The Weblog
This weblog contains LocallyGrown.net news and the weblog entries from all the markets currently using the system.
To visit the authoring market’s website, click on the market name located in the entry’s title.
Cook Farm: COOK FARM
Hi from the farm,
Order any time between now and 9am Tuesday.
Thanks for shopping with me!
Susan Cook
Tullahoma Locally Grown: August 1st - Market Opening
Welcome to August!.
Your Tullahoma Locally Grown Market is now open. Feel free to browse and select your items between now and Wednesday at noon.
Here is the link to the market: Tullahoma Locally Grown Market
Thank you for your support. Have a great day,
Fuel So Good Coffee Roasters
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 morning, friends!
The market opened Sunday morning as usual, even though I didn’t send this market message then, 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
The vegetables are growing larger, and White City Produce & Greenhouses has added large zucchini, as well as a half-bushel of stringless bush bean “Malibu”. Tami delivered her first CSA basket last week, and it looked awesome! Look for a picture next week.
Solace Farm has added several garlic braids in different sizes. Congratulations to owners Caleb and Amy Rae, whose new son Ewan Nickinson was born on July 26, weighing 9lb 10oz. Check out the Solace Farm blog, store, and photo galleries at www.solacefarmhomestead.com .
We have lots of other delicious summer vegetables available: bush beans, beets, carrots, cucumbers, eggplant, garlic, arugula, kohlrabi, lettuce, onions, bell, jalapeno, and banana peppers, red potatoes, yellow squash, Swiss chard, several types of tomatoes, and zucchini. 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.
Please notice that some vegetables are now available in larger size packages: cucumbers, red potatoes, assorted heirloom tomatoes, bell peppers, and a box of #2 canning tomatoes.
Remember that we also have delicious pork and beef cuts, rich creamline milk, 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) Beans “Malibu” from White City Produce & Greenhouses, Garlic ‘Homestead’ from Frontier Family Farm, Open Range Chicken Eggs from Wayne Diller, Taller Red Carnation from Dogwood Valley Greenhouse, Freshcut Lemon Balm from Triple B 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 10:00 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
Athens Locally Grown: ALG Market Open for August 4
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
It’s been a week of exploring other local food systems in our region for me, and I’ve really enjoyed it. I got to go up to Clayton, GA on Friday for the beginning of their yearly Garlic Festival, and it was great to see the resurgence that community has undergone recently. They were recently proclaimed the “Farm to Table Capital of Georgia” by an act of legislature, and it was clear to see how they made a strong case for themselves. Their town center is small, but it was lined with eateries and storefronts advertising their locally grown foods. After helping judge the garlic pie contest (they were all pretty great, by the way) I had a perfect bowl of mixed veggie gazpacho at Fortify, run by long-time champion of the North Georgia farmer Chef Jamie Allred. Next time you’re up that way, rest assured you’ll have no shortage of food options up there.
And today I went to the Sunday farmers market in Chattanooga, and was blown away by how huge that has gotten in recent years. It’s been a decade or so since I’ve been by the markets there, and the market I attended today was the largest farmers market I’ve been to in the south, hands down. There were well over a hundred vendors, a dozen or more food trucks, and even a cocktail bar. I spent several hours just walking around looking at everything, and I’m not sure I saw everything there was to see.
Athens Locally Grown is finishing up or 15th year in operation, and it astonishing the changes that have happened in our local food systems since 2002. It’s great to see that it’s not just Athens, too, but our entire region that has been lifted up. Here’s to that trend continuing!
Thanks 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 is open on Saturdays at Bishop Park and Wednesday afternoons downtown at Creature Comforts. You can catch the news on their website. The West Broad Farmers Market from the Athens Land Trust is open Saturday mornings and Wednesdays from 11am-2pm in the atrium at St. Mary’s Hospital. They have a website too. The Comer Farmers’ Market is open for the season on Saturday mornings from 9am to noon. Check www.facebook.com/comerfm for more information. The Oconee County Farmers Market is open on Saturdays in Watkinsville. Their website is www.oconeefarmersmarket.org. Washington, GA also has a lovely little Saturday market, running from 9-1. 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!
DeForest, WI: Availability for the week of July 31
This week there should be more varieties of tomatoes. Add the tomatoes to your comments in your order and then you can pick out yours at the time of pick up. Or you can order them in 3 or 5 lb quantities of the farmers choice that will need to be used soon.
Farmer Rich says his sweet corn is just right, and the raccoons agree!! Remember that the Farm Stand CSA punch cards do not work for sweet corn, you need to pay with cash or check.
As was the case this past week, there is a good chance that the farmers will find more veggies that are ready to go home.
Since the market was closed one Friday in July, we will honor the cards that are good until the end of July 2016 this coming Friday, August 5.
Central Arkansas : Friendly Reminder
Just wanted to remind everyone to place their order for the week!!
You only have a few hours left until the market closes.
There’s a lot of great items on the market this week!! We want you to have all the fresh food & handmade products that your heart could possibly desire!!
Have a great week folks & we will see y’all Tuesday.
Eat Fresh, Eat Local, Buy Healthy
-CAFM Market Manager
Fresh Harvest, LLC: Fresh Harvest for July 31st
To Contact Us
Fresh Harvest, LLC
Link to Fresh Harvest
Email us!
Tallahassee May
tally@wildblue.net
JohnDrury
john.drury@att.net
Recipes
Eggplant with Yogurt and Tomato Relish
from the blog, Smitten Kitchen
This is a delicious way to eat eggplant and those summer tomatoes! Great with couscous!
