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Heirloom Living Market Hamilton Mill: Tidbits and Reminder to Order!
Market Closes at 8:00pm TONIGHT!
Thank you to those who have already placed orders!
Markets close at 8:00pm Monday. Please remember that minimums must be met for each Market to ensure delivery by our Farmers! At the present time we are a little more than 1/2 of the way to minimum! Be sure and get your order in and thank you for supporting our LOCAL Farmers!
Tidbits
Greg Hutchins of Heritage Farm has listed Chicken for Pre-Order this week! Whole Chicken, Boneless Skinless Breasts, Bone-in Breasts, Cut-up Whole Chickens, Chicken Livers are all available. Items will be available for pickup at the Market on September 17th. (Please note, my original post with a delivery date of September 10th was in error) Get your orders in soon so you don’t miss out on this opportunity.
I can hardly believe that today is the last day of August! Where did the Summer go? The Holidays will be upon us before we know it and this is a reminder to get your orders in for your Holiday Meats! Greg still has some reservations available for Turkeys and Hams. Reserve your pasture raised Holiday Meat now!
My Daily Bread is back this week! Bruce’s surgery was quite successful and he is once again his ‘Energizer Bunny’ self! Dabrielle is no ‘slacker’ but comments frequently that Bruce runs circles around her! Amazing couple – producing/creating excellent quality Bakery items and other ‘Foodstuffs’ for our families!
Shalley and David Carrell of Carrell Farms are back from a well-deserved vacation! Have you tried Water Buffalo or Alpaca? For an introduction to Alpaca, I suggest the Sweet Italian Alpaca Sausage or the Cranberry Sage Alpaca Sausage! If you are a maker of Bone Broth, be sure and try the Water Buffalo Soup Bones! They make a rich hearty Broth!
Kathy Barnes of So-Koi is offering Certified Organic Bourbon Vanilla Extract for Pre-order! GMO/Gluten/Sugar Free this extract comes from the isle of Reunion, formerly known as the Isle of Bourbon, off the coast of Madagascar. Sounds like a perfect addition to any pantry!
Jay Parsons of Dances with Bees is offering a Beekeeping 101 Class! Jay is extremely knowledgeable about Bees and all things related to Bees. This class is an excellent opportunity to explore what Beekeeping is all about and decide if it is something you have an interest in pursuing additional classes.
Jay is offering a Special this week on a combo pack of Raspberry Creamed Honey and Unflavored Creamed Honey! Perfect topping for Toast or Waffles!
Got Milk?
Remember to order Raw Cow Milk from Cedar Rock Dairy and Raw Goat Milk from Little Tots Estate! Fresh, raw milk … for your Pets! All Raw Milk products are labeled “For Pet Consumption Only”, in accordance with the Georgia Department of Agriculture regulations. This is the only way that Raw Milk can legally be sold in the state of Georgia!
Pickup Location
Crossfit PURE
Pickup Day and Time: Thursday 2:30pm – 4:30pm
Pickup Location: Crossfit PURE
1342 Auburn Rd.
Dacula, GA 30019
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Order now since you are just a click way!
Azure Standard
Azure Standard Pickup: Monday, September 14th at Noon
Pickup Location: 963 Buford Drive, Lawrenceville, GA 30043
Drop #: 796431 Route: Q5
Drop Name: Heirloom Living Market Lawrenceville
Drop Coordinator: Maryanne Vaeth
Contact Information: Email Drop Coordinator
Phone: 404-432-4337
This Group on Facebook will keep you up to date on the “happenings” with this service!
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Heirloom Living Market Lawrenceville : Tidbits and Reminder to Order!
Market Closes at 8:00pm TONIGHT!
Thank you to those who have already placed orders!
Markets close at 8:00pm Monday. Please remember that minimums must be met for each Market to ensure delivery by our Farmers! At the present time we are a little more than 1/2 of the way to minimum! Be sure and get your order in and thank you for supporting our LOCAL Farmers!
Tidbits
Greg Hutchins of Heritage Farm has listed Chicken for Pre-Order this week! Whole Chicken, Boneless Skinless Breasts, Bone-in Breasts, Cut-up Whole Chickens, Chicken Livers are all available. Items will be available for pickup at the Market on September 17th. (Please note, my original post with a delivery date of September 10th was in error) Get your orders in soon so you don’t miss out on this opportunity.
