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Princeton Farm Fresh:  The Market is Open


What a refreshing rain this morning! I am originally from Nevada, so just about any rain is a welcome rain in my book.
I would love to invite you to our first anniversary tasting this Friday. We will have a sample table set up with some of our great local foods and a few of our growers will be able to hang out in a meet and greet session.
I can’t thank you enough for all of your support this first year. Please come and celebrate with us on Friday 4-6pm at Tractor Supply.
Angela

South Cumberland Food Hub:  Open for Orders


Good Morning from the South Cumberland Food Hub. We’re open till noon today for orders.
Click here to go directly to the Rootedhere Locally Grown Market Page

Have a wonderful day!
Risa

Joyful Noise Acres Farm:  JNA Farm market closes at 8:00pm.


Just a reminder that the market closes tonight at 8:00. Please take a moment to get your orders in.
Joyful Noise Acres Farm will be processing a few chickens this week so there will be fresh chicken available for pick-up this Wednesday. Let me know how many you would like to reserve.
Thank you for supporting local foods and local farmers.
Blessings,
Mary Beth

DeForest, WI:  Availability for week of July 13


This week, the market listing for Bauman’s Natural Meats and Pheasants still shows “0”. Check out their website www.meatsandpheasants.com/ to find out more about their farm and meats. They are selling select items through this market and will be delivering items to the host site at Forest Run Farm Stand for pick up on the 4th Friday of each month ( July 25, Aug 22, Sept. 26, Oct. 24). Their items will appear at Zero (sold out) on weeks with no delivery.

Forest Run Farm this week has Cucumbers, zuchini and a few tomatoes on the way.

Farmer Rich says his sweet corn is looking good and may be ready soon too.

Please remember that Note that CSA credit can not be used on meat,coffee, or sweet corn when available, so please pay for them with cash or check made out to Forest Run Farm LLC.

Friday pick up will be 3-6pm at Forest Run Farm in DeForest. Please make alternate arrangements for pick up if needed. CSA members that pick up at Hilldale should arrive between 8 and noon. All Farmstand CSA members can shop at Forest Run Farm’s vendor location at Hilldale Farmers Market both Wednesdays and Satrudays: Bring your punchcard. We still recommend pre-ordering (for Sat. pickup) so that you get the most variety.

Northeast Georgia Locally Grown:  Locally Grown - Availability for July 16, 2014


Hey Local Food Lovers,

We have lots of new curious customers checking out the market this week on the heels of the Gainesville Times excellent article in Friday’s paper about our recent expansion.

If you haven’t seen it you can read the article by clicking here

Before I give a quick intro of the market for all the newbies let me put in some plugs for some brand new products this week. We’re beginning to get some items in huge abundance and tremendous variety. Take beans for example. We have 5 different beans from 5 different farms, including some real rarities like the beautiful red noodle bean. Potatoes have recently been dug, and one of our farms specializes in potatoes providing their seasonally popular red, white and blue mix (perfect for around the 4th of July), which features a unique blue potato called Adirondack Blue that you can also buy by itself if you want to surprise your friends. I just added some to my cart to put some color on my plate this week.

It’s also cucumber time and even though the straight up pickling cucumber is my favorite I love to see the lemon cukes (they look like round lemons), marketmore and other unusual varieties are beautiful and delicious. We just had some mediterranean food this weekend and I’ve been saving some dill from my garden to make tzatziki which is just a peeled, seeded, chopped and squeezed cuke, with plain greek yogurt (I drain the whey), dill, lots of garlic, and a bit of olive oil and lemon. It’s delicious as a dip with pita chips or drizzled on a salad. It’s the sauce you add to gyros of course.

Before I get on a long tear on what I ate good this week (Mill Gap chanterelle mushrooms in a homemade alfredo sauce), let me welcome those who are finding us for the first time and try and explain who we are.

Locally Grown is a collaboration of farmers all over the North Georgia Mountains. Believe it or not just 4 years ago we didn’t all know each other that well, but thanks to this market (we started in 2010) and the Farmers Network we started in 2012 (which hosts the Farm Tour from two weeks ago) now we do and we’re collaborating to get more local food to more customers who want it.

