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Citrus County Locally Grown: Market Is OPEN- WK1 2017 Wow
UPDATE FROM
CITRUS COUNTY LOCALLY GROWN
Your On-Line Farmers Market
Next Market: This Thursday
ORDER TODAY (Tuesday)
MARKET WILL CLOSE 9:00AM Wednesday 3, 2017
## THE MARKET PLACE ##
*Wishing YOU & YOUR FAMILY a HAPPY & HEALTHY NEW YEAR
From Your CCLG Growers and Volunteers
## THIS WEEK ##
3ROCK FARM
Micro Greens are back! Plus Scones, Aminos Pepitas (pumpkin seeds),
Maple Nuts, Granola and Olive Trees! Free Range Eggs
ARBOR TRAILS
We have a variety of lettuces, eggplant, bok choi, kohlrabi, fresh herbs, and other greens ready are either ready now or will be soon. Strawberries are here and Tomatoes soon. Check out the Increased offering.
BENT PINE FARM
Eggs – Brown Large – Free Range Chickens – All organic non-GMO feed
We also offer, Duck Eggs and Cayenne Pepper all (OGG).
BUSH BOYS BEEHIVES
Our Wild Brazilian Pepper Honey is in good supply. Just a little Orange Blossom Honey still available.
CAPT. TIM
Fresh seafood from the Gulf and Atlantic Coasts.
EULEE’S GOLD
A smaller honey producer from Bushnell, focused on Wild Flower Honey
FLORIDA FRESH MEAT
Naturally raised chemical and hormone free meat.
HIDDEN DREAMS FARM
Fresh or Marinated FETA cheese.
LIBBYBNATURAL
A Full range of Health and beauty products all locally made. & Hair Care Products.
RED WAGON PRODUCE
Vegetables and some fruits grown using Natural/Organic methods. Mostly Local and though their broad network of like minded growers we occasionally see produce offered that does not grow in Florida,
SNOW"S COUNTRY MARKET
Great range of (CGV) Produce available
SANDHILL FARM
Fresh raw cows milk, Per FL Law intended for ANIMAL CONSUMPTION only.
Milk now available in 1 gal and 1/2 gal sizes. Also eggs fresh from their own hens.
WHISKEY OAKS HERITAGE FARM
Look at our Eggs from Free Range Heritage Chickens
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Enjoy browsing the products from the comfort of your own home.
Delivery to your home is available in most areas. Just $8.00
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THE MARKET IS OPEN
Click on the text below to go to the Market.
www.citruscounty.locallygrown.net/
Fresh Harvest, LLC: Fresh Harvest for January 1st, 2017 - Schedule News! Please Read!
To Contact Us
Fresh Harvest, LLC
Link to Fresh Harvest
Email us!
Tallahassee May
tally@wildblue.net
JohnDrury
john.drury@att.net
Recipes
Carrot and Sweet Potato Soup
A wonderfully hearty, creamy and healthy soup using our abundance of sweet winter carrots and sweet potatoes
4 tablespoons unsalted butter
2 medium yellow onions, chopped
1 tablespoon curry powder, plus a bit more for serving
1 pound carrots, peeled and chopped into 1-inch pieces
1-1/2 pounds sweet potatoes (about 2 small), peeled and chopped into 1-inch pieces
8 cups chicken or vegetable broth
1-3/4 teaspoons salt
2 tablespoons honey
Freshly ground black pepper
Instructions
In a large pot, melt the butter over medium heat. Add the onions and cook, stirring frequently, until soft and translucent, about 10 minutes. Do not brown. Add the curry powder and cook a minute more.
