Stones River Market:  Weblog Entry

Welcome to the May 31st and June 1st 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

Update from Carole’s Herbs (CS3 We have carob power balls, two flavors of shrub concentrate (drinking vinegars), and flowers!

Our carob balls are handmade, with raisins and astragalus. Carob tastes a little like chocolate, is Nutrient-Dense, low in calories, and a good source of calcium.

Try a gut-healthy Ginger-Fig or Wolfberry Mint shrub/tonic for great taste combined with nutritious ingredients. Use them as a salad dressing poured over your choice of salad greens or microgreens, or mixed with water for a delicious and refreshing drink.

The field daisies are blooming brightly — get you a dozen to brighten your home! The bachelor buttons (cornflowers) are also showing off. Bachelor Buttons are edible and medicinal, so you can “recycle” them after they are finished blooming! Make a bouquet or an edible centerpiece.

Look forward seeing you “At the Curb" of Quinn’s Mercantile Wednesday June 6th from 5:00 – 6:30pm, 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.

Champaign, OH:  Garlic Scapes-Culinary Delights

Hello, and once again, new growth in this season…

We now welcome Garlic Scape season!! It’s a short lived season, they are AMAZING, and it’s like being given a gift to treasure in your foodie bag of tricks…

A word from Carla and Jenny of JCGrowers!!

C Growers Gourmet Garlic Scapes are available this week on the Virtual Market champaignoh.locallygrown.net.

Thankfully they freeze well because the season comes and goes so quickly. They can be used in everything. Our favorite is the garlic scape green bean style, sautéed in olive oil or butter until they are the color of a cooked green bean salt and pepper to taste. I love the wizards home made pasta with garlic scape pesto way to much. Great on salads, baked potatoes even eggs. Use your imagination and enjoy.

Green Acres Atkins:  Good morning !

Good morning

The tomatoes are starting to turn color so we will have tomatoes soon !!!

The corn is jumping up it is almost knee high

And the rest of the garden is growing well

Please place those orders by noon on Thursday
Remember let us know if you are picking up at the farm or one of the delivery’s

Have a great week

Thanks
Tom and Kami

Washtenaw Organic Collaborative:  May 31- June 2 Market Open for Ordering

Good morning! The Washtenaw Organic Collaborative is OPEN for orders! We will be open for online ordering May 31-June 2 (Sunday through Tuesday). Pickup or delivery is Saturday, June 6th!

1) Head to WashtenawOrganic.com and login to your account.

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 Thursday.

3) PICK UP & ENJOY Every Saturday, pick up your individually packaged order. The Slow Farm pickup location is a no contact pickup – Please do not get out of your car. The Brines Farm pickup location is self-service off of farmhouse porch. Paid delivery option will arrive at your doorstep about midday.

Final Notes:
-Double check the pickup location noted on your receipt/invoice – and remember it for Saturday.
-Delivery as your pickup location must be accompanied by the $10 delivery item in 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.

-REGARDING SEEDLINGS AND TREES: Unless marked “6/6 Pickup”, tree orders are pre-order, available at a later date.

We appreciate your support! See you Saturday!

Champaign, OH:  Helplessly Hoping

Gasping at glimpses of gentle true spirit he runs
Wishing he could fly…
(Crosby, Stills & Nash)

I’ve had this on replay, all morning, for it’s beauty, it’s message of hoping…

I wanted to wish you a love filled day, and to remind you of the love that you will find, each and every time you place an order for market goodness.

Your market manager is taking a bit of time, today, to go hang out with long time friend from high school. She has a lovely oasis of a backyard, we will be socially distanced, sipping chilled afternoon drinks, and having some much needed chat time.

I hope that you find a bit of an oasis for yourselves, today, wherever that may be.

XOXO,
Cosmic Pam

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

Welcome to the May 31st and June 1st 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

During the time the Market is OPEN, please 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 ‘tenth’ “Pull Up or "Step Up” delivery on the curb in front of Quinn’s Mercantile to pickup your orders Wednesday afternoon. 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 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. Please check your that email address is current or updated for invoicing.

Thank you for supporting our Locally Grown Market, it means a lot to our Growers and Community. Shop Local and Stay Local!

News from The Manager: Can you believe it will be June 1st…tomorrow! Several local area Farmers Market are open or planning to open soon. Several of those market have restriction before entering their market area. Our On-line Farmers Market only restriction is you have 2 days to place your order at your leisure from home or work.

