The Weblog
This weblog contains LocallyGrown.net news and the weblog entries from all the markets currently using the system.
To visit the authoring market’s website, click on the market name located in the entry’s title.
Florida Suncoast Locally Grown: Late Additions to Market
Hello Florida Suncoast Farmily!
Some additional certified organic items have been added to the on line market this week! Certified Organic Yukon Gold Potatoes, Black Plums, Ginger, and yellow onions. Organic Valenica Oranges and Acorn Squash will be available at the farm stand when you pick up! Stay Cool out there!
Princeton Farm Fresh: The Market is Open
Good Morning-
Sorry for the late opening this morning. It is funny to report that I have been having technical difficulties. That shouldn’t happen to an online farmers market!! So as I sit here at McDonalds, I find it quite ironic, to be opening our local foods market.
I would like to take this moment to welcome our newest grower, Bungalow Herbs. I had a lovely time with Terri last week while she handed out her orders. The gnocchi looked wonderful, and ya’ll might have to fight me for more this week. I especially like the mixed herb bouquet we got two weeks ago at the First Saturday market. Two weeks and it is still going strong, although there is not much left. At our house it sits on the kitchen counter looking pretty and getting added to everything.
I am enjoying this weather, and I look forward to seeing you on Friday.
Angela
StPete.LocallyGrown.Net: Market NOW Open - June 16, 2014
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Gratitude & Volume
We are grateful to have a great group of dedicated growers this summer! This means that you will have access to wonderful veggies like summer greens, beans, spinaches, and squash for which our Market has become known PLUS much more. Hydroponic growing methods make it possible for Faithful Farms to offer produce not normally available this time of year. As a result, our Market is also expecting lettuces, kale, zucchini, squash, tomatoes, peppers, sugar snap peas, and more bush beans. Once these items start producing they should be available all summer long, short of any issues with weather or bugs. HERE’S HOW YOU CAN HELP: Initially the amount available is going to seem low but please know that AS DEMAND GROWS, Faithful Farm will allocate more veggies for us on a weekly basis. REMEMBER: The priority is to eat FRESH produce that can be artistically arranged and dressed so that your palate welcomes them to your body! Read Barbara Kingsolver’s book “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle” and get all the inspiration (and more) to get on board with this concept.
Grower News
NEW GROWER
Keen Green has joined us to offer hydroponically grown, UNCUT LIVE micro-greens in small containers that you can leave on your kitchen counter to harvest at will. Several of their greens will give you more than one growing!
Message from Your Market Manager
CLOSING FOR THE FOURTH
We will close the week of July 4th. Please plan ahead for what you might need and order the week of June 23rd instead. MOST produce and products will keep AT LEAST two weeks. Remember that all meats and fish are frozen so they can easily be purchased in advance too. Do call Tina if you need help figuring out what will keep. 727-515-9469
FRUIT!
Thanks to all who helped to make our Market fruit a sellout last week. I will continue making a concerted effort to bring fruit into our market in larger quantities—every other week—as demand builds. Until then, you will need to shop early to get a share of it.
CALL FOR FRIDAY DELIVERY VOLUNTEERS
If you have been considering volunteering for St. Pete Locally Grown, now is the time to jump in. We are in great need of volunteers to help deliver our 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 training will help make it fun. You can’t imagine how wonderful it is to be greeted by customers who are excited and grateful to be receiving delivery from you. Please call Tina at 727-515-9469 to discuss what is involved. Oh, almost forgot to mention, you get to ride in or drive a beautiful air-conditioned van with our magnetic signs on it. It is a blast and a great service to provide to the St. Petersburg Community.
NEW CO-OP St. Pete Locally Grown is now delivering on Friday at Bryan Dairy & Belcher Roads. Please help us get the word out? Delivery fee is $6. The location is 7600 Bryan Dairy Rd. in Largo at the intersection of Bryan Dairy & Belcher. Dr. Tracy Leonhardt, DO has an office there and has given us permission to use the parking lot. We so appreciate her support! FYI, Dr. Leonhardt’s website is www.PeaksOfHealth.com
SUMMER HOURS
In the summertime, we normally close the Market every other week so we can regroup and rest for the busy fall season. HOWEVER, I am having second thoughts about that. Instead, I am considering closing just ONE WEEK per month so our growing customer base will have the produce and service they have come to expect. During the month of June, I will be watching closely to determine if the demand is there for us to stay open 3 out of 4 weeks. Stay tuned!
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
- “REAL DIRT: Make Your Own” on June 21st, 1PM Cost $35/$25. RSVP NOW
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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!
Carolina Foothills, SC: Monday Morning Reminder!
http://carolinafoothills.licallygrown.net/market
Good morning friends,
Remember to get your orders in by 4pm today!
Good, locally grown chemical-free food here to keep you healthy and strong!
Eat well!
Tullahoma Locally Grown: Power Plants!
The Market is open!
Power Plants is on our market this week with hydroponically grown greens and herbs! Look for bibb lettuce, romaine lettuce, a spring mix of lettuce, large leaf Italian basil, and endvies.
Also this week, DeepSet Farm has wild blackberries, kale, zucchini and yellow squash; Solace Farm has beets, carrots, potatoes, and garlic; Double Tree Farms has leeks for sale; Triple B has fresh sage, thyme, oregano and mint!
Fox Farm‘s products are unavailable this week but will be back next week, I’ll be sure to remind you. If you are near Sewanee, you can purchase her products tomorrow … “Come to the Cumberland Farmers Market in Sewanee at the Community Center and taste Fox Farm’s barbecue. For sale: barbecue sandwiches, 1 lb. containers of honey-cranberry pork barbecue, 1 lb. containers of a more traditional pork barbecue, pork chops, sausage, country bacon, and pork cutlets.”
