Champaign, OH:  Going Up The Country

I’m goin’ up the country, baby don’t you want to go?
I’m goin’ up the country, baby don’t you want to go?
I’m goin’ to some place where I’ve never been before…
(Going Up The Country-Canned Heat)

It’s that time of year…it’s music festival time, and you know how excited that makes your market manager! Time to cue up the 60s tunes, baby, because I blow out of town, this Thursday, for the beloved Jubilee Festival that I attend, each year!

I work hard, each and every day, and I work even harder, on this week, each year, JUST so I can hit the open road with my trusty gang of pals…destination, the gates of Maggie’s Farm…a weekend of Grateful Dead music, dancing, camping, forgetting everything, leaving it all behind.

It’s the weekend that revives me, reunites me with the people who love me, and rekindles my love of just being…just nothing, where my biggest decision is which stage I want to migrate to for which band. What cocktail I may want. What tapestry to hang in each spot of our tapestry lounge.

The gates of the Jubilee, and Maggie’s Farm are like going home, going up the country. The long lane is a welcoming feeling. The festival greeters welcome you to a weekend world of hippies, love, and brotherhood/sisterhood. It’s just groovy, man…

So, much like my beloved Maggie’s Farm experience, this market holds the same welcoming, love, and grooviness for us all.

I hope that I am able to bring that to our market as your manager. The love fest that I want out of life. The kindness, goodness, and local love.

This week, let this market help you go up country. Let it be your love fest. We have so much to love, right now!

We have seasonal goodness! Greens, lettuce, herbs, early garlic, STRAWBERRIES!!! We’ve got it all, arriving weekly!!!

And…you ain’t seen nothin’ yet…(to borrow another song implant).

So, let’s let our minds take us away, via this market. Create your own lovely getaway by placing your orders!

It’s the perfect release from reality…

Peace, Love, Grooviness…
Cosmic Pam

The Wednesday Market:  Sunday Means It's Time to Order

Good morning.

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. Wednesday. Please see the website for all of this week’s product listings. Here is the link: http://wednesdaymarket.locallygrown.net/market

Thank you for your support of locally grown agriculture, and thank you for your customer loyalty.

See you Wednesday!

Thanks,

Beverly

ALFN Local Food Club:  Market Reminder

ALFN Members,

The market is open and full. As we transition into summer crops, our growers have a phenomenal diversity of products to choose from right now. From squash and zucchini to baby spinach and bok choy to mountain mint and mushrooms to strawberries and sweet potatoes, produce is overflowing. Back in the farm fridge and freezer, you can find giant duck eggs, green eggs, feta and halloumi cheeses, and diverse cuts of meat from buffalo, cow, chicken and lamb. Remember, the market has dozens of locally produced options for soaps, lotions, deodorants, and even spices and drinks. The breadth of ALFN’s market is remarkable…all locally initiated.

ALFN Dry Goods Pilot Project

I remember reading Barbara Kingsolver’s book Animal, Vegetable, Miracle years ago and enjoying the challenges her family encountered in one year only eating what was locally produced. Armstrong made a few concessions for some items such as coffee. These concessions provided a psychological and nutrient backstop for their eating needs. These kinds of concessions were integral elements of food economies in some ancient cultures. Before the industrial revolution, many agrarian societies traded with other regional peoples for goods that were not produced in their own region. Today, the expectations have reversed and the majority of western society receives goods made outside of their own region.

I can’t help but feel we have come a long way since Armstrong’s book. From the multiple farmers’ markets throughout Little Rock, to ALFN’s year round market, it is easy to eat the bulk of our food from local growers. However, many of us still find ourselves in the box grocery stores. We may run into another ALFN member and sheepishly grin. Some items you can’t get on ALFN’s market. I think this is a normal part of growing a local food economy, but I also think ALFN can continue to grow as a one-stop shop for our grocery needs.

