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Champaign, OH:  Last Call!!


This will serve as your last call before the market closes for the week!!

Get your orders in, make your week just a bit easier…

Peace and Love,
Cosmic Pam

Middle Tennessee Locally Grown:  Manchester Locally Grown market - Just a Short Time Left to Order!


Manchester Locally Grown Farmers’ Market

How to contact us:
Our Website: manchester.locallygrown.net
On Facebook: Manchester Locally Grown Online Farmers’ Market
By e-mail: tnhomeschooler@yahoo.com
By phone: (931) 273-9708
On Thursdays: Here’s a map.


Good afternoon!

Don’t forget to place your order on Manchester Locally Grown market by this evening at 10 p.m. for delivery fresh from local farms on Thursday.

Remember that we are a year-round market, not subject to seasonal closings like the local farm stands. You will find special items here – honey, jellies & jams, herbal & handmade products, houseplants, & more – as well as winter vegetables, eggs, and baked goods. And gift certificates are available in any denomination. Give the gift of great local products!

Pickup of your order will be at Square Books, 113 E. Main St, Manchester, from 3:00-4:30 on Thursday. We can also hold your order in the refrigerator till Friday morning, if that’s more convenient for you. Square Books will be open on Friday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Just make a note on your order, or text or call (931) 273-9708 if you prefer to utilize this free service.

Thanks for your orders last week! Please encourage your local friends and family to shop at our year-round market and support local farmers!

Blessings,
Linda


Here is the complete list for this week.

Champaign, OH:  Crash Into Me


Sweet like candy to my soul…
Sweet you rock…
and sweet you roll…
(Dave Matthews Band-Crash Into Me)

Have you ever had one of those days where you were gliding along, all happy, cool, groovy…and then, out of nowhere in particular, totally ungroovy events happened? Yeah…well, that was my afternoon. But, instead of crashing down, I have decided to look at all of the positive things that I love, that bring me a sense of pride, and show me where the scene really is!

Our little local market of love, our local spirit, our dedication as a united front to present all that is honest, all that is local, all that is good, all that is what we have built…that is what grounds me. That is what makes me proud, happy, dedicated…it rocks and rolls my soul.

I urge you to think about local, think about this little local market of love, and show us some love. The support that we get, weekly, from customers, vendors, the YMCA, outside comments…it all means so much to us!!

Crash into us…either for the first time, the hundredth time, the weekly time….we totally love it!!

Give us your orders, and we will give you our local love! You have until 10pm…we want you to crash into us…

Peace and Love,
Cosmic Pam

Spa City Local Farm Market Co-op:  Market closing tonight


Reminder -

The Spa City Co-op market closes tonight (Tuesday) at 9 pm. Be sure to place your order before that time for pick up on Friday.

Be well, be warm,
Karen Holcomb
Market Manager

CLG:  Tuesday Reminder - Market Closes Tonight at 10pm.


Hello Friends,
There’s still time to place your order for pickup on Friday, March 6th. The market closes TONIGHT around 10pm.

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 Twitter: @conwaygrown

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

Old99Farm Market:  Old 99 Farm, week of Mar 1st 2015


Apparently this blog has not been transmitted for the last two weeks. If you did get a post from me, pls send me a reply.

Here is what I sent out last week:

Specials this week: stewing hens: a dollar off per kg ($6/kg) and ground beef, a dollar off ($13.40), both pasture raised and finished.

Looks like we’re in for below normal temperatures for the rest of the month, about 15dC below in fact. While Alaska and the North face a heat wave. See a powerful interactive site put out by U Maine showing graphics on global climate changes. http://cci-reanalyzer.org

Furthermore, about 10 percent of the world’s food is produced by overpumping groundwater. In essence, we are using tomorrow’s water to meet today’s needs — a theft from the future likely to grow as droughts worsen and spread. [due to climate change, says National Geographic]
http://voices.nationalgeographic.com/2015/02/17/climate-change-poses-existential-water-risks/

Is there too much ‘apocalyptic climate news’ and is it counterproductive? Joe Romm at the best-of-class website, ClimateProgress, has tackled that one several times. He says no, and shows why here: http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/02/22/3617410/oscars-doomsday-climate-messages/, “The two greatest myths about global warming communications are 1) constant repetition of doomsday messages has been a major, ongoing strategy and 2) that strategy doesn’t work and indeed is actually counterproductive.” In fact there is not nearly enough information getting out to the public (that would be us_) for informed policy action.

