The Weblog
This weblog contains LocallyGrown.net news and the weblog entries from all the markets currently using the system.
To visit the authoring market’s website, click on the market name located in the entry’s title.
Northeast Georgia Locally Grown: Honey Time
Jay describes how he collects bees that have swarmed into houses, and how he believes adapted bees are the best approach to healthy colonies. He allows the colonies that do well to raise a new queen and breeds the new bee queens himself. Of course, they each have their own personalities and some can be downright mean on occasion. But the beauty shines forth through their mathematical approach to how, when, and where the bees select the nectar surrounding them. As a beekeeper, Jay is constantly in touch with which plants have displayed their pedals to the world around him. He described the approach to understanding where the bees are getting their nectar from and how it translates to the color, viscosity, and taste of the honey. Although I didn’t get to see the sheen he described when the bees feed from the different blooms, it was easy to imagine. He has a great desire to raise his bees using the most natural ways possible, and is proud to be Certified Naturally Grown. Dances with Bees has apiaries in Norcross and tucked away along the Chattahoochee River in Habersham County. Jay has been keeping bees for a while now, but just recently has set out to make it a full time venture.
This is where Jay collides with you! Of course he makes the trek down to a very selective market around Atlanta and sells through a few other markets, but wouldn’t it be great if he can truly feel the support of his local community!?
Thus northeastgeorgia.locallygrown.net has a new addition! Jay with “Dances with Bees” has now been approved and is ready to supply this market with Honey on a weekly basis! Thanks for letting me introduce you to Jay. Now you know who produces your honey and where it comes from. Be sure to check out his grower description page and their website for more information.
As we near the holidays, keep a look out for bath and beauty products and candles that his wife Patti supplies using beeswax and honey. Click to browse honey products
CSA Farmers Market: Growing Season Update Oct 22, 2015
- The previous windy weather has made it impossible for the tribal fisherman to get on the great lakes to retrieve their fish. Not that the winds have died down they have harvested their catch and fish is again on the market.
- Winter Greens are here, some plants like mustard, pakchoi, tatsoi, turnips, kale, spinach, lettuce and others greens love the cooler temperature fall has to offer. Whetham Organic Farm, Law Family Farm and White Pine Farm are now offering many of these delightful greens. Kale after a frost becomes sweeter and stays sweeter until we have a heat wave.
Gwinnett Locally Grown: Weblog Entry
The market is open! Don’t wait until the last minute to place your order!
Rockin’ H Farm is starting to dry off their goats for breeding season and will only have a limited amount of goat milk until the end of November and then will be out until March. If you’d like to have some delicious goat milk over the winter, stock up now and freeze it!
The Market is open Thursday at 9am – Monday at noon.
After that, ordering is disabled until Thursday morning.
Pick up your order Tuesday from 4-7pm only at Rancho Alegre Farm at 2225 Givens Road, Dacula, GA 30019. New to The Market? Learn about how it works here.
Don’t forget to follow us on facebook and on instagram @gwinnettlocallygrown for discount codes and promotions!
Upcoming Workshops
These are the upcoming workshops hosted at Rancho Alegre Farm:
Choose Natural Solutions for Your Health! – Thursday, November 5 at 7 PM – Cost – FREE – Come and learn how essential oils can replace many items you have in your home naturally!
Essential Oils for Mood Management – Tuesday, November 10 @ 10am – Cost – FREE – Join us as we discuss how essential oils can help with feelings of stress or jut helping manage your mood!
Healthy Eating for a New You – Thursday, November 19 at 7 PM – 9 PM- Cost: $15 – Enjoy a delicious meal with Kelia Bortini and her husband. They will show you how he achieved a 90 pound weight loss that he has sustained for 3 years now. They turned to whole foods and a new way of eating.
Visit ranchoalegrefarm.com for more information and as always, contact me for any questions or for more information!
See you Tuesday,
Amanda
-Market Manager
Superior Seasons: Choose some goods!
