Berea Gardens:  Market open

Hi Folks,

Some very nice stuff this week! We still have an abundance of winter squash and potatoes for those of you that want to store some up for the winter. We only have four more market weeks in our regular season, but keep an eye on your Sunday emails from us for occasional markets into the end of the year. We have lots of broccoli, cauliflower, greens and more that will be coming in (weather depending) through the Holiday Season. Blessings to all.

Bob and Lynnita

The Wednesday Market:  We're Open for Orders

Good morning.

The Wednesday Market is open for orders. Please place your order by 10 p.m. Orders are ready for pick up 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

Thank you for supporting Georgia Grown! We’ll see you at the Market. In the meantime, have a pleasant Sunday.

Thanks,

Beverly

CLG:  Opening Bell: Buffalo, Pork, Honey, Tamales!

Hello friends!

Tamales!
Pork, chicken or jalapeño & cheese.
Five for $7. All same kind.
At market this Friday, October 30th.
Text me your order.
501–339-1039

We’ve got Greek marinated feta cheese! And coffee! We are near the end of the season for pickling cucumbers, zucchini, yellow squash and eggplant. Our growers will bring everything available for the extra table on Friday, so come early for the best selection.

Be sure to SEARCH for your favorite items using the search field. For instance, type in the word “sale” or “pork” and see what pops up. We have over 475 items available now!

Most items are listed by 6pm Sunday, but check back again before the market closes Tuesday night to see if any other items are ready to be harvested for you! Eat fresh! Eat local! Eat for better health!

And save your eggshells throughout the week for the laying hens! :-)

In accordance with the current guidelines, we will not have more than 10 people in the lobby at any time. We have four volunteers who can bring your order to your car if you prefer, just call or text 501-339-1039.

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]

Washtenaw Organic Collaborative:  Ordering Open for October 31st Halloween pickup!

We are open for our last regular week of the season, with a pickup on October 31st, Halloween!

Thank you for all your support all year! Our market will be open to shoppers during November but there will be only one pickup on Saturday November 21st. Stay tuned for other winter season details. Please invite your friends and family to check out the Washtenaw Organic Collaborative!

Autumn continues to bring some new things, be sure to check out our new items today!

ORDERING OPEN Sunday, October 25th through through Wednesday, October 28th for pickup SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31st.

HOW IT WORKS : Order Sundays-Wednesday for Saturday pickup or delivery.

1) CREATE AN ACCOUNT Enter your contact info & pick-up location or delivery option – this can be adjusted later. Address and details are on the website for current pick-up locations: Brines Farm and Slow Farm.

2) ORDER Head to WashtenawOrganic.com and select the tab “The Market” and begin placing items in your cart. When finished, select “proceed to check out.” There you can verify the quantity of items ordered, leave notes for your growers, and choose your pick up location or delivery option, and pay. You’ll receive a receipt by email. All submitted orders are considered final on Wednesday at 5pm.

3) PICK UP & ENJOY Every Saturday, pick up your individually packaged order. The Slow Farm pickup location is a no contact pickup – please stay in your car, we will place items in your trunk. The Brines Farm pickup location is self-service off of farmhouse porch. Paid delivery option will arrive at your doorstep about midday. Pick up will be at either:

Brines Farm: Saturdays 9am-5pm (self-serve porch), 6384 Walsh Rd., Whitmore Lake, MI 48189. OR

Slow Farm: Saturdays, 9am-12pm (no-contact pickup, items placed in your car), 4700 Whitmore Lake Rd., Ann Arbor, MI 48105

Final Notes:
- Double check the pickup location noted on your receipt/invoice – and remember it for Saturday.
- Delivery to your location is created by adding the $10 delivery item to your order basket.
- If we cannot fulfill an item it will be refunded.
- We cannot accommodate late pick ups or changes in pick up locations.
- Missed Pick Ups will be donated or returned to vendors.

We appreciate your support! See you on Saturday!

Green Acres Atkins:  Good morning

Hope you all had a great week!

We are working away at the farm getting everything ready for more winter like weather whether we like it or not !

We will still work hard to provide you with farm fresh products throughout the winter

Please place those orders by Thursday at noon at greenacresatkins.locallygrown.net

Thanks
Tom and Kami

Stones River Market:  Market is OPEN -- See you Wednesday Walk-up or Curb

Welcome to the October 25th and 26th 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
Be sure to check again over the next 2 days as some of our Growers may be updating their inventories.

We continue to have our “Pull Up or "Step Up” delivery on the curb in front of Quinn’s Mercantile to pickup your orders Wednesday afternoon October 28th from 5-6:30 pm….Drive up to the canopy or you are welcome to park across the street and walk to the canopy to pickup your order using social distancing. We want to leave the area in front of Quinn’s Mercantile for their customers.

