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Statesboro Market2Go: Veggies, veggies, and more veggies!
Collard greens, turnips, okra, sweet potatoes, butternut squash, lettuce, and more!
Be sure to order today!
CLG: Tuesday Reminder - Market Closes Tonight at 10pm.
Hello Friends,
There’s still time to place your order for pickup on Friday, October 31st. The market closes tonight around 10pm.
How to contact us:
DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL. Instead…
Phone or text: Steve – 501-339-1039
Email: Steve – kirp1968@sbcglobal.net
Our Website:
www.conway.locallygrown.net
On Twitter: @conwaygrown
On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Conway-Locally-Grown/146991555352846
CSA Farmers Market: Fall
It is a great time of year when the trees start to change color and the woodlots that we have are carpeted with glorious, oranges, reds browns and greens. Sometimes you have to be careful where you step so as to not find a prickly American Chestnut Seed.
Many years ago the chestnut trees grew tall and big throughout our area, but as seems to happen more often a disease came through and killed them. On White Pine Farm we have some trees only because I disease free stand was found in Northern Michigan and my uncle was helping to reintroduce them.
I could never figure for how prickly they were how the squirrels and other animals could get into them and eat the seeds inside. Of course I am not watching and filming the animals to solve these mysteries, instead I’m too busy trying to make the farm sustainable so that we can also protect and preserve the swamps and the woodlands. Someday when we get a breather from farming I may sit in the woods and observe nature, listen to the songs the birds sing, chase away the dear that want to eat the vanishing trilliums, watch the turtles lay their eggs, watch the sticklebacks swim in swallow waters and be grateful for the glorious world we live in knowing that we as organic farmers are preserving rather than destroying this good earth.
StPete.LocallyGrown.Net: Market NOW Open - Oct. 27, 2014
Member monthly socials are where Growers, Customers, and Volunteers converge to swap seeds, recipes, and resources…
THIS is where contacts are truly made. AND good friends!
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FIRST TIME CUSTOMERS You are invited to watch our Market Tutorial before you begin. If you do not receive an email confirmation immediately after you order, then you did not click the SUBMIT ORDER button and
SUAC Meeting Coming Up on Nov. 3rd
St. Pete Locally Grown is a proud member of SUAC (Sustainable Urban Agriculture Coalition), an organization that has been around for several years. Like many grassroots efforts, this one is comprised of dedicated local folks of all ages who are focused on shaping the future of agriculture in St. Petersburg. If you have never attended one of these meetings, come and see what it’s all about. Anyone who is interested in growing food, eating food, supporting sustainable local systems, etc. belongs in this group. YOU can help shape the future of your own backyard. Speaker next meeting is yours truly on the subject of “Starting an Urban Agriculture Business”. Date & Time: November 3rd at 7 PM
Location: Enoch Davis Recreation Center, 1111 18th Ave. S. St. Petersburg, FL 33705. Tina, YOUR Market Manager
Message from Your Market Manager
DEADLINE ON ORDERING NON GMO RAW COW MILK
Pam has posted the deadline as Tuesday 3PM due to the logistics of getting this fine product from her supplier for all things raw-cow. Look for it under the "M"s listed as “Milk – JTB Jersey Farms Raw Cow Milk TOTALLY NON GMO”.
FLORIDA FRUIT? …WE’VE GOT THAT!
From Florida: star fruit (carambola) from St. Petersburg, tangerines & golden pineapples from south FL, cucumbers from north FL (and they look so much better than last Market). From US West Coast: Fuji apples, Concorde pears, and red seedless grapes. PLEASE HELP US sell out on fruit this week as we are closed next week.
WHAT’S NEW?"
Red potatoes from Wisconsin and celery from California. We would love to find local growers with these items! Please point them in our direction? We provide these non-local items for the convenience of our customers as they have been requested.
