Berea Gardens:  Jaunuary 6 availability

Happy New Year!

Our offerings for this Wednesday’s pickup is a little slim, but we still have great quality on all of the items listed.

We will be shutting the market for two weeks (January 13th and 20th) and resuming again on the 27th after I return from a visit with my family.

Please submit your orders before 9 AM on Tuesday, and pay attention to the available quantities on the storefront when you place your orders. If, for example, we have 6 lbs. of beets listed there, it will not be feasible for you to order 8. The amount of product listed where you order is updated in real-time as orders come in.

Blessings,
Bob

The Wednesday Market:  Your Friendly Reminder to Order

Good afternoon. It’s that time again – ordering time!

The Wednesday Market is open. Please place your orders by 10 p.m. Monday. Orders are ready for pick up between 3 and 6 p.m. Wednesday. Be sure to see the website for all of this week’s product listings. Here is the link: http://wednesdaymarket.locallygrown.net/market

I don’t know about all of you, but I am SO HAPPY to see the sun shining today! Here’s hoping that it keeps shining for a few more days to dry out the bog that has become my backyard.

Thank you to all of our farmers and customers who were flexible last week when we changed locations at the last minute. Thanks also to the ladies at the bookstore who offered us their back entryway as a place to conduct business safe from the rain and mud. We are hopeful that the weather and our yard at The Wednesday Market return to “normal” this week.

Speaking of normal, Concord Street Sweets is back to the market this week. Thank you to our customers for allowing us space and time to work through a very busy holiday catering season. We are now back, and looking forward to filling your orders.

It takes a dedicated team of volunteers working behind the scenes to coordinate your orders each week. We call ourselves The Sunshine Girls – Anna, Beverly, Irma, Sharon, and Jennifer – and it is our pleasure to serve you each and every week.

We think 2016 is going to be a great year for the Wednesday Market, as we begin celebrating our 5th year of connecting local farmers with customers eager for locally grown produce.

Happy New Year from us all, and we’ll see you Wednesday!

Naples,FL:  Market closing at 5PM today

Please make sure your orders are in

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

Just a friendly reminder that the market orders are due 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 Order

Russellville Community Market:  RCM is Open for 2016!

Hey everyone!

Happy New Year!!!

As we usher in 2016, RCM is very excited for a new year, growth, and the ability to bring our community great, locally-grown food.

We’re so happy you’re along on this journey with us, and we look forward to making RCM even better in 2016.

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.

Stones River Market:  The Market is Back Open - 2016 Arrives

Market News

Welcome to 2016. We are back with another week of locally grown and made products. Chef Jenny returns with her artisan seasonings. Rainbow Hill Farm is back with lettuce, greens, turnips, sweet potatoes and winter squash. Rocky Glade Farm has updated their inventory with plenty of radishes, hakurei turnips, kale, choi, parsley and radicchio. Wedge Oak Farm has updated their inventory of beef.

There are plenty of other products available this week. Browse the categories to see what your will find.

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!

Winter weather is back and a perfect time for soup. Here is a recipe I found that uses kale and Italian sausage. It comes from Tammilee Tips.

CROCK POT ITALIAN SAUSAGE WEDDING SOUP RECIPE

INGREDIENTS

1 tbsp olive oil
1 lb ground Italian Sausage
1 red onion, diced
2 carrots, sliced
6 cups chicken stock/broth
4 packed cups kale, chopped
1 tsp lemon juice
2 tsp minced garlic
1 bay leaf
¼ tsp crushed red pepper flakes
½ cup small pasta
salt and pepper to taste

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Place olive oil in a skillet over medium heat, add in ground sausage and cook until browned. Drain off excess fat, return to heat and add in onions and carrots, cook until onions sweat
2. Transfer meat and veggies to the crock pot. Add in chicken broth, kale, lemon juice, garlic, bay leaf, crushed red peppers and stir to combine
3. Cook on low for 5 hours, add in pasta and cook for 1 additional hour
4. Season to taste with salt and pepper, serve with Parmesan cheese sprinkled on top

ALFN Local Food Club:  The Market Is Open

ALFN Members,

The market is open for another year of rain and sun. Though it is January, we still have loads of fresh vegetables with plenty of meat and eggs.