For this reason, ALFN has decided to open a pilot project in dry goods such as grains and legumes. Through bulk suppliers such as Azure Standard, ALFN will provide some of the dry goods our recipes and eating traditions depend. Here are a few of the policies and details of the project:

• We will never post items that local growers already supply. This is the most important policy. Our goal is to fill in the gaps, not create additional competition with our growers.

• Dry Good items will be offered as a pre-order item. Once we receive enough orders for half a shipment, we will finalize the order, pick it up and let you know when you can pick it up.

• We will offer a normal weight amount and a larger bulk amount for every item offered.

• All the dry goods will be organic.

• Our prices will compete with the bulk bins of grocery stores such as Whole Foods. (We’ve been price comparing to make sure this would be a cheaper option)

Starting this week, you can find five new items under the section entitled Dry Goods. For this pilot project, we are offering organic black beans, red quinoa, whole wheat flour, steel-cut oats, and long grain brown rice. Orders will be taken for the next couple of weeks with a target shipment to be after June 15th. If this pilot project is successful, we will be able to maintain some stock and provide a quicker turnaround for pre-orders.

We are interested in doing anything we can do to bolster our local food economy. By providing bulk grains and legumes, we hope to foster a local market that can be a one-stop shop for local consumers. Please give me your feedback as we test this project. You can email me at: littlerockfoodclub@gmail.com.

Thanks!

Kyle Holton
Program & Market Manager

CLG:  Opening Bell: NEW GROWER, Peaches, Squash, Bacon!

Good afternoon!
We are very excited to welcome a new Grower to our CLG family. Kevin and Kimberly Growns are the hardworking folks producing healthy food at their family place in Perry County. Learn more about KMG Farms using the OUR GROWERS tab at top of the page. They have meats listed right now, and will have organic vegetables soon. They grow organically , but are not yet officially certified organic.

Most items are listed by 6pm Sunday, but check back again before the market closes Tuesday night to see if any other items are ready to be harvested for you! Eat fresh! Eat local! Eat for better health!

Usually our volunteers have the market ready for customers to pick up before 4pm. If you are out and about and want to know if we are ready, just text me to see: 501-339-1039.

Check out over 550 wonderful items listed right now. See you on Friday!

Come early on Friday for the best selection from the EXTRAS table. And save your eggshells throughout the week for the laying hens! :-)

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

Middle Tennessee Locally Grown:  Time to Order Local Farm Products!

Good afternoon!

The market is open today as usual, and will remain open for your orders till Tuesday evening at 10 pm, so come see all the great new products this week. Also be sure to read the section of this message entitled “Important Ordering and Pickup Information.”

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NEWS AND NOTES

We have more new vegetables added this week:
Flowering Chinese broccoli and French leeks by KIC Produce.
Cut Lettuce replaces the Lettuce Mix by Frontier Family Farm. We will have more vegetables soon!
Be sure to look for more new vegetables as the season progresses.

Be sure to check out the perennial and herb plants, as well as houseplants, from Dogwood Valley Greenhouse, as well as the vegetable and flowering plants from White City Produce & Greenhouses. Remember that, in addition to vegetables and garden plants, we also have delicious pork and beef cuts, fresh and dried herbs, rich creamline milk, organic free-range eggs, jams and jellies. Please take note of our great selection of hand crafted farm products, candles, essential oils, and bath & beauty products. Stop by Square Books soon and see our MLG Table, with lots of non-perishable farm products for sale. Pick up some jam or jelly, hand lotion or soap, herbal tea, a candle, or a basket of herb plants to enjoy or to give as a gift.

(L to R) Flowering Chinese Broccoli, Fresh Leeks, and Sugar Snap Peas from KIC Produce, Spearmint Plant and Petunia Hanging Basket from Dogwood Valley Greenhouse.

