Champaign, OH:  Road To Nowhere

Well we know where we’re goin’
But we don’t know where we’ve been
And we know what we’re knowin’
But we can’t say what we’ve seen
And we’re not little children
And we know what we want
And the future is certain
Give us time to work it out…
(Talking Heads)

Well, we are not on the road to nowhere, but I have been revisiting my love of all my Talking Heads collection, and this song takes me back to move in day, junior year in college, AKA perhaps my most favorite, most epic, most fun, most daring year of all…lol. Also, probably the reason I had to go an extra semester to graduate, but, I digress.

This song was released on their, Little Creatures album, and I will always have this mental picture, memory, of moving back to school, with all of my sorority sisters, and just the love, the communal spirit, the helpfulness, the hopes, the dreams, the laughter, and the road of life’s lessons, just beginning, as we were all on the brink of our new paths, wherever they may take us.

On a side note…the gentleman that you see helping your other market manager, packing your orders, and organizing your plants/flowers, is my father, and each and EVERY semester, that man was front and center on move in day, helping each of my sorority sisters move in, carried our heavy trunks of clothing, room accessories, etc. The same man who was also present as I moved into my first apartment in Venice Beach, California, and carried my futon mattress, on his back, down the main drag, to my new digs.

Anyway, this song just always makes me think of all the positive in things, that hopes and dreams are always being formed, no matter what stage in life, and, that no matter how dismal life may seem, you can still look at things with a joyful hope.

The market is our own little oasis against all of the dismal news, I feel. Each week, we open the greenhouse to you, filling your cars, hopefully filling your lives with joy, as well as local goodness.

Happy Saturday, lovelies…and, add this song to your listening pleasure for the weekend…

XOXO,
Cosmic Pam

Statesboro Market2Go:  Market2Go is Open!

THE MARKET IS OPEN!

Thanks for your on-going support of our local farmers and vendors. The Market2Go is providing a place for them to sell their products, and a safe and efficient way for you to get your groceries every week.

ORDER PROCESS. Place your orders by midnight Tuesday for pickup/delivery on Thursday afternoon. There will be no Friday pickup this week.

Please 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)

Please 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.

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

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.

This week! It’s summer in the South, and we’re celebrating the joys of fresh sweet corn and tomatoes and watermelons and butterbeans. We’ve got local everything — tons of seasonal produce; meats from five vendors; eggs from free-range chicken; dairy from contented cows (and goats!); homemade food from your favorite cooks and bakers; and beautiful products crafted by local artisans.

This week we’ve added locally made Big Boy Cookies to our product list. And H.L. Franklin has introduced a gift basket that showcases products from four popular market vendors — Hunter Cattle beef jerky, Cork’s Kettle Corn, and Kim’s Cheese Straws as well as Franklin’s own creamed honey. We recently added a special category of Statesboro-themed gift items from our supporting partner, Visit Statesboro. Sales will benefit our market host, the Statesboro Convention and Visitors Bureau.

Northeast Georgia Locally Grown:  Market is open for orders

Good Evening Locavores, Northeast Georgia Locally Grown is open for orders!

COVID19: Northeast Georgia Locally Grown will continue to help bring the best selection of local and chemical-free foods to you and your family as long as our volunteers feel comfortable and safe. Thanks for recognizing we can all do our part in operating in the safest way possible for upcoming markets. This market system will continue to be a good alternative for our community accessing food. We are and will continue to operate under CDC and local guidelines to the best of our ability and knowledge. Be on the lookout for the order reminder email with ways you can help minimize risk for our volunteers and each other. Thanks for your support!

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Market stays open from Fridays 9 p.m. until at least 9 p.m. Mondays!

Thank you for choosing Northeast Georgia Locally Grown as a way to support your local producers. This online farmers market allows you to buy directly from multiple farms committed to chemical-free and local produce all year long! CHEMICAL-FREE means produce and pastures grown without synthetic fertilizers, herbicides, fungicides, or insecticides. LOCAL means within 80 miles from the market pickup locations (usually much much closer). Do you know someone who grows chemical-free food in the area? Get them in touch with us. Know someone who wants fresh food? Spread the word. Put the two together, and that’s growing organically!

