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!

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

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!

Russellville Community Market

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

Stones River Market:  HAPPY NEW YEAR!! We are open for ordering this week!

Market News

Happy and joyous New Year to everyone!

The market is back open for ordering with a regular pickup schedule!

WELCOME BACK! to Nom Noms Dog Treats -
She has listed some new products along with old favorites!! We are excited to have her and the treats back with the market!
Try the Fruity Pibbles— These treats are a smoothie with flour then baked. They are hand made with gluten/wheat free flour, strawberries, blueberries, bananas, apples, and water. They taste as amazing as they sound. $1.00 of every bag goes directly to local spay/neuter efforts. Your dog gets some super healthy treats and another dog gets much needed vet care.

Dogwood Valley Greenhouse send this note:

Bring the garden inside for the winter! Dogwood Valley Greenhouse has a large selection of beautiful hanging baskets and houseplants to help make your winter home more comfortable by raising the humidity and the oxygen content of the air a little bit. The multi-colored foliage of our Rex begonias and various-colored blooms of our Christmas cacti will really raise your spirits during the dreary winter months. Our Aloe vera plants will help heal cuts and burns from winter-time cooking. And our wandering Jews and spider plants in two colors will fill your windows with green and colorful foliage. I also have two very large hanging baskets, one Swedish ivy and one blooming flame violet, which would make spectacular gifts for the gardener with a winter birthday. Check out our beautiful houseplants, and add one to your home, or that of a friend, this week!

Rocky Glade Farm is with us this week and then begin an every other week schedule. When the sunshine returns, in the Spring, they will be back full time! Stock up each week so you don’t miss your favorites.

Jenny with Seeds of Success has added a Split Pea Soup~ This soup imparts a subtle smoky flavor, without using meat. To promote prosperity in the New Year, it also includes black-eyed peas. Split peas are slow cooked with lentils, sweet potatoes, onions, kale, and SOS seasonings. Enjoy this scrumptious soup with hearty bread for dipping. Defrost, heat, and eat. *Vegan *Gluten-Free *Dairy-Free *Protein Rich

Alfalfa, Broccoli, and Zesty sprouts will return next week.

There is plenty to stock your fridge and pantry with on the market! Get your delicious locally roasted coffee, hot cocoa mix, meats, milk, body care, baked goods, and more this week!

Don’t forget that we can deliver to your door! Select delivery and add to your cart just as you would any product check that your address is correct in the system, set a cooler out and we will deliver during the normal pickup hours on Wednesday.

See you Wednesday!

Tracey & Ashleigh

Recipes

Please, share your recipes with us on the Recipes tab. We’d all love to know how you use your Stones River Market products, so we can try it too!

I am taking a break from recipes. Look for them to return soon.

Middle Tennessee Locally Grown:  Time to Order Local Farm Products!

Manchester Locally Grown Farmers’ Market

How to contact us:

Our Website: manchester.locallygrown.net
On Facebook: Manchester Locally Grown Online Farmers’ Market
By e-mail: tnhomeschooler@yahoo.com
By phone: (931) 273-9708

Good morning!

The market is open as usual, and will remain open for your orders till Tuesday at 10 pm. Please be sure to read the section of the page entitled “Important Ordering and Pickup Information.”

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NEWS AND NOTES

Welcome back to Manchester Locally Grown market, after our short Christmas break! And Happy New Year to one and all!

Hope for Health brings us the most naturally nutritious foods possible. Hope writes:
I’ll have all of my items this week… pumpkin muffins made with freshly ground organic wheat, organic coconut oil, fresh honey. Also, sprouts will be available this week. Hope also offers toffee, brownies, meringues, pecan pralines, and carrot cake. She believes in foods in their most natural form and using organic ingredients.

