Local Farms First:  Place Your Orders For Fresh Local Summer Produce!

Greetings Local Farms First food lovers!

Order Before Monday Morning!!

This week there is an abundance of Carrots, Beets, Radishes, Turnips, Greens like Kale, Chard, Lettuce Mixes, Pickles, Eggs, Chicken, Beef, Juice, Pork And Summer Berries!!

Please Log on to Local Farms First and order to support your hard working local farmers!! Thank You :)

Thanks for supporting local family farms,
Amy Konash- Market Manager
LocalFarmsFirst.org – a 501c3 non-profit
970-641-7682
click here to start shopping on the website:
www.LocalFarmsFirst.com

Heirloom Living Market Lilburn:  'Bits and Bites' July 27, 2014

Greetings Lilburn, Crossfit and Hamilton Mill Market Folks:

Important Reminders, Other Matters and Pertinent Information

Life Happens

It has been a challenging weekend for me in the health department — and I am just not up to writing. Please check out the Featured Items and the New Items highlighted at the beginning of the Market listing! (Be happy – you get a break from my musings!)

Heirloom Living Market Hamilton Mill:  'Bits and Bites' July 27, 2014

Greetings Lilburn, Crossfit and Hamilton Mill Market Folks:

Important Reminders, Other Matters and Pertinent Information

Life Happens

It has been a challenging weekend for me in the health department — and I am just not up to writing. Please check out the Featured Items and the New Items highlighted at the beginning of the Market listing! (Be happy – you get a break from my musings!)

Heirloom Living Market Lawrenceville :  "Bits and Bites" July 27, 2014

Greetings Lilburn, Crossfit and Hamilton Mill Market Folks:

Important Reminders, Other Matters and Pertinent Information

Life Happens

It has been a challenging weekend for me in the health department — and I am just not up to writing. Please check out the Featured Items and the New Items highlighted at the beginning of the Market listing! (Be happy – you get a break from my musings!)

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.

Green Fork Farmers Market:  Weekly Product List

Dear Green Fork Farmers Market Customers,

Summer keeps bringing a bountiful variety of fresh foods grown by your local farmers, and it’s time to make your selections and place your order for this week’s market.

NEW this week—
Delicious sweet corn from Beyond Organics and beautiful mixed cherry tomatoes from Green Fork Farm. Get these while you can!

More vegetables this week—
So good and fresh—yellow squash, cucumbers, potatoes, green beans, green peppers, sweet banana peppers, jalapenos, and serranos.

Mushrooms—
Delectable, fresh Shiitake mushrooms, dried Shiitakes, and Shiitake powder. These are great with everything.

Herbs—
Fresh herbs make all the difference in cooking. We have Italian basil, Thai basil, parsley, sage, chives, lovage, and a mixed bunch that includes basil, oregano, rosemary, sage, parsley, and fennel. If you don’t use them all fresh by the end of the week, turn the bunch upside down and hang to dry, then use at your leisure.

Fruit—
Plentygood Farm has a couple of boxes of apples left, but they won’t last long.

Eggs—
We have both chicken and duck eggs raised on pasture. They’re the best!

Meat—
We still have one of the best selections of meat in town. Lots of different cuts of lamb, pork, chicken, beef, and duck. Don’t forget we have specialty meats too that are very flavorful and great for making broth and soup stock—chicken necks, hearts, livers and feet, as well as lamb bones for soup stock or dog bones. We also have pet food made from ground chicken backs—what a treat for your favorite house pet.

Olives and Olive Oil—
Direct from the grower in California. These olives are organic and brine cured, and the olive oil is from cold-pressed, organic olives. You won’t believe how amazing it is!

Prepared Foods—
We have delicious chocolate chip cookies made to order for you, with either a combination of oat and wheat flour, or all oat flour. You will also love our lacto-fermented sauerkraut and jalapeno slices—excellent for gut health. We also have salsa made from local ingredients grown without chemical fertilizers or pesticides.

Place your order from now until Tuesday at noon. You can also stop by the market on Wednesday to shop. For the best selection, make sure you do both!

Thanks so much,

Green Fork Farmers Market

Wednesdays 4-7 pm
Indoors, Year Round
In the Breezeway 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.

ALFN Local Food Club:  The Market is Open!

Hello Local Food Lovers,

The market is open with almost 800 products available for ordering (754 to be exact). That’s 754 locally-grown and produced products from small Arkansas farms and businesses. Customers select from the widest selection of local vendors and products in Central Arkansas, while growers drop pre-sold products off with us and then sell their products elsewhere, increasing their sales, stability, and customer base. While all this probably isn’t news to most of you, it can be easy to forget what a truly great thing we have going here. Thank you so much to our Board, staff, volunteers, partners, growers, and customers like you for keeping us growing seven years strong.