PICKUP TIME is Wednesday from 5-6:30 p.m.

If you do not get an email ORDER CONFIRMATION right after you order then your order is NOT complete. Log back in and your order might still be there waiting for you to check out! If you have any trouble or questions at all, we are here to help; simply reply to this email.

Looking to pay for your locally grown order? Pay here using Square

Independence,VA:  Market closes tonight at 8 pm!

Good morning,

Be sure to get your Market order in by 8 pm tonight!

To Shop: Independence Farmers Market.

Be sure to schedule your pickup time if you haven’t already!

Schedule Your Pickup Time: Calendly.

Thank you for supporting the Independence Farmers Market!

Abby

Independence,VA:  Market is OPEN for July 10th pickup!

Good evening,

The Market is open and ready for you to order! As a thank you to you all for sticking with us Online, we are adding a raffle!  If you spend $30 or more dollars in any week with us, we’ll put a raffle ticket in your box with your order.  We’ll draw a lucky winner each month. The raffle will begin with your orders for delivery July 10 and go through August 7th.  August 7th happens to fall at the end of National Farmers Market week, so this 1st prize will be extra special!  Second and third place drawings will also be rewarded as a thank you for participating. You can also purchase tickets for $5 each if you click on the “Support the Market” tab and add “Monthly Drawing” to your cart on the Online Market.

Thanks again and happy shopping!
To Shop: Independence Farmers Market.

Schedule Your Pickup Time: Calendly.
After you click “Confirm” on your time, be sure to enter your information and click, “Schedule an Event”. You will get a confirmation e-mail. If you do not receive a confirmation, you are not scheduled and need to try again.

Have a great weekend!

Thank you so much for supporting the Independence Farmers Market!

Abby

Independence,VA:  Market closes tonight at 8 pm!

Good morning,

Be sure to get your Market order in by 8 pm tonight!

To Shop: Independence Farmers Market.

Don’t forget to schedule your pickup time if you haven’t already!

Schedule Your Pickup Time: Calendly.

Thank you for supporting the Independence Farmers Market!

Abby

Independence,VA:  Market is OPEN for July 3rd pickup!

Good evening,

The Market is open and ready for you to order! Keep in mind your July 4th weekend while shopping!

To Shop: Independence Farmers Market.

Schedule Your Pickup Time: Calendly.
After you click “Confirm” on your time, be sure to enter your information and click, “Schedule an Event”. You will get a confirmation e-mail. If you do not receive a confirmation, you are not scheduled and need to try again. This is new for all of us, let me know if you need help.

You may have seen a flyer in your box this afternoon about Food Independence. This is a new food pantry created by Tom Simpson, Anita Simpson, Ken Kreuzer and Bev Fermor. It will be operated as a program under Grayson Landcare’s 501©(3). For the first three months, this program will run on pledges and donations until they qualify to partner with Feeding America, Southwest Virginia, to obtain food at reduced rates.

If you are interested in helping out, Feed Independence is in need of canned protein products, preferably fish/tuna, chicken and beef (12 oz cans are preferred). At each Friday’s market pickup, a bin will be placed on the sidewalk to receive your donation. Let’s make Food Independence’s goal of reducing food insecurity in Independence a reality!

Have a great weekend!

Thank you so much for supporting the Independence Farmers Market!

