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This weblog contains LocallyGrown.net news and the weblog entries from all the markets currently using the system.
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ALFN Local Food Club: Support ALFN Today And Your Gift Matched!
Nope, you haven’t forgotten what day of the week it is: This here is a special Thursday edition of the ALFN weblog to ask for your support during ArkansasGives.
Today is a statewide day of giving sponsored by the Arkansas Community Foundation, where any dollars donated to area non-profits through the ArkansasGives website between 8am-8pm will receive matching funds. This would be the perfect time to help us support small, sustainable, Arkansas farms through the Little Rock Local Food Club and Green Groceries Food Pantry. We’d be absolutely honored if you’d make your gifts here.
- Alex Handfinger
Director of Operations
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Old99Farm Market: Old99 Farm Week of Mar 31 2015
As of March 31, we can offer 45 items including the following crops: celeriac, carrots, and green onions. There are lots of eggs. My flour mill is back in service so I can offer whole ground Red Fife Wheat flour.
Camelia is cooking prepared foods from our produce: garlic pesto, cucumber relish, quiches (on order).
Meats
I have sufficient ground beef, 5 lambs in the freezer, as well as veal. Folks are starting to ask about placing orders for roasting chickens for next summer. Yes you can, leave me a deposit of $11 a bird, minimum 5 birds.
Eggs
My regular price is $6/XL doz. I sell mixed size dozens that weigh at least 588 gm (medium), 672 grams, the ‘large’ size dozen, and Extra Large, 770gm plus carton. Please bring in recycled cartons.
Raw Honey
There remains about 10L of 2014 honey. Will have again in June. You bring your jar and fill it here, or buy in prefilled mason jars.
A 2013 quote from Wendell Berry, American agrarian, writer and activist, now in his 80s,“The ruling ideas of our present, very destructive national or international economy are: competition, consumption, globalism, corporate profitability, mechanical efficiency, technological progress, upward mobility—and in all of them there is the implication of acceptable violence against the land and the people. We, on the contrary, must think again of reverence, humility, affection, familiarity, neighborliness, cooperation, thrift, appropriateness, local loyalty. These terms return us to the best of our heritage. They bring us home.” {http://inthesetimes.com/rural-america/entry/17778/local-economies-to-save-the-land-and-the-people}
Says permaculture educator Albert Bates in his recent post to www.peaksurfer.blogspot.ca/
“We list our tool kit: biochar, ecovillage design, permaculture, holistic management, keyline water systems, native agroforestry, alley cropping cell divisions, constructed wetlands and chinampas, leaf protein extraction, bioenergy crops that first produce food, and productive, satisfying and fun things for people to be doing together.”
I see a connection between these two: do you?
Healthy Eating,
Ian and Camelia
Gwinnett Locally Grown: Just a Reminder! We're having workshops!!
Hey All!
Workshops
Join us for a workshop! You’ll be amazed by the plethora of information and lessons offered by our fantastic workshop instructors. Our workshops cover subjects such as gardening, nutrition, nutrient dense foods, natural remedies, essential oils, and much more!
Our goal is to host one workshop a week which will always be on Tuesday. The workshop schedule will rotate from 10:30 AM, 6:00 PM and 7:00 PM for the community’s convenience. The farm brings workshops to the community as an outreach to share the wealth of knowledge we have attained over the years. We do not charge for these events but allow the speakers to charge a fee to cover their time and supplies. We hope everyone will take advantage of this wonderful opportunity.
Please share this with all your friends and family and RSVP via FB Eventsand/or Meet-Up.
Workshops @ the Farm
Wine Making Workshop – 2 Sessions
Each Session Approx 60 min. (1 session each month)
Session 1 | Apr. 14 @ 7:00 PM: Sanitizing steps, mixing the ingredients, tips/tricks
Session 2 | May 12 @ 7:00 PM: Bottle, Cork, and label your wine, take it home
Each person will take home 2 bottles at the end of the 2nd session
Cost: $10 per person
RSVP on Facebook or Meetup.com
Natural and Healthy Bread Making with Vicki – Tue. Apr. 21 @ 7:00 PM
Join Vicki as she shows us how to make natural and healthy bread from scratch! She will cover how her bread recipe is much healthier than store bought bread and techniques on how to bake her bread.
How to Use doTERRA Essential Oils with Cheryl and Pilar – Tue. Apr. 28 @ 7:00 PM
Please share this with all your friends and family and RSVP via FB Events and/or Meet-Up.
Thanks for all your support!
Cheryl Gelatt
Market Manager
grow@ranchoalegrefarm.com
Fresh Wishes,
Pilar Quintero
Market Host
Rancho Alegre Farm
The Cumming Harvest - Closed: Newsletter - April 1st, 2015
MARKET NEWS
This is the week to order for Easter.
FARM FRESH FOODS has the cutest EASTER LAMB CAKES for sale this week.
Perfect centerpiece for your Easter dinner table!
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CONGRATULATIONS!! A&A Alta Cucina Italia balsamic vinegar wins 2015 Flavor of Georgia contest!
A&A creates hand-crafted, Italian gourmet food products using time-honored family recipes passed down through generations. All of our artisan products are made in small batches, blending only the freshest and finest ingredients available.