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED THIS WEEK
Please call Market Manager 727-515-9469 for the details on these local opps:
Thursday morning: Want FREE star fruit? We need a few volunteers for about 90 minutes to go harvest star fruit from an urban contributor in St. Petersburg. You get to pick all you want for yourself as well! They have a ladder and a picking tool available.
Thursday afternoon: If you love goats and would like to visit with them every other week, then this opportunity may suit you. We need someone to go pick up the raw dairy products from The Dancing Goat in Oldsmar on Thursday of each Market week. We are willing to reimburse for mileage or roundtrip fuel, whichever works best for you. There is no obligation to do it every time. We would greatly appreciate an occasional week here or there.
NEW VIDEO FROM JEFF YENTZER
A beautiful recipe from Volunteer Videographer Jeff Yentzer of AlkalineHealth.net with a lovely end result to behold: a Paleo meal garnished with starfruit. Almost too gorgeous to eat. Thank you, Jeff!
A FEW EXCEPTIONS TO EVERY OTHER WEEK MARKET SCHEDULE
DO check the SPLG Market Calendar 2014 that is always posted so you can plan your shopping excursions on our online chemical-free veggie Market. As you know, we recently moved our Market hours to a biweekly (every other week) schedule. Here are the only exceptions to our plan through the end of this year. We won’t be open the week of Thanksgiving but WILL BE OPEN two consecutive weeks prior to Thanksgiving week so that you can be well stocked for the day of gratitude & fine dining with your families. In addition, we will be closed two weeks in a row—the weeks of Christmas and New Year’s. And finally, have you marked your calendars for our December 6th Holiday Party? It’s guaranteed to be an evening of enchantment! Tina, YOUR Market Manager
WELCOME TO OUR NEWEST CUSTOMERS!
Once you have submitted your order, if in doubt about what you owe, you can always confirm what you have been charged for by checking your account history and viewing your most current invoice. Instructions on how to do that are on our Q&A page under the question entitled Since you don’t provide an invoice with delivery, how do I know what I owe? Also, since your vegetables are picked fresh within 24 hours of delivery, they should be lasting for WEEKS in your refrigerator. When you accept delivery, please take a few minutes to inspect your order to protect your vegetables from unnecessary spoilage. Lastly, it is imperative that you understand our policy on Unclaimed Orders found on our Q&A page. When you make a purchase you are agreeing to abide by this policy.
SATISFACTION GUARANTEED
Our Market has high standards for what it sells. Despite that—as seasons transition—the challenges of evolving weather and pesky insects can take its toll on the crops. Market Growers are being very selective about what they are willing to present to you. No, it won’t always be picture perfect (which is part of its charm) and sometimes an insect is going to evade capture! But we won’t send you anything that we wouldn’t eat ourselves. If for any reason we have goofed and you are dissatisfied, please report it to me right away so we can rectify the situation. That’s how we get better and we all benefit from that. Your satisfaction is key to our success as a resource for St. Petersburgs’ lovers of chemical-free, organically & locally grown vegetables.
Upcoming Events
All these and more are posted on our Calendar of Events
WORKSHOPS & EVENTS
- “Successful Urban Farming in St. Petersburg” on Nov. 8th, 8AM Cost $35/$25. RSVP NOW
- “REAL DIRT: Make Your Own” on Nov. 15th, 8AM Cost $35/$25. RSVP NOW
- Holiday Gathering Dec. 6th, 7-10pm. No potlucks in November and December. Mark your Calendars! BY Whoozin.com e-vite ONLY for active Market customers, growers, and volunteers.
Volunteer Opportunities
We are currently organizing our volunteer needs by Grower and by Market. So when you are interested in learning how to garden and/or how to run an urban market—including a model for great delivery service for the Market—consider volunteering for the organizations below. Check back for more Growers to be listed.
Nathan’s Natural Veggies
Pioneer Settlement Garden
St. Pete Locally Grown Market
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!
Joyful Noise Acres Farm: Market closes at 8:00 pm.
Just to remind you to get your orders in before 8 tonight.