I can hardly believe that today is the last day of August! Where did the Summer go? The Holidays will be upon us before we know it and this is a reminder to get your orders in for your Holiday Meats! Greg still has some reservations available for Turkeys and Hams. Reserve your pasture raised Holiday Meat now!
My Daily Bread is back this week! Bruce’s surgery was quite successful and he is once again his ‘Energizer Bunny’ self! Dabrielle is no ‘slacker’ but comments frequently that Bruce runs circles around her! Amazing couple – producing/creating excellent quality Bakery items and other ‘Foodstuffs’ for our families!
Shalley and David Carrell of Carrell Farms are back from a well-deserved vacation! Have you tried Water Buffalo or Alpaca? For an introduction to Alpaca, I suggest the Sweet Italian Alpaca Sausage or the Cranberry Sage Alpaca Sausage! If you are a maker of Bone Broth, be sure and try the Water Buffalo Soup Bones! They make a rich hearty Broth!
Kathy Barnes of So-Koi is offering Certified Organic Bourbon Vanilla Extract for Pre-order! GMO/Gluten/Sugar Free this extract comes from the isle of Reunion, formerly known as the Isle of Bourbon, off the coast of Madagascar. Sounds like a perfect addition to any pantry!
Jay Parsons of Dances with Bees is offering a Beekeeping 101 Class! Jay is extremely knowledgeable about Bees and all things related to Bees. This class is an excellent opportunity to explore what Beekeeping is all about and decide if it is something you have an interest in pursuing additional classes.
Jay is offering a Special this week on a combo pack of Raspberry Creamed Honey and Unflavored Creamed Honey! Perfect topping for Toast or Waffles!
Crossfit / Lawrenceville Market Pickup Hours
You may pick up the items you ordered starting at 2:30pm. Market will end at 5:30pm; however, you may pickup later if you have contacted me and you make payment prior to pickup. We now have other payments options available. Please call me on Monday and I will discuss the other options with you and answer any questions. You can reach me at 404-432-4337.
Pickup at Crossfit Market
Pickup Day and Time: Thursday 2:30pm – 5:30pm
Pickup Location: Crossfit O-Zone
519 Hurricane Shoals Road NE
Lawrenceville, GA 30046
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Athens Locally Grown: ALG Market Open for September 3
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
Welcome to September! If you’re one of the 97% of people in town affected by the start of the school year, I hope it’s been a smooth transition for you. Game days are already upon us, too, so the sleepy summer town of Athens has truly been replaced with the bustling city of Athens.
Thinking of all the growth of both the town and the university in recent years, I want to shine a light on one of the unequivocally great areas of growth: UGA’s sustainable agriculture program. It didn’t even exist a few years ago, and already it’s become one of the premier programs of its kind in the country. Not only are students getting immersed in it full time, but the program also offers workshops and classes for new and long-time growers alike, all across the state. Looking at the calendar of events here: http://sustainagga.org/news.html, I see workshops of small ponds, livestock management, attracting honeybees and other pollinators to your garden, growing cover crops, and field trips to working sustainable farms. All of these are open to the public, and you can find details and registration links there on the calendar.
They also offer a journeyman training program for interested beginning growers, even those who (as I did) want to start part time. They have a whole section of information and links elsewhere for people interested in small farms and other small food producing operations, located here: http://sustainagga.org/SmallFarms.html. That page is one of the most comprehensive resources for beginners I’ve seen anywhere, and I wish I had something like that when I was transitioning my large garden to a market microfarm fifteen years ago.
It’s wonderful to see so much progress in the program in so little time, especially since the university (and Georgia agriculture in general) had such a reputation for being anti-organic for so long. The overall emphasis is still overwhelmingly in favor of industrial agriculture, but no longer exclusively. And it’ll only get better from here.
One last thing this week: several weeks ago, a fellow came up to me on Thursday with a question about payment for a previous week’s order. If that was you, I didn’t catch your name, and so haven’t been able to look things up for you and track down an answer. Can you reply to this email and let me know what name your account is under? Thank you!
