Dothan, Alabama:  Market Newsletter August 6, 2016

Dothan’s Only Sustainable Market is now OPEN!

Spotlight on Lunches

It’s that time of year again. Dothan City Schools started back last week. Other area school will be starting soon, and ever diligent homeschool moms are looking ahead to more structured daily routines that accompany study.

Preparing lunches that are both nutritious an delicious is not just for growing children! Busy parents, active middle age people and empty nesters all equally need to be diligent that we are fueling these amazing bodies well.

To that end we dedicate this issue of the Market Newsletter to Lunches. Our growers have shared some ideas to help you in their listings and there’s more good ideas following that.

Market Info

UPCOMING ORDER SCHEDULE Order August 6 – August 9 for Pickup August 12 Order August 13 – August 16 for Pickup August 19 Order August 20 – August 23 for Pickup August 26 Special Surprise to be announced concerning August 26!

Grass Fed Beef – from CASABLANCA RANCH. Read more about them: http://casablancaranch.com/

AUGHTMON – SALE….
Aughtmon 1918:  2 ounce lotions are $1.50 each with 12 scents to choose from. Perfect size for backpacks and a great gift for the teachers.   $2 off insect repellent and massage oils.

ANGIE’S PASTA – aH-MaZ-iNg gourmet Pasta (Market Note – accept our apologies for last week’s mishap with orders from Angie. Please re-order this week! We figured out what happened and have it fixed. Angie’s pasta is TOO GOOD to miss!)

SWEET ACRES FARM: Unique canned products, decadent baked goods, fresh gnocci and more! SPRING HILL FARM – School time is here and so are the busy mornings! :)  Need a quick lunch box addition?  Make some Herb Veggie Dip with our mix the night before and add some seasonal veggies on the side. This dip is a hit with my kids and makes the veggies disappear!  Or add a  small baggie of one of our granolas along with a container of Greek yogurt.  You can know that you are feeding your kids something healthy and good!

SMITH FARMS – Ground Lamb and Dexter Beef

SANDSPUR FARMS – Start the school year off with a healthy start. What about a gift certificate for the new homeroom teacher? We’ll even add a quick note introducing the Market, what we all stand for and what they can find available.

RICHTER FARMS – Heritage breed Red Wattle Pork raised in pasture and hardwood forests of Henry County

SIMPLE LIFE ESSENTIAL OILS Highest Quality Oils for a Healthier Lifestyle at an Affordable Price MARY’S PEEPS – Blueberry muffins, and  oatmeal banana muffins for school treats,  also for lunches for adults as well as children, and maybe an after school, or work snack.  Remember the blueberries are grown by me and makes this treat a good one. Remember Mary’s Peeps for good bakery items from a Mom and Grandmother who has been cooking for 40 plus years.

KATHY’S CHURPERS fresh eggs from happy chickens HORTON’S FARM – Local HONEY, Lettuce greens, Bee Bath and Body Products. TUPELO restocked, NEW PRODUCT – Gourmet Rice Blend

D’S JELLIES – D’s Blackberry Jelly is the perfect companion for PBJ’s for school lunches.

Healthy Lunch Ideas

When it comes to lunches, boredom is a precursor to kids swapping food items when teacher isn’t looking. Help keep your student on the nutritional straight and narrow by breaking up the monotony with fun food variety. Help keep yourself on track to not succumb to a double cheeseburger the same way!

1. Food on Sticks
Think chicken satays, beef skewers, or sausage kebabs, packed on lunchbox-sized sticks for kids. Because everything is more fun on a stick. (For young kids, use flat, blunt-edged bamboo sticks, not the stabby toothpick-like kind.)
2. Quesadillas
They’re kid favorites for a reason — and contrary to our adult biases, they don’t need to be piping hot to be delicious.
3. Spring Rolls
Rice paper wrappers or large lettuce leaves make great rolled-up meals that are fun to eat. Fill them with tofu, pork, or shrimp; or let your kids branch out using their own ideas.