Add the carrots, sweet potatoes, chicken broth and salt and bring to a boil. Cover and simmer over low heat until vegetables are very tender, about 25 minutes. Stir in the honey. Using a stick blender, puree the soup until smooth and creamy. (Alternatively, cool the soup slightly, then puree in a blender in batches. Be sure to leave the hole in the lid open, and cover with a kitchen towel, to allow the steam to escape.) Season to taste with salt, pepper and more honey if necessary. Ladle soup into bowls and sprinkle with more curry powder if desired. (Note: As the soup sits, it will thicken up so you may need to add a bit of water to thin it out.)
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Market News
Hello!
Happy New Year! We wish you all a very healthy and joyful 2017. May you find much love, compassion and support in your family and community, and may you share it with those around you!
It is our pleasure and our privilege to grow food for you, and provide for you a wonderfully curated selection of the best local produce, meats, and products available. We look forward to a great 2017!
We are switching to an every-other-week delivery schedule. We will be delivering this week, and our next delivery will be on Wednesday, January 18th. Please stock up on items for the two weeks. Load up on our frozen meats and eggs. We’ve got a great selection of root crops and winter squashes that will also keep for a few weeks. Our greens and lettuces are so freshly picked, that their shelf life is quite long, so order more of those as well!
By switching to an every other week schedule, we are giving our slow growing winter crops more time in between harvests to catch up. We want to be able to offer you the best selection with the largest quantities available, and this is the best way to do this!
In other news, The Bloomy Rind is in the process of moving their location and reorganizing their business. They will now be a strictly wholesale operation, working with stores and restaurants all over town and beyond to offer their curated selection of artisan cheeses. We are lucky here at Fresh Harvest to be able to continue to work with Kathleen and her extensive cheese expertise. She is will continue to bring us the finest selection of small batch cheese that there is anywhere! There will be no cheese this week, as the business is right in the middle of reorganizing. But, they will be back on the week of the 18th!
We also have a new product! Tru -bee Honey has their lip balms up! Made with their beeswax, they smell good and feel great.
Thank you so much for all your support!
See you Wednesday!
John and Tallahassee
Coming Events
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!
Athens Locally Grown: ALG Market Open for January 5
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
Welcome to 2017, and another year of Athens Locally Grown! This will be our sixteenth year in operation (I can’t believe I’ve been doing this this long!) and we are looking forward to many more. Many of our growers are have slowed down for the winter, delivering every other week or otherwise reducing their availability. Many others, however, are still going strong thanks to greenhouses and other season-extending methods. Now that the holiday season is behind us, we’ll be going every single week from now until our next week off — Thanksgiving.
I ran across an article today that wonderfully illustrated why I run ALG, and why I started my own little vegetable farm back in 2002. It uses the simple dish that’s traditionally served today, Hoppin’ John, to show how much our food supply has changed in the last several decades, and how much flavor, nutrition, and diversity we nearly lost forever along the way. Small farms like those who sell through ALG, with the support of people like you who are wanting locally grown, fresh, flavorful foods, have started to turn the tide and have just barely managed to keep some of the old foods around. Many people eat Hoppin’ John and wonder why the bland mix of mushy beans and rice because a tradition and the truth is that’s not what became a tradition, it’s just what we were stuck with when the food system changed around us. Have a read of the full article — I think you’ll enjoy it: http://www.seriouseats.com/2014/12/southern-hoppin-john-new-years-tradition.html.
Each January, I devote the first few mailings of the year to the behind the scenes operation of ALG. This week, I’m going to talk about the many legal issues surrounding our market. Even though many people call us “the co-op”, ALG is legally a market owned and operated by me, so I can have a place to sell items I occasionally offer from my own gardens. There’s no board of directors, no shield corporation, no pot of grant money. It’s just me, and while that keeps things very simple, it also exposes me and my family to a ton of potential liability. It’s never really been an issue (except when the whole raw milk thing erupted several years ago) and there are several things I do specifically to minimize that risk:
- The growers list their own items and set their own prices. When you buy from them, it is from them, not from me, and not from Athens Locally Grown.
- Athens Locally Grown never takes ownership or possession of the food. The growers drop it off, and you pick it up.
