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Caldwell County, KY, Farmers Market: Week 13 Online Market Orders

GOOD MORNING, MARKET CUSTOMERS!

If you are a returning customer, thank you for your continued support of the market. We appreciate our support each week!

If you are new to the online market, WELCOME! We are happy to have you and look forward to doing business with you.

A FEW REMINDERS
ORDERING:
Each Tuesday morning, members will receive an email letting them know market is open. Market will close Thursday evening. Customers have between Tuesday and Thursday to shop the items that our growers have made available for order.

If anyone has questions about a product, they can email the grower or email the market.

PICK-UP:
Think of it as something like a drive-thru. On Saturday mornings from 9-11am, customers will pick up their online orders at the market location at Planter’s Park at City Hall. There will be a table set up, so all you need to do is pull up and someone will hand your order through your car window. It’s as simple as that!

PLEASE PAY SPECIAL ATTENTION TO THESE PICK-UP DIRECTIONS.
You will ENTER on E Main Street between Newsom’s and City Hall and EXIT on E Market Street in front of Franklin Street Apartments.

ONSITE MARKET IS NOW OPEN!
Regular onsite market days are Thursdays from 4-6 and Saturdays from 8-12.

Whether you place an online order or stop by to see what is available at the market, we appreciate your continued support! Thank you for being a valued customer!

Posted by: Lisa Trimble at Tuesday July 28, 2020 08:06 AM EDT

Grumpy Goat: Weblog Entry

The market is open for the week! We’ve been busy this week having our organic inspection, combining our Rye and baling straw, planting some buckwheat cover crop, and continuing with our jam and soap making. We can’t believe that July is almost over. We also said goodbye to the last of our goat kids yesterday… bittersweet.

The tomatoes and peppers are finally picking up production, as well as the okra. We might also have the first edamame Of the year in the store this week.

Place your orders for faster pick up or just swing in to see us Friday 4:30-6:30 at the farm of Saturday at the Sidney Farmers market!

Posted by: Brette Soucie at Tuesday July 28, 2020 07:30 AM EDT

Champaign, OH: Build Me Up, Buttercup

Why do you build me up (build me up) Buttercup, baby
Just to let me down (let me down) and mess me around
And then worst of all (worst of all) you never call, baby
When you say you will (say you will) but I love you still
I need you (I need you) more than anyone, darlin’
You know that I have from the start
So build me up (build me up) Buttercup, don’t break my heart

“I’ll be over at ten”, you told me time and again
But you’re late, I wait around and then (bah-dah-dah)
I went to the door, I can’t take any more
It’s not you, you let me down again

(Hey, hey, hey!) Baby, baby, try to find
(Hey, hey, hey!) A little time and I’ll make you mine
(Hey, hey, hey!) I’ll be home
I’ll be beside the phone waiting for you
Ooo-oo-ooo, ooo-oo-ooo

You were my toy but I could be the boy you adore
If you’d just let me know (bah-dah-dah)
Although you’re untrue, I’m attracted to you all the more
Why do I need you so

(Hey, hey, hey!) Baby, baby, try to find
(Hey, hey, hey!) A little time and I’ll make you mine
(Hey, hey, hey!) I’ll be home
I’ll be beside the phone waiting for you
Ooo-oo-ooo, ooo-oo-ooo

I-I-I need you-oo-oo more than anyone, baby
You know that I have from the start
So build me up (build me up) Buttercup, don’t break my heart…

Song implant from market customer: Kathleen Smith

Kathleen always arrives, windows down, music playing, smiling, and giving me song titles…she is always so positive and upbeat, like all of our customers, and is one of the markets biggest cheerleaders.

This song fits her personality…very bubbly, very dance like…

A perfect market song, for a perfect Tuesday of finishing up your market orders…

The market does close, this evening, at 8pm, and I love seeing all of your happy, dancing orders, coming through my email.

Again, my baking is on hold for the week, getting ready for a Friday event, but I will be there, front and center, to greet you, and send you on your way, Thursday!

Depending on the size of the market, will determine if we will need time slots, this week. We are going to be down a worker, my father, who needs to be elsewhere, so we may need the time slots so as to not make you all wait, too long…but, I will announce that, tomorrow!

Alright all of you, lovelies…go ahead, build me up (with orders), Buttercup…

XOXO,
Cosmic Pam

Posted by: Pamela Bowshier at Tuesday July 28, 2020 07:06 AM EDT

Commerce GA Locally Grown: The Market is Open For August 4th!

Good morning!

We hope you have enjoyed your week.
The market is now open for orders!

