The Wednesday Market:  Here is Your Friendly Reminder to Order!

Good afternoon!

The Wednesday Market is open for ordering. Please place your order by 10 p.m. Monday. Orders are ready for pick up between 3 and 6 p.m. Wednesday. We have lots of nice summer items this week, including delicious herbs, blueberries, cucumbers, squash, zucchini and onions. Be sure to check the website for all of this week’s offerings. Here is the link: http://wednesdaymarket.locallygrown.net/market

Anna Evans is reminding our customers that anyone bringing and using reusable shopping bags for the month of June will receive free sprigs of fresh rosemary while they last. First come, first served.

We hope everyone has a great Sunday afternoon, and we’ll see you at the Market!

Thanks,

Beverly

Russellville Community Market:  RCM Opening Bell

Welcome to another RCM Market Week!

Be sure to check out the newly listed items this week! Lots of great, local products to be had!

Kent Walker cheeses are back! Be sure to check out what they’re selling this week!

Happy shopping! Eat Local!

Check out the “Featured Items” section as well as the “What’s New” section at the top of the market page for all the latest products available.

Be sure to “Like” our Facebook page for updates and food-related events in your community!

To ensure your order is placed, make sure you click the “Place My Order” button once you have completed your shopping. Remember, you have until 10:00pm Tuesday evening to place your orders.

Happy Shopping! See you on Thursday!

Russellville Community Market

FRESH.LOCAL.ONLINE.

Dawson Local Harvest:  Pig Out with free-range Pork and freshTomatoes!

Dawson Local Harvest for June 19th

Pig Out on free-range Pork and Tomatoes!!

HI EVERYBODY

Exciting news! LEILANI’S has fresh-picked ripe locally-grown Tomatoes, best available from our Heirloom cultivars. They also have pints of Black Cherry and Sun Sugar cherry Tomatoes. Tomato Heaven is Here! LEILANI’S has also added Broccoli to their extensive list of fresh locally-grown Veggies. And BRAMBERI FARM has added fresh Blackberries to their Raspberries listing, so more variety for your table.

Pork is Back! Five Hens Farms has added new offerings of free-range Pork including Pork Chops, Spare Ribs, Ham steaks, Sausage, and much more. You have really tasted Pork until you’ve tried free-range!

And speaking of Pork, if you want a great-tasting easy entree, get one of FIVE HENS’ Boston butts and glaze it with LILLIAN’S Sweet Hawaiian Sauce with a delicious sweet-salty oriental fusion. Simple yet delicious!

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 the DAWSON LOCAL HARVEST.

Have a happy and healthy week!

Alan Vining
Market Manager

Palouse Grown Market:  Farm Fresh Foods

Greetings!

Sunday is the last day of the week to order, so make your purchase today for a freshly harvested order on Tuesday!

Palouse Grown Market was created to support local farmers growing high-quality, healthy foods for the community. Buying online and local saves on emissions, helps boost the local economy, enhances local food security, and provides another way to access local foods in a quick, easy manner for farmer and customer.

Check out the Market at: http://pgm.locallygrown.net/ to browse local farm-fresh foods and make an easy online purchase to support local farms, plus get the freshest food the Palouse has to offer.

Pick up is always on Tuesdays at the 1912 Center between 4-6:30, where you can make a quick stop or stay awhile perusing the Tuesday Grower’s Market.
Payment is easy, either pay online or when you pick up your order.
WE ACCEPT EBT!
Your first two orders are free, and then there’s only a $25 yearly membership fee, there are no hidden fees or commitments.

As always, thank you, your support is greatly appreciated.

Best,

Holly
Market Manager

Madison GA:  The Market is Open!!!!!!

See everyone Wed at Auto1 !!!!!!!!!!!

ALFN Local Food Club:  The Market Is Open

The market is open for commerce!

For a few days last week, I had the opportunity to visit some friends of mine who help manage two working farms. On Thursday, my kids and I helped harvest local restaurant orders of sugar snap peas, kale, collards, spinach and salad mixes. We were harvesting the produce in an urban plot in the middle of a dense intersection of western civilization. The farm grew food in the midst of a cacophony of people from diverse ethnic origins, diverse business interests, and diverse dreams. We worked with a few other volunteers as the farm was an income generating project for a recovery house. We only worked for two hours. Veggies were weighed, bagged, packed onto bike trailers and sent off to high-end restaurants. After a solid mornings work with numerous volunteers, the total invoices amounted to only $149.

