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Joyful Noise Acres Farm:  The market closes at 8:00 tonight.


Take a moment and get your orders in. We have lots of fresh options to choose from. Georgia Farm to Table is back in the market with their popular vegetable boxes and the flavors of fall are showing up in delicious breads and cupcakes.
See you Wednesday.
Thank you for shopping local!

Mary Beth

Gwinnett Locally Grown:  Monday Morning Reminder!


This email is a gentle reminder that ordering through Gwinnett Locally Grown will close today at noon.

The Market is open Thursday Noon – Monday 9:00 a.m. After that, ordering is disabled until Thursday noon-ish. Pick up your order Tuesday 4:30-6:30 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

Sorry I forgot to send out a reminder yesterday. Enjoy a couple extra hours of ordering time. I’ll close the market at noon today.
See you Tuesday!
-iris

My best to all -

Shop often and eat well!

Market Manager
grow@ranchoalegrefarm.com

Fresh Wishes,
Pilar Quintero
Market Host
Rancho Alegre Farm

Please contact 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 Nik 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 events and news.

 

Carolina Foothills, SC:  Market is open till 4pm!


http://carolinafoothills.locallygrown.net/market

Good morning folks,

Just a quick Reminder
The Market stay open till 4pm today. Remember to get your orders in by then so we can send it off the the farmers who harvest fresh just for you.

Yay! We have a lot Lettuce and Greens as we transition from summer garden to Fall Garden. Look for winter squashes , sweet potatoes, just to name a few.

And there are lots of Tilapia to harvest! These are nice sized tasty fish from Bo’s Garden Farm. These are reasonably priced and super good eating. I recommend buying extra to freeze.

Eat well & local!

Cedar Grove Farm:  CSA Availability for 9/17


Morning everyone,

My apologies for the late start. We have several new items this week including the first of our beloved sweet salad turnips, broccoli greens, radishes, edamame, and lima beans. This is my favorite time of year when the fall crops are trickling in but we still have the summer veggies too. Market is open, enjoy the offerings!

Have a happy and a healthy,

Cedar Grove Farm

Martin's Farmstand:  Potatoes and canning tomatoes


Fall is coming and it is getting pretty cool to be out picking early in the morning. Long johns and a good coat help a great deal however to make it ok to be out.
We have a lot of canning tomatoes right now. Last week we were picking over 1000 lbs at a time and most of them found a good home. It looks to me that the tomato supply will drop a lot soon so do not procrastinate.

We planted 1200 lbs of seed potatoes in late June. Potato bugs can be a problem for organic potatoes, however if they are planted in late June they usually do not get many bugs. This is one of the reasons we plant the largest amount of potatoes so late and only small amounts early for new potatoes. We should have a large amount of Irish potatoes available in late October. There are red, white, russet, and yellow kinds planted. Daniel

Northeast Georgia Locally Grown:  Locally Grown - Availability for September 17th, 2013


Hey Local Food Lovers,

You may not know it, but local food farmers are planning big things for the future. These plans come in all sizes and forms. Sometimes it’s as simple as growing a new variety of squash or carrot or potato that did especially well in a trial run. For some it means preparing new ground (believe it or not this is the time of year you start doing that for next spring). For a few, it’s constructing a new greenhouse that’ll open up a whole new way of growing, and opportunities to grow more, and for more months of the year.

These days farmers don’t just work in isolation on their own farms. They like to collaborate, trade ideas, go in together on an order of supplies. All these little efforts add up to more knowledge, better farming and hopefully more fun.

One of the things that local food farmers give more thought to than other farmers is markets. Getting food to the right customers at the right times is trickier than you might think. For one it’s gonna involve time, and it’s gonna involve driving. It’s also gonna involve telling a story.

One of the things we’ve tried to learn to do better as a group of farmers, rather than just each individual farmer on their own, is learn to tell the story of North Georgia local food farmers. It’s an interesting story and getting more interesting all the time. Our annual farm tour is a great way we’ve learned to tell our story together as a group.

