The Weblog
This weblog contains LocallyGrown.net news and the weblog entries from all the markets currently using the system.
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Board, Vendors, Staff & Volunteers
of Greeneville’s Oldest Established Farmers Market
Greeneville Farmers Market
Conyers Locally Grown: Available for Friday, January 27
Hello, I hope this finds you all doing well. The market is open and ready for orders. We will see you Friday between 5-7 at Copy Central.
Thank you, Brady
Spa City Local Farm Market Co-op: Reminder
Reminder -
The Spa City Co-op market will close for ordering Tuesday night at 9 pm. Please place your orders before then and plan to pick up on Friday, the 27th from 3-4:30 at Emergent Arts.
See you Friday!
Karen Holcomb
Market Manager
Princeton Farm Fresh: The Market is Open
Anyone else feeling like a gloomy Gus? Where is the sun? Please let it come back to us soon it is effecting everyone’s mood in my family. I am ready for Spring and sunshine and warm weather. Bring it on Mother Nature!
I will be at a Sustainable Agriculture Conference this week, but the fantastic Carolyn will be running the market this week for me on Thursday.
Have a great week everyone,
Angela
Champaign, OH: English Rose
I’ve been to ancient worlds
I’ve scoured the whole universe
And caught the first train home
To be at her side.
No matter where I go
I will return to my English Rose…
(English Rose-The Jam)
Hailing back to my mod/new wave days with The Jam, for this lovely, slow, beautiful song.
Rose, Geranium, essential oils, are what’s happening in my life as your market manager.
I’ve loved oils before they became mainstream. I was the young little hippie girl using patchouli oils, musk oils, and rose oils.
My grandmother loved the scent of roses. She and my grandfather had the most beautiful rose garden. Beautiful roses that she would snip, and keep around her house. My grandfather would always send me off on my bicycle with one rose attached to it, to make happy.
My grandmother also kept rose oils, and rose sachets in her huge vanity/make up table where she would let me play dress up, and apply the brightest of the Avon red lipsticks.
Eventually, they would give up their home, and gardens, and porch swing, to move to a more manageable, smaller place. I remember the sadness of knowing that it was time for them to move, but also the sadness that my childhood memories, the place where I knew comfort and love, was leaving me.
I had just moved here from having been gone since 1982, when I left for college, and just kept running. Rambling around. I loved my travels, my adventures, all the people and experiences that I collected. But, I think the one thing that always kept me going, made me know that things would always be okay, was the thought of their house, their rose gardens.
When I returned, for good, to help them pack, help get furniture ready to be sold, or given to family members, I remember just sitting at the beautiful dressing table that my grandfather had so lovingly build for my grandmother. She had asked me to begin packing up her jewelry, her handkerchiefs, her lipsticks, her rose oils.
When I sat down, I opened the main drawer, to find two wrapped packages. One large one, with my name written in her handwriting. And, a smaller one, with my daughter’s name. Her only request was that I take them, put them away, and not open until sometime in the future. She also gave me her most beloved fur jackets and capes. (I know, I know, but she had worked, and saved her money, in the 1940’s, 1950s, and bought them, and I treasure them). I put the boxes and the treasures all in my dressing closet. My grandfather had also given me the beautiful dollhouse that he had built for my mother, which had been passed down to me, and so into that closet, I stored it all.
A few years ago, on a sad kind of day, I decided to open the package with my name. Inside were pieces of her costume jewelry collection that I had played with as a child. There were also her pearls, and a ring that I adored, and then, among the baubles, was a very old rose sachet and oil…all those years ago, and the memories came flooding back, and I felt so close to the woman who helped shape me. And, in turn, helped to shape my daughter.
All of this to say that recently, one of my new favorite oils to diffuse is geranium oil. You can get this, and many other oils, here, at our little local market of love.
Think about diffusing…ask Charlene for advice on the oils that she offers on our market. Since I have diffusing the geranium rose oil, I have felt a calm, the floral scent sends me back to my childhood, and I feel a happiness at the center of my self…
Anyway, I have included information about this particular oil. It’s not from Swisher Hill Herbs but it’s information that I found while researching this oil and it’s effects from diffusing…
Go ahead, while you are ordering all of the amazing products that we offer, order an oil…maybe there is one that will bring back the same memory for you…
Geranium oil (Pelargonium graveolens) is a beautiful, floral essential oil often referred to as “the poor man’s rose oil” for its similar properties and uses.
It’s sweet, rose-like aroma is long-lasting and potent. You need only a small amount or you’ll smell it for days.
