The Weblog
This weblog contains LocallyGrown.net news and the weblog entries from all the markets currently using the system.
To visit the authoring market’s website, click on the market name located in the entry’s title.
South Cumberland Food Hub: Open for Orders
Good Morning. The South Cumberland Food Hub is open for orders this morning until noon. We will resume our normal ordering and delivering hours this week.
We have fresh blueberries and cherries from Crow Mountain Orchard! They won’t last long, maybe one more week so if you want them, order today to be safe.
We also still have kales, broccoli, cabbage, eggs and many more items this week.
Thank you for supporting your local farmers!
Click here to go directly to the Rootedhere Locally Grown Market Page
Have a great day!
Risa
Heirloom Living Market Lilburn: Reminder to Order!
Reminder
Market Closes at 6:00pm Today!
Thank you for your support!
See you at Market on Thursday!
See you at Market on Thursday!
Champaign, OH: Friday On My Mind
Monday morning feels so bad…Everybody seems to nag me…Comin’ Tuesday I’ll feel better…
(Easybeats – Friday On My Mind)
Yes, it IS Monday morning! Yes, I am feeling just as crazy as you all are feeling!! There is nothing more jarring than to try to just ease out of the weekend of bliss only to have to slam into a Monday morning at lightening speed. Hello…it’s the dawn of a new week.
We can make it all a bit easier for you…we can do all of the work for you! Once you get settled into the crazy day, take a bit of time, make a quick list, go to our market site, and order away!! As soon as we see your orders come through, our work begins and your work has ended. It’s that easy!
We bring you local, we bring you nutrition, we bring you seasonal. We want to take a bit of stress out of your life!
Go dream of Friday while we make your Monday a bit easier!
A few things to brighten the week…
A reminder about the upcoming farm tour that I posted about at End Of The Road Farms!! Check the date, June 21, and try to get an RSVP back to me so that I can let the Ruff’s know how many to expect! What a fun day!!
Once again, there will be a lucky winner in the Market Love playlist drawing!! All customers who order for the week will get their names in the drawing!!
I will be drawing another Cosmic Coupon Of Love winner, this week! All Cosmic customers will be entered into the drawing!!
If you need your asparagus fix, get your orders in!!! The season will wrap up, soon, and this is the best asparagus, ever!!
Get on with your day and your week…we look forward to your orders!!
Peace and Love,
Cosmic Pam
Seedtime and Harvest: Beautiful Rains
We have received beautiful rains! So many folks suffered from hail and storms but Seedtime’s crops are untouched and beautiful. Thank you, Lord.
DeForest, WI: Availability for week of June 8
This week Forest Run Farm is offering all plants 4 for $9. That is buy 3 and get 1 Free. Please order the 3 and put in your comments which one you want as the free one.
Old99Farm Market: Old 99 Farm, week of June 8th, 2014
If I had more time I’d post a couple of pics of the now three week old Maremma pups. Very cute. Be sure to visit them, mother Sheba is now more relaxed about visitors.
We’re planting the rest of the hot weather crops: more tomatoes, eggplant, peppers, sweet potatoes.
Two weeks till the Strawberry Solstice Potluck, Sun June 22. Come around 2 with chairs and place-setting, to enjoy strawberries with cream and a light potluck meal. Families with last name starting from A to M please bring beverages or berries. Families N to Z please bring a main dish or salad. I provide the cream etc. RSVP really helps the planning.
Still lots of greens in the greenhouse.
Order at www.old99farm.locallygrown.net
On July 5th, I am hosting a farm tour sponsored by Ecological Farmers of Ontario. For a small donation you can attend to hear and see what Garden Farming for a Bleak Post-carbon Future is about. register at www.efao.ca on the events tab.
Healthy eating,
Ian and Camelia
Athens Locally Grown: ALG Market Open for June 12
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
First this week, I’m the bearer of sad news. Early Thursday morning Jim McBride, known around town as “Farmer Jim”, passed away in his sleep after a very long and painful illness. Jim’s Farm out in Winterville was widely regarded as the producer of the area’s finest blueberries, gems among the riches of excellent blueberries grown around town. Jim came to town about a decade ago from the west coast, drawn to town by the climate, the people, and the burgeoning food scene that was developing here. Jim was especially supporting of Athens Locally Grown and my vision for the software system I was creating to keep it going. He encouraged me back when it was a finicky website I cobbled together to re-write it from scratch as a set of tools that could be used by communities across the country to reproduce we we boult here. His support helped me push through a full grueling year of getting up at four in the morning every day so I could program, before going to work for eight hours, and then going back home to work in the gardens into the evening. Now, there are hundreds of communities across North America using locallygrown.net to get food from small farms to the kitchens of local households, and I’ll always remember Jim’s encouragement that helped make this happen. He was a character for sure, but always generous in every way he could be. He will be missed.