Several of our Growers have been struggling over the past month getting their crops in due to the unbelievable amount of rain we’ve all had. Some items might be a littler later than others coming in but I’m expecting some wonderfully delicious items coming soon.

Thank you for supporting our On-Line local growers and artisans.

News from Our Growers:

Farrar Farm LLC: taking a short break this week, will return next week with more delicious cuts of our Pasture Raised Beef.

Trinity Rose Oberhasli Dairy Goats:
Milk, Cheese; Garlic Dill, Spicy Italian, Kefir available this week, our Goat Ladies are back in business, more selections coming soon.

Sow’s Ear Piggery: has posted some additional pork products this week, including two Boston Butts (a summer time BBQ favorite), two tenderloins (a prized cut), and 3-pound packages of chops (these are the last 3 packages of chops we will have until late June!).

In addition, we still have quantities of pork stew meat, pork cutlet, shoulder steaks, ground pork, and fresh ham steaks (these are simply thin cuts from back leg of the pig. Brown in a skillet, cover with some liquid and seasoning. Simple!).

As always, our pork is Non-GMO fed, no antibiotics or any other additives.
SPECIAL NOTE: We have two large pork bellies (for cooking as is or making bacon). If anyone is interested, please shoot me an email. With notice, I can cut into slabs of 2 or 3 pounds if anyone is interested. I will inform you when the listing will post in the future.

Rainbow Hill Farm: It is never to late to get your garden or containers growing from the selections of our seedlings. They are delivered in Peat Pots, just drop them in the ground and the soil is worm castings which gives them a great boost during the growing season.

Quarter Spring Farm: has a full selection of chicken cuts and products, including gorgeous multi-colored eggs, available on the market this week. Check back soon for updated soap scents and new patterns of reusable napkins.

RnR Farms: For this week we continue to have an abundance of the best naturally grown lettuces and greens in Middle Tennessee. Green leaf, red leaf, romaine of all colors, kale blend, and butterhead. And this week is a great week to be a lettuce connoisseur at Stones River Market. Because RnR Farms is having lettuce week!

If you follow us on Facebook, we will release two new salad recipes every day from Tuesday through Saturday. And Monday evening we will post the best tips to eating high end, naturally and locally grown lettuce. Follow us on Facebook @facebook.com/RnrFarmsTN or go to RnRFarmsTN.com and click the Facebook link.

Happy salad week!

Dogwood Valley Greenhouse: There are a very few tomato plants left, and I’ve added a couple of jalapeno peppers. First come, first served, as there will be no more vegetable plants this spring. I have lots of beautiful herbs, available both as plants and as ‘Fresh-cuts’. But if you need one I haven’t listed, let me know and I’ll try to find it.

The letter of the week is ‘S’: sedum, shasta daisy, and Stokesia aster! All will make the more sunny areas of your garden shine! I still have a good selection of perennials for shady areas too.

Flying S Farms: Lettuce, Swiss Chard, Kale, Garlic Scapes, Kohlrabi, Hakurei Turnips, Chinese Cabbage, Sour Dough Bread, Artisan Breads, Brownies, Several types of Friendship Breads..hint, they are excellent toasted or used for bread pudding or french bread for breakfast!

One jam restocked finally…Seriously Hot Strawberry, I promise more to come, going to jam this afternoon, so check back. Hint..Low Sugar Jams, Almost Seedless Strawberry…yes that’s right!, Our other Almost Seedless Jams…they are in high demand.

Look forward seeing you “At the Curb" of Quinn’s Mercantile Wednesday June 6th from 5:00 – 6:30pm, 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.

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:  Oops... Addendum to News

From Sow’s Ear Piggery:

Sow’s Ear Piggery has posted some additional pork products this week, including two Boston Butts (a summer time BBQ favorite), two tenderloins (a prized cut), and 3-pound packages of chops (these are the last 3 packages of chops we will have until late June!).

In addition, we still have quantities of pork stew meat, pork cutlet, shoulder steaks, ground pork, and fresh ham steaks (these are simply thin cuts from back leg of the pig. Brown in a skillet, cover with some liquid and seasoning. Simple!).

As always, our pork is Non-GMO fed, no antibiotics or any other additives.

Middle Tennessee Locally Grown:  More Goodies for You!

From Carter at CS3 Farms

We have carob power balls, two flavors of shrub concentrate (drinking vinegars), and flowers!