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. Please put your address in comments before you check out….Method of Payment is Cash, Checks, Cards or Invoice. For Delivering and Invoicing please make sure your account information is current.

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

The Market’s Gift Certificates are available, great way to share the Market with others. Give a Gift of Locally Grown food and other items.

Reusable Market Totes are available, 10 × 12 with a 8 inch gusset, not too small and not too big and reusable. This is a joint venture between Quinn’s Mercantile and our Stones River Market.

Be sure to check out the Markets Recipe Section, recipes are posted by our Customers and Growers, you can view In Season Recipes or search for a recipe.

News from the Growers:

Dogwood Valley Greenhouse: It’s Christmas time in Tennessee! Well, not really, but it is time to put in your order for decorations from Dogwood Valley Greenhouse. This year I will be selling at Wildwood Christmas Tree Farm in Woodbury, but I want to be sure all my local friends receive the items they want before I take any to the farm. So here is how this will work: prepay the total cost now, and reserve a delivery date. Note: it will be easier for me to fill your order on a later date. I promise I will not run out of wreaths and kissing balls, but it’s hard to make as many as are wanted early in the season. They should last about a month if outside, and will be just as beautiful after Christmas as before. Delivery will begin the first Wednesday of December and continue till all orders are filled. Also available this year: beautiful table basket centerpieces and herb plant baskets. Order and pay now, pick up and enjoy in December. Coming in a month or so: Christmas cacti.

The Flour Girl: Several delicious GLUTEN FREE items this week…Cakes, Muffins, Bread, Cupcakes, Cookies and Peach Cobbler.

Fungalicious: As the holiday approaches we find ourselves wondering who would like to have gourmet mushrooms to
pare with their dishes for a wonderful thanksgiving meal. Here at Fungalicious it takes us four weeks
start to finish in order to produce these wonderful delicacies. We would love to make sure that any and
all who wish to have them can so we need to get an idea of what to plan for in the growing cycle. If you
could please send us an email letting us know what you would like and how much it would be greatly
appreciated. This will allow us to plan the harvest for that week. We hope that you and yours are
blessed this holiday season. [email protected]

Body and Soul Teas: Herbal tea blends for sipping and soaking. My current product line includes herbal tea blends, bath teas, and herbal steams.

Sow’s Ear Piggery: New products this week. Freshly stocked: 1" chops in 2#-packages of 2 chops with thin fat rind. Also, NonMSG ground pork sausage (1 pound), great sliced into breakfast patties or fried up into crumbles for tacos, spaghetti, or stir-fry. Plus, 1-pound packages of lean cutlets for chicken-fried pork steaks. Still have ground pork and bratwursts for sale. Will be adding other new products in the near future! All our pork is from heritage pigs on NonGMO diet.

Mama D’s Bakery:
Hi everyone! This week we have added pumpkin spice bagels! They are perfect for bagel lovers who want a taste of fall. We also continue to have banana breads and pumpkin breads(with the option of nuts or not) caramel apple cinnamon rolls, gingerbread cake roll, pumpkin cake roll, spicy ginger cookies, pumpkin streusel jumbo muffins, bagels, donuts, cheese Danishes, pies, cookies, granola and protein bars, cinnamon rolls, breads, and fruit scones. Thanks so much to everybody for their business!!

Farrar Farms LLC:
Our GROUND BEEF SPECIAL continues, purchase 5 pounds of Ground Beef and get 1 pound free. Get out those Grills or Chili Pots ready and enjoy our cuts of Pasture Raised Beef making some delicious Stews, Chili, Mexican Dishes, this list is numerous.

Belle Fleur Organics: Braising Greens, Cilantro and Mei Qing Pac Choi, Arugula, Crunchy King Radishes, Cayenne Peppers, Jalapenos, Ping Tung Long Eggplant, Assorted lettuce, Tusli Basil and Wildfire Lettuce Mix.

Wedge Oak Farm: Thanksgiving and Christmas are coming soon! Time to think about a turkey? Wedge Oak Farm’s pasture raised turkeys are grown here in Lebanon, Tennessee. They peck and stroll in the rolling hills and cedar glades of Wilson County. Never fed antibiotics, growth stimulants or animal by-products. They are moist and delicious.

