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This weblog contains LocallyGrown.net news and the weblog entries from all the markets currently using the system.
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Wholesome Harvest Farm WV: Time to order! New lettuce variety this week!
Everything is looking beautiful on our farm! We’re adding green romaine lettuce this week, so now we have all three of our main varieties. Order one of each for a great salad.
Orders need to be in by 10:00 AM on Tuesday, so make sure to order in time.
Looking forward to seeing you on Wednesday!
P.S. If you tried to order last night or earlier this morning and couldn’t, we had a problem with our system that’s now fixed so ordering should work fine now.
Siloam Springs, AR: Online Market is Open - Kids Day To Go Kits Available to Order!
https://siloaomsprings.locallygrown.net
First, thank you all so much for supporting our farmers, vendors, and downtown businesses through your purchases online. We appreciate you so much!
We are so excited to be able to host our Kids Day at the Farmers Market by providing To Go Kits for our POP Club members. Thank you to our sponsors Grand Savings Bank, Sager Creek Pediatrics and Family Care, and Walmart Siloam Springs for making our Kids Days and POP Club possible!
Speaking of Kids Day, be sure to check out the Felt Veggies set for kids made by Polly’s Favorite Things.
This Sunday is Mother’s Day! Get Mom a beautiful bouquet of flowers from Lee Family Garden, some plants for her garden from Perennial Gardens, her favorite sweet treat from one of our bakers, personal care products from Create 4 Good or Gardens by You and Me, or a gift card from her favorite downtown business! You could purchase the ingredients for her favorite meal and prepare it for her – our farmers have a great variety of in-season produce, strawberries, pork, beef, and poultry. Give Mom the day off this Sunday and show her how much she is appreciated!
We have so many new customers I want to make sure you know you can pay online with a debit/credit card or pay with cash, check, and SNAP/EBT at pick up. If paying with cash we request that you put the exact amount in an envelope with your name on it…also please put checks in an envelope with your name on it.
Enjoy shopping and see you Saturday!
Middle Tennessee Locally Grown: This Week's News - Sorry so Late!
Middle Tennessee Locally Grown market
is open for your orders till Tuesday evening at 10 pm.
Due to the Coronavirus restrictions, if you would prefer home delivery of your order, please just ask. No charge during this time.
Please also remember that our market is much safer than any grocery store.
All our products are direct from grower/producer to consumer, with no middle men handling.
Please share this information with your friends and help them to understand how safe our open-air markets are.
From Carter at CS3 Farms
We have fresh greens, gourmet mustard, and a new hummus.
We have more foraged greens and miners’ lettuce. Both are a nutrient-dense (filling) lettuce or spinach alternative/supplement, so they can be used for breakfast (smoothies/eggs), lunch (salads), and dinner (as a salad or side vegetable). We also have just a few bunches of mustard greens to add a kick to anything you eat (fresh or cooked). Our lettuce is in time-out while it grows, with more coming along fast.
We (finally) have a fresh new batch of our best/selling Apicius Mustard. It’s an ancient Roman recipe with pine nuts and almonds. You needn’t speak Latin to love it, but if you do feel free to share!
And speaking of pine nuts, try our new (and delicious) toasted pine nut hummus. It’s best on anything you can imagine, like breads, crackers, salads, or even soups (it’s made with garbanzo beans so it is a great meat/protein alternative).
We also have herbal teas, traditional teas, and a few herbal honeys to brighten your day!
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(Top, L to R) Toasted Pine Nut Hummus (under Culinary Artists), Oolong Tea (under Brewmasters)
(Bottom, L to R) Gourmet Mustards Apicius and Orange-Oregano (under Culinary Artists => Processed Foods)
Click here for the complete list of available fresh local farm products for this week.
From Dogwood Valley Greenhouse
Strawberry hanging baskets are ready! They are a lot fuller than the early photo indicates, and they each have several early berries now ripe, for an immediate taste treat.
And a few of the larger tomato and pepper plants are ready! I will have more varieties of tomatoes in a couple weeks, as they were started pretty late and need a little more time to grow. But those who know me, know that I say wait till May 15 to plant vegetable plants, anyway, as the soil will be warmer and will hasten growth after planting.
Lettuce Bowls are back! Loaded with a variety of direct-seeded plants, they will make great-tasting cut-and-come-again salads for some time.
I still have a good selection of azalea bushes. Although they are no longer blooming, they will make a good green addition to your landscape, as you wait for next spring’s blooms.