4. Deli Meat Roll-Ups
Think outside the bun! Rolling sliced deli turkey, ham, or roast beef around cheese sticks, cream cheese, and even greens can change the way your kiddos think about lunch meat.
5. Hummus and Pita Plate
Nine out of 10 kids love a good smear of hummus. Why not make it the star of the show? Send with veggies and crackers for a fun nutritious lunch.
6. Quinoa Salad
Mix meats, cheeses, and veggies your kids like into plain quinoa and dress lightly with a basic vinaigrette.
7. Breakfast for Lunch
Make extra food when you have time for a nice breakfast on the weekend, and save the leftovers for lunches —think hard-boiled eggs, leftover pancakes, and leftover sausages.
8. Leftovers
Last night’s lasagna might just taste better the next day. And if you’d eat it for lunch on the weekend, why not pack it in a lunch box? Nothing beats a cold chicken leg on a Monday.
9. Stuff a Pita Pocket
Pita Pockets can be stuffed with meat, veggies, cheese, fruit, dried fruit, chickpeas, any type salad fixing and any combination thereof! Dressings or condiments are a nice touch but best sent separately to be added right before eating.
10. Layer a Wasa Cracker
Wasa’s are a great way to break the boredom of sliced bread. Anything that will spread on bread will spread on a Wasa, and toppings are limited only by your imagination.
11. Bagel Pizzas
Make a large batch of these ahead by layering sauce, pepperoni and mozarella on sliced bagels and baking till cheese is melted. Once cooled they can be wrapped and refrigerated or frozen.

Creative Sides

Rice, sliced cucumbers, sliced mango, yogurt-covered pretzels
Avocado slices or guacamole, jicama sticks, pineapple chunks, pumpkin seeds, or tortilla chips
Cubed meat or cheese, sliced red bell peppers, blueberries, chocolate square.
Whole-wheat pretzels, celery, cinnamon-sprinkled apple slices, coconut macaroon
Salami cubes, olives, carrots, baby tomatoes, and grapes.
Tomato/mozzarella/basil on a toothpick, popcorn, pear slices, small brownie
Sliced strawberries, squeezable yogurt, broccoli flourets with ranch dressing

Footnotes

Our Website: marketatdothan.locallygrown.net

Our Email: marketatdothan@gmail.com

On Facebook: www.facebook.com/MarketatDothan

For Friday Pickup: Dothan Nurseries, 1300 Montgomery Highway, Dothan, AL 36303

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!

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Miami County Locally Grown:  Weblog Entry

I can’t say enough about this woman, her beautiful family, and the amazing products she has been crafting for six years.

Katie is equally concerned about what she feeds her young children as what she puts on their bodies… what better way to control those potentially harmful body products than by making your own?! For the rest of us, we’re lucky to benefit from her expertise and craftsmanship! Her Baby Bottom Soap is the best soap I’ve ever used on my own children who have very sensitive skin. After trying it, I’ve honestly never bought anything else for them.

Having had the privilege to learn the soap-making process in her home, it speaks volumes about her experience and dedication that despite my utter lack of knowledge and all our children running amok, that batch of soap turned out beautifully, second only to what she creates alone without such awkward assistance :-)

The virtual market was still in the works this past Spring when I questioned whether she’d be interested in participating with her full line of soap, laundry, and body care products. Her answer? She’d have to wait until later in the growing season for her calendula plants to bloom, as she needed to make an infusion for her soaps. That dedication to creating a local, unique product is why supporting truly “local” matters for you. The thoughtfulness and concern she puts into her products is not only apparent but admirable, and I’m grateful to know her, her husband and her two feisty, adorable girls.

I admire and appreciate these vendors, and want you to know, love and support them as I do!

Northeast Georgia Locally Grown:  Market is Open for Orders!

Good Evening Locavores!

Northeast Georgia Locally Grown is open for orders!
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Paris Arkansas Farmers Market:  Hot summer local goodness!

Good roasty evening to y’all out there in the Paris Area….!

Hope you’re staying cool this week…it’s a hot one for sure! Best way to beat the heat? Shop in the air conditioned comfort of your own home!! Ordering is open now, and will be till Sunday night late!

