Dawson Local Harvest:  NO (April) FOOLIN', This Soup is Delicious!

DAWSON LOCAL HARVEST for April 1st

NO (April) FOOLIN’ This Soup is Delicious!

HI EVERYONE!

I don’t usually do recipe thingies right at the top, but I (and several of our good customers) have a mutual love for Leek Soup, and I wanted to tell you about it. First of all what, you may ask, is a Leek? Well, it’s sorta like a Green Onion on steroids. Big, but milder. It imparts a wonderful base flavor to soups and here’s 2 ways to try it.

POTATO-LEEK SOUP from The Thug Kitchen cookbook (x-rated but funny): 3 med.-large potatoes, 6-8 Baby Leeks (LEILANI’S), an elephant garlic clove, 4 cups broth (chicken or vegetable), salt, pepper, and a little fresh Chives and Dill (plants at LEILANI’S). Put a little oil in a big pot, chop up the white parts of the Leeks and saute’ 3-4 minutes, add cubed potatoes and minced garlic and stir 2 minutes, add broth and salt, boil then simmer covered 15 minutes. Blend it all until creamy, add chives then salt & pepper to taste, and finally a little fresh Dill to taste. Yum.

MY FAVORITE VARIATION: Skip the potatoes (or not), do a whole bag of LEILANI’S Baby Leeks and 2 elephant garlic cloves, saute’, add 3 cups of broth, simmer uncovered for 30 minutes to reduce volume. Blend, put back in the pot and add a full pint of Heavy Whipping Cream! Add the chives, salt, pepper, a little dill, warm up a Sourdough Round from MY DAILY BREAD with plenty of butter, and make a spectacle of yourself (at least that’s what I do and I ain’t apologizin’!

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 7pm.

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

The Wednesday Market:  Trying Again - The Market is Open

Not meaning to interrupt your Easter celebrations, but I am just letting everyone know that the Wednesday Market is on now. I went through the same routine as I always do every Saturday night, and turned the Market on, but something didn’t “take”. Anyway, it’s on now.

Thanks,

Beverly

Siloam Springs, AR:  Online Market is Open!

Happy a Resurrection a Day!

Enjoy shopping this week and see you Saturday!

Russellville Community Market:  Opening Bell

Hi, this is Tatum Tompkins with the Russellville Community Market. Just a reminder that you purchased this week!tion as well as the “What’s New” section at the top of the market page for all the latest products available.qwqq

Be sure to “Like” our Facebook page for updates and food-related events in your community!

To ensure your order is placed, make sure you click the “Place My Order” button once you have completed your shopping. Remember, you have until 10:00pm Tuesday evening to place your orders.

Happy Shopping! See you on Thursday!

Russellville Community Market

FRESH.LOCAL.ONLINE.

The Wednesday Market:  Happy Easter from The Wednesday Market; Time to Order

Happy Easter to all!

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

Thank you for supporting locally grown agriculture and for choosing to purchase locally. Know your farmer, know your food!

Thanks,

Beverly

Champaign, OH:  White Rabbit

And if you go chasing rabbits, and you know you’re going to fall…
(White Rabbit-Jefferson Airplane)

Just a quick Weblog, this morning, little local market of love customers, to tell you to have a lovely, sunshine filled, daydreaming kind of Easter!

When you are finished with your celebrations, you can settle down with out market, and ease your way into the week, by placing your orders…

Just a quick word…with the early warm weather, several vendors are alerting me that it will be just a few short weeks, and they will be able to bring in a bit of early seasonal produce!! YEAH!!

We have had to say goodbye to Star Dancer Creamery, and we wish them well!!

In the coming couple of months, we should be able to offer you a new dairy source!!

So much to look forward to, so much market excitement!!

Have a lovely day, show some love, and then come back to us, with your weekly orders!!

Peace, Love, Good Vibes…
Cosmic Pam

CLG:  Opening Bell: Pork, Eggs, Spinach, Mushrooms!

Good afternoon!
It happened last June, and it’s happening again right now. Come early on Friday to pick up a jar of this item that has only been offered at CLG once before. It has Napa cabbage from Kellogg Valley Farm, cayenne peppers and garlic from Cedar Rock Ridge, and a few other special ingredients. Very limited supply!

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

Check out over 500 wonderful items listed right now. Have a great week!

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

Middle Tennessee Locally Grown:  Time to Order Local Farm Products!

Happy Blessed Easter Day!

The market is open this morning as usual, and will remain open for your orders till Tuesday evening at 10 pm, so come see what we have to offer this week. Also see the section of this message entitled “Important Ordering and Pickup Information.”

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NEWS AND NOTES

Check out the cool weather vegetable plants for your garden from White City Produce & Greenhouses. And don’t forget to sign up for their Spring CSA.

Dogwood Valley Greenhouse has added a few more perennial and herb plants. Their hanging baskets and houseplants would be nice on your porch or patio for the summer as well.

Remember to look for wonderful early spring vegetables, delicious pork, beef, and chicken cuts, fresh and dried herbs, rich creamline milk, organic free-range eggs, jams and jellies. Please take note of our great selection of hand crafted farm products, candles, essential oils, bath & beauty products, and house and garden plants.

