Champaign, OH:  Your Song

I sat on the roof and kicked off the moss…

Well a few of the verses well they’ve got me quite cross…
But the sun’s been quite kind…
While I wrote this song…
It’s for people like you that
Keep it turned on…
(Your Song- Elton John)

It’s one of those January Sunday mornings that greets us with wind, snow, cold. While many people find this scene quite comforting, all curled up with coffee or tea, watching the snow, reading, doing whatever they do during these kind of days, I am all restless, crazy, and immediately in need of warm sunshine, warm breezes, and outside activity with markets, festivals, events.

This is the month when people don’t want to be out, in town, either. They don’t want to venture out to the shops, or to walk the lovely sidewalks to shop in the lovely shops. The Cosmic Breads and Threads Shop, included.

So, on these winter days, I spend time planning, organizing, baking, dreaming, and scheming all new things for the upcoming season.

But, I also am able to just concentrate on this little local market of love. The goodness of it, the map of where we are going, the pride in the market, the vendors, the customers, the YMCA, and the community that supports us. It’s like this is our song, and our gift to the community. The gift of keeping it all real, all local, and bringing you the best of the best, each and every week!

Friday evening, I was able to break away, for wine and dinner, with a good friend, at a local place. It was a night of heartfelt chats, good wine, and just much needed girl chat time. This song was in the background, at one point, and for some reason, I have been singing it over and over. I kept wondering why it’s been stuck in my head.

At first, I thought it was because I’ve always found it so beautiful. Then, I thought it was because it was one of my very first pieces of vinyl that I ever owned, and still have in my possession. Then, it hit me…Your Song…it speaks to all of us, about different things, in each of our lives.

As I said, this market is our local song. Our song that we sing, weekly, and with much pride. We all bring our own song to this market. The products, the vendors, the customers, the Y…we all bring a variety of verses to make up the entire song.

And, we thank you, each and every day, for helping us to keep it turned on…

It’s a perfect day to sit and make your list, and get your orders in for this week’s market. Such an easy way to do your shopping, keep it real, keep it affordable, keep it local, and to create your own blend of orders to sing your own song…

And, you can tell everybody, this is your song…

Peace, Love, Good Vibes…
Cosmic Pam

Stones River Market:  Time to Order Local Food - A New Vendor Joins This Week

Market News

Welcome back to another week of local products as well as probably the coldest week of winter yet. Due to the cold weather, Rocky Glade Farm is taking a break this week but there are still plenty of vegetables from Frontier Family Farm. Watch for Erdmann Farm, Ferris Family Farm and Flying S Farms to update their inventory.

We have a new vendor joining us this week. It is Nom Noms Dog Treats. Sandy comes to us from Nashville with gluten free wheat free deliciously nutritious dog treats.

Flying S Farms has updated her frozen soup listing with a vegan tomato basil. Partner that with the Artisan bread from Double Star Bar Farms and you have a delicious winter meal. The cheese dips or pastas from Alfresco Pasta would also be a nice accompaniment with the bread.

If you like making your own soups, then look to see what Farrar Farm, Wedge Oak Farm and West Wind Farms has to offer.

There are plenty of other products available this week. Browse the categories to see what your will find.

Thanks so much for your support of Stones River Market, all of our growers, local food, and our rights to eat it. We’ll see you on Wednesday at Southern Stained Glass at 310 West Main Street from 5:00 to 6: 30 pm!

Recipes

Please, share your recipes with us on the Recipes tab. We’d all love to know how you use your Stones River Market products, so we can try it too!

I am taking a break from recipes. Look for them to return soon.

CLG:  Opening Bell: Jelly, Lettuce, Apples, Purple Hull Peas!

Good afternoon!
Does your honey ever get crystallized in the jar? If it does, you can easily get it back to normal by sitting the jar in a hot water bath for about 10 minutes. Honey is naturally antibiotic and antiviral. The only way that natural air-born yeasts can become active is for water to be added to honey. As long as the moisture content remains under 18% nothing will grow in honey. Natural, raw, honey varies from 14% to 18% moisture content. Raw honey also contains enzymes that help in its digestion. Honey was found in one of the Egyptian pyramids, estimated at several thousand years old, and it was still good! Awesome bees!!! See you on Friday!

