Stones River Market:  Market is OPEN -- See you Wednesday on the CURB!

Welcome to the July 26th and 27th 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.

THANK YOU Everyone for your patience yet again during our ‘eighteenth!!’ “Pull Up or "Step Up” delivery on the curb in front of Quinn’s Mercantile to pickup your orders Wednesday afternoon July 29th 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.

Delivery Service is available within a 10 mile radius of Murfreessboro, 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. Shop Local and Stay Local!

News From Our Growers:

Rainbow Hill Farm: OUR DELICIOUS PEACHES ARE NOW AVAILABLE!!

Mama D’s Bakery: Hi everyone! We have everything available this week! We have bagels, breads, granola bars, protein bars, cinnamon rolls, cookies, Danishes, donuts, friut scones, mini fruit scones, and soft pretzels. Get yourself or your family breakfast or snacks or munchies or just a treat for the week! Thanks so much!!

Quarter Spring Farm: We really appreciates all the support from everyone at the Stones River Market. We can’t do what we love without your patronage. So thanks. We are fully stocked with all sizes of whole chickens and cuts this week. Check out our soaps and dog treats, too.

Carole’s Herbs (CS3 Farm): Check out our herbal honeys, mustards, and garlic, as well as ginger fig and watermelon shrubs – refreshing drinks to beat the heat! Stock up this week we be taking a break next week.

The July heat is hard on plants. Be sure to water them enough to maintain their structure and not become weak and limp. Remember: more sun, more water. Also just about every plant prefers a gentle soaking to a dumped bucket. Keep them happy and they will reward you with lots of blooms and/or fruit.

Dogwood Valley Greenhouse: We have some late season bloomers beginning to show their stuff. While the coneflowers and pincushions continue to bloom all summer, they are joined by the beautiful late double orange daylilies. The gorgeous blue plumbago, or leadwort, are also just beginning to bloom now.

The ferns have been restocked, and we have a good supply of 11 varieties. Varying in height, foliage color, and texture, they will add a lot of interest to the shady areas of the garden.

We have also restocked a good selection of Fresh-Cut herbs, with 7 varieties currently available for your cooking pleasure.

Does your garden need a shrub for variety? We have some beautiful large Pieris (Andromeda) which would be a beautiful specimen plant in a shady area. They are carefree and even deer resistent! From the early spring red foliage to the lovely white flowers, what’s not to love about Pieris?

Mo’ Scrubs by Toya: Enjoy the summer bite free and burn free with new products from Mo’ Scrubs! All natural mosquito repellent spray and balm now available! Also, if you purchased the 8oz spray bottle last summer, you can purchase a refill bag for $9! All natural SPF 30 water resistant sunscreen is also now available.

Flying S Farms: CORN and OKRA, green beans, eggplant, several types of summer squash, zucchini regular size and HUGH size, the ones that were hiding in the garden! Tomatoes and Cherry tomatoes. Sourdough Bread loaves are back and Brownies, Blueberry Zucchini Bars and Orange Blueberry Bars. Friendship Breads will be back on the market in few weeks (They consumer a lot of my time and with the garden exploding with great vegetables, I’ll work them in when I can.)

Look forward seeing you “At the Curb" of Quinn’s Mercantile Wednesday July 29th 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 offer 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

Washtenaw Organic Collaborative:  Washtenaw Organic Ordering Open for August 1st Pickup!— Organic Vegetables, Flowers, Eggs, Honey, Meat, Bread, & Local Goodness!

Washtenaw Organic Ordering Open for August 1st Pickup!— Organic Vegetables, Flowers, Eggs, Honey, Meat, Bread, & Local Goodness!

We just opened ordering for pickup or delivery this Saturday, August 1st.

Thank you for supporting our farms! We’re sending all of this organic goodness off to you with love, hoping that it nourishes you and your people. Thanks for being part of a stronger, safer local food system!

Sending hope and peace for the week ahead!

