The Wednesday Market:  Sunday Means It's Time to Order

Good afternoon, and Happy Valentine’s Day!

The Wednesday Market is open for orders. Please place your order by 10 p.m. Monday. Orders are ready between 2 and 4 p.m. Wednesday. See the website for this week’s product offerings. Here is the link: https://wednesdaymarket.locallygrown.net/market

We know how our customers LOVE dairy products from The Good Shepherd farm, and we want to continue offering them through our Market. We are in need of a new volunteer to pick up our milk orders from the dairy and deliver them to The Wednesday Market each week. If you are interested in helping, please contact Sharon Fox, (404) 569-0582, by call or text message, or email [email protected]. She can share with you what the job entails.

We send our thanks and best wishes to our current milk “go-getter” Toni Tidwell, whose last delivery day is Feb. 24. Thank you, Toni, for your service.

Aren’t we fortunate that we won’t be getting the snow and ice that is predicted for most of the U.S.? Even so, we hope you all have a warm, dry, and comfy place to spend the rest of the weekend! Have a great Sunday, and we’ll see you at the Market.

Thanks,

Beverly

Champaign, OH:  Another Cosmic Trivia Game!

Soooo…you all are loving the weekly Cosmic challenge that I have been tossing out to celebrate this 10th year of market love, getting to know your market manager, winning Cosmic goodness, and having fun, each and every week!

How could I let today go by, Valentine’s Day, without giving you a young Cosmic love story trivia question??

Ok…get ready for a walk down Cosmic memory lane, back to 1975-76…

You all have read about, and know my love of growing up in the West End of my hometown. I have equal love for my elementary/middle school, and the fun and education that we all got from it. It was a small school, so we were all very tight, bonded really well, and just really had the best of times.

Our school was big on field trips, cool young college graduates as our teachers, learning by experiencing, with the old school, weathered teachers, also standing guard if the fun went a little too fun.

We were also big on school events, parties, school fairs, dances, and talent shows. The talent shows were EVERYTHING!!! The auditions were so cut throat, and if you won a spot in the talent show (it was the 70s, you tried out, and were either elated or heartbroken…that’s how we rolled), you began rehearsals, costume planning, lighting, staging…it was a BIG deal, with a school dinner before the show, and all of our parents gathered in our gymnasium to cheer us on.

My 6th grade year, my friend and I won a spot in the show with our performance of the Elton John/Kiki Dee song, Don’t Go Breaking My Heart…it was FAB!! Her mother made us these satin bellbottoms, and floppy hats, and we were ON IT.

We finished our act, on stage, and went behind the curtains, and then one of the 7th grade guys, who was also very crush worthy of my 6th grade self, went out, and sang a solo. (Even though we had rehearsals, we were always divided into our grades/music class hour, so I had not heard the other classes, yet.

He belted out this song, and my young heart swooned….

The trivia question is perfect for Valentine’s Day…

What did my young crush sing on stage?

I am excited to hear all answers. I will help you out, a bit…it was a big AM Rock song…very, corny, very cheesy, but in my 6th grade heart, it was everything!

Good luck!! There will be only one winner, this week!!

XOXO,
Cosmic Pam

Champaign, OH:  Happy Valentine's Day!!

Good morning, little local market of love customers, and happy love day to you all!!

It’s a cold day, and it’s about to be snowy. Real snowy. And, as your responsible market manager, I will be keeping everyone updated, as the weather unfolds pertaining to this week’s market pick up!

Until then…keep ordering all of the amazing products that we offer, and also, have yourselves a little lovely day of love…

XOXO,
Cosmic Pam

Green Acres Atkins:  Good morning

Wow, we woke up to a 16 degree morning

It may take awhile to do chores this morning, may have to take warming breaks!

Tom is working hard to keep all the animals warm, feed and watered!

Please place those orders by noon on Thursday at greenacresatkins.locally grown.net

Thanks, stay warm and safe

Tom and kami

Stones River Market:  Market is OPEN -- See you Wednesday on the Porch or Curb or request Delivery

Welcome to the February 14th and 15th Stones River Locally Grown Online Farmers Market.

