, baked goods, personal care and home care products as well. We have some great gifts available in the art prints and aprons.
Have a great week and see you Saturday!
Old99Farm Market: Week of 4 April 2021
With the sounds of all the birds around, the trees and plants budding and peeper frogs singing loudly I think we can put the snow shovels away and say that spring has sprung.
We’ve been having some very nice weather lately and hopefully you’ve been able to enjoy it by hiking, cycling, walking or getting your garden beds ready.
While gardening is on your mind you should consider adding some of Old 99 Farm compost to your beds. Check out this quick video on Facebook showcasing our compost:
https://www.facebook.com/old99farm/videos/2987843618209359/
We have a great selection of beef available, and NEW THIS WEEK we have the first cutting of Rhubarb! Also check out our vegetable selection for fresh cut selections like red kale, green kale, collard greens, spinach, arugula, delicious green Swiss chard, baby mixed salad greens, baby green leaf lettuce heads and more!
SPECIAL THIS WEEK!
Green kale $1.00 off OR buy three bunches and get one FREE!
Please remember to place your order BEFORE 7am Thursday. Orders placed after this time may not be processed.
Market pickup times are Thursday & Friday from 4PM to 6PM.
Thank you all who came last week, we look forward to seeing you and many new faces this week.
Be well,
Nick & Angela
Ian & Cami
Champaign, OH: April Come She Will
April, come she will
When streams are ripe and swelled with rain…
(Simon & Garfunkel)
One of my favorite songs, ushering in my favorite month of the year.
April…crossing the bridge into the new season. Growth begins, green begins, sun is now warming, the promise of budding trees, early flowers peeking up, and our moods become lifted, hopeful, full of lightness.
The market always seems to embrace each season, but April…April begins to see more and more freshness, early produce, lightness, and the bridge for a summer to come, full of the season’s best.
The girls of Flourish are getting ready to begin listing early floral offerings, microgreens will be here, in few weeks with Kingdom Fish, early plant starts will be coming via Gourmet Fibers, and Hippie and the Farmer will even be offering early tomato and pepper starts, in the coming weeks.
April…a time for celebration.
And, one more reason to celebrate in April? It’s your market manager’s birthday month!!
Leading me into this week’s Cosmic Trivia question…
What is the date of my April birthday?
Throw me your answers!!
And…as a side note…I will be off the market, for two weeks, after this week. So, if you are ordering Cosmic loveliness, or Hippie and the Farmer pizzas, you need to do it, this week!!
I’m finally feeling a bit more comfortable to travel, safely. So, I will be heading to Florida to finally see my daughter’s newly built house, and to spend time in the sun, at her pool, and taking advantage of some downtime before May comes crashing in!
XOXO,
Cosmic Pam
GFM : Welcome to April!!
We’re getting ever closer to our Mother’s Day Celebration and the opening day of the in person, walk through market. Behind the scenes we’re working hard looking for new farmers and vendors to join our market family. We stil have openings for the celebration.
We continue to accept SNAP/EBT and Double Up Food Bucks program gets you twice as much up to $20 per transaction. We accept Credit Cards, for our vendors that don’t have credit card machines, and give tokens for customers to spend with the vendors.
Covid19 guidelines and Social Distancing is still in effect. So please respect our vendors and immunocompromised guests by continuing to follow recommendations.
Mark your calendar’s and if you know anyone who’d like to be a vendor send them to our sign up. We still have open spots available.
Athens Locally Grown: ALG Market Open for April 8
Athens Locally Grown
How to contact us:
Our Website: athens.locallygrown.net
On Twitter: @athlocallygrown
On Facebook: www.facebook.com/athenslocallygrown
On Thursdays: Here’s a map.
Market News
I got to spend some quality time out in the garden today. We’ve established a lovely Easter tradition here where my kids take turns hiding eggs for each other around the yard and garden while I watch from a comfy hammock. After that, we started a thorough spring cleaning of the yard and the parts of the garden I hadn’t planted in yet. A few years ago I moved to this house on the west side of town, and I was lucky enough to find a place with raised beds already established in the back yard. They were overgrown and there wasn’t an easy way to get water out to them, but just having them there was a great start. Even if the beds weren’t here, I could have a little container garden on the patio, which is an easy way to grow a surprisingly large amount of veggies when you don’t have any land to grow in. But if you don’t have space of your own for a garden in the ground and growing in pots doesn’t sound like a “real” garden to you, you’ve got another option: community gardens.
There are a number of community gardens around town, though I suspect some have fallen into disuse. Like any project that runs on volunteers, the amount of gardening getting done will ebb and flow with the hands available. If you’d like to get involved in bringing and maintaining public gardens for Athens communities, I’m sure the Athens Land Trust and the Community Garden Network would love to hear from you. They have a website where you can find out more: http://www.athenslandtrust.org/community-agriculture/community-garden-network. They have descriptions and other information about some of their current active gardens, and I’m sure they’d love more hands.
Thank you so much for your support of Athens Locally Grown, all of our growers, local food, and our rights to eat it. You all are part of what makes Athens such a great area in which to live. We’ll see you at our market’s home on Tallassee Road!
We are still getting new customers every week (and we love seeing new masked faces!) so for all of you you can find a detailed run-down of how Thursdays go on our website here: https://athens.locallygrown.net/faq#7
Other Area Farmers Markets
If ALG doesn’t have everything you need, please support our growers at the other markets that are now back up and running, or at their own locations. The Comerian takes online orders for Saturday pickup at the bakery here: https://www.thecomerian.com/online-ordering. The Athens Farmers Market is holding their Saturday market once again in Bishop Park. They’re still operating under pandemic rules, so you’ll want to read up on all the changes on their website, http://athensfarmersmarket.net. The West Broad Farmers Market is back, holding a drive through market just like us (and using my software too, so it’ll be nice and familiar). You can join them at https://wbfm.locallygrown.net. The Culinary Kitchen of Athens has started a socially distanced winter market, Saturdays from 11am to 2pm at Hendershots on Prince. And of course Collective Harvest is going strong over at https://www.collectiveharvestathens.com.
All of these other markets are separate from ALG (including the Athens Farmers Market) but many growers sell at multiple markets. Please support your local farmers and food producers, where ever you’re able to do so!
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!