3 tablespoons olive oil, divided
1 1/4 to 1 1/2 pounds eggplant; I prefer the long, thin variety here but any will do
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
1/2 cup (75 grams) dried couscous (optional)
1 garlic clove
1/4 cup packed flat-leaf parsley leaves
1 cup cherry or grape tomatoes
2 teaspoons red wine vinegar, plus more to taste
Red pepper flakes
1/2 cup plain yogurt
Heat oven to 425 degrees. Trim eggplants and cut in half lengthwise; season cut sides with salt and pepper. Coat a large roasting pan with olive oil (1 to 2 tablespoons). Arrange eggplants cut side down; sprinkle with more salt and pepper. Roast for 25 minutes on the first side, or until brown underneath then flip and roast 5 to 10 minutes more. Remove from oven and let cool slightly.
Meanwhile, make couscous, if using it. Bring 3/4 cup water and a few pinches of salt to a simmer then pour it over dried couscous in a bowl. Cover with a lid or foil and let side for 5 minutes to absorb, then fluff with a fork.
Make tomato relish by pulsing garlic and parsley in a blender or food processor until finely chopped, then add tomatoes and pulse until they’re well chopped. Add 1 tablespoon olive oil, vinegar, salt, freshly ground black pepper or a pinch or two of red pepper flakes and pulse to combine. No food process or blender? Not a problem at all; just mince the garlic and parsley well and finely chop the tomatoes; stir this together with the remaining ingredients. Both methods: taste for seasoning. We like this extra sharp and almost always add 1 more teaspoon vinegar and more salt. The longer it sits, the more potent it gets.
To assemble, schmear each eggplant half with a little yogurt. If you’re using couscous, sprinkle a little on top. Spoon tomato relish over and serve the rest of all the above on the side..
Market News
Hello!
Looks like as we head into August, the weather will continue to be hot and steamy! It has actually been a few years since the hottest period of the year was during the end of July when, statistically, it has always been. Recently the hottest stretches have been in June with days of 100 degree temperatures. But as we know in the South, it’s the humidity that is crippling.
The tomatoes and summer produce are at their peak right now!~ This is the time folks to stock up on tomatoes for canning and freezing, etc. We’ve got the 10lbs for $10.00 special going on just for you! It’s really an amazing deal! Also the ‘Juliet’ variety Roma tomatoes are great oven roasted to concentrate their flavor and frozen for later.
We have lots of lovely melons! Enjoy these fleeting fruits of summer while they are here! They are a lot for us to lug around, but we love to eat them so! We still have blueberries as well, although don’t know for how much longer.
You have until Tuesday evening to place your place your order!
We look forward to seeing you on Wednesday! Thank you so much for all your support!
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!
Champaign, OH: Woodstock
We are stardust…
We are golden…
And weve got to get ourselves…
Back to the garden…
(Woodstock-Joni Mitchell)
Introducing the newest duo to this little local market of love…
Hippie and the Farmer, LLC is a business that was formed between Cosmic Charlie Bread and Oakview Farm Meats. We offer, sell, distribute boxes of themed, once a month, boxes to individuals and corporations. Farm fresh goodness, just one field away, from our farm to your door. These boxes are packed with assorted frozen meats, produce, breads, seasonal local fruit, assorted other seasonal items, newsletters, recipes, menu plans, shopping lists, and fun music playlists. These boxes can be purchased by visiting our Facebook page at Hippie and the Farmer. The popularity of our boxes rests on the unknown theme, each month, and the surprise of the contents, each month!
BUT..HERE, NOW, FOR A LIMITED TIME, THIS SEASON…
We would like to offer Hippie and the Farmer mixed produce boxes to our online market, here! The produce comes from the three large gardens, on the farm, of Oakview Farm Meats, also the site of the Hippie and the Farmer, LLC fully licensed commercial kitchen.
We use all organic methods of growing in our gardens, but are not certified as organic!
We do local, we are local, we support local.
Hippie and the Farmer mixed produce boxes…a box of local love!
As we pick from our gardens, we will put these items in your boxes! The fun is in the mystery of what you will find! The picture would be a good example of the items, with other produce as well as fresh herbs, as we have them!
You love us and trust us as your market managers, and now you can love us and trust us as Hippie and the Farmer!
Dawson Local Harvest: "I Don't Give a Fig!"
Dawson Local Harvest for August 5th
“I Don’t Give a Fig!”
But maybe you should. Two or Three, in fact!
HI EVERYONE!
All sorts of Fruits are coming in now. So why should you give a Fig? Because latest to join the fruit parade are Figs from MY BAILY BREAD. These are sweet and delicious Brown Turkey Figs, and if you’ve never had fresh-picked, right off a tree Figs you don’t know what you’ve been missing! They join Blueberries and the return of Blackberries to the Fruit section of The Market this week.
Tomatoes are Back after a short hiatus due to the difficult summer (too hot!). LEILANI’S has some tasty, very nice-sized Tomatoes for sandwiches, burgers, salads, and more. They join ‘Blue Lake’ Green Beans, Squash, various Zucchinis, Cucumbers, and other goodies. Find them in the Vegetable section.
Don’t forget great Gluten-free and organic Breads and Desserts from MY DAILY BREAD. We are really fortunate to have one of the premier bakers in our Market, so please look at their offerings in Baked Goods, Processed and Prepared Foods. There’s some wonderfully delicious treats to discover there!
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
United States Virgin Islands: Wednesday August 3rd - Market
We’re open for the week – just a reminder, lots of lamb stew meat available!!
LB