Augusta Locally Grown:  ALG Market News!

Place your order before 8 PM, Sunday and pick up on Tuesday evening.

UPCOMING EVENTS:

Mark your calendar for Nov 8th and 9th.
You do NOT want to miss Augusta Boucherie. Join world class chefs and food champions for a 2 day foodie event at White Hills Farm.

TODAY IS THE LAST CHANCE FOR EARLY BIRD PRICING!!

Tickets for Augusta Boucherie are on sale now! Visit www.augustaboucherie.com to get your ticket. Chefs from all over the country are coming to Augusta Boucherie to showcase our local foods!

Information about our delicious local food events can be found at augustalocallygrown.org.

Questions? Please text Kim at 706-288-7895

CLG:  Suet for birds! - CLG Pickup TODAY 3:30-6pm. Bring eggshells, glass jars, & egg cartons please.

Good morning!

We will have green beans, squash, radishes and lots of other goodies on the extra table today. This may be the last of the summer squash this year. We will also have 4 varieties of suet for your backyard birds for only $1 each. Come early for the best selection.

This is a pickup reminder for those of you who ordered this week. Thank you for your order! You can pick up your order from 3:30 p.m. until 6:00 p.m. today at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church at 925 Mitchell Street in Conway.

If something comes up that you cannot personally pick up your order today, please contact someone to pick up for you.

Remember to bring your EGGSHELLS, glass jars for recycling, egg cartons, and bags for ordered items. Reduce, reuse, recycle! See you this afternoon.

Come early for the best selection from the EXTRAS table! Even if you didn’t make an order, you can come by to shop the EXTRAS table.
Steve

Dothan, Alabama:  October 26, 2019 M@D Newsletter

This Week’s Newsletter:
Guest Writer Article
Market Chitchat
Grower Notes

BEEKEEPER NUTRITION

Beekeepers are always fighting for our bees’ best nutrition but do beekeepers have the same mentality about their nutrition as they do about their bees’?

Many beekeepers are meticulous about the economy of the hive and monitor everything they possibly can. They feed the bees, remove drone cells, manage and monitor diseases and pests of the hive. We advocate against pesticide use and monoculture so that our bees have the right kind of food. 

Most beekeepers are enthusiastic about their honey. It is often proclaimed that honey is raw, unprocessed and untouched by food processing. More common white sugar does not possess these qualities: it is heated and bleached, leeching the helpful products from the raw cane. On the other hand,  raw honey only undergoes centrifuging and maybe straining, which leave the natural benefits intact. Beekeepers are also passionate about the preparation of the honey itself. While commerizalied producers often degrade the honey through ultrafiltration, removing all the helpful byproducts, local beekeepers focus on characteristics like pollen content and water percentages, which determine if we consider it a good product. However, this passion and desire for integrity in honey often does not translate to other food or products besides honey.  

When we buy food, do we take into account the same standards that we maintain for honey? Do we care about how the food is produced? Do we support local farmers or wonder what types of herbicides or pesticides are used? Do we care that all of these processes strip our meals of the benefits contained in natural foods?

Keep in mind that most of the processed food we eat is maintained by monocultures, which disrupt the balance in the ecosystem. Monoculture produces food deserts, poor soil quality, and negatively affects insects, especially bees, who like a variety of nectar and pollen all year.  Monoculture and mass production of food are clearly bad for bees, but they are necessary to maintain the culture of processed food.    

Food processing for manufacturing can simply be thought of as altering a food, through the use of various chemicals and preservatives for mass transport and long shelf life. There are three types of food processing. Primary processing includes slaughtering meat, harvesting oats, and picking apples and produces whole foods that are safe to eat.  Secondary processing is cooking, freezing, or canning. We can think of secondary processing as “simple processing”; it can be performed without access to an industrial kitchen. The third stage involves adding foreign colors, flavors, and preservatives that are not native to the natural food. The third stage produces ultra-processed food. It is pretty easy to come up with examples for each stage: a banana is a whole raw food; canned beans are a “simply processed” food; and a candy bar is an ultra-processed food.

Consuming food in each stage of processing also has a different caloric effect, or effect on energy. Let’s say for instance, you ate a raw sweet potato. You would consume 115 calories. This time you bake it, “simply processing” it and consuming 180 calories. Instead, you drive to your grocery store and pick up some frozen sweet potato fries, which are ultra-processed, and consume about 400 calories. The advent of ultra-processed foods are directly linked with higher obesity rates, as you can see from this example. If you’re eating more calories, you’re going to gain more weight.

Let’s strive to not only to be good caretakers of bees, but of ourselves.  Nutrition is one of the most important parts of keeping a healthy hive. We should strive to commit to being as healthy as we want our bees to be.  We can eat less ultra-processed foods, and instead try to eat raw or simply processed foods. We can support local farmers who practice ethical farming strategies, including limiting insecticides. If any industry knows the benefits of raw foods, it’s ours. 

Christina Snoddy
Alabama Master Beekeeper Candidate

MARKET CHITCHAT

I got the sweetest note from Mrs. Laura last week about how much she enjoyed participating in the Fall Farmer’s Market. She’ll be sharing the Hortons Farm tent again on November 9 for our next one. We’ll have more tents and more products available that day so don’t forget to mark your calendar!