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

1) CREATE AN ACCOUNT Enter your contact info & pick-up location or delivery option – this can be adjusted later. Here is a map of the current pick-up locations: Brines Farm and Slow Farm.

2) ORDER Select “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.

3) PICK UP & ENJOY This 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: Saturday 9am-5pm (self-serve porch), 6384 Walsh Rd., Whitmore Lake, MI 48189. OR

Slow Farm: Saturday 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!

Middle Tennessee Locally Grown:  Welcome a New Farm: Wild Berry Farm, Decherd

Welcome to The Wild Berry Farm from Decherd, TN. We hope to see a good variety of fresh farm fruits and vegetables. This week, Hannah has added several varieties of tomatoes and jalapeno peppers.

Top (L to R) German Pink; Sungold.
Bottom (L to R) Clementine, Better Boy.

From Molly at Kountry Vittles:

Hello everyone, it feels so good to be back in the kitchen and participating in the Market again. I am now able to offer a new size option for a few of my items. I rolled out the new size last week on my quick breads and the coconut cake. This week I can now offer the German Chocolate cake, the carrot cake and I added a pineapple upside-down cake as well. I also added a Lemon Blueberry under the quick breads. This new 5×4 pan is the prefect size for when you want a little something but a whole bread or cake is just to much temptation. If you would like to suggest something you would like to see offered in this size you are welcome to let me know. I’d love to hear from you. Now I’m off to my kitchen to create.

From Carter at CS3 Farms:

Check out our herbal honeys, mustards, and garlic, as well as ginger fig and watermelon shrubs – refreshing drinks to beat the heat! We will be out of town next week, so be sure to get what you need this week.

(L to R) Lavender infused honey, Hot Thyme Red Wine Gourmet Mustard.

Remember:
No contact delivery available for no charge during this time!
Just ask on your order comments.

From Linda at Dogwood Valley Greenhouse:

The July heat is hard on plants. Be sure to water them enough to maintain their structure and not become weak and limp. Remember: more sun, more water. Also just about every plant prefers a gentle soaking to a dumped bucket. Keep them happy and they will reward you with lots of blooms and/or fruit.

Dogwood Valley Greenhouse has some late season bloomers beginning to show their stuff. While the coneflowers and pincushions continue to bloom all summer, they are joined by the beautiful late double orange daylilies. The gorgeous blue plumbago, or leadwort, are also just beginning to bloom now.

The ferns have been restocked, and we have a good supply of 11 varieties. Varying in height, foliage color, and texture, they will add a lot of interest to the shady areas of the garden. And we have also restocked a good selection of Fresh-Cut herbs, with 7 varieties currently available for your cooking pleasure.

Does your garden need a shrub for variety? We have some beautiful large Pieris (Andromeda) which would be a beautiful specimen plant in a shady area. They are carefree and even deer resistent! From the early spring red foliage to the lovely white flowers, what’s not to love about Pieris?

Click here for the complete list of available fresh local farm products for this week.

To Contact Us

Our Website:
Middle Tennessee Locally Grown
On Facebook:
Middle Tennessee Locally Grown Online Farmers’ Market
By e-mail:
[email protected]
By phone:
(931) 273-9708

Our Manchester pickup location is across the street from the Manchester City Schools administration building, at
216 East Fort Street, Manchester, TN

Our Tullahoma pickup location is in front of “Nature’s Elite”, in the Cherokee Square Shopping Center next to Dunham’s Sports, open air during this time, at
1802 N Jackson St, Ste 800, Tullahoma TN

For a map, click on the address link.

Only the best fresh flavorful farm products for your family! No more week-old produce trucked cross-country. All the fresh local farm products listed come from your grower and maker neighbors in Middle Tennessee. The freshest produce is picked the day you receive it!

Your year-round weekly market is open for ordering from Sunday morning at 8 am till Tuesday evening at 10 pm.

Receiving options (please note changes in day and time for Tullahoma):
Thursday afternoon pickup (4:00 – 5:00 p.m.) at the market pavilion on Fort Street, Manchester.
Thursday afternoon pickup (5:00 – 5:30 p.m.) outside “Nature’s Elite”, Tullahoma. Open air market during this time.
Delivery on THURSDAY evening free during this time, or at other hours by arrangement.

