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.
Gwinnett Locally Grown: Weblog Entry
The market closes tomorrow at noon! Place your orders now! See you at Tuesday’s market and workshop afterwards!
Don’t forget to follow us on facebook and on instagram @gwinnettlocallygrown for discount codes and promotions!
Upcoming Workshops
These are the upcoming workshops hosted at Rancho Alegre Farm:
Cooking w/ Esssential Oils – Tuesday, October 20 at 7 PM – Cost: FREE Come learn how easy it is to add essential oils to your everyday meal plans! It’s safe, natural and a great way to add yummy flavor to your meal!
Choose Natural Solutions for Your Health! – Thursday, November 5 at 7 PM – Cost – FREE – Come and learn how essential oils can replace many items you have in your home naturally!
Essential Oils for Mood Management – Tuesday, November 10 @ 10am – Cost – FREE – Join us as we discuss how essential oils can help with feelings of stress or jut helping manage your mood!
Healthy Eating for a New You – Thursday, November 19 at 7 PM – 9 PM- Cost: $15 – Enjoy a delicious meal with Kelia Bortini and her husband. They will show you how he achieved a 90 pound weight loss that he has sustained for 3 years now. They turned to whole foods and a new way of eating.
Visit ranchoalegrefarm.com for more information and as always, contact me for any questions or for more information!
See you Tuesday,
Amanda
-Market Manager
CLG: Opening Bell: Turnips, Kale, Tomatoes, Hummus!
Good afternoon,
Thanks to all the folks who sampled kombucha on Friday, many for the first time! Save a bundle and make a week’s worth at home in only 10 minutes once a week.
It’s not too early to be thinking about your Thanksgiving meals next month. Winter squash will last months if stored cool and dry. Apples for desserts. Pecans for pies. And canned goods for gift-giving. These cool mornings may slow some vegetables, while signaling others to grow. And there’s some much needed rain in the forecast finally!
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
The Wednesday Market: We're Open!
Good afternoon on this crisp autumn day!
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. Check the website for this week’s product listings. Here is the link: https://wednesdaymarket.locallygrown.net/market
If you’re looking for something to do today, why not visit the Concord Jubilee? My family and I enjoyed our time there yesterday, and the weather could not have been more perfect.
Thank you to all of our customers for supporting locally grown agriculture and for choosing to purchase locally. And thank you to all of our farmers for growing such a bounty of wholesome foods. Know your farmer, know your food!
See you on Wednesday.
Beverly
Russellville Community Market: RCM Opening Bell
Welcome to another RCM 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!
FRESH.LOCAL.ONLINE.
Suwanee Whole Life Co-op: Reminder: Place your co-op order today!
Just a friendly reminder that the market closes today at 6 pm.
Bread orders for Great Harvest (Honey Whole Wheat, Organic Spelt and doughs) and milk from Cedar Rock Dairy look lower than normal. Please don’t forget to order if you need these items.
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!
Stones River Market: The Market is Back Open
Stones River Market
How to contact us:
Our Website: stonesriver.locallygrown.net
On Facebook: www.facebook.com/StonesRiverMarket
On Wednesdays: Here’s a map.
Market News
The Market is back open this morning with frost on the pumpkin.
Some new and items of interest for the Market this week:
Bloomin’ Shrooms has plenty of mushrooms available including a 5 pound quantity for large party or someone interested in drying for later.
Double Star Bar Farms returns to the Market with their artisan bread, stevia, blueberry syrup and natural bug repellent, plus they have added Oma’s Carrot Cake to the list.
JENuine Health has put her Dill-icious Seasoning on sale to complement this week’s recipe (shown below).
Since the weather is getting colder, get a head start on your fireplace fires with kindling from JourneyWorks Community Garden.
Apples from Rainbow Hill Farm include: Granny Smith, Mutsu, Red and Yellow Delicious.
Rocky Glade Farm introduces fresh tumeric which may be cut into coins, matchsticks, or cubes; grated with a microplane or cheese grater; and juiced or thrown into smoothies.
Thanksgiving is a month away. Now is the time to reserve your fresh turkey from West Wind Farms.
A note from Botanical Harmony:
We have updated our body butters, baby bottom cream, and breathe to the 2 oz glass jars and all are fresh and in stock.