This allows us to create the best tasting BLENDING SEASONINGS, INFUSED EXTRA VIRGIN OLIVE OILS, BALSAMIC VINEGAR GLAZES, TOMATO SAUCES and PESTOS that you will ever experience.
We are committed to green practices and only use 100% natural ingredients, sourced Locally when possible, without any artificial flavors, colors or preservatives. Each product is beautifully and responsibly hand packed in earth friendly packaging making them also artful and unique gifts.
A&A Alta Cucina products are available at the Cumming Harvest, look for them under the “oils & vinegars” and “sauces, spreads & tapenades” tabs on the market.
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ON SALE THIS WEEK:
This week “My Daily Bread” has the following on sale:
Cinnamon rolls $7, Sourdough and yeast rolls $6.50
(All My Daily Bread products are GMO free)
April 11th – VENDOR OF THE WEEK
Southern Essentials will be the vendor of the week on April 11th.
We will set up a small display of some of our products and will be available to answer your questions about essential oils and our line of natural products. The essential oils will be displayed so you can smell them and see what you are buying before you buy.
Pick Up Options
COLONY PARK PICK-UP This is our main location and all orders will be prepared for you for pick up at this location if you don’t choose another option below. You can order and pick up meat and seafood at this location.
VICKERY PICK-UP – Vickery Village Cherry Street Taproom pick up is between 1:00-1:30pm. If you would like to pick up at Vickery choose VICKERY PICK-UP item in the categories on the The Market page/tab. Customers choosing to pick up at Vickery should not order meat or seafood as we cannot transport meat and seafood due to Dept. of Ag regulations.
DELIVERY to Vickery/Polo Area – Please add this item to your order if you would like delivery to your home on Saturday between 1:30-3pm. Only prepaid orders will be accepted. Deliveries will be dropped off at your front door. If you are not going to be home, please leave a insulated bag or cooler for your order. The delivery person is not responsible for making sure your food is in the appropriate container once dropped off. Please plan for possible rain and make sure your order will be protected. The delivery person will travel with your orders in insulated bags with ice packs to protect it during travel. No Meat or Seafood will be able to be delivered.
Group Buy
Green Pastures – LAST WEEK TO ORDER! Place your order online for Cod liver oil and coconut oil. Payment is due the week you order. An order will be placed at the end of this week.
Raw Cheese – If you missed our cheese order, we ordered extra Colby, Swiss, Havarti, Gouda and Monterey Jack. Just pick some up when you come by to pick up your order.
Butter – We have a few butter left, you may send me an email to add it to your order or just pick some up on Saturday.
Market Classes
Homemade Baby Formula
APRIL 11 – 9-10am – The Cumming Harvest
We all know breast is best but sometimes breastfeeding is just not possible. Fortunately, there is another option besides commercial baby formula. The Weston A. Price Foundation has created a nutritionally balanced recipe for homemade baby formula using real food. We will discuss sources for the ingredients and demonstrate how to make it.
Here is a link with more information about the recipe: Weston Price Baby Formula Recipe
Please sign up for this class here. Baby Formula Class
Main Market Location and Pick Up
Building 106, Colony Park Dr. in the Basement of Suite 100, Cumming, GA 30040. Pick up every Saturday between 10-12pm.
Google Map
To view the harvest today and tomorrow till 8pm, visit “The Market” page on our website, The Cumming Harvest
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!
Cross Timbers Food Cooperative: Eggs Available Again!
Spring is springing, hens are laying, and CTFC has eggs available again.
Spa City Local Farm Market Co-op: The market is closed for ordering
Please pick up your orders at Emergent Arts between 3:30-5:30 pm (earlier the better) on Friday, April 3rd.
See you there
Julie
Champaign, OH: The Weekly Countdown!
Yes, my lovely little market of love customers…it is that time of the week, yet again!
Tuesday evening…the magical evening when we begin the winding down of the market. The orders begin their last minute flood into the market site.
Please remember that it is Easter weekend, a holiday weekend, a great weekend to boast all things local!!
It is also the last day of March…we are on the brink of April!! Or, as I like to refer to it as the greatest month of all year!! The month where the sun opened up and smiled and gave everyone the hippie market manager!! Yes…April is this hippie girl’s birthday month!!
So, in honor of the upcoming Easter holiday, and in helping me usher in the greatest month of the year, let’s get those orders in!!!
We can make it all so easy, all so stress free, all so nutrition filled, all so affordable, and the best….all so LOCAL!!!
Show us some love…I will be watching the orders in the next few hours!! Make me smile!!
Peace and Love,
Cosmic Pam
Russellville Community Market: RCM Order Reminder
Hey everyone! Just a quick reminder that we’ll be closing for orders tonight at 10:00 p.m. Get your orders in soon!
If you’re starting a garden this year, be sure to check out the live plants section for strawberries, broccoli, and more!
Happy ordering!
We hope to see you on Thursday for the market pick-up!
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Russellville Community Market
South Cumberland Farmer's Market: Pork Lard Available for Rendering
Fountain Springs Farm has a quantity pork lard available. This lard is not yet rendered. Contact Fountain Springs directly at earle415@blomand.net .