See the “About” page for details.

Please help us grow:
spread the word about our market.
share this newsletter with someone.
make my day and ask to hand out some fliers.
And if you are hungry for something special, just let us know, and we will do our best to find it for you.



Eat fresh,

Your Local Farmers

CLG:  Opening Bell: Chicken, Wickles, Tomatoes, Jelly!

Hello friends!
People always ask me: they say, “Angus, what’s the secret to life?” Of course that leads to some great conversations. I still haven’t figured it all out yet, but I know one overreaching theme is spice. Don’t let life be too bland. This week I encourage you to try a spice that is often overlooked in the kitchen: rosemary. Look up on the Internet and find a recipe containing rosemary: Baked rosemary chicken, roast pork with rosemary and garlic, etc. Make that recipe with rosemary and I think you’ll find a new appreciation for this wonderful Mediterranean herb.

A recent poll found that people want more wickles. This may be due to the fact that they are amazing and life-changing. On Saturday morning I made 24 pints of my spicy dill pickles using those super crunchy pickling cucumbers from Strack farm. They will be in the refrigerator by the extras table at pick up this Friday. Come early to avoid the disappointment of going home wickle-less.

Got meat? Yes we do! Chicken from Bradford Valley Farm and Shaky K Farm, pork from Bar C Ranch, and beef from Ratchford Farm. Raising local meat animals without chemicals is a lot of work over many months and well-worth the price.

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]

Dothan, Alabama:  July 25, 2020 Newsletter - M@D Time to Order!

Short and Sweet
Grower Notes: Grier Acres, Danny’s Greens

GROWER NOTES

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

GRIER ACRES: Greetings everyone from Grier Acres!  

We are so busy here with our full time jobs and working on the farm.   Our pear tree pictured below has a wonderful harvest for us this year.  Jeannie did an excellent salad with the pears last Sunday.  She shared a photo on the website to you all.  We are going to try doing a spicy relish with the misfits that we can’t sell. 

We have several squirrels tearing up our pears.  We wouldn’t mind sharing but they just take one bite and move to another.  SO RUDE.  These squirrels may need to be encouraged to move on if you get my drift.  Our Cammie cat used to control these things but these days she likes to stay inside with the AC  get loopy on her catnip and watch Tiger King.  She says that she’s taking this Covid quarantine thing to heart.  Seriously, she got spooked by our Livestock Guard Dog and doesn’t want to go outside.  We are in the process of acclimating her to the outdoors again.  

Our okra has taken off and we have both varieties: clemson and emerald.   We have 800 feet of okra planted and we’re picking 12 – 15 pounds every other day.  Man that’s a lot of okra.  Clemson is excellent for cooking but Emerald is great for pickling.  We have the garlic organically grown and may have the peppers to add for pickling.  :)  Will try and attach recipe on newsletter as well as on the discussion page.   Peppers and tomatoes as well as eggplant is doing great.  Once again we have a bountiful harvest of yellow pear and salad tomatoes.  My frugal Jeannie takes the misfits and just tosses in with canned or frozen tomatoes and makes okra and tomatoes.  She even freezes this for late nights…the okra stews down and is very filling or you can add to another soup to get more vitamins and fiber.  

We have also planted a gourd garden this year with all kinds of watermelons, cantaloupes, and pumpkins.  We have one plant that comes back that grew in our personal bean crop.  Will be sure to let you know when those mature.  They seem to be a beneficial with the beans as they growing prolifically and the watermelon seems to choke out weeds as well.  Jeannie is just afraid of snakes being in there.  

Our garden area is located across the road from our house site and therefore we do not have well water over there.  It would cost a fortune to dig a well and run power out there (we were quoted $7,500 on the well and $1,200 for power) .  So a few years back I built a ram pump to get water up to the garden area from the creek.  The water is stored in 3 275 gallon totes and we manually watered the garden with buckets.  This year we added a drip irrigation system that is powered by a solar panel.  Once I have the videos edited, I’ll post them to our Youtube Channel.  

