The Weblog
This weblog contains LocallyGrown.net news and the weblog entries from all the markets currently using the system.
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Joyful Noise Acres Farm: The market closes tonight at 8:00 and other important news!
Don’t forget to get your orders in for this weeks delivery.
Joyful Noise Acres Farm will be bringing in fresh chicken and ducks to be picked up Saturday. This is the last processing of the season so now is the time to stock up. We will have feet and backs for stock making.
The pork will be here in time for market on Wednesday just not in time to pre-order. We will have pork chops, smoked pork chops, smoked bacon, smoked ham hocks and of course, delicious sausage and ground pork.
Georgia Farm to Table sent this message;
Good Afternoon!
We are so excited about this week’s offerings. As we are now well into the fall season, we are overwhelmed with the wonderful crops becoming available!! Finally, the first Georgia harvest of broccoli and spinach (YAY!!). Meanwhile, we are wrapping up the season of sweet peppers with beautiful purple, red and green peppers from Granny Matt Farms in Ball Ground. Plus we have incredible arugula offered this week from our wonderful friends, The Hopson’s! More gourmet lettuce from the Givhandy’s in Rydal and winter squash, potatoes, apples and more from Mountain Earth Farms out of Habersham county.
If they offer something in the box your family does not enjoy, please e-mail Christy and ask for her to exchange it for another item. They work hard to make sure you are pleased with your produce.
Thank you for supporting locally grown!
Mary Beth
Tullahoma Locally Grown: Market is open!
Hey everyone, I hope you’re all well and warm.
As other markets have closed, remind your friends that we are a YEAR-ROUND market!
This week Fuel So Good Coffee Roasters is offering free baked-donut samples!
Please bear with Casey Family Farms, as their milk production is down. They are doing everything they can do bring it back up, and appreciate your business and support. Look for Gallon jugs of milk in the coming weeks.
With cold season upon us, consider making your own Garlic Honey
to boost your immune system and soothe sore throats.
Order through Wednesday at Noon. Get started here: Tullahoma Locally Grown Market
See you all Thursday, have a great week
-Candace
Atlanta Locally Grown: Available for Saturday November 8
I hope this finds you all doing well. The market is open. Your hog shares will available for delivery this week. Please plan to pick up on saturday or sooner if we made prior arrangements. We still have a few available if interested and we have added most of the cuts to the list. The bacon will be here in another week so.
Thank you for all your support. We enjoy being your farmers and hope we can provide some of your daily food needs. Please share us with a friend. We will see Saturday at your selected delivery location.
Thanks again,
Brady
Conyers Locally Grown: Available or Friday November 7
I hope this finds you all doing well. The market is open. Your hog shares will available for delivery this week. Please plan to pick up on Friday or sooner if we made prior arrangements. We still have a few available if interested and we have added most of the cuts to the list. The bacon will be here in another week so.
Thank you for all your support. We enjoy being your farmers and hope we can provide some of your daily food needs. Please share us with a friend. We will see you on Friday between 5-7 at copy central.
Thanks again,
Brady
Martin's Farmstand: November 3
We still have lots of beautiful greens this week. I harvested 20 tubs of lettuce, spinach, parsley, chard, cilantro and more Saturday afternoon ahead of the freeze so I have product that is perfect for your dinner. I hope you come and stock up as I can’t eat it all myself. I think it is kind of fun ( if I am not too cold or tired) to be out in the field harvesting things such as carrots, beets, lettuce, etc. It is wonderful to be placing piece after piece of this beautiful produce into buckets or crates. It is also wonderful to anticipate all the good meals that this makes possible. The other aspect that is wonderful is how these beautiful carrots, or turnips have appeared out of nothing in a sense. Nobody else has less because we have this crop. The rule that for one to gain another has had to lose is not true. I think this is delightful. God is still creating things. Let us enter into relationship with him. Daniel
DeForest, WI: Availability for Week of November 2- Final week of 2014 season
This week will be the final week of the 2014 season.
For those of you that pick up at the Hilldale Farmers Market on Saturday, since the market was scheduled to begin their indoor season Saurday, we will not be delivering to Hilldale. You are still welcome to order and pickup at the farm Friday 4-6pm.
Bauman’s Natural Meats and Pheasants will be at the Hilldale Indoor Winter Market beginning Nov. 15. The hours are Saturdays from 9am to 1pm. Bauman’s also has an email sales offering that they deliver into Madison and surrounding communities on a regular basis. Contact them for more info.
Rusty Dog Coffee also offers online ordering with USPS (you pay for shipping) delivery of their products.
Forest Run Farm has added garlic and spinach to their online offerings this week and will continue to have squash, pumpkins, and potatoes to add to your order at pickup as last week.
Thank you for supporting local foods this season!
Athens Locally Grown: ALG Market Open for November 6
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
Athens had its first freeze of the season this weekend, so we can expect to see a quick decline in the range of summer veggies available at our market. It won’t be the complete end, though, and that’s due in some part to a great program that was funded through the USDA. Several of our growers qualified for a grant program in the last few years that allowed them to build what are known as “high tunnels”, a type of hooped greenhouse made of a rigid metal pipe frame and then covered with a skin of plastic. They’re sometimes heated, but often the solar heat captured by the plastic and by passive water heat collectors is enough to keep what’s growing warm enough through the night. The program is an advanced research project, building upon earlier work done on a few farms. The goals include seeing if a standardized high tunnel design can be easily built and operated on a wide variety of small farms, and to see if they can greatly increase production during a time of year when small growers have traditionally had little to nothing harvestable.