Dogwood Valley Greenhouse writes:
Bring the garden inside for the winter! Dogwood Valley Greenhouse has a large selection of beautiful hanging baskets and houseplants to help make your winter home more comfortable by raising the humidity and the oxygen content of the air a little bit. The multi-colored foliage of our Rex begonias and various-colored blooms of our Christmas cacti will really raise your spirits during the dreary winter months. Our Aloe vera plants will help heal cuts and burns from winter-time cooking. And our wandering Jews and spider plants in two colors will fill your windows with green and colorful foliage. I also have two very large hanging baskets, one Swedish ivy and one blooming flame violet, which would make spectacular gifts for the gardener with a winter birthday. Check out our beautiful houseplants, and add one to your home, or that of a friend, this week!.

Vegetables from White City Produce & Greenhouses will be available this week.

We will be glad to deliver your order to you, at home or a location of your choice, on Friday afternoons for a small fee. Order delivery just like any other product.

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(L to R) Alfalfa Sprouts and Healthful Pumpkin Muffins from Hope for Health, Cubed Ham Cutlets from Weaver Farms, White Christmas Cactus and Large Swedish Ivy from Dogwood Valley Greenhouse.*

*Sorry about the missing picture. Software won’t cooperate, and I’m tired!

IMPORTANT ORDERING AND PICKUP INFORMATION

Ordering will be open until TUESDAY at 10 p.m., and your order will be available for pickup on THURSDAY between 4:00 and 5:30 at our tents located outside Manchester Farm Store, 251 Interstate Dr., Manchester. We can also deliver your order to your home (or other location) on Friday, if it’s more convenient for you. If you prefer to utilize this service, please place an order for it, same as other products, selecting your delivery area. Don’t forget to give us your location address in the comments section of the order. Also please text Linda at (931) 273-9708 for specific arrangements.

Thanks so much for your support of Manchester Locally Grown Market, and your friends and neighbors who have grown and produced these items. Please encourage our local farmers by helping to spread the word about our wonderful market to everyone you know. We offer a great variety of local farm products, and our items will be in your hands in time to plan for the weekend. Wonderful local products are available for ordering from the comfort of your own computer.

More new farmers are considering joining our market, if they can expect enough sales to help pay their transportation costs. Please help us grow the market by sharing this e-mail with your friends and inviting them to give us a try. And if you haven’t ordered from Manchester Locally Grown for a while, please check out our wide variety of offerings this week. Also please let us know if we can improve our selection or scheduling in any way to better suit your needs.

Blessings,

Linda

Here is the complete list for this week.

CLG:  Opening Bell: NEW GROWER! Greens, Purple Hull Peas, Bratwurst!

Happy New Year!
We are starting 2017 off with a NEW GROWER! Many of you were lucky enough to meet Elizabeth Calvert from Arkavalley Farm as she was sampling out her delicious Sourdough Bread at Friday’s market. Each week she will be baking about a dozen loaves for CLG. Enjoy!

Several of you asked about spinach. Eddie at Kellogg Valley Farm told me he will have some in a couple of weeks. He had plenty but the protective covering blew off on one of those 14 degree nights. :-(

Most items are listed by 6pm Sunday, but check back again before the market closes Tuesday night to see if any other items are ready to be harvested for you! Eat fresh! Eat local! Eat for better health!

Check out 450 wonderful items listed right now. See you on Friday!

And save your eggshells throughout the week for the laying hens! :-)

The market is now OPEN for orders. Click here to start shopping:

www.conway.locallygrown.net

Please check your email a few minutes after you place your order to make sure you get an order confirmation. Thank you for being a valuable part of CLG!
Have a great week!
Steve

ONLINE PAYMENT OPTION. When you are done shopping, just hit the “proceed to checkout” button in your cart. You will then see the option to “Pay Now” with credit card near the bottom. Just follow the prompts to add your card. Be sure to read the screen until you see “Thank you for your order” on the top. If you need help, please call 339-7958. A 3% online payment convenience fee will be added when your card is charged.
How to contact us:
DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL. Instead…
Phone or text: Steve – 501-339-1039
Email: Steve – kirp1968@sbcglobal.net