Thank you to everyone for all the continued support, feedback and word-of-mouth advertising we have gained from Stones River Market customers. We appreciate every single bit of it!
In gratitude,
Tracey + Ashleigh
There are plenty of other products available this week. Browse the categories to see what your will find.
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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!
The recipe this week comes from Chef Jenny with JENuine Health to complement the turnips available on the Market.
Turnip Tip:
Turnips can be substituted for potatoes in any of your favorite recipes. Use them in soups, stews, salads, casseroles or mashed. They provide one third the amount of calories as an equal amount of potatoes. They also contain fiber, folic acid, and vitamin C. The leafy greens on the turnips are also edible. Scallop Turnips is one of my favorite ways to prepare them. Thinly slice (or dice) turnips and onions. Sauté in olive oil until lightly browned. Add salt, pepper, and Seeds of Success Dill-icious Seasoning (to taste). Combine all the ingredients in a casserole dish with cheddar cheese. Bake at 375 degrees until the turnips are tender and the cheese is melted. Sprinkle with additional Dill-icious Seasoning before serving. Serve with the greens.
I 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!
John
See the complete list of products at http://stonesriver.locallygrown.net/
ALFN Local Food Club: The Market Is Open
With a cold-snap this weekend and Harvest Fest, fall has officially arrived. The fall produce is overflowing on the website. The market is open—enjoy the bounty.
Updates/News
1. Remember Central Arkansas New Agrarian Society (CANAS) is hosting a fundraiser at the White Water Tavern on Thursday October 22 from 7-11:30. The event is to raise funds to send a CANAS group of farmers to attend an agroecology conference in Cuba.
2. As a reminder, if you receive two email notifications of an order from the website, you may have inadvertently made the same order twice. ALFN has to cover the cost for duplicate orders since we don’t expect our farmers to pay for it. We can always fix duplicate orders before the close of the market on Wednesday. You can always email me if you receive two email notifications of an order, and I can take one off.
Reflection
Over the nine years my family and I lived in Mozambique, I came to deeply respect the culture of subsistence farming in our region. However, a pernicious counter-culture was infringing upon this local food culture. With the advent of a global economy, the city offered everything from cheap sandals made in China to cheap boxes of cereal. Many of my peers began to see food that was packaged as a higher quality. They would view their earthy produce with slight disdain in contrast to the polished, packaged and processed foods. The change in perspective represented a conflict of food cultures. The packaged and labeled food was cosmopolitan while the earth-crusted potatoes were poor and backward. Every since then, I have had a zealous suspicion of all labels. In the western world, truth is established through marketed labels. The polished label reflects our desires and can blind us from seeing through the label into the history and roots of the product itself. Like a magpie, we collect the shiny without knowing the origin of such objects. For this reason, I am skeptical of labels in the food industry. I know it is necessary to provide robust regulation behind foods that cross vast distances of land and sea, but I also know labels can hide deeper truths. Labels can obfuscate basic philosophies of food production. I’m not alone in this suspicion. Allow me to quote Wendell Berry from an article entitled, “In Distrust of Movements”:
The worst danger may be that a movement will lose its language either to its own confusion about meaning and practice, or to pre-emption by its enemies. I remember, for example, my naïve confusion at learning that it was possible for advocates of organic agriculture to look upon the “organic method” as an end in itself. To me, organic farming was attractive both as a way of conserving nature and as a strategy of survival for small farmers.
Imagine my surprise in discovering that there could be huge “organic” monocultures. And so I was not too surprised by the recent attempt of the United States Department of Agriculture to appropriate the “organic” label forfood irradiation, genetic engineering, and other desecrations of the corporate food economy. Once we allow our language to mean anything that anybody wants it to mean, it becomes impossible to mean what we say. When “homemade” ceases to mean neither more nor less than “made at home”, then it means anything, which is to say that it means nothing.