Our carob balls are handmade, with raisins and astragalus. Carob tastes a little like chocolate, is Nutrient-Dense, low in calories, and a good source of calcium.

Try a gut-healthy Ginger-Fig or Wolfberry Mint shrub/tonic for great taste combined with nutritious ingredients. Use them as a salad dressing poured over your choice of salad greens or microgreens, or mixed with water for a delicious and refreshing drink.

The field daisies are blooming brightly — get you a dozen to brighten your home! The bachelor buttons (cornflowers) are also showing off. Bachelor buttons are edible and medicinal, so you can “recycle” them after they are finished blooming! Make a bouquet or an edible centerpiece.

(Top, L to R) Carob Balls & Radishes.
(Bottom, L to R) Ginger-Fig Shrub Concentrate & Bachelor buttons.
All items found under “Growers”.

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

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

From Dogwood Valley Greenhouse

There are a very few tomato plants left, and I’ve added a couple of jalapeno peppers. First come, first served, as there will be no more vegetable plants this spring. I have lots of beautiful herbs, available both as plants and as ‘Fresh-cuts’. But if you need one I haven’t listed, let me know and I’ll try to find it.

The letter of the week is ‘S’: sedum, shasta daisy, and Stokesia aster! All will make the more sunny areas of your garden shine! I still have a good selection of perennials for shady areas too.

(Top, L to R) Jalapeno pepper plant and Green creeping sedum.
(Bottom, L to R) Shasta daisy and Stokesia aster.
All items listed under “Growers”.

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.



Shop Local,

Your Fantastic Farmers!

CLG:  Opening Bell: Garlic, Potatoes, Carrots, Honey!

Good afternoon!
Delicious and zesty organic garlic is now available from Cedar rock Ridge. This award-winning garlic is some of the best we’ve ever grown. Rich soil, ample rainfall, and a mild winter combined to make an abundant harvest. Keep them in a cool dark place and the bulbs will last for months. Stock up because there won’t be any more until next June. If you make pickles, you’ve got to have fresh garlic. And since we are talking about it, we will have 12 jars of wickles and 12 jars of bread and butter pickles available on the extra table this Friday. :-0 People often ask me, they say: Larry, what are wickles? So I explain to them that wickles (wicked hot pickles) are quite possibly the world’s finest zesty dill pickles. I make them with my own organic dill, garlic and hot peppers. Put them on a sandwich and get ready. They’ll change your life!

If you want to make pickles but can’t find pickling cucumbers yet, try the zucchini from Strack farm. I’ve made a batch of dill pickles using zucchini and they were amazing!

If you haven’t started a garden yet, or want to add a few more tomato plants, there are still a few Brad’s atomic grape tomato plants and Cherokee purple tomato plants available for $1.50 each.

We have been enjoying a wide variety of mushrooms at our market. Unfortunately, we won’t be having any shiitake mushrooms for a couple of months. Use this opportunity to try some of the other varieties available.

We are about a week away from being restocked with chicken and beef. And egg production should increase soon also.

A couple of your items are being added to the market this week. Check out mushroom spinach cheese quiche, lemon chicken, rice tortilla soup, key lime pie from Salscilla Farm.

Our market will continue to meet in the lobby every Friday. Our volunteers will be wearing masks. Your order can be brought to your car in the parking lot by one of our dedicated volunteers. Just call or text me when you are parked, and we will bring your order to your vehicle. 501-339-1039.

Be sure to SEARCH for your favorite items using the search field. Four instance, type in the word “sale” and see what pops up. We have almost 500 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! :-)

The market is now OPEN for orders. Click here to start shopping:

https://conway.locallygrown.net/market

Please check your email a few minutes after you place your order to make sure you get an order confirmation. Thanks!
Steve

The Wednesday Market:  You Can Order Now

Good evening.

The Wednesday Market is open for orders. Please place your order by 10 p.m. Monday. Orders are ready for pick up between 2 and 4 p.m. Wednesday. Check the website for this week’s product offerings. Here is the link: https://wednesdaymarket.locallygrown.net/market

We now have Wednesday Market t-shirts for sale. The shirts listed on the website are white. Other sizes and colors are available and may be ordered by contacting Sharon Fox, (404) 569-0582. Prices vary by size and color.

Thank you for supporting this local market and our farmers and producers. We are proud to be Georgia Grown!

We’ll see you at the Market.

Thanks,

Beverly