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

(L to R) Rainbow Swiss Chard Plants and Scuppernong Cider from White City Produce & Greenhouses, Carnation and Dianthus Plants in several colors from Dogwood Valley Greenhouse, Mixed Lettuce from Frontier Family Farm.

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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.

ALFN Local Food Club:  Market Is Open

ALFN Members,

The “market” is open and busting with spring energy! As most of you know, the market will be open for orders from Sunday at noon until Wednesday at noon. Early orders can grab items that are high in demand or low in quantity. But don’t worry, every time I get on the market Wednesday morning, there is still an abundance of produce and high-quality items.

Upcoming Events

Make sure you mark your calendar for April 2nd. The Southern Center for Agroecology will be hosting a Spring Planting Festival with plant sales as well as speakers discussing seed saving, composting and planting for pollinators. The event will also host a seed exchange. The event will take place at Fletcher Library as well as on the premise of Little Rock Urban Farming down the road from Fletcher. For full details and schedule, go to their facebook event page or to the Southern Center for Agroecology Website.

Related to seed saving, I’m sure many of you are making preparations for a veggie garden this year. I’ve always enjoyed looking through seed catalogs. The variety, color and uniqueness of various breeds always entice my vision of what is possible and cultivate my curiosity. However, there is also a resilience in using saved seed as well. When we save our own seed, we winnow generality into local opportunity. ALFN takes pride in providing local food to local consumers. But can you imagine not only local food economies, but a local farming culture that grows local varieties specific to our own bioregion? When we save seed, we encourage breeds from catalogs to adapt to our own particularity whether it be humidity, heat and drought or specific local diseases. By selecting seed, our food base becomes more robust. I’m a fan of Carol Deppe, an author, gardener and promoter of saving seed. In one of her recent books, she provides the broader reasons for saving seed…in this case corn seed:

“Corn is at the core of modern agribusiness, the most important food crop in North America. In no other crop are the values of modern commercial agribusiness as thoroughly embedded. There is nothing we can do that is ultimately subversive – there is no act of gardening that is so profound a rebellion, there is no act of eating that is so potent a blow for food quality and food system sanity – as to take back the corn crop in our own backyards, and grow, breed, eat, and save seed of corn based upon an entirely different set of values.” (from The Resilient Gardener: Food Production and Self-Reliance in Uncertain Times)

Doesn’t Deppe make you want to put a bandanna on and get out in the garden? Plant away!

All the best,

Kyle Holton
Program & Market Manager

Stones River Market:  Weblog Entry

Market News

Beautiful morning to you all!

First, we want to say a huge thank you to L & L Contractors for providing us with the beautiful space to hold market pickup! PLEASE check out their website and support these local craftsfolk in kind turn for them supporting us!
http://www.landlcontractorsmurfreesboro.com/

Our market is amazing and has so many incredible offerings! More and more is listed each week and we thank all of you for your support! We, the growers/makers rely on you and appreciate you so very much!!

Since it is a holiday weekend, the Giveaway we want to hold will be next ordering cycle so be ready for that! Refer someone to the market and if they order (next week), that gains you another entry!

Alfresco Pasta has some items ON SALE!! Stock up on your favorites or try something new.
These items are on sale:
Braised Beef Ravioli
Butternut Squash Ravioli
Mozzarella Spinach Ravioli
Andouille/Crawfish Ravioli
Portabella Spinach Ravioli
Seafood-Shrimp Cannelloni
Sweet Potato Gnocchi
Tri-Color Cheese Filled Tortellini

Double Star Bar Farms lists the radishes and purple mustard greens, and new this week baby turnip greens!

Rocky Glade Farm has:
Starbor Kale
Collards
Kohlrabi
Concept Leaf Lettuce
Ruby Sky Leaf Lettuce
Swiss Chard
Green Romaine Lettuce
Spinach
and one of my favorite’s Clio Dandelion greens. Their listing states: The leaves are rich in potassium, antioxidants, and vitamins A and C. Dandelion greens can be eaten raw, steamed, boiled, sautéed or braised. All parts of the dandelion are edible and have medicinal and culinary uses. It has long been used as a liver tonic and diuretic. In addition, the roots contain inulin and levulin, starchlike substances that may help balance blood sugar, as well as bitter taraxacin, which stimulates digestion.

Dandelions are amazing plants and can even be dehydrated on very low heat for use as a nutritious seasoning. Stock up and try this!

We want to welcome Sweetpea to the site! Linda and family create lovely cloth napkins, a wonderful alternative to paper and for everyday use! She has crocheted items and a variety of plant starts that will be different from our other providers! Welcome Sweetpea to our market family!

We have a wonderful variety of delicious baked goods from Hope for Health Double Star Bar Farms, Flying S Farms,along with mid-day or lunch box snacks from Seeds of Success. Don’t forget your canine treats from Nom Noms

Have a beautiful day market family and we will see you Wednesday!

Ashleigh & Tracey
Market Managers
(931)952-1224
stonesrivermarket@gmail.com

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.