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The Cumming Harvest - Closed:  Newsletter - April 8, 2015


MARKET NEWS

Please Note – This week only – There will be no Vickery Pick Up Available
The delivery option is still available to the Vickery/Polo areas ($10 delivery fee applies)

Southern Essentials will be our vendor of the day this Saturday…

Stop by and meet Erin and Mark Fantom, owners of Southern Essentials. They have been making their natural products for over 25 years. All of their products are 100% vegetable based with no animal products, dyes or fillers and are paraben free. They use only natural ingredients including oils like cocoa butter. shea butter, sweet almond, coconut, palm and palm kernel oils (oils that are only purchased from responsible sustainable farmed sources.

Southern Essentials offers pure therapeutic grade essential oils and supplies, aromatherapy based skin care, handcrafted soap and more. A new product they are introducing at our market is an all natural deodorant, works great with no toxic chemicals!

On Sale This Week for Southern Essentials:

NEW Lemongrass/Tea Tree Deodorant – Sale price $7 (reg. $7.95)

NEW Anti Bacterial Blend Deodorant – Sale price $7 (reg. $7.95)

Large bars of soap – On sale for $5 (reg $6)

Choose from a variety of soap scents like Cedarwood and Rosemary, Honey and Oatmeal and Lavendar…plus many more.

Check out their many products on our website under the following tabs: “Bath & Beauty” and “Essential Oils”.

Pick Up Options

COLONY PARK PICK-UP This is our main location and all orders will be prepared for you for pick up at this location if you don’t choose another option below. You can order and pick up meat and seafood at this location.

VICKERY PICK-UPNO VICKERY PICK UP THIS WEEK Vickery Village Cherry Street Taproom pick up is between 1:00-1:30pm. If you would like to pick up at Vickery choose VICKERY PICK-UP item in the categories on the The Market page/tab. Customers choosing to pick up at Vickery should not order meat or seafood as we cannot transport meat and seafood due to Dept. of Ag regulations.

DELIVERY to Vickery/Polo Area – Please add this item to your order if you would like delivery to your home on Saturday between 1:30-3pm. Only prepaid orders will be accepted. Deliveries will be dropped off at your front door. If you are not going to be home, please leave a insulated bag or cooler for your order. The delivery person is not responsible for making sure your food is in the appropriate container once dropped off. Please plan for possible rain and make sure your order will be protected. The delivery person will travel with your orders in insulated bags with ice packs to protect it during travel. No Meat or Seafood will be able to be delivered.

Group Buy

Green Pastures – Ordered last Friday, we should have the shipment in for pick up this Saturday.

Market Classes and Events

Homemade Baby Formula
APRIL 11 – 9-10am – The Cumming Harvest
We all know breast is best but sometimes breastfeeding is just not possible. Fortunately, there is another option besides commercial baby formula. The Weston A. Price Foundation has created a nutritionally balanced recipe for homemade baby formula using real food. We will discuss sources for the ingredients and demonstrate how to make it.

Here is a link with more information about the recipe: Weston Price Baby Formula Recipe

Please sign up for this class here. Baby Formula Class

Forsyth County Master Gardeners 18th Annual Plant and Garden Event
April 10 & 11th (Friday 8-5pm, Saturday 8-4pm)in the Cumming Fairgrounds Barn

http://fcmg.sharepoint.com

Main Market Location and Pick Up
Building 106, Colony Park Dr. in the Basement of Suite 100, Cumming, GA 30040. Pick up every Saturday between 10-12pm.
Google Map

To view the harvest today and tomorrow till 8pm, visit “The Market” page on our website, The Cumming Harvest

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!

Joyful Noise Acres Farm:  The farm market is open for ordering.


Good morning to you!
This week was a happy food week for me. *Farm Fresh Foods *made a wonderful Spring Quinoa Asparagus Salad that we had for lunch and Strawberry Gallett with a cup of tea and a friend for an afternoon break. Our lives revolve around food and so do wonderful memories. This week begins the remembrance of Passover, Living Water and Daily Bread, how joyous a celebration symbolized with food. Our prayers are for you to be fed by and the Living Water and Daily Bread, Jesus.