Locally Grown accomplishes two things for farmers and customers. First, this brilliant website designed by our friend Eric Wagoner in Athens, GA allows us all to post what items we have available every week to a central ordering place. It also consolidates the orders, lets us know, and even generates these nifty little labels that we affix to every item so we know who gets which order. Second, we all live kind of far apart and even further from the customers we’d like to sell to. This market allows us to distribute food all over the place with two simple shuttles driven by our market managers.

Each week on Wednesday several hours before customers get to market, farmers drop off their orders at two locations (whichever is closest to them) one in Tiger, GA (outside Clayton) and the other in Clarkesville, GA. At each of these locations farmers gently place their orders in one of three sets of coolers, those headed to Tiger, those headed to Clarkesville and those headed now to Gainesville. After all their orders are sorted they get a check and get to head back home. Then the market managers drive the first shuttle between Tiger and Clarkesville and do a great big swap. Once that is done, the final shuttle from Clarkesville to Gainesville is driven. And that’s how food picked way up in the Georgia mountains (and barely into North Carolina) on Tuesday or Wednesday morning can make it Gainesville by Wednesday afternoon without each farmer driving it all the way down there.

The system has been working well for 4 years, and has been growing steadily each year. We’re also open 12 months of the year which is a little unique (lots of farms have greenhouses now), so you can eat fresh healthy food all year long. And our farms are required to follow chemical free standards, as well as other important practices like grass-fed livestock. We encourage you to check out our standards on the GROWERS page in a document at the top called GUIDELINES FOR GROWERS. As you’ll see if you shop here for a long time, we’re constantly trying to improve our standards as well requiring more and more local ingredients in all our various food products, because one of our goals is to build a local food economy that sustains beautiful and functional landscapes.

Before we go we wanted to ask EVERYONE to help us with a small task. We are looking for a couple of VOLUNTEERS at our GAINESVILLE location who might be willing to help us distribute food beginning just before our market hours between 4:45-7pm. Individuals could volunteer each week or an every other week schedule. Each volunteer would receive a delicious local food stipend (you can choose what you want right from the website) that would keep you eating well in exchange for a couple of hours of service. If you or someone you know is interested please send an e-mail to me at soque@windstream.net or send them this PDF . This might be perfect for college students, or really anyone that would like to learn more about local food and farms and get involved in a great new community effort.

We’re really enjoying expanding Local Food to Gainesville. It’s going great so far and new items keep popping up every week.

Thanks for supporting us and EAT WELL,
Justin in Habersham
Chuck in Rabun
and Andrew and Teri

Athens Locally Grown:  ALG Market Open for July 17


Athens Locally Grown

How to contact us:
Our Website: athens.locallygrown.net
On Twitter: @athlocallygrown
On Facebook: www.facebook.com/athenslocallygrown
On Thursdays: Here’s a map.

Market News

This week is “Tomatoes at Terrapin”! July 17th, from 5:30 to 7:30 (yeah, right during ALG pickups, so I won’t be there unfortunately) is a fundraiser for the Athens Nurses Clinic where attendees get to help the clinic continue their cause of providing free medical services by eating deliciously fresh, locally grown tomato sandwiches and drinking refreshing, locally brewed Terrapin Beer! It’s the perfect way to celebrate the amazing tomatoes that local farmers donate to the event and help those who need their services. And there will also be live music! This year there is a great lineup of MrJordanMrTonks, Betsy Franck, the Wildcats, and the Megaband to listen to while eating those sandwiches and enjoying a beer. Bring your chairs, blankets, and kids! Tickets are $20 in advance and $24 at the door. (Under 21 $10; Kids under 10 $5). Get your advance tickets here: http://athensnursesclinic.org/wp/tomatoes-terrapin/get-tt-tickets/

Thanks so much for your support of Athens Locally Grown, all of our growers, local food, and our rights to eat it. You all are part of what makes Athens such a great area in which to live. We’ll see you on Thursday at Ben’s Bikes at the corner of Pope and Broad Streets from 4:30 to 8pm!