Another thing happening in our story of North Georgia farms is there are more and more people interested in farming and/or producing good local food. Heck, you may even be one of these people and I encourage you to give it a try. The year that my wife and I had time to grow watermelons, tomatoes, fennel, cucumbers, beets, cabbage, squash, okra, potatoes and go hunt wild mushrooms in the woods was one of the best years of our lives, and it was the joy of going to markets and selling to people that made it so special. We were wannabe farmers for a moment (we still grow, we just hoard it for ourselves now). I guarantee that over the next 6 months you’ll see some brand new foods from some brand new faces. It’s not unrealistic that one of you reading this might decide to make that you.

I say all this because the organization behind our Northeast Georgia Locally Grown is called the Georgia Mountains Farmers Network and we’re having a meeting of our board tomorrow night. We’re pretty new, having just started back in January 2012 and formed our first board this past February 2014. Sometimes opportunity drives you to do more than you thought you would and our little group realized several things. First, that if farmers didn’t take leadership in local foods, then somebody else would. As local foods become more popular, like everything, there’s a risk of co-optation. You know how such things go. It’s happened before with conventional farms and our grocery store landscapes. It’s important, very important for FARMERS to play the central role in how Local Food Landscapes develop and grow, to insure that their needs are met.

For two years, our little farmer network identified two things as their primary needs 1) Cooperative Marketing so that more farms could get more food to more urban customers. Hoila, that’s where we got the idea for expanding to Gainesville. 2) To host public events that promoted Local Foods in our region. That’s the FARM TOUR. We can’t believe how well that’s gone. We have about $4,000 earned from our last two events to invest in our future collaborations whatever they may be. Obviously our group does a lot more than these two things. We also visit each others farms every other month 8 months of the year. That’s fun. We share food and stories and get to know each other.

We’re not really sure what’s next (ha ha, that’s only a half truth). But we do know we’re having fun moving forward. And we also know for the first time we have a bit of money to promote Local Foods in a significant way (our USDA grant I mentioned a few weeks ago – hurray!). We’ve never really done much outside of a press release here and there, a business card or flier, a few signs. But it’s time for us to get the attention a few more people. Maybe a few more hundred, maybe a few thousand. It’s hard to say. As we try and learn how to do this (we are farmers after all) we’re gonna need a lot of help. If you or someone you know wants to offer some suggestions on how to make local foods a fixture in more people’s lives, tell us. If your idea rises to the top of all ideas, we may just do it.

We’re at the very beginning of something wonderful, and challenging and exciting. But we’re working together to build the Local Food landscape that sounds good to us. We want it to sound good to you too, because after all you are the folks we count on to…..

EAT WELL,

Justin, Chuck, Teri and Andrew

Atlanta Locally Grown:  Available for Saturday September 20


I hope this finds you all doing well. The market is open and ready for orders. We have a nice selection of products available this week. Our first baby arugula and other baby greens are coming in. We are also loaded with lots of things from Taylorganic. Order up, the beans, okra, peppers and other summer stuff will be gone soon.

This is also a great time for you to reserve you hog share. We have 1/2 and 1/4 shares available for reservations. The pork will be ready the first week of November.

Thank you for your orders and we will see you on Saturday between 9-10 at your selected delivery location.

Thank you,
Brady

Conyers Locally Grown:  Available for Friday September 19


I hope this finds you all doing well. The market is open and ready for orders. We have a nice selection of products available this week. Our first baby arugula and other baby greens are coming in. We are also loaded with lots of things from Taylorganic. Order up, the beans, okra, peppers and other summer stuff will be gone soon.

This is also a great time for you to reserve you hog share. We have 1/2 and 1/4 shares available for reservations. The pork will be ready the first week of November.

Thank you for your orders and we will see you on Friday between 5-7 at Copy Central.

Thank you,
Brady

DeForest, WI:  Availability for Week of September 14


The market is now open.

Madison GA:  great news!!!!! The Market is Open!!!!


Back from vacation ready to get home!!! On Wed all pickups from customers and deliveries from growers need to go to Auto1 across from Ingles. Everyone just see Lori ThAnks good to be back!!