Harvest Meadows has 3 bags of lettuce and 1 mesclun blend available. The are not listed on the market. If you are interested in them, e-mail me and I will reserve one for you.
Blessings to you,
Mary Beth
Northeast Georgia Locally Grown: Locally Grown - Availability for October 29th, 2013
Hey Local Food Lovers,
One of the coolest things about getting involved in local foods is how INVOLVED you can become in local foods. For example, quite a few of our customers in Locally Grown have also become volunteers over the last few years. You may have noticed that during market pickup we have many different faces that are willing to help you and help our farmers by volunteering an hour or two to help distribute food. In the process they often learn a lot about the different farms, which foods are in season, and get a very small food stipend so they can always be sure and eat up and enjoy some of good food being offered from week to week. WE COULDN’T run this MARKET without these good souls! Be sure and tell them how much you appreciate their efforts and their knowledge.
We also have over 20 volunteers that help us with the annual farm tour. This is a great way for folks to get to know at least one of the farms that grows food in our region, and establish a friendship with a farmer or two. This is why most of us enjoy local foods so much, its so much more than just good food, it’s a relationship with the people and places that produce it, and a sense of community.
One of the cooler things about an internet farmers market is the barriers to entry can be slightly less intimidating for someone who wants to become a new producer. I’ll use myself as an example. Even though I’d grown a garden for years, it wasn’t until we had begun Locally Grown (back in 2010) that I realized, why not grow a little more food and share it with people through the market. I can’t recall now what I grew that very first year, but I can remember the joy and excitement of getting my first orders, harvesting from the field the very best of my crops so that they would look crisp and delicious in the bags, figuring out how to optimize their appearance so that a customer was just thrilled when they opened the bag and smelled the fresh food within.
Locally Grown is just at its very beginnings in our region. And we need more growers and customers. We plan to grow more of both this year with the help of some marketing resources.
Fresh Local Foods and people that are knowledgable about fresh local foods don’t just appear over night. Like anything else they have to be cultivated over time, giving time for trial and error. We often have small new farms start out with just a few products, then as they gain skill and confidence and find a few niches for products that are in short supply, they grow a little more, and become a fixture in our community of farmers. This has happened many times just in the last four years, and we look forward to it happening again.
Another thing that happens is customers will sometimes become producers. This week at the Clarkesville Location we have a FEATURED PRODUCER – Leslie Montemayor of Leslie’s Garden Dream. This is the second week we’ve asked Leslie to set up DURING MARKET and share her products and her experience and knowledge with healthful and local foods. She gave a demonstration at Tiger several weeks ago, and this week she’ll be at her home market in Clarkesville where she’s been a customer since the very beginning.
Leslie was inspired to share a few items with the market, and that list has recently expanded. She is the only person we know who grows luffa gourds (or loofah), which are dried to make luffa sponges for bathing or cleaning. I keep a luffa sponge sitting on my sink at all times for scrubbing those pans that need a little extra elbow grease, these make it easy. She also sells the seeds if you’re motivated to try and grow these yourself, and I’m sure she’ll tell you how to dry the gourds for use as well.
Leslie also makes healthy dog treats out of oat and rice flour, chicken liver from locally grown organic chickens, cheese, and locally grown eggs. Recently she added some good looking breads and cakes using organic ingredients too. I look forward to sinking my teeth into either her apple cake or sweet potato bread this Wednesday.
Locally Grown benefits from efforts to slowly but steadily replace our grocery store diets with Locally Grown and Locally Made foods. We try to be very cautious not to over emphasize processed food (even if they are made with more wholesome ingredients) or non-food products on the market. Locally Grown is obviously primarily about Locally Grown foods! This market more than anything is for the farmers, to help them access customers that want fresh, farm grown fruits and veggies, and meats. But as we grow, we’d love to see more people decide, “I have something to contribute. I’m going to go out and learn how to grow WASABI root because no one else is growing that.” Blurring the lines between who are producers and who are consumers is a healthy thing. Give yourself time to become really good at it before you try and unleash your gifts on the general public, but we welcome such efforts….as long as LOCAL products and sustainability is at the core of your efforts.