The herbs are growing well, and from week to week I will have different Fresh Cuts and some live plants to sell. I listed a couple, but some are already sold out. I still have lots of Elderberry bushes, but when they are gone, they are gone for this year. Since it would be better for them to be transplanted before the summer heat arrives, you should plan to get yours soon.
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To Contact Us
Our Website:
Middle Tennessee Locally Grown
On Facebook:
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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.
AND We deliver!!!
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 other times by arrangement.
See the “About” page for details.
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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!
Athens Locally Grown: ALG Market Open for May 7
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
Order pickup this last week went the smoothest they have in quite a while, apart from problems with the live plants. We brought in quite a few more volunteers to help each and made some other organization improvements to get us off to a good start. Y’all managed to spread yourselves out perfectly, and we never fell behind through out the entire evening. So, we’re going to try to do all that again.
Places around the state are beginning to open back up, but there’s no way we’ll be going back to the old way of doing things, at least not for a while. Our time at the Y is limited because they’ll be slowly opening back up in the next few weeks, but we’ll be there at least two weeks longer. Where we’ll be after that is anyone’s guess, but I’ve started looking around for somewhere in town that can provide all of what we need: space inside to organize (right now it’s holding about sixty sets of shelves and a dozen giant coolers), a covered spot outside to let us set up in rainy weather, and a parking lot or pull-through area that is big enough to handle all of you coming through. It’s a challenging task.
We pulled in almost everyone we know to help us organize orders last week. If you’d like to add your name to the list, please let me know! It’s five hours of hard work right now, but everyone does get a food credit.
I know a number of you had issues with not getting everything you ordered last week, and we had a hard time telling you what it was you did and didn’t get, particularly with seedlings. There’s a little-known feature of the website that can help you with that! If you go to the Your Account page and scroll about half-way down, you’ll see a link for “Your Oder History”. There, you can see every order you’ve ever placed with us. Clicking on one will display a condensed version of the order, but there’s also a link for “View a PDF Invoice”. That has an extremely detailed look into your order, showing line by line what you ordered, whether we believe you received it or not, and if not, a line assuring you that you did not get charged for it. If the growers removed any items before Thursday at 2pm, notes to that effect are added to the order comments. When we close the orders Thursday night, the invoice will show your payment method and then your cards get charged (if that’s how you chose to pay). An aside: even though you may have tied your order to a credit or debit card, I do not process those cards until the very end of the night on Thursday, after we know what you did and didn’t get. You are never charged ahead of time.
Here are some things that y’all did last week that worked wonderfully, and we’d like you to do them again:
- Don’t arrive at the beginning of your pickup window if you’ve got that flexibility. Last week we had record sales, as I mentioned, and about a third of you showed up right at 5pm. That swamped us, and we really didn’t recover until almost seven. The time you arrive has no bearing on what items you get, so 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 was wonderful. If you think to do that same, it’ll make things even smoother.
- The Y’s pickup loop is a little odd, and when I pick my kids up from camp there (remember camps? Those were nice.) it can be a zoo. We don’t want you backing up into Hawthorne, so if you arrive faster than we can deliver orders, we may ask you to pull ahead into look and circle around. You’ll have to merge back into the line, but I promise you we’ll get everyone as fast as you can and if someone happened to arrive after you but didn’t need to make the loop so got in the line ahead of you, that won’t cause you to get fewer items than you ordered. My ask here is to be patient with us and keep in mind we’re doing what we can to keep everyone safe from both viruses and distracted drivers speeding down Hawthorne.
- The folks at the Y have been holding an ongoing food drive for their pantry for members in need. If you have canned or packaged food you don’t need, feel free to bring it and we’ll give it to them.
Here are some general reminders of things that have changed from the before times:
- If you arrive by bike or on foot, or just want to park in the lot and get out of your car, we’ll have a place for you to walk up.
- We’ve still got three pickup windows, and it’s totally ok if you come later than the slot you chose
- 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. That last option has a 3% fee, and Venmo is free.
- We can not accept any recycling
- 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.
Finally, I didn’t want this week to go by without mentioning that we’re starting our nineteenth year in operation. When we started this market back in May 2002 and I wrote this software to keep things organized, we accidentally invented the world’s first virtual farmers market. Some of you have been with us since then, and it’s amazing how much things have changed, right? And to all of you that have joined us since, including many just this last week, I’m so glad you’re here. Thank you, all of you!
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 on Thursday at the YMCA!
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!
Russellville Community Market: The Market Closes at 10 Tonight!
To ensure your order is placed, make sure you click the “Place My Order” button once you have completed your shopping. You will receive a confirmation email.