IMPORTANT ORDERING AND PICKUP INFORMATION

Ordering will be open until TUESDAY at 10 p.m., and your order will be available for pickup on THURSDAY between 4:00 and 5:30 at Square Books, 113 East Main Street, Manchester. We can also hold your order in the refrigerator till Friday, if it’s more convenient for you to pick it up between 10:00 am and 2:00 pm. If you prefer to utilize this free service, please make a note on your order or call my cell at (931) 273-9708. If neither of those pickup times works for you, please make a note on the order, and we will work out an alternative arrangement.

Thanks so much for your support of Manchester Locally Grown Market, and your friends and neighbors who have grown and produced these items. Please encourage our local farmers by helping to spread the word about our wonderful market to everyone you know. We offer a great variety of local farm products, and our items will be in your hands in time to plan for the weekend. Wonderful local products are available for ordering from the comfort of your own computer.

More new farmers are considering joining our market, if they can expect enough sales to help pay their transportation costs. Please help us grow the market by sharing this e-mail with your friends, calling their attention to the later pickup hours, which may be more convenient for them. And if you haven’t ordered from Manchester Locally Grown for a while, please check out our wide variety of offerings this week. Also please let us know if we can improve our selection or scheduling in any way to better suit your needs.

Blessings,
Linda

Here is the complete list for this week.

Stones River Market:  Giveaway time again and two loved vendors are back!

Market News

Welcome to a new order week and the warmer weather.

We appreciate you all so much and want to hold another giveaway! Just ask Ashleigh, Tracey LOVES to give things away!

Ok, here is how it will work this time, once again very simple. For every person who orders this week, they are entered. We will use a random number generator to draw the winner.
Then we will choose a vendor (via the same method) and the customer winner will receive a $15 certificate to use with that vendor only (paid by the market). This makes it exciting for both the customer AND the vendors:). Good luck and we hope enjoy these fun things!

This week brings us a note from Farrar Farms/Lynchburg Beef. They are back on the market with ground beef and Chorizo

More to come next week along with NEW ITEMS!! Be on the lookout for those!

Blue Porch is ALSO BACK! cold salads and cheese spreads are here in time for picnic season!

Welcome to both vendors!

Rocky Glade Farms has reported that the strawberries are finished for this year! THANK YOU to Jim, Julie and their boys for a delicious, beautiful crop of berries. We are thankful to have them on our market!

They do have this week:

Happy Rich greens and leaves
Radishes
Spinach
Kohlrabi
Swiss chard
Dov romaine
Red butterhead
Garlic Scapes
Kale
Collards
Broccoli!!!!
Broccoli Florets
Minutina

White City Produce adds sweet potato vines, Gerber daisy, and variegated spider plants.

See you all Wednesday,

Ashleigh & Tracey
Market Managers
(931)952-1224
stonesrivermarket@gmail.com

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.

Naples,FL:  market closes Sunday noon

Sorry late in sending out reminder so will leave market open till noon tomorrow.

Dothan, Alabama:  Memorial Day Order Schedule

Market at Dothan Salutes our Heroes

What Memorial Day Means To Me

Written by Emma Oravec , Grade 6, 2009

Your life is the greatest gift you can give your country, and on Memorial Day we honor men and women who have given their lives to defend us. On Memorial Day, I go to the cemetery with my family and listen to a special service. The old men from World War II come up to the podium and talk about their friends that died and tell how they respect them. I’m really glad that they were there to stop the Nazis, because they were so mean. Men from other wars like Korea and Vietnam also talk, and I think it is very heart-touching, because they talk about how their friends gave their lives to save us, and I respect that, too. If there are any soldiers home from Afghanistan or Iraq, they stand up and we all clap for them, and that makes me feel happy, sad, and proud all at the same time. I am happy for them, because they foughthard and did a good job. I am sad because they might have to go back and fight again. And I am proud, because they are representing our country. I am glad that America has a day to remember the soldiers who gave us their greatest gift.

