Russellville Community Market:  Opening Bell

Hey everyone, and welcome to a new market week!

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.

CLG:  Opening Bell: Lettuce, Eggs, Honey, Shiitake Mushrooms!

Good afternoon!
Mother’s Day is next Sunday, May 8 and there are lots of wonderful gift ideas at Conway Locally Grown if you want to take a look around! Here are some ideas:

Flowers – Instead of the average bouquet, how about: edible flowers, a flowering plant, a vegetable plant, an herb plant, an apple tree or a lilac bush!
Sweets – To tell her how sweet she is to you, there is honey, jams and jellies, candy and yummy strawberries!
Breakfast in Bed – We have a variety of breads (biscuits, braids, loaves, rolls, etc.), bacon and eggs.
Pamper – To pamper her, there are many lotions, soaps, bath fizzies and essential oils listed.
Fun gift ideas – There are a variety of canned goods to choose from! What about crocheted dish cloths, wash cloths or soap sacks? Embroidered dish towels? A quilt? We even have peacock feathers!
Gift certificates – We have 25.00 and 50.00 gift certificates available.

This week you will find all the spring favorites with a few early summer items. 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 500 wonderful items listed right now. Have a great week!
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

Suwanee Whole Life Co-op:  Reminder: Place your order before 6pm today!

Just a friendly reminder that market orders are due online today by 6 pm.

Please remember that we need to hit certain minimums in order for our farmers and vendors to deliver to us.

Thank you for placing your order and supporting local farms and businesses!

See you on Tuesday!

Click Here to Place Your Order

Champaign, OH:  Tighter and Tighter

You know I got to show you…
Nobody else before you…
Ever gave me such a beautiful feelin’…
(Alive N’ Kickin’-Tighter and Tighter)

Dust off your 1970s pop music!! It’s May, it’s fun music time!! And, for your market manager, it’s music festival season!! May kicks it all off!! Months of sun, fun, music, friends!!

This market, festival season…it really does give me just a beautiful feeling!! And, while I watch this market grow and grow, it’s amazing to think that 5 years ago, we were just launching our little local market of love!! That’s right, 5 years ago, in May, we went live with this whole concept. We went against the odds, against the nay sayers, against the opposition, the doubts, the non-believers.

And, look at us, now!! Strong, an umbrella for all local farmers markets, a true force that just gets tighter and tighter!

To celebrate, to kick off our 5th year, to kick off the season of our area farmers markets, and of course, kicking off music festival season for the market manager, I am bringing back the summer market playlist!! We will start building the Summer Market Of Love Soundtrack, again, and each week, we will randomly pick a customer who placed an order for that week, into the drawing for a cd of market songs, to be placed in your order at pick up!!

“Honey don’t a-let go now” Not when we are starting even more fun!!

Let’s get tighter and tighter…let’s see how high we we can get the orders, this week!! Let’s try to blow through our previous record of high orders!! We can do it!! Let’s kick off this amazing season, AND, our anniversary, with mind blowing sales!!

Let’s get that beautiful feeling…

Ok, go, crank up the 1970s pop music, and show us some love!!

Peace, Love, Good Vibes…
Cosmic Pam

Stones River Market:  Welcome May!

Market News

Happy first day of May!

Carol with Rainbow Hill Farm called us this morning letting us know that they are back on the market with lettuce this week AND they are now USDA Certified Organic! Congratulations!!

Linda from Dogwood Valley Greenhouse has added a great hanging basket full of kitchen herb necessities customized by your tastes.

This Hanging Herb Garden is a porch or patio eye-catcher and ingredients for your next gourmet meal, all in one! Made especially for you or your loved one from herbs I have in the greenhouse, this special basket is sure to please gardener and gourmet alike. It’s easy care too – just water frequently and fertilize every two weeks per package directions to keep these herb plants growing strong all summer. The 14" diameter basket pictured contains, from center back, clockwise: Parsley, English Thyme, Variegated Oregano, and Purple Sage. All plants are large enough to begin harvesting. Specify in the comments which four herbs you would like me to use to customize your basket, and add an alternate choice as availability is somewhat limited. Available are the following: Sweet Basil, Lemon Balm, Oregano (Greek or variegated), Sage (Common, Golden, Purple), Thyme (Common, English, Lemon, Lime, or Silver-Edged), Salad Burnet, and Stevia

Double Star Bar Farms spring festival was postponed until May 14 due to forecasted storms. Mark your calendars! They will have items for sale, music, talks on cheesemaking, mushroom logs and more! Entry is just $5! While you are thinking of Double Star, think bagels! We know we do :D and appreciate every effort that Rod and Maura put into all they do! We hope this bit of rain gives them more and more asparagus to enjoy while its season lasts.

Thank you Jenny with Seeds of Success for setting up a sampling table and having plenty of extras to sell. It is always wonderful to meet our producers/growers and most of us enjoy meeting our valued customers.

Jenny has been working hard on new raw/dehydrated items for you. This week she offers decadent, dark chocolate Schatzie bites! (Don’t let the word dark in front of chocolate scare you away… these are DELICIOUS!)