Orders will be ready for pick-up from 4PM – 8:00PM this Tuesday outside the Downtown Russellville Train Depot. Your order will be brought to your car in full-service fashion!
Photo courtesy of New Woodlands Farm.
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WELCOME to our newest vendor, ATU Agriculture! Since the Arkansas Tech campus is currently closed, the Arkansas Tech Agriculture Department has partnered with RCM to continue their annual Spring Plant Sale! Check out the “Live Plants” section of the market for an amazing variety of plants for your garden.
Russellville Community Market
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Dawson Local Harvest: The MARKET at Dawson Local Harvest Opens at 8 pm!
FRESH PRODUCE, WHOLE-GRAIN BREADS, FREE-RANGE EGGS, FERMENTED AND PROBIOTICS, LOTS MORE!!
Place Your Orders Now!
Miami County Locally Grown: ASPARAGUS on the Market NOW!!
Pumpkin Patch has fresh asparagus ready for Tuesday!! We’re only open til 8 tonight… Will you be one of the lucky ones to snatch it up?! Good luck!!
Foothills Market: The Market is Open!
It’s time for another week of shopping local with Foothills Market!
We are probably going to shift the market pickup site this week to the front of the courthouse so we can take advantage of the shade from the wonderful big oak trees.
Browse through the market listings. To order an item, enter the amount you want in the box, then click the little shopping cart beside the box to add the item to your cart. You’ll be able to see what’s in your cart and the total amount in the upper left column. Once you are finished shopping, click the “Place your order” button below the cart listing – that’s an important step! If you don’t click that button, the website won’t process your order.
Shop between now and Wednesday at 5:00* p.m*. We’ll have your order ready for pickup in front of the courthouse between* 4:30-5:30 Thursday*.
Eat something fresh this week!
Magney Legacy Ridge Farm: CSA #10
Dear CSA-ers,
This week’s preassembled bag will contain Arugula, Red Mist Head Lettuce, 2 bundles of Swiss Chard, Radishes, and Carrots. Orders may now be placed on the website at https://magneyfarm.locallygrown.net/market
As we move into May, work on the farm reaches breakneck pace. There are animal chores, bed planting, weeding, harvesting for CSA, and now, plant training. Some of our plants require more care than others to reach their peak performance. In particular, tomatoes and cucumbers, that grow as vines, need pruning and trellising to produce in abundance. Work put in now pays off later, but it is nevertheless a herculean chore to string 1000 feet of tomatoes.
On the planting front, the eggplant and pepper plants went into their tunnel space this past Thursday. We have some favorite varieties coming back, and some cool new ones on the way. We won’t spoil all of the surprises, but returning, we will have the Asian style “Ping Tung” eggplants and Italian “Corno di Toro” that were both market favorites last year. New to the lineup is a uniquely flavored Sweet Pepper from the Caribbean called “Ají dulce.” There’s many varieties in that tunnel, and we’re looking forward to putting them in bags, starting mid-summer.
Coming back from to the present, one of our strongest mid-Spring growers is Arugula. For that reason, it is this week’s featured vegetable. Arugula, or ‘Roquette’ as it is called in Europe, is a delightfully piquant green that can be eaten raw or cooked. Some people love its raw peppery bite, but for those that don’t, cooking it can render the green more mild. Arugula is unfortunately a favorite of flea beetles, so minor bug-holing is present in our organically grown product. Who can blame them though? The plant is rich in Vitamins A, C, and K as well as many trace minerals essential for health. Try it in salads, as a pizza topper, or in omelets. Some people even make a sort of early spring pesto from it. We would love to hear how you use it.
As always, we thank you for your ongoing support of our farm. It brings us much joy to be part of this community and contribute to its regional food security. Wishing you and those you hold dear a wonderful and healthy week.
Sincerely,
The Magney Legacy Ridge Farm Team
The Wednesday Market: Are You Ready to Order? It's Time!
Good afternoon!
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. See the website for this week’s product offerings. Here is the link: https://wednesdaymarket.locallygrown.net/market
We thank our customers for your enthusiastic return to the Market! Last week’s sales were the highest we have had in a few years. While we do not yet know the long term effect of the coronavirus pandemic’s impact on consumer behavior, our sincere hope is that Americans will embrace a return to locally grown and locally produced food. If we are buying from our neighbors, we don’t have to worry about supply chains being broken.
We are still taking a conservative approach with the opening of our Market, so please continue to observe the system we’ve been using for “social distancing” order pick up. If you need a review, please refer to last week’s weblog, available on our website under the “Weblog” tab.
Again, thank you for your support, and we’ll see you at the Market!
Thanks,
Beverly