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This weblog contains LocallyGrown.net news and the weblog entries from all the markets currently using the system.
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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
On Thursdays: Here’s a map.
Good afternoon, friends!
The market is open as usual, and will remain open for your orders till Tuesday evening 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 to Loftus Family Farm from Hillsboro! Mandy has added two types of gluten-free breads to the market: zucchini and banana. She has also added two dried herbs in 1/4 oz. packages: globe basil and sweet Italian basil. And lastly, Mandy also offers several fresh herbs: both of those basils, plus Cilantro & Fern Dill.
White City Produce & Greenhouses products will be available this week.
We have these yummy summer vegetables available this week from local farmers: beans, beets, carrots, cucumbers, eggplant, garlic, arugula, kohlrabi, lettuce, okra, onions, bell peppers, red potatoes, summer squash, and tomatoes.
Also you will find a great selection of fresh-cut herbs to help to bring out the flavor of those vegetables and your other summer cooking.
Remember that we also have delicious pork and beef cuts, organic free-range chicken and duck eggs, jams and jellies, live plants for your perennial border, porch, or patio. Please take note of our great selection of hand crafted farm products, candles, essential oils, and bath & beauty products. Stop by Square Books soon and see our market table, with lots of non-perishable farm products for sale. Pick up some jam or jelly, hand lotion or soap, herbal tea, a candle, or a basket of herb plants to enjoy or to give as a gift.
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(L to R) Dried Globe Basil, Fresh Fern Dill, & Gluten Free Banana Bread from Loftus Family Farm, Crocheted Butterfly Doily from CnG Outdoors & More, Cubed Ham Cutlet from Weaver Farms.
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 Square Books, 113 East Main Street, Manchester. We can also hold your order in the refrigerator till Friday, if it’s more convenient for you to pick it up between 11:00 am and 2:00 pm. If you prefer to utilize this free service, please make a note on your order or call my cell at (931) 273-9708. If neither of those pickup times works for you, please make a note on the order, and we will work out an alternative arrangement.
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
ALFN Local Food Club: Market Is Open!
ALFN Members,
Welcome to another week of fresh produce and locally-made products on our market! This week there are tasty options of local apples, rabbit, duck, quail, chocolate chevre, salad, arugula and cucumbers.
Rewilding
I sometimes find my imagination can’t get beyond the concrete sidewalks that cover our urban habitats. Do you? My perspective hardens and stiffens into asphalt. Dark tar binds ideas into inanimate slag that slumps down into my consciousness. The world becomes mundane, mortared with an architecture of ennui. In these moments, I have to remember every crack in the cement is an expression of wildness. The world is seething with natural forces. Trees all over Little Rock revolt against our straight lines. Parachuting seeds of anarchy drop from the wild skies and bunker down in crevasses. Raccoons and foxes hunt the nocturnal hours in my backyard and Mississippi Kites patrol the daylight hours from the canopy. If we encourage our imagination to run wild, our behavior may follow. If we intentionally think in wild terms, our policies may become feral. I think the ghosts of old ecosystems are merely waiting for us to invite them back into the world we inhabit. George Monbiot recently wrote a great book that looks at rewilding from a policy perspective. Here is a great video that outlines his ideas: rewilding. But we will never rewild our world until we allow our imaginations to become feral.
Live wildly,
Kyle Holton
Program & Market Manager
Dothan, Alabama: Market at Dothan is OPEN
Goodbye August . . .
Vendor Spotlight
Within the context of the Market, its easy to think of our Vendors in terms of the products they provide. For example, I say “Angie”, you think “Pasta”. I say “Casablanca”, you think “Beef”. I can just about guarantee that when I say “Aughtmon” you won’t think “Kittens”! But kittens it is and Lee has something special going on this week. I hope you’ll support him in this charity drive and stock up on some super good stocking stuffers, and maybe even spoil yourself some in the process!
“From time to time I like to raise money or collect donations for a good cause. I have recently started supporting a local organization called ‘Kitty Kottage’. They are a local shelter for housing kittens until they find their forever homes. They depend greatly on donations from the public in order to buy food and pay all veterinary bills associated with keeping them healthy and getting them spayed and neutered. They are one of few, possibly the only one locally that will take in kittens. They are the nicest and cleanest shelter I have seen. They are on facebook if you wanna see what they are all about, Kitty kottage Dothan. This week I will donate $2 from every bar of soap that I sell to Kitty kottage. Help me raise at least $100 to show our support and how much we care about God’s animals. Thank you for your support and God bless you! “
And Late Breaking News from Sandspur . . .”We will join forces with Aughtmon 1918 in his support of Kitty Kottage. We will also donate a portion of our sales. Just as long as it doesn’t get back to my dog Luke that despises cats. :)”
Market Info
SANDSPUR FARMS – We have new inventory in stock this week. More bacon and smoked link sausage!