Other Area Farmers Markets

The Athens Farmers Market is open on Saturdays at Bishop Park and Wednesday afternoons downtown at city hall. You can catch the news on their website. The West Broad Farmers Market is open throughout the week here in Athens, and you can find more information about them here: www.athenslandtrust.org. The Washington-Wilkes Farmer’s Market in Washington is open every Saturday 9-12 behind the Washington Courthouse. The Oconee County farmers market is open Saturday mornings in front of the Oconee County Courthouse. The other area markets I haven’t mentioned have yet to open for the season, so far as I know.

All of these other markets are separate from ALG (including the Athens Farmers Market) but many growers sell at multiple markets. Please support your local farmers and food producers, where ever you’re able to do so!

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!

Dawson Local Harvest:  Produce is Plentiful, plus Local Honey!


The DAWSON LOCAL HARVEST for July 1.

Produce is Plentiful + Local Honey!

HEY EVERYONE! Several Things to talk about this week. First of all, Heirloom Tomatoes are back in large quantities again, so your favorites like “Cherokke Purple” and “Brandywine” can be ordered by name. BRADLEY’S FARM has several new items available now, including bunched Baby Carrots, 2 varieties of Kale, and a couple of other produce items (see “What’s New” on the Market page, but the best news to me is Local Wildflower Honey! Local Honey has an immunizing quality because the honey contains small amounts of the local allergens, plus because it’s a natural sweetener the body seems to handle it in a much more healthy way. I’m no expert, but a little bit of quick research while acquaint you with the benefits. Bradley’s Wildflower Honey comes in 2 sizes. Check It Out.

REFER A FRIEND AND GET $10! The Dawson Local Harvest wants to grow, in the literal and figurative sense. We are a small market right now, but we’ve got some excellent vendors and a nice selection of products that will keep getting better. All we need is more people like you who are interested in quality food and associated products. YOU CAN HELP! Simply Refer a Friend. Get someone you know who’s also into quality nutrition to sign up with Dawson Local Harvest. Tell them to send us an email mentioning your name and YOU’LL BOTH get a $10 Credit on your next order. Help us grow, help your friend be healthier, and help yourself!

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 DAWSON LOCAL HARVEST.

Atlanta Locally Grown:  Available for Saturday July 19


I hope this finds you all doing well.
As I send this email I am watching 3 sows nurse their litters as another begging the labor process. It is kinda cool watching life on a farm evolve.

That brings me to the hog share issue. We currently have two 1/2 hog shares available for delivery and 3 1/4 shares. The pork is fantastic. The 1/2 share is ~ 80lbs of meat and the 1/4 share is ~ 40lbs. We will begin taking reservations in the next few weeks for our shares in October.

Now to the produce, we have lots available. The heirloom tomatoes look fantastic. We will also have some great sweet corn from Green Glades Dairy this week.

Than you for all your support. We will see you Saturday at your selected delivery location. Please remember to share us with a friend.

Thanks again,
Brady

Conyers Locally Grown:  Available for Friday July 18


I hope this finds you all doing well.
As I send this email I am watching 3 sows nurse their litters as another begging the labor process. It is kinda cool watching life on a farm evolve.

That brings me to the hog share issue. We currently have two 1/2 hog shares available for delivery and 3 1/4 shares. The pork is fantastic. The 1/2 share is ~ 80lbs of meat and the 1/4 share is ~ 40lbs. We will begin taking reservations in the next few weeks for our shares in October.

Now to the produce, we have lots available. The heirloom tomatoes look fantastic. We will also have some great sweet corn from Green Glades Dairy this week.

Than you for all your support. We will see you on Friday between 5-7 at Copy Central(1264 Parker road) in Conyers. Please remember to share us with a friend.

Thanks again,
Brady

Madison GA:  The Market is Open!!!!!


See everyone Wed!!!