Dawson Local Harvest:  Give Your Pooch a Treat!

The DAWSON LOCAL HARVEST for February 12th

Give Your Pooch a Treat (and here’s one for you as well).

HI EVERYBODY, and incidentally it’s not the same treat! Both are from FIVE HENS FARMS. For your pooch they have Dog Bones beloved by canines everywhere. For you and the carnivores of the house their excellently seasoned Bratwurst is back and delicious as ever.

VALENTINE’S DAY is next Sunday, and if you’re looking for something different check out HANALEI BATH in the Bath & Beauty section. Two excellent choices are any of their Bath Salts and their Essential Oils, both nicely-priced so you could give 2 or 3 different products for the wife, and you cam also just give one to the babysitter, kid’s ride, and so on.

I also wanted to remind those of you out there who are trying to eat “good” that MY DAILY BREAD has a wonderful selection of ORGANIC Breads (and Cookies, Muffins, and Dessert Breads). They are committed to the natural lifestyle and I really like what they do and recommend you give them another look.

THE MARKET IS NOW OPEN!

REMEMBER! You can order until Tuesday night at 8pm. 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

StPete.LocallyGrown.Net:  Market NOW Open - Feb. 8, 2016

Message from Your Market Manager

Honey from Rebecca!
If you have yet to try honey from Rebecca’s Bees here is your chance. We’ve just been commissioned to sell 24 jars of this heavenly gold liquid. It’s flavor is exceptional and it’s supply is limited. Get it while you can. You can find her at Saturday Morning Market should you miss it here.

Broccoli, mushrooms, and potatoes on the Market this week. Ruby pink Florida grapefruit too!

Update on beef and pork
If you have not yet PRE-ORDERED, please read about PRE-ORDERS on our Q&A page, before you place an order.

• If you have PRE-ORDERED pork, you will receive it on Friday with whatever else you order this week. I did purchase a few extra roasts (Boston butt & a shoulder roast) that are now on hand, first come, first served. Future Pork PRE-ORDERS are now closed. Please note that Low Hills Cattle Company changed its name to Tenaya Farms as of the New Year. The pork packaging reflects this change; however, since this is our final purchase from them, I am not changing their Grower page. I will be sharing their connection info with all of you in the near future.
• Final Beef PRE-ORDERS are being taken for the next two Markets, including this week. I will deliver all beef orders the week of March 7th.

Fabulous Fall Veggies At Last

• This article contends that “the best vegetable for health, nutrition, detox, and glowing skin is the dandelion green. The biggest benefit of this overlooked leafy green is that it cleans the liver.” Makes me want to start making smoothies again! Check out How Dandelion Greens will Illuminate Your Skin.
• I learned something about growing fennel today! “After the bulb grows to about 2 inches in length, cover it with soil or mulch, which will make it tender.” This Guide to Fennel explains how to grow AND eat it.
• With the return of honey from Rebecca’s Bees it’s perfect timing on sharing the “treasure chest of hidden nutritional and medicinal value”… from Liquid Gold: 7 Health Benefits Of Honey That Could Heal Your Whole Body
  

SPLG’S FRUIT BASKET
Starfruit aka carambolas & papayas (ripe & green!) locally grown in St. Pete, plus a variety of dried fruits (cranberries, banana chips, and mango). Non-local: Ruby Pink Grapefruit from South Florida & Braeburn apples from Washington State.

ECONOMY SIZED PACKAGING
FRESH picked greens in abundance this week: Broccoli greens, Lacinato kale, collard greens, Swiss chard, turmeric, bok choy, and arugula.

ON SALE THIS WEEK
Earthworm castings, coffee, smoked Alaskan Sockeye Salmon, chorizo sausage, honey, and turmeric.

KITCHEN GARDEN INTERNATIONAL
This 2009 article from KGI is even more timely with rising vegetable pricing in the stores in 2016. You might be shocked at how much savings there are when you grow your own veggies. Not to mention the health benefits of the sweat equity. Check this out! “What’s a Home Garden Worth?”

MARKET MEMBERSHIP FEE is now $20 if paid this month
If you have never ordered from us, you should know that the membership fee doesn’t get charged until your SECOND order. Our Market Season, formerly June 30th, NOW ends on March 31st instead. That’s $10 per month.

Upcoming Events

All these and more are posted on our Calendar of Events

WORKSHOPS & EVENTS

• *"Monthly Potluck Social" for February 27th is scheduled and I am thrilled that we are starting to cycle our potluck locations. Evites have gone out! Hope to see you at Rita’s. Please do RSVP?

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!

The Wednesday Market:  Don't Forget to Place Your Order Before You Watch the Superbowl

Good afternoon.

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

The boys and I are gearing up for the big game this evening. They want cocktail smokies and spinach and artichoke dip with tortilla chips for snacking. I’m not that excited about the game (we’re a soccer family!), but I enjoy watching the commercials. When I was studying marketing in business school, one of our class assignments was to watch the Superbowl ads. Then we debated the effectiveness of the ads’ placements. That was probably one of the most entertaining homework assignments I ever completed.