Thanks 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 is open on Saturdays at Bishop Park and Wednesday afternoons downtown at Creature Comforts. You can catch the news on their website. The West Broad Farmers Market from the Athens Land Trust is open Saturday mornings and their farm stand is open Tuesday afternoons. They have a website too. A new Athens Sunday market has opened up at the Classic Center, every Sunday from 11 to 4 now through October. They have a website here: http://www.sundaycentermarket.com. The Comer Farmers Market is open in downtown Comer on Saturday mornings. The Oconee County farmers market is open Saturday mornings in front of the Oconee County Courthouse in Watkinsville. The Shields Ethridge Cultivator Market is held monthly in Jefferson. 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!
Conyers Locally Grown: Available for Friday September 4
I hope this finds you all doin well. The market is open and ready for orders. We will see you on Friday between 5-7 at Copy Central.
Thank you,
Brady
Northeast Georgia Locally Grown: Locavores
Locavores,
I hope this email finds you well. This weekend is turning out to be full of community and food. What more could one ask for. Last night I shared a meal with some Locally Grown customers and friends… and when I walked in to the kitchen our host said “This food is just so exciting to me!” With a huge smile and agreement, we dove into peeling, cleaning, chopping and cooking the local goodies. It was the first day in the United States for their friend Joost, who was visiting with his Wife who’s name I don’t believe I can spell correctly from memory. They brought some local cheese from the Netherlands for an appetizer, and we all hummed and haahed while trying the delicious cumin infused cheese that was aged for over a year. They too enjoy new foods. She picked up a turnip and we talked about the different vegetable names in Dutch and English and if they grew back home. They shared pictures of travels and family, and we talked about what they plan to do while exploring the States. Dinner was served under the hickory tree as the sun gained vibrancy over Lake Lanier. The squirrels seemed to have fun aiming for our heads with partly consumed tree ammunition. The roasted root veggies, green beans, chanterelles, and a big salad was gobbled up as we enjoyed each other’s company.
Community is so important, and I look forward to planning some ways we can increase the connections we have besides the hustle of picking up local food. Which reminds me, I hope you say “Hi” to the others that you may see at pickup. I find it especially interesting in Gainesville to see so many different walks of life come together for fresh food. That’s all I have for now, because I’m off to another dinner with market friends. Anyone that knows her cooking would be jealous, so I will spare the names! I hope this rainy evening was full of good food and good company as you use up the rest of last market’s goodies.
Market will be open until Monday at 9pm. Don’t forget to place your order this week! https://northeastgeorgia.locallygrown.net
Andrew in Hall,
Teri in Habersham,
Chuck in Tiger
Dawson Local Harvest: September Specials and New Arrivals
Dawson Local Harvest for September 4th
Specials and New Arrivals
HI EVERYONE!
First of all, a Shout-Out to Bruce Wills of DAILY BREAD who underwent pacemaker surgery last week. Wishing him a speedy recovery.
FIVE HENS FARM is having a Pork Sale with their tasty Breakfast Sausage just $6.75, Ham Steaks at $8 a pound, ditto for all their yummy Ribs. That makes this the perfect time to give these delecacies a try, and try LILLIAN’S SWEET HAWAIIAN SAUCE on the Ribs for an amazing Asian-tinged BBQ flavor.
AND BACK on the Menu for September is Squash and Zucchini from LEILANI’S to go along with their Okra, Peppers, Eggplant, and (if the chipmunks will leave them alone) maybe some green beans next week.
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
Fresh Harvest, LLC: Fresh Harvest for August 30th
To Contact Us
Fresh Harvest, LLC
Link to Fresh Harvest
Email us!
Tallahassee May
tally@wildblue.net
JohnDrury
john.drury@att.net
Recipes
Ethiopian Collard Greens
Saveur Magazine
These are my favorite collard greens ever. If you have visited one of the Ethiopian restaurants in town, this is how they are. The nigella seeds are a strange ingredient, but worth the trip to the International Market to get them if you can – they make the dish! You can also substitute coconut oil for the butter.