- Everything at the market has a customer’s name attached to it when it arrives. ALG does not repackage any items, or buy in bulk for redistribution.
- When you pay, you’re paying into a shared cash box for all of the growers. This lets you write a single check or swipe your card once for convenience, but you are really paying all of the growers directly and individually. Your money goes in, and the software I wrote to keep everything going spits out checks for each of the growers you buy from.
- The growers give a small percentage of their sales, generally 10%, back to the market to cover the many expenses of keeping the market going. I’ll cover the details of finances another week.
- ALG never buys from a grower and resells the items to you. Never.
- When a grower sells items that need licenses from either the state or the federal government, ALG verifies that the proper licenses have been obtained.
The ownership issue is key. It’s one of the reasons why we don’t offer delivery, and why we usually can’t hold items for you if you aren’t able to pick up your orders. Delivery might be a good business for someone (if they could figure out all the legal requirements), but it’s not at all what I personally want to be into. I think it would be a valuable service for you, and I’m hoping someday someone will be able to partner with me for this. Many food co-ops and even some farmers markets aren’t as careful with keeping ownership as straight as I try to be, and that has gotten other groups similar to us into serious legal trouble (deserved or not) over the years. There are so many grey areas in all this, and the written regulations still don’t even consider that something like Athens Locally Grown might exist. We’re so firmly in the grey areas with most everything we do that it’s just too risky for me to bring us into the areas that are clearly black.
So, these are the sorts of things that guide my thinking as Athens Locally Grown has grown over the years. Everything we do has legal ramifications, and the state of Georgia has a reputation for being no nonsense when it comes to enforcement — with the little guy, anyway. That has became extra obvious in recent years, and the FDA is also putting pressure on groups like us too. I’m not a lawyer, but every time we enter those grey areas, I make sure we follow the intent of the laws, don’t flaunt anything, and have a good defense and a paper trail should we need it. And when that doesn’t work, the good folks at the Farm to Consumer Legal Defense Fund are behind us. They have consumer memberships, too, and I do encourage everyone who is able to become a member of the FtCLDF.
The FtCLDF was my legal counsel in the federal lawsuit against the FDA I (and one of our members) was a plaintiff on. The lawsuit was in response to the seizure and destruction of 110 gallons of South Carolina milk purchased by ALG members in October 2009. During the pre-trial phase, the FDA moved to dismiss the suit, and went so far as to claim that the milk dumping, filmed and placed on YouTube, with an FDA agent clearly identified, never happened. The judge refused to dismiss, and gave the FDA six months to give a yes or no answer to whether what we did is really considered illegal. Exactly six months later, they responded that it was illegal, but also claimed that even though an FDA agent was at my house giving direction, they had no hand in the dumping. They also went on record stating that individuals were legally free to cross state lines and buy raw milk to take home with them (something that the FDA agent at my house said, on camera, was completely illegal under all circumstances). After that, the judge dismissed the suit without fully ruling whether ALG was also free to facilitate our members collectively ordering and picking up milk across state lines. In any case, the state of Georgia still says what we were doing was illegal and even tightened the rules right afterward, so raw milk is still rather hard to come by.
And there in a nutshell is the legalities behind ALG. In the following weeks, I’ll get more into the nuts and bolts of finances and other aspects of how we work.
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!
Dawson Local Harvest: Eat Well for the New Year with Dawson Harvest!
Dawson Local Harvest for Jan. 6
Eat Well This New Year with Dawson Harvest!
HI EVERYBODY!
I sincerely hope you all had a wonderful New Year, and are looking forward to 2017. I think you will see some exciting growth and changes as we go towards Spring, but in the meantime we still have excellent offerings for you right now.
FIVE HENS FARMS has some new availabilities for their free-range Pork which you should check out, along with their super-delicious Eggs.
MY DAILY BREAD is also back after a well-deserved respite with wonderful Breads, Desserts, Jams, Jellies, and more!