But here at Old 99 we try our best, and bring you a couple of snippets so you can talk the kids at breakfast (or to the parents, as the case may be ).

Cami and I got started on greenhouse planting this weekend, with three greens crops in the ground: lettuce, arugula and mesclun mix. Not that they’ll germinate any time soon, but when the soil does heat up to about 10dC, they’re be waiting!

We have many pork, beef and lamb cuts in the freezers, eggs, flour and root cellar crops. Plus the specials mentioned above.

Tullahoma Locally Grown:  The market is open!


To Contact Us

Tullahoma Locally Grown
tullahoma@locallygrown.net
219-309-5311
Candace Pederson

Recipes

from “Ladled” by Kimberly Harris
My Seriously Favorite Easiest Chicken and Rice Soup
(Gluten Free, Dairy Free, and Budget friendly)6-8 servings
1 cup long grain brown rice or 3/4 cup long grain white rice
1 tablespoon yogurt, or raw apple cider vinegar (live culture)
2 tablespoons fat (butter,lard, oil)
1 large/2 small yellow onions, peeled and chopped
4 medium carrots, peeled and diced
2-4 celery sticks, sliced
3 medium garlic cloves, peeled and finely minced by hand or in a garlic press
10 cups filtered water
1.5-2 lbs chicken drumsticks or whole chicken legs
1.5 teaspoons dried (not ground) thyme
2 bay leaves
2 teaspoons unrefined salt and freshly ground pepper
1. In a nonreactive bowl, place the rice, warm water, and vinegar or yogurt. Cover the bowl and leave it in a warm place for 12-24 hours. When the time has passed, drain the water and rinse the rice well. (skip this step if you’re using white rice)
2. In a large pot, heat the fat over medium-high heat but not until smoking. Add the onions, carrots, celery, and garlic. Sprinkle the mixture with salt and sauté, stirring as needed, for 5-7 minutes or until the vegetables start to soften.
3. Add 10 cups of filtered water, chicken, thyme, bay leaves, and rinsed brown rice to the pot.
4. Add 2 teaspoons of salt and a generous sprinkle of pepper. Cover the pot and bring the soup to a simmer. Turn the heat to low and simmer, covered, for 1 hour.
5. Remove the bay leaves and chicken legs/drumsticks from the pot and let the chicken cool. When cool enough to touch, remove the skin from the chicken and shred the chicken meat, making sure there are no bones in the shredded meat. Return the meat to the pot and add more salt and pepper to taste if needed.
6. Garnish the soup with fresh minced parsley, if desired, and serve. Save the chicken bones for making into stock!
White Rice Version:
Leave the rice out until after the first hour of cooking time. Remove the meat and while the chicken is cooling, add the white rice. Cook the soup with the rice for another 20 minutes and return the cooled meat to the pot. Season to taste.

Market News


Hello Everyone!

The Market is open.

I wanted to share this amazing soup recipe that I made with Fountain Springs Farm Chicken Legs.

Get started here: Tullahoma Locally Grown Market

Have a great week!

Candace


GFM :  Finally, Some Sun Shine


Good Afternoon Friends and Neighbors,

Finally we have some sunshine and a little warmth. I see signs of spring, again. Animals having kids, grass growing and farmers getting things ready for planting.

We still have a few die hard farmers that grown things year round, have meat available year round, and some homemade craft items year round.

Why not take a look around and place your order today.

Thanks and have a great week.

J. Shelton

Cross Timbers Food Cooperative:  CTFC Market Open for March 14 Pick-up


Hey, folks—

Ordering for the first March delivery is OPEN.

Orders can be placed through Sunday, March 8.

Pickup is from 1:30 – 2:30 PM on Saturday, March 14.

Enjoy,
Wylie
for Cross Timbers Food Cooperative

StPete.LocallyGrown.Net:  Market NOW Open - Mar. 2, 2015 - Welcome Valued Customers!