We have some wonderful food offerings again this week, Four Mile Farm * beef, pork from *Joyful Noise Acres Farm and lamb from Four Mile Farm and Cedar Rock Dairy. We do have some bones in the freezer, Beef and pork shanks and lamb bones for your broth making. Just ask when you get here. The butter is running low with only a few unsalted left but more will be in in 2 weeks.

There is still room in the fermented beverages class for April 11, 10-12. Go to the Event tab on The Market to sign up. Come thirsty!

Blessings,
Mary Beth

Heirloom Living Market Hamilton Mill:  Market is open .. Come on in!


The Market is now open…Happy Shopping!

Hop on over to the Market and place your order…


We take orders Friday 9:00am until Monday 8:00pm


Pickup Day and Time: Thursday 2:30 – 4:30pm
Pickup Location:
Hamilton Mill Community Clubhouse
1669 Hamilton Mill Parkway
Dacula, GA 30019
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Thank you for your support!

See you at Market on Thursday!




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McColloms Market:  April FFFN Order is Now Open


Hi All:

This Month’s Market is now open for business and will be open until Monday at 5 pm. Pick up will be next Wed., the 8th from 4:30 – 6:45 at 118 Shepard Ave.

Happy Easter.

Melinda
(518) 354-0202

Heirloom Living Market Lawrenceville :  Market is Open -- It's Time to Shop!


The Market is now Open…Happy Shopping!

Thank you for your cooperation in adapting to the new Market hours!

Market Closes at 8:00pm Monday!
Pickup Day and Time: Thursday 2:30pm – 5:30pm (after hours by appointment only)
Pickup Location: Crossfit Ozone
519 Hurricane Shoals Rd., Suite J
Lawrenceville, GA 30046


Take me to the Crossfit Market.

Joyful thoughts and bountiful blessings,

~Maryanne

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CLG:  CLG Pickup TODAY 4-6pm. Bring glass jars, egg cartons please.


Good morning,
This is a pickup reminder for those of you who ordered this week. Thank you for your order! You can pick up your order from 4:00 p.m. until 6:00 p.m. today at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church at 925 Mitchell Street in Conway.

If something comes up that you cannot personally pick up your order today, please contact someone to pick up for you.

Remember to bring your glass jars for recycling, egg cartons, and bags for ordered items. Reduce, reuse, recycle! See you this afternoon.

Come early for the best selection from the EXTRAS table!

Thank you,
Steve

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

Champaign, OH:  Biggest Part Of Me


Sunrise…
There’s a new sun arisin’…
(Ambrosia-Biggest Part Of Me)

Hello, 1980…hello, big hair, lipgloss overload, high school slow dances, spring time fun…

So, first of importance…this weather!! I am so loving the warmth, yesterday’s sunshine, the soul cleansing that each new spring day brings!!

Second…as the lyric talks about…Sunrise!! This time of year, it’s all about the sun rising, the change of season, the change in the way the breezes blow through…all promising a change, growth, a season that makes us happy!!

Third…Biggest Part Of Me…my heart and soul and dedication that I give to this little local market of love. From the customers to the vendors to my volunteers to the YMCA…much love, baby!!

Fourth…Marc and Shary Stadler for putting Ambrosia, the band, back on my music radar!!! Shary, of Valley View Woodlands, was dropping their orders off, today, and she was telling me that she and Marc were going to a multi-band concert…with Ambrosia. We always trade music show knowledge, song knowledge, our general love of music…so, of course, my brain immediately went into background music overload!!

So, with this market being the biggest part of me, the biggest part of all of us….let’s open it, tonight, for the week!!

I realize we are approaching Good Friday, holiday weekend, Easter…and, if you are Paul, of YMCA fame, opening season for the Reds…but, try to take a bit of time to get your orders in for market!!

The market is now open…feel free to turn up the volume on Ambrosia, get lost in the late 70s/early 80s, and order…

Peace and Love,
Cosmic Pam

Suwanee Whole Life Co-op:  Produce Boxes next Tuesday, April 7th


Hi Everyone,

Just a reminder that the market will be closed this upcoming week for Spring Break.