If you’re looking for something to do this Thursday after picking up your ALG order, may I suggest an evening of Pacific Island cooking combined with Georgia herbalism? Filipino chef and poet Pasckie Pascua will be teaching by preparing a meal focused on Mung Bean Soup, a popular staple dish of the region. Christina Wagoner will be on hand to talk about new uses for culinary herbs you may already be familiar with. The event is hosted by Mama Bird’s Granola and Kitchen downtown. For more information, please take a look here: http://superhomeypoetwok.blogspot.com/2014/05/island-cooking-demo-and-herbalism.html.
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!
Northeast Georgia Locally Grown: Locally Grown - Availability for June 11, 2014n
Hey Local Food Lovers,
It’s FINALLY arrived…. Locally Grown is officially adding a 3rd PICK UP site in Gainesville, GA! Hallelujah! We’ve been planning this expansion for over a year (seriously since February), and now after turning 4 years and 2 months old, Locally Grown is growing in a big way. We have a feeling this week may have a momentous impact just like our first day back in April 2010.
Now before I get excited describing all the delicious food offered this week, we should give a quick history for those who are brand new to Locally Grown.
Locally Grown is a website market which is a fairly new, innovative and efficient way to get lots of local food to lots of customers. It all started with Eric Wagoner in Athens, GA back in 2004. Eric was a software engineer and a farmer who recognized that a web based market could save farmers a lot of time. He started designing a website so growers could post all their products and availability each week to restaurants (eliminating a bunch of phone calls). This market was called Athens Locally Grown. With a website featuring photos, prices and descriptions, consolidating availability lists and orders from multiple farms, Eric realized, why not just have customers order off this site as well! He did, and then more and more customers started shopping, finding the convenience of choosing so many items from so many farms while in your pajamas, appealing. Customers were out-buying the restaurants and the market grew and grew. In 2006 Eric took the time to redesign the site so that anyone anywhere in the world could start their own Locally Grown market. He did a good job. Today there over 400 Locally Grown markets spread from the Virgin Islands to Europe (though most are in the US). You can get an idea of it’s impact with this impressive map of LGs
Proximity is an important thing in the spread of good ideas and it didn’t take long before some smart mountain farmers discovered Athens Locally Grown and thought it might be a good thing in Northeast Georgia as well. Given their experience selling to LG in Athens they could see that Locally Grown has lots of benefits to farmers. First, the ease of being able to package each customers order, afix a label, and drop it off at a pick up site allowed them to head back to the farm. Every once in a while it gave them an extra few minutes in the parking lot to trade ideas with other farmers too (which can be useful). In our case since we run a shuttle between pickup locations it allowed each farm’s products to reach customers that were slightly beyond their easy driving distance. So a farmer located way up a mountain can drive 20 minutes and drop off, then in just a few hours, customers an hour or more away can pick it up fresh. That little bit of collaboration with other farmers is a key, key part of Locally Grown.
Ah the shuttle run. It’s so simple and we’re looking forward to our first one to Gainesville on Wednesday. It all starts at 2pm when farmers drop off all their products in coolers designated for either Tiger, Clarkesville and now Gainesville. We try and be extra careful to put the right product in the right coolers (but an accident may occur once every blue moon). Then during this “behind the scenes” part of Locally Grown is when farmers are joking around politicking, gossiping. They are an ornery bunch. But they grow good food so we tolerate all this on account of the awesomeness they produce.Then coolers filled, gab shot, each farmer gets a check and goes home to lay on the couch. Meanwhile, their food all mingled together in freshly sealed bags with people’s names on them gets whisked via various wheeled vehicles across Northeast Georgia. And minutes later, at 5pm magically assembled is the food from as many as 20 farms or more all bundled together just for you.
So that’s basically how it works.
