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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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Heirloom Living Market Lawrenceville : Come Shop with us... Market is Open!
The Market is now Open…Happy Shopping!
Market Opens for Ordering: Friday at 9:00am
Market Closes: Monday at 8:00pm
Market Pickup: Thursday
2:30pm – 5:30pm
Pickup Location: 1385 Winder Highway
Dacula, GA 30019
Click Here for Map
Take me to the Crossfit Market.
Market Closes: Monday at 8:00pm
Market Pickup: Thursday
2:30pm – 5:30pm
Pickup Location: 1385 Winder Highway
Dacula, GA 30019
Click Here for Map
Take me to the Crossfit Market.
My Daily Bread
Wow! Bruce is recovering nicely. Please keep him in your prayers. Dabrielle is able to have offerings on the Market this week! Please note: Stock up this week on all your Bakery goods! We are hopeful that Bruce will continue his good recovery; however, Dabrielle’s time must be divided between caring for her husband and baking. We are fortunate to have items this week, but are unable to predict if there will be offerings next week! How I have missed the goodies! Get your orders in…
Cedar Rock Dairy
Heritage Farm
Greg has listed Chicken! Chicken Feet, Chicken Liver, Cut-up Whole Chicken, Chicken Heart, Chicken Necks!! Greg recently hired a ‘Produce Manager’ for the Farm and will be offering Veggies this year! This week they have Arugula and Radishes! Check it out today!
Fry Farm
4 types of Beets
Broccoli
Napa Cabbage
Stonehead Cabbage
Rainbow Carrots
Green Onions
Kale
Leeks
Lettuce Mix
Rhubarb
Spring Onions
Swiss Chard
Harvest Box which is ‘chock full’ of their offerings of the week!
Ancient Awakenings
Market Opens for Ordering: Friday at 9:00am
Market Closes: Monday at 8:00pm
Market Pickup: Thursday
2:30pm – 5:30pm
Pickup Location: 1385 Winder Highway
Dacula, GA 30019
Click Here for Map
Take me to the Crossfit Market.
Market Closes: Monday at 8:00pm
Market Pickup: Thursday
2:30pm – 5:30pm
Pickup Location: 1385 Winder Highway
Dacula, GA 30019
Click Here for Map
Take me to the Crossfit Market.
Gwinnett Locally Grown: Memorial Day Weekend Coming Up!
Good Morning Everyone!!
It just occured to me that next weekend is Memorial Day Weekend!! This month has gone by so fast. My guess is that some of you are going to be grilling, BBQ'ing and celebrating the "unoficial" start of summer. Place your orders today!
Fred, our "beef guy" would love to be a part of your festivities. Don't forget we also have pastured chicken and pork!
See you guys on Tuesday for pick up!
Champaign, OH: Hey, Now!!
The market is now open!!
Show us some love!!
Peace, Love, Grooviness!
Cosmic Pam
Siloam Springs, AR: Link for survey
The link in the earlier email is not completely hyperlinked. Sometimes the formatting of the newsletter doesn’t work properly. I’m providing the link again but in order to take the survey you may need to copy and paste it into your browser.
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/SSFMCUST
I hope this helps those of you who may have had difficulty with the link. Apologies for having to send two emails.
We really appreciate your input.
Thank you,
~Stacy
Suwanee Whole Life Co-op: Market is now OPEN for orders! Group Buy this weekend
ORDERING:
The market is now open for ordering!
Click link to order: suwanee.locallygrown.net
Group Buy for grass fed cheese is this weekend. We won’t place another order until November.
If you do NOT receive a confirmation email immediately after you placed your order, then your items are still in your cart and your order is not complete. *All orders must be placed by 6pm on Sunday.
PICK UP:
Pick up is on Tuesday at 4942 Austin Park Avenue, Buford 30518 from 1pm to 6:30 pm.
PAYMENT:
We take checks, cash, credit card and Dwolla (credit card online by clicking “Pay Now” button at check out)
Suwanee Whole Life Co-op: News: Grass Fed Cheese Group Buy this weekend
Suwanee Whole Life Co-op
Our Website: suwanee.locallygrown.net
Pick Up Location: 4942 Austin Park Avenue, Buford GA 30518 on Tuesdays
Like Us on Facebook: Suwanee Whole Life Co-op
Have a question for other co-op members? Submit questions on our Google Group Discussion Board: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/suwanee-whole-life-co-op
Bruce – My Daily Bread update
I spoke with Bruce on Tuesday and he’s doing great! It was so good to hear his voice! He thanked all of you for the prayers and felt them cover him. He is finally home recovering from surgery and will be back on his feet very soon. Due to several follow up appointments next week, the My Daily Bread team will be taking a break from baking and will not be on the market this week. They apologize for the short notice but will be back the following week!