The intersection that bustled outside the urban farm serves as a useful symbol for a larger chaotic intersection that local growers must navigate every week. After the proverbial carrot seed is cultivated, tended, and weeded, time gathers the work into produce. The carrot is pulled from the ground, washed, and bundled. This whole process involves a very different kind of economy from the bustling intersection outside the cultivated fields. Our local growers not only have to compete with the lobbying agroindustrial system, but they also face the mechanized food systems embodied in cheap processed foods. Larger corporate and national powers help subsidize industrial food until our food culture is orphaned along the curbside. In the midst of such a cacophonous intersection, how do our local growers subsidize a different food culture? What happens to the proverbial local carrot when it enters an economy foreign to the farm and field? Some argue, the demand of the consumer will tip the scales back to local, organic food. Yes, yes, this is true. But, I don’t think we can simply fall back on the industrial economic system founded solely on supply and demand. Rather, local consumers must partner with local growers to cultivate an economy that protects and preserves local food AND living wages. Our economic system is skewed to reward other types of labor, yet every form of labor in our society is dependent on the cultivation of food. Whether our growers come to market by truck or bicycle, local consumers must find ways to revalue their labor and restore an economy based upon the gift of food.

As you order your food this week or crunch a forkful of salad, consider the combination of time, attention and labor that went into that mouthful. Let’s raise a hearty salutation to our growers, but let’s also raise a new local, balanced economy that is just.

I am still building my volunteer base for Saturday market. Saturday volunteers are divided into two shifts – early bird (from 8:00 to 10:30) and pick up (from 10:00 to 12:30). Volunteers help inventory and set-up before pick-up begins and then help members pick up their orders by collecting the products they ordered for them. Volunteer opportunities are also available at the check-out table. As a volunteer, you get $5.00 credit that you can use towards membership or your order payment each time you volunteer. If you are interested in volunteering, send me an email, and I will put you on our volunteer email list: littlerockfoodclub@gmail.com . We wouldn’t be able to have Food Club without volunteers, so THANK YOU!

Cheers,

Kyle Holton
Market & Program Manager

Stones River Market:  The Market is Back Open - Summer Produce Returning

Market News

The Market is back open this morning and our produce listing has exploded. You can now find beans, potatoes, squash, tomatoes and zucchini in addition to the greens and lettuces that have been a staple of the Market. Here is a list of the farmers bringing these new items:

• Erdmann Farm – pink tomatoes
• Flying S Farms – squash (3 varieties) and zucchini
• Rainbow Hill Farm – stringless beans, squash and zucchini
• Rocky Glade Farm – Happy Rich and red gold potatoes
• White City Produce – cabbage, tomatoes and zucchini

Father’s Day is next Sunday. The Market has plenty of products that many dads will enjoy. Chef Jenny added a new snack gift set especially for this occasion.

Cedar Thicket Farm is on break and will return soon.

Alfresco Pasta had two new products this week – a braised beef ravioli and the Big Cheese with Chocolate.

There are plenty of other products available this week. Browse the categories to see what your will find.

Thanks so much for your support of Stones River Market, all of our growers, local food, and our rights to eat it. We’ll see you on Wednesday at Southern Stained Glass at 310 West Main Street from 5:00 to 6: 30 pm!

Recipes

Please, share your recipes with us on the Recipes tab. We’d all love to know how you use your Stones River Market products, so we can try it too!

I am taking a break from recipes. Look for them to return soon.

Gwinnett Locally Grown:  Sunday Market Reminder! Welcome Keena's Kake Designs!

The Market is open Thursday at 9 – Monday at noon After that, ordering is disabled until Thursday morning. Pick up your order Tuesday from 4:00-7:00 p.m. only at Rancho Alegre Farm at 2225 Givens Road, Dacula, GA 30019. New to The Market? Learn about how it works here.

MARKET NEWS

We Welcome Keena’s Kake Designs to the Market!

Keena’s Kake Designs was born from a love of making delicious, custom baked goods for my family and friends at an affordable price. It also evolved from my desire to provide my family with high quality natural and organic foods; come to find out, it’s not always easy to find sweets that do not contain artificial colors, preservatives and other additives. So, Fudgeez and Blondeez will always be all-natural, non-GMO, and made with organic cacao! We’re a snack company with integrity: if I wouldn’t feed it to my family, I won’t feed it to yours!

Workshops for June

Introduction to Essential Oils Workshop

Looking to dip your toes in the world of essential oils but don’t know where to start? Many essential oils are available with a numerous amount of combinations which can be overwhelming. How do they work? How do you use them? Are they really safe? Learning what combination of oils to use and how to administer them properly can create more questions and answers.

Let us help you with that! At Rancho Alegre Farm, Cheryl and Pilar would like to share with you their knowledge and experience on how they have successfully alleviated common ailments naturally using powerful essential oils. This essential oils workshop will show you the foundations and basics anyone can apply! At the end of the class you will take home a free 5 ml Wild Orange essential oil.

Date: Thur. June 18th, 2015 7-8pm.
Location: Rancho Alegre Farm, 2225 Givens Road, Dacula, GA 30019
Cost: Free
Please RSVP on facebook.com or meetup.com. Thank you!

In other news….

Sadly, because we didn’t have enough orders from week to week, Johnston Family Farm can no longer provide us raw milk and butter. I’m working very hard to find another Grower for milk and hope in a week or so to a new Grower on board. Having said that though, please tell your friends and family about us because from conversations, they are looking for a minimum order to drive the distance to deliver to us. Stay tuned!