4 tbsp. unsalted butter
1/8 tsp. black cardamom seeds
1/8 tsp. ground fenugreek
1/8 tsp. nigella seeds
¼ cup extra-virgin olive oil
1 large yellow onion, minced
3 cloves garlic, minced
2 Thai chiles, stemmed, seeded, and minced
1 1" piece ginger, peeled and minced
1½ lbs. collard greens, stemmed and cut crosswise into ¼"-wide strips
Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
White wine vinegar, to taste
Heat butter in a 6-qt. pot over medium heat. Add cardamom, fenugreek, and nigella and cook, stirring often, until fragrant, 1–2 minutes. Increase heat to medium-high and add oil; add onions and cook, stirring often, until browned, 10 minutes. Add garlic, chiles, and ginger and cook, stirring often, until soft and fragrant, 3 minutes. Add collards, 1? cups water, and salt and pepper; cover and bring to a boil. Reduce heat to low and cook, stirring occasionally, until collards are tender, 50–55 minutes. Stir in vinegar and serve collards hot.
Market News
Hello!
We have a great week of veggies for you! There is so much selection this time of year, with the overlap of summer and fall flavors.There is so much variety offered and we hope you are taking the opportunity to try something new!
It still seems like a long way away, but remember that we grow and sell year round! We are planning and planting our winter crops now, and look to have a good selection of cold-hardy vegetables for you. It is impossible to predict what the winter weather holds in store for us. The past couple of winters have been rough! But, we do work with a variety of local farmers that have years of experience in overwintering crops in hoop houses, so we expect to have some fresh veggies for you!
We appreciate your support, and will see you on Wednesday!
John and Tallahassee
Coming Events
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!
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Green Fork Farmers Market: Weekly product list
Dear Green Fork Farmers Market Customers,
NEW this week—Green Fork Farm has Marconi Sweet Italian frying peppers, both red and green. They also have Shiitakes available this week.
Also available this week:
Eggs—Pastured chicken eggs.
Vegetables—Potatoes, tomatoes, okra, green bell peppers, red bell peppers, jalapenos, large jalapenos, poblanos, red Anaheims, green Anaheims, Long Red Cayennes, habaneros, serranos, poblanos, mixed hot peppers, sweet Italian frying peppers (both green and red) and sweet banana peppers.
Herbs—Green basil, purple basil, Thai basil, sage, rosemary, and mixed herb bunches.
Meat—Pastured beef, chicken, and goat.
Fermented foods—Sauerkraut and jalapenos.
Salsa—Made with locally grown and organic ingredients.
Olives and Olive Oil—organic and directly from the grower in California.
Plants and Flowers—Bee Well Gardens is taking a vacation for a couple of weeks, but don’t worry, they’ll be back!
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
At 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!
StPete.LocallyGrown.Net: Market NOW Open - Aug. 31st, 2015
To Contact Us
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FIRST TIME CUSTOMERS You are invited to watch our Market Tutorial before you begin. If you do not receive an email confirmation immediately after you order, then you did not click the SUBMIT ORDER button and we did not receive an order from you. Call your Market Manager for help.
GROW YOUR OWN: How to Deal With Bugs Organically
Pests may not always be as bad as they seem. First ask yourself, Are these bugs REALLY doing that much damage to my beautiful vegetable plants? They may munch a few leaves, but do they leave behind enough for you to eat? Take a look at Nathan’s video “Dealing with Garden Bugs, Think More Organically” filmed during one of his backyard gardening classes. Take some measures to control the pests in your garden using organic methods.
PRIORITY Volunteer & Training Opportunities
ATT: RAW DAIRY LOVERS
Our ongoing request for a volunteer to pick up dairy in Oldsmar every other Thursday afternoon. Only TWO Markets remain to train someone to fill this spot. Pam says picking up anytime after Noon until 4 or 5pm will work well. Volunteer will pick up crates (2 or 3 to transport the egg cartons) and 2 or 3 large styrofoam coolers/ice at our home on Thursday on the way to Pam’s. There is a back up person who is ready to help on an emergency basis with 3 or 4 days notice whenever the primary volunteer has something come up. We will no longer carry The Dancing Goat’s products as of Oct. 1st without a volunteer to go to Oldsmar and pick up every other Thursday for our Market. Please respond to make arrangements for training with Nathan this week (on 9/03) if at all possible.