Order ingredients for Pickup or Delivery this Saturday! We are still offering HOME DELIVERY to Individual customers! Restaurants, Institutions, and other wholesale customers can access delivery with wholesale pricing – ask us how! CLICK HERE, to see what’s available, set up your account, and order.
What’s Featured and New?
Come see the new products online including special Local Harvest Boxes! Click HERE to find vegetables, meats, syrups, milled products, bath and beauty products, and more!
ALFN Local Food Club: Volunteers for Saturday
Members,
I still have three slots open for volunteer work this Saturday. Two spots for the early and one for the late shift. Please sign up at Volunteer Spot if you are able.
Thanks!
Kyle Holton
Program & Market Manager
Palouse Grown Market: Last week!
Good morning!
This is the last week Palouse Grown Market will be open for the season!
This is your opportunity to make an order of local foods that’ll be harvested just for you and ready at pick up!
Thank you to all who supported this endeavor this season and the people, families and farms that make up this local online farmer’s market!
We’ll keep on growing and finding new ways to bring locally grown clean foods and handmade crafts to the table.
Warmly,
Holly
http://pgm.locallygrown.net
The Cumming Harvest - Closed: This Week at The Cumming Harvest
Market News
Good Morning,
Ancient Awakenings is listed this week.
*Keena’s Kake Designs has her delicious all natural goodies listed online this week. These are REALLY good and would make great teacher gifts.
There are Beans, Blackberries, Collards, Eggplant, Fennel, Kale, Lettuce, Okra, Green Onions, Black Eye Peas, all kinds of Peppers, Pumpkins, Raspberries, Spinach, Butternut Squash, Sweet Potatoes, Strawberries, Swiss Chard, and Turmeric just to name a few items available this week.
The online ordering closes on Thursday at 8pm.
Your Account
FREE MEMBERSHIP You can now waive your membership fee of $25 just by signing up to volunteer one full Saturday morning, 8:30am-12:30pm. It’s fun and rewarding to experience “behind the scenes” of our locally grown market. Volunteers greet farmers and customers, organize food delivery and pick up, and check-out customer orders using a ipad. Check out this online sign up sheet to find an opening. http://www.signupgenius.com/go/4090d4baca92fa13-thecumming
UPDATE CONTACT With all the hustle and bustle of back-to-school and new routines, it’s easy to forget things like picking up your TCH order. Remember that we can’t keep your items past 12pm, and we’ll try contacting you any way we know how to make sure you get what you ordered. Now’s a great time to check the phone number on your account to make sure it’s a number I can reach you at 11:45am on a Saturday. I start calling everyone who hasn’t picked up yet then, and will keep trying to reach you until 12pm, when we have to pack it all up. I hate seeing people’s food go somewhere else, and having a good phone number on your account is the best way to keep that from happening.
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
To Contact Us
The Cumming Harvest
thecummingharvest@live.com
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The contact information for each farmer and vendor is located on the Grower page.
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!
Tullahoma Locally Grown: Oct 21 - Market Closes at Noon
Good Morning.
Your Tullahoma Locally Grown Market is open until noon today. You still have some time for your last minute bread, vegetables, meat, eggs, and dairy orders.
Here is the link to the market: Tullahoma Locally Grown Market
Thank you for your support. Have a great day,
Fuel So Good Coffee Roasters
New Field Farm's Online Market: GINGER, and a mighty freeze
Greetings,
The temperature here Monday morning was around 19 degrees and that brought an end to the parsley and chard. Other crops in the field had multiple row covers and tarps laid over them and came through okay. We harvested that day for our Tuesday market and Meridian and Madeleine carried on with cold hands and good humor.
IF YOU ORDERED GINGER DON’T FORGET TO PICK IT UP EVEN IF YOU DON’T PUT IN A REGULAR ORDER.
The beets are now sold by the pound. The garlic is getting smaller, but is still visible to the naked eye. There are still a few cabbages and the lettuce from the hoophouse is still nice.
The annual BULK ORDER will be the first week of November.
Thank you for your orders.
Tim