Group Buy: Grass Fed Cheeses
This weekend we will be taking orders for grass-fed cheese from Kenny’s Farmhouse Cheese and Jason Wiebe Dairy.
Low Temp Pasteurized and Raw Milk Cheeses will be available.
Kenny’s Farmhouse Cheese and Jason Wiebe Dairy are 2 creameries I’ve worked with for a while and both have wonderful cheeses.
I’ve asked the cheese makers to put “(Raw Milk Cheese)” in the title if it is raw milk cheese aged 60 days according to FDA regulation. All other cheeses are low temp pasteurized.
Raw milk cheese that is listed on the market is safe for human consumption and is aged at least 60 days per FDA regulation.*
Prices and available sizes will be on the market website tomorrow for ordering. The pricing will include shipping and taxes/fees.
The cheese will NOT be available for pick up this Tuesday. Please allow at least 2 weeks. I will email you when it is available for pick up.
- Cows Raised without synthetic hormones
- Cows are grass-fed and raised on pasture
- Old World, Handmade Cheese making Techniques
- Cheeses made with non-homogenized low temp pasteurized or raw milk and aged at least 60 days to comply with the USDA regulations for raw milk cheese production
- Vegetable-based rennet, to make it more acceptable to vegetarians
- Cheeses that are not considered raw are pasteurized at the lowest legal temperature for 15 seconds
See Kenny’s and Jason’s website for more detailed information about their process: http://www.kennysfarmhousecheese.com/
http://www.jasonwiebedairy.com/index.htm
Benefits of Grass-Fed Cheese
- One of the few foods that contains a perfect balance of omega-3 and omega-6 fats, a ratio ideal for your health
- Very high in CLA (conjugated linoleic acid) In fact, it contains five times more CLA than dairy from grain-fed cows! CLA, which are most abundant in grass-fed products, are among the most potent cancer fighters in all foods.
- Considerably higher in beta-carotene, vitamin A, vitamin D, and vitamin E than cheese and other dairy from grain-fed sources
- High in the healthy calcium and protein your body needs
- Free from growth hormones and antibiotics
Market News
NEW ITEMS!
Veggies – Spring Onions ‘Italian Torpedo’
Lettuce Romaine
Lettuce Buttercrunch
Sourdough (Sliced)
Veggies – Beets ‘Touchstone Gold’
Veggies – Broccoli ‘Green Comet’
Veggies – Cabbage ‘Napa’
Veggies – Cabbage ‘Stonehead’
Veggiles – Rhubarb – ‘Victoria’
Beef – Beef Short Ribs
Herb – Lemon Balm – Fresh
Herbs – Dill – Fresh
Vegetables – Kale ‘Wild Garden Mix’
Vegetables – Carrots ’ Baby Chantenay’
Vegetables – Peas ‘Sugar Snap’
Vegetables – Leeks ‘Lancelot’
Vegetables – Beets ‘Bulls Blood’
Pork – Top Loin Roast
Skincare Gift Basket
Volunteers Needed
Please consider volunteering during market pick up. I can’t run the co-op without your help!
We need 1 volunteer for the 5pm shift!
THANK YOU Marie, Diana, Pam, Chuck, and Michael for helping out on Tuesday! We couldn’t run the co-op without your support!
The schedule through the end of the year is posted. To sign up click: Vounteer Sign up
No packing is involved just need someone to be there to assist other members. You are welcome to bring your kids as long as they are supervised.
FACEBOOK – Opportunity to help!
Many of you have told me that you can’t volunteer due to your work/family schedule and I completely understand. You’ve also asked what else can I do help out the co-op? Here’s one way that will really help us out – if you are on Facebook or other social media please consider posting a pic of your co-op goodies! I have a very limited marketing budget and really depend on word of mouth advertising. Please feel free to spread the word about our wonderful market! Tag us @SuwaneeWholeLife
Thank you in advance for your support!