Anyways, I digress. On the market this week:

• Gourmet selections from Kent Walker Artisan Cheese. Kent’s been blessing Little Rock with his high quality cheeses for a few years now, and word on the street is that it shouldn’t be too long before Kent brings a cheese, wine, and beer tasting room to Main Street. We’re SO excited for this, but until then, we’ll quite happily make do with his Bluff Top Gouda, Garlic Montasio, Habanero Cheddar, Leicester, and Ophelia from the market.

• I’m always amazed at the variety, quality, and selection of products from the awesome folks at Falling Sky Farm. Besides raising cattle, chickens, lamb, and pigs, they also run Conway Locally Grown and have been a pillar of pushing our local food movement forward. Falling Sky is a farm that was founded with a mission, and it really does show in the quality of their products. Besides, BACON.

• In perhaps my favorite listing ever, WEEDS from Food for Thought Farm. You read that right: WEEDS. It turns out a lot of that stuff that we pull out of the ground is actually quite nutritious and delicious. So try something new, support a small farm, and rebel against corporate agriculture all with one order!

• I’m counting over 30 different vegetable listings from Arkansas Natural Produce alone. That number’s even more amazing when you learn how small of a team brings us all of these year-round greens and other goodness. All of their products are outstanding, but their spring mix just may be one of the best salad blends anywhere, and their shiitake mushrooms are one item that I can rarely go without.

• One of the many perks to volunteering with ALFN is our wonderful snacks, which almost always include veggies alongside some Geek Eats hummus. I still can’t quite decide which hummus I love most, though the carrot curry and black bean & feta are fairly hard to beat. Then again, their cilantro almond pesto is my favorite pesto on the planet…Welp, guess I still can’t decide, ‘cause they’re all so great!

We’re incredibly blessed to call Christ Episcopal Church home. Besides graciously hosting our growing nonprofit, they fund and manage the amazing Green Groceries Food Pantry and have supported local food in a way that we could probably never repay. One way we can try is by shopping at their gigantic Re-Sell it Sale this Thursday, July 31st to Saturday, August 2nd. They’ve gathered a truly impressive selection of clothing, accessories, books, and SO much more, and all proceeds from the sale support a variety of charities in the community and projects within the parish. The sale will be in the 2nd floor gym on Thursday and Friday from 8:30-4 and Saturday from 8:30-2:30. So stop by before picking up your local food order, snag some great deals, AND support an amazing organization that truly practices what they preach.

Locally Yours,

- Alex Handfinger
Director of Operations

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Madison GA:  The Market is Open!!!!!

See everyone Wed!!!!!

Fountain Fresh Dairy LLC:  Market Open!

Hello everyone,
The market is open for ordering!
We are going to be trying something new. The market will now be open for ordering all week long. We still will have only two pickup times. So your order will need to be in, at the latest, the day before the pickup time you choose. If you have any questions feel free to contact us at 270-382-2866 or fountainfresh@wk.net. Thanks!

Stones River Market:  The Market is Back Open - Grilling Edition

Market News

It is hard to believe we have reached the last week on July. So far it has been a very pleasant summer. There is still plenty of summer left to enjoy too.

We have a first for the Market this week. Two farmers are offering corn – Rainbow Hill Farm and Rocky Glade Farm. The recipe this week, uses that corn on the grill. To accompany the corn on the grill, be sure to see the products offered by Wedge Oak Farm and West Wind Farms. There are other items on the Market that work for grilling too. You will find squash, zucchini, okra and eggplant from Flying S Farms and White City Produce and Greenhouse. You will also find several varieties of garlic this week from our farmers that can be incorporated into your recipes for the grill.

Other items of interest:

In addition to her fruit and veggie empanadas, Casa Segovia-Paz now has chicken and beef varieties available.

The Blue Porch has introduced several new items this morning including bread and butter pickles and pasta salad.

Blueberries are still available from Prospect Hill Farm.

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 this week. If you have created a dish and want to share with everyone, please send it to me.

Summer is grilling season and this weeks recipe focuses on grilling corn that many of us have done but may be new to others. Instructions come from Simply Recipe – http://www.simplyrecipes.com/recipes/grilled_corn_on_the_cob/

Grilled Corn on the Cob

INGREDIENTS

• 4 ears fresh corn, in their husks
• Butter (or an herb butter) for serving

METHOD

1. Prepare your grill, gas or charcoal, with direct, high heat, about 550°F. (You know the grill is hot enough if are able to hold your hand one inch above the grill for only 1 second.)
2. The corn husks will protect the corn from burning or drying out while it is on the hot grill. If you want a bit of char on your corn, peel off a few of the outer layers of the corn husks first, before grilling.
3. Place the corn in their husks on the hot grill. Cover the grill. Turn the corn occasionally, until the husks are completely blackened and charred on all sides, about 15 to 20 minutes.
4. Remove the corn from the grill. Let them sit for 5 minutes or until cool enough to handle. Remove the silks and charred husks from the corn. If you need to, use a damp towel to protect your hands from any sharp edges from the charred corn husks as you peel them off.
5. Serve with butter. (Or you can sprinkle with a little chili powder, cotija cheese, and some lime juice for a Mexican twist.)