Naples,FL:  MARKET IS OPEN

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The Cumming Harvest - Closed:  This Week at The Cumming Harvest

ALFN Local Food Club:  Market & Volunteer Reminder

Good Morning everyone!

Don’t forget to place your orders on the market before noon today. One lucky customer from this week will win a T-shirt from Ratchford Farms!

Volunteers are vital to keeping our organization running. Please consider signing up to help with our Saturday market early morning (8:30-10:30) or late morning (10:15-12:15) shift. You will receive $5 credit or one month of membership for every shift you serve.

See you all this weekend!

Claire Hodgson
Program & Market Manager

Old99Farm Market:  Old 99 farm, week of Jan 29 2017

We’re approaching the end of the "Persephones’ months when we get less than 10 hrs of daylight (barring clouds) and the plants just hang out in the greenhouse. Daylight hours now officially from 7:30 am to 5:30pm! The radishes, spinach and greens in the Hobbit House are sprouted and growing.

To repeat from last week, we have fresh lamb in the freezer, delivered last week, from 40 to 60 lbs each.
Lots of eggs, chicken and root vegetables.
Quiches prepared by Cami, frozen oven-ready

Healthy eating
Ian and Cami

Siloam Springs, AR:  **CHICKEN WING SALE!!!**

R Family Farm is having a sale on Chicken Wings just in time for Superbowl Sunday!! $2/lb

These will probably sell out so place your order soon!!

Champaign, OH:  Take The Long Way Home

Does it feel that your life’s become a catastrophe?
Oh, it has to be for you to grow , boy.
When you look through the years and see what you could
have been oh, what you might have been,
If you’d had more time…
(Take The Long Way Home-Supertramp)

The long way home…I’m not quite sure where I am going with this because, tonight, it has so many different levels of meaning for me.

As we all know, I grew up in the west end of my hometown. I lived in a little capsule of suburbia houses mixed in with big, old, rambling houses. Both of which I lived. The west end kids were a close, scrappy bunch, who banded together while building forever ties, and these are the ties that run deep in my heart, forever.

There did come a time in my west end life, that would force me to venture in other directions, take new friends, keep the old friends, and make new paths.

This was called high school for me. Back then, the west end, the east end, and the middle end?, all went to the same high school. Freshman year found me taking on a new life, new adventures, new friends. While the west end taught me how important my friendships with the boys were, high school brought me into my first real friendships with girls.

Thankfully, I met up and began a lifetime friendship with a group of girls who all hailed from both the east end, and the middle end. I was the only west ender. We began to carve our places in the hierarchy of high school, we crushed over boys, we grooved the same activities, we partied, some of us cheered, some of us were in band, and some were on student council. We were the girls of 1982, making our mark in high school, not knowing we would become life long soul sisters.

Over the next, um, well, oh…you know, a number of years, we all watched as we departed off to colleges, as we each took off for far ends of the United States. We watched marriages, kids, divorces, deaths, finding ourselves, losing ourselves, sending our own kids off to colleges, marriages of them, and as things always go, we all found our way back to our group.

But, as age goes, as time goes, it has become our norm, to begin comforting each other, as we watch the passing of our parents. When did we grow up? When did we watch our parents age? How do we deserve this love that each of us, unconditionally gives us, in this most amazing group?

Tonight found me at the side of one of our soul sisters. Her father has passed away, and most of the high school gang was on hand, from out of town.

I looked around, I comforted, and hugged, and smiled, and had tears, and then I departed. The funeral home was on the side of town where my high school coming of age happened, so, after I left, I took the long way home, and drove around old, familiar roads, thinking, remembering, and feeling so lucky to have built these amazing friendships.

The long way home,the paths we travel in life, the people, places, and things that are on that road that takes us through life, only to wind us around, right back where we started.

I talk about how much I value my growing up, my friendships, the paths I chose in life, and the people who love me, who shaped me, and who encouraged me. This is why I feel so strongly about this little market, this little community, this little bit of love, that we are able to bring to you, each week.

We all have had journeys, we all have gone that long way home…that is why you are all so important to us. Together, for these past years, we have all just been traveling’ on that long way home, with the one hope that we are that light, that shines you on your way.

Get your orders in, tonight…we are here for you until 10pm. Think about the love, think about the light, and think about this journey of local products, nutrition, and pride that we bring to you.

Make this market your little stop on your own long way home…

XOXO,
Cosmic Pam

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

Tuesday Reminder – Market Closes Tonight after 10pm.
Hello friends,
There’s still time to place your order for pickup this Friday, February 6th.

The market closes TONIGHT after 10pm, maybe even midnight! Come early on Friday for the best selection from the Extras table. See you Friday!

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 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Conway-Locally-Grown/146991555352846st

Gwinnett Locally Grown:  Gwinnett Locally Grown Market Status

Dear Market Customer,

Thank you so much for your support. We know the market has been sporadic this year. Due to low orders and our other commitments at Rancho Alegre Farm the market will be closed until further notice. We feel this is the best step until we can give it the focus it needs and the community would be able to support it.

We are focusing first on some amazing workshops that will include topics such as homesteading, cooking, gardening and more with the hopes of building relationships with workshop attendees that will support the market.

If you would like to be notified about our workshops please sign up for our weekly newsletter here – http://ranchoalegrefarm.com/learn/workshops/

If you feel you have a great topic you and are interested in teaching a workshop feel free to fill out our wokshop instructor form here – http://ranchoalegrefarm.com/learn/workshops/workshop-instructor-form/

As always thank you for your support.

Pilar Quintero
Rancho Alegre Farm and Gwinnett Locally Grown

Green Fork Farmers Market:  Weekly product list

Dear Green Fork Farmers Market Customers:

New this week: Foundation Farm has Japanese turnips. So sweet for roasting, sautéing, or eating raw! Greens are included so you can cook those up too.

Also available this week:

Vegetables—Spinach, kale, carrots, swiss chard, japanese turnips with greens, collard greens, lettuce, garlic, and sweet potatoes.

Fruit—Apples

Eggs—From free range hens on pasture.

Nuts—Pecans

Herbs—Garlic, cilantro, and turmeric.

Honey—Local and delicious!

Meat—Pastured beef, lamb, and goat.

Olives and Olive Oil—Direct from the organic grower in California.

Fermented foods—Okra and jalapenos.

Salsa—Made with locally grown and organic ingredients.

Crafts—Natural, handmade soy candles scented with pure essential oils (no toxic chemicals!)

Place your order now, then pick up and pay on Wednesday from 4-7 pm at Nightbird Books in Fayetteville.

You can also check out a selection of locally grown and handmade goods at the market on Wednesday.

We look forward to seeing you!

Green Fork Farmers Market
Wednesdays 4-7 pm
Indoors, Year Round
Inside Nightbird Books
205 W. Dickson St.
Fayetteville, AR

To place your order, click on the link below to enter the website. Sign in as a customer, then click on the icon next to each product you wish to order. Proceed to checkout, review the list to make sure it’s correct, then scroll to the bottom and click on Place This Order. Make sure you receive a confirmation email—-if you don’t, your order was not processed. Payment is at the market pickup with cash, check, debit/credit card, EBT, and Senior FMNP coupons. Ask about our doubling program for EBT and SFMNP!

Dawson Local Harvest:  REMINDER! Dawson Local Harvest Market Closes @ 9pm!

Dawson Local Harvest for Feb. 3rd

REMINDER!

The Market for the Dawson Local Harvest will close Tonight at 9 pm. Take a look at The Market and see all that’s available!

Thanks

Alan
Market Manager