Everyone says Kale is a superfood, so here’s a great recipe for a tasty Green Smoothie. Take a couple of handfuls of LEILANI’S Winterbor Kale, chopped, and blend with 2 cups water. Cut up 2 large ripe pears and 1 cup of frozen blueberries and add to the mix, then add water for your desired consistency. You’ll find Collards, Turnips, and 3 varieties of Kale this week from LEILANI’S
THE MARKET IS NOW OPEN!
REMEMBER! You can now order until Tuesday night at 9pm. Pick up your order at Leilani’s Gardens Friday afternoons from 4 to 7pm.
You’ll find the DAWSON LOCAL HARVEST at http://dawsonville.locallygrown.net
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! We guarantee your satisfaction with all products in the DAWSON LOCAL HARVEST.
Have a happy and healthy week!
Alan Vining
Market Manager
Suwanee Whole Life Co-op: Weblog Entry
HAPPY NEW YEAR! May you and your family be blessed with happiness, health, and prosperity in 2017!
Just a friendly reminder that market orders are due online by 6 pm TODAY. Place your order now so you don’t forget.
Volunteers Needed this Tuesday for 3pm and 5pm slots. Please help if you can.
Volunteer Signup
Please remember that we need to hit certain minimums in order for our farmers and vendor’s to deliver to us.
Thank you for placing your order and supporting local farms and businesses!
Click Here to Place Your Order
ALFN Local Food Club: Market Is Open!
Hey guys!
Hope everyone had a safe and wonderful start to the New Year! The market is open and ready to fill your fridge.
We have a new grower on our market to introduce you to, Sprout Urban Farm. Check out their herbal tinctures. Thirty percent of their proceeds help fund their social mission of building infrastructure for integrative medicine, free food, worker democracy, and a thriving cooperative economy in Little Rock, so this is a great purchase for our community!
Also, if you know someone interested in joining ALFN, tell them that now is the time to do it! For the month of January only, every new customer who makes an order will receive a FREE ALFN T-shirt! Spread the word :)
Hope 2017 is already off to a great start!
Claire Hodgson
Program and Market Manager
Fresh Harvest, LLC: Fresh Harvest for January 1st, 2017 - News about Winter Schedule!
To Contact Us
Fresh Harvest, LLC
Link to Fresh Harvest
Email us!
Tallahassee May
tally@wildblue.net
JohnDrury
john.drury@att.net
Recipes
Carrot and Sweet Potato Soup
A wonderfully hearty, creamy and healthy soup using our abundance of sweet winter carrots and sweet potatoes
4 tablespoons unsalted butter
2 medium yellow onions, chopped
1 tablespoon curry powder, plus a bit more for serving
1 pound carrots, peeled and chopped into 1-inch pieces
1-1/2 pounds sweet potatoes (about 2 small), peeled and chopped into 1-inch pieces
8 cups chicken or vegetable broth
1-3/4 teaspoons salt
2 tablespoons honey
Freshly ground black pepper
Instructions
In a large pot, melt the butter over medium heat. Add the onions and cook, stirring frequently, until soft and translucent, about 10 minutes. Do not brown. Add the curry powder and cook a minute more.
Add the carrots, sweet potatoes, chicken broth and salt and bring to a boil. Cover and simmer over low heat until vegetables are very tender, about 25 minutes. Stir in the honey. Using a stick blender, puree the soup until smooth and creamy. (Alternatively, cool the soup slightly, then puree in a blender in batches. Be sure to leave the hole in the lid open, and cover with a kitchen towel, to allow the steam to escape.) Season to taste with salt, pepper and more honey if necessary. Ladle soup into bowls and sprinkle with more curry powder if desired. (Note: As the soup sits, it will thicken up so you may need to add a bit of water to thin it out.)
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Market News
Hello!
