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.
Cook Farm: Cook Farm NEW PICK-UP DAY!
Hi From the farm,
Please Notice we have a new order deadline and pick-up day. Order deadline is Tuesday 9 a.m. with a pick-up day Wednesdays 5-7 p.m.
Thank you for your patience as we work through what works best:)
Susan Cook
Princeton Farm Fresh: The Market is Open
Today is the last day to file your taxes! I know you are asking, “What does that have to do with local food”? Well in reality not much, but for this farmer, it means that I am almost done with my off farm job and I can go back to full time farming.
In all honesty I probably should not have worked this year, but the financial demands of farming are weighing heavy on me. This is my dream, and my kiddos and husband and have been willing participants in this dream. But, there are days, when farming is hard. The days when an animal dies, or a crop is destroyed that the uncertainty of farming becomes a reality. When I took this job in October of last year, I was feeling just that – uncertainty. Can I really do this and make a profit? Even more importantly- can I do this alone, as my kiddos get older and are heading out for their own lives?
Oh yea of little faith – keeps running through my head. I guess I lost that faith momentarily. It is hard farming! It is a challenge EACH and EVERY day. It is what I love about it, something new and vibrant everyday. I guess it took being off the farm for me to realize that I have to stay the course, have faith and believe in myself and the dream.
I have five more days of tax duty and then I will be back full time. I miss seeing ya’ll at the farmers market.
See you soon,
Angela
Conyers Locally Grown: Available for Friday April 22
Hello. I hope this finds you all doing well. The market is open and ready for orders. We have lots of wonderful spring veggies available. We also have great selections of pork, water buffalo , Alpaca and salmon. There are also some wonderful handcrafted beauty products available. Order up and we will see Friday between 5:00 and 7:00 at Copy Central. Thank you so much for all your support. We appreciate each and every order.
Thanks again,
Brady
Athens Locally Grown: ALG Market Open for April 21
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
I’ve gone through all my notes, and don’t really have anything to include for this week’s email. I can’t even complain about the weather, and looking back through the history, that’s the bulk of what I write about during the spring. The days have been beautiful, and that’s keeping our growers as busy as the bees that are racing to find all the wildflowers. So, with nothing more to say, I’ll just let you get right on to ordering from this week’s bounty.
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 opens this coming Saturday. You can find more information on their website. 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 The other area markets are also all closed for the season, I believe. If you know of any 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!
Central Arkansas : Friendly Reminder
Just want to remind everyone that you only have a short time left to place those orders for this week!! Make sure to get them in before 10:00 o’clock!!
Let’s show our new farm some love!! They have some great veggies as well as homemade goods.
Eat Local Eat Fresh
-CAM Market Mama
Champaign, OH: The Circle Game
Yesterday a child came out to wonder…
Caught a dragonfly inside a jar…
Fearful when the sky was full of thunder
And tearful at the falling of a star…
And the seasons they go round and round…
And the painted ponies go up and down…
We’re captive on the carousel of time…
We can’t return we can only look behind
From where we came…
And go round and round and round…
In the circle game…
(Circle Game-Joni Mitchell)
The Circle Game…of life, of love, of rebirth, of the seasons…
Today was such an amazing day of sun, readiness for planting the new, anticipating what is ahead for all of us, the upcoming months of production, and the rejoicing in all that love brings.
Today, I took my convertible out for a drive. I do this, a lot, in the warm months. It clears my head, it lets me look at passing fields, passing people, passing houses, with an up close view. It lets me think, plan, regroup.
So, it was perfect when I stopped for a minute, and saw a loving text from one of our little local market of love vendors…
You know her as your soap girl, ELM Tree Essentials, Laura Miller…she was letting me know that she, her husband, and family welcomed their new baby, Hallie Jo, into their family!! Hallie Jo was born, yesterday, and weighed 7lb. 10oz! Everyone is doing well, and they are all over the moon in love with her!!
As our market family grows, we continue to welcome new additions, new little loves, new growth…
Congrats to Laura and family!
XOXO,
Cosmic Pam
Green Fork Farmers Market: Weekly product list
Dear Green Fork Farmers Market Customers:
Our pickup hours this week will be changed to 4-6 pm due to the Slow Food dinner that starts at 6:00 pm in the Garden Room adjacent to the market. For tickets, please call 479-799-7985. Local food, local music, and support for the Local Food Guide. Get your tickets while they last! http://www.ozarkslowfood.org/
Bee Well Gardens has new plants available this week. It’s time to plant, so don’t miss out!
Vegetables— Arugula, spinach, swiss chard, kale, beet greens, red mustard greens, green onions, lettuce, pac choi, and radishes.
Herbs—Cilantro and mixed herb bunches.
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.
Plants—herbal, medicinal, and pollinator plants ready to plant in your garden.
Place your order from now until Tuesday at noon for pickup 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!
Paris Arkansas Farmers Market: Special Market incentive this week!
Hello PAFM family….
Just a friendly reminder to get those orders in today before 10pm!!
We have so many great items from meat to jelly, bread to art! Come on by, go local and support your neighborhood farmers, artists, makers and bakers!
And don’t forget….if you order with us this week, you’ll get a free locally grown item with your order!!
www.parisarkansas.locallygrown.net
Berea Gardens: Market,Market for April 20
Hi Friends,
The title refers to the fact that the official 2016 opening of the Calhoun County Farmer’s Market happens this Wednesday! We will be at the Upper West Fork Park from 9 AM to 1 PM, so come and see us all if you can. All of the vendors are gearing up for another great season and Loretta will again be serving a great list of options for breakfast and lunch. It looks like we will have a couple of new vendors this year and that is always good so we can bring you more variety. We have a bushel of ramps that we will be taking to the market and whatever we don’t sell will be available to our online customers, so if you want some we will be happy to provide them to you when you pick up your orders Wednesday afternoon.
Our grain mill is back together so we will be accepting bread orders this week.
Our online market will remain open throughout the season for those of you that can’t make it to the park.
Blessings,
Bob, Lynnita and Jordyn
Stones River Market: Bare Root Strawberry plants just added!
Mackberry farms has added sets of ORGANIC bare root strawberry plants- 25 for $5!!
Incredible deal and way to add more berry plants for next year’s harvest!
Thank you!
Tracey