Broccoli flowers in the winter garden of Nathan’s Natural Veggies

Ready To Order?

sign in & shop now
FIRST TIME CUSTOMERS You are invited to watch our Market Tutorial before you begin. 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.

Save Money. Buy Bulk.

Our Market’s definition of “bulk” may be different than you are used to. We don’t have cases of vegetables to sell but we do have packages of items weighing from 1 to 3 pounds that are priced to sell due to oversupply. They are still FRESHLY HARVESTED but there is so much to sell that Growers would rather discount them than toss them into the compost. From arugula to green beans to oregano, our ECONOMY category (as we call it) just might hold the nuggets that you don’t have access to in these larger quantities. Dry some pungent Greek oregano and share as gifts with your co-workers. Freeze stringbeans for up to nine months! Swiss chard works wonders in soups and stews which freeze very nicely. Try Curried Red Lentil and Swiss Chard Stew with Garbanzo Beans. To view all ECONOMY items—from “The Market” page—simply click on “ECONOMY” under categories listed on the left side of your screen. To switch back, select “All Products” instead. This is called “filtering”. If you need help, call your Market Manager at 727-515-9469. Stock up and save money!

Message from Your Market Manager

DIRECT ORDER
We are going to try something that will make it possible for you to order larger plants in bigger pots. We have not been able to manage these within our current deliveries on Fridays. Debra Black of Mrs. Chippy’s Plant World is the first Grower to experiment with what we are calling “Direct Order”. If it catches on… who knows? Here’s how it all works! Whenever you order an item that is labelled as a “DIRECT ORDER”, the Grower (initially, Debra) will take responsibility for delivering that item to you at a convenient pre-arranged time, separate from your normal SPLG Friday delivery. The price of the plant includes the Grower’s delivery fee AND you will pay for the plant(s) just as you always have, included with your regular order from us. The only difference is that you will receive an email from the Grower after Market close on Wednesday to schedule convenient delivery of your plant(s). Questions? Please call your Market Manager at 727-515-9469. We are grateful to Debra for having such a passion for selling the larger, more developed plants which will assist our customers in building beautiful edible food forests more quickly.

THIS WEEK’S FRUIT
Medjool dates, papayas, honeybells and mammoth royal mandarins, boscs and braeburns. No strawberries this week! Our customers appear to be losing interest in them. Please let us know if you want them on the next Market in two weeks.

NATHAN’S WINTER GARDEN
If you haven’t visited Nathan’s garden lately or taken a recent tour before our monthly potluck social, here’s what you’ve been missing. Nathan’s Natural Veggies: winter garden tour Feb 2015

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.

SATISFACTION GUARANTEED
Our Market has high standards for what it sells. Despite that—as seasons transition—the challenges of evolving weather and pesky insects can take its toll on the crops. Market Growers are being very selective about what they are willing to present to you. No, it won’t always be picture perfect (which is part of its charm) and sometimes an insect is going to evade capture! But we won’t send you anything that we wouldn’t eat ourselves. If for any reason we have goofed and you are dissatisfied, please report it to me right away so we can rectify the situation. That’s how we get better and we all benefit from that. Your satisfaction is key to our success as a resource for St. Petersburgs’ lovers of chemical-free, organically & locally grown vegetables.

Upcoming Events

All these and more are posted on our Calendar of Events

WORKSHOPS & EVENTS

  • “Successful Urban Farming in St. Petersburg” on Mar. 14th, 1-3PM Cost $35/$25. RSVP NOW
  • REAL DIRT: Make Your Own” on Mar. 21st, 1-3PM Cost $35/$25. RSVP NOW
  • “Monthly Potluck Social”, Mar. 28th, Nathan’s Garden Tour Begins at 5:30PM for active Market customers, growers, and volunteers. BY Whoozin.com e-vite ONLY. Our Speaker is valued Market customer and local non-profit Executive Director Barbara Rhode, founder of a locally acclaimed program called The Red Tent Women’s Initiative. More to come on this highly anticipated talk!

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 and don’t miss the link below to a (Goat) Nanny Program.
Nathan’s Natural Veggies in St. Pete
Pioneer Settlement Garden in St. Pete
St. Pete Locally Grown Market in St. Pete
The Dancing Goat in Oldsmar
Alexandra Lake Farm in Dade City

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!