We have eggs, eggs, eggs! Flying S , West Wind Farms , Wedge Oak all offer plenty of eggs right now!

Produce continues to roll in and be incredibly delicious and beautiful. Rocky Glade , Frontier Family and White City Produce are all keeping the produce department stocked very well for early season eating!

There is so much to be thankful for at all times and this is a time of abundance and spring renewal. May your days be abundant and your bodies and minds renewed this week. We thank you for your continued support of our market.

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.

ALFN Local Food Club:  The Market Is Open

Dear ALFN Members,

What a beautiful weekend! The spring rains are recharging our aquifers while our regional growers are recharging our bodies with energy from the sun transformed into leaf, fruit, meat and sweet. Get a taste of the sun…the ALFN market is open!

This week look out for fun new plants, new veggies and more strawberries!

Permanent Agriculture

Have you every noticed how the word culture is embedded in agriculture? When we hear the word culture, we often are reminded of high culture such as the opera and poetry, or we are reminded of foreign culture such as different African or Asian peoples. At first glance, it may seem strange to combine culture with the field (agri). Culture cultivates people. We are cultivated, like plants, into a home culture and taught the traditions, behaviors and values of a group of people. The growing of food is also full of traditions and values. The way a field is used reflects the values and traditions of the people who work it. This would suggest that agriculture isn’t just about the cultivation of food, but the cultivation of people. Masanobu Fukuoka, a great farmer and activist for agriculture renewal once said, “The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.”

A healthy culture must have permanence. Though cultures adapt with the changing of time, there are integral elements or processes in a culture that remain fixed. Similarly, permanent agriculture is stabilized by integrated elements and processes that sustain the practice of growing food and resource. In the West, the emphasis upon stable, permanent agriculture has taken a few forms. One of the popular global forms is called permaculture. Over the next few weeks, at the request of an ALFN member (I love to get weblog ideas that interest you), I plan to discuss backyard permaculture. For today, let’s simply introduce it. Modern agriculture has tended to simplify all the parts of growing food and focused only on single pieces. Permaculture tries to look at the relationship of all the parts and how they function as a whole. For this reason, permaculture design promotes the joining of biodiversity with food production. The design strategy can be used on large acreage farms to small patio gardens. Over the next few weeks, I will focus on using permaculture for city-sized plots.

Permaculture is an ecological approach to growing food. Ecology studies the movement of energy through systems. Light energy passes down into a food web until it drives complex forms such as predatory birds. From algae to bison, energy moves through a system. Permaculture attempts to design webs of energy that capture, store and circulate energy. The strategy works with nature and its application shifts the way we look at the world and our own needs. Instead of mono-cropped yards of bermuda, permaculture designs for a bio-diverse array of parts building fertility, enhancing water quality, promoting wildlife and yielding valuable sources of food, fuel, fiber and medicine for humans. Stay tuned for more…

Kyle Holton
Program & Market Manager

Siloam Springs, AR:  Online Market is Open!

We had a great start with the outdoor market this week despite the threat of severe weather Tuesday and the drizzle on Saturday. The support of our community is truly appreciated!

You can continue to order yur favorite products online and pick them up at the outdoor market each Saturday.

Have a great weekend!

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

Good morning!

The market is open this morning as usual, and will remain open for your orders till Tuesday evening at 10 pm, so come see what we have to offer 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

Frontier Family Farm has added heads of Red Leaf Lettuce to the market.

Dogwood Valley Greenhouse has added some new hanging baskets – flowering and herb baskets – to our market. We also have a selection of herb plants available at Square Books. If you’d like to see something special before purchase, please drop us a note. Also check out the vegetable and flowering plants from White City Produce & Greenhouses.

Remember to look for wonderful early spring vegetables, 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, bath & beauty products, and house & garden plants.

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) Red Leaf Lettuce from Frontier Family Farms, Hanging Herb Garden and mixed Calibrachoa Basket from Dogwood Valley Greenhouse, Creamline Milk from Casey Family Farm, Crocheted Butterfly Doily from CnG Outdoors & More.

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. Although the Saturday markets are closed for the season, 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.

Dothan, Alabama:  Snadspur Farms Mini Market Announcement

By now we hope you have Thursday, May 5, on your calendar for Dothan Nursery’s Open House. For those of you who LOVE Sandspur Farm’s meats, please make special note that they will be selling ALL cuts of beef and pork for $7 a pound.

Yes, you read that right, ALL beef and pork!

Hope to see you Thursday!

Ros

Dawson Local Harvest:  Fresh Shrimp (I PROMISE), Carrots, and more!

Dawson Local Harvest for May 6

HI EVERYONE!

FRESH SHRIMP This Week. I promise! And lots of fresh Produce, too, including the first Carrots of the Spring, red Turnips, Collards, Swiss Chard, Kale, and lots and lots of Lettuce, all from Leilani’s. Check out The Market for other delicious Meats, Eggs, Baked Goods, and more!

THE MARKET WILL OPEN Sunday night at 8pm!

REMEMBER! You can order until Tuesday night at 9 pm. 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