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This weblog contains LocallyGrown.net news and the weblog entries from all the markets currently using the system.
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New Field Farm's Online Market: FIRST MARKET THURSDAY JULY 3
Greetings,
We do still exist and we are still farming! Every year even I feel like the harvest is long in coming so I’m sure some of you are scratching your head and wondering where the produce is. In fact, the harvest has begun the first week of July every year except one since we began the online market eight years ago. The exception was in 2012 when we began the last week of June.
The start of the online market is tied to the start of our Boston farmer’s market. That way we can grow enough quantity to provide for both markets. The Boston market begins the first week of July.
So – because Friday is the holiday THE FIRST MARKET WILL BE THURSDAY JULY 3. The locations and pick-up times will be the same.
I’LL UPDATE THE SITE AND SEND ANOTHER EMAIL ON TUESDAY AND ORDERING CAN BEGIN TUESDAY NIGHT.
If you have any questions or comments please let me know.
Thanks,
Tim
ALFN Local Food Club: Market Reminder!
It’s another hot, muggy day here in The Natural State. Fortunately, when the worst heat of the year starts to roll in, it brings with it some of the best food there is to be had! What does that mean for The Market?
- Fresh Fruit Galore: Stock up on fresh blueberries from Kornegay Berry Farm. These petite nutritional powerhouses are as versatile as they are tasty. When you grow tired of muffins, make blintzes. Don’t want to set and entire day aside to make jam? Take a magical shortcut. No sweet tooth? No problem. Don’t like blueberries? (Really?) I guess that’s okay, too. There’s plenty of blackberries from Barnhill Orchard. If berries alone don’t fulfill your fruit desires, check out the specials section for a sneaky surprise. Barnhill Orchard has also listed fresh fruit baskets. Order one of these to lay claim to blackberries and peaches. You can’t go wrong with that combo.
- Veritable Veggie Cornucopia: That’s right; vegetables are coming in left and right from all your favorite farms. Get your green beans from Green Acres Atkins, Armstead Mountain Farm, or Kornegay Berry Farm. Grab some green tomatoes from Willow Springs Market Garden, Crimmins Family Farm, or Green Acres Atkins. Crimmins is also here for all your ripe tomato needs with their certified organic slicers, Juliets, and sungolds.
- Delicious Dairy Accompaniments: Few things go better with great produce than great cheese. I’ve taken to snacking on fresh sliced tomato with a dollop of rosemary chevre from White River Creamery. Add a drizzle of olive oil and some fresh cracked pepper, and you’ve stumbled upon a 10 second side dish that’ll steal the show. For something a bit heartier, try some 6 pepper chevre on a grilled pizza. For dessert, a spoonful of chocolate chevre pretty much perfection, but you can throw in some bread and fruit if you must.
Whatever you need to snack your way through summer, be sure to get your order in before tomorrow morning at 7:30, or you’ll be out of luck until next week.
-Rebecca Wild
Program Manager
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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
Middle Tennessee Locally Grown: Just a Short Time Left to Order!
Please remember to place your market order very soon. This week’s market will close for ordering at 10 a.m. tomorrow (Wed), for delivery fresh from local farms on Thursday. Don’t forget all our yummy vegetables, eggs, creamline milk, and new perennial plants & hanging baskets!
Pickup will be at Square Books, 113 E. Main St, Manchester, from 3:00-4:30 on Thursday. Please e-mail me or call (931) 273-9708 if you would prefer to pick up on Friday morning between 10 am and 1 pm.
Thanks for your orders last week! Please encourage your local friends and family to shop with us and support local farmers!
Here is the complete list for this week. See you on Thursday!
~ Linda
How to contact us:
On Facebook
By e-mail
By phone: (931) 273-9708
On Thursdays: Here’s a map.
Tullahoma Locally Grown: Market is open!
Hey there, the market is open!
Get started here: Tullahoma Locally Grown Market
Solace Farm has a bounty of garlic on the market!
Double Tree farms has leeks, and Power Plants has plenty of lettuce and herbs.
Fox Farm products will not be available for the next few weeks.
Thank you for your continued support for these local products and farmers!
Market closes Noon Wednesday, See you Thursday 4:15-6
Champaign, OH: Rainy Days....
Hangin’ around, nothin’ to do but frown
Rainy days and Tuesdays (Mondays) always get me down…
(The Carpenters – Rainy Days And Mondays)
That’s right…it’s not Monday but it is Tuesday and it is supposed to be a rainy type of day, today.
Why not make the most of it and kick back, look at the market, and get your orders in? As of midnight, last night, this market is breaking a record for this time of the week, we brought in record amount of brand new customers, and we have so much to offer, and so many new vendors who seem to be joining us, weekly!
Take the rainy day and make it a day of sunshine…order, feel good about the local love, and feel good about the goodness that will await you on Thursday!
Peace and Love,
Cosmic Pam
CLG: Tuesday Reminder. Market closes tonight.
Hello Friends,
There’s still time to place your order for pickup on Friday, June 27th. The market closes tonight around 10pm.
How to contact us:
Our Website: www.conway.locallygrown.net
On Twitter: @conwaygrown
On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Conway-Locally-Grown/146991555352846
Phone or text: Steve – 501-339-1039
Email: Steve – kirp1968@sbcglobal.net
Fisher's Produce Tulsa: Ordering open
We are picking ALOT of tomatoes this week! Also picking a bit more sweet corn. These will be larger ears than the first that we picked.
This week’s CSA share will likely have:
2 lbs tomatoes
4 ears of corn
2 lbs of potatoes
1 lb of green beans (or eggplant)
Cabbage (or cucumbers)
onions
Basil
This is an A-week with delivery to Brookside, South Tulsa, Beggs, and Okmulgee. Please have orders in by noon on Tuesday.