Come early on Friday for the best selection from the EXTRAS table. And save your eggshells throughout the week for the laying hens! :-)

The market is now OPEN for orders. Please check your email about 5 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

ONLINE PAYMENT OPTION. When you are done shopping, just hit the “proceed to checkout” button in your cart. You will then see the option to “Pay Now” with credit card near the bottom. Just follow the prompts to add your card. Be sure to read the screen until you see “Thank you for your order” on the top. If you need help, please call 339-7958. A 3% online payment convenience fee will be added when your card is charged.

How to contact us:

DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL. Instead…

Phone or text: Steve – 501-339-1039

Email: Steve – kirp1968@sbcglobal.net

Our Website: www.conway.locallygrown.net

On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Conway-Locally-Grown/146991555352846

Tullahoma Locally Grown:  Your Market is Open

Good Morning.

Your Tullahoma Locally Grown Market is open. There are great selections from our growers including beef, chicken, pork, eggs, milk, candles, organic coffee, sprouts, and so much more. Please feel free to browse the online market. Be sure to 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!

Hello, folks!

The market is open this morning as usual, and will remain open for your orders till Tuesday evening at 10 pm. See the section of this message entitled “Important Ordering and Pickup Information.”

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NEWS AND NOTES

Delicious Nutritious Bread will be on vacation for a couple of weeks, but will bring her fabulous bread back to us soon.

This is the place to find wonderful winter vegetables, all locally grown and harvested just for you. Check out the market listing for additional details.

But our farmers’ market is not just about vegetables. Please take note of some of the seasonal items available this week: Live Water Kefir Grains and Square Bale Grass Hay from Triple B Farms; Ground Beef from Paccman Ranch; several flavors of grape jelly from Weaver Farms; and strawberry jam from Sand Dragon Farm.

We also have lots of our regular year-round items: perennial, herb, and fern plants, as well as a good selection of houseplants; local milk, eggs, and honey; lots of different pork cuts; several dried herbs and fresh, as well as lots of homemade herbal products too.

Stop by Square Books soon and see our MLG Table, with lots of non-perishable farm products for sale. Pick up some honey, jam or jelly, hand lotion, or a basket of herb plants to enjoy this winter.

(L to R) Creamline milk in two size containers from Casey Family Farm, Spinach from Frontier Family Farms, Water Kefir Grains from Triple B Farms, Lotion Bars in various shapes and scents from Solace Farm, and Aloe Vera Plant from Dogwood Valley Greenhouse.

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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 9:00 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.

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. Although the Saturday markets are closed for the season, 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, calling their attention to the later pickup hours, which may be more convenient for them. 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

Here is the complete list for this week.

Siloam Springs, AR:  Online Market is Open!

ALFN Local Food Club:  The Market Is Open

Sheesh, wasn’t it 75 degrees a couple of days ago? Maybe I really will need to get out my winter clothes this year:) Welcome to another week of food. The ALFN market is open for ordering!

News & Updates

• We had an great market on Saturday. Thanks to our awesome coordinator and volunteers who pulled off a feat. The internet wasn’t working on Saturday, yet the team was able to pull through with few hiccups! Well done! I’m reminded of how integral ALFN members are to our weekly markets. I was also reminded of the importance of food infrstructure. This weekend, planned food convoys to Madaya, a city under siege in Syria was delayed until Monday after reports of death by starvation have been growing. It is hard to fully conceptualize the importance of food systems and infrastructure until they breakdown. Yet, how unique is it to take part in a locally governed and managed food distribution system? To take part in a democratic, horizontal system of local food is refreshing and empowering.

• On January 30th, we will have our first Community Market Day. Are any of you interested in sharing a skill, recipe or talent? Do you have a friend you would like to coerce? Shoot me an email!