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!
Northeast Georgia Locally Grown: Market is Open for Orders!
Good Evening Locavores!
Northeast Georgia Locally Grown is open for orders!
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Lake Placid Online Farmer's Market: September Market Open!
Believe it or not, summer’s drawing to a close and it’s time for the fall season to start…and time for the September market!
There are some new items available in the market this month, including jams, cookies, bread, and energy bars.Nice additions to an autumn tea!
Of course, there are also varieties of dairy, meat, and veggies available.
As always, please email me if you have any questions!
Christie
Paris Arkansas Farmers Market: WPS!!!
Hello River Valley!
Welcome the Hogs back with some great local bounty we have for you at the online market this week!
Stop by and get the best of the season’s harvest while it lasts! There are still tomatoes, okra, cucumbers and more!! And of course meats, cheeses and farm fresh eggs!!
Fall is just around the corner…celebrate a great season with us!!
Peace,
PAFM
Central Arkansas : Opening Bell
Afternoon marketers,
The temperature this morning made me think maybe we are starting to cool off just a bit!!
The weather maybe cooling off, but the great products at hot prices here on CAFM stay hot all year.
We have some very tasty organic veggies this week. We also have eggs, meat & some other great items, such at farm crafted garden items & hand knitted items.
Buy Fresh, Buy Local, Be Healthy!!
-CAFM Market Manager
ALFN Local Food Club: Volunteers Needed
ALFN Members,
Good morning! We are still needing folks to fill our slots for volunteering. We especially need some early shift folks.
Thanks for helping!
Augusta Locally Grown: THE ON-LINE MARKE IS OPEN AT AUGUSTA LOCALLY GROWN
LOVE TO OUR FARMERS
Sending love to our farmers this weekend as they weather this tropical storm. We hope it brings the rains they need without damaging the fruits of their tireless labor. Y’all are truly the heroes of our community, patiently working with whatever the heavens bring.
ANNOUNCEMENTS ====
CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS
We’re putting together a strapping team of volunteers for our Harvest Bytes event on October 28-29 at the Clubhou.se! Cook, serve or set up! Be a part of the get-er-done crowd, and have fun doing it! Text Kim at 706-288-7895.
SIBLEY SOILWORKS
Next steps for the Sibley Soilworks community composting project: we’re looking for a general contractor to volunteer his/her time to advise on a simple structure. Can you help GROW Harrisburg? Email david@hobbyfarmers.org.
LOCAL FOOD EVENTS CALENDAR ====
TUES, SEPT 6 – VEGGIE TRUCK FARMERS MARKET!
Support the most feel-good farmers market in Augusta. And yes, we double EBT!!! Every Tuesday, 4:30pm-7pm, at 1850 Broad Street, Augusta.
TUE, SEPT 20 – ALG SPEAKS WITH THE SUBURBAN GARDEN CLUB
We’re always grateful to meet up with our local garden clubs!
THU, SEPT 22 – FOOD OASIS MEETING
Join with other local food activists, led by Georgia Organics, to make some real progress in our community together! Location TBA. Contact CarlaTrenaWalker@gmail.com to get the RSVP link.
SAT, SEPT 24 – VOLUNTEER WORK DAY AT ICEBOX URBAN FARM AND THE HUNDREDS IN HARRISBURG PROJECT
There’s always something creative and fun to work on at this campus, dedicated to school group education. We’ll also be installing more free raised beds at individual homes in the community of Harrisburg! Join our volunteer groups from 9am-1pm. And yes! We always feed our volunteers healthy, beautiful food. For more information, text Kim at 706-288-7895.
SAT, SEPT 24 – WHOLE FOODS BIRTHDAY BASH
Join us and others to celebrate Whole Foods’ 2nd Birthday at their store in Augusta. Kids activities from 12noon-4pm; more adult activities from 4pm-8pm. Come learn about getting involved in our Food & Tech Hackathon too!
SUN, SEPT 25 — THREE FARM TOUR & PROGRESSIVE FARM DINNER
We’re very excited to announce another “Three Farm Tour & Progressive Farm Dinner!” This time we’re focusing on the Aiken area. Meet the good folks at Pascalina Farm for soup and salad; Happy Earth Farm for meat stew; and Trail Ridge Goat Dairy for dessert. Tickets are on sale now through our on-line market! $20 each. 1p-5:30p. A limited 25 tickets will be available. Buy now! This is a very popular event.