GROWER NOTES

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

LAURA’S CONFECTIONS: With Thanksgiving just around the corner, it’s time to start thinking about the pie you’ll be serving for dessert. I am offering the following: APPLE, PECAN, LEMON MERINGUE, AND PUMPKIN, pre-ordered and pre-paid. I believe I can manage 20 total. It will be necessary for you to identify what flavor you’d like in the “Comment” section when placing your order. I will deliver to the Market Shed (our regular Dothan pickup location) at Dothan Nursery on Wednesday, November 27th from 3:00-4:00 PM. Anyone who wishes to get theirs later is welcome to come to my home in Ozark after 5:00 P.M. the same day. Please be sure to specify that pick up location in the “Comment” section and I will give you the address. Thank you and Bon Appetit!

HORTONS FARM: FINALLY! It’s taken over a year but the work to repair our Hurricane Michael damage is underway and not a moment too soon. The emergency fencing that was put up right after the storm is no longer containing our animals and the last few weeks have yielded some interesting adventures as our horses and dogs have done some exploring. Miss Austin in particular has knocked the lid off the chicken feed and helped herself a couple of times!

Speaking of chickens, I have discovered that a dead snake seems to bother them more than a live one. I made the mistake of removing a dead one after it went limp and let’s just say that egg production was affected!

AVALON FARMS:

Sunset over Avalon farms, just because it’s pretty.

Sorry there’s been a dearth of veggies in the market lately. The excessive heat totally ruined our first attempts at fall/winter veggies. Thankfully the temperature has broken and fall has shown up. We’ve got stuff in the ground growing as fast as we can get it to grow. Coming soon will be turnips, carrots, four kinds of kale, those beautiful watermelon radishes (love those!), regular and daikon radishes, and winter squash (which are almost cured). We just finished planting 800 foot of spinach. God willing we’ll have plenty of spinach this winter!

In preparation for next year, we’ve covered our big new garden with a heavy planting of winter cover crop. It’s a mix of wheat, oats, rapeseed, clover, winter peas and some tillage radishes just for fun. This stuff sprouts and grows so fast you can almost hear it growing.

Middle Tennessee Locally Grown:  Time to Order Fresh Local Farm Products!

Middle Tennessee Locally Grown market

Farm News of the Week

Wayne Diller at Nature’s Wealth is offering a limited number of our pasture raised turkeys supplemented with non-GMO feed for Thanksgiving! Pay your deposit now to reserve your turkey for Thanksgiving. See description for additional details.

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

Dogwood Valley Greenhouse has added our Christmas wreath and kissing ball orders; a $20 deposit will put your name on the list for an early-to-mid December delivery. (Correction from last week, when we stated late December delivery. Sorry for the mixup.)

Only the best fresh flavorful farm products for your family! No more week-old produce trucked across the country and picked over before you get to the supermarket. All the fresh local farm products listed come from your grower and maker neighbors in Middle Tennessee.

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

Receiving options:
Thursday afternoon pickup (4:00 – 5:30 p.m.) – Fort Street, Manchester, pavilion.
Friday afternoon pickup (4:00 – 5:00 p.m.) inside “Nature’s Elite”, Tullahoma.
Delivery on FRIDAY afternoon for a small fee.

See the “About” page for details.

Please help support us:
spread the word about our market.
let us know if you are looking for something special, and we will do our best to locate it for you.

Blessings,
Linda & Michael

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

Champaign, OH:  The Thursday Groove

And, here we go, opening up the market for another week of grooviness…

We love having you back!

XOXO,
Cosmic Pam

Old99Farm Market:  Typo: not Oct 29 this week's memo Oct 20

Just in case you are wondering, the cider day is this sunday 27th. Weather now is calling for rain. Will proceed as best we can.
Let me know if you are planning to come and how many.
Veggie, egg meat etc pickup can be sunday.

RAF Buying Clubs :  Early Ordering! Check Out These Halloween Treats!

Hi Folks!

Great Day Gardens is baking up some wonderfully festive Halloween breads and cookies for next week’s Buying Club drop-offs in Forest and Rivermont, so we wanted to get a jump start on ordering.

Therefore, ordering is now OPEN!

Here’s some info from Great Day Gardens:
To celebrate the kickoff of the holiday season, we are offering a selection of baked goods for Buying Club next week. This includes seasonal treats like Pumpkin Rolls, Conchas, Pan de los Muertos, and a selection of cookies. We will also have a few of our “regular” loaf breads.

As always, we also have available:
Freshly Pastured Chicken and Eggs
Freshly Forested Pork
Seasonal Veggies and Herbs
Locally Made Pastas and Dry Rubs
and Thanksgiving Turkey Reservations!

Head to

buyingclubs.locallygrown.net

to place your order!

See you next week!
Restoration Acres Farm
“Food that Restores”

Northeast Georgia Locally Grown:  Market is open for orders!

Good Evening Locavores, Northeast Georgia Locally Grown is open for orders!
Go to the market >>
Fresh Vegetables
Clean Meats
Baked Goods with Organic ingredients
Pastured Eggs
See all products

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 or call Andrew at 770.530.3287

Independence,VA:  Market is OPEN for Oct. 30th pickup!

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Good evening,

It’s not too late or pre-order your pesticide-free Christmas trees and wreaths on the Online Market!

To Shop: Independence Farmers Market.

Keep in mind, our Holiday Markets are happening on November 29th and December 7th!

Thank you for supporting the Independence Farmers Market!

Abby

Foothills Market:  Market Reminder

The order period for Foothills Market will be open until 5 this afternoon. Pick up will be tomorrow from 5:00 to 5:30 p.m at the Food for Thought garden.

We are looking forward to serving you!