Waste

I went off on plastic last week, so I thought I would stick with the theme for a bit. Afterall, January is about cutting back the excess anyway, right?

I know many of you compost your kitchen scraps. In our home, we feed them to our chickens and worms. I’ve had a growing fascination with microbes that do all the dirty work AND the microbial waste they emit as they compost our trash. Afterall, it is microbial waste and flatulence that gives us fizzy drinks and alcohol. In Mozambique, I was always looking into systems that tried to capture the gas from decomposing waste for cooking fuel. From cow manure digesters, to food digesters surround by composting wood mulch, scientists have found ways to use the excess gas for cooking and powering cars. A couple of entrepreneurs have set up a pretty slick system for families. Evidently, the Biogas system will provide 1-3 hours of cooking gas from residential kitchen scraps. Check out their video here: HomeBiogas. Alas, Christmas is far away from now:)

In a book entitled, Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things the authors argue our economic system, sparked by the Industrial revolution is a linear system that drives from extraction to waste disposal. The authors, McDonough and Braungart, suggest that Industrial Revolution birthed a system that:

• puts billions of pounds of toxic material into the air, water, and soil every year

• produces some materials so dangerous they will require constant vigilance by future generations

• results in gigantic amounts of waste

• puts valuable materials in holes all over the planet, where they can never be retrieved

• requires thousands of complex regulations—not to keep people and natural systems safe, but rather to keep them from being poisoned too quickly

• measures productivity by how few people are working

• creates prosperity by digging up or cutting down natural resources and then burying or burning them

• erodes the diversity of species and cultural practices. (pg 18)

From this bleak systemic reality, the authors argue for restructuring an economic model that loops back on itself. Waste returns to the beginning point as raw material. Thinking in circles may be poor thinking for a logician, but it is ecological thinking for environmental scientists, and it should be the way new economists and engineers think. As eaters, it doesn’t take much to see the loops in our own household economies. From food to waste to soil, there are numerous pathways to put energy back into the system instead of flushing it down.

Have a regenerative week!

Kyle Holton
Program & Market Manager

Bedford County:  Check out this week's offerings!

The Market Is Open!

Greetings! Hope you are all enjoyed the wornderful warmer weather!

Rocky Glade Farm and Erdmann Farm have delicious greens listed and are incredible in winter soups!

Botanical Harmony Farm has what winter skin craves: pure, nourishing soaps and moisturizing butters to protect your skin! Check out the petroleum-free vapor product called BREATHE to aid in sinus issues and congestion! It is a must have for these stuffy nose days.

We have lots to choose from this week, all from the comfort of your home and a quick pick-up on Thursday evening!

See you soon!

Important Market Information

Customers have from Saturday 5pm until Tuesday at 9pm to place orders. The market will be closed Tuesday evening.

On Thursday’s from 4:45pm – 6:00pm customers can pick up their orders at 865 Union St Shelbyville, TN 37160 (opposite Piggly Wiggly). This is where customers are to pay for their orders in check or cash.

If you have any problems or any questions please do not hesitate to ask (our contact info is above)

Recipes

Please, share your recipes with us on the website, on the Recipes tab. We’d all love to know how you use your Bedford County Locally Grown products, so we can try it too!

United States Virgin Islands:  This Week in VI Locally Grown

Greetings everyone!
Please place your orders for the market before Tuesday at 6pm. We’re looking forward to seeing you Wed. Thanks so much for supporting local growers and producers.
One Love :)

Spa City Local Farm Market Co-op:  News from ANP/ Spa City Co-op

Arkansas Natural Produce will need to close out their orders for Spa City Co-op on Monday nights in future markets, so you’ll need to place orders for their products between Saturdays at 9 am when the market opens and Monday nights at 9 pm.

This will be the schedule for ANP until further notice. The other vendors will remain available until the full market closes at 9 pm on Tuesdays.

Thanks for your support and understanding.