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Dawson Local Harvest:  Baby Carrots, Purple Onions, and More at Dawson Harvest This Week!


Dawson Harvest for May 12th

Lots of Veggies This Week

HI GUYS

Quick Update after a check on the Produce fields. Baby Carrots are available, purple Green Onions and “regular” Green Onions, lots of Lettuces, Kales, Turnips, Bok Choy, and Swiss Chard.

MY DAILY BREAD is back after a decade’s worth of adversity, plus free-range Eggs, raw Milk, local Honey and much more!

The Market is OPEN now through Tuesday night at 9 pm.

Thanks
Alan Vining
Market Manager

Citrus County Locally Grown:  Orange Blossom Honey is here


UPDATE FROM
CITRUS COUNTY LOCALLY GROWN
Your On-Line Farmers Market


Next Market: This Thursday

ORDER TODAY
MARKET WILL CLOSE 6:00am Wednesday


3 ROCK FARM

USDA Certified Organic Bay Leaf for $5/ounce. That’s $.18/gram (McCormick NON ORGANIC costs over $1/gram, or $28/ounce!, and organic leaf is even more expensive than that!!!) Great in soups, stews, beans, sauces and works like a charm on deterring moths in the cupboards!!!

ARBOR TRAILS NURSERY
Summer is here, well it does feel that way, so lettuce is hard to grow. AMARANTH is known as the summer spinach.

BUSH BOYS BEEHIVES

We have limited quantities of ORANGE BLOSSOM Honey, get it while is is available.
Honey in season is Wild Brazilian Pepper, creamy thick Wild Black Mangrove, and truly wildflower from summer/fall Homosassa.

SNOW"S COUNTRY MARKET
Not all fruits and vegetables contain pesticides, check the research from EWG.
Link to EWG’s Clean 15
We have Avocados,Bananas,Sweet Corn, Pineapples, Cabbage, Onions,
Pesticide Free BLUEBERRIES have arrived

SANDHILL FARMS
RAW Cow’s Milk including A2/A2, and RAW Goat’s Milk.
Eggs too. Eggs All from our naturally raised and pastured animals.

WHISKEY OAKS HERITAGE FARM
Check to see if we have Eggs from Free Range Heritage Ducks & Chickens
Link to Eggs
Now a Pickup Point for Floral City and East Inverness areas


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Enjoy browsing the products from the comfort of your own home.
Delivery to your home is available in most areas. Just $8.00
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THE MARKET IS OPEN

Click on the text below to go to the Market.

www.citruscounty.locallygrown.net/

Green Fork Farmers Market:  Weekly Product List


*Dear Green Fork Farmers Market Customers:

New this week:

Green Fork Farm has mixed herb bouquets available. Great way to add flavor to all your favorite dishes this week, and looks and smells beautiful on the kitchen counter! They also have mint bunches and vegetable plants (tomatoes and peppers).

Foundation Farm has beautiful sweet peas this week. Delicious snack, pod and all!

Also available this week:

Vegetables—Arugula, bok choy, japanese turnips, spinach, lettuce, sweet peas, radishes, kale, swiss chard, pea shoots, mustard greens, green onions, and green garlic.

Herbs—Parsley, mint, dill, cilantro, rosemary, and mixed herb bouquets.

Eggs—Chicken eggs from free range hens on pasture.

Honey—Local and delicious!

Meat—Pastured beef.

Olives and Olive Oil—Direct from the organic grower in California.

Fermented foods—jalapenos.

Salsa—Made with locally grown and organic ingredients.

Live plants—Fig trees, Naked Lady bulbs, and vegetable plants.

Crafts—Natural, handmade soy candles scented with pure essential oils (no toxic chemicals!)

Place your order now, then pick up and pay on Wednesday from 4-6 pm at Nightbird Books in Fayetteville.

You can also check out a selection of locally grown and handmade goods at the market on Wednesday.

We look forward to seeing you!

Green Fork Farmers Market
Wednesdays 4-7 pm
Indoors, Year Round
Inside 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!

Athens Locally Grown:  ALG Market Open for May 11


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

It’s a week of transitions, what with UGA done for the semester (and Maymester starting up) and the public schools winding down for the year. With sudden changes in schedules and routine, it’s also a week that more people that usual tend to forget to pick up their orders. It’s a good time to check the phone number on your account, over on the Your Account page, to make sure that it’s current and preferably a cell phone. I start calling people who haven’t arrived at 7:30 — we are open until 8 — and every week there are folks I reach who completely forgot it was Thursday. There are also usually people I’m not able to reach at all, because I have a number for a home phone or they don’t answer and don’t have voice mail set up, and 8 o’clock rolls around and their food is still sitting there. When that happens I have to give the food away and charge them anyway, because the growers deserve to get paid. I’d much rather you get the food you order, even if we have to work out an an arrangement when I reach you with the reminder call, and that’s much easier if I can reach you before we leave for the night.

I don’t have any other news this week, so I’ll let you get right to ordering. 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 and Wednesday afternoons downtown at Creature Comforts. You can catch the news on their website. The Oconee County Farms Market is open on Saturdays in Watkinsville. Their website is www.oconeefarmersmarket.org. The Comer Farmers’ Market is open on Saturday mornings from 10am to noon. Check www.facebook.com/comerfm for more information. Washington, GA also has a lovely little Saturday market, running on Saturdays from 9-12. You can learn all about them here: www.washingtonfarmersmkt.com. If you know of any other area markets operating, please let me 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!

