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Green Fork Farmers Market: Weekly Product List
Dear Green Fork Farmers Market Customers,
Yay for fall! Each week brings great new products to the market. We’ll continue to run the market through the winter with items changing each week, so make sure you try everything while it lasts and get some extras of your favorites to store for later!
New this week—Beyond Organics has Dinosaur kale, also called Lacinato or Toscano kale, plus lettuce spring mix. Green Fork Farm has Chinese cabbage, beet greens, Asian salad or braising mix, romaine lettuce, and sweet potatoes.
Also available this week:
*Vegetables*—arugula, lettuce, spinach, pumpkins, radishes, green onions, turnip greens, elephant garlic, butternut squash, bell peppers, Anaheims, sweet banana peppers, jalapenos, and serranos.
*Mushrooms*—fresh log-grown Shiitakes.
*Herbs*—green basil, Thai basil, parsley, cilantro, mint, sage, lemongrass, lovage, and mixed Italian herbs.
*Meat*—pastured chicken, lamb, organ meats, soup bones, and parts for stock.
*Eggs*—Chicken and duck eggs, grown on pasture and organic grains.
Specialty foods—fermented sauerkraut and jalapenos, salsa made from local and organic ingredients, and olive oil from organic California-grown olives.
Botanical bath and beauty products—soap, lip balm, mouthwash, scented oil, facial elixir, and muscle salve.
Place your order from now until Tuesday at noon for pickup on Wednesday 4-7 pm. We will also have extras for sale on our tables.
Our farmers work hard to bring you the highest quality, healthiest products possible, grown without chemical fertilizers or pesticides. Go ahead and place an order this week, and we’ll see you on Wednesday.
Thanks so much,
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!
Fresh Harvest, LLC: Fresh Harvest for October 19th
To Contact Us
Fresh Harvest, LLC
Link to Fresh Harvest
Email us!
Tallahassee May
tally@wildblue.net
JohnDrury
john.drury@att.net
Recipes
Meatballs Over Greens
from thekitchn.com
A nice change from pasta!
Serves 4
1 pound ground meat
1/4 cup grated onion, from 1/2 small to medium onion
1 large egg
1/3 cup breadcrumbs
1/4 cup freshly grated Parmesan cheese
2 whole cloves garlic, minced
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon pepper
2 tablespoons chopped Italian parsley
2 tablespoons olive oil
2 cups tomato sauce, homemade or store-bought
2 pounds greens, such as broccoli rabe, kale, mustard greens, washed, de-veined, and roughly chopped
Shaved Parmesan, to serve, optional
Combine the meat, onion, egg, breadcrumbs, cheese, garlic, salt, pepper, and parsley in a large bowl. Mix with your hands until all of the ingredients are evenly distributed.
Begin heating a large pot of salted water for the cooking the greens while you shape and cook the meatballs.
Roll the meat mixture into 1 1/4-inch meatballs and place on a tray or in a pan. You should have between 26 and 30 meatballs.
Heat the olive oil over medium-high heat in a large skillet or sauté pan. Place the meatballs in the hot skillet and brown for 3 to 4 minutes on each side. Use tongs to gently rotate the meatballs so they brown evenly. (If your pan isn’t large enough to brown all of the meatballs without them touching, cook them in batches and place them back on the cookie sheet once they’ve been browned. Then combine them back in the pan before simmering with the tomato sauce.)
Reduce the heat to medium, add the tomato sauce, and cover the pan. Simmer the meatballs and sauce for another 10 minutes, or until meatballs are cooked through.
While the meatballs are simmering, boil the greens in the salted water for 8 to 10 minutes, until tender. Drain. (You can also sauté or stir-fry the greens in a hot skillet with oil if preferred.)
To serve, put greens on the plate and top with meatballs and sauce.
Recipe Notes
To prevent the meatballs sticking to the pan, make sure it is hot before adding the meatballs, and brown thoroughly before trying to turn them. They should release easily once browned.
Storage: Store the meatballs in their sauce for up to 3 days in the fridge. Freeze cooked meatballs and sauce for up to 3 months.
Market News
Hello!
It’s a beautiful Fall week ahead, and we have a great selection of veggies for you. There are a few summer crops, like the peppers, still hanging on until frost. Wonder when that will be? So far this year we are later than last year.
The Bloomy Rind is back this week with a new cheese selection, and don’t forget Little Seed Farm and their fantastic selection of soaps!
Thanksgiving time is not far, and please include Fresh Harvest in your plans! We’ll be delivering that week on the Tuesday before Thanksgiving. We’ll have lots of good veggies as well as pre-order pies available from Dozen Bakery and cheese trays from The Bloomy Rind!
