Conyers Locally Grown:  Available for Friday March 13

I hope this finds you all doing well. The market is open and ready for orders. We have some great produce liste this week along with plenty of alpaca , pork and water buffalo. Order up and enjoy the fruits of our labor. We will see you Friday between 5-7 at Copy Central(1264 Parker Road)

Thank you for your support and please share us with a friend,
Brady

Atlanta Locally Grown:  Available for Saturday March 14

I hope this finds you all doing well. The market is open and ready for orders. We have some great produce liste this week along with plenty of alpaca , pork and water buffalo. Order up and enjoy the fruits of our labor. We will see you Saturday at you selected delivery location, either Brookhaven Farmers Market, Piedmont Green Market or the Sandy Springs Farmers Market.

Thank you for your support and please share us with a friend,
Brady

Northeast Georgia Locally Grown:  Locally Grown - Availability for March , 2015

Hey Local Food Lovers,

We’re hopping on into spring this week and henceforth, so prepare yourselves for an increase in products slowly but then steadily, and then a full blow onslaught by May. Nearly 300 total products listed this week.

I really want to plug all our incredible EGG GROWERS. I know many of you have come to appreciate the sheer wonder of PASTURED organically fed eggs from hens hanging out in the sunshine eating bugs and wearing sunglasses. Ok, that last one was an exaggeration, but there’s no doubt these chickens are happier and healthier by a factor of 100 compared to store bought eggs. I’ve been in my share of conventional poultry houses and the closest thing I can compare them to is concentration camps. That’s not an exaggeration and I encourage you to visit one if you’d like to put it to the test.

When animals of any kind are either kept in undersized cages (laying hens and conventional pigs are kept this way all day and night their entire lives), or huddled so closely together that they can’t fully extend their wings without hitting their neighbor they release a nearly continuous flood of a stress hormone called corticosterone. This stress hormone is passed on into the egg (it’s called maternal stress…some of you can relate) and then we eat it. I don’t know if its bad for you (this stress hormone), but I do know that birds that have high corticosterone get sick more often including with Campylobacter and Salmonella.

If this is making conventional food sound unappetizing it should.

That’s why were encouraging ALL our customers to consider buying an EXTRA dozen eggs this week and GIVE the SECOND DOZEN to a close friend that you care about and would like to see get the enhanced nutrition of eggs from chickens that don’t have stress or disease, and have higher omega 3s in their eggs yolks because Omega 3’s come from the chloroplast of leaves and these birds eat a lot of grass.

It’s fun to share the knowledge behind the food here at Locally Grown. It takes extra time for us all to understand our environments well enough to make better informed decisions, but doesn’t it feel good to know that your supporting the kind of farms that make us healthier, the environment healthier and our communities healthier. It also feels good to show appreciation simply through opening our wallets each week, rewarding those things we want to see more of. And by doing so you are depriving your dollars to the things you think we need less of. It’s an act of sustainability, community and health planning all at the same time.

So no kidding, we hope you’ll buy some extra eggs this week (or anything else that looks good to you). Do a little google research and tell your own version of what makes these eggs special to someone you know. I’ve got the person I’m going to do this for picked out right now and I’m about to hit ORDER!

We hope you enjoy this coming week’s opportunities to

EAT WELL!

Chuck, Justin, Teri and Andrew

PS – if you do cook some eggs this week please send us a photo. I made a pretty good open face egg sandwich this morning I should have shot. And get ready to see a short video real soon on one of our egg producers. They will also be featured on this years FARM TOUR in June.

Dawson Local Harvest:  Organic Plants for your Veggie Garden

DAWSON LOCAL HARVEST for March 13th

Organic Plants for your Veggie Garden

HI EVERYONE!

Good News for the gardeners out there. LEILANI’S has live Veggie plants grown in organic soil, non-GMO seed, in 4-packs ready for planting. Lettuce, Kale, Collards, and Spinach are ready now with more varieties available next week. Elsewhere, take a look at The Market to see all the yummy products for this week.

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

Fresh Harvest, LLC:  Fresh Harvest for March 8th - We're Back!

Market News

Hello!

It is time to pre-order your flower bouquets for the summer! Now is a special offer to current customers only: pre-pay for 10 bouquets over the course of the season, and save $20! The flower season will start in May and continue until October. You do not need to order a bouquet every week – just when you want it. Don’t fresh from the field flowers sound so wonderful right now? Treat yourself!

Although the time change usually signals our move back to the lower parking lot at Delivery, we will continue to be under the porch this week as the forecast looks pretty wet.

Thanks for your support and we look forward to seeing you on Wednesday!

John and Tallahassee

Coming Events

GFM :  March 14th Market

Sorry Folks there will not be a market this week as I will be out of town, at a Farmers Market Conference. I will open the market again for orders the following week.

Thank you for your understanding.

J. Shelton

Siloam Springs, AR:  Online Market is Open!

The Wednesday Market:  Your Friendly Reminder to Order

Good afternoon.

Here is a quick note to let everyone that know that The Wednesday Market is open for orders. Please place your order by 10 p.m. Monday. Orders are ready for pick up between 3 and 6 p.m. on Wednesday. See the website for all of this week’s product offerings. Here is the link: http://wednesdaymarket.locallygrown.net/market

I hope everyone takes an opportunity to go out and enjoy today’s sunshine. After all, we’ll have an extra hour to spend in it, thanks to the return of daylight savings time. The Walter family is headed out to a soccer game. We’ll try not to get sunburned!

See you on Wednesday.

Thanks,

Beverly

Gwinnett Locally Grown:  Sunday Market Reminder! Order Now for Mother Earth Meats!

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

Time to order from Mother Earth Meats(MEM)!
Now is the time to take advantage of a group buy with Mother Earth Meats! If you have never done an order from Mother Earth Meats, I encourage you to do so. They produce grass-fed, ethically-raised and organic fed meats, including chicken, bison, beef and pork. By ordering in bulk, the savings are huge!! Ordering is easy:

Immediate payment is required after you place your order on their website: www.motherearthmeats.com. They will prompt you to call in to make payment as they are no longer using PayPal for payments.
Here’s how to order:
1- Place your order of Mother Earth Meats on their website before Tuesday, March 10th.
2- At checkout, fill out the Shipping Address with OUR address as follows: Rancho Alegre Farm, 2225 Givens Road, Dacula, GA 30019. Click on Buyer’s Club so you are not charged shipping! Remember to call them to pay for the order so it will get delivered to us.
3- Forward us your order confirmation via email with subject line MEM ORDER* to grow@ranchoalegrefarm.com
4- Pick-up your order Saturday, March 21st here at Rancho Alegre Farm.The exact time will be communicated a day or so before.

Russellville Community Market:  RCM Opening Bell--On to Spring!

Welcome to another RCM Market Week!

As you know, we got snowed out last week, but we’re back this week with great local food and products! Hopefully the warming weather will bring Spring time not far behind it!

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

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.