Berea Gardens:  This week's offerings

Hi Folks,

The weather is finally catching up with the calendar and our summer crops are in and beginning to take off. Not long before we have our first green beans and tomatoes, with summer squash almost here. For the time being, we have some great romaine lettuce and some truly nice broccoli among our other offerings.

Blessings to you,
Bob

Princeton Farm Fresh:  The Market is Open and Moving To FRIDAY

Just a reminder that we are moving to Friday as our pick up day. Same place – Tractor Supply on Hwy 62 in Princeton and same great time 4-6pm. We will be adding debit/credit card options this month as well. That is taking a bit more time than I had hoped to get worked out. We are also going to offer a delivery service for Princeton residents. The charge is $5, and we are going to experiment with this for summer.
I wanted to remind you that this weekend is first Saturday downtown, and a good number of our farmers will be there selling more yummy food and flowers. I hope you will come out and see them on the square around the courthouse. Princeton Farm Fresh will have an informational booth at the Pennington Festival this weekend too. Busy, busy, busy!!
See you on Friday,
Angela

GFM :  Things are picking up!!

It’s hard to believe we are already into June. Where is the time going? Seems every week goes by faster and faster. In the gardens, tomatoes are growing, beans are sprouting, grapes are coming along. I’m told we will have Cherries at the market this week, and lots of lettuce and eggs. Apple Town Bagels will not be at market this weekend, so if you want some of those, please place your order before Wednesday, so I can pick them up Thursday when I meet with Kelly.

Looking forward to seeing all of you Saturday!

Michelle
Market Manager

Heirloom Living Market Lilburn:  Did you place your order?

Reminder

Market Closes at 6:00pm Today!

Thank you for your support!

See you at Market on Thursday!

Heirloom Living Market Hamilton Mill:  Still time to order....

Reminder

Market Closes at 6:00pm Today!

Don’t forget to check out the yummy goodies from My Daily Bread and Gluten Free goodies from Bakery on Brooks!

In order for delivery to our Market to be financially feasible for our Farmers and Artisans, we must meet minimums for those that travel farther to provide for us! Milk and Bakery items fall into this category! Members will be notified if minimums are not met.

Champaign, OH:  And It Stoned Me

Oh, the water
Oh, the water
Oh, the water
Hope it don’t rain all day…And it stoned me to my soul…

(Van Morrison – And It Stoned Me)

Happy Manic Monday morning, Locavores!!

It does look like we are going to get the much needed rain that seems to keep alluding us!! Hoping it’s the perfect amount for all that everyone needs it to be!!

This is also my Monday reminder about getting your orders in!! Just this morning, it looks like people are rushing to order!! YAY!!

The week is about to get busy, you are about to get busy…take the stress out of your shopping and make sure to let us help you out!

Make the transition into the summer months an easy one, each week, by doing your shopping with us, locally.

Have a great day!! Take your umbrellas and rain boots, make your orders…tomorrow we will see sunny skies, again, but today…today we need the rain!

Joyful Noise Acres Farm:  JNA Farm Market closes at 8:00pm tonight

The biggest challenge this week is staying in budget considering all the great offerings. It is going to be easy to eat all your veggies this week! Then treat yourself to some of Farm Fresh Foods, strawberry or blueberry breads.
We will have samples of Good Shepherd Herbals, Wise Woman Tea (men can drink it also) and fresh spearmint tea.
Look forward to seeing you Wednesday.
Mary Beth

Martin's Farmstand:  June 2

The online farmers market is open for orders. We have some really lovely lettuce heads right now. They are a bargin at $1.25 each. I just picked the first bucketful of zuchini out of the hoophouse. We also are picking cucumbers now. The plants in the greenhouse are at there full beauty right now- as pretty as the seed catalogue pictures. If you get a chance stop by and take a look at this lovely scene.
It is normally the last week of May or first week of June when the strawberries hit full bloom. They are at full bloom right now so I expect to start picking berries at normal time. (Peak berries should be last week of June.) Daniel

Searcy, AR:  tuesday market

Last Tuesday was a little wet with all the rain, but we managed to muddle through. I just want to remind everyone that the market is open until 10 pm.

Northeast Georgia Locally Grown:  Locally Grown - Availability for June 4, 2014n

Hey Local Food Lovers,

What a great weekend. It was certainly a good one to enjoy. And I got to do some of it on a bicycle. Munching now on what may be getting close to the end of strawberry season. My, hasn’t that been fun! The rising tide and ebb of a select number of foods is fascinating to watch. Spring is my favorite for short sweet treats like that. Asparagus, cabbage (can’t wait to try Taylor Creek’s), carrots, cilantro, beets, swiss chard, kohlrabi, even garlic scapes. And oh how I love the exotic fennel. Time to whip up a dish with that this week.

Speaking of exotic, I love ethnic markets in the mountains. They are always family affairs, and that makes it better already. The one I popped in on today after biking up and down hills had some homemade fried plaintains. I experimented with a cane juice to drink (drinks like basil seed and aloe vera are also worth having). If you can find the Cornelia Post Office just look up the hill.

So many things I could talk about. Most everybody knows that Gainesville is gonna start this FRIDAY right? We feel like we are about to go out on a first date… and we already know it’s gonna be good!

To all the Gainseville local food lovers checking us out, thanks for finding us, that is super cool. It’s a kind of crazy idea for a market we know, but we’ve been at it now and it’s worked great for 4 years. Try it for yourself. It’s not perfect, but it’s pretty perfect. And by collaborating, farmers have been able to transport a lot more food to a lot of very loyal customers these last many years.

Transport is a weird concept to apply to our food but there it is, every bite we eat gets transported. Which is why closer is better. It’s literally fresher! And with the Georgia Mountains Farm Tour coming up in just one month you can taste how much fresher by visiting some of Locally Grown’s farms. Transport yourself to your food for a change. Early bird pricing for your whole car is available for just two more weeks and 2 days ($30/2 days/ whole car), so what you waiting for. Plop it in your cart now and you’ll get your strawberry bumber sticker and your strawberries in the same week.

all the details
FARM TOUR 2014
http://georgiamfn.blogspot.com/

Since this is the last message before ordering starts Friday, and since you can only kick off a brand new market once, now is a great time to forward this to a friend (near Hall County) and tell them to order this FRIDAY. 20 orders would be a cool number to hit. And if you like us on the FB, that could be what we need. It’s cool to be at the first one, and we’re gonna try and make it great. Come help.

Gonna go stretch those calf muscles and climb in the bed, soon dreams of local food shall fall in my head.

This reminder is right onion time. Spread it around.

Thanks and EAT WELL,

Justin in Habersham
and
Chuck in Rabun
and
Teri and Andrew