The Market opens 8:00 am on Sunday Morning and closes 10:00 pm Monday evening. Order early before quantities available run out! https://stonesriver.locallygrown.net

We look forward seeing you on the Porch or Curb Wednesday February 17th from 5-6:30pm with deliveries following. Please comment to Manager when you checkout that you would like curb service and approximate time of arrival so we can have your order ready and watch for you. https://stonesriver.locallygrown.net

Also be sure to check back again over the next 2 days as some of our Growers may be updating their inventories.

Reminder…Delivery Service is available within a 10 mile radius of Murfreesboro, outside areas will be considered and delivery is available to Woodbury at a host location. If this is the first time you’ve requested delivery please put your address in comments before you check out….Method of Payment is Cash, Checks or Credit/Debit Cards or we can email an Invoice including a $1.00 service fee. For Delivering and Invoicing please make sure your account information is current.

Thank you for supporting our/your Locally Grown Market, it means a lot to our Growers and Community by Shopping Local and Staying Local!

News from a few our Growers:

Quarter Spring Farm:
Happy chickens taste better. Pampered goats make better soap. By supporting our farm, you are helping support local agriculture, keeping your dollars local, and acting as an environmental steward. Plus, you will eat well and smell great…and everybody loves that.

Simons Co. Elderberry:
This is the time of year that our body defenses tend to get down, you need to defend it by building up your immunity using our Elderberry Syrup, your health will thank you later.

Body and Soul Teas:
Enjoy our Herbal tea blends for sipping. My current product line includes herbal tea blends and herbal steams. During the ‘cold’ season our Blend of Ah Shoo, Rooted, Shoo Flu, Shut it Down, The Daily teas will help your immune system.

Barefoot Acres Herbs:
Find our products in the Herbal Healing Category. Newly added: MINERAL TOOTH POWDER (Soap and Skin Care/Toothpaste) This week I’ve added ELDERBERRY SYRUP in Pint Jars. We grow the Elderberries we use, includes organic oranges, echinacea and rosehip, cloves, turmeric, ginger and cinnamon sticks, cardamom and peppercorns, local honey and filter water. Enjoy a bit everyday for good health or pour over pancakes!

Mama D’s Bakery:
Hi everyone! We have added Crusty French Bread this week! It goes great with those winter comfort food meals of warm soups and stews or anything with a good sauce, gravy, or olive oil for dipping! We also have everything else available this week! We have Organic White Wheat Bread, Mocha Muffins, Chocolate Swiss Roll, Cinnamon Rolls, Caramel Apple Cinnamon Rolls, Blueberry Lemon Yeast Rolls, Banana Bread and Pumpkin Bread (with the option of nuts or not), Bagels (plain, cinnamon raisin, blueberry, and everything), Donuts (cake and yeast), Cream Cheese Danishes, Pies(chocolate fudge, pecan, chocolate chip pecan, pumpkin and sweet potato), Cookies, Granola and Protein Bars, Yeast Breads, Sourdough Breads, and Fruit Scones. Thanks so much to everybody for your business!

Sow’s Ear Piggery:
We have added several new, whole cuts, including pork shoulders, whole belly, and whole boneless loin. Ground pork, sausage, and bratwursts are also available. As always, our pork comes from free-range, non-GMO, non-corn, non-soy pigs.

Carole Herb’s (CS3 Farm):
We have carob balls, roasted red pepper hummus, and ginger fig shrub concentrate, Hot Thyme Red Wine mustard, dried wild oyster mushrooms, and winter salad.

Sassy Cassies:
We have a new special this week. Free order of Ham and Swiss Sweet Potato rolls with the order of 2 casseroles or soups (or combination casserole/soup). They are good with soup, for breakfast, brunch or lunch. (6 rolls in an order) Happy Valentine Day….week!

Fungalicious:
Many have asked ‘What can I do with Mushroom Powder’? Use them to help bring more flavor to soups and stews without adding texture or meat products. Sprinkle across a salad for an extra ‘wow’ factor. Mix into meatloaf or burger patties to add an extra depth of flavor without necessarily adding bulk or texture. Sprinkle in pasta sauces for added depth of flavor.

The Flour Girl:
Looking for a special gift, dessert or something that is Gluten Free, I have just what you need; Apple, Pumpkin Pie, GF Peach Cobbler, Fudge, Dark Chocolate Covered Cherries, GF Bread, GF Blueberry Muffins, GF Angel Food Cake, Chocolate Cake and Cupcakes. Several cookie options Gluten Free and also Flour based and many other items.