DANNY’S GREENS:

We’re sharing this photo from yesterday just because it’s so beautiful. In the left back you can see the shade covers that makes it possible for Danny to grow high quality lettuce in this heat, and in the right back his work and storage building. Everything else is eye candy. There are places where the zinnias are taller than people! The white blooms in the left foreground are buckwheat. The marigolds in the right foreground repel many bad bugs. All of the flowers attract pollinators and when their job is finished they contribute to the compost that makes Danny’s soil rich and fertile with no need of anything artifical.

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!

Martin's Farmstand:  Summer abundance

It is summer and the stand is full of good food. Blueberries, corn, onions, garlic and so much more. Come and get it.
Organic eggs are back in stock. At the moment they are from young chickens that are just starting to lay so the eggs are small and we are selling two dozen for the price of one.
We were finally able to get a processing slot for two of Mose Yoders organic cows for late August. We should have beef at the stand then.
As a whole crops are doing well in spite of the drought. We have not run out of irrigation water yet. I did shift most of the later plantings of crops like lettuce to the old farm where there is more water available to lighten the load on the well and ponds here. One does what one can and harvests all the bounty that God chooses the bless us with. That said pray for rain- it would be such a relief to have a deep soaking rain!
This applies both in the physical sense and to us as people- we need showers of blessing from above. Daniel

Monroe Market:  Monroe Locally Grown is Open!

Happy Saturday Everyone!

Monroe Locally Grown is open and ready for your orders! After a 3 week break, we hope you are ready for some fresh, local items again!

Some new items:

Milk, cheese, and ice cream from Rock House Creamery. These items were only available for 1 market before we closed. I tried some of each and they were all delicious. Let me just say Butter Walnut ice cream!!! My family was not happy when the milk was gone and the market was not open to purchase more.

CSA Boxes-This item also only had a 1 market appearance. The boxes were filled with beautiful, fresh offerings and a lot of them! The items offered for this week has been updated on the market, so check it out.

New Grow Your Own Microgreen kits are available this week.

Keep your eye on the baked goods section. There will be new items being added.

Our Pie and Ice Cream giveaway is still going until Wednesday at 1:00. We will announce the winner on Instagram Wednesday afternoon at pick up. Hop on Instagram @monroelocallygrown and keep tagging your friends for more entries.

Have a great weekend! Hope to see you at pick up Wednesday.

Champaign, OH:  Cosmic Love Note

Just a quick note to say that my products are in vacation mode for this week!

I have a weekend of private events to get ready for with Hippie and the Farmer, and need extra time for that!

I will work the market but just not baking for it!

XOXO,
Cosmic Pm

Yalaha, FL:  Summer Vacation Schedule

I’m Gonna call this the Summer Vacation Schedule. I will probably just leave the Market Open now through August until September unless something major happens. I’m still here and we still have some of the basic stuff but I’m busy doing farm rebuilding/clean up and preparing for fall planting. Contact me if you want anything listed. Or if you might want to make a Huge batch of pesto (I actually have to pull out and throw away a large amount of Basil just to make room for fall planting.)

Anyway, Feel Free to contact me if you want to order anything or make requests for fall crops. I’m here but may not remember to do weekly posting for the Month of August.

Since I am out of the normal schedule for now, please remember to indicate when you would like to make your pickup appointment.

Milk is available, we pick up Wed so if you want some I need to know by Tuesday.

Summer time brings weather not conducive to growing much here, So I am trying out throwing together anything edible (including edible weeds) and salad like into a mix and calling it Wild Summer Mix – Cut Salad Mix

Basil Plants available. Lots of Basil available actually, it is a good time to make Pesto.

We have Shoots and microgreens available.

• Following is the Normal Schedule to make it easy for me to paste into the notices come Fall**
  If you want to place and order and pick up before the standard window, just let me know.

