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.
Lathemtown Farm Fresh Market: Spring flowers!
Welcome spring! I am loving all the color on the farm this week! The Bradford pears lining our driveway are spectacular, the peach and plum trees have bloomed and the bulb garden is so fragrant and pretty! Now comes the green pollen explosion.
Enjoy our market offerings this week and if you have special requests for Easter, just let me know!
Thank you,
Farmher Chef Amy
Old99Farm Market: World-scale Event Happening now this week
Someone in my network put me onto the Soil Regen Summit a few weeks ago. I looked at the scheduled speakers, said, hmmm looks pretty good, top rated speakers and I recognized some of them from my own prior study.
But today is kick off day and I’ve watched a couple sessions. Wow. So good. I am so grateful someone thought to send it out to me.
Apparently thousands worldwide are tuning in for this bonanza of best practice information about how and why to care for the land and the food it provides.
I want my whole network world to check it out.
Why?
It will raise your spirits about climate crisis.
It will make you want to be healthier.
It will motivate you to care about issues that may not seem very related.
It will help you see the world as one system, one that humans have unavoidable role to play in.
It will spark your awareness of how all the disconnects (social, racial, ecological, economic) have common cause.
It will help you appreciate and love nature and its miracles.
It may even help you appreciate farming in its proper context.
The link is www.soilregensummit.com.
The free conference started today at 9am, I’d recommend you catch Vandana Shiva if there is only one 50 minute session you can make. Sessions are live and archived so can be watched online for month.
Others I have high hopes for are Dan Kittredge on food nutritional value, Walter Jehne on how green plants everywhere will quickly cool bioregions suffering heatwaves, John D Liu on volunteer camps starting up now by the dozens to regenerate large landscapes and Graham Bell on permaculture inspired lifestyles.
Please give it a shot go here. You won’t be disapppointed. Now I have to get back to the current session.
Send me a note to this blog on what you liked, discovered, and got inspired by.
Keep well,
Ian and Cami
GFM : COMING SOON
PHYSICAL MARKET TIME IS ALMOST HERE
ALL THE FRESH VEGETABLES
WE HAVE ALL MISSED THIS WINTER
BUT FOR NOW
CHECK OUT WHAT OUR ONLINE VENDORS
HAVE HERE FOR YOU.
Siloam Springs, AR: Online Market is Open!
www.siloamsprings.locallygrown.net
Lots of great products available this week. Be sure to order your favorite gourmet mustards this week! Tajour Specialty products will be closing business soon. Thank you to everyone who has supported their business.
Have a great week and see you Saturday!
Champaign, OH: Cosmic Trivia!
As we have been doing, each week, celebrating all things market, and the coming of the 10th anniversary of the market, I bring you my gift to you…Cosmic Trivia for free Cosmic products to the winner!!
This week…two winners can happen because there are two answers to my question!!
And, you will need to dust off or look up your Grateful Dead song knowledge.
Since the weekend was all about my daughter’s upcoming wedding, I had thoughts about her, young, a baby, and how it seems like just yesterday when I was designing, drawing outlines, and painting the walls and ceiling of her baby nursery.
The theme was pulled from two Grateful Dead songs that I combined for her…
What two songs were used? Each customer can name just one song. You can send your guesses as many times as you like, until I get two winners.
Ok…go, fill your world with Grateful Dead tunes…I’ll be waiting…
XOXO,
Cosmic Pam
PS…have you seen all of the loveliness of this market’s offerings? We’ve got it all, and it’s all waiting for you…
Champaign, OH: Monday, Monday
Monday, Monday
Can’t trust that day
Monday, Monday
Sometimes it just turns out that way…
(The Mamas & The Papas)
Well, it’s a Monday, we had the time change giving us more daylight, more sunshine, and I spent last night, with a glass of wine, rewatching, Echo In The Canyon, so I am now in a Mamas and The Papas songfest in my head…
Anyway, I have been scarce on my weblog writings as I took the weekend off to spend time with my daughter who was in Columbus, and we spent the time doing all things wedding planning, tasting, and seeing her finished dress, for the first time. My heart was full as she stepped into it, for the first time, since trying on the sample dress, months ago.
I spent the weekend, void of social media, and void of writing for the market, just to soak up all that was happening, all that is her beauty.
But, as she jetted back to Florida, I am now back in full force, reminding you that it is already Monday, and you have until tomorrow to get those orders in!!
I hope to see all of your smiling faces at Thursday’s pick up, Friday’s pickup/delivery, or Saturday’s pick up…
Monday, Monday…so good to me…
XOXO,
Cosmic Pam
Athens Locally Grown: ALG Market Open for March 18
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
Spring officially starts this week, and hopefully the deep freezes are behind us. We’ve got another month until our average last frost day (two months for some of our outlying growers), so we’ll no doubt see some cold nights — possibly even some light frost in town later this week. Frosts are one thing, but deep freezes are much harder on our growers and the plants they’re cultivating. We should see a steady increase in the variety of veggies available from here on out.
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!
GFM : Vendor Spotlight
I apologize that there hasn’t been a blog post in a few weeks. So I’ll do 2 vendor spotlights this week.
First, Welcome back to The Frazzled Flamingo! They rejoin us with some adorable kids and baby items, and machine embroidery. .jpg?1612118276)
Second, Our very own beekeepers, Cedar Ridge Farms.
They have a variety of local honey and honey products. Studies have shown that consuming local honey can help with seasonal allergies. 
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Dawson Local Harvest: The Market Is Open!
DAWSON LOCAL HARVEST, March 14, 2021
All-natural, non-GMO, Locally Grown, no pesticides, chemicals, etc. Dawson Harvest, you source for Healthy!
Fayetteville Farmers' Market: Online Orders NOW OPEN
Welcome to the new schedule for online ordering and the new location and schedule for pickup!
Online ordering is open from 6pm on Sunday evening until 6am on Wednesday morning.
Order at:
https://fayettevillearkansas.locallygrown.net/market.
TIPS:
1) When you start shopping, if you see items that have low availability, choose, checkout and pay for those first.
2) Some of our produce growers will be adding products later in the ordering period, so be sure to check back.
NEW PICKUP TIME:
4:30pm to 6:30 pm on THURSDAY.
(No more Saturday pickups)
NEW 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. There will be signs directing you to several numbered parking spaces at the north end of the lot. You will TEXT or CALL 479-236-2910 with your spot number, last name and first name when you arrive.
Thank you for your continued support of the online market!