Wick's Locally Grown:  Wick's Locally Grown

Hi everyone,

Just wanted to let you know we will be closed until the fall produce begins to make. That should be in late September.

Have good summer and try to keep cool and we will see you in September.

Dan
Wick’s Locally Grown

Princeton Farm Fresh:  The Market is Open

It looks like summer is going to make a come back this week. We are still trying to grow head lettuce this summer, but the heat has slowed its growth way down. It had a bit of a growth spurt last week, but sadly still not ready!
With all of the tomatoes on the market this week I thought I would post the recipe for Tomato Pie that I brought last week to market.
From southernplate.com and if you are new to this type of recipe- she has a great picture log of how she made it. Super Yummy and well worth the effort!

Ingredients

3 medium sized tomatoes
6 large fresh basil leaves (if you don’t have fresh use 2 teaspoons dried)
1 1/2 cups shredded cheddar cheese
1/2-3/4 cup mayo
2 teaspoons balsamic vinegar
1 teaspoons kosher salt
1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
1 pie crust baked but not browned

Directions
Cut tomatoes into slices.

Place in colander and sprinkle with 1/2 teaspoon table salt. Allow to drain for ten minutes (can skip this step if you like).

Arrange 1/2 of tomato slices in baked pie crust. Top with 1/2 of kosher salt, 1/2 of pepper, 1/2 of basil, 1/2 of vinegar, and 1/2 of cheese.

Repeat.

Spread mayo over top of pie. Bake at 350 for 30 minutes or until lightly browned.
See you Friday!
Angela

South Cumberland Food Hub:  Cantaloupe and Watermelon!

Good Morning from the South Cumberland Food Hub.
Ferrel Farms has beautiful watermelons and cantaloupes this week, as well as the most delicious, super sweet corn you’ve ever eaten!

Pickett Farm has their delicious and pretty Kennebec potatoes ready now. They had a bumper crop and they are plentiful.

Crow Mountain Orchard has plums and pears now in addition to freestone peaches. Look for grapes and nectarines next week.

There are many more items to choose from, so check out the whole list here:
Click here to go directly to the Rootedhere Locally Grown Market Page

Have a great day!
Risa

Heirloom Living Market Lilburn:  There is still time to order...

Market Closes at 6:00pm Today!

Heirloom Living Market Hamilton Mill:  Have you placed your order yet?

Market Closes at 6:00pm Today!

CSA Farmers Market:  Maple Dill Carrots

3 cups peeled and sliced carrots
2 tablespoons butter
2 tablespoons brown sugar
1 1/2 tablespoons chopped fresh dill
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon black pepper
Place carrots in a skillet and pour in just enough water to cover. Bring to a boil over medium heat; simmer until water has evaporated and the carrots are tender. Stir in butter, brown sugar, dill, salt, and pepper.

Submitted by Racheal Yonkman

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

Reminder to get your orders in before the market closes at 8 this evening. The vegetables choices are wonderful and the baked items are tempting! If you have a special occasion coming up, please take a look at Two Daughters bakery. Her cakes are not only lovely to look at but delicious. She will do other specialty cakes not listed on the market.

Thank you for supporting locally grown and we look forward to seeing you Wednesday.

Mary Beth

DeForest, WI:  Availability for week of July 20

Bauman’s Natural Meats and Pheasants are offering beef, pork, and chicken along with BBQ sauce this week for delivery to Forest Run Farm on Friday, July 25. As the name implies, Bauman’s all natural meats are grown on pasture in the open air and sunshine. They will deliver the 4th Friday of each month (July 25, Aug 22, Sept. 26, Oct. 24). On weeks they do not deliver, their items will appear at Zero (sold out).

Forest Run Farm will have green beans and Sweet green peppers. They also have a few items that will be listed at Zero (Sold out) because the availability is in question: that includes berries, tomatoes, patty pan. If you are interested in one of the Zeroed items, you can add to the comment section what you would be interested in and we will pack what is available.

Note that CSA credit can not be used on meat or coffee, 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: Bring your punchcard. We still recommend pre-ordering so that you get the most variety.

Market is Open.