Abby

Martin's Farmstand:  Picking info for Saturday June 27 Time corrected

We are opening for u-pick strawberries tomorrow morning (Saturday June 27) starting at 7 am. The previous email I sent had a wrong opening time, ignore that time. This is the later part of berry season (Wednesday was the peak) There are many thousands of ripe berries but the size is running down quickly so containers will fill slower. There are still some green berries left; the season should last at least though next week before gleaning, but the question of how these later berries will size up is still open. We need rain. Irrigation helps a lot but is not the same as a rainy day.
Hours for u-pick are Monday starting at 7 AM; Wednesday, start 2 PM (no morning picking on Wednesdays); Saturday, start 7 AM. This repeats through out the whole season. The patch closes when the berries are all picked or at 6 PM.
When you arrive you do not need to stop at the stand to weigh your containers if you know the empty weight already. Also you do not need to stop if you are picking into standard Quart or gallon containers.
You have the option of bringing your own containers or buying empties from us.(Quart boxes 25 cents each or $20 per hundred. Gallon buckets$2.50 each.)
As you walk out to the patch you will be expected to walk on the right side of the field roads. Same when you are returning. We will do our best to spread groups apart in the field. I expect family/friend groups to stay together as much as is reasonable to allow for social distancing where it matters. NO DOGS in the field or stand areas.
Pricing (u-pick) $3.50 per Quart; $24 for 8 quart tray and $10 for 4 liquid quart buckets, water pitchers, bowls and other similar sized containers. All containers are expected to well filled but not heaped. We will adjust prices up or down as needed for over or under-filled containers. By the pound price is $2/# (limited to bigger containers or larger amounts); By using volume rather than weight when it makes sense we can bypass the stand for most of the berries and reduce congestion. Daniel

Posted by: Daniel Martin at Friday June 26, 2020 02:18 PM EDT Edit Entry (Expires June 26, 2030)

Martin's Farmstand:  Weblog Entry

We are opening for u-pick strawberries tomorrow morning (Saturday June 27) starting at 7 am. This is the later part of berry season (Wednesday was the peak) There are many thousands of ripe berries but the size is running down quickly so containers will fill slower. There are still some green berries left; the season should last at least though next week before gleaning, but the question of how these later berries will size up is still open. We need rain. Irrigation helps a lot but is not the same as a rainy day.
Hours for u-pick are Monday starting at 7 AM; Wednesday, start 2 PM (no morning picking on Wednesdays); Saturday, start 7 AM. This repeats through out the whole season. The patch closes when the berries are all picked or at 6 PM.
When you arrive you do not need to stop at the stand to weigh your containers if you know the empty weight already. Also you do not need to stop if you are picking into standard Quart or gallon containers.
You have the option of bringing your own containers or buying empties from us.(Quart boxes 25 cents each or $20 per hundred. Gallon buckets$2.50 each.)
As you walk out to the patch you will be expected to walk on the right side of the field roads. Same when you are returning. We will do our best to spread groups apart in the field. I expect family/friend groups to stay together as much as is reasonable to allow for social distancing where it matters. NO DOGS in the field or stand areas.
Pricing (u-pick) $3.50 per Quart; $24 for 8 quart tray and $10 for 4 liquid quart buckets, water pitchers, bowls and other similar sized containers. All containers are expected to well filled but not heaped. We will adjust prices up or down as needed for over or under-filled containers. By the pound price is $2/# (limited to bigger containers or larger amounts); By using volume rather than weight when it makes sense we can bypass the stand for most of the berries and reduce congestion. Daniel

Miami County Locally Grown:  Get your Fixings for the Fourth!

Bulk Bargain!! King’s Poultry offers their boneless skinless chicken breasts 15% off when you purchase a case!!

Need herbs? Spice up your sweet tea, grilled veggies and more with some of the eleven fresh herbs currently on the Market!!

And Doc Allen has two different raw Honey varieties for us -
the lightest, early Honey mainly from Locust or Acacia tree nectar, and a golden spring Honey, mainly from Clover!! One of these varietal Honeys is considered THE premier Midwest honey, and the other is considered the most traditional tasting – but they’re both raw, unfiltered, unheated, and produced right in Troy!! Time to stock up, whether you like it slathered on some fresh sourdough bread, as part of a perfect salad dressing, or a great glaze for grilled pork chops!!

And next week we’ll see the return of Tin Roof Mobile Food!! You’ve wondered when we’d have those stew cubes and soup bones back – the wait is (almost!) over!!

Hope everyone who’s garden needed a pick me up received some of this glorious rain today!! Have a beautiful weekend – We’re open til 9pm tonight :-)