Posted by: Commerce Locally Grown at Monday July 27, 2020 05:23 PM EDT

Growing Together : Offerings for August 1st

Dear Growing Together customers,

We’re so grateful for your continued support! This week there are lots of tomatoes available as well as some delicious peppers and much more!

We’re also offering flower bouquets again this week, which are available for pre-order to pick up on Saturday.

Check out all of this and more at our online market (link below). We are so grateful for your support! As always, please let us know if you have any questions or concerns about any of the produce.

The Growing Together team

Here’s the link to order: http://growingtogether.locallygrown.net.

Posted by: Sally Rausch at Monday July 27, 2020 04:30 PM EDT

Siloam Springs, AR: Online Market is Open - Let's Shop!

https://siloamsprings.locallygrown.net

Happy Monday!
The Online Market is open!

Be sure to check out all of our tomato options this week! Rainbow Cherry tomatoes from Lee Family Gardens, cherry, grape, and mixed tomato baskets from Opossum Hollow Farms, and Cherokee purple and slicing tomatoes from Rainbow’s Produce.
Tomatoes are an easy and yummy addition to your salads, kid’s snacks, and hamburgers.

Happy shopping and we look forward to seeing you on Saturday!

Posted by: Abby Trinidad at Monday July 27, 2020 11:59 AM EDT

Old99Farm Market: Week of July 26 2020

Hello everyone! We hope you’re enjoying summer and all the meat and produce from the farm as well. This week we are offering 14 vegetables, 2 fruits, 3 meats in various cuts, and eggs. New this week are snap peas(the kind you eat the whole pod), purple and green string beans. We have lots of red amaranth still and I’ve added a recipe below for a delicious coconut curry. We have white eggplants coming in well and we’ll have lots of tomatoes coming soon. Plenty of kale still available and you-pick currants are still available.

Don’t forget to place your order before midnight wednesday. Pickup times are Thursday and Friday from 3 p.m. until 6 p.m. if you could bring your empty egg cartons back when you come to pick up your order that would be great.

We look forward to seeing you at the farm this week I hope you had a good summer so far.

We’ll give a prize for any recipe you can vouch for using Amaranth!

Amaranth and Coconut Curry

200g Amaranth Greens, chopped into 1/2" strips
1 medium onion, diced
3 cloves garlic, minced
1 tbsp fresh ginger, minced
2 tsp cumin seed
1 tsp corriander seed
1 tsp turmeric powder
1 or 2 tsp crushed red chilies (optional)
1 tsp chili powder
2 tsp mild curry powder
2 tsp sea salt, or to taste
2 cans coconut milk
2 tbsp oil

Heat a 5qt sauce pan on medium high heat, once hot add in oil and heat. Once oil is hot, add in cumin and corriander seeds, sauteed for 10 seconds, then add in garlic and ginger, sauteed for 20 seconds. Add in onions and dry spices and sauteed for 30 seconds. Add in the rest of the ingredients, sauteed for about one minute. Add in coconut milk and stir, bring to a boil the cover with a lid and reduce heat to low and simmer for 10 mins. Serve over rice.

Be well,
Nick & Angela
Ian & Cami

Posted by: Nick LaMarsh at Monday July 27, 2020 09:40 AM EDT

Athens Locally Grown: ALG Market Open for July 30

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

When August draws near, I usually issue a warning that nearly all of the favorite summer veggies are about to be in short supply. Once it gets really hot for long stretches, many plants just shut down flower production, and without flowers, there are no fruit. So, when the hot still days of August roll around there is often a sudden decline in tomatoes, beans, squash, peppers, and pretty much everything but okra. I can’t say yet how this year will go, now that we’re getting fairly regular afternoon rain. If we stay lucky and the trend holds for a few more weeks, the bounty we have now just might be with us right into fall.

I don’t have any new news for you this week, so I’ll let you get right to ordering.

We are also still getting new customers every week (and we love seeing new masked faces!) so 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!

Posted by: Eric Wagoner at Sunday July 26, 2020 11:57 PM EDT

Falls Park Farmers Market: Have you been online?

If you haven’t had a chance to try out the online ordering system, maybe this is your week! As always, our vendors share a preview of the items they plan to have for the week online. Some vendors may list a few of their items, some may list most of their items. Either way, you can’t go wrong with any of them!

From fresh picked sweet corn to high quality meats, from coffee to baked goods and everything in between, whether online or in person, Falls Park Farmer’s Market has something for everyone!

Thanks for checking us out!

Posted by: Bart Ver Mulm at Sunday July 26, 2020 09:43 PM EDT