But before we talk food….let me add. Northeast Georgia Locally Grown has become a fun little community of people these last four years. Customers, farmers, kids, dogs, cats, all. We’re a pretty lively bunch if we don’t say so. That community is about to expand to our nearest neighbors Gainesville (like it’s literally happening right now), and if it’s anything like what we’ve experienced so far, it’s gonna be a lovely relationship. So get ready for our first great date!
Ok, now that you’re turned on! Holy cow we got artichokes in North Georgia this week. That’s hot! Just from memory I think we also got carrots, peas, strawberries, bread (some all organic, some gluten free), eggs, fennel, cabbage, of course lettuce, kale x10, ground pork sausage, squash, maybe asparagus, garlic, onions, radish, more. Nearly 400 items.
We got to visit Melon Head Farms on Friday which was what I would call “crazy fun.” Hard to believe it’s only 3 weeks away and you can visit them too. The Georgia Mountain Farm Tour 2014 is almost here (June 28 and 29). In fact this week and next week are the last weeks to buy a weekend pass for $30. The best way to order is through Locally Grown. Just add to your basket then write a separate check when you come to market to “GMFN” which stands for Georgia Mountains Farmers Network. It’s a whole nother thing we do (but lots of us same people). If you don’t know what the tour is check it out here
Ah, an idea!
Watch last year’s video of the FARM TOUR and we know you’ll want to come.
http://vimeo.com/69288616
And to make it even more interesting, the fellow who shot this video is now your new Gainesville Market Manager, Andrew Linker. Hey Andrew! Andrew met all our Clarkesville market customers two weeks ago when he did a guest spot at that market. They loved him, you’ll love him, and he’s a local Gainesvillian so he’ll be your main man when it comes to Locally Grown.
We also want to thank the Northeast Georgia History Center for being the absolute best place in Gainesville to serve as hosts for our little market. They were more than interested in the idea, they loved it and their enthusiasm has made us even more happy to be coming (that’s you Julie and Jeff)! We think it’s a match made in heaven.
That reminds me, new Gainesville Customers should park their cars in the parking lot next to the History Center (closer to Brenau) rather than drive under the portico. That we we can keep our markets pedestrian friendly and you’ll see how nice the portico and sidewalk is at the front of the Center. It’s the perfect place to collect your food. And without cars you’ll want to hang out for a minute. So no cars under the portico. Lot is around the bend and we’ll have parking signs soon (maybe very soon if you know anybody got any?). We envision folks hanging out checking out the progress at the Victory Garden you’ll walk by every week. Like we said, the place is perfect.
Ok, I’d better wrap it up. We try and write some sort of message each Sunday to kind of communicate what’s new. Sometimes long, sometimes short. I can tell already tell we’ll be writing with a new audience in mind so BIG WELCOME to all you new Gainesville customers and thank you for finding us. There’s roughly 25 of you, and last I checked at least 9 of you already ordered. There’s still time till Monday at 9PM. So tell a friend. Those of you who come Wednesday will be the very first ever! We hope you like it, if you do let us know, if you don’t let us know too. It’s local food, from all over the mountains and we hope it helps you….
EAT WELL,
Justin in Habersham
Chuck in Rabun
and
Teri and Andrew (assorted)
Atlanta Locally Grown: Available for Saturday June 15
I hope this finds you all doing well. The bacon is in. For all you who order hog share, the bacon portion is ready. For those who didn’t we have some listed but as usual it is in limited supply.
Taylorganic is back with his extensive list of produce and other r products listed. Grant Wallace also has a nice selection available. This time of year is great. We have the best of all seasons, almost all seasons we still need a few warm season crops but we have a nice offering.
Please order up. We appreciate all your support. We will see you on Saturday at your selected delivery location.
Thank you,
Brady
Conyers Locally Grown: Available for Friday June 13
I hope this finds you all doing well. The bacon is in. For all you who order hog share, the bacon portion is ready. For those who didn’t we have some listed but as usual it is in limited supply.
Taylorganic is back with his extensive list of produce and other r products listed. Grant Wallace also has a nice selection available. This time of year is great. We have the best of all seasons, almost all seasons we still need a few warm season crops but we have a nice offering.
Please order up. We appreciate all your support. We will see you on Friday between 5-7 at copy central.
Thank you,
Brady