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: Shop Local with our Online Farmers Market
Market Orders are open now until Thursday at 9:00 pm!
Sweet Fall Treats from baked by kori and Keller’s Candies are a must-try this week on the online Market!
Shop the online market now at:
https://fayettevillearkansas.locallygrown.net/market
Champaign, OH: Gimme Some Lovin'
Gimme some a lovin’, Gimme some a lovin’,
Gimme some a lovin’ every day…
(Spencer Davis Group)
Good morning, lovely market customers…just a reminder that it’s Tuesday, and the market will be closing for orders, this evening, at 8pm, for the week! Why not show us some good lovin? We love the love that you give us, each and every week!
If you need to rev it up, a bit, on this rainy, cold morning, find this song, and turn it up! Dance to it, sing to it, and I guarantee the best start to your day.
Back when I was working a little pub, of one of my three jobs, that summer in college, we would get ready for the evenings by blaring this song on the old juke box. The bartenders would be readying the bar supplies, while us waitresses would be getting tables ready for the always over crowded, always hopping place. It was sort of our bonding time before the crowds flooded in. Good times, great money, all heading into my savings account for my eventual California move.
So, crank it up, sit down with the market, and just go crazy…and give us all some good lovin…
XOXO,
Cosmic Pam
GFM : Only 2 Markets Left
Only 2 more Markets remain till seasonal closing. Our final market will be our 12th Annual Hallowen Bash.
Due to the covid restrictions we are unable to have our usual Halloween Contest for the children. I know, a big disappointment to both the children, and us. Next year will be a brighter year for all of us.
We, will be handing out treat bags to the children. Our vendors will be wearing a mask and using gloves to hand out the bags. Please do your best to social distance between vendor booths.
Our online market will contiune to operate on a year round schedule with CDC precautions recommended for Covid.
Please continue to support our local vendors and artisians either in person or purchasing through our online market.
12th Annual Halloween Bash
October 31
9 am to 2 pm
Siloam Springs, AR: Online Market is Open!
siloamsprings.locallygrown.net
Enjoy shopping for your favorite market foods this week! Summer veggies are being replaced with kale, pak choy, and baby greens. There is a great variety of baked goods, pastured meats, jams, gourmet mustards and more.
Thank you for shopping local!
Old99Farm Market: Week of 18 October 2020
Hello again folks! Its getting on time for leaf raking and garden clean up, but don’t clean up too much! Did you know that you can help sequester carbon and give a home to millions of beneficial bacteria, a home for mycelium and mushrooms to grow, and a home for insects and worms? Its as easy as not putting your leaves to the curb for pickup and using them for top layer mulch on your garden beds. In the spring you can either mix the remaining leaves into your soil or plant directly through them. Its as easy as that!
This week we have a great supply of squash and potatoes available as well as your favoirite leafy greens like collards, green kale, Swiss chard, arugula, choy sum, carrots, baby carrots, beets, turnip greens, baby turnips, tropeana onions amd much more. As always, our wide range of select cuts of beef and pork are available. Quarter and half beef or pork are still available. Sirloin steaks, rib roasts, soup bones, pork soup bones, beef tallow, pork lard, skirt lard, pork chops, pork roasts, ribs just to name a few. Fryer rabbits will be available after Halloween.
Please remember to place your order BEFORE 7AM Thursday. Order place after this time may not be processed. Market pickup times are Thursday and Friday from 3PM to 6PM. Please bring your empty egg cartons and produce baskets back so we can reuse them.
Pork Butchering Workshop
Former Cumbreae’s butcher Jamie Waldron will conduct a butchering workshop here at the farm this weekend October 24th. First four families get their meat to take home ($5.50/lb). Cost of workshop is $50.00. Register in The Market. Date to be determined. Small group, social distancing in effect. A great educational experience for the whole family!
We look forward to seeing everyone again this week.
Be well,
Nick & Angela,
Ian & Cami
Stones River Market: Market is OPEN -- See you Wednesday
The October 18th and 19th Stones River Locally Grown Market remains open until 10pm tonight.
Several Growers have updated their inventory, be sure to check the Market out today. https://stonesriver.locallygrown.net
News from the Growers:
WELCOME…The Flour Girl…she will be offering GLUTEN FREE items, breads, cakes and cookies and more on the market.
RnR Farm: Returning to the Market with their delicious selection of Lettuces.
Fungalicious: is a small exotic mushroom farm that grows several varieties but mainly oyster mushrooms offering only the highest quality.
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. Please note, all products will likely be in vacation mode next 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 banana breads and pumpkin breads (with the option of nuts or not) carmel 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:
New this week.. Braising Greens, Cilantro and Mei Qing Pac Choi other items are Arugula, Crunchy King Radishes, Cayenne Peppers, Jalapenos, Ping Tung Long Eggplant, 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:
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: 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.
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.
Look forward seeing you “At the Curb" of Quinn’s Mercantile Wednesday October 21st 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.