Luke
Champaign, OH: Hey now ! Hey now !
Talk-in’ ’bout, Hey now ! Hey now !
(Iko, Iko…Grateful Dead)
Hey, now is right!!
Just letting all of you Locavores know that you are setting this week’s market on FIRE!!!
It is Monday evening, we have until tomorrow night at 10pm, but we have set a Monday record!!
Keep it coming, get your weekly orders in, let’s see how far we can take this little local market before we close it, tomorrow!!
*This week, there will be TWO Market Love playlist winners!!! Get your groove on!!
I leave you with a market full of options, an entire evening ahead of you to place orders, the potential to win a fun Market Love playlist, and the best part?? We take all the work out of your week! Just take a bit of time to place your order and then we take over!
Hey, now!!
Peace and Love,
Cosmic Pam
StPete.LocallyGrown.Net: Market NOW Open - June 23, 2014 CLOSED WEEK OF FOURTH
Remember to order this week for your Fourth of July menu. NO deliveries on Friday, July 4th.
Our Market’s veggies are freshly harvested so that most will keep for 2 to 3 weeks.
How to make these cute paper stars
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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 we did not receive an order from you. Call your Market Manager for help.
MARKET TUTORIAL
Don’t miss our helpful shopping hints now posted as a link at the top of every web page on St. Pete Locally Grown. Check it out and then share it with anyone who asks about us!
Healthy Ingredients
Looking for some Fourth of July recommendations? Here are just a few… but DO check out the entire list of over 200 hundred chemical-free products and produce from local urban farmers and small business entrepreneurs. Your support is much needed!
The seafood from Madeira Beach Seafood surpasses any we’ve sold before. You can practically taste the Key West Pinks just looking at them. Each shrimp is individually frozen and then bagged so you don’t have to cook them all at once.
The beets from Faithful Farms are wonderFul roasted, juiced, or fermented. Have you made your beet chips yet?
Lake Kersey Farm‘s 100% grass fed, grass finished beef short ribs cook great in a crockpot after browning them. I stir in a little beef base, a small touch of black bean paste, good catsup or tomato paste, and tart cherry juice. Both Pioneer Settlement Garden and *Nathan’s Natural Veggies* are providing beautiful pumpkin squashes. Great roasted and if you take it a step further you can puree the leftovers into a soup and serve chilled. Cook some ginger into the soup first.
The Faith House Garden has beautiful Genovese basil for pesto and Toad Stool Ponds always has incredible chives with generous portions.
Message from Your Market Manager
Hi Folks: Please don’t miss the info on our summer hours below, an important question about fruit for our Market, and a request for delivery volunteers… Have a safe & restful Fourth of July!
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. This week we have a great variety of spinaches, squash, and new seedlings on the Market. You’ll find no curly green kale or string beans posted today but we may be posting some beans before Wednesday at which point I’ll send out an announcement.
NEW CO-OP St. Pete Locally Grown is now delivering to the Disston Heights Neighborhood in the vicinity of 39th & 39th! Delivery fee is $4. Just submit a comment with your order and we’ll send you the details for picking up there on Friday.
CLOSING FOR WEEK OF JULY 4TH
With the 4th on a Friday it’s not possible to work out the logistics for delivering on a Holiday. Please order what you need this week. MOST all produce and products will keep AT LEAST two weeks if not three.
SUMMER HOURS
This summer we will close one week of each month until around October. This is our way of “beating the heat” & still providing convenient service and excellent produce to our customers all summer long. As many of you can attest, the produce is so fresh that much of it generally lasts as long as 3 weeks. That’s what happens when produce is harvested fresh to order for you! Our first week off will be next week for the Fourth of July. When the Market re-opens on Monday, July 7th, I will publish the summer schedule which is currently being finalized. In the meantime, please call Tina if you need help figuring out what will keep. 727-515-9469
ARE YOU INTERESTED IN FRUIT?
Everything we wanted to order this week was only available from Mexico. This continues to be a dilemna for us. All fruit we buy is USDA Certified Organic but much is grown in Mexico and at certain times of the year is imported from other countries besides Mexico. The explanation I am getting is that, due to extensive drought conditions on the USA West Coast and elsewhere, growers are gravitating to grow in Mexico and other foreign countries with similar climates as an extension of their USA operations. Unless we can all move beyond the stigma of purchasing imported fruit, it is quite possible we won’t have the supply of fruit we have come to expect year round unless we can grow it locally. Yes, we do pursue Florida fruit whenever possible! I am wondering… If I purchase imported fruit from outside the USA and it is grown by a USA-based Certified Organic Grower, will you purchase it?
CALL FOR FRIDAY DELIVERY VOLUNTEERS
We are in great need of volunteers to help deliver fresh, gorgeous produce to St. Pete customers on Fridays between 1pm and 530pm. We have two shifts of teams to build for the summer and our 1-hour training program will guarantee that you have fun in the process of meeting grateful customers and seeing other parts of St. Pete you haven’t visited yet. Please call Tina at 727-515-9469 to discuss what is involved.
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.
Upcoming Events
All these and more are posted on our Calendar of Events
WORKSHOPS & EVENTS
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“Monthly Potluck Social”, June 28th, Garden Tour Begins at 5:30PM for active Market customers, growers, and volunteers. BY Whoozin.com e-vite ONLY. Come meet your fellow Locavores! Our Speaker is Monica Leonard of Molly’s Suds. She will educate us on the importance of using chemical-free products on our pets and ourselves. The premise for her company? “There are 80,000 chemicals used in the USA and only 200 have been tested for human safety, and of those only on men, not women or children!” Monica’s products are sold nationwide, at local health food stores, AND on stpete.locallygrown.net.
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
The Faith House
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!