DeForest, WI:  Availability for Week of August 30

For those of you that attend our market regularly, this is no surprise, but the list that follows is what was available Friday during farm stand hours from Forest Run Farm:
potatoes, carrots, head lettuce, slicing tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, paste tomatoes, salsa box-paste toms/tomatillos/hot peppers, oregano, basil, green onions, 3 types of beans, hot peppers, kale, eggplant, bell peppers, ground cherries, cucumbers, patty pan, zuchinni, and beets.

Ripp-N-Good had additional sweet corn too. And please remember, that since Farmer Rich doesn’t spray his sweet corn with bug poisons, there may be a cute little worm or 2 on the tip of an ear. If there is, you will know that it is a really sweet one since the bugs seem to know the corn best!!

So, just because it isn’t listed on the product listing, doesn’t mean we might not have what your looking for. Each week there seem to be surprises during our harvesting.

For those of you with a FRF Farm Stand CSA share, please be aware of the dates and dollar amounts remaining on your punch cards.

Oglethorpe Fresh Locally Grown:  Updating Customer E-mail

Oglethorpe Fresh locally grown is try to update our customers e-mail list, please reply back to us so we know our customers are receiving our update and e-mails. Thank you for supporting our locally grown site and store, if we can help with any of your fresh produce needs let us know. Thanks again, looking forward to great fall of fresh produce.

Gwinnett Locally Grown:  Sunday Market Reminder

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.

Hello!
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.

Russellville Community Market:  RCM Opening Bell

Welcome to another RCM Market Week!

Be sure to check out the newly listed items this week! Lots of great, local products to be had!

Happy shopping! Eat Local!

Check out the “Featured Items” section as well as the “What’s New” section at the top of the market page for all the latest products available.

Be sure to “Like” our Facebook page for updates and food-related events in your community!

To ensure your order is placed, make sure you click the “Place My Order” button once you have completed your shopping. Remember, you have until 10:00pm Tuesday evening to place your orders.

Happy Shopping! See you on Thursday!

Russellville Community Market

FRESH.LOCAL.ONLINE.

Suwanee Whole Life Co-op:  Reminder: Place your co-op order today!

Just a friendly reminder that the market closes today at 6 pm.

Please remember that we need to hit certain minimums in order for our farmers and vendors to deliver to us.

We need more orders for GREAT HARVEST BREAD (Honey Whole Wheat, Spelt, Gluten Free breads, soft pretzels and other baked items) to meet their min for delivery.

Thank you for placing your order and supporting local farms and businesses!

See you on Tuesday!

Stones River Market:  Time to Order Local Food - September Arrives

Market News

Did you enjoy the break from the summer heat and humidity last week? September arrives this week and we are still seeing signs of summer. However at the Market, more produce typical of fall are appearing. Sweet potatoes and more winter squash from Rocky Glade Farm have been listed.

Labor Day is next weekend. Be sure to stock up on items you might need for any activities you are planning. In addition to their salads and dips, The Blue Porch has added pickled peppers to the list. You will also find baked goods from Casa Segovia-Paz, Double Star Bar Farms, Flying S Farms and Ms. Rosie’s.

If you are interested in peas, White City Produce and Greenhouse has added crowder peas in addition to her purple hull peas.

There are plenty of other products available this week. Browse the categories to see what your will find.

Thanks so much for your support of Stones River Market, all of our growers, local food, and our rights to eat it. We’ll see you on Wednesday at Southern Stained Glass at 310 West Main Street from 5:00 to 6: 30 pm!

Recipes

Please, share your recipes with us on the Recipes tab. We’d all love to know how you use your Stones River Market products, so we can try it too!

I am taking a break from recipes. Look for them to return soon.

Martin's Farmstand:  The hot pepper story

Tomatoes, cantalope, watermelon, sweet corn, peppers, lettuce, red, beets and 50 other things- our stand is full of wonderful food. Now is the time to order freezing corn and canning tomatoes if you are planning to do so this year. Now is the time to get out to Martins Farmstand and get the food for a good supper. Late summer and fall is the time the stand is in its full glory.


Here is this years simple hot pepper story- There is a group of us working together to grow food for the market here. We try to plan to grow a balanced supply of all the differant crops that we should have and also to time all of our plantings so as to have a broad diversity of food for your supper spread out over as long of a season as the climate and our energy allows. So somehow in this we ended up with about 1500 hot pepper plants spread out over several of our gardens. They are doing well. If each plant gives 5 pounds of peppers from now till October we could have over 2 ton of hot peppers (mostly jalapeno and hungarian)to sell. I can not quite comprehend selling so many hot peppers. This means that somebody needs to make pickled hot peppers. Following is the recipe

Sweet Pickled Hot Peppers
2 cups vinegar
2 cups sugar
2 cups water
1/2 tsp salt per quart
Slice the peppers, pack into jars. Add salt. Mix brine and pour over peppers. Put jars in canner and cover with water. Bring to hard boil for 5 minutes over high heat. Remove jars. These are good to eat in 2 weeks.