Rainbow Hill Farm:
Our Delicious Apples this week…….
Jonathan: Slightly tart red apple with exceptionally good flavor. Excellent cooking apple.
Gold Rush: Medium sized green-yellow cross between golden delicious and Rome apples. High in vitamin C. Good for both eating fresh and cooking. Does not brown easily when cut so is good for fruit salad. Has excellent sweet-tart flavor
Winesap: Hard green apple. Very tart.
Mutsu: large green to yellow apple similar to yellow delicious, also a very good cooking apple.
Yellow Delicious: Very sweet to the taste. It is a favorite for salads, apple sauce, and apple butter.

Valentine Family Farm:
Our Valentine Family Farm’s Smoke House Salsa has a delicious smoke flavor because of it’s fire roasted vegetables. Serve it with chips or use it as an ingredient to add some smokiness to your next batch of chili.

Flying S Farms: New this week is Cauliflower that are White, Orange and Purple heads. Holds color better is roasted or baked. Sweet breads and bars are back on the market and by request for a limited time Rosemary Bread. Radishes, Turnips, Daikon’s, Kale, Turnips Greens, Tomatoes, Ancho Poblano Peppers, Sweet Peppers, Winter Squash: Spaghetti, Butternut, Carnival and Delicata. Sour Dough Breads. We have been Jammin’ ….several favorites are back in in stock…Seriously HOT Strawberry and Habanero Peach and Strawberry. New Apple Cardamom Jam and Old Fashion Pear Preserves. Wild Fox Grape Jelly, Pomegranate Jelly.

Look forward seeing you “At the Curb" of Quinn’s Mercantile Wednesday October 28th 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. 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/GAkJS1wawbr

Middle Tennessee Locally Grown:  Market is Open for Ordering1

Dothan, Alabama:  Nov. 24, 2020 M@D Newsletter - We are open for orders!

Change your Diet, Change your Life
Market Chitchat
Grower Notes

ONE WOMAN’S STORY

The name in this account has been changed and the story is so typical of the powerful impact diet makes on health that it could actually be many of our local Market customers! (It’s not.) We hope it will encourage you to examine what does and does not work for you and replace your own “no” items with “yes” foods that you love and love you back by building your health.

At her first visit to a nutritionist, Ann (53), just had one goal: “I need to get healthy!” Her cholesterol was elevated (including triglycerides), and she had taken Lipitor for five years. Her blood pressure had been elevated in the past. She had acid reflux and had been on Zantac for 15 years.
She slept poorly and experienced sleep apnea and extreme fatigue. She was taking hormone replacement therapy for hormonal headaches that had plagued her for years. She had experienced swollen, painful joints for many years, which had developed into osteoarthritis. Her bowels tended toward constipation, and she craved bread and sweets.
The nutritionist noted her systemic inflammation, water retention, swelling, and constipation and suspected a food sensitivity. She suggested that Ann eliminate corn, dairy, and wheat from her diet; keep track of her body’s reaction to the changes; and then gradually introduce these foods one at a time.

This is one of many publications that can walk one through the process Ann used to determine her food sentisivities.

When Ann returned four weeks later, she had determined through the elimination diet that she had a corn sensitivity. Since eliminating corn, she reported feeling much better, and the pain in her back and legs had diminished. Her constipation was relieved and much of the swelling and fluid retention also improved. Ann reported that “I lost only five pounds, but I feel smaller.”
Returning at eight weeks, Ann reported that the, “changes have been easy.” She had lost 20 pounds and her energy was much improved: “I wake up ready for the day.” She was walking a mile and a half each day and her cravings for sugar had also diminished, much to her delight. She reported feeling more in control of her eating.
At 12 weeks, Ann said the changes were becoming habit. “I feel so much better.” Her energy continued to improve; she had lost a total of 27 pounds, and she experienced less pain.

Confession Time: your M@D manager is learning to live without foods in the nightshade family. Like any other training, learning to replace something bad with something wonderful and good is a key component to success.

MARKET CHITCHAT

Holiday Schedule Announcement: We will be closed the week of Thanksgiving. Market will not open on Saturday, Nov. 21 so there will be no order pickup on (Black) Friday, Nov. 27. Regular ordering will resume on Saturday, Nov. 28.

In December we will open for orders on Dec. 5 and Dec. 12, then be closed till January 2, 2021

_~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Thought for the week, courtesy of Smith Farms: “Strange times are not fun but they are when heros are made.” _~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ We were all enchanted yesterday by the pan Laura’s Confections is using to make her Pumpkin Loaf. _~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ New & Relisted Items Half Dozen Duck Eggs from Don Smith 2020 Pecan Halves and Pieces from Debra Ward

GROWER NOTES

We have the best Growers in the Wiregrass! Please learn more about them on our Grower Page.