Berry’s emphasis on transparent, concrete language is on point. Our labels should be used as clarification, not as tools of ambiguity. For many, food labeling is a confusing, jargon-filled public courtyard full of smoke and mirrors. However, as consumers of local food, ALFN should seek to clearly communicate the range of meaning within our own community of producers. As many of you know, we work to cultivate a local food economy while giving consumers the choice from various farmers. For this reason, Our Growers page is an important place to gather information about the varying practices used by our farmers. Our growers go through an application process and ALFN’s board approves based upon our values centered on sustainability and local production. Yet, it is you, the members, who ultimately drive the demand for what types of products our local growers provide in supply. For this reason in the next few weeks, I hope to provide a clear landscape on the national conversation about labeling from Certified Organic to Conventional. It should provide updated information regarding the regulation and debate about food labels. Nevertheless, at ALFN, we don’t simply look to labels as the end solution. Rather, we look to the faces behind the food. A food economy is less about branding and more about an established system of relationships.
A hearty wish for well being this week!
Kyle Holton
Program & Market Manager
Siloam Springs, AR: Online Market is Open!
Our favorite cheese maker, White River Creamery, has an opportunity to expand their business and all their customers have an opportunity to support their project! Check out their Kickstarter Campaign at this link:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1886848044/white-river-creamery-arkansass-last-farmstead-chee?ref=project_share
We have some of their amazing cheeses(Chocolate Chèvre, Fromage Blanc, Greek, Italian and plain Feta and Farmers cheese). They can be preordered online or purchased at the Market Welcome Station.
There are only two more outdoor market days left! Saturday, October 24th is Customer Appreciation Day!!! For every purchase you make you will receive a ticket to enter a drawing for a asker FULL of locally grown or locally made products!
We would love to see our armrest and vendors go home with empty crates on our last day. Bring a friend and come shop the market!
United States Virgin Islands: This Week in VI Locally Grown
Hello everyone!
Slowly but surely we’re creeping out of this drought. Rainy season should be coming soon…right? :)
See you Wed!
Best,
Your VI Locally Grown Producers
Bedford County: Get your orders in!
Bedford County Locally Grown
How to contact us:
Our Website: bedfordcounty.locallygrown.net
Email: botanicalharmony@gmail.com
On Facebook: www.facebook.com/bedfordcountylocallygrown
On Thursdays: 865 Union St. Shelbyville, Tennessee
On Instagram: @bedfordclocallygrown
Call: 931 – 952 – 1224
The Market Is Open!
Good evening everyone!
So happy to welcome a new farmer to the market; Scheryl from Southern Hope Farms – be sure to watch out for her listings.
Rocky Glade Farm have this week added Tumeric to the market, it like ginger and galangal is a rhizome. When cooking with it a rule of thumb is 1 inch of fresh equals 1 TBSP of fresh grated or 1 teaspoon of dried ground tumeric. It is a very healthy addition to your meals, smoothies and juices!
Happy Rich this week will have LOTS of broccoli shoots on it.
This is their last week to offer bell peppers, they are offering some small bundles at a discounted price… just cut up, de-seed and place in air tight container. They are also getting close to finishing their ginger and galangal harvest, so now is the time to stock up. Both freezes beautifully for use all winter.
Erdmann Farms has beautiful Arugula again – perfect on sandwiches!! They have amazing Hakurei Turnips, several kinds of kale, okra, radishes and more!
Petalland Flower and Herb Farm has several kinds of peppers; Corno de Toro peppers, jalapenos and habaneros.
Be sure to check out Farrar Farms Lynchburg Beef! They have; Stew Meat, Hamburger Patties and Ground Beef for sale.
Bloomin’ Shrooms has some beautiful Shiitake Mushrooms.
Botanical Harmony Farm have listed several more Goat Milk Soap scents; including the fall favourite: Orange Chai Spice.
They have also listed their Baby Bottom Cream (perfect for rashes, wounds, skin explosions) now in a 2oz Glass jar. Breathe (All-Natural “Vicks Vapor Rub”) also is in a new 2oz glass jar and Whipped Body Butter.
And if you still haven’t tried Casey Family Farm’s creamline milk – you NEED to!!!
We truly appreciate the customers and growers that continue to support this market. We are trying hard to spread the word and expand so this market can provide the organic, local groceries that the people of Shelbyville need.
See you Thursday!!
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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!
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!
Ashleigh + Tracey
See the full product list here: bedfordcounty.locallygrown.net