These peppers are really nice in that the sweetness and the hot interacts nicely and tempers the heat. They can sit in the refrigerater and one can fish one on two rings out as needed when cooking or sometimes I use the brine. My children like to eat them with small pieces of hard cheese folded over each ring. They call them pepper wraps. We have bulk amount of peppers available for $1.50 lb. Daniel

Champaign, OH:  Dancing In The Moonlight

Everybody here is out of sight…
They don’t bark, and they don’t bite…
They keep things loose, they keep things light…
Everybody was dancin’ in the moonlight…
(Dancing In The Moonlight-King Harvest)

So, what a crazy, busy, fast paced life this past week was!!! My baking was never ending (a very good thing!), everything that I am involved in needed attention, or was so busy, or took me in all directions…but, you know me, and you know that I wouldn’t have it any other way.

I would get home, each evening, go out to my back deck with a glass of wine, and just relax in the beauty that has been the moon, these past nights.

This song always makes me smile, makes me think of summers of my growing up, and I sing it to myself every time there is an amazing moon to watch.

The lyric that I chose not only makes me sing, but it reminds me of the love that I feel, each week, with this market. Everyone shines so super bright, nobody is uptight, we all move and groove like a big family, and we try to keep it all as light and easy for you as we can!

It’s Sunday…we have amazing, amazing selections on the market!! Make sure to take advantage of local, of nutrition, of affordability, of ease…

You will feel like dancing in the moonlight…

I would also like to welcome back so many long lost customers, this week!! I am seeing your orders pop in, and your names make me smile…

Do the local dance…place your orders…

Peace, Love, Good Vibes…
Cosmic Pam

ALFN Local Food Club:  The Market Is Open

Welcome to another week of cyber-foraging; the ALFN market is open!

News & Updates

1. Next weekend is Labor Day weekend, but ALFN will be open for pick-up on Saturday and Monday as usual.

2. You may notice there is a smell of freshly roasted coffee wafting through ALFN’s market. We have a new participant to join our list of growers and producers. Mylo Coffee, located in Hillcrest on Kavanaugh, is roasting for ALFN members. You can now order a batch of coffee, and it will be freshly roasted for Saturday pick-up. To check out what roasts and beans will be available, check out their page on ALFN’s market. Let the brewing begin!

3. One of our members, Rebecca Davis, is starting a documentary on the concept of bartering in collaboration with Aileron Media and East Creek Studios. The documentary will be used to help fund and promote a new Bartering Fair in Little Rock. Much like the “30 Days” TV series by Morgan Spurlock, the documentary will follow a life of bartering for goods and services. The idea is to open up a conversation about how bartering develops community economic exchange that isn’t built on money, but relationships. If you are interested in getting involved, email Rebecca at: mrsmagiclee@gmail.com.

Food Sovereignty #2: Cooperatives at Work

From our previous discussion on food sovereignty, I suggested our national food system is similar to medieval royalty. Corporations retain a kind of sovereignty over the public as a legal right. However, we are seeking to establish a kind of sovereignty that is collective. Decisions on what we eat, its origin, and who produces it are made from the bottom up in cooperative systems of democracy. You might find it interesting that cooperatives, such as Grass Roots Farmers’ Cooperative, are an ancient system of self-direction. Collectives are organizational structures that involve group decision-making AND group sharing. This kind of sharing is basic to human civilization. One person cannot afford 30 acres to begin farming, so five families start a cooperative to purchase the land with agreements over production and profits. On the micro-scale, families are basic collectives. The labor and service of a family is shared; the family cooperative economy culminates in daily rituals of sharing: meals. When we give chores to our kids, we are teaching the basics of this cooperative economy; an economy that is based on sharing life.

Cooperatives have greater social and economic power through the act of sharing. Many economists would argue we are in a stage called late-capitalism where battles between local interest and corporate interest are constant. For example, there are multiple battles over farm labor, fair wages, and GMO production in Mexico right now. These battles are originating from the U.S. food system and spilling into Mexico. (See the recent problem over wages and Driscoll on the West Coast)A collective called Demanda Colectiva AC that is composed of lawyers, chefs and producers fighting Monsanto in the Mexican courts. Without the formed collective power and ownership of many local participants, there would be no battle.

ALFN is a quasi-collective. All of us pay membership dues to collectively draw producers and eaters into a tighter relationship. However, there is still so much more we can do. Self-directed food collectives begins with individual ownership through communal sharing. A food system based upon sharing, ownership and cooperation is system based on food sovereignty. Let’s take back our ownership in local food.

Cheers,

Kyle Holton
Program & Market Manager

The Wednesday Market:  We're Open

Good morning.

The Wednesday Market is open. Please place your orders by Monday at 10 p.m. Orders are ready for pick up between 3 and 6 p.m. Wednesday. See the website for this week’s product listings. Here is the link: www.wednesdaymarket.locallygrown.net/market

Concord Street Sweets is away from the Market this week but will be back next week.

Have a great day, and we’ll see you Wednesday.

Thanks,

Beverly