Choose your favorites from your computer, and pick up and pay, quick and simple on Tuesday evenings at Sweet Pickins in Paris!! We accept checks, cash, credit cards AND EBT!!

Thanks for your growing support of this market, folks, we’re happy to provide our community a convenient and fun way to shop local!!!

Peace,
PAFMA

Central Arkansas :  Opening bell

Afternoon marketers, I know it’s a hot one out there!! Here at CAFM you get to stay at home and order all this tasty food and all the other amazing products from the comfort of your own home. We won’t ask you to sweat a drop.

We have so many amazing products this week. We have pastor is chicken, great eggs, organic pork and grass-fed beef. As well as some great vegetables organic as well as conventional. We have some wonderful value-added products such as bread, jams and jellies. Some great Farm made products, Such as knitted items, soaps, the basket, Such as knitted items, soaps, vegetable baskets and so much more!!

Eat Fresh, Eat Local, Be Healthy!!!!
-CAFM Market Manager

Lake Placid Online Farmer's Market:  August Market Open for Ordering!

Hello everyone,

I hope you have been having a pleasant summer!

With these hot days, nothing’s better for lunch (or dinner) than a cool, crunchy salad. Rehoboth has added cucumbers and several varieties of lettuce, along with other veggies like carrots, garlic scapes, and green onions.

Several varieties of chicken are also available, along with various types of sausage from North Country Creamery. And don’t forget to pick up some cheese and yogurt from the Creamery!

As always, please email me with any questions.

Best,
Christie

CLG:  CLG Pickup TODAY 4-6pm. Bring eggshells, glass jars, & egg cartons please.

Good morning,
Usually our volunteers have the market ready for customers to pick up before 4pm. If you are out and about and want to know if we are ready, just text me to see: 501-339-1039. This is a pickup reminder for those of you who ordered this week. Thank you for your order! You can pick up your order from 4:00 p.m. until 6:00 p.m. today at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church at 925 Mitchell Street in Conway.

If something comes up that you cannot personally pick up your order today, please contact someone to pick up for you.

Remember to bring your EGGSHELLS, glass jars for recycling, egg cartons, and bags for ordered items. Reduce, reuse, recycle! See you this afternoon.

Come early for the best selection from the EXTRAS table! Even if you didn’t make an order, you can come by to shop the EXTRAS table.

Thank you,
Steve

How to contact us:

DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL. Instead…

Phone or text: Steve – 501-339-1039

Email: Steve – kirp1968@sbcglobal.net

Augusta Locally Grown:  THE ON-LINE MARKET IS OPEN AT AUGUSTA LOCALLY GROWN!

TEACHERS & HOME SCHOOL FAMILIES!
We’re filling our Fall Season slots now for class visits to Icebox Urban Farm. Using STEM-based curriculum from LifeLab, we offer service-learning opportunities for your school-age students on this city farm in downtown Augusta. Thursday mornings, starting in September. Wanna truly help your students make the connection between the natural sciences and their food. This is the place! Contact:
tasha@iceboxfarm.com, or
kim@augustalocallygrown.org

TATTOOS & TSHIRTS CONTEST!
In celebration of National Farmers Market Week, we’ll will have “I Love Farmers Markets” temporary tattoos for distribution at all our market locations on Tuesday, August 9. Here’s the contest: photo yourself, a family member, or a friend wearing that tattoo in a way that truly conveys how much you appreciate the food your farmers grow! Text that photo to 706-288-7895 no later than Friday, Augusta 12, at 5pm. Five top photos will be selected and each will win one of our new, limited edition, “Vote with your Fork” tshirts.

SAT, AUG 6 – VOLUNTEER WORK DAY AT ICEBOX URBAN FARM
Come sweat with ALG and the good folks at Icebox Urban Farm as we get the campus ready for school group education visits this fall! 8am-1pm. We ALWAYS feed our volunteers healthy, beautiful food. Closed-toe shoes and water bottles are a must! Address is 1736 Fenwick Street. Please text Kim at 706-288-7895 for more information if needed.

