Suwanee Whole Life Co-op:  Reminder: Place your order before 6pm today!

Just a friendly reminder that market orders are due online by 6 pm TODAY. Place your order now so you don’t forget!

Please remember that we need to hit certain minimums in order for our farmers and vendors to deliver to us.

Thank you for placing your order and supporting local farms and businesses!

Have a safe and happy 4th of July! See you on Tuesday!

Click Here to Place Your Order

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

Happy 4th of July Weekend!

The market is open today as usual, and will remain open for your orders till Tuesday evening at 10 pm. Please notice several new items on the market this week, and be sure to read the section of the page entitled “Important Ordering and Pickup Information.”

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NEWS AND NOTES

This week Solace Farm has added several types of garlic to the market. White City Produce & Greenhouses has added Swiss chard.

Welcome back to Frontier Family Farms lettuce, after a short break. Michael has also added red potatoes, garlic, and red onions.

We have lots of other delicious spring and summer vegetables available: arugula, beets, carrots, cucumbers, kohlrabi, onions, bell peppers, red potatoes, spinach, yellow squash, 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.

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.

(L to R) Red potatoes and Bibb lettuce from Frontier Family Farm, Swiss chard from White City Produce & Greenhouses, Double Orange Daylily from Dogwood Valley Greenhouse, Magnesium Oil Spray from Terra Hills Natural Products.

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, calling their attention to the later pickup hours, which may be more convenient for them. 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.

United States Virgin Islands:  Happy July 4th Weekend - online market open!

Hope you all re having a lovely long weekend! See you for pick-up on Wednesday.
As a reminder, we still have lamb cuts available!
LB

Stones River Market:  Happy Independence Day!

Market News

Freedom is a wonderful thing and a true blessing but with much responsibility to our communities and neighbors and local producers/makers and business people! Freedom’s pricetag is a good burden to have: caring for each other and the bigger picture!

As always, thank you for choosing Stones River Market. This is truly a community market and we love what we do for you!

Plenty of summer veg from Flying S Farm and White City Produce

Have you tried Seeds of Success seasonings on roasted corn? You may find yourself slightly addicted!!

Don’t forget the dogs in your life! Nom Noms is dedicated to providing quality, researched nutrition treats for your loved ones. Your dogs will beg for them!

The weather may be hot, but a second planting of herbs, flowers and veggies (or even a first planting for some) can still happen!
Rainbow Hill Dogwood Valley Greenhouse Sweetpea and White City Produce may still have what you are looking for!

Erdmann Farms has absolutely GORGEOUS cut flowers!!

The Stones River Market L & L Contractors market bags are still available for purchase. Through the month of July, all $100 purchases receive one FREE bag. No limit through the month. If you spend $100 each week, then you receive a bag each time. Use them, share them… your choice! Thank you!

See you all Wednesday,

Ashleigh & Tracey
Market Managers
(931)952-1224
stonesrivermarket@gmail.com

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.

ALFN Local Food Club:  Market Is Open

In the middle of July 4th weekend, don’t forget to plan your eats for next week. The fourth may pass, but the vines are still growing and the chickens keep laying. The market is open!

NEWS

Canning Workshop
The Southern Center for Agroecology and The Root Cafe will be conducting three workshops over the next three months. The first one is next week! Check it out:

Please join us at the Kitchen at Christ Church (509 Scott St, Little Rock, AR, 72201) and learn how to preserve the abundant summer produce of Arkansas! The Root Cafe’s Angela Gardner will share and demonstrate the important steps and subtle nuances of preserving the harvest safely and efficiently so that you can enjoy the delicious flavors of summer all winter long! Sign up today as space is limited for this workshop series brought to you by The Southern Center for Agroecology and The Root Cafe.

There will be three workshops ($35 each):

• July 7, 2016 6-8pm: Salsa Canning — For our first session, we will discuss the tools and basics of water bath canning as well as ways to change the pH to ensure food safety. Using this knowledge, our recipe for the evening will be a sunny summer infused salsa incorporating tomatoes, peppers and peaches.

• August 25, 2016 6-8pm: Pickled Cucumber Canning — A classic Dill Pickle will be the recipe for the evening. Expect to learn tips to keep cukes crunchy and take home a jar of pickles to share with friends.

