Jonesborough Locally Grown:  Saturday Market August 29th

Whats happening at the market this week?

Welcome new vendor: MOI Labs – green technology cleaning products

UTExtension will have food samples and give aways, don’t forget to pick up the latest recipe card

PLANTS
Perry Phillips – flowers, butterfly bushes, knockout rose bushes.

Local food is fresh food. If you’re buying at a Farmers Market, the produce has often been picked that morning.

PRODUCE
Whites Mountain Meadow Farm – watermelons, eggplant, green peppers, hot peppers, tomatoes and some special canned items, okra, beans, raspberry jam, watermelon citrus spread
Salamander Spring – fresh and dried shiitake mushrooms, dried garlic, kale, collards
Rogue Harbor – summer leeks, watercress, heirloom tomatoes, lettuces- butterhead, mini roamines, kale
Dominick’s Garden – tomatoes, tomatillos, okra, leeks, sweet and hot peppers, basil and mint
Sunset View – corn
Buffalo Trail – apples and peaches
Ranchito la Chiva – squash, beans, onions
Millwood Greenery – microgreens
McIntosh Woods – lima beans and more
McQueen Farm – corn and more
Bill Johnson – cushaw squash
Serenity Knoll – lettuces and more

FROM THE FARM
Sentelle’s Homemade Sausage – pork products
Kany/Perservation Farm – chicken products
Clover Creek Farm – lamb products & eggs
Hawk Nest Farm – beef products
Ziegenwald Dairy – goat cheese
Rosey Apiaries – honey
Dotson Farm – eggs

FROM THE KITCHEN
Farmhouse Gallery – wood fired breads, granola bars, muffins
Dona Eva – tamales, salsa

FROM THE ARTIST
Tim Roberts Pottery – pottery
Rusty Barn Star – quilted kitchen/home items
Sticky Paws – homemade pet treats

MUSIC
Unaka String Ticklers

Featured Farmer
Dona Eva – Evangelina Becerra, and family
Famous for her delicious tamales, salsa and guacamole
Vendor at market since 2013

See you on the street,
Deb

CSA Farmers Market:  Growing Season Update-8/20

HOT HUMMID WEATHER. It has got to be good for something, not sure what. The farmers wish they could escape the heat, but they cannot. The gardens and livestock must be tended to and cannot be ignored, especially during these weather conditions. Dale (White Pine Farm) said the celery seems like the heat and humidity, on the downside is that diseases like fursium wilt also thrives, this disease damages celery and other crops.

Each year among some of the crops that don’t do well the farmers often experience pleasant surprises. The above picture is Dale from White Pine Farm holding a copra onion, which are a good storage onion, prior to hand harvesting the onions, he was worried they might be going bad since he could not get to them timely due to the fact that there is too much to do that needs to be done all at once. To his pleasant surprise this year has been one of his better copra onion crops.

NEW APPLES THIS WEEK. Almars are now picking Ginger Gold apples and they have a lot of Paula Red apples available. Next week they will be picking Machintosh Apples. Almar grades their apples into two grades #1, which is close to being blemish free and #2’s which have more blemishes (these are also called weather kissed), these apples are not bruised. The apples are hand picked and the ones that don’t make either grade are than turned into a wonderful blend of cider. When making the cider they use more than one variety of apples in combinations that make wonderfully flavored cider. To add other products to the mix they make switchel, apple cider vinegar and hard cider. When the fall season is in full swing they start making apple cider donuts.

Right now this very minute 1:49 pm Thursday Joe Law from Law Family farm is picking sugar baby watermelons. They are known for their super sweet flavor and smaller sizes. Perfect for most families that are only feeding the family that day and not the neighborhood. If you do not see them on the website when the market has opened check back he may still be picking them

Gwinnett Locally Grown:  The Market is Open for Ordering

The Market is open Thursday at 9 – Monday at noon After that, ordering is disabled until Thursday morning. Pick up your order Tuesday from 4:00-7:00 p.m. only at Rancho Alegre Farm at 2225 Givens Road, Dacula, GA 30019. New to The Market? Learn about how it works here.

Good morning!
We’re in between growing seasons, so vegetable production is way down, but this is a great time to order meat. Have you considered a share of one of Double B’s hogs? I got a half hog a while back, and it took up much less freezer space than I expected. I fit it into the two freezers in my two ordinary refrigerators with all of my other stuff.

Thanks so much for your continued support!
Iris

Back by popular demand! Our resident beekeeper, Jay Parsons, will be conducting a class on the basics of beekeeping.
When: September 16, 2015 at 7 PM
Where: Rancho Alegre Farm
Cost: $10/ person
Tickets must be purchased in advance for this class. Please purchase your ticket here: Beekeeping Workshop Tickets

Upcoming Workshops

Wine Making Workshop with Operation Homebrew

This workshop is 60 minutes, includes a mozzarella cheese sampling once finished. Class size is limited to a maximum of 15 people.

Wine making workshop, Session 1: Tue. Sep. 22, 2015
Wine making workshop, Session 2: Tue. Oct. 20, 2015
Time: 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM for both sessions
Cost: $25

– Session 1 | Sanitizing steps, mixing the ingredients, tips/tricks
– Session 2 | Bottle, Cork, and label your wine, take it home

To purchase tickets visit OperationHomebrew.com.