Happy New Year! We wish you all a very healthy and joyful 2017. May you find much love, compassion and support in your family and community, and may you share it with those around you!
It is our pleasure and our privilege to grow food for you, and provide for you a wonderfully curated selection of the best local produce, meats, and products available. We look forward to a great 2017!
We are switching to an every-other-week delivery schedule. We will be delivering this week, and our next delivery will be on Wednesday, January 18th. Please stock up on items for the two weeks. Load up on our frozen meats and eggs. We’ve got a great selection of root crops and winter squashes that will also keep for a few weeks. Our greens and lettuces are so freshly picked, that their shelf life is quite long, so order more of those as well!
By switching to an every other week schedule, we are giving our slow growing winter crops more time in between harvests to catch up. We want to be able to offer you the best selection with the largest quantities available, and this is the best way to do this!
In other news, The Bloomy Rind is in the process of moving their location and reorganizing their business. They will now be a strictly wholesale operation, working with stores and restaurants all over town and beyond to offer their curated selection of artisan cheeses. We are lucky here at Fresh Harvest to be able to continue to work with Kathleen and her extensive cheese expertise. She is will continue to bring us the finest selection of small batch cheese that there is anywhere! There will be no cheese this week, as the business is right in the middle of reorganizing. But, they will be back on the week of the 18th!
We also have a new product! Tru -bee Honey has their lip balms up! Made with their beeswax, they smell good and feel great.
Thank you so much for all your support!
See you Wednesday!
John and Tallahassee
Coming Events
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!
Russellville Community Market: Happy New Year--We're Open!
Happy New Year RCM community! Welcome to 2017.
If you missed our email message yesterday about the future of RCM, please see our Facebook page for the latest.
But for now, we are open for orders!
Like us on Facebook for up to date news and exciting RCM announcements. Check out our page for great info on local foods issues and upcoming events too! RCM Facebook
Peruse the “Featured Items” section as well as the “What’s New” section at the top of the market page for all the latest products available.
To ensure your order is placed, make sure you click the *“Place My Order” *button once you have completed your shopping. *Remember, you have until 10:00pm Tuesday evening to place your orders.*
Happy Shopping! See you on Thursday!
The Wednesday Market: Happy New Year from The Wednesday Market
Happy New Year!
The Wednesday Market is open for orders. Please place your order by 10 p.m. Monday. Orders are ready for pick up between 3 and 6 p.m. Wednesday. Check the website for all of this week’s product offerings. Here is the link: https://wednesdaymarket.locallygrown.net/market
Concord Street Sweets is back with the Market this week. We thank you for your patience with us as we worked through the busy holiday season with lots of special catering. Now we are back to serve our loyal Market customers.
Not only have we just ushered in a New Year, but later this month, we are celebrating the 6th Birthday of The Wednesday Market! We look forward to a happy and prosperous new year of providing our customers with fresh, wholesome fruits, vegetables, eggs, milk, honey, poultry, seafood, meat, herbs, spices, jams, jellies, baked goods, and prepared food items. Don’t forget that the Market is also a great source for unique handmade gifts and pure health and beauty aids.
Thank you for supporting locally grown agriculture. We look forward to serving you in 2017!
Thanks,
Anna Evans, Sharon Fox, Irmalee Wing, & Beverly Walter
Champaign, OH: Carry On
A new day, a new way, and new eyes
To see the dawn.
(Crosby Stills Nash & Young – Carry On)
Well, well…what have we here? Our own new dawn, on a whole new year, for a whole lot of new hope, new peace, new love…
From your market managers, to you, we wish you a very happy new year in this 2017.
I picked this song because I find that sinking into Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young is what I have always done when I need to lose myself, lose my thoughts, let my mind meander all over the place. This song is a perfect jump off into the new unknown. It’s from one of my favorite albums, Deja Vu…which, I still have a beat up album in my collection, along with another one I must have picked up in my musical travels.
