ALFN Local Food Club:  Things Not To Forget...

We’re all pretty busy. Between work and play, chores and children, hobbies and housework, spouses and (if we’re lucky) maybe even a little sleep, there isn’t always enough brain power left to remember all the important stuff. Luckily, we’re here to make sure you don’t forget to place your order before The Market closes at noon today!

Speaking of things to remember, there’s only five days left to apply to be ALFN’s new Program and Market Manager. Don’t forget to polish your resume, proofread your cover letter, remind your references that you’re awesome, and send all of the above to arlocalfoodnetwork@gmail.com by Sunday, March 15th. Check out this link to read the full job description, and contact Alex at arlocalfoodnetwork@gmail.com or 501.291.2769 if you have any questions. Please share with your networks to make sure we reach all the best candidates!

-Rebecca Wild
Program Manager

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Champaign, OH:  Homeward Bound

Homeward bound…
I wish I was…
Homeward bound…
(Simon And Garfunkel – Homeward Bound)

This song kept playing, on repeat, in my brain, tonight, as I went from a long day at the Cosmic shop to a dinner meeting of Monument Square District. Annual meeting, I wear many hats, both literally and figuratively, gave too many speeches about events that I chair, and the whole time, I wanted to just be home, comfy oversized shirt, glass of wine, and peace:) It was all good, the meeting went well, etc. but it was rainy, dreary, a chill to the air…the kind of day where you just seek comfort and quiet…

Comfort comes in many shapes, many forms, and many ways….but, tonight…well, tonight was a night I would have been happy to just be…do nothing…hang out. In the midst of wanting all of this comfort, I started to think about this little local market of love…how comforting it was, to me, to know that I had placed my order, I have nothing to worry with, deal with, or stress over…the ordering is easy, you can do it from the comfort of home, even…and the pick up is a breeze, a snap, a walk in the park…

Why not let yourself have a comfort filled, stress free kind of week? The market is you local home…come home to us…be Homeward Bound…

You have one hour, this evening, to get your orders in! I will close the market at 10pm….let me see the love…let me see the spirit…let me see your orders…

Peace and Love,
Cosmic Pam

Old99Farm Market:  Old 99 Farm Week of Mar 9 2015

As of March 9th, we can offer 50+ items including the following crops: celeriac, carrots, squashes (delicata), mizuna and green onions. There are lots of eggs. My flour mill is back in service so I can offer whole ground Red Fife Wheat and Spelt flour.

Camelia is cooking prepared foods from our produce: garlic pesto, cucumber relish, quiches (on order).

“…it’s possible that people are now looking for an experience that can’t be found in a McDonald’s: the experience of eating in a restaurant that’s not owned by a multinational corporation, a restaurant where we can thank the owners for the fine meal and help support their families and employees, who just might receive a living wage. That might be the real “happy meal” we’ve been waiting for."
http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/as-sales-slump-at-mcdonald-s-the-fast-food-icon-takes-a-walk-on-desperation-row

Well, you don’t say! I hadn’t seen any news about fastfood restaurant sales trends for many months, so this one popped out. The tough door to door campaigns of getting citizens to vote with their dollars and eat out less, buy basic ingredients, eat local, in season, organic if possible, may be gaining some traction. But it’s got a long way to go.

How to make sense of the world, it’s contradictions, violence, inaction on blatantly compelling issues? I’m coming around to the idea of ‘thinking in systems’ after reading a basic book by that title by Dana Meadows, lead author of Limits to Growth study in the 70s.
For we now have the computational models to reflect much of the complexity of hte natural world and the basic reality that ‘everything is connected’. She has a list of 12 leverage points, places to intervene in a system, that she distilled from decades of study of many different kinds of systems. The least potent is Numbers: such as stats, subsidies, taxes and standards. The second most potent is "Paradigms: the mindset out of which the system – it’s goals, structure, rules, delays, parameters, arises. We all can work here she says, quoting Thomas Kuhn: keep pointing out the anomalies and failures in the old paradigm and keep speaking and acting boldly from the new one. Work with the vast middle ground of people who are open minded. And so on, I encourage you to read the book, only 200 pgs and visit www.thinkinginsystems.org. for more tools and perspectives.

We have planted flats of long germination root crops and some salad greens, prepped more of the greenhouse and created a wish list for the summer garden. If you are thinking you’d like a place to plant some veggies of your own, come here and do it. If you might need someone to grow your transplants, bring us the seeds.

Specials still on for stewing hens and ground beef, a dollar per kg off the usual price.

Healthy Eating,
Ian and Cami

Cape Locally Grown:  Free peach ice cream with every $25 order! Celebrate Spring!

Yeah! Warm temps are here! March has come “in like a lion”…we’ll see if the saying holds true and it “goes out like a lamb.”

Cream of the Crust, your local hometown ice cream maker, is offering a free pint of fresh peach ice cream with every $25 order!!!

Double B Ranch is restocking the freezer! Everything is available, even roasts! We’ll be updating amounts soon.

Lettuce and Spinach will be back! Null Farms has recovered after losing lettuce due to heater failure and will have some available soon. Green’s Garden’s low tunnels are free of snow and growing again!

Thanks for your patience and support!

Russellville Community Market:  RCM Order Reminder

Hey everyone! Just a quick reminder that we’ll be closing for orders tonight at 10:00 p.m. Get your orders in soon!

Happy ordering!

We hope to see you on Thursday for the market pick-up!

Check out our Facebook page for great info on local foods issues and upcoming events.
Be sure to click on the “Like” button at the top of the Facebook page to get automatic updates. Thanks!

FRESH.LOCAL.ONLINE.
Russellville Community Market

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

Hello Friends,
There’s still time to place your order for pickup on Friday, March 13th. 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

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

Champaign, OH:  It's Essential!!!

I am passing along this message from our friends from Swisher Hill Herbs…

The essential lowdown on their essential oils!!!

And, may I quickly give them a HUGE shout out for having amazing oils? The Geranium oil is a perfect oil for your face, and the Patchouli…well, to know me is to know my love the Patchouli!!

Here you go….

Swisher Hill Herbs purchases their Essential oils from a family owned company that has been in business since 1908. We began purchasing their products in 1982 and we have confidence in their experience and technology in the fractionation and distillation of essential oils and we are convinced their essential oils are of the highest quality.
Swisher hill herbs has introduced 2 new essential oils to the Virtual Market. Grapefruit and Sweet Orange. Due to the increase in popularity of our oils we are able to order in larger quantities, therefore we are able to pass on savings to our customers

We also have an information handout on the properties of essential oils to help give our customers a better understanding of the chemical properties and complexities of using essential oils. If you would like to have a copy of this and also a copy of our suggested uses handout just e-mail us at swisherhillherbs@gmail.com.
Thank you for shopping the Virtual Market and supporting local growers and producers of Champaign County.
Joe and Charlene Stapleton Swisher Hill Herbs

McColloms Market:  FFFN Order for March is Now Closed

See you on Wednesday between 4:30 and 6:45 at 118 Shepard.

My cell is 518-354-0202.

Have a good night and enjoy this wonderful sunshine. Yeah!

Best,

Melinda

Tullahoma Locally Grown:  Milk

I forgot to mention that Casey milk is back on the market!