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McColloms Market:  May FFFN Is Now Closed


Hi All;
This month’s order is now closed. See you all on Wed. between 4:30 -6:45. PLEASE COME IN THE SIDE PORCH.

Thanks.

Melinda
cell phone: 518-354-0202

StPete.LocallyGrown.Net:  Market NOW Open - May 5, 2014


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FIRST TIME CUSTOMERS If you do not receive an email confirmation immediately after you order, then you did not click the SUBMIT ORDER button and we did not receive an order from you. Call your Market Manager for help.

Sunshine at Sunken Gardens

So what can I tell you about the Saturday morning talk at Sunken Gardens? THE ROOM WAS PACKED. No kidding! Despite the wet weather, a huge bus of folks from Jacksonville came to St. Petersburg for an (unscheduled) tour of the gardens and lots of rain. I am guessing there were almost 40 wonderful folks to share the vision of a small town farming community right here in St. Pete and take that vision back to Jacksonville. ONE WOMAN raised her hand and told me she just retired and wanted to take it on. Ah the Universe works in mysterious ways… Wonderful surprise when I was expecting it to be rained out. BTW, we have rescheduled the talk for July 19th so St. Pete folks can come catch the vision!

Message from Your Market Manager

MARKET VARIETY & VOLUME
As our Grower base continues to expand to offer variety and volume so must our Customer base grow! As soon demand grows for our Market produce, our Growers will be willing to reserve more quantity for us to sell. You may not know that our larger growers like Geraldson Community Farm and Faithful Farms also sell at local Markets and need to meet the demand there. Let’s demonstrate our commitment to buying local so they will have to expand their growing next season to meet demand! Tell your friends to SUPPORT LOCAL AGRICULTURE. We have found willing partners that include backyard urban farmers. Now LET’S BUY LOCAL PRODUCE!

EARTHWORM CASTINGS
Jane Maxwell’s fans are asked to be patient as demand for Jane’s amazing product is keeping her supplies flying out the door. She says it will be a few weeks before she will have more available for our Market. We’ll post it asap…

WELCOME TO OUR NEWEST CUSTOMERS!
Once you have submitted your order, if in doubt about what you owe, you can always confirm what you have been charged for by checking your account history and viewing your most current invoice. Instructions on how to do that are on our Q&A page under the question entitled Since you don’t provide an invoice with delivery, how do I know what I owe? Also, since your vegetables are picked fresh within 24 hours of delivery, they should be lasting for WEEKS in your refrigerator. When you accept delivery, please take a few minutes to inspect your order to protect your vegetables from unnecessary spoilage. Lastly, it is imperative that you understand our policy on Unclaimed Orders found on our Q&A page. When you make a purchase you are agreeing to abide by this policy.

Upcoming Events

All these and more are posted on our Calendar of Events

WORKSHOPS & EVENTS

  • “Successful Urban Farming in St. Petersburg” on May. 10th, 1PM Cost $35/$25. RSVP NOW
  • REAL DIRT: Make Your Own” on May 17th, 1PM Cost $35/$25. RSVP NOW

Volunteer Opportunities

We are currently organizing our volunteer needs by Grower and by Market. So when you are interested in learning how to garden and/or how to run an urban market—including a model for great delivery service for the Market—consider volunteering for the organizations below. Check back for more Growers to be listed.
Nathan’s Natural Veggies
Pioneer Settlement Garden
St. Pete Locally Grown Market
The Faith House

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!

Dothan, Alabama:  MOTHER'S DAY GREETING FROM JD...




Market At Dothan_Eating Locally, Year Round

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Market At Dothan Locally Grown

How to contact us:’
Our Website: marketatdothan.locallygrown.net
Our Email:2farmersdaughters@gmail.com
On Facebook: www.facebook.com/MarketAtDothan
http://marketatdothan.locallygrown.net/market/index/62630

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Happy Gardening

A newsletter for Wiregrass Gardeners and their Gardens

Greetings!

If you don’t read any of this, read the last part about our great Mother’s Day Event this Thursday.

Well, here we are . . . coming up on my favorite day of the year! And I’m not talking about National No Diet Day (which I celebrate nearly every weekend).

I’m talking about Mother’s Day. It’s time to tell your mom thank you for, first of all, being here! She played a big part in that. I know it’s been a long time, but thank her for changing the dirty diapers, holding you when you were scared, making the world’s best PBJ sandwich for lunch every day, trying her best not to embarrass you when you were a teenager, and just all around being awesome!

I know I never tell my mom or my wife how wonderful they are at doing a job I never could or would even try do. I’m not just saying that either. I’ve “dabbled” in taking care of my boys for 24 hour periods of time without my wife. Their full days of going to the park, playing baseball with mom, eating healthy food, reading books, and basically being productive turn into eating pizza on the couch and watching River Monsters all day when I take care of them.

So, Mindy, Rhorho, and all the other moms . . . thank you for being the most perfectest moms ever!

