Stones River Market:  Time to Order Local Food - Honey and Peaches Return

Market News

The Market is back open this morning as August arrives and the start of school is not too far away. We have farmers adding new products and vendors returning from an extended break.

I want to thank the Blue Porch for attending last week’s pick up. Hopefully, many of you were able to sample their cold salads and hot sauces. One thing you may not know about the Blue Porch is they also are caterers.

The following are some of the new and returning items:

• Chef Jenny comes back to us with her seasonings and introduces her snack mixes now in larger sizes.

• Ferris Family Farm returns with peppers and turkish orange eggplant.

• Flying S Farms brings an old time favorite strawberry rhubarb jam made from Middle Tennessee strawberries and rhubarb.

• Our newest farmer, JourneyWorks Community Gardens has corn, new tomatoes and peppers available this week.

• Rainbow Hill Farm brings fresh peaches to the Market this week. Get them while you can.

• Honey from Rocky Glade Farm returns to the Market as well as mountain rose and yukon gold potatoes.

There are plenty of other products available this week. Browse the categories to see what your will find.

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.

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!

Russellville Community Market

FRESH.LOCAL.ONLINE.

CLG:  Opening Bell: Tomatoes, Peppers, Squash, Okra!

Good afternoon,

Here we are in August already. School will be starting back soon, but there’s still time to be ordering the season’s bounty and preserving it for winter use. I’ve been pickling 2 pints of figs everyday, and dehydrating bell peppers and cherry tomatoes every week. Also smoking jalapenos. These will taste very good as we get snowbound this winter, with above snowfall already forecast. Get ready!

Come early on Friday for the best selection from the EXTRAS table.

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

Middle Tennessee Locally Grown:  Market is Open

The Manchester Locally Grown online farmers’ market is now open for ordering. It will be open till Tuesday evening at 10:00 pm. This week’s market announcements will follow later today. Meanwhile, explore and see what you find! http://manchester.locallygrown.net/market .

ALFN Local Food Club:  The Market Is Open

Good Morning Friends,

The market is open for commerce.

Announcements:

Arkansas Natural Produce will be closing orders early this week due to travel. Consequently, if you want to order something from ANP, please finalize your orders no later than TUESDAY EVENING (8/4/15).

The Food Preservation Workshops in August and September led by The Root and Southern Center for Agroecology are still open for registration. You can get more information here.

As you make your orders this week, you might enjoy watching a 17 minute video produced this year from the Fair World Project that highlights the integral part small scale farmers can have in not only recreating sustainable food systems, but responding to climate change. One of my favorite food activists, Vandana Shiva, is in the video. The short documentary highlights the central role small scale farmers play in not only global food production, but in establishing regenerative agriculture, or agroecology, that provides real solutions to the damaging effects of modern agriculture on our planet. Our local farmers who grow genuine food for a local economy are part of a non-hierarchical network of producers around the globe who truly are central to helping resolve many of the problems we face with climate change and ecological degradation.

I’ve decided to start a small series on Food Sovereignty as the school year starts and we transition into the Fall. I hope to keep making connections and expanding what ALFN does as a mechanism for generating central Arkansas food sovereignty. I would like to start by suggesting our independence and freedom as eaters is severely limited today. Vandana Shiva, an author and food activist, suggests the global food system is based on a kind of “food fascism.” Shiva argues that patents on seeds by international companies such as Monsanto provide a context of totalitarianism in which research into the safety of GMO crops is curbed, and policies are implemented to safeguard the power of industrial agriculture through subsidies and laws. Food sovereignty is directly related to food sustainability in that local, small scale farmers respond more closely to their local consumers and help reduce the unsustainable production of food representative in modern agriculture.

As we start another week, consider the impact thousands of small, independent choices in favor of food sovereignty can make in our region as well as the larger climate and global food systems.

Take care,

Kyle Holton
Program & Market Manager

United States Virgin Islands:  This Week in VI Locally Grown

Greetings,
The Market is now open for orders. Stop on by the historic Lawaetz museum for some delicious local produce, fruits, and other items. See you Wed!
Best,
Castiel Kailani

Bedford County:  The Market Is Open

The Market Is Open!!

Hey everyone,

The market is open for this week’s orders!

Summer veg is continuing to roll in. Erdmann Farms has some beautiful basil for your fresh salads or pestos.

Check out the selection of meats, honey, bread and soap.

Red Fox Berry Farm’s blackberries are out for the season.

If you haven’t yet be sure to check out Double N Urban Farm and Apothecary’s delicious herbal teas.

Please share our facebook page, instagram and website with anybody you think will be interested in this market. We would love to build the customer base and give Shelbyville year round access to wonderful fresh and local products.

See y’all Thursday!

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!

DeForest, WI:  Availability for Week of August 2

Farmer Rich says his sweet corn is ready and tasting great! Remember, he doesn’t use any GMO seeds and doesn’t spray his corn- so there may be a bug. But if he isn’t poisoning the bugs, he isn’t sharing poison with you.
Forest Run is hoping for warm nites to help the tomatoes ripen, they should have more varieties coming from the field, along with more peppers and other surprises.

Bauman’s Natural Meats is again making their products available this week; chicken, brats and burgers go great on the grill with sweet corn!!

And, Rusty Dog Coffee only roasts coffee to order. As a small batch local roaster in Madison, they are roasting once per week to fulfill orders guaranteeing you receive the freshest coffee possible.

For those of you with a Forest Run Farm, Farmstand CSA, remember the punch cards are only good on FRF fresh fruits and veggies.

Spa City Local Farm Market Co-op:  Weblog Entry

Good Morning Everyone!!!
The Spa City Co-op market is now open for ordering at spacity.locallygrown.net. Please place your orders before Tuesday at 9 pm, and plan to pick up your orders at Emergent Arts on Friday August 7th from 3:30 – 5:30, preferably before 5 pm.

Don’t forget – this market has no paid positions, so we NEED VOLUNTEERS to run every market. It’s fun, you get a $5 gift card, and you learn so much about local foods in Arkansas.

this market’s manager
Julie Alexander
501-655-9411
Spacity@locallygrown.net

Naples,FL:  Market closes tonight

Please get your orders in.