Russellville Community Market:  RCM Opening Bell

Hey everyone, and welcome to a new market week!

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

Happy shopping! Eat Local!

Check out 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.

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.

Siloam Springs, AR:  Online Market is Open!

McColloms Market:  February FFFN Order Open

Hi All:

Happy Carnival. With all of the festivities, I suspect that most of you missed the fact that the February order is now open until tomorrow (Monday) at 5.

See you soon.

Melinda
(518) 354-0202

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

Just a friendly reminder that market orders are due online today by 6 pm.

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!

See you on Tuesday!

Click Here to Place Your Order

Duette, FL:  What is available this week.

Please have a look at all the lovely vegetables available this week.

Thank you
David and Betty
Duette Locally Grown

ALFN Local Food Club:  The Market Is Open

ALFN Members,

The market is open on another beautiful morning. Groundhog day arrived with our furry rodent having a press conference and declaring he hadn’t seen his shadow. However, in a peculiar variation from the norm, Mr. Hedgehog admitted he had realized Spring would come early because Winter never really came. A critic raised the recent snow, but Mr. Hedgehog shrugged and paraphrasing Mark Twain argued, “When a wood chuck is accustomed to 78 in January, his ideas about cold weather are not valuable.” Mr. Hedgehog’s press conference sent off a firestorm of political debate, but climatologist remained firmly footed with the venerable rodent.

Updates/Reflection

Recently, a friend loaned a good read to me: Eating on the Wild Side by Jo Robinson. The author claims many of our fruits and veggies found in the supermarket have been neutered of original nutrients. Our penchant for the sweet and efficient has selected, over time, for less nutritious food. However, Robinson is a pragmatist and provides suggestions for finding the most nutritious strains of fruits and vegetables. Here are a couple of helpful suggestions with a few weird facts thrown into the list:

• The original kernels of corn from Mexico were 30% protein and 2% sugar. Modern sweet corn varieties are 40% sugar and 4% protein.

• All modern sweet corn comes from mutated kernels that were subjected to a nuclear bomb test in the Marshall Islands.

• The most nutritious greens are red, purple, and dark green. Spinach, endive, arugula and radicchio are the top performers…dandelions still hold the throne. These colors signify the presence of “botanical sunscreen” that blocks some harmful UV rays on the leaves. These antioxidants can have analogous effects in our own bodies.

• Tearing your lettuce or romaine into bit size pieces and storing for one day, increases the antioxidant levels in the greens. Pin prick ziploc bags that store your lettuce, but keep the bag sealed. This will allow the lettuce to breath as it lets off carbon dioxide and takes oxygen keeping the lettuce fresher for longer.

• Press or chop your garlic and allow it to sit for ten minutes before cooking with it. Chopping garlic and allowing it to sit for ten minutes sets off a natural chain reaction to create allicin (one of the most active and medicinal compounds in garlic). If garlic is thrown on the heat immediately, the heat-sensitive enzyme for building allicin is destroyed.

• Salad dressing with a fat such as olive oil helps your digestion extract more nutrients from salad.

• Red and yellow onions have the most phytonutrients. The outer layer of these onions is chalked full of these nutrients and can be captured if they are thrown into soups or stocks.

The book is full of fun suggestions for surviving and eating well. There are surprising facts about some canned foods and nutrient loss based on freshness. Nevertheless, the author confirms cutting out the supermarket network and eating local food has many nutritious benefits.

Cheers,

Kyle Holton
Program & Market Manager

CLG:  Opening Bell: Apples, Spinach, Jellies, Beets!

Good afternoon!
Two important things to note:
First,longtime CLG member, Amanda Potter Cole, has recently been published in the Log Cabin newspaper for her food column. Here’s a link: http://thecabin.net/news/2016-01-27/chewonit-be-beet#.VrdvotBA7BZ

Second, Faulkner County Library and the Urban Farm Project are hosting this year’s Faulkner County Seed Swap on Sunday, February 14 from 1:00 until 4:00pm. Bring seeds to trade or small envelopes to donate to the seed library or to collect seeds. This event is free and open to the public and fun for all ages.

Have a great week!
See you on Friday!

Come early on Friday for the best selection from the EXTRAS table. And save your eggshells throughout the week for the laying hens! :-)

The market is now OPEN for orders. Please check your email about 5 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

Our Website: www.conway.locallygrown.net

On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Conway-Locally-Grown/146991555352846

Stones River Market:  MORE and MORE new products this week!!

Market News

Good morning!

We have a new vendor on the market, Hope for Health joins us offering baked goods and candies. We asked her to tell us about her business practices. She wants everyone to know: I am all about packing in as much nutrition into everything I make (with the exception of my candy). I only use the best ingredients whenever possible, including organic, natural, etc., in all of my baked goods. I grind my own flours, use fresh farm eggs, fresh unprocessed honey, organic coconut oil, and organic spices. Even my candy, which I see as an occasional treat, only has pure cane sugar, real butter, etc. Thanks!

She has added many goodies along with customized Valentine treats for your loved ones and delicious pumpkin muffins (we have first-hand experience with them). Check those out!

Chef Jenny with Seeds of Success has added some gorgeous GLUTEN FREE Heart Healthy Brownies. Instead of flour, these brownies are made with heart healthy, protein rich black beans. The chocolatey richness comes from cocoa, dark chocolate chips, pure cane sugar, and farm fresh eggs. You won’t even know it’s missing flour. Consider it a guilt-free Valentine’s Day treat, for yourself, or a loved one.

Wedge Oak Farm has ground turkey, 1 lb chub of our pasture raised turkey ground with our Mangalitsa fat. They have also added artisan Tacchino. “Tacchino” is Italian for “Turkey”. Our Tacchino is a light and mild italian turkey sausage made in small batches.

Botanical Harmony Farm added all-natural, goat milk soaps in many plant-based scents.

Nuance Coffee & Tea lists new Matcha tea blends.

Our vendors sometimes bring extras to sell during pickup. Last week Hope for Health and Double Star Bar Farm brought muffins and sourdough breads. These were a huge hit and we hope to have more this week. They will be at the table next to checkout.

ALSO Stones River Market has gift certificates listed! What an incredible gift to share with someone…. as a housewarming, a new friend, Valentine’s Day, Mother or fathers day or just to something wonderful to share with someone who doesn’t quite understand “buying and supporting local” or whole foods eating.

Again, we thank you for the support of this market and the growers/makers who rely on you for their livelihood. What an incredible community this market truly is!
See you Wednesday,

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

Thanks so much for your support of Stones River Market, all of our growers, local food, and our rights to eat it. We’ll see you on Wednesday at Southern Stained Glass at 310 West Main Street from 5:00 to 6: 30 pm!

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.

Central Arkansas :  Market orders

Hello Marketers!!

Don’t forget to come by centralarkansas.locallygrown.com & check out our 150 plus fresh, local products!!

Our products come in a variety of categories including backed goods, cheeses, eggs, fruit, herbs, honey, jams & jellies, meats, veggies, farm crafts & home & garden supplies!!

Thanks so much for going local & supporting all your local farmers!!

Eat Fresh Eat Local!!!!
-CAM Market Mama

United States Virgin Islands:  This week in VI Locally Grown

Greetings Everyone,

The Market is now open for orders. Thanks for supporting your local producers. See you Wed! :)

Blessings,

Your VI Locally Grown Growers