TUES, AUG 9 – NATIONAL FARMERS MARKET WEEK, CELEBRATED AT THE VEGGIE TRUCK FARMERS MARKET!
Come get silly with us in celebration of this fabulous national movement. Tattoos and tshirt-give-aways are planned! Grass-Fed Burgers with Henry, Kids Games with Becca and a Cooking Demo with LaDonna! Support the most feel-good farmers market in Augusta. And yes, we double EBT!!! Every Tuesday, 4:30pm-7pm, at 1850 Broad Street, Augusta.

THU, SEPT 8 – FOOD OASIS MEETING
Join with other local food activists, led by Georgia Organics, to make some real progress in our community together! Location TBA.

TUE, SEPT 20 – ALG SPEAKS WITH THE SUBURBAN GARDEN CLUB
We’re always grateful to meet up with our local garden clubs!

SAT, SEPT 24 – VOLUNTEER WORK DAY AT ICEBOX URBAN FARM AND THE HUNDREDS IN HARRISBURG PROJECT
There’s always something creative and fun to work on at this campus, dedicated to school group education. We’ll also be installing more free raised beds at individual homes in the community of Harrisburg! Join our volunteer groups from 9am-1pm. And yes! We always feed our volunteers healthy, beautiful food. For more information, text Kim at 706-288-7895.

SUN, SEPT 25 — THREE FARM TOUR & PROGRESSIVE FARM DINNER
We’re very excited to announce another “Three Farm Tour & Progressive Farm Dinner!” This time we’re focusing on the Aiken area. Meet the good folks at Pascalina Farm for soup and salad; Good Earth Farm for meat stew; and Trail Ridge Goat Dairy for dessert. Tickets are on sale now through our on-line market! $20 each. 1p-5:30p. A limited 25 tickets will be available. Buy now! This is a very popular event.

SAT, OCT 15 – VOLUNTEER WORK DAY AT ICEBOX URBAN FARM AND THE HUNDREDS IN HARRISBURG PROJECT
There’s always something creative and fun to work on at this campus, dedicated to school group education. We’ll also be installing more free raised beds at individual homes in the community of Harrisburg! Join our volunteer groups from 9am-1pm. And yes! We always feed our volunteers healthy, beautiful food. For more information, text Kim at 706-288-7895.

SAT-SUN, OCT 28-29 – “HARVEST BYTES” – A FARM TO TABLE TECHNOLOGY EVENT
Join us as we partner with the Clubhou.se in downtown Augusta to explore ways in which sustainability and technology intersect to improve our local food system overall. Partake in an intellectually satisfying, gastronomically-elegant, farm-to-table meal created by the dynamic duo of Chef Charleen Tinley and Chef Jonathan Marks, formerly of the Roosters Beak. Learn about the intersection of microbes and wellness from speaker Dr. Steve Fountain. We’ll kick it all off with a competitive Good Food Hack-A-Thon the night before! Looking for sponsors now! Be a part of the thinking crowd … and eat well while doing it.

TUE, NOV 8 – ALG SPEAKS WITH THE HIGH GROVE GARDEN CLUB
We’re always grateful to meet up with our local garden clubs!

THU, NOV 10 – FOOD OASIS MEETING
Join with other local food activists, led by Georgia Organics, to make some real progress in our community together! Location TBA.

SAT, NOV 19 – NATIONAL VOLUNTEER FAMILY DAY AT ICEBOX URBAN FARM AND THE HUNDREDS IN HARRISBURG PROJECT!
Save the date! Bring your family! Make a difference!

TBA – SIBLEY SOILWORKS!
An all-new project of G.R.O.W. Harrisburg!

Cheers!
Kim

Tullahoma Locally Grown:  Your Market is OPEN - August 5th

Hello.

Your Tullahoma Locally Grown Market is now open. Feel free to browse and select your items between now and Wednesday at noon.

Here is the link to the market: Tullahoma Locally Grown Market

Thank you for your support. Have a great day,
Fuel So Good Coffee Roasters