As Always….

Please share with friends and family about us so that we can give more people the opportunity to buy and eat healthy! Local farmers need our support to keep providing us with all the fresh foods! If we don’t give them enough business, it’s hard for them to continue to deliver to us. Please let’s not let that happen! Tell your friends about us so we can keep the Growers supported as this is how they make their living.

Thank you to all of you who support Gwinnett Locally Grown!

If there is something you’d like to see in the Market, please let me know! I would love your input!

Remember…
The Market is extending their hours! The Market will now be open from 4:00 to 7:00pm!
Having said that, if you place an order with us, PLEASE remember to pick it up on Tuesday. As I am so grateful for your orders, I also have a family at home waiting on me too! We cannot hold orders, especially cold items due to limited refrigeration space, so please be courteous and come for your order.

CLICK HERE NOW to Shop Gwinnett Locally Grown!

Thanks for all your support!

Shop often and eat well!

Iris Potter
Market Manager
grow@ranchoalegrefarm.com

Fresh Wishes,
Pilar Quintero
Market Host
Rancho Alegre Farm

Please email grow@ranchoalegrefarm.com for questions pertaining to Market or Raw Milk. It is very difficult to return phone calls. Remember to interact with us on Facebook and follow us on Meetup to get notification on all our wonderful events and news.

Champaign, OH:  Local Love

Good morning, little local market of love customers!!

First…a HUGE thank you to all who placed an order, this week, and every week, or any week!! We are only as strong as our amazing customer base AND our awesome vendors!!

Second…tonight, in the lobby of the YMCA, during the order pick up, we will have two tables of local vendors, with their amazing seasonal produce!

We welcome back, Herr Family Farms with their second round of locally grown peaches, AND Dialton Farms who bring the farm straight to us, for additional produce shopping!

If you forgot to place an order, stop in the lobby to stock up on things you may want from these two vendors!

The Herrs will need to leave by 5:30…both vendors are set up at 4pm!

Please…bring cash for both of them!! They do direct sales instead of going through the YMCA!

One other local love bit of news…we have added an additional egg vendor!! Look for them when the market opens, tonight! We love our egg vendors but some of their chickens are being stubborn little things…and we NEED the eggs!!

Get your local love fix!

Peace, Love, Good Vibes…
Cosmic Pam

Palouse Grown Market:  BUY LOCAL

Purchase local foods, support local farms and families, and get the freshest, healthiest food you can get your hands on.

Check out Palouse Grown Market, Online Farmer’s Market!

Browse the healthy and naturally grown products these AMAZING farms have to offer:

-Slippery Slope Farm

-Joseph’s Grainery

-Fosbiz Gardens

-Deep Roots Farm

-Twin Creeks Micro Creamery

-M&L Farms

-Pokey Creek Farm

-Swallowtail Flowers

Thanks for your support, and enjoy!

Holly
Market Manager

Naples,FL:  Market is open

Please place your orders

Naples,FL:  Market is open

Please place your orders

New Field Farm's Online Market:  The end of August

Greetings,

School buses will start appearing this week and hopefully the storm tonight will drive out the humidity and make it feel more like the end of summer and beginning of fall.

Thank you for accommodating the change in pick-up day last week. We’re back to Fridays now.

We have carrots by the pound this week. The variety called Nelson that we’re harvesting now is getting a leaf disease called Alternaria due to all the wet, humid weather we’ve been having. The carrots are fine, but the tops are less suitable for bunching.

This same weather is also hard on lettuce. There’s no Summer Crisp this week and a limited amount of Romaine. I should be able to come up with Red Leaf and Boston, as well as salad mix.

We still have plenty of nice basil, which is a treat after two seasons of losing it to basil downy mildew by early August.

The cucumbers ended early this year due to another leaf disease. I’m sorry about that because they’re so good fresh.

We’re still setting out lettuce, sowing arugula, salad mix, and spinach, and weeding (!)

Thank you for your orders. I hope you’ve been finding the produce to be fresh and good-tasting.

Enjoy,
Tim

Champaign, OH:  Let's Go!

She says, “let’s go”…
(Let’s Go!- The Cars)

So, it’s an exciting behind the scenes, tonight, at our little local market of love!

The market is skyrocketing, the vendors are all seeing such amazing sales, and your market manager would like to say…Let’s Go!!

We have until 10pm!! It’s your chance to take advantage of all the market has to offer!!

We can fill your needs, your orders, your wishes! We have an amazing array of produce!! It’s the peak of the season! Take advantage!!

I am watching the last minutes…hurry, place your orders, and…Let’s Go!

Peace, Love, Good Vibes…
Cosmic Pam

Russellville Community Market:  RCM Order Reminder

Hey everyone! Just a quick reminder that we’ll be closing for orders tonight at 10:00 p.m. Get your orders in soon!

Happy ordering!

We hope to see you on Thursday for the market pick-up!

Check out our Facebook page for great info on local foods issues and upcoming events.
Be sure to click on the “Like” button at the top of the Facebook page to get automatic updates. Thanks!

FRESH.LOCAL.ONLINE.
Russellville Community Market