And to show our thanks we are going to have a party this Thursday from 4:00 – 7:00! We’re calling it the Dothan Nurseries Mother’s Day Food Fest. Here is what you’ll get if you attend:
20% off any one item you want from Dothan Nurseries. A beautiful hydrangea, rose, fountain, wind chime, bird bath, your choice. Whatever you think mom will like!
Our full Farmers Market, all the vendors with anything fresh, local, and yummy. They’ll have samples too. www.marketatdothan.locallygrown.net/market/index/62630
Dothan’s own Play For Funsies laying down the jams (that mean’s playing fun music like bluegrass and jazz)
If you don’t fill up on samples from local restaurants and the Farmers Market vendors, we will have plenty of hors d’oeuvres to choose from.
Finally, we are giving away three $100 gift certificates. You just have to show up and put your name in the box.
See you Thursday!

Happy Gardening,

JD Boone

PS, here is a great Mother’s Day video, Click Here

Mother’s Day Gift Ideas

http://marketatdothan.locallygrown.net/market/index/62630

Find the perfect hydrangea from the Endless Summer Collection from $21.99

Antique Spoon Necklaces

Get her a cute fairy garden

And don’t forget to tell her you love her . . .
Dothan Nurseries
1300 Montgomery Hwy
Dothan, Alabama 36303
334-794-6774
www.dothannurseries.com
Like us on Facebook Click Here
Contact us by e-mail info@dothannurseries.com

You don’t have to print this out, but remember, you get 20% off any one item of your choice this Thursday from 4:00 until 7:00, along with free food, music, and fun! Come see us!
http://marketatdothan.locallygrown.net/market/index/62630

Dothan Nurseries | 1300 Montgomery Hwy | Dothan | AL | 36303

South Cumberland Farmer's Market:  Rain Barrel Gardening Seminar


The University of Tennessee Extension in Grundy County would like to invite you to attend a seminar on Rain Barrel Gardening. The seminar will take place on Monday, May 19, 2014 at the UT Extension Office in Coalmont beginning at 1:30 p.m. The program will include educational information on how to save money, collect rainwater, and use it to irrigate your lawn and garden. There is no fee for the program but we would like to know if you plan to attend.

The seminar will be open for anyone wishing to attend. The UT Extension Office is located on 27 Phipps Street in Coalmont just in front of the Grundy County EMS building and Coalmont US Post Office. If you have any questions or wish to RSVP for the workshop please call the Extension Office at (931) 592-3971 or email Creig Kimbro, UT Extension Agent at ckimbro@utk.edu. Hope to see you there!

Sincerely,

Creig C. Kimbro
UT Extension Agent
Grundy Co. Director
PO Box 338
Coalmont, TN 37313
Ph: 931.592.3971
Fax: 931.592.3972
Email: ckimbro@utk.edu*

Princeton Farm Fresh:  The Market Is Open and Big Changes


We are making great changes here at our Market . As of June 6th we will be moving our market to Friday’s from 4-6pm at Tractor Supply. This will allow our farmers more time to harvest and get your orders ready. We have had feedback that suggests that this move will allow more folks to use our market as well. In addition to the day change we will be adding a delivery service to our customers in the Princeton city limits. There will be a $5 delivery charge that will go directly to the driver. We will be taking applications for a delivery driver and an alternate driver for the rest of the month. This would be a great extra income for a student with a good driving record and current insurance. We will train on food and money handling.
I think our next big step should be to start accepting debit and credit cards. I am currently looking into this for our market as well. My goal will be to have this ready in June as well.
We have had a great first 10 months and I am looking forward to what wonders will come this next year.
See you at the market,
Angela

Citrus County Locally Grown:  Mothers Day


News from our Market

Mothers Day this weekend.
Celebrate the day with a special meal.

Oysters, Tuna, Grouper from Capt. Tim
or Perhaps a Burger, Steak or Roast from Florida Fresh Meat.

A Plant from Wheeler Farm & Nursery

Organic Blueberries from Register Cracker Farm
or Eggs with breakfast!

Give a constant supply of KEFIR a natural probiotic. Checkout KEFIR GRAINS from Food for Life.

Pickup is Thursday May 8th
Usual time and place.

Thank you for supporting your On-Line Farmers Market. Your purchases have made a difference to many families

Your CCLG Team

THE MARKET IS OPEN
The link below will take you there.

www.citruscounty.locallygrown.net/.

Northeast Georgia Locally Grown:  Locally Grown Availability for May 7th, 2014


Hey Local Food Lovers,

It’s an exciting food week. We have a new farm joining Locally Grown this week, Taylor Creek Farms near Toccoa. They’ve been farming for at least 4 or 5 years and Chuck and Michelle Taylor are good friends and great farmers and we’re hoping they enjoy selling to Locally Grown so we get to see them every week. They have 4 items listed this week, red russian kale, concept lettuce, sweet valentine lettuce and one of my favorites Kohlrabi. I have some nordic roots so cool season crops like cabbages are right up my alley and Kohlrabi is one of my favorites both because it is so unusual and so versatile. In addition to eaten raw in salads, roasted in the oven, or cut up and put in soups as a more nutritious and tasty potato substitute, I also started grating them a few years ago for cole slaw. You could just forego cabbage all-together and use these with some fresh radishes this week, and chopped spring onion for a non-traditional cole slaw. I like to make my own mayo using simply an egg yolk and oil. Add fennel seed to really blow your mind.