Canna Pham Farm:
Along with several helpful and healthy CBD oil options we have added “Roll On Muscle Freeze” and CBD Soaps (Lavender, Naked, Tea Tree Poppy See and Bath Salts)

Dogwood Valley Greenhouse:
Cheer up your work or living area with a our beautiful African Violets also have Citronella aka Mosquito Plant, Hanging Spider Plant in Green & White, Rex Begonia Basket and a Large Rex Begonia that is Silver with Dark Edges.

Flying S Farms:
This week produce available include; Sweet Potatoes, Turnips and Kale along with Several choices of Sour Dough Breads and Sweet Breads and Bars and of course Biscuits. Are you in a Jam? You can’t go wrong giving a jar of our Jams just to cheer someone’s day up. Warm up with our HOT Pepper Jams:…Ghostly Pear Jelly it is milder than or other pepper jams, Habanero Peach, Jalapeno Cowboy Candy, these all go well with our Cast Iron Skillet Cornbread’s they are great for spicing up many things! Christmas Jam (because it contains Fresh Cranberries + Strawberry) not just for Christmas its delicious anytime, Almost Seedless Blackberry and Black Raspberry, Blueberry Jam, Wild Fox Grape and Pomegranate. Do you have a favorite jam that is not on our list? Let us know, we can probably make it for you.

Delivery Service is available within a 10 mile radius of Murfreesboro, outside areas will be considered and delivery is available to Woodbury at a host location. If this is the first time you’ve requested delivery please put your address in comments before you check out….Method of Payment is Cash, Checks or Credit/Debit Cards or we can email an Invoice including a $1.00 service fee. For Delivering and Invoicing please make sure your account information is current.

Thank you for supporting our/your Locally Grown Market, it means a lot to our Growers and Community by Shopping Local and Staying Local!

We look forward seeing you “On the Porch or At the Curb" of Quinn’s Mercantile Wednesday February 17th from 5:00 – 6:30 pm, please contact me if you are unable to make delivery or are running late, please phone, email or text me so we can make arrangements to get your order to you. After trying to reach you and if we don’t hear from you, your order will be donated and you will be invoiced for the amount since we still need to pay our Growers for their products. Remember we do have Delivery if you think you will be later than 6:30 pm.

How to contact us:
Email: [email protected]
Website: https://stonesriver.locallygrown.net
Facebook: www.facebook.com/StonesRiverMarket
Locations: Quinn’s Mercantile on Wednesdays: 301 North Spring Street, Murfreesboro
map: https://goo.gl/maps/GAkJS1wawb

Middle Tennessee Locally Grown:  Happy Valentine's Day!

Carter of CS3 Farms writes:
We have carob balls, roasted red pepper hummus, and ginger fig shrub concentrate, Hot Thyme Red Wine mustard, dried wild oyster mushrooms, and winter salad. Remember that our products will be on vacation next week.

Top (L to R) Carob balls, Roasted Red Pepper Hummus, Ginger fig Shrub Concentrate.
Bottom (L to R) Hot Thyme Red Wine Gourmet Mustard, Dried Wild Oyster Mushrooms, Winter Lettuce Mix.

From Triple T Cattle Farms:
We are going to run a special the next couple of weeks for our ground beef. We’ll have it priced at $5 per pound.

From Sow’s Ear Piggery:
This week Sow’s Ear Piggery is adding several new, whole cuts, including pork shoulders, whole belly, and whole boneless loin. Ground pork, sausage, and bratwursts are also available. As always, our pork comes from free-range, non-GMO, non-corn, non-soy pigs.

(L to R) Ground pork, Top Round Roast.

Dothan, Alabama:  Feb. 13, 2021 M@D is Open for Orders!

BIODYNAMIC FARMING

Editor’s note: What a blessing to see THIS ARTICLE published this week! While the author is only mentioned by first name at the end, I’ve been watching her experience unfold for, ummm, pretty much her entire life. Elizabeth grew up near Columbus, GA, studied forestry in Tifton, did a stent in the Peace Corps and has been learning from some fabulous farms like the one in the article since returning from Africa.

