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.
Heirloom Living Market Lawrenceville : There's still time to order ~ Market closes at 8:00pm!
Market closes at 8:00pm!
Request for prayers…
Please keep Benny and Sam in your prayers.
…this and that…
My Daily Bread does not have items listed this week but will return to Market next week!
Rusty of Little Tots Estate has listings for Raw Goat Milk and Eggs this week!
Greg of Heritage Farm has some great Specials this week! Be sure and check them out on the first page of Market offerings! Pork Products are back in stock. I know folks have ordered Pork Chops and Sausage the last couple of weeks and have not gotten them. There was a delay at the Processor; but finally items have been processed and are at the Farm!
Market Opens for Ordering: Friday at 9:00am
Market Closes: Monday at 8:00pm
Market Pickup: Thursday
2:30pm – 5:30pm
Pickup Location: 1385 Winder Highway
Dacula, GA 30019
Click Here for Map
Take me to the Crossfit Market.
Market Closes: Monday at 8:00pm
Market Pickup: Thursday
2:30pm – 5:30pm
Pickup Location: 1385 Winder Highway
Dacula, GA 30019
Click Here for Map
Take me to the Crossfit Market.
Order now since you are just a click way!
Heirloom Living Market Lilburn: You still have time to order...Market closes at 8:00pm!
Market closes at 8:00pm!
Request for prayers…
Please keep Benny and Sam in your prayers.
…this and that…
My Daily Bread does not have items listed this week but will return to Market next week!
Rusty of Little Tots Estate has listings for Raw Goat Milk and Eggs this week!
Greg of Heritage Farm has some great Specials this week! Be sure and check them out on the first page of Market offerings! Pork Products are back in stock. I know folks have ordered Pork Chops and Sausage the last couple of weeks and have not gotten them. There was a delay at the Processor; but finally items have been processed and are at the Farm!
Lilburn Members Pickup Location
All Saints Lutheran Church
Pickup Day and Time: Thursday 4:30pm – 6:30pm
Pickup Location:
722 Rockbridge Road SW
Lilburn, GA 30047
Click Here for Map
Order now since you are just a click way!
“Like” us on facebook!
BUY LOCAL ~ Know your Farmer!
Green Fork Farmers Market: Weekly product list
Dear Green Fork Farmers Market Customers:
NEW this week:
Green Fork Farm has Delicata squash, a sweet winter squash variety with an edible skin. They also have tomatillos for your favorite green sauce, as well as green Datil hot peppers and (oh my!) Carolina Reaper, the hottest pepper in the world!
Also available this week:
Vegetables—Slicing tomatoes, green tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, summer squash, winter squash, cucumbers, potatoes, sweet potato greens, garlic, beans, mixed veggies, and peppers—sweet bell, sweet Italian, sweet banana, poblano, Anaheim, mild jalapeno, serrano, hot Thai, Aji Criolla Sella, habanero, Tabasco, Datil, and Carolina Reaper.
Honey—Local and delicious.
Herbs—Basil, mint, sage, fennel, mixed herb packs, and mixed herb bouquets.
Eggs—Pastured, free range chicken and duck eggs.
Meat—Pastured beef, chicken, goat and lamb.
Fermented foods—Sauerkraut, okra, and jalapenos.
Salsa—Made with locally grown and organic ingredients.
Olives and Olive Oil—organic and directly from the grower in California.
Edible flowers— Nasturtium flowers, Nasturtium leaves, and squash blossoms.
Live plants—Fig trees and sweet potato slips.
Go ahead and place your order, then pick up and pay on Wednesday from 4-7 pm at Nightbird Books in Fayetteville.
If you aren’t able to place an order, stop by to shop with us on Wednesday. We will have a variety of items for sale from the table.
See you on Wednesday,
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!
Conyers Locally Grown: available for Friday, August 5
Hello, I hope this finds you all doing well. The market is open and ready for orders. We have lots of goodies available this week so order up. We will see you Friday between f5-7 at Copy Central.
Thank you, brady
Princeton Farm Fresh: The Market Is CHANGING
This is the week that we make the change to THURSDAY’S. Everything else will stay the same. Same great farmers, same great veggies, meat, milk and eggs. All we are doing is moving the day and location. We will be meeting the same time from 4-6pm, but we will be moving to the Princeton Park on the corner of Eagle and Market Streets in Princeton. I love this location as it makes for a beautiful drive through downtown Princeton.
If you have any questions please don’’t hesitate to call me.
See you all on Thursday,
Angela
Cook Farm: COOK FARM
Hi from the farm,
Order any time between now and 9am Tuesday.
Thanks for shopping with me!
Susan Cook
Tullahoma Locally Grown: August 1st - Market Opening
Welcome to August!.
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
Middle Tennessee Locally Grown: Time to Order Local Farm Products!
Manchester Locally Grown Farmers’ Market
How to contact us:
Our Website: manchester.locallygrown.net
On Facebook: Manchester Locally Grown Online Farmers’ Market
By e-mail: tnhomeschooler@yahoo.com
By phone: (931) 273-9708
On Thursdays: Here’s a map.
Good morning, friends!
The market opened Sunday morning as usual, even though I didn’t send this market message then, and will remain open for your orders till Tuesday evening at 10 pm. Please be sure to read the section of the page entitled “Important Ordering and Pickup Information.”
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NEWS AND NOTES
The vegetables are growing larger, and White City Produce & Greenhouses has added large zucchini, as well as a half-bushel of stringless bush bean “Malibu”. Tami delivered her first CSA basket last week, and it looked awesome! Look for a picture next week.