• September 15, 2016 6-8pm: Fig & Jalapeno Canning — With summer coming to an end we will wrap up our last session with a course on preserves and a discussion on ways to make jams and jellies."

For sign-up details you can visit the Facebook "event"https://www.facebook.com/events/1732174990387727 or purchase tickets here: Canning Workshop.

Dry Goods

So far the dry goods have been a success! We’ve had good sales and a strong response. If you are interested to pre-order for the next shipment, go ahead and order this week or next. Thanks!

Kyle Holton
Program & Market Manager

Russellville Community Market:  RCM Opening Bell

This week, beat the heat and do your grocery shopping from the comfort of your own home!

RCM has just about everything on your shopping list: baked goods, meats, cheese, eggs, milk, flour, fruits, veggies, herbs, spices, jams, and more.

A few clicks, a drive on Thursday afternoon to pick up your order, and you’re set!!

Be sure to check out the newly listed items this week! Lots of great, local products to be had!

Happy shopping! Eat Local!

FYI: There are lots of new items in the “Featured Items” section as well as the “What’s New” section at the top of the market page.

Be sure to “Like” our Facebook page for updates and food-related events in your community!

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

FRESH.LOCAL.ONLINE.

Dodgeville, WI:  Market for the week of July 3

We had a busy market Saturday morning. All of the produce vendors were able to sell everything they brought!!! Check out what is listed for this week and we can make arrangements to get fresh produce to you my mid week.

Have a safe and fun 4th of July weekend.

Naples,FL:  MARKET CLOSES TONIGHT

Please get your orders in

Spa City Local Farm Market Co-op:  The market is open

The Spa City Co-op online market is now open for ordering at spacity.locallygrown.net. Please place your orders by Tuesday night at 9 pm, and plan to pick up 3-5 pm on Friday July 8th, at Emergent Arts.

Volunteers are needed to help run every market pickup. If you volunteer for one full afternoon shift, you get a 2 month extention of your membership, and a $5 Kroger gift card to compensate you for you time and gas. It’s fun and you learn alot. Go to the Volunteer Spot URL on the market page to sign up.

Have a safe holiday everyone!

See you next Friday,

Karen Holcomb
Market Manager
ksholcomb@gmail.com
501-760-3131
501-282-6314 C.

Dothan, Alabama:  July 2, 2016 Market at Dothan is OPEN

Dothan’s SUSTAINABLE Market is now Open

This and That from Your Growers

It might be the heat that’s making us a bit touched in the head, but we growers have been taking amongst ourselves and decided to come clean about some of the crazy things that make our farms unique. Jennifer from Sandspur Farms volunteered to go first. Enjoy and be on the lookout for more!

“Back during prohibition there were families that made moonshine. Everyone knows that. What some people might not know is that the land where I raise my pigs, cows and vegetables was site of such a place. We have a natural spring that is still wet this many years later. My great grandfather along with my great uncle and some neighbors were moonshine makers of that time. My Granny would stay at home and keep an eye out for the law, if they came she would fire a shotgun. My great uncle once told me of a time when she fired the shotgun as a warning to them. He took off running as fast as he could through the woods and kept running for about 5 miles. Later that evening, he made it back home. I guess as long as the police didn’t SEE you doing it they could not do anything about it. That same old man turned 91 this past January and still gets tickled about those days. I must admit that I find their stories highly amusing too.”

What’s a ZOODLE?

ZOODLES AND EGGS

from Sweet Acres Farm
If you’ve not figured it out from the photo, a zoodle is a zuchinni noodle. They are THE low carb alternative for traditional pastas. This breakfast is one of Anna’s favorites!

1 Tbs butter
1 large zucchini, spiralized into noodles
1-2 medium heirloom tomatoes ( such as Mini Orange Tomatoes)
2 fresh eggs
2 Tbs mozzarella cheese
Salt and pepper to taste

Melt butter in a skillet over medium heat. Place zoodles in skillet, salt, pepper and cook, flipping every 2 minutes until slightly soft and beginning to brown. Cut tomatoes into small pieces and place in skillet with zoodles. Cook until tomatoes are blistered and warm through. While the tomatoes are cooking, ready a pan to poach the eggs. Turn heat on zoodles down to low so they don’t get too brown, then Poach eggs. Layer a bowl with zoodles and tomatoes, cheese, then finish with poached eggs on top. Add more salt and pepper as needed.

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!