No doubt our Market customers are familiar with biodynamic farming as Mayim Farms successfully utilizes this concept. Rather than attempt to reinvent the wheel we are condensing some of Elizabeth’s key concepts and if you wish to know more the link is at the end.

If you look up the definition of biodynamic agriculture, here’s what you’ll find: “… a form of alternative agriculture very similar to organic farming, but it includes various esoteric concepts drawn from the ideas of Rudolf Steiner.” Developed in 1924, it was the first of the organic agriculture movements.

Steiner was an Austrian philosopher who coined the phrase, “spiritual science.” From this idea, he established the Waldorf Schools, biodynamic agriculture, and anthroposophical medicine. Biodynamic farming was created after a group of farmers sought out his help in 1924. His ideologies around ecologically sustainable agriculture that omits the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides, rapidly spread around the globe and gave rise to organic agriculture.

Organic agriculture strives for sustainability and utilizes methods of pest control and soil fertilizers that are ecologically derived rather than the traditional chemical/synthetic pesticides and fertilizers that conventional agriculturalists use. Ecological pesticides and fertilizers are primarily derived from composting practices that use plant or animal wastes, as well as nitrogen-fixing cover crops. Biodynamic farming uses the same principles but goes further by utilizing lunar cycles with various soil preparations. One interesting practice involves burying a cow’s horn packed with silica to enhance its properties as a plant spray. Another utilizes various compost components to enhance fungal qualities. Many studies support attention to enhancing soil health.

In the end whatever one believes about the science and spirituality connection Steiner held to, there’s no denying that love and care for the soil God created (yes, another spiritual comment) is good for the planet and helps produce food that is both nurturing and healing.

Elizabeth getting to know the draft horse she later used to plow that field. https://insteading.com/blog/biodynamic-farming/

GROWER & MARKET NOTES

NEW & RELISTED Broccoli from Avalon Farms * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

Don’t forget that you can reserve your Thanksgiving turkey by placing a deposit order with Grows in Rows. These Broad Breasted Bronze Turkeys will be free ranged, supplemented with non-gmo feed and ready for you to have the most incredible Thanksgiving turkey ever. Dressed cost is 4.50 per lb and your deposit goes toward the total price.

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Mayim Farm is back! Greg and Carolle have been busy working on infrastructure this winter and their crops are starting to come in. You will find a few things listed and they’ve promised more to come.

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AVALON FARMS: The days are ticking by, but not a lot of field work happening. It’s so frustrating! I should be out dropping seed potatoes right now but the soil is too wet to work. Also on the schedule is to plant sugar snap peas. Hopefully it will dry out enough I can manage to plant them in a few days. Will have to come up with a creative wet dirt method. Ha ha

Something is tearing out the leeks!! I can’t find any animal tracks. No digging. Just pulled up and shredded leeks. My best guess is birds. Maybe robins looking for food. There are a lot of robins hopping around the gardens.

Zoe, the farm dog, update: She is doing much better. Still moving slow but feeling good enough to wander around in the yard. She even came out to the chicken pasture this week. She was and hopefully will be our primary chicken herding helper.

CLG:  No market this week due to winter weather.

Hello friends,
Due to the threat of a pending significant winter weather event, or two, we will NOT have market this week. Stay safe and healthy!

Steve & Carissa

Miami County Locally Grown:  Ground Beef!

The Buehler’s now have ground beef available again!

What great snowball weather – perfect packing snow! If you haven’t tried it yet, you’re sure missing out. A family snowball fight is some of the most fun we’ve had (And trust me – when an overly playful heifer splashes you and the water instantly freezes on your glasses and blinds you, you’re definitely ready to both throw something and find a bright side to Winter!)

Locally Grown STT:  The market is open!

The market is open to ordering!

Thanks USVI Channel for passing through this week and featuring us in your news special! The St Thomas Locally Grown Online Farmers Market is a great tool connecting producers with customers increasing local food accessibility for the St Thomas/St John/Island community! Thanks for shopping local!

Some of this week’s highlights:

- Local bananas! A few growers have some
This week. I recommend at least 2lb order vs ordering just 1lb.

- local honey

-locally grown Moringa in locally baked Moringa Breads

- local eggs

- Ohhh and the Kombucha is really nice. A great probiotic drink to have once a week

- Fire Ciders: every medicine cabinet should have one.

Etc

Have a great weekend!
- Your Market Coordinators