We have the opportunity to get fresh frozen Sockeye salmon which is the best of all salmon as a pre-buy in June. This salmon is picked out of the nets of the Alaskan fishing boats before they are put in the holding area below deck and they take these salmon straight to the processor who filet them and flash freeze them! They are shipped to Georgia and all this happens within 2 days! You cannot get fresher than that!

If you are interested in buying salmon which is only available during their season in end of June and month of July. The word is that packages will be about 8 ounces to a pound and sell between $16 to $18 a pound. They will know more as it gets closer. I have a list of those already interested! If you are interested in participating in the pre-buy, please email me at grow@ranchoalegrefarm.com with your name and phone number so we can contact you! This opportunity is through one of our Growers!

As Always….

Please share with friends and family about us so that we can give more people the opportunity to buy and eat healthy! Local farmers need our support to keep providing us with all the fresh foods! If we don’t give them enough business, it’s hard for them to continue to deliver to us. Please let’s not let that happen! Tell your friends about us so we can keep the Growers supported as this is how they make their living.

Thank you to all of you who support Gwinnett Locally Grown!

If there is something you’d like to see in the Market, please let me know! I would love your input!

Remember…
The Market is extending their hours! The Market will now be open from 4:00 to 7:00pm!
Having said that, if you place an order with us, PLEASE remember to pick it up on Tuesday. As I am so grateful for your orders, I also have a family at home waiting on me too! We cannot hold orders, especially cold items due to limited refrigeration space, so please be courteous and come for your order.

CLICK HERE NOW to Shop Gwinnett Locally Grown!

Thanks for all your support!

Shop often and eat well!

Cheryl Gelatt
Market Manager
grow@ranchoalegrefarm.com

Fresh Wishes,
Pilar Quintero
Market Host
Rancho Alegre Farm

Please email grow@ranchoalegrefarm.com for questions pertaining to Market or Raw Milk. It is very difficult to return phone calls. Remember to interact with us on Facebook and follow us on Meetup to get notification on all our wonderful events and news.

Champaign, OH:  You've Got A Friend

Winter, spring, summer or fall…
All you have to do is call…
And I’ll be there…
You’ve got a friend…
(You’ve Got A Friend- James Taylor)

Happy Sunday, little local market of love customers!! Hoping your weekend is full fun and happiness!

There was a whole lot of local love happening in our community, this weekend!! I participated in The Rhythm and Foods Festival. I was a vendor along with Oakview Farm Meats! As usual, we brought the goodness to the festival circuit!!

We entered a food contest sponsored by Robert Rothschild Farm…your assistant manager, Mark, with Oakview, brought home a medal and cash award!! He entered a secret recipe pork wrap using Rothschild products and took 2nd place out of 40 entries!

Your market manager entered a Cosmic Trippy Pulled Pork sandwich in combination with Oakview and placed in the Top Ten at 9th place!

My Cosmic pizzas debuted as an actual vending food!! Cheese, Veggie, or a meat variety with Oakview products! Grilled on the Green Mountain Pellet grills from Oakview! Rave reviews, comments about it being the best pizza…a Cosmic love fest!

The local love was definitely happening!! We all battled weather but we all came together…vendors, festival management, the customers…it was a total love fest of good vibes.

Rock Stars of Local making the local scene all happen!!

While we were festival bound, Charlene was rockin’ it at The Champaign County Farmer’s market!!

Your market managers…we never sleep!

The one underlining vibe of the weekend was this…you’ve always got a friend. No matter what, someone is always there to help. It’s what we love on this local front, it’s what we promote at this market.

Ok…go show your own local love, and get your orders in. We love, weekly, for doing this!

Peace, Love, Good Vibes…
Cosmic Pam

CLG:  Opening Bell: Squash, Tomatoes, Cabbage & Berries!

Good afternoon,

So many wonderful veggies, and it gets better every week! Our Growers are doing some incredible work and it’s paying off with early tomatoes, herbs, potatoes, corn, and of course, squash out the ears!

One our our long-time Growers, Arkansas Natural Produce, will not be available until further notice. Luckily, several of our Growers have adjusted and expanded their garden plans to provide a wider variety of produce. Look around all the categories and you should be able to fill your shopping cart with plenty of goodness!

Come early on Friday for the best selection from the EXTRAS table.

The market is now OPEN for orders. Please check your email about 5 minutes after you place your order to make sure you get an order confirmation. Thank you for being a valuable part of CLG!

Have a great week!
Steve

ONLINE PAYMENT OPTION. When you are done shopping, just hit the “proceed to checkout” button in your cart. You will then see the option to “Pay Now” with credit card near the bottom. Just follow the prompts to add your card. Be sure to read the screen until you see “Thank you for your order” on the top. If you need help, please call 339-7958. A 3% online payment convenience fee will be added when your card is charged.

How to contact us:

DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL. Instead…

Phone or text: Steve – 501-339-1039

Email: Steve – kirp1968@sbcglobal.net

Our Website: www.conway.locallygrown.net

On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Conway-Locally-Grown/146991555352846