Market Info

UPCOMING ORDER SCHEDULE Order May 21 – May 24 for Pickup on May 27 Order May 28 – May 31 for Pickup on June 3 Order June 4 – June7 for Pickup on June 10

VENDOR ANNOUNCEMENTS

Coming Back Soon – D’S JELLIES! New – CARROTS!!! Farm Fresh Local Vegetables from 2C FARMS! AUGHTMON – Delicious Bath and Body Products! Grass Fed Beef – from CASABLANCA RANCH. Check them out: http://casablancaranch.com/

HORTON’S FARM – Local HONEY and Cinnamon Creamed Honey Collards, Green Onions, Cabbage, Swiss Chard and Bagged Salad Mix Fire Ant First Aid, BEEMU & Simply Because Bath Products

Blackberries & Blueberries Coming Soon . . .


KATHY’S CHURPERS fresh eggs from happy chickens MARY’S PEEPS – Mary continues to heal while her wonderful family helps keep her orders filled.

Fresh Organic Vegetables from PRICELESS HEALTH FARMS RICHTER FARMS – Smoked meats should be listed by Tuesday. Always Local, Fresh, Sustainable Pork – check them out at http://richterfarmspork.com/

SMITH FARMS – Ground Lamb and Dexter Beef SPRING HILL FARM is off this week and will be available to order again on May 28

SANDSPUR FARMS – "We are totally restocked on bacon and linked sausage. Thank you for your continued support of our family farm. Be sure and like us on Facebook if you have not already.”

Farm to Table Recipes

GERMAN PIZZA Recipe from Viki Richter of Richter Farms

If you’re not familiar with German Pizza you are in for a pleasant surprise. This versatile dish is gluten free as the crust is potato based. It can be adapted to use ground pork, sausage or smoked meats. You can even add other traditional pizza toppings. Let us know your own special spin on it!

1 lb. Ground beef 1/2 medium onion, chopped ½ green pepper, diced 1- 1 ½ teaspoons salt, divided 1/2 teaspooon pepper 2 tablespoons butter 6 medium potatoes (about 2 ¼ lbs) peeled and shredded 1- 1 ½ teaspoons salt, divided 3 eggs beaten 1/2 cup milk 2 cups (8 ounces) shredded cheddar or mozzarella cheese

In a 12-inch stove-top or electric skillet, over medium heat, brown beef with onion, green pepper, 1/2 teaspoon salt and pepper. Remove meat mixture from skillet and drain fat. Reduce heat to low. Melt butter; spread potatoes over butter and sprinkle with remaining salt. Top with beef mixture. Combine eggs and milk; pour over all. Cook, covered, until potatoes are tender, about 30 minutes. Top with cheese. Cover and heat until cheese is melted, about 5 minutes. Cut in wedges or squares to serve. Yields 4 to 6 servings.

Footnotes

Our Website: marketatdothan.locallygrown.net

Our Email: marketatdothan@gmail.com

On Facebook: www.facebook.com/MarketatDothan

For Friday Pickup: Dothan Nurseries, 1300 Montgomery Highway, Dothan, AL 36303

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!

Spa City Local Farm Market Co-op:  The market is now open for ordering

The Spa City Co-op market is now open for ordering at spacity.locallygrown.net.

Please place your orders before Tuesday at 9 pm,, fresh greens before Monday at 9 PM, and plan to pick up your orders at Emergent Arts on Friday May 27th, from 3PM to 5:00PM, the earlier the better. If you’re unable to pick up your order at this time please make arrangements to have your order picked up for you.

Don’t forget – this market has no paid positions, so we NEED VOLUNTEERS to run every market. It’s fun, you get a $5 gift card, and you learn so much about local foods in Arkansas.
Have a great week and see you on Friday!

this market’s manager
Karen Schuman
karenschuman9@gmail.com
501-276-3318

Statesboro Market2Go:  The market is open!

Thank you for shopping with us! The market is open!