Upcoming Group Buys/Vendors of the Day
Below is a list of upcoming co-op group buys to help with planning and budgeting. All dates are subject to change.
Grass Fed Cheese – 5/20 – 5/22
Green Pasture FCLO – 6/17 – 6/19
Great Lakes Collagen 6/17 – 6/19
WFN & Nuts Group Buy 6/24 – 6/26
Wellness Partner’s offers and events
Sugar Hill Spine and Wellness Events:
Avoiding Cancer
Cancer is rarely genetic. Learn how to avoid the path to illness and what you can do to get back to health if you have been diagnosed with this devastating disease.
WHEN
Thursday, May 26, 2016 from 6:30 PM to 7:30 PM
WHERE
Sugar Hill Spine and Wellness – 5422 Highway 20, Sugar Hill, GA 30518
Register at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/avoiding-cancer-tickets-24931489757?aff=ebrowse#tickets
We thank you for your interest and support of our efforts to bring you the healthiest, the freshest and the most delicious foods possible!
Siloam Springs, AR: We Need Your Input!! Please complete our survey!
In 2014, through a series of public surveys and meetings, a vision was cast for creating a combined farmers market/ amphitheater pavilion on the land downtown where the former Siloam Springs Medical Center sat, now adjacent to the new Siloam Springs Public Library.
As we consider moving forward with that vision and continue to carry out the mission of the farmers market, we would like your input as a customer.
Here is the link to the survey:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/SSFMCUST
Just copy and paste into your browser.
Thank you!!!
~Stacy
Old99Farm Market: Leap or Not to Leap
Ever heard of “This Changes Everything: the movie” or the LEAP Manifesto? Here’s the guy, engagingly witty and witted, who had much to do with making them happen (along with his wife Naomi Klein in case of the book and about 60 other social activists, leaders and visionaries in the case of the LEAP document, “A call for a Canada based on caring for the earth and for one another”.
Avi Lewis (49), spars with Steve Paikin on The Agenda about the overwhelming necessity to shift off fossil fuel rollercoaster, the impetus from creating political space that leans against the moneyed class on the right with it’s growthism ethos, impoverished as it is. It’s a fun watch, they really seem equally matched! If Lewis is right (I think so) that we have an impoverished political imagination and incrementalism is so inadequate to the task, we need to take a LEAP, which requires being inspired. The sense of the possible, like I posted here last, active skepticism, that makes the job of our life to make the impossible, possible.
Foothills Market: No Market This Week
We’re taking a break from the market this weekend to do something with our daughter, but we’ll be back next weekend with new items just in time for Memorial Day!
Gwinnett Locally Grown: GLG is now OPEN!
The Market is now OPEN until Monday at noon!! Click here to order now!
Hello Everyone!!
Thank you all once again for coming out this week and supporting Gwinnett Locally Grown and our local vendors. I finally had the opportunity to meet some of you and talk a little about food (of course!), and all the good things you guys are creating with the products you pick up at the store. I am a big time foodie, I can spend hours talking about food and recipes and all that good stuff. So please feel free to bring in your recipes, ask questions and/or mingle! Don't be shy!
I was doing some research this week on duck eggs. Most importantly I was interested in finding out more about their nutritional content. As it turns out, duck eggs are rich in Omega-3 fatty acids (71.4mg/egg), Iron, and B-vitamins especially pantothenic acid (B5). Our bodies need B5 to break down protein, fats, and carbohydrates from the foods we eat. Duck eggs are very good for baking, since they contain more albumin and this in turn makes the final product lighter and fluffier. Give it a try! and report back with results please!
ALSO AVAILABLE
- Raw Cow's Milk
- Raw Goat Milk
- Pastured, free range chicken eggs
- Pastured, free range duck eggs
- Grass fed beef and Pork
- Pastured, free range chicken
- Local honey
There's always something fun and interesting going on at the farm, and the best way to stay informed is through our newsletter. You can sign up to receive them here
Please feel free to contact me with any questions or comments, as well as any feedback on how we can better serve you. I am available Monday-Thursday 11am-4pm. grow@ranchoalegrefarm.com or 770-339-3065 ext 5
The Market is open Thursday at 9am – Monday at noon. After Monday at noon, ordering is disabled until Thursday morning. Pick up your order Tuesday from 4-7pm only at Rancho Alegre Farm at 2225 Givens Road, Dacula, GA 30019. New to The Market? Learn about how it works here