Fisher's Produce Tulsa:  Payment link for B'nai Emunah CSA customers

To our CSA friends signing up at the B’nai Emunah pick-up site:

We are excited to be able to serve you with fresh produce for the remainder of this season! Please choose the appropriate payment from the drop down menu below depending on which week you start(ed) receiving produce.

You can review the CSA page on our website www.fishersproduce.com/csa for more information regarding what to expect throughout the season.

All customers and their families are invited to a complimentary farm tour and dinner in late June. We would love to meet you all and have you see where your fruits and veggies are grown! More details will follow.

In the meanwhile, welcome!

Jonesborough Locally Grown:  Saturday Market Opening Day (May 2nd)

Welcome back everyone, we are back on the street. The Jonesborough Farmers Market kicks off its 8th season on Saturday morning!

WOW…look at all the things you can find on our opening day!

PLANTS
tomato plants, vegetable plants, herbs, flowers.
Returning vendors: Perry Phillips, Eric Isenberg, Shy Valley.

PRODUCE
kale, lettuce, chard, garlic, asparagus, mint, watercress, ramps, leeks fava greens, pea shoots, collards, broccoli, arugula, onions, baby bok choy, shiitake mushrooms, strawberries, and microgreens!
Returning vendors this week: Rogue Harbor Farm, Dominick’s Garden, Ranchito la Chiva, Salamander Springs Garden, Uncle Rob, Jane Matheson, White’s Mountain Meadow Farm.
New Vendors this week: Millwood Greenery, Rural Resources.

FROM THE FARM
goat cheese, chicken, beef, pork, lamb and lots of eggs.
Returning vendors this week: Ziegenwald Dairy, Clover Creek Farm, Shiny C Farm, Sentelle’s Homemade Sausage, Kany/Perservation Farm.

FROM THE KITCHEN
breads, muffins, tamales, danishes, scones, chocolates.
Returning vendors this week: Farmhouse Gallery, The Fig Lady, Dona Eva, Jane Wilson.

FROM THE ARTIST
pottery, goat milk soaps, quilted kitchen items.
Returning vendors this week: Tim Robert’s Pottery, Rusty Barn Star.
New vendor: Free Reign Farm

MUSIC
by the “Old Timers Band”, starting at 9am

BREAKFAST
The market’s very own ‘breakfast tent’ will be serving bisuits and egg strata from local ingredients made by our volunteers in the Boone Street Market Kitchen. 830am-sellout

BAGS
A special offer on our market tote bags! Good during May while supplies last!

A FEATURED FARMER
Each week this season we will introduce you to one of our vendors as the “Farmer of the Week.” This week, meet Perry Phillips

Featured products: plants!
Vendor at the market since: 2008
Favorite thing about the Jonesborough Farmers Market: visiting with all the people that come through, friends new and old.
For tomorrow: Perry will have 10 varieties of tomato plants along with pepper plants, butterfly bushes and more. Stop and chat with Perry and get some growing tips on how you too can have healthy, beautiful plants.

See you on the street!
Deb, Karen and Heidi

Fisher's Produce:  Harvest Update

Tomorrow’s CSA selection will likely include a selection of:

Strawberries
Asparagus or Napa Cabbage
Spinach or baby beets
butterhead or leaf lettuce
Salad Turnips, Radishes, or onions
Bok Choy or Kholrabi

We will be bringing plenty of extra lettuce, turnips,and asparagus to the stand with us to sell along with an assortment of other veggies and STRAWBERRIES.

See you tomorrow!

Luke

Independence,VA:  See you May 8th at the Market!

Friends of the Market,
Thank you SO MUCH for your continued support of the Independence Farmers Market this off-season. We look forward to seeing everyone May 8th for our Grand Opening and Seed Swap at Independence Town Park from 9am to 2pm.
Thanks again and happy shopping at the Market on May 8th!

Champaign, OH:  The New Mother Nature

She’s gettin’ us all, she’s gettin’ us all…
She’s gettin’ us all, she’s gettin’ us.

(Guess Who – New Mother Nature)

And, so it goes…Mother Nature is getting us down with her very, very cool evening temperatures, all this week.