FRIDAY DELIVERIES FOR SEPTEMBER & OCTOBER – We would like to train more delivery people to prepare for the fall wave that will descend upon us. Due to limited resources, we have been operating with just two shifts all summer. We usually have three shifts on Friday deliveries with shifts operating sometime between 1130AM & 630PM. It’s time to start shifting into a higher gear! Delivery volunteers are asked to attend a 20-minute phone conference orientation at their convenience. How does it all work? Volunteer teams of two deliver via a large air-conditioned cargo van throughout St. Petersburg, near Largo, and into Gulfport. Volunteers must be detail oriented to manage checkoff sheets and distribute invoices. Please call Tina right away at 727-515-9469 if you can help!
Message from Your Market Manager
SUSTAINABLE ME RETURNS TO MARKET
Welcome back to Richard & Jeni Duncan, Growers since 2012. Their eggs are renowned and in high demand locally. Check out their Grower Page. Richard is also an urban aquaponic farmer and I’m hoping to enlist him for a talk at an upcoming potluck social.
LAST CHANCE TO VOTE FOR ST. PETE LOCALLY GROWN
Voting ends on Sept. 8th! Please go to Stage 3 at this link to cast your ballots. Here is where you’ll find us listed: Within Goods & Services, please vote for us as Best Farmer’s Market, Best Place to Shop Green, and at the bottom of the list under “Best Category We Forgot” please select Best Online Farmers Market to get it on next year’s ballot. (For Best Farmer’s Market VENDOR, please select “The Dancing Goat”) Within People, Places and Politics, please declare us the Best Place to Volunteer. I appreciate all of you who have stormed the Creative Loafing website and filed your vote!
SPLG’S FRUIT BASKET
Ginger Gold Apples, Gala Apples, Valencia oranges, green seedless grapes, red plum, Medjool dates, AND avocados & star fruit (aka carambola) grown right here in St. Pete!
ON SALE THIS WEEK
Coffee, apples, dried dates, ginger, onions, GROUPER, remedy(s), and dairy products!
STILL ON CLEARANCE
All remaining local lamb and Alaskan Sockeye salmon products. Stock up and get them while they last! We will NOT be carrying these items in the future.
GOOD CUSTOMER FEEDBACK!
“Everything we received was great! Love that we can get fresh greens in the dead of summer. I won’t be ordering the next round because we will be on vacation but plan on ordering when we get back. Thank you!” Thanks to new customer Meghan W.
Upcoming Events
All these and more are posted on our Calendar of Events
WORKSHOPS & EVENTS
- “Monthly Potluck Social”, Sept. 26, Nathan’s Garden Tour Begins at 5:30PM for active Market customers, growers, and volunteers. BY Whoozin.com e-vite ONLY. Debra Black will talk about unusual herbs, their uses and growing conditions. She will bring some of these herbs to display. Debra is owner of Mrs. Chippy’s Plant World and Edible Landscape Design and is a grower for St. Pete Locally Grown. She has turned most of her lawn into food (fruit, vegetables and herbs) with lots of plants to attract pollinators. She has been gardening in Florida for 6 years and has made every mistake that can possibly be made. She is a graduate of the School of Hard Knocks. She gets many of her unusual herbs from seed but also when she travels to the east coast of Florida and visits the Mounts Botanical Gardens in Lake Worth, as well as the Wat Thai Temple in Tampa on a Sunday where there is a plant market on the Palm River.
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NO WORKSHOPS BY NATHAN IN SEPTEMBER
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!
DeForest, WI: Availability for Week of August 30
For those of you that attend our market regularly, this is no surprise, but the list that follows is what was available Friday during farm stand hours from Forest Run Farm:
potatoes, carrots, head lettuce, slicing tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, paste tomatoes, salsa box-paste toms/tomatillos/hot peppers, oregano, basil, green onions, 3 types of beans, hot peppers, kale, eggplant, bell peppers, ground cherries, cucumbers, patty pan, zuchinni, and beets.
Ripp-N-Good had additional sweet corn too. And please remember, that since Farmer Rich doesn’t spray his sweet corn with bug poisons, there may be a cute little worm or 2 on the tip of an ear. If there is, you will know that it is a really sweet one since the bugs seem to know the corn best!!
So, just because it isn’t listed on the product listing, doesn’t mean we might not have what your looking for. Each week there seem to be surprises during our harvesting.
For those of you with a FRF Farm Stand CSA share, please be aware of the dates and dollar amounts remaining on your punch cards.