Dawson Local Harvest:  The Market is Open!


Dawson Local harvest for May 12th

HI GUYS

MY DAILY BREAD is back with us this week, and we are thankful that Bruce is recovering. Take a look at the listings for The Market this week.

THE MARKET IS NOW OPEN!

REMEMBER! You can now order until Tuesday night at 9pm. Pick up your order at Leilani’s Gardens Friday afternoons from 4 to 6 pm.

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

Fresh Harvest, LLC:  Fresh Harvest for May 7th


To Contact Us

Fresh Harvest, LLC
Link to Fresh Harvest
Email us!
Tallahassee May
tally@wildblue.net
JohnDrury
john.drury@att.net

Recipes

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Market News

Hello!

It is great to be back with you all on a weekly schedule! We love to see all the familiar faces, and meet the new customers! Thank you so much for all your support! We always strive to grow and provide for you the best locally and organically grown food possible. We hold dear the trust you put in us to pack your order every week! Because of this, we really appreciate your feedback.

The strawberries this year have been a challenge! John and his crew are monitoring the crop diligently and doing strict quality control, however all the rain has really done a number on the plants. There is some rot happening inside the berries that is undetectable while picking. As you can imagine, this is a dilema! We have some quarts going out that have been excellent, some that are bad, and some a mix of both.

This week is no different – we hope to get a good supply of quarts to bring to delivery for first come first serve. However, this will only be if we are generally highly satisfied with the quality. Still to be determined! We appreciate your support and patience with this! And we do hope you get some good berries!

Have lots of good stuff this week – and The Bloomy Rind is back with us!

Please remember we love to have our plastic bags and containers returned to us! If you have bought a plant, we will take those pots back as well. Please only bring us recyclables and reusables that we have given you – not other kinds you get from the store.

Enjoy this beautiful weather!

Thank you so much for all your support!

See you Wednesday!
John and Tallahassee


Coming Events

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!

CLG:  Opening Bell: Eggs, Squash, Kale, Cheese


Good afternoon!
If you picked up early enough on Friday, then you may have seen the first yellow squash of the season on the extras table! Squash is a warm weather crop so all of your favorite vegetables will be coming on before too much longer. We have baby jalapeños and tomatoes already set at Cedar rock Ridge, and it looks like it’s going to be a great summer. This week starts the garlic harvest! Garlic is planted in mid-October, and dug in mid-May. Each stalk is cleaned and then hung in bunches of 10 among the cedar trees to dry.

Enjoy some eggs from Funny Farm this week. Nathaniel’s hens (duck and chickens) lay some of the happiest eggs around, thanks to his diligent care.

We’re having another T-shirt giveaway starting tonight! Each item ordered from Ratchford Farms this week will earn you one entry into the giveaway for a stylish large T-shirt featuring Ratchford Farms Buffalo Ranch. For example: Buy 4 packs of ground beef and get 4 entries. A winner will be drawn Friday morning and the winner announced in the Friday Pick-Up Reminder email.

Take your pick of the wonderful, fresh-roasted coffee varieties available now! These were roasted and ground in Rose Bud, Arkansas.

New varieties of Goat Cheese available now from White River Creamery!

Most items are listed by 6pm Sunday, but check back again before the market closes Tuesday night to see if any other items are ready to be harvested for you! Eat fresh! Eat local! Eat for better health!

Check out over 700 wonderful items listed right now. See you on Friday!

And save your eggshells throughout the week for the laying hens! :-)

The market is now OPEN for orders. Click here to start shopping:

www.conway.locallygrown.net

Please check your email a few minutes after you place your order to make sure you get an order confirmation. Thank you for being a valuable part of CLG!
Have a great week!
Steve

The Wednesday Market:  The Market is Open


Good afternoon.

The Wednesday Market is open for orders. Please place your order by 10 p.m. Monday. Orders are ready for pick up between 3 and 6 p.m. Wednesday. See the website for all of this week’s product offerings. Here is the link: https://wednesdaymarket.locallygrown.net/market

Thank you for supporting locally grown agriculture. We hope everyone has a great Sunday, and we’ll see you at the Market!

Thanks,

Beverly

Duette, FL:  Japanese Cucumber


Dear Customers,
This week our new vegetable is the Japanese Cucumber.
The Japanese cucumber has several advantages over common cucumbers. It is thin-skinned, never bitter and entirely edible. The average harvested length is about four to eight inches, while the cucumber is still young. Its skin is forest green and smooth with longitudinal grooves. The flesh is crisp, crunchy, succulent and tender firm. Its flavors are bright, effervescent and melon-like.

Please place your orders.

Thank you.
David and Betty
Duette Locally Grown Market

Miami County Locally Grown:  What do you need for a special Mother's Day?


Only a week to prepare for Mother’s Day – how will you make this one special, whether for your mother, grandma, wife, sister, daughter, friend?

An indulgent dessert? Luxurious body care? A gourmet dinner, or a savory breakfast in bed?

Wonder if my husband is taking notes? He better check out the market, especially with all the great sales and local goodness! :-)

www.miamicounty.locallygrown.net/growers/list