It’s a long-term project, and we’re only seen a few winters of production from the tunnels, but so far all of the growers involved are excited and optimistic. It’s not often that you see federal agriculture dollars make their way to small scale producers, and it’s even rarer that you see money spent on projects that can have such a large return on the investment for the community. Not only are the growers able to extend their income potential, but we customers have access to more variety of fresh food for a longer part of the year. Not only that, but it can help growers who were only marginally able to break even (if that) get on more secure footing, and so keeping more farming operations going in the long term. It’s not a lot of money involved (as far as federal dollars go), but the USDA seems to have found a point of high leverage here.
In part because of the expected production of these tunnels, the Saturday Athens Farmers Market runs well into December (the Wednesday market has closed for the season). Athens Locally Grown, of course, will continue the year round, as we have for the past eight years.
We will be taking Thanksgiving week off, however. It’s usually the only week of the year we close completely, but looking ahead on the calendar Christmas and New Year’s Day are on Thursdays this season, and we’ll be closed both those weeks as well. So, if there are things you’d like for your Thanksgiving and Christmas meals, you’ll need to plan ahead and order them early. I’ll be giving more reminders as the holidays grow near.
I’m already getting requests for sources of locally raised heritage turkeys. They’re very hard to come by here, because the summer heat is pretty brutal for turkeys. However, I think I may know of a very few turkeys available here and there, so if you’re desperate for a local turkey, drop me a line and I’ll try and get you in touch with a grower who might have some. Be warned that the total available from all the farms put together is probably less than ten birds.
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 Ben’s Bikes at the corner of Pope and Broad Streets from 4:30 to 8pm!
Other Area Farmers Markets
The Athens Farmers Market is open on Saturdays at Bishop Park. You can catch the news on their website. The West Broad Farmers Market is open throughout the week here in Athens, and you can find more information about them here: www.athenslandtrust.org. The Washington-Wilkes Farmer’s Market in Washington is open every Saturday 9-12 behind the Washington Courthouse. The Oconee County farmers market is open Saturday mornings in front of the Oconee County Courthouse. The other area markets I haven’t mentioned have yet to open for the season, so far as I know.
All of these other markets are separate from ALG (including the Athens Farmers Market) but many growers sell at multiple markets. Please support your local farmers and food producers, where ever you’re able to do so!
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!
Green Fork Farmers Market: Weekly Product List
Dear Green Fork Farmers Market Customers,
New This Week—Please welcome Diamond T Meats as a new vendor at our market! Check out all of their cuts of beef, pork, and chicken raised on pasture and non-GMO feed. You can also stop by the market this week to meet them and find out more about their farm and their products.
Green Fork Farm is bringing back chives this week, as well as a mixed fresh herb bunch.
Figgieville is also bringing back a full line of olives directly from the grower in California.
Also this week:
Vegetables—arugula, kale, lettuce, spinach, sweet potatoes, radishes, green onions, turnip greens, butternut squash, bell peppers, Anaheims, sweet banana peppers, poblanos, jalapenos, and serranos.
Microgreens—Kale and Radish Mix, Radish Mix.
Herbs—Mint, sage, lemongrass, lovage, and a mixed herb bunch.
*Meat*—pastured beef, chicken, lamb, pork, organ meats, soup bones, and parts for stock.
Eggs—Chicken and duck eggs, grown on pasture and organic grains.
Specialty foods—fermented sauerkraut and jalapenos, salsa made from local and organic ingredients, and olive oil from organic California-grown olives.
Botanical Bath and Beauty Products—soap, lip balm, mouthwash, scented oil, facial elixir, and muscle salve.
Place your order from now until Tuesday at noon for pickup on Wednesday 4-7 pm. We will also have extras for sale on our tables.
We won’t have a market next Wednesday, November 12, so stock up now. We’ll return for our next market on November 19.
Thanks so much to all of you,
Green Fork Farmers Market
Wednesdays 4-7 pm
Indoors, Year Round
At Nightbird Books
205 W. Dickson St.
Fayetteville, AR
To place your order, click on the link below to enter the website. Sign in as a customer, then click on the icon next to each product you wish to order. Proceed to checkout, review the list to make sure it’s correct, then scroll to the bottom and click on Place This Order. Make sure you receive a confirmation email—if you don’t, your order was not processed. Payment is at the market pickup with cash, check, debit/credit card, EBT, and Senior FMNP coupons. Ask about our doubling program for EBT and SFMNP!
Dawson Local Harvest: DAWSON LOCAL HARVEST for November 6th
HI EVERYONE
Sorry for the late post. We were down in Atlanta celebrating my mother’s 86th Birthday and I just managed to get to my computer. The Harvest is transitioning to a Fall Produce schedule, so take a look at The Market for this week’s availability.
THE MARKET IS NOW OPEN!
REMEMBER! You can order until Tuesday night at 8pm. Pick up your order at Leilani’s Gardens Friday afternoons from 4 to 7pm.
You’ll find the DAWSON LOCAL HARVEST at http://dawsonville.locallygrown.net
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! We guarantee your satisfaction with all products in the DAWSON LOCAL HARVEST.
Have a happy and healthy week!
Alan Vining
Market Manager
Princeton Farm Fresh: The Market is Open
This month I thought I would share my thankfulness thoughts with you. It is the month to be thankful after all.
I am most thankful for my family. Who have joined me on the wild ride called farming. They support me with everything they have and really pitch in as team members on the farm.
I would like to thank our community who has come out and supported our efforts here at Princeton Farm Fresh. I look forward to every Friday. To seeing all the fresh produce that comes to the market and the customers who love what we (farmers) do. I am truly thankful for YOU (Princeton) allowing and supporting this market.
See you all on Friday!
Angela