Champaign, OH:  Hey, Now!

Remember, the market is about to close, at 10pm!!

Get your orders in!

As always, we appreciate the love!

XOXO,
Cosmic Pam

ALFN Local Food Club:  Market Reminder

Happy Tuesday!

Don’t forget to place your orders on the market before noon on Wednesday. If you’re interested in volunteering at the market this weekend, you can sign up here

Have a great week!

Claire Hodgson
Program & Market Manager

Miami County Locally Grown:  Tonight's featured vendor? Mike and Becky Smith - Simple Living Farm LLC!!!

Their focus? Grow healthy fruits and vegetables for area farmer’s markets and the CSA program they’d be starting the next year. They also began raising free-range meat chickens who are only fed non-GMO soy-free food!

Their delicious produce, including spinach, garlic, onions, tomatoes and those wonderfully sweet carrots, became Certified Naturally Grown in 2016, and they also constructed a large high tunnel in 2013. So many of you have been enjoying the rewards of their season-extending structure – all those radishes, lettuces, greens, carrots and herbs, produced in an unheated greenhouse through the winter… IN OHIO!!

I’ll never forget my first lengthy conversation with Mike at the Piqua market, discussing Big Ag, the importance of what we farmers were all trying to provide, and the risks of pesticides… so enthusiastic, he invited us to join them for a road trip to the Mother Earth News Fair in Pennsylvania… I thought, “Wow, how nice talking to someone so passionate about beliefs we share, and this guy is really friendly… that will definitely change if we bring our two-year-old and my cranky pregnant self on a weekend excursion with them!”

Mike and Becky are also co-chapter leaders of the Upper Valley Weston A. Price Foundation. If you’re not familiar with the group, you’re missing out!! They host a great variety of speakers, all health and food related. We’ve heard fascinating presentations there, from making sourdough breads and fermented foods to gluten intolerance, the dangers of pesticides, and combating common diseases. Meetings are held at the Piqua Nazarene Church, 400 S. Sunset Drive, on the first Tuesday of every month at 7pm.

Old99Farm Market:  Old 99 FArm, week of Jan 22 2017

Quick reminder note to you faithful farmgate shoppers, we’re back to Friday this week.
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

Green Fork Farmers Market:  No market this week

Hi everyone,

We will not have a market this Wednesday, January 25 due to am agriculture conference we are attending.

See you next week!

Cape Locally Grown:  Welcome to Cape Locally Grown

Here’s some info for those who have never ordered before.

Each product is linked to it’s farmer. If you don’t already know them please check out the info on their farm. Most are organic but like other farmers markets we just require full transparency so the customer can choose.

If you have any other questions let us know.

Thank You!

cape.locallygrown.net

Champaign, OH:  Guest Bloggin'

Good Morning!! Today, we have a Tuesday guest blogger!! A fellow music fan, a total support system for this market, along with the rest of the YMCA staff, and really, the man about town, these days, as he is very community driven, supporter of local endeavors…

Don’t forget…the market closes, tonight, at 10pm, so get your orders groovin’, our way…

XOXO,
Cosmic Pam

And now…guest bloggin’…

Hello, fellow Virtual Market community members:

This is what happens when you give Pam feedback about her wonderful blogs and and music references – she asks you to participate.  I’m happy to share my thoughts about our Virtual Farmer’s Market because it’s been a consistently tasty and helpful part of my weekly routine over the past four years of serving as the CEO of the Champaign Family YMCA.  Aside from my regular activities at the Y, I teach 3 group cycling classes each week.  I love cycling and I enjoy connecting with members in a group exercise setting.  

A group cycling class has much in common with the Virtual Market: both are communities filled with people who are seeking and finding healthy lifestyle choices; people who aren’t afraid to try something new or outside of ‘normal’ patterns of shopping or exercising.  Both cycling classes and the healthy foods I get from the Virtual Market help me hit a healthy ‘reset’ button and I’m very thankful for both!  I encourage each of you to think about your passions and develop habits that allow you to spend more time in passionate pursuit of the healthiest lifestyle you can imagine.  It’ll do wonders for your heart and mind and let you more deeply connect with your soul’s deepest yearnings.  I love picking songs for cycling classes that aren’t top 40.  I love creating song cycles for classes that help individuals feel a deeper connection to their ‘better selves’.  With that in mind, here’s a song from one of my favorite bands, a group of musicians who are criminally underexposed: 

“I Need More Love” by Robert Randolph and the Family Band:

All of the cold winds blowing
Through our neighborhoods
While my frustration’s growing
Through concrete, steel and wood
I need more love
I need more love every day of my life
I need more love every day of my life
I need more love every day of my life
I need more love every day of my life
I’m tired of feeling tension
Everyone’s talking black and white
When will something change me
And help me get my mind right
I need more love, I need more love
I need more love every day of my life
I need more love every day of my life
I need more love every day of my life
I need more love every day of my life
C’mon fill the room, baby
Take the shackle off of your feet
Let the love flow, say
I need more love every day of my life
I need more love every day of my life
I need more love every day of my life
I need more love every day of my life

Paul Waldsmith, CEO
Champaign Family YMCA
191 Community Drive
Urbana, OH 43078
office: 937-484-3549

Siloam Springs, AR:  Online Market Product Inventory Listing

Have a great week!

Yalaha, FL:  Jan 23-26 ordering

Order now through Jan 26th for Jan 28th pickup.

Let me know if you are interested in Shiitake Mushrooms. They should be listed soon but if you let me know, I may be able to fill orders even before the new farm gets listing.

If you want Living Trays of Sunflower shoots, Pea shoots, or micro greens please let me know as I need time to grow them for you. Currently I can do Pea shoots, sunflower shoots, radish micro greens and wheatgrass in full trays, 1/6th trays or 1/8th trays. I can also do radish in smaller containers. In trials are Basil and Beet micro greens but both of those seem to take longer. If you have any particular requests, let me know I’m happy to grow to order.

Sign in to order. https://yalaha.locallygrown.net/market

You have to sign in to see the add to cart button. Then click the add to cart button on the items you want to buy. Remember you need to check out before your order will be placed.
Remember to let me know when you want to pick up on Sat. (If I don’t send you an e-mail confirmation of your order and pick up time, please make sure you checked out and completed your order.)

Heirloom Living Market Lawrenceville :  Market closes at 8:00pm! Have you placed your order?

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The Market closes at 8:00pm!

I cannot stress enough the need for us to meet minimum ordering amounts for delivery to be feasible for our Farmers as well as to keep the Market open! We are very close to minimum! If you haven’t ordered, please click the link below and place your order now!

We appreciate your support of our LOCAL Farmers and of the Market! Please SHARE the Market with friends, family, neighbors and co-workers!

Market Opens for Ordering: Friday at 9:00am
Market Closes: Monday at 8:00pm
Market Pickup: Thursday
2:30pm – 5:30pm
Pickup Location: 1385 Winder Highway
Dacula, GA 30019
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