Which makes for dicey early season produce.

Which makes for sad asparagus.

Which makes for a frantic Beth of Harrigan’s Harvest.

Which leads me to this plea…

If you ordered asparagus, this week, on the market, PLEASE contact Beth, via the Growers tab at this market site!!!!! She had a large portion of it freeze, and is unsure of how many pounds she will be able to cover for tomorrow’s market!!! She would like to make this all right with everyone, and take names, addresses, and deliver the orders, this weekend, or early next week.

Your market managers, and Paul of the YMCA, have already told her to wait on our orders, hoping to free up more pounds for our lovely customers!!!

Let her know, ASAP, if you can wait or if you need it, tomorrow!!!

If you ordered, and will be delayed in getting it, please go ahead, pay for your order, normally, and then she will deliver it, if you are not getting in, tomorrow!! It makes it easy on you, on Beth, on the market, and on our financial officer at the YMCA!!

Thank you so very much for understanding the temperament of Mother Nature….some seasons, she is just a real, well, you know…

Get in touch with Beth!!

Peace, Love, and Good Vibe…
Cosmic Pam

Spa City Local Farm Market Co-op:  The market is closed.

The Spa City Co-op market is now closed for ordering. Please plan to pick up your order at Emergent Arts between 3:30 and 5:30, before 5 if at all possible.

This week’s manager is Julie Alexander, 501-655-9411.

See you Friday!

Naples,FL:  Please Read attached note

I rec’d a message from someone yesterday but cannot help you because you didn’t give me your name. When sending a message through the market it does not let me know who you are so please sign all messages.

Market is open and ready for orders

Old99Farm Market:  Old 99 Farm, week of Apr 26 2015

Greenhouse greens are holding up well, should have lots for next couple weeks. Rapini, arugula, lettuces, mixed greens, rhubarb,kale, spinach, beet tops are on the list for this week.

We sold out of ground beef last week, but still have the ground veal, pastured steers still accessing mother’s milk last summer.

Have you heard about the concept of Planetary Boundaries? I think it is one of the more useful models for thinking about what is a sustainable culture.
The PB approach asks two overarching questions: What are the processes and subsystems that keep Earth in a Holocene-like state, and what levels of human pressure on each of these could reach a threshold, thereby disrupting the continuity of the Earth system?

Here’s what it looks like:

The boundary levels delineate a safe operating space in which humanity can operate while preserving the continuity and resilience of the Earth system. Figure 3 displays the 2015 PB update: the green inner circle represents this safe operating space; the yellow zone, the zone of uncertainty with heightened danger of crossing thresholds; and the red areas, the zone of high risk of triggering severe dangerous imbalances.

The PB framework emerges from the reality of the Anthropocene (the era so-named because humans are creating its dominant features), the risk of systemic tipping points, and the importance of the Holocene (the inter-glacial era stating about 10 000 years ago) for humanity’s flourishing. This fresh point of view underscores the need for a form of world development that can evolve within Earth’s safe operating space. Reconciling a respect for limits with principles of justice presents the profound challenge of imagining and creating a basis for sustainable development, i.e., good lives for all on a resilient and stable planet.

The model was refined in 2015. With these refined metrics, the analysis concludes that four out of nine boundaries have been transgressed (Figure 3). Two are in the high risk zone (biosphere integrity and interference with the nitrogen and phosphorous cycles), while the other two are in the danger zone (climate change and land use change).

- See more at: http://www.greattransition.org/publication/bounding-the-planetary-future-why-we-need-a-great-transition#figure-3

Healthy eating
Ian and Camelia

Spa City Local Farm Market Co-op:  The

The market is closed for ordering. Please remember to mark your calendars for pickup Friday the May 1st between 3:30 and 5:30 at 341A Whittington Avenue. Before 5 is better for our volunteer staff. See you then.
http://spacity.locallygrown.net/market

Julie Alexander
this week’s manager
501 655 9411

Champaign, OH:  Last Call!!

That’s right!!! Last call, lights up, tunes off, and almost closing time…

Go, race, don’t pause…it’s order wrap up time!!

Peace, Love, and Good Vibes
Cosmic Pam