AVALON FARMS:

Success! At last, one farm experiment proved successful. Hallelujah! We had several complete crop failures this year, garlic and winter squash were two biggies, but the trial of yard long beans has been a success. They have been growing since spring, made all summer, and now after a brief break, they are producing again. What they’ll do next year is yet to be seen, but I’m calling this a successful  proof of concept.

I want to say thank you to you all for your support during this difficult season. Farming is not for the faint of heart and has definitely tested my resolve this year. Let’s all move into a new growing season together. 

FOOTNOTES

We would love to hear from you! If you have a favorite recipe, want to write a product review, have an idea or request for an article or information, let us know! You can reply to this newsletter or write [email protected].

Market Schedule
Order Saturday 5pm to Tuesday 5pm weekly for Pickup the following Friday
Dothan Pickup: 10am – 12pm, Dothan Nurseries, 1300 Montgomery Highway, Dothan, AL 36303
Daleville Pickup: 11am – 11:30am, Parking area behind Daleville Chamber of Commerce
Enterprise Pickup: 12pm – 12:30pm, Grocery Advantage, 1032 Boll Weevil Circle, Enterprise
Our Website: marketatdothan.locallygrown.net
Our Email: [email protected] On Facebook: www.facebook.com/MarketatDothan
Join our Online Discussions! www.facebook.com/groups/MarketatDothanDiscussion
Be sure to use our hashtag! #marketatdothan

Our COVID protocol is still in place for everyone who wants curbside service.

I. Order Payment:
1. Voluntarily prepay by 6 pm Thursday if possible using this PAYPAL link. This eliminates passing paper currency back and forth or handling debit/credit cards on site. Your invoice will be marked PAID and pickup is fast and easy. In the event of undelivered items you will be issued a Market credit that will apply to your next order.
2. Debit/Credit – One of us will briefly step within 6 feet for you to put your card in the chip reader. We do our best to avoid touching your card or you touching the equipment which means we sign an “x” for your signature.
3. Cash and Checks – You may hand them to us. Exact change is preferred if using cash to prevent a lot of passing back and forth. If you choose curbside pickup you are welcome to put payment in your trunk/tailgate as that would eliminate the need to come near your window.

II. Order Delivery:
1. Curb Service: Please pull up next to the Market Shed. We will direct traffic a little bit if needed. Have your trunk/ hatchback open and we’ll load you up!
2. Walk Up Pickup: Please do not come inside. When we see you coming we’ll put your order near the entrance and step back for you to claim it. This system works really well for those of you wishing to get extra veggies that may be available.
3. Regardless of how you choose to accept your Market order please know that we make every effort to practice safe distancing and ask that you do the same.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR COOPERATION It takes all of us working together to keep everything running & everyone safe!

Lathemtown Farm Fresh Market:  This Week at the Market

Good morning!

The stand is open every day and has lots of good greens now. If you don’t see something, just message me and I can usually get it for you.

For preorders – the online market is now open until Wednesday evening for pickup next Saturday.

Keep us in mind for your holidays as well! Look for new items as we get closer as we will have gift baskets, Thanksgiving dishes, Christmas cookies, and other holiday special treats. We will be starting the Christmas cakes next week so they can get started soaking up the rum and brandy! Not your typical fruitcake!

We do beautiful gift baskets in any size – for get well, teacher gifts, welcome gifts, and hostess baskets.

Thanks your interest in buying locally grown and produced natural foods!

Have a wonderful week!
Farmher Chef Amy

Locally Grown STT:  Online Farmers Market is open!

STT Locally Grown Online Farmers Market is open!

Excited to add to the market this week: local chives, banana slips from St Croix, Arugula, etc! Keep in mind some farmers are adding more inventory after some of their farm stands close this morning so check back again later this afternoon and even tomorrow.

Market Updates:
One of the big ones is that we are entering the winter months and during this time (even though you’re asking what winter), chickens naturally slow down laying to conserve energy. So we’ve begun to see some of our egg providers reduce number of eggs available. In case you were wondering, that’s what’s going on in our seasonal changes in our food cycles. On a tastier note, beginning around January everyone picks back up in egg production and we’ve been in contact with 2 major chicken farmers whose 100s of chicks will be coming of egg laying age by then so boy are we gonna have strong local egg production in St Thomas soon! The major part of the inspiration has been you! Your consumer trends of wanting more local eggs has motivated many producers on the market to increase their operations. So thank you for shopping on the market! You play the most important role in growing a strong healthy local resilient agriculture every time you eat local! Shelli want to give all of you a medal of Sustainable Agriculture drivers 2020! We’re not sure how as yet but we’re sure she’ll find a way! :)

Thanks again for shopping local and shopping seasonal!

Yours Truly,
Your Market Coordinators