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Augusta Locally Grown:  THE ON-LINE MARKET IS OPEN AT AUGUSTA LOCALLY GROWN


Oh beautiful March day, what a temptress you are! How are we supposed to get our indoor work done? Here’s hoping that our farmers enjoy this seasonal gift … and that you, their supportive customers, get some outdoor time too.

Happy Local Foods Shopping!
- Kim

For more information about our educational and outreach programs, visit augustalocallygrown.org. We’re also on Facebook and Instagram, thanks to our awesome social media volunteers Eileen and Lauren!

CLG:  BBQ Pork! CLG Pickup TODAY 3:30-6pm. Bring eggshells, glass jars, & egg cartons please.


Good morning!

Maria will be at market today with some of her wonderful Pulled BBQ Pork and Spinach Dip. Come early before it’s gone!

This is a pickup reminder for those of you who ordered this week. Thank you for your order! You can pick up your order from 3:30 p.m. until 6:00 p.m. today at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church at 925 Mitchell Street in Conway.

Usually our awesome 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.

If something comes up that you cannot personally pick up your order today, please contact someone to pick up for you.

Remember to bring your EGGSHELLS, glass jars for recycling, egg cartons, and bags for ordered items. Reduce, reuse, recycle! See you this afternoon.

Come early for the best selection from the EXTRAS table! Even if you didn’t make an order, you can come by to shop the EXTRAS table.

Champaign, OH:  Happy March!


Here we are, entering into a new month, the bridge into spring but with such wind, rain, and cold, that I just want to throw blankets on, and seek out comfort!

While I listen to the wind, I am going to place my weekly orders, to put the sunshine back into the days!

Keep your sunshine going strong by turning on with our market!

Also, my products are all out of vacation mode!

XOXO,
Cosmic Pam

Cross Timbers Food Cooperative:  CTFC Market Open for March 10 Pick-up


Hi, folks—

Ordering for the first March delivery is OPEN.

Orders can be placed through Sunday, March 4.

Pickup is from 1:30 – 2:30 PM on Saturday, March 10.

Enjoy,
Wylie
for Cross Timbers Food Cooperative

Suwanee Whole Life Co-op:  Market is OPEN for ordering!


ORDERING:
The market is now open for ordering!

Click link to order: suwanee.locallygrown.net

Link to current newsletter: https://www.smore.com/teg0m

If you do NOT receive a confirmation email immediately after you placed your order, then your items are still in your cart and your order is not complete. All orders must be placed by 6pm on Sunday.

PICK UP:
Pick up is on ***WEDNESDAY*** at 1300 Peachtree Industrial Blvd. Suite 1104, Suwanee at Cultured Traditions from 1 pm to 6:30 pm.

PAYMENT:
We take checks, cash, DWOLLA, PayPal, and credit cards online.

To pay by credit card click Pay Now button at the bottom of the check out page. I don’t run credit cards until after pick up on Wednesdays.

If paying by DWOLLA or PayPal, please pay on time. I pay our vendors on your behalf before you pick up so I need all payments intiated by Wednesdays.

The Cumming Harvest - Closed:  Market Closes Soon


Just a friendly reminder that the market orders are due today by 8 pm.

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

Click Here To Order

Independence,VA:  Market is OPEN for March 7th pickup!


Good evening!

The Market is open and ready for your orders.

Be sure to look for our GoFundMe! sponsored ad on Facebook. You can help us out by sharing and commenting so more people see it!

To Donate: IFM Go Fund ME!.

To Shop: Independence Farmers Market.

Upcoming Events

Have you thought about becoming a vendor at the Farmers Market? Here’s your chance to join returning vendors and find out about the coming season and enjoy a potluck lunch on Friday, April 6th from 10am-2pm at the Grayson Landcare office. Check out our Facebook event page for more information.

You guys are the best, thank you for supporting the Independence Farmers
Market!

Abby

ALFN Local Food Club:  Market Reminder


Good morning!

Don’t forget to order on the market before it closes at noon.

We are full for volunteers this weekend, but if you’re interested in volunteering with us in the future to earn credit and membership for your account, sign up for a future spot, they fill up fast!

Claire Admire
Program & Market Manager

The Cumming Harvest - Closed:  This week on The Cumming Harvest


This Week

Market opens at 10AM

Eggs supply is low this week, but veggies are abundant! Many thanks to Heirloom Gardens, Leilani’s Garden and Phoenix Gardens for providing us with delicious and nutritious vegetables year-round.

Plan your meals with beef from Indian Creek Angus and Southern Grass Meat, and salmon from Doug’s Wild Alaskan Salmon.