We hope you enjoy our featured producer this week. We hope to get a calendar of other featured farmers and producers going for 2015. That way you can meet some of the good folks that are filling your tummies.
Thanks for shopping and …..
EAT WELL,
Justin, Chuck, Teri and Andrew
Heirloom Living Market Lawrenceville : There is Still Time to Order..
Market Closes at 6:00pm Today!
Hop on Over to the Market.
Be sure and check out the offerings of Water Buffalo from Carrell Farm. A roast would be wonderful with this cool Fall weather!
Dabrielle of My Daily Bread has Blueberry Jam and Pear Preserves listed on the Weekly Specials and they are always a treat! It is Fall and who doesn’t like a good cup of Tea with Spelt Pumpkin Muffins or Apple Bread? Yum!
Fry Farm does not list any offerings this week as Vicky and Steve’s ‘grands’, their daughter and her husband are here visiting from their Mission in England. They will be back strong next week!
Doug’s Garden is seeing an increase in his harvests, so check out his offerings and be sure and peruse the Farmers’ Sale Table to see what is available on Market Day!
Peacefield Farm has added Radishes and Dried Tomatoes to their offerings!
The Veggie Patch always has a good variety of veggies and lots of peppers from mild to VERY hot! CHeck out the “Red” carrots!
Ricky of Back River Farm has Arugula, 2 varieties of Flavorburst Peppers and Eggplant.
Grow With the Flow is offering several different kinds of Kale as well as a Gourmet Lettuce Mix.
I spoke with Lynda of B & G and she informs me that she will be re-stocked with whole chickens and parts in 2 weeks. She still has Beef and Pork listed!
Marie of Bakery on Brooks has been sick and I am requesting prayers for her quick recovery!
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Oglethorpe Fresh Locally Grown: This Week's Market
We Have Sweet Potato and fresh mixed greens coming in coming from our growers.
Quick reminder to our Oglethorpe Locally Grown Friends: market opened at 6:00 Sunday,October 26 for Wednesday, October 29 pick-up. Wednesday pick-up days are quite lively from 4-7 p.m. with extras from the growers, meet a grower and check out the rest of all that is Oglethorpe Fresh, 111 South Platt Street. First 100 customers $15 annual membership waived. Tell a friend and We hope to see you there
Heirloom Living Market Lilburn: There is still time to order...
Market Closes at 6:00pm Today!
Be sure and check out the offerings of Water Buffalo from Carrell Farm. A roast would be wonderful with this cool Fall weather!
Dabrielle of My Daily Bread has Blueberry Jam and Pear Preserves listed on the Weekly Specials and they are always a treat! It is Fall and who doesn’t like a good cup of Tea with Spelt Pumpkin Muffins or Apple Bread? Yum!
Fry Farm does not list any offerings this week as Vicky and Steve’s ‘grands’, their daughter and her husband are here visiting from their Mission in England. They will be back strong next week!
Doug’s Garden is seeing an increase in his harvests, so check out his offerings and be sure and peruse the Farmers’ Sale Table to see what is available on Market Day!
Peacefield Farm has added Radishes and Dried Tomatoes to their offerings!
The Veggie Patch always has a good variety of veggies and lots of peppers from mild to VERY hot! CHeck out the “Red” carrots!
Ricky of Back River Farm has Arugula, 2 varieties of Flavorburst Peppers and Eggplant.
Grow With the Flow is offering several different kinds of Kale as well as a Gourmet Lettuce Mix.
I spoke with Lynda of B & G and she informs me that she will be re-stocked with whole chickens and parts in 2 weeks. She still has Beef and Pork listed!
Marie of Bakery on Brooks has been sick and I am requesting prayers for her quick recovery!
Thank you for your support!
See you at Market on Thursday!
See you at Market on Thursday!