I also want to talk this week about how lucky we are to have an incredibly diverse GLUTEN-FREE Bakery here on Locally Grown. Christy Bowen of Keep It Simple has a whopping 27 products listed this week that make it possible for those avoiding or reducing their gluten intake to enjoy a different delicious product every day of the week, breakfast, lunch and dinner. She makes granola bars (I love that their called “Crazy Good”…..and I agree), muffins, 4 different breads, cinnamon roll bread, bagels, hamburger buns and pizza crust just to name a few.

One of the things that makes this bakery unique is that in addition to providing finished products, she also understands that baking for oneself and being able to add a few extra ingredients that suit your unique tastes can really make your day. That’s why items like the pancake mix, muffin mix, brownie mix, biscuit mix and flour make it possible to take some credit for the finished product. As you bake these gluten free mixes up you can throw in some blueberries to your muffins, or some flax seed in your bread mix allowing you to make it just the way you like. As more and more people realize that unfortunately our bodies have not adapted well to the changes we’ve made to wheat and other flours over the decades, it’s great to have such alternatives being developed by cooking innovators like Christy. Even if you’re not gluten-free try one of her products. And if you know of others who are on a gluten-free diet, do something nice for them and buy a couple of Christy’s mixes to give them as a gift. Nothing beats the thoughtful gift of fresh local
food.

Before we go we just want to give a quick update on our Gainesville expansion that’ll start up in about a month. We went and met with some of our partners last Friday and did a practice setup at the new Market Location at the Northeast Georgia History Center. We couldn’t be more excited about this expansion and the location is just perfect. Over the next several weeks we’re going to start recruiting new customers to sign up so if you have friends in the Gainesville area encourage them to sign up now. We’re hoping to have at least 40 people signed up over the next month, with at least 15-20 customers for our opening day. That should be very easy to meet that goal, but word of mouth is always the most effective means of communication so talk us up.

Here’s what our new pickup site looks like. And meet our new market manager for the Gainesville Pick-Up, Andrew Linker.

We got to know Andrew really well last year when he shot the video for our Georgia Mountains Farm Tour (which is a really great video). This is the part of the message where I realize we have more going on than I have time to talk about but we have scheduled this year’s farm tour for June 28th and 29th and tickets are on sale. It’ll be a few more days before we’ve printed the brochures that describe all the farms but if you want to pre-order we’ll mail you the brochure when it’s complete. We’ll also sell brochures right here on Locally Grown. Here’s a link to where all the tour information will be posted.

http://georgiamfn.blogspot.com/

Ok, I’d better go. Don’t forget to…
EAT WELL,
Justin in Habersham
and
Chuck in Raubn

Martin's Farmstand:  May 5, 2014


The online farmers market is open for orders. We have lots of nice salad greens from the greenhouse. The tomatoes and cucumbers look nice. It will probably be about a month till they they are ready. They do grow slower in cloudy weather. The asparagus is up but not ready to cut yet. Look for it starting next week through the middle of June.
We got all the onion and leek plants (about 15,000 plants) planted on Tuesday of last week. It was raining by the time we finished but we finished and they can enjoy the cool, moist weather to root fast. We are blessed in that there are many differant soil types on our farmground. The sandiest ground is the only soil that has been at all workable so far this spring. Daniel

Champaign, OH:  Gift Ideas!!


Good morning!! It’s Monday, and the week is going to rock!! And…did you remember that it is Mother’s Day, this coming Sunday? Yeah, I just remembered, too:)

What better way to give a unique gift or gifts but with gifts that are local and from our market!!

You could give an assortment of live plants/herbs…a gift pack of dried herbs/garlic blends/seasonings…

Cookies combined with jams and jellies..

New scents in the amazing soap line from Laura Miller! She sent me an email to announce her soaps…Lemongrass is back in stock and we have Sweet Orange Clove and Cedarwood Lemon Eucalyptus available now. Also, Peppermint, Tea Tree, Tea Tree Lavender, Pink Grapefruit and Coffee!!

Baked goods, Artisan breads…

Honey, Molasses, Maple Syrup, Maple Cream..

Produce, Meats, Eggs, Dairy…you could do an order, for her, so she doesn’t have to worry about a week at the grocery…

We have so much for mom!! Think about it…and make it easy, fun, unique, and local!!

Peace and Love,
Cosmic Pam

South Cumberland Food Hub:  We Have Strawberries!


Good Morning from the South Cumberland Food Hub. Fresh strawberries are in from Green Door Gourmet! Grown organically and very delicious!

We also have organic kale and lettuces from Green Door.

White City still has tomatoes and broccoli among other things and you can check out the whole list here:
Click here to go directly to the Rootedhere Locally Grown Market Page

Due to this being our slow time of the year, we will only being doing one delivery a week for awhile. We will make that delivery on Thursdays from now on. This means that you will need to order on Wednesday mornings. This will be the last week for Tuesday deliveries. Sorry for any inconvenience this may cause. Thank you for your support of the South Cumberland Food Hub.

Please contact me with any questions/concerns. Thank you!

Risa