Cultured Traditions is listing this week— Jun, pickled beets, kimchi, sauerkraut, kvass.

Let Southern Essentials help you with your essential oil, aromatherapy and bath product needs. They have over 40 products on the market!

Did you know that My Daily Bread makes a Greek Pasta Salad? Look under the Prepared Foods section on the market to order.

The White Oak Pastures order is in and ready for pick up this Saturday. If you are unable to pick up your order this week, please let Jennifer know.

Time to plan ahead! The next White Oak Pastures delivery will be on March 31, and orders are due no later than March 19. Email thecummingharvest@gmail.com to place your next order of pastured poultry, sausage and pork products.

The Cumming Harvest is looking for a few special volunteers to help with various projects. All volunteer positions are compensated with market credit after a brief training period,

CSA season begins soon! If you are interested in finding out more about or joining a CSA, talk to Jennifer at the market. She can help you find local farms who offer CSA programs near you.

What is the market missing? Are there any products that you would like to see offered by local artisans and farmers? Please email theucmmingharvest@gmail.com to let us know what your food interests and needs are!

Pick-Up

Market Location and Pick Up
Pick Up every Saturday from 10am-12pm.
Located in a small building directly behind The Episcopal Church of the Holy Spirit.
724 Pilgrim Mill Road, Cumming, GA 30040
Google Map

To view the harvest today and tomorrow till 8pm, visit “The Market” page on our website, The Cumming Harvest

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!

Miami County Locally Grown:  We are OPEN for orders with a New Featured Vendor!!


As we near the end of the Maple Syrup run for this season, it’s only fitting to feature Sugar Grove Maple Products tonight!!

If Braden Fisher is cooking down his sap to produce maple syrup when you step out of your car at Sugar Grove Maple Products, you’ll think you walked into a candy kitchen – the cooking maple syrup smells so rich, and so sweet, you can almost taste it. I was instantly sorry we didn’t have more maple trees on our own farm, or a fresh batch of pancakes!

And I was shocked by his infrastructure… the romanticized picture in my mind was of old-fashioned buckets on the trees collecting sap, and a simple pan heated with woodfire, not the super-efficient vacuum tubing collection system through the trees and sleek, ultra-modern, diesel-powered evaporator and reverse osmosis separator he could adjust with the touch of a button. With reverse osmosis, he can remove 80% of the water from the sap before he ever begins to cook it into syrup… the essence of efficiency!

When he said this had been a hobby for twelve years, I wanted to laugh – other people call collecting stamps, reading, or knitting a hobby, not this kind of massive annual undertaking. Collecting and processing 20,000 gallons of sap from 1,000 trees? I think we’re all glad Braden is so committed to his “hobby”!

At the family farm stand on State Route 41 just west of Troy, it all began when Braden, then in high school, learned the art of maple sugaring from his cousin in Indiana. With a convenient location on a high-traffic road, and more than a little determination, his first year saw him collecting sap with buckets, stoking his fire with wood, and cooking down the sap in a 2 foot by 5 foot pan… and one year the old-fashioned way was enough! Enter a new evaporator, the tubing pipeline to collect the sap from the trees, and Braden was on his way to becoming the area’s go-to maple syrup producer!

When I visited recently to see his process in action, he was constantly and capably working, fine-tuning this, adjusting that, moving here and there… it was all I could do to be relatively quiet (believe me, a herculean feat), so floored I was by the art unfolding before my eyes that I asked only one million questions. It cracked me up that he was so calm and nonchalant about what to me was the neatest thing I’d see in some time.

Like so many agricultural productions, the maple syrup process is severely affected by the weather – changes in barometric pressure can fluctuate daily or hourly, and hinder production. The warm weather we’ve enjoyed recently is scary to the maple syrup producer, as just the right mix of warm days and below freezing nights allow for optimum yield. This season Braden says the run started two weeks earlier than normal, but it won’t be until the trees bud out and the run is finished that he’ll be able to know whether this was a great syrup season or not. So much thought, planning and care goes into Braden’s syrup, and you can taste not only the quality but the effort it’s production demands.

You couldn’t find a lovelier personality than his mother, Marilyn, who is a familiar face both at the Downtown Troy farmers market in the summer with both Braden’s syrup and the scrumptious sweets she makes with, of course, maple!

Braden attracts many customers to Miami County Locally Grown… We are undoubtedly fortunate to be in an area able to support a plethora of delicious, quality products… Home Grown Great, indeed!

www.miamicounty.locallygrown.net!