Northeast Georgia Locally Grown:  Weblog Entry

Hey Local Food Lovers,

This is a very interesting week at Locally Grown in every way I can imagine. For those of you who have been customers for awhile you are probably really, really excited to see Split Creek’s amazing goat cheeses and other goat dairy products listed this week. This is a rare treat that has been a part of our Locally Grown market almost from the beginning. Split Creek is a dairy in South Carolina located right between Clemson and Anderson on Hwy 85. Even though its just a bit far away, one of our market managers in Clarkesville Teri Parker offered to pick up orders from Split Creek on special occasions years ago and those of us who have enjoyed their products all this time have been incredibly thankful.

Thanks to the rapid rise in enthusiastic customers after last week’s Gainesville Times article (last week was our biggest sales week in Locally Grown history at almost $2,500) my wife, Ching-Yu thought this would be the perfect time to have a special offering of Split Creek cheeses, called them up, talked them through re-listing and offered to pick it up on Wednesday. This is the first time since last November we’ve done a Split Creek run. Ironically, Ching-Yu ended up popping out a baby at 3am Sunday morning and won’t be able to do the pick-up (the baby is fine and beautiful by the way). FORTUNATELY, to everyone’s good fortune Teri, who started our whole Split Creek thing in first place has offered to do the pickup for us insuring a very tasty week indeed.

One reason I give this backstory is to let folks know how grass rootsy this little market is. We’re not a business I assure you, we’re more like a community project run by some people very dedicated to good food, from good people, to good people. I also wanted to emphasize how GOOD Split Creek Dairy is and how special it is to get to try some of it. I had my first jar of feta in oil probably back in 2006 as a customer of the Athens Locally Grown, and I’ve had maybe 2 dozen jars since then. I’ve licked every jar clean, dipped my bread in the oil, made the best squash casserole of my life, placed the cheese on homemade toast with figs, basil and honey, and dozens of other ways that stand out as great, great memories. So, since this might be the last time for a good long while (or it might not, you just never know), order some Split Creek this week and I guarantee you’ll enjoy it.

Ok, now that I’ve oohed and ahhed. There’s just so much to ooh and ahh over. Mainly my first kid that’s napping a few feet away, but I won’t go into that (she’s not edible, but fortunately the hospital is located exactly two blocks from Two Dog Cafe in Gainesville, so I’ve been walking there for meals the last two days).

Sweet Corn! That’s an exciting new item this week. It’s sold out by the time I wrote this, but those who got it will love it I’m sure. O’hana Farms is back this week after a short break with lots of delicious and unique pork options. Sah-Ka-Na-Ga Gardens is offering some great herbal and oil remedies. My dog gets hotspots and I can’t wait to try their homemade remedy. It’s the kind of medicine my dog doesn’t mind getting because it soothes immediately and smells good to me. The Farm Boxes from Baird Farms and Wild Earth Gardens & Herbals have been beautiful. We love to see the creativity and the representative diversity of what’s growing that week on the farm in a beautiful display that is also quite a discount if you were to buy all these items individually. The Princess Feathers Flower six pack from Mountain Earth Farms is a bargain for those seeking to fill their gardens with beautiful and abundant flowers, not just this year but in future years. Give them a try. And potatoes, cucumbers, and squash are at their peak. Enjoy these treats while their at their freshest. Tomatoes are also super abundant. And Sweet potato leaves are awesome if you’d like to try something a bit different.

I love scanning the weekly list of fresh food. I love that there’s people willing to grow it. I love buying it, I love picking it up, and I love planning my meals around it. I love cutting it up and cooking it, and I love eating it and sharing it with family and friends. I also love learning more about all of it, from each individual who grows it, to the origins of what they grow and how it tastes best. It’s July 20, pretty much the height of summer. It’s a good time to love all these things. And this week of this year is a great time to enjoy local food! So enjoy! And…..

EAT WELL,

Justin in Gainesville this evening
and
Chuck in Rabun
and
Teri and Andrew

PS – Habersham Harvest restaurant in Clarkesville opened this weekend. It’s a farm to table restaurant and we absolutely loved it. The crimini mushrooms in a sage / wine / butter sauce blew my mind. If you’re up that way you’ve got to pay them a visit. When you do you’ll eat much of the food you find on this website, only prepared by a master chef. Go eat there if you enjoy the elegant delivery local food!

Athens Locally Grown:  ALG Market Open for July 24