Solace Farm has added several garlic braids in different sizes. Congratulations to owners Caleb and Amy Rae, whose new son Ewan Nickinson was born on July 26, weighing 9lb 10oz. Check out the Solace Farm blog, store, and photo galleries at www.solacefarmhomestead.com .
We have lots of other delicious summer vegetables available: bush beans, beets, carrots, cucumbers, eggplant, garlic, arugula, kohlrabi, lettuce, onions, bell, jalapeno, and banana peppers, red potatoes, yellow squash, Swiss chard, several types of tomatoes, and zucchini. Also you will find a great selection of fresh-cut herbs to help to bring out the flavor of those vegetables and your other summer cooking.
Please notice that some vegetables are now available in larger size packages: cucumbers, red potatoes, assorted heirloom tomatoes, bell peppers, and a box of #2 canning tomatoes.
Remember that we also have delicious pork and beef cuts, rich creamline milk, organic free-range chicken and duck eggs, jams and jellies, live plants for your perennial border, porch, or patio. Please take note of our great selection of hand crafted farm products, candles, essential oils, and bath & beauty products. Stop by Square Books soon and see our market table, with lots of non-perishable farm products for sale. Pick up some jam or jelly, hand lotion or soap, herbal tea, a candle, or a basket of herb plants to enjoy or to give as a gift.
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(L to R) Beans “Malibu” from White City Produce & Greenhouses, Garlic ‘Homestead’ from Frontier Family Farm, Open Range Chicken Eggs from Wayne Diller, Taller Red Carnation from Dogwood Valley Greenhouse, Freshcut Lemon Balm from Triple B Farms.
IMPORTANT ORDERING AND PICKUP INFORMATION
Ordering will be open until TUESDAY at 10 p.m., and your order will be available for pickup on THURSDAY between 4:00 and 5:30 at Square Books, 113 East Main Street, Manchester. We can also hold your order in the refrigerator till Friday, if it’s more convenient for you to pick it up between 10:00 am and 2:00 pm. If you prefer to utilize this free service, please make a note on your order or call my cell at (931) 273-9708. If neither of those pickup times works for you, please make a note on the order, and we will work out an alternative arrangement.
Thanks so much for your support of Manchester Locally Grown Market, and your friends and neighbors who have grown and produced these items. Please encourage our local farmers by helping to spread the word about our wonderful market to everyone you know. We offer a great variety of local farm products, and our items will be in your hands in time to plan for the weekend. Wonderful local products are available for ordering from the comfort of your own computer.
More new farmers are considering joining our market, if they can expect enough sales to help pay their transportation costs. Please help us grow the market by sharing this e-mail with your friends and inviting them to give us a try. And if you haven’t ordered from Manchester Locally Grown for a while, please check out our wide variety of offerings this week. Also please let us know if we can improve our selection or scheduling in any way to better suit your needs.
Blessings,
Linda
Athens Locally Grown: ALG Market Open for August 4
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 been a week of exploring other local food systems in our region for me, and I’ve really enjoyed it. I got to go up to Clayton, GA on Friday for the beginning of their yearly Garlic Festival, and it was great to see the resurgence that community has undergone recently. They were recently proclaimed the “Farm to Table Capital of Georgia” by an act of legislature, and it was clear to see how they made a strong case for themselves. Their town center is small, but it was lined with eateries and storefronts advertising their locally grown foods. After helping judge the garlic pie contest (they were all pretty great, by the way) I had a perfect bowl of mixed veggie gazpacho at Fortify, run by long-time champion of the North Georgia farmer Chef Jamie Allred. Next time you’re up that way, rest assured you’ll have no shortage of food options up there.
And today I went to the Sunday farmers market in Chattanooga, and was blown away by how huge that has gotten in recent years. It’s been a decade or so since I’ve been by the markets there, and the market I attended today was the largest farmers market I’ve been to in the south, hands down. There were well over a hundred vendors, a dozen or more food trucks, and even a cocktail bar. I spent several hours just walking around looking at everything, and I’m not sure I saw everything there was to see.
Athens Locally Grown is finishing up or 15th year in operation, and it astonishing the changes that have happened in our local food systems since 2002. It’s great to see that it’s not just Athens, too, but our entire region that has been lifted up. Here’s to that trend continuing!
Thanks 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 West Broad Farmers Market from the Athens Land Trust is open Saturday mornings and Wednesdays from 11am-2pm in the atrium at St. Mary’s Hospital. They have a website too. The Comer Farmers’ Market is open for the season on Saturday mornings from 9am to noon. Check www.facebook.com/comerfm for more information. The Oconee County Farmers Market is open on Saturdays in Watkinsville. Their website is www.oconeefarmersmarket.org. Washington, GA also has a lovely little Saturday market, running from 9-1. 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!
DeForest, WI: Availability for the week of July 31
This week there should be more varieties of tomatoes. Add the tomatoes to your comments in your order and then you can pick out yours at the time of pick up. Or you can order them in 3 or 5 lb quantities of the farmers choice that will need to be used soon.
Farmer Rich says his sweet corn is just right, and the raccoons agree!! Remember that the Farm Stand CSA punch cards do not work for sweet corn, you need to pay with cash or check.
As was the case this past week, there is a good chance that the farmers will find more veggies that are ready to go home.
Since the market was closed one Friday in July, we will honor the cards that are good until the end of July 2016 this coming Friday, August 5.