Siloam Springs, AR:  Online Market is Open!

United States Virgin Islands:  This week in VI Locally Grown

Hi Everyone!

Market is open for orders! See you Wed!

Thanks,

Your VI Locally Grown Growers

ALFN Local Food Club:  The Market Is Open

ALFN Members,

Welcome to another weekly rotation on ALFN’s market. Despite the 70 degree weather, we are still in deep winter. Nevertheless, our market is full of fresh produce.

Updates/News:

1. We had a wonderful Community Market Day with Tammy Sue’s Critters yesterday. I know many of our members walked away with a little something extra from Tammy. Beyond simply a “show-and-tell” opportunity, it was a chance to make a connection with an individual in our local economy. Whether it is body butter or purple-top turnips, our consumption of products puts us in relationship with a larger economic body. By making those connections personal, we humanize our economy. Furthermore, we transform mechanical consumption into thoughtful consumption.

Thank you Tammy for taking the time to hang with us on Saturday!

We will have another Community Market Day at the end of February. If you know an interested musician, or have a mini-workshop idea, please let me know!

2. There are two evening classes at Pulaski Tech that many of you may find interesting. This Thursday, there will be a Kombucha class offered for $20. You have to sign up my Monday night. Here is the link: Kombucha. There will also be a class on February 11th covering sauerkraut. You may also find this post on Kombucha to be interesting. The author is the instructor.

Small Random Acts of Slowness

Every morning, I grind my coffee with a hand crank grinder. I spoon the beans into a small opening, close the lid, place the grinder between my legs and begin to churn. The churning usually causes me to look up into thin air. Depending on my state of mind, I either stare blankly into my kitchen, or…ah, let’s be honest, I typically just stare into space. Grinding my coffee isn’t a daily chance to sit under the Bodhi tree. But, I have resisted a mechanical grinder for years now. My father once asked why I refused to move to a more efficient way of prepping the morning brew. I could have argued that cheapy electric grinders can burn the beans, these same grinders can’t adjust the grit size, but I didn’t find those reasons too compelling. In the end, I only had the past as the reason for my present behavior. In Mozambique, we grew some of our own coffee and purchased some of our coffee from an ancient Portuguese man who only grew _Robusta _bean. Coffee beans were precious, but not artisanal. We lived off solar panels. Consequently, our use of electricity was always intentional. So, I always hand-cranked my beans. I’m swimming in electricity now, but I persist to grind those beans with arm power.

I think my persistence has more to do with my own stubbornness, than philosophical or environmental reasons. In fact, there are days where I don’t want to grind my beans. I’m in a hurry or just want to press a button. But I’m afraid of the electric coffee grinder. It’s purr threatens to lull me into less-remembered life. The hand grinder jolts me awake AND rejoins disparate threads of my life. It slows me down and it helps me remember. Culinary traditions work in similar directions. Kitchen smells are incense; culinary practices are liturgical movements that bind our past into the present. As direct connections to memory, slowing down and doing things with less efficiency often provide mental space for deeper living. Whether it is the way momma did it, or whether it reconnects us to people and memories, the artifacts of our edible life offer a way to humanize a mechanized world.

Manifestos can be precocious, but read this Slow Food Manifesto as poetry.

Our century, which began and has developed under the insignia of industrial civilization, first invented the machine and then took it as its life model.

We are enslaved by speed and have all succumbed to the same insidious virus: Fast Life, which disrupts our habits, pervades the privacy of our homes and forces us to eat Fast Foods.

To be worthy of the name, Homo Sapiens should rid himself of speed before it reduces him to a species in danger of extinction.

A firm defense of quiet material pleasure is the only way to oppose the universal folly of Fast Life.

Be well,

Kyle Holton
Program & Market Manager

CLG:  Opening Bell: Eggs, Frozen Fruit, Mushrooms, Sweet Potatoes!

Good afternoon!
We are back and fully stocked with over 500 items to support your healthy lifestyle. It’s amazing to see so much wonderful fresh produce in the middle of winter. Great job, Growers! Although it’s 70 degrees today, don’t start looking to put out tomato plants just yet. However, if you’re in the mood to plant something now, how about onions or garlic? Both need cold weather for proper development. 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

Our Website: www.conway.locallygrown.net

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

Stones River Market:  Many new things this week!

Market News

What a wonderful break in the weather this weekend! We hope you all were able to soak up some sunshine to maintain healthy body and mind!

The market has many options to also keep your body healthy:

We welcome Casey Family Farm, Lois and Dennis Casey raise a small herd of Jersey and Guernsey cows in Viola, TN and offer us a pasteurized but never homogenized milk under the dairy section. They do not use hormones, other production stimulants or chemical treatments unless absolutely necessary. You can read more about the Casey Family here

Frontier Family Farms continues to provide us with incredible tender greens.

Chef Jenny with Seeds of Success has added a Vegan, gluten free Corn Chowder with Quinoa in a 16 ounce container. She has also added a “Chick Patty” from, of course, chickpeas! Paired with nearly any of Double Star Bar Farms or Flying S savory bread options, this makes a wonderful meal for the rain and cooler night temps headed our way.

Read more of Chef Jenny’s success story here

Flying S has also added Oatmeal Cranberry cookies and Magic Bars! Check those out for a great snack or desert.

Lots of meat, eggs, milk and more are available for your weekly grocery needs! Your input and feedback is always welcome as this is OUR community market. Tell us what you want! Our farmers/makers rely on you for our livelihood so we want to hear what you are in need or search of! Thanks!

Thank you also to everyone for the lovely welcome and to John for the years of work he has put into this market to make it what it is today for you the customer and for the local growers/makers!

As a small showing of our gratitude, each order will receive a free sample-sized bar of *Botanical Harmony’s all-natural, organic goat milk soaps.

See you Wednesday,

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

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.

Peru Online Winter Farmers Market:  Peru Online Ordering is Open

Hope you are all well. The Peru Winter Farmers Market is now open for orders, through Tuesday evening. You can pick up your orders at Rehoboth Homestead at your convenience Friday afternoon through Monday. If you are not picking up Saturday, please use the comments box to tell us which day to put your order out for pickup.

Attached is a list of our offerings this week.

Thank you for supporting us with your business.

Plattsburgh Online Ordering:  Plattsburgh online ordering is open

Hope you are all well. The Plattsburgh Winter Farmers Market is now open for orders, through Tuesday evening. We will deliver your order to you Friday, at your workplace or home. You may leave a cooler at your home for your items if you wish (leave two if you are getting both frozen and non-frozen things). Attached is a list of our offerings this week.

Thank you for supporting us with your business.

Spa City Local Farm Market Co-op:  Mountain Meadows products will not be available this market

Hi all,
Mountain Meadows will not be able to deliver this market for a fun for them reason. If you have already placed an order it will be automatically removed and your total readjusted. If paying by check, please wait to fill in the amount at the market.
See you Friday!
Julie

Naples,FL:  Market closes tonight

Please get your orders in

Spa City Local Farm Market Co-op:  The market is now open for ordering

The market is open for ordering at this link.
http://spacity.locallygrown.net/market
Please place your orders before Tuesday at 9 pm, and plan to pick up your order on Friday between 3:30 and 5:30, before 5 pm if possible.

You’ll need to place orders for Arkansas Natural Produce by Monday night as they have an earlier closing period in order to harvest on time.

Please make every effort to pick up on Friday, or arrange for a friend to pick up for you. Set an alarm on your cell to remind you if necessary.

Julie Alexander
this week’s manager
dragonlaughter @ gmail.com
501 six five five 9411