Champaign, OH: A Hard Rain's A Gonna Fall
And it’s a hard and it’s a hard and it’s a hard hard
And it’s a hard rain’s a gonna fall…
(Bob Dylan)
I always fall back to Dylan on rainy days, and this song, well, it speaks for itself, but it’s also one of my favs, and I can be found singing this, many days, during my baking sessions.
Today is Monday, and I hope you all had a lovely weekend.
As I left you on Friday, I told you that my daughter was flying in from Florida so that we could wedding dress shop in Columbus. It was a magical weekend for her as most of her bridesmaids were with her, and I was so excited to have been included in all of the fun. It was an emotional time, as she emerged in what would become her choice of dresses. Beauty. Just beauty.
She’s my only, and she’s been a fighter since she was born. At six months of age, she needed open heart surgery for a heart defect she was born with. When she was in 6th grade, she had back surgery for scoliosis. In junior high, she went through a round of bullying, leading her to switch schools. But, all of this only made her stronger, made her a lovely soul, and taught her to always look out for those who need a bit of extra TLC. To help the underdogs. She is beauty, inside and out, and so this dress shopping day found me looking back at each obstacle in her life, but how each obstacle had a silver lining, and a lesson, and a new way to look at things.
So, I guess this song, means even more than just about the weather, to me. It’s about overcoming. I guess you could say this little market of love also survived many storms, in the beginning of it’s time, years ago, only to grow to what we have now.
A hard rain’s a gonna fall in all of our lives, at times, but together, we get through. I hope that is how you view this market. Yes, we have amazing products, we have the best of the best of local, we have super vendors, but most of all…this market has spirit, and love, and stamina, and compassion…
On this rain soaked day, why not work on your market orders? We will close, for the week, tomorrow eve, at 8pm, and I want to see all of your lovely faces on Thursday, at market pick up…
XOXO,
Cosmic Pam
Athens Locally Grown: ALG Market Open for October 22
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
This is right about when the first frosts come to North Georgia, but it looks like we’ve got a nice warm week ahead of us. Good news for the summer crops, which get to hang on just a little bit longer. I wouldn’t dawdle on snapping up the spicy peppers, okra, and eggplant, because they really won’t be around much longer. Many of our growers produce year-round in greenhouses or high tunnels, but those three things generally don’t do so well in those conditions. The slicing tomatoes left us a few weeks ago, but they’ll get replaced with cherry and salad tomatoes, which do grow fairly well under cover here. And of course those leafy greens will keep right un going through Spring.
The farmers will keep right on growing through the winter, and like always we’re planning on keeping the market open right through along with them. This year is… weird, so who knows what really will happen but that’s the plan. One thing that’s for certain: we will be taking the week of Thanksgiving off. I’ll be giving you plenty of notice about that so you can order extra the week before or find alternative markets for that week.
We are still getting new customers every week (and we love seeing new masked faces!) so for all of you here’s a quick run-down on how Thursdays go:
- Don’t arrive at the beginning of your pickup window if you’ve got that flexibility. We fill the bags alphabetically (because it’s easier on us that way), but your arrival time or last name has no bearing on what items you get. The growers fill orders based solely on the time you placed your order, so that’s all been long decided by Thursday. Take your time getting there and that’ll naturally spread things out a bit. Flatten the curve, if you will.
- I’m bad with faces as it is, and masks make it even harder to recognize you and even hear you when you give your name. Many of you had papers with your name written in big letters we could read through the window, and that is wonderful. If you think to do that same, it’ll make things even smoother.
- The pickup loop does have a fair bit of room, but we don’t want you backing up into Tallassee. If you arrive faster than we can deliver orders, we may ask you to pull ahead into the loop and circle around. That may mean that some people who arrived after you may get their food before you, but as I said above, that doesn’t affect at all what items you get when things run short.
- We’ve still got three pickup windows, and it’s totally ok if you come later than the slot you chose. If you come early, odds are high that we haven’t filled your bags yet and we may ask you to come back. Tallassee is a pretty drive, and I recommend taking it to the county line and back, just for the scenery.
- We’re not accepting in-person payments unless absolutely necessary. We’ll have a drop box for checks or labelled envelopes of cash, but we greatly prefer Venmo payments to @athenslocallygrown or online payments through a card tied to your account. Venmo is free, and card payments have a 3% processing fee.
- We can not accept any recycling just yet, though that may change once we get settled.
- We cannot take your own bags or bins out of your car and fill them up
- If you’d like to go through your items before you leave to make sure you’ve got everything, or that we didn’t mix up people’s items, feel free to pull into the lot and have a look.
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 brand new home on Tallassee Road!
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. It’s not anything like it was before, so you’ll want to read up on all the changes on their website, http://athensfarmersmarket.net. The West Broad Farmers Market is back too, 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. 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!
Falls Park Farmers Market: Online Farmer's Market is OPEN!
Only two weeks remain to come visit the Farmer’s Market in person. As the weather turns colder, you can always take advantage of shopping for your staple items online and devoting the rest of your market time to checking out the other producers!
So many good things online, all visible from the warmth of your home!
Thanks for shopping online with your Falls Park Farmer’s Market.
Dawson Local Harvest: THE MARKET IS OPEN!