Wedge Oak Farm has put their reservations up for their turkeys at Thanksgiving. There is a $25.00 deposit which is paid at the time of making the reservation, and then the rest is due at pick up. You will be contacted by Wedge Oak asking what size turkey preference you have. These turkeys will be frozen, so pick up will probably be the Wednesday a week before Thanksgiving. Details to be worked out soon!
Once again, thanks so much for your support, and we look forward to seeing 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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The Wednesday Market: The Market is Open
The Wednesday Market is open for orders. Please place your orders by 10 p.m. on Monday. Orders are ready for pick up on Wednesday between 3 and 6 p.m. Be sure to see the website for all of this week’s offerings. Here is the link: http://wednesdaymarket.locallygrown.net/market
We’ll see you on Wednesday!
Thanks,
Beverly
Dawson Local Harvest: FALL VEGGIES READY FOR YOUR TABLE!
DAWSON LOCAL HARVEST for October 24th
FALL VEGETABLES READY FOR YOUR TABLE NOW!
HI EVERYONE!
I’ve been looking forward to this day for a while, because many of the much-awaited Fall Vegetables are available for the first time this week! New for the season from LEILANI’S is Buttercrunch Lettuce, Red Mustard Greens, Gonzales Cabbage, Bok Choi, plus they are adding Spinach, more Collards, Swiss Chard, Dinosaur Kale, and a Lettuce Salad Mix to the Availability for this week.
Also worth noting is a delicious prepared and ready to gobble Gluten-free Greek Pasta Salad from MY DAILY BREAD, along with some new additions to their Jams and Jellies and a couple new Bread and Dessert options.
In other News, in case you were wondering, the DAWSON LOCAL HARVEST will be open YEAR-ROUND, so you’ll be able to get fresh, all-natural vegetables and lots of the other wonderful products available from the Harvest through the Fall and Winter.
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
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.
ALFN Local Food Club: The Market is Open!
Good Morning Food Club,
The market is open with the bounty of Autumn blooming our product selection. The variety of our products really is one of my favorite reasons for eating local: I’ve never seen such beautiful and delicious diversity in the aisles of any grocery store. As the seasons change, so do the products, and really, isn’t that how things are supposed to be? Some of the wonderful food this week includes:
- Freshly processed, pasture-raised, GMO-free fed whole chickens from Falling Sky Farm. Unlike most broiler chickens, these have access to fresh air, green grass, sunlight, and the chickens are processed on the farm to ensure a clean and low stress environment. You can taste the difference by roasting one and using the leftovers for chicken salad and chicken stock.
- I’ve never seen a market with more varieties of greens, so now’s the time to try some new ones! Arkansas Abundance has got delicious joy choy, arugula, bibb lettuce, gourmet lettuce, mustard greens, and spinach, while Barnhill Orchards brings us baby bok choy, broccoli greens, green and red butter crunch, collard greens, curly leaf and Florida broadleaf mustard greens, turnip greens, dino kale, and green and red leaf lettuce. Meanwhile, Crimmins Family Farm has got all certified organic arugula, white-stemmed bok choy, endive, mixed asian greens, turnip greens, kale, green butterhead, green leaf crisp, and last but certainly not least, mizuna. PHEW!
- The Root has preserved the sweetness of summer for us in the most delicious way possible. Their red or golden muscadine preserves would be the perfect sweet to add to your morning carbs, and I’m definitely going to put some sweet summer squash relish on the next sausage I see.
Another huge thanks to all our friends that made it out to Foodcraft last weekend! We want to know what other types of workshops y’all would like to see in the future. Please take 5 minutes to fill out this survey and you’ll be entered for the chance to win $15 in Food Club credit!
Happy Eating!
- Alex Handfinger
Director of Operations
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Suwanee Whole Life Co-op: Wild Alaskan Salmon is BACK!
I am very happy to announce that Wild Alaskan Salmon is now on the market! Doug is back from Alaska with a fresh catch of Wild Salmon. It will now be available weekly!
Doug’s Wild Alaska Salmon is owned and operated by the Resetarits family with three generations of Alaskan fisherman spanning a 30 year period.
Doug is a Homer, Alaska native, a licensed Coast Guard captain and former Bering Sea crabber of “Deadliest Catch” fame.
Every year in June and July, Doug and his family operate four 32 foot fishing boats in Bristol Bay. Bristol Bay is the largest wild “red salmon” or sockeye salmon fishery in the world. Certified sustainable, natural, and robust, the Alaska salmon fisheries are known worldwide as a model of successful fisheries management and economic prosperity.
Doug will have Whole Salmon Fillets, Salmon portions, Smoked Salmon and Wild Alaskan Halibut on the market site starting this weekend.
Salmon Fillets and portions are fresh-frozen with the skin on, boneless and individually vacuum packaged. Halibut portions are fresh-frozen skinless, boneless and individually vacuum packaged.