The market closes at Noon on Wednesday, what’s in your fridge?
Get started here: Tullahoma Locally Grown Market
Heirloom Living Market Hamilton Mill: Have you placed your order? Market closes at 6:00pm!
Reminder
Market Closes at 6:00pm Today!
Don’t forget My Daily Bread will be on vacation for two weeks starting next week! Be sure and order extra of your Bakery items and freeze them to see you through!
In order for delivery to our Market to be financially feasible for our Farmers and Artisans, we must meet minimums for those that travel farther to provide for us! Milk and Bakery items fall into this category! Members will be notified if minimums are not met.
The produce offerings this week from Doug’s Garden, Fry Farm and The Veggie Patch are plentiful! Be sure and check them out!
Thank you for your support!
See you at Market on Wednesday!
South Cumberland Food Hub: Milk is Here!
Good Morning from the South Cumberland Food Hub.
This week Casey Family Farm in Viola has their rich and creamy whole milk on the market. It’s pasteurized on site at their farm but not homogenized so you can see the cream at the top. Yummy! It’s rare that they have enough to share with us, so don’t miss out.
We still have cherries from Crow Mountain Orchard and lots of squash and zucchini are available now.
Check out the whole list of products here:
Click here to go directly to the Rootedhere Locally Grown Market Page
We close at noon for orders. Have a great day!
Thank you for supporting your local farmers!
Risa
Champaign, OH: Market Announcements
Just a few announcements that I wanted to post but did not want them to get lost in my Weblog of the day!
This is from Kent, of Nettle Creek…
I’ve added a new chicken product for Nettle Creek Farm and Ranch. We now have half birds that are ideal to put on the Grill! We have also added smaller birds that are perfect for the Crock Pot! And we have lowered prices on some of the larger birds.
From the Ruff family as a reminder…
Lee and Jennifer Ruff of End of the Road Farm would like to invite you on Sunday, June 22nd at 2 pm for a guided farm tour of their sustainable, draft-horse powered homestead. Samples of various goodies made from their sorghum, spelt flour, and pastured eggs will be provided.
Please wear comfortable walking shoes, as you’ll tour the crop fields, mobile chicken and pig pens, two market gardens, and horse paddock/pasture.We ask that children be well supervised, as this is a working farm as well as our home, and as such, buildings are off-limits.
We look forward to sharing the afternoon with you, and hope you will join us with questions, enthusiasm, and an interest in seeing how and why we have chosen this wonderful farming life! Thank you!!
From LuAnn of Everyday Organics: (LuAnn and her sister, Lori, bring us the lovely granola products!)
Did you know…..The consumption of refined sugar is linked to: Obesity, Diabetes, Hypertention, High Blood Pressure, Inflammation, Depression and more?
Join us on June 24 at 6:30 p.m. for a free workshop designed to permanently change your relationship with sugar!!
So much going on in the locavore world!!
Peace and Love,
Cosmic Pam
Champaign, OH: Beautiful Day!
It’s a beautiful day
Don’t let it get away
It’s a beautiful day…(U2-Beautiful Day)
I wake up before the sun is up. I begin my baking in the very early hours of most mornings. The Cosmic soul kitchen is all windows, and my most favorite times of the day are watching as the light comes pouring in the windows and door flooding the whole kitchen with beautiful colors of sunshine and light. My other favorite time is when the sun is setting. It’s a lovely view with different splashes of color that spill into the Cosmic kitchen.
This morning was one of those mornings. I was busy with bread dough, downing coffee, listening to the tunes that keep me motivated, and watching as the golden light lit up my kitchen. It just makes you feel so alive, so happy, and like everything is golden and everything is beautiful!! It sets the tone for the whole day.
It’s Monday at our little market, the morning is rain free, the sun was smiling for a moment, and it’s just an overall beautiful moment. Take this time to think about the start of your week, what you will need to get you through, and place your market orders! Your life becomes so beautifully peaceful when you shop with us and then turn the work over to us. All you need to do is show up at market pick up, we hand you the Locally Grown market goodness, and you are on your way to more beautiful days without the stress of trying to shop in crowded places, the stress of doing all of the work, and the lack of local love…
And, where else do you get entered into a Market Love drawing for the Market Love summer playlist??
We are here, it’s a beautiful day, and we want to make it a beautiful week for you! Get your orders in!
Peace and Love,
Cosmic Pam
Joyful Noise Acres Farm: The Market closes at 8:00pm.
Good morning,
I hope you had a sweet Father’s Day with those you love, we enjoyed a quieter day, a little pool time (in between rain showers) and a steak on the grill. Chip was happy.
The on-line market closes this evening so be sure to get your orders in.
Please let me know if you would like to order lamb for pick-up next week:
Lamb Chops at $15.00/lb
Ground Lamb at $10.00/lb *
Neck Bones at $4.00/lb
Shoulder Roasts at $11.00/lb
Whole legs at $10.50/lb (avg. 4-6 lbs)
Lamb Ribs at $11.00/lb
Linda at White Gates Farm raises Suffolk sheep for their wool and meat. I will have one of her wool blankets here on Tuesday for you to look over. They are soft, beautiful and will last a lifetime. She also has throws and blankets for every size bed.
Thank you for supporting your local farmer and artisan – it doesn’t get any fresher!
Have a great week and we look forward to seeing you on Wednesday.
Mary Beth