If you are going on vacation please remember to put your Nature’s Garden Express produce box on Vacation Hold. You can either do this online at www.naturesgardenexpress.com or call NGE at (770) 441-9976 to request to skip next week’s delivery.

If you are planning to pick up produce box box on Tuesday, Pam has graciously offered her carport next her garage apartment as a drop off location. This is for Nature’s Garden Delivered boxes only. This temporary location is only for the April 7th pick up. Thanks again Pam!!

Please do NOT forget to pick up your box next week. Pam will donate any boxes not picked up by 6:45pm on Tuesday. Put a reminder in your phone calendar now! :-)

Pick up address is 5957 Shadburn Ferry Rd., Buford 30518
(Go down Peachtree Industrial past Little Mill. Shadburn Ferry is the next light. Turn left, cross Buford Dam, and Pam’s house is about a mile down)
Look for the carport next to the garage apartment.

Pam’s cell #: 404.406.6341

The market is closed but please support the other Locally Grown Markets and farmers markets listed below. They are run by wonderful people! For Locally Grown markets, please put “referred by Suwanee Co-op” in the comment to Market Manager section so they’ll know who you are and I know they will take care of you.

Farmers and Vendors, please feel free to contact your customers to let them know where you are this week.

Lilburn – Heirloom Living Market -Maryanne http://lilburn.locallygrown.net

Cumming – The Cumming Harvest- Suzanne http://cumming.locallygrown.net/

Have a wonderful Spring break!

ALFN Local Food Club:  Support ALFN Today And Your Gift Matched!


Nope, you haven’t forgotten what day of the week it is: This here is a special Thursday edition of the ALFN weblog to ask for your support during ArkansasGives.

Today is a statewide day of giving sponsored by the Arkansas Community Foundation, where any dollars donated to area non-profits through the ArkansasGives website between 8am-8pm will receive matching funds. This would be the perfect time to help us support small, sustainable, Arkansas farms through the Little Rock Local Food Club and Green Groceries Food Pantry. We’d be absolutely honored if you’d make your gifts here.

- Alex Handfinger
Director of Operations

Do you have questions or comments about this, or any, weblog? Thoughts on local food, goods, or events? Reply to this email and let us know what’s on your mind. Your feedback is always greatly appreciated!

Old99Farm Market:  Old99 Farm Week of Mar 31 2015


As of March 31, we can offer 45 items including the following crops: celeriac, carrots, and green onions. There are lots of eggs. My flour mill is back in service so I can offer whole ground Red Fife Wheat flour.

Camelia is cooking prepared foods from our produce: garlic pesto, cucumber relish, quiches (on order).

Meats
I have sufficient ground beef, 5 lambs in the freezer, as well as veal. Folks are starting to ask about placing orders for roasting chickens for next summer. Yes you can, leave me a deposit of $11 a bird, minimum 5 birds.

Eggs
My regular price is $6/XL doz. I sell mixed size dozens that weigh at least 588 gm (medium), 672 grams, the ‘large’ size dozen, and Extra Large, 770gm plus carton. Please bring in recycled cartons.

Raw Honey
There remains about 10L of 2014 honey. Will have again in June. You bring your jar and fill it here, or buy in prefilled mason jars.

A 2013 quote from Wendell Berry, American agrarian, writer and activist, now in his 80s,“The ruling ideas of our present, very destructive national or international economy are: competition, consumption, globalism, corporate profitability, mechanical efficiency, technological progress, upward mobility—and in all of them there is the implication of acceptable violence against the land and the people. We, on the contrary, must think again of reverence, humility, affection, familiarity, neighborliness, cooperation, thrift, appropriateness, local loyalty. These terms return us to the best of our heritage. They bring us home.” {http://inthesetimes.com/rural-america/entry/17778/local-economies-to-save-the-land-and-the-people}

Says permaculture educator Albert Bates in his recent post to www.peaksurfer.blogspot.ca/
“We list our tool kit: biochar, ecovillage design, permaculture, holistic management, keyline water systems, native agroforestry, alley cropping cell divisions, constructed wetlands and chinampas, leaf protein extraction, bioenergy crops that first produce food, and productive, satisfying and fun things for people to be doing together.”

I see a connection between these two: do you?

Healthy Eating,
Ian and Camelia