Champaign, OH: Once In A Lifetime
And you may ask yourself…
Well…How did I get here?
(Once In A Lifetime-Talking Heads)
So many meanings, so many memories to this song…and, yet so much meaning for this little market.
Today’s song comes from a good friend of mine who lives way too far from me, in Maryland. She is the kind of friend that has a very dry wit, a very unique way of looking at things, a very polished music background, and we could actually go head to head in making conversations with just song lyrics.
Anyway…we had a few little quips on my personal Facebook page, today, it resulted in me quoting this song, we laughed, and then I knew it would be a perfect Sunday song for me to write about…
Talking Heads…a very specific group in a very specific time frame of my life. College, pre-college, underground clubs, lots of Talking Heads. This song was a song that I used in my everyday soundtrack that ran through my brain, back then.
Once In A Lifetime. I used the thought, I embraced it as a way of life, I decided that each and every moment should always be looked at as a “once in a lifetime” kind of moment.
And…to this day, I still have that thought on constant replay. I feel that people, places, things, times…they are all there, happening at just the right time, or coming on the scene right when you need it, or something exploding in awesome proportions, just at the right time. Once in a lifetime series of moments.
We all need those moments. We all want to experience a once in a lifetime moment. We know it when it happens. We know it when we have worked and worked and worked at something, it finally all comes together, it’s a success, and you step back and think…yes, once in a lifetime.
As you know, my love and passion for this market runs deep. People now stop me to talk about this market, this weblog, my passion for it all…my excitement for it all. This market is rockin’ and rollin’ and it continues to climb the charts. It’s that once in a lifetime moment when the customers, the vendors, the managers, the hosts from the Y, have all been cosmically charged to make this whole thing happen. To watch it skyrocket. To experience something so unbelievable on a local level…once in a lifetime.
Today is Sunday…the market is groovin’ right along. Make sure to take some time out of your day, look through the market, make your selections, get all of your shopping done for the week, and then join the party that Thursday evenings have become, when you pick up your orders!!
How easy, how simple, how healthy, how local….it all comes together…once in a lifetime.
Peace and Love,
Cosmic Pam
Gwinnett Locally Grown: Sunday Market Reminder!
The Market is open Thursday at 9 – Monday at noon After that, ordering is disabled until Thursday morning. Pick up your order Tuesday from 4:00-7:00 p.m. only at Rancho Alegre Farm at 2225 Givens Road, Dacula, GA 30019. New to The Market? Learn about how it works here.
MARKET NEWS
Remember…
The Market is extending their hours! The Market will now be open from 4:00 to 7:00pm!
Having said that, if you place an order with us, PLEASE remember to pick it up on Tuesday. As I am so grateful for your orders, I also have a family at home waiting on me too! We cannot hold orders, especially cold items due to limited refrigeration space, so please be courteous and come for your order.
WOW! What wonderful weather we’re having! The morning air is crisp and I’ve seen a few leaves changing! I just love Fall!
As I’m sitting here with my morning cup of coffee I’m reminded of our featured Grower of the week….
This is a family business that takes pride and love in each hand roasted batch they produce! I’m hoping to get her out here for Market so you can sample her delicious coffee!
Highlighted Grower of the Week!
JavaGenesis Coffee Roasting is a small batch craft coffee roaster located in Bethlehem, Georgia. Their roast philosophy is to roast each bean to bring out the best characteristics of the coffee. Your coffee will arrive with the roast date on the package so you will know that you are drinking coffee at the peak of freshness. Whether you choose a medium or dark roast coffee, a single origin or blend (coming soon) or regular or decaf this means a great cup of coffee for you! Let them help you “Discover the Fresh Roast Difference!”*_
Each week, I want to remind you who our Grower’s are and why they are so special!
I mentioned before that we are expanding the Market and adding new items!
Remember we have Kombucha available! If you are not familiar with it, Kombucha is a naturally fermented tea with natural probiotics! It has been around for centuries originating in Asia. It is said to have healing properties and because it is naturally fermented, is a great support for the digestive system. When your here, ask me for a sample! I’d love your feedback!
If there is something you’d like to see in the Market, please let me know!*_
CLICK HERE NOW to Shop Gwinnett Locally Grown!
My best to all -
Shop often and eat well!
Cheryl Gelatt
Market Manager
grow@ranchoalegrefarm.com
Fresh Wishes,
Pilar Quintero
Market Host
Rancho Alegre Farm
Please email grow@ranchoalegrefarm.com for questions pertaining to Market or Raw Milk. It is very difficult to return phone calls. If you are interested in Goat’s Milk, contact Nic The Goat Guy at 404-542-0981. We generally have some goat’s milk available during market hours, whether you have placed a market order or not. Please contact him first though to confirm. Remember to interact with us on Facebook and follow us on Meetup to get notification on all our wonderful events and news.