Standard Ordering window below.
Order now through 7 am Friday July 31st for Sat Aug 1st Pickup, or tell me when you want to pick up, we usually have flexibility, especially if you order buy in products or milk or just want to pick up during the week.

We Are Flexible, TELL ME if you want to make special arrangements for produce, I am open and willing especially now. I just need to know the day before so I can harvest anything that needs early morning handling and I like to know when to expect people to show up.

Remember to tell me when you want to pick up! (and if I don’t reply to confirm within a day, bump my e-mail or text me 407-342-8515. Though I have cleaned up my e-mail so hopefully I won’t Miss Anyone.)

Sign in to order. https://yalaha.locallygrown.net/market

You have to sign in to see the add to cart button. Then set the number and click the add to cart button on the items you want to buy (it is the little picture right next to the quantity box.) Remember you need to check out before your order will be placed.
Remember to let me know when you want to pick up on Sat or maybe even Friday late afternoon or on Sunday. (If I don’t send you an e-mail confirmation of your order and pick up time, please make sure you checked out and completed your order.)

Statesboro Market2Go:  Market2Go is Open!

THE MARKET IS OPEN!

Many of you have expressed appreciation for the Market2Go as a safe place to buy good food and support our local farmers. Some of you have asked how you can contribute to the market, wanting to offer a “tip” for services or a significant donation to help sustain this community-based effort. In response to your requests, we have created a “Market Contributions” category on the Market2Go website that includes a range of market donations, from $5 to $100. To make a contribution, just add one of the donation “items” to your shopping basket, and that amount will be included in your total at checkout. Please know that we appreciate your weekly orders as a way of supporting the market and our vendors. There is no obligation or expectation for further contributions, but we are grateful for your help.

ORDER PROCESS.
Place your orders by midnight Tuesday for pickup or delivery on Thursday afternoon.

Choose your pickup location from the drop-down menu before you check out. Options are

• Statesboro: Thursday afternoon at SCVB
• Sylvania: Thursday afternoon at Victory Garden General Store
• To Your Home Delivery (must add delivery to cart and prepay)

Pay online to make our process more efficient and to better meet health guidelines. Register your debit or credit card at Your Account and click “Pay Now” when you check out. Your card will only be charged after you have received your order, including any adjustments for missed items or other credits.
You may now use your EBT/SNAP card to purchase authorized EBT items through the Market2Go, and you’ll receive “bonus” fruits and vegetables through the Georgia Fresh for Less program, effectively doubling your benefits in fresh produce. If you write “EBT” in the order comment field, we will be able to award your bonus dollars. At this time, all EBT transactions must be made by swiping your card at the Statesboro Convention and Visitors Bureau during the Thursday drive-through. If you want to use your card to make market purchases or you know somebody who does, you can learn how by emailing [email protected].

PICKUP PROCESS

Statesboro customers can pick up orders on Thursday afternoon in the drive-through at the Statesboro Convention and Visitors Bureau (SCVB). Watch for a Market UPDATE Wednesday night giving specific pickup times.

EBT orders may be made online with assistance from the Market2Go manager. Pickups will be only at the Statesboro drive-through, where we can calculate your bonus dollars and swipe your EBT card for the correct amount.

Sylvania orders may be picked up in front of the Victory Gardens General Store at 124 W Telephone Street on Thursday afternoon from 4:00 to 5:00.

Home Delivery option. Statesboro and Bulloch County residents can have their orders delivered to their homes on Thursday afternoon by purchasing the item “Home Delivery” and selecting “To Your Home Delivery” in the drop-down location menu at checkout.

Start shopping! Check out the wide selection of items for sale in almost every grocery category. (Use the index on the left side of the screen to go straight to a category.)

• vegetables, fruits; and nuts
• meats and seafood
• eggs and dairy
• breads, cakes and pies
• milled products and grains
• mushrooms and foraged food
• honey, jams, sauces and spreads
• ready-to-eat dinners and casseroles
• flowers and plants
• soaps, lotions and candles
• Statesboro-themed gift items