The title, alone, Deja Vu, has more meaning than you can know, for your market manager as she crosses into this new time, new year, new adventures.
“A feeling of having already experienced the present situation”
Groovy, man…Deja Vu…
Each year, as I meander through December, I begin to think ahead. What do I want in the year to come? What do I want to make of it? What is my theme? No resolutions. A theme. A mantra. Each year, I have known, just perfectly, where my life or business was taking me, or better yet, where I wanted to take it.
2106 threw me quite a lot. An additional new business, another year’s lease at my downtown shop, the new business exploding into a popularity, not imagined. The same crazy pace in the summer with farmers markets, Art Affair that I still co-chair, stepping away from venues, embracing new venues, running my shop, running this market, baking, and wondering if I had one ounce of sanity left in my over crowded life, brain, businesses. The nagging question began…how do I Carry On? (Get it? Clever, with this theme and all…lol)
I began to peel away the things that no longer brought me joy or excitement. I had some serious talks with your co-manager of this market. I had heart to hearts with my tribe, my best pals, old friends, new friends, anyone who would listen, basically. At that point, I felt that I would step away as your market manager, giving me even more free time.
And, then I got sick. In mid November I got sick, and to be honest, I have never been that sick. And, it lingered. And I didn’t get out of bed, and on some of those days, I actually began to think of who would get my vintage wardrobe, who would get my vinyl collection, who would remember me, fondly? You think I am being dramatic, but I was just that sick.
But, the only good thing about that time span was that it made me have to stay in bed, have to rest, have to have these colorful, tapestry like dreams, that vividly showed me where I should be going.
The result…I got better, I got stronger, and I was thinking more clearly than I have been able to think in so long. My conclusions are what will bring this whole rambling Weblog home, I promise.
My heart, my soul, my joy are with my Cosmic baking business, my Hippie and the Farmer business, my vintage/hippie clothing business, and, THIS MARKET.
The joy that was being sucked out of me was my actual shop. My cute little downtown shop of the past two years, was the one thing that was making me crazy. I am so busy, on a daily basis, with my other businesses, baking, delivering, taking on new clients, that it was getting too much to try to also race to my shop. I discovered, more than ever that I am a free spirit, not a girl chained to a shop, every day, kind of spirit. So, at the beginning of December, I opted not to renew my lease for another year. I packed up, and I have moved, and, it’s been the most mind freeing, free floating decision for me.
The result? I took back what I love. That includes this market. Both Mark and I will remain your market managers, after discussions with both Paul, and the YMCA staff. We are going into year 6, we have surpassed what anyone ever thought we would do, and I would like to be instrumental in where this market continues to go. But, we do have a cool, happening, loyal market customer, Polly, who will begin to learn the Thursday afternoon/evening gig, on the days that get to be too much for me to be at pick up!!
Other results…I stepped away from the Mechanicsburg Farmers and Artisans market as manager, after a long run. I am stepping away from vending at all farmers markets, unless I feel the wind is taking me in that direction, but at my desire. I have given up my shop. I exited the downtown board, last year, but will remain on Art Affair. I am moving my vintage/hippie/dress up clothing to a private studio/loft, but also heading back to a little pop up spot, in a large boutique, that will take care of my sales, but I do not have to be there, on a daily basis. And, I get to jump back into my writing, my blogging, and my chronicles of outfit pictures, food blogging, and the continued efforts at that never forgotten novel that I carve away at, via many, many journals.
So, my mantra for this year is…“I don’t know exactly where I am going, but that’s the beauty of it”
I have taken me back. And, in turn, I now Carry On, as your market manager…
Deja Vu never felt so amazing…while I am returning to things of my past that brought me great joy and love, I feel a renewed energy…
So, go dust off some of your Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, let your mind go on your own soul journey, and while doing so, place some groovy orders, man…
Orders, and your love make this market go round and round…
XOXO,
Cosmic Pam