It’s traditionally used for healthy skin (repair or rejuvenation), as well as widely known for its emotional support. It commonly promotes peace and a decrease in stress, especially in regards to releasing negativity, and is great for tension and overall well-being.
Primary Benefits:
Promotes clear, healthy skin.
Helps calm nerves, and lessen stress.
Promotes healthy hair,
Emotional Benefits:
Energetically, it’s said to help a person regain their trust in the world and in others.
This heart-center oil helps us to heal, tear down barriers, release anger, and manage overwhelming emotions. It might be good for a person who has been deeply hurt in the past and/or who struggles to open up or express their emotions.
Complimentary Oils
Geranium essential oil blends well with all essential oils. Depending on your uses for this oil, substitutes may include: Frankincense, Ylang Ylang, Lavender, Rose, or Bergamot essential oils.
How to Use Geranium Essential Oil:
Traditionally, geranium oil uses these application guidelines. Click the banner to understand what each symbol means and to learn how each is used safely and effectively:
Athens Locally Grown: ALG Market Open for January 26
Athens Locally Grown
How to contact us:
Our Website: athens.locallygrown.net
On Twitter: @athlocallygrown
On Facebook: www.facebook.com/athenslocallygrown
On Thursdays: Here’s a map.
Market News
I don’t have much new to report this week. I’ve been getting ready to drive up to Lexington, KY Tuesday morning for the annual Southern Sustainable Agriculture Working Group conference, my favorite educational farming conference of the year. I’m on the staff, and they keep me busy, but I never fail to learn a ton of stuff and meet many wonderful people all the same. The very first SSAWG conference I was on the staff for was in Louisville, many years ago, and it’s a part of the South I don’t get to see very often.
While I’m away, I’ve left our Thursday market here in the hands of our many capable regular volunteers. There are a few things they can’t do, such as looking up account history and resolving old payment issues, so you can send those queries to me via email or wait until the following week. Also, Doug’s Salmon keeps his fish at my place in a freezer, and I bring his sales in to market for him. Since I’ll be gone, the fish will not be available to purchase this week. It’ll all be back next week, though.
Thank you so much for your support of Athens Locally Grown, all of our growers, local food, and our rights to eat it. You all are part of what makes Athens such a great area in which to live. We’ll see you on Thursday at Ben’s Bikes at the corner of Pope and Broad Streets from 4:30 to 8pm!
Other Area Farmers Markets
The Athens Farmers Market has closed for the season. They’ll return in April, and you can catch the news on their website. The Comer Farmers’ Market is open on Saturday mornings from 9am to noon. Check www.facebook.com/comerfm for more information. Washington, GA also has a lovely little Saturday market, running on winter hours from 1-4. You can learn all about them here: www.washingtonfarmersmkt.com. If you know of any other area markets operating, please let me know.
All of these other markets are separate from ALG (including the Athens Farmers Market) but many growers sell at multiple markets. Please support your local farmers and food producers, where ever you’re able to do so!
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!
Heirloom Living Market Lilburn: Jams and Jellies on Sale!! Market closes at 8:00pm Monday!
The Market closes at 8:00pm Monday night!
COW Milk orders due by 2:00pm Monday!
My Daily Bread has ALL Jams and Jellies on SALE this week! Don’t miss this!
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 less than 1/2 way 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!
All Saints Lutheran Church
Pickup Day and Time: Thursday 3:30pm – 6:30pm
Pickup Location:
722 Rockbridge Road SW
Lilburn, GA 30047
Click Here for Map
BUY LOCAL ~ Know your Farmer!
Heirloom Living Market Lawrenceville : Jams and Jellies on Sale! Market closes Monday 8:00pm!!
The Market closes at 8:00pm Monday!
Please get your COW MILK orders by 2:00pm tomorrow!
My Daily Bread has ALL Jams and Jellies on SALE this week!
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 less than 1/2 way 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!
Take me to the Crossfit Market.
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
Click Here for Map
Market Closes: Monday at 8:00pm
Market Pickup: Thursday
2:30pm – 5:30pm
Pickup Location: 1385 Winder Highway
Dacula, GA 30019
Click Here for Map
Take me to the Crossfit Market.
Greener Acres Farm: Ordering Open for the Week Ending January 28, 2017
Ordering is open for this week. We are currently carrying dried herbs, pork, beef, raw milk, artisan cheese and goat’s milk soap.
We continue to add new growers. Stay posted for new additions.
CLG: No Market this Week
Good evening,
Just a reminder that we won’t have a market this week because the parish hall is not available. Market opens next Sunday, January 29th at 6pm. Have a great week!