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

Dothan, Alabama:  Market at Dothan is Open! Happy New Year!

Wishing You and Yours A

IMPORTANT MARKET ANNOUNCEMENT

It has been one year since I took over management of Market At Dothan. Many of you remember those early 2016 sad disasters masquarading as newsletters. I am so grateful for the kind patience and support of both our vendors and customers during these 12 months. Most of you have no idea how your observations, ideas and advice have helped to improve Market policies and procedures.

We are still transitioning! One of the things I kept bumping into via customer remarks over the year concerned the organization of our Market (ordering) page. I’m happy to tell you that it should be much easier to navigate now.

If you’ve not looked yet it’s ok to do it now (click here). We welcome honest feedback and hope the change will make it easier for you to find what you want or need. Mrs. Melody, who has been with us a long time said this: “I took a look at the new website as you requested and I really like it. Its going to be much easier to navigate because you can click on the category of things you want to purchase and see everything available. As I told you before if I was looking for eggs and scrolled to the “E” section I wouldn’t always find all the eggs available because some vendors would list them as “fresh” or “free range” they would be under “F” and I wouldn’t find them. I think this is a great idea and I think the other customers are going to like it as well.”

It’s important to know that you CAN STILL LOOK UP SPECIFIC VENDORS. Under the category listings is a box called “Display Options”. This is where you can choose one or more vendors to view. Please take advantage of that function often as all our growers are wonderful and deserve the limelight.

Lastly, THANK YOU to all our vendors who helped with this project. Many hands make light work and I couldn’t ask to work with a better group of folks. Here’s to a better year in 2017!

Blessings to You and Yours,
Ros

Market Info

Winter Market Schedule Order Online December 31 – January 3 for Pickup on Friday, January 6 Order Online January 7 – January 10 for Pickup on Friday, January 13 Order Online January 14 – January 17 for Pickup on Friday, January 20 Order Online January 21 – January 24 for Pickup on Friday, January 27

Order Online January 28 – January 31 for Pickup on Friday, February 3 Order Online February 4 – February 7 for Pickup on Friday, February 10 Order Online February 11 – February 14 for Pickup on Friday, February 17 Order Online February 18 – February 21 for Pickup on Friday, February 24

This yummy Kale & Sausage Soup is a perfect way to take advantage of Market seasonal produce and naturally raised pork products.




SANDY VALLEY NEW This week: Cabbage Collards. Also available: Swiss Chard, Broccoli, Radishes, Japanese Salad Turnips, Vates Curly Kale

SMITH FARMS – Ground Lamb and Dexter Beef


SWEET ACRE FARMS:,

Off This Week

AVALON FARMS “Avalon Farms will not be participating in this week’s market. We will be enjoying too much food and laughter with our family (and our 2 new bottle baby goats). Wishing you and yours a season of joy, love and grace and a Happy New Year. We’ll see you in 2017!”

CASABLANCA RANCH. Read more about them: http://casablancaranch.com/. Locally Grown Hormone Free Santa Gertrudis Beef

D’S JELLIES – D’s Mayhaw Jelly, Hot Pepper Jelly, and BlackBerry Jelly are good year round.

GINTHER FARMS Fresh UNFERTILIZED eggs from young chickens. Perfect for Deviled Eggs.

HORTON’S FARM NEW PRODUCT: Colloidial Honey for topical first aid use. Danny has Lettuce, Chard and Onions available this week. Hortons Farm is your local source for Local Wildflower Honey. Tupelo Honey in fancy jars are perfect for gifting as they never granulate. Be sure to check out our 100% beeswax candles and Bath and Body products made with gifts from the honeybees.

KATHY’S CHURPERS Always the finest in fresh local eggs.

MARY’S PEEPS Thank you for supporting me and my products last year, I have had to take a little time off, but will try and keep products in the market which you liked. I will try my very best to keep adding new products and keep things fresh. Be sure and look at my Honey, and pecan products. I also have a lot of jams, jellies, and bakery products to pick from. This will be a new year for all of us to start over. So Happy New Year from Mary’s Peeps, and Mary Bees. Hope everyone has a wonderful year! Mary Dale Peeples, Echo Community, Ozark, Al. Thanks for recycling it helps everyone!

RICHTER FARMS: Off this week.

SANDSPUR FARMS “As we celebrate the New Year this weekend, let’s start the year off right by feeding our families fresh vegetables and responsibly raised pork!”

Footnotes

Our Website: marketatdothan.locallygrown.net

Our Email: marketatdothan@gmail.com

On Facebook: www.facebook.com/MarketatDothan

For Friday Pickup: Dothan Nurseries, 1300 Montgomery Highway, Dothan, AL 36303

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!

Naples,FL:  market closes Sunday noon

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Russellville Community Market:  The Future of RCM

We want to wish everyone Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year, and express our appreciation for everyone’s involvement with Russellville Community Market over the years. We also appreciate everyone’s feedback via the recent survey about the market.

Over the years, the RCM board and our market managers have made diligent efforts to grow the market and improve its function. During the last year, these efforts included significant financial commitments to advertising, market promotions, and to paying a market manager. Unfortunately, our efforts to grow the market have not resulted in an increased income level that will allow us to continue to pay a market manager and we have been unable to identify a reliable person to make a long term commitment to take over the market manager position as a volunteer.

As a result, the RCM board met on December 16th to make some difficult decisions about the future of RCM. Below is a summary of our discussion and conclusions:

In the event that a viable solution for moving forward with market management cannot be found, RCM will shut down for the foreseeable future after the market on Thursday, January 12th.

The RCM board will take the coming months to think about the future of the market and come to the March RCM board meeting with ideas about ways to move forward and possibly reopen the market. We invite people from the RCM community to offer ideas for sustainable ways forward, to nominate new RCM board members who are passionate about local food, and to consider making a commitment to volunteering as a market manager. If you would like to share any ideas you may have, please don’t hesitate to contact Bryan Mader at bryanrmader@yahoo.com, at 913-636-8193 (call or text) or through the RCM email address at russellvillecommunitymarket@gmail.com.

During the RCM board meeting on the first Thursday of March, the RCM board will consider our options and decide whether to attempt to reopen the market under an alternative management model or close the market permanently. People from the RCM community are encouraged to share ideas in the interim and/or attend the RCM board meeting in March.

Once again, we appreciate everyone’s involvement with RCM over the years and we hope we can find a sustainable way to continue to support the availability of fresh, local food for the community and good livelihoods for our local farmers.

With that said, we will have two markets before our closure on January 12th. We will be having a market on January 5th and on January 12th.

If you have any further questions or comments, please contact us at the email/phone listed above.

Thank you

Duette, FL:  French Filet Beans

Happy New Year everyone. To start this year off with flavor, our newest vege is French Beans, or Haricots Verts (French for “French Bean”). They are also referred to as French green beans, fine beans, and filet beans, a variety of green beans that is longer, thinner, crispier, and tenderer than your average green bean. You no longer have to go to a fine restaurant to enjoy these beans. We have them right here at Duette Locally Grown for you enjoyment. We also have Italian green beans and our regular green beans. Please have a look at what we have to offer and place your orders.
Thank you.

David and Betty
Duette Locally Grown Market