Isn’t the weather gorgeous today? I hope everyone has the opportunity to get out and enjoy it. Forecasters are predicting possible wintry mix for the Atlanta Metro in a couple of days. So, enjoy the sun while you can!

Thank you for supporting locally grown agriculture and for choosing to purchase locally. We’ll see you Wednesday.

Thanks,

Beverly

Russellville Community Market:  RCM Opening Bell

Hey everyone, and welcome to a new market week!

Be sure to check out the newly listed items this week! Lots of great, local products to be had!

Happy shopping! Eat Local!

Check out the “Featured Items” section as well as the “What’s New” section at the top of the market page for all the latest products available.

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.

Siloam Springs, AR:  Online Market is Open!

McColloms Market:  February FFFN Order Open

Hi All:

Happy Carnival. With all of the festivities, I suspect that most of you missed the fact that the February order is now open until tomorrow (Monday) at 5.

See you soon.

Melinda
(518) 354-0202

Suwanee Whole Life Co-op:  Reminder: Place your order before 6pm today!

Just a friendly reminder that market orders are due online today by 6 pm.

Please remember that we need to hit certain minimums in order for our farmers and vendors to deliver to us.

Thank you for placing your order and supporting local farms and businesses!

See you on Tuesday!

Click Here to Place Your Order

Duette, FL:  What is available this week.

Please have a look at all the lovely vegetables available this week.

Thank you
David and Betty
Duette Locally Grown

ALFN Local Food Club:  The Market Is Open

ALFN Members,

The market is open on another beautiful morning. Groundhog day arrived with our furry rodent having a press conference and declaring he hadn’t seen his shadow. However, in a peculiar variation from the norm, Mr. Hedgehog admitted he had realized Spring would come early because Winter never really came. A critic raised the recent snow, but Mr. Hedgehog shrugged and paraphrasing Mark Twain argued, “When a wood chuck is accustomed to 78 in January, his ideas about cold weather are not valuable.” Mr. Hedgehog’s press conference sent off a firestorm of political debate, but climatologist remained firmly footed with the venerable rodent.

Updates/Reflection

Recently, a friend loaned a good read to me: Eating on the Wild Side by Jo Robinson. The author claims many of our fruits and veggies found in the supermarket have been neutered of original nutrients. Our penchant for the sweet and efficient has selected, over time, for less nutritious food. However, Robinson is a pragmatist and provides suggestions for finding the most nutritious strains of fruits and vegetables. Here are a couple of helpful suggestions with a few weird facts thrown into the list:

• The original kernels of corn from Mexico were 30% protein and 2% sugar. Modern sweet corn varieties are 40% sugar and 4% protein.

• All modern sweet corn comes from mutated kernels that were subjected to a nuclear bomb test in the Marshall Islands.

• The most nutritious greens are red, purple, and dark green. Spinach, endive, arugula and radicchio are the top performers…dandelions still hold the throne. These colors signify the presence of “botanical sunscreen” that blocks some harmful UV rays on the leaves. These antioxidants can have analogous effects in our own bodies.

• Tearing your lettuce or romaine into bit size pieces and storing for one day, increases the antioxidant levels in the greens. Pin prick ziploc bags that store your lettuce, but keep the bag sealed. This will allow the lettuce to breath as it lets off carbon dioxide and takes oxygen keeping the lettuce fresher for longer.

• Press or chop your garlic and allow it to sit for ten minutes before cooking with it. Chopping garlic and allowing it to sit for ten minutes sets off a natural chain reaction to create allicin (one of the most active and medicinal compounds in garlic). If garlic is thrown on the heat immediately, the heat-sensitive enzyme for building allicin is destroyed.

• Salad dressing with a fat such as olive oil helps your digestion extract more nutrients from salad.

• Red and yellow onions have the most phytonutrients. The outer layer of these onions is chalked full of these nutrients and can be captured if they are thrown into soups or stocks.

The book is full of fun suggestions for surviving and eating well. There are surprising facts about some canned foods and nutrient loss based on freshness. Nevertheless, the author confirms cutting out the supermarket network and eating local food has many nutritious benefits.

Cheers,

Kyle Holton
Program & Market Manager

CLG:  Opening Bell: Apples, Spinach, Jellies, Beets!

Good afternoon!
Two important things to note:
First,longtime CLG member, Amanda Potter Cole, has recently been published in the Log Cabin newspaper for her food column. Here’s a link: http://thecabin.net/news/2016-01-27/chewonit-be-beet#.VrdvotBA7BZ

Second, Faulkner County Library and the Urban Farm Project are hosting this year’s Faulkner County Seed Swap on Sunday, February 14 from 1:00 until 4:00pm. Bring seeds to trade or small envelopes to donate to the seed library or to collect seeds. This event is free and open to the public and fun for all ages.

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:

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