SAT, OCT 1 – MICROBIAL MAKEOVER WITH ICEBOX FARM
Icebox Farm has just announced a fascinating, full-day workshop called “Microbial Makeover,” held at the Savannah Rapids Pavilion in Evans. In this hands-on workshop, you and your friends will find out what microbiota and microbiomes are, where they come from, and how we interact with them in ways that affect our health. Expert facilitators are Dr. Steve Fountain, MD, PhD, and Tasha Alison, of Icebox Farm. Visit the event’s new website at microbialmakeover.com. to register. Space is limit, includes an amazing meal, and will sell out fast!
WED, OCT 5 – ALG SPEAKS WITH THE WESTLAKE GARDEN CLUB
We’re always grateful to meet up with our local garden clubs!
FRI, SAT, OCT 7-8 – PLANT SALE AT SOUTHERN NATIVE PLANTINGS!
Get great deals on your fruit trees and other edibles for fall planting. Juicy details coming soon.
TUE, OCT 11 – ALG SPEAKS WITH THE HILLSIDE GARDEN CLUB
We’re always grateful to meet up with our local garden clubs!
SAT, OCT 15 – VOLUNTEER WORK DAY AT ICEBOX URBAN FARM AND THE HUNDREDS IN HARRISBURG PROJECT
There’s always something creative and fun to work on at this campus, dedicated to school group education. We’ll also be installing more free raised beds at individual homes in the community of Harrisburg! Join our volunteer groups from 9am-1pm. And yes! We always feed our volunteers healthy, beautiful food. For more information, text Kim at 706-288-7895.
SAT-SUN, OCT 28-29 – “HARVEST BYTES” – A FARM TO TABLE TECHNOLOGY EVENT
Join us as we partner with the Clubhou.se in downtown Augusta to explore ways in which sustainability and technology intersect to improve our local food system overall. Partake in an intellectually satisfying, gastronomically-elegant, farm-to-table meal created by the dynamic duo of Chef Charleen Tinley and Chef Jonathan Marks, formerly of the Roosters Beak. Start the night with a Socratic-style cocktail hour, following by “Hacking the Microbiome” with speaker Dr. Steve Fountain. We’ll kick it all off with a competitive Good Food Hack-A-Thon the night before, sponsored by Whole Foods Market! Be a part of the thinking crowd … and eat well while doing it. Proceeds from this event will fund an “Incubator Kitchen” at the Clubhou.se to support start-up and pop-up chefs in Augusta. Tickets are on sale now at www.harvestbytes.org.
TUE, NOV 8 – ALG SPEAKS WITH THE HIGH GROVE GARDEN CLUB
We’re always grateful to meet up with our local garden clubs!
THU, NOV 10 – FOOD OASIS MEETING
Join with other local food activists, led by Georgia Organics, to make some real progress in our community together! Location TBA.
SAT, NOV 19 – NATIONAL VOLUNTEER FAMILY DAY AT ICEBOX URBAN FARM AND THE HUNDREDS IN HARRISBURG PROJECT!
Save the date! Bring your family! Make a difference!
TBA – SIBLEY SOILWORKS!
An all-new project of G.R.O.W. Harrisburg!
HOW YOU CAN HELP ====
MATCHING CORPORATE GIFTS!
Augusta Locally Grown is blessed to be the recent beneficiary of two sets of matching corporate gifts: one from Merck and one from the Augusta National Golf Club. Does your company match employee gifts or volunteer hours? If so, please consider choosing ALG as your beneficiary. There are so many ways to contribute to a more healthy and vibrant local food system!
DIG IN TO HELP, AT AUGUSTA LOCALLY GROWN
People often ask how they can help support our efforts. Here’s a healthy menu of opportunities!
DIMES FOR DIRT
Turn your spare change into soil for our Hundreds in Harrisburg project. We’ll be installing 50 more raised beds at individual homes throughout this neighborhood. Collection jars are located at both ALG Market pick-up locations, The Veggie Truck Farmers Market, Southern Made, Grovetown Feed and Seed, Bricko Farms and Humanitree House.
ALG FACEBOOK BUTTON
We now have a donation button on our Facebook page!
AMAZON SMILE
A portion of your Amazon purchases can benefit ALG’s educational programs when you sign-in through www.smile.amazon.com and select us as your beneficiary.
DIRTY TO DELICIOUS FUND-DRIVE:
This on-line fund-drive benefits all of ALG’s educational programs through the CSRA. From elementary school visits to our post-graduate internships, your donation supports a better understanding the power of local, healthy, wholesome food for our community. Visit https://fundrazr.com/219NRc.
Cheers!
Kim