Refurbished Website Categories

As mentioned in a previous weblog, we have slightly changed the market categories on the left side of the page. For the most part, categories have remained the same. Foods are separated into kind with prepared foods in various sub-categories under “Locally Produced Goods.” I hope the new organization will simplify and clarify your shopping experience. As usual, you can see the sub-categories only if you click on the main category link. Please let me know how they work this week!

Plastics

I remember the first goat we had die due to eating plastic bags. We were living in Mozambique, trying to get a small goat project up and running with a small village. The goats ranged throughout the surrounding fields of the village, and it was impossible to find all the plastic bags littered throughout the area. As a satellite community of the nearby capital, the village suffered with an influx of cheap plastic bags used for everything. When we cut open the dead goat, I pulled out plastic bags from his intestines. The bags could have been washed off and used again.

The turning of numbers seems to offer ways to calculate and quantify. So with the turning of 2015 to 2016, I thought it would be interesting to count plastic. A new study has found 3-10 times more plastic in the world’s oceans than previously thought. The study only quantified microplastics that could be measured with nets and did not consider the heavier plastics that sink to the bottom of the ocean. Americans throw away 185 lbs of plastic a year on average. These plastics spend decades in landsfills or migrate to the oceans where they break up into millions of pieces which are often ingested by the marine biology of the oceans. Consequently, there is a good likelihood, actually studies suggest a one-in-four chance, that the fish we eat has plastic in its body.

Plastics are petroleum-based products and carry the same burden on the world’s ecosystems as the fossil fuel industrial-complex. What if the city only picked up our trash once a year? What would our plastic load look like? For the locavore movement, such long-term problems can be hard to handle. Should we be concerned about random bits of plastic in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean? I don’t know how to translate this concern into viable action except through personal behavior change and a deeper philosophical conversion. I can reduce and even try to cut plastics out of my lifestyle.

I’ve been watching the Arkansas River rise over the last few days. Inevitably, the floating trash along the margins, caught in drifts, captures my attention. Water runs down. A locavore with a global awareness realizes that we are located on a specific point within a larger watershed. All my trash drifts down the watershed into the great planetary basins of the world. And we all learned the hydrological cycle back in 5th grade. We are on a huge conveyor belt. Call it Karma, or call it cause and effect.

As we continue to cultivate our own local economy, we should also find ways to regenerate the bags which hold our local goodness!

Come volunteer this Saturday! You can sign up at Volunteer Spot.

Thanks

Kyle Holton
Program & Market Manager

Siloam Springs, AR:  Weblog Entry

Dothan, Alabama:  Welcome 2016

Market News

WELCOME 2016!

THANK YOU for your participation in MarketatDothan.locallygrown.net This message is just a brief announcement about upcoming market dates and a few tiny items concerning market transition as we enter the new year!

1.You noticed that the newsletter looks different. This is because the new administrator is learning html. Please bear with me as I navigate a part of the internet that is quite new and very different!


2. Market will reopen Saturday January 9 @ 5pm till Tuesday, January 12 @ 5pm. Pickup is at Dothan Nurseries Friday January 15 from 10am – 12pm. If it is too cold to be outside pickup will be in the Greenhouse.

3. We are transitioning to market bags only. If you have not already furnished the market with re-usable bags we can supply them. Cost is $1 per bag which is refundable when returned or when you furnish your own. For customers with large orders, please be mindful to furnish enough to hold your purchases. For most people rotating two bags from week to week works great!

4. New vendors are coming! Stay tuned!

5. As in the past, we strive to bring you the highest quality FRESH LOCAL produce in the Wiregrass. This has always been a chemical fertilizer and pesticide free market. It is the reason the market was started, and the reason we are still here. Our farmers are not large scale certified or commercial producers, but smaller growers who are passionate about quality and proud to offer the kind of whole and healthy food they put on their own plates.

Thank you for your time – we’ll send a notice next week with food and grower updates. Till next time, God Bless – - – - Ros Horton

United States Virgin Islands:  This Week in VI Locally Grown

Happy New Year!
The market is now open for orders and we have lots of new meat cuts available. I also have some veggie burgers and muffins too. Stop on by. Get a flower bouquet, grab some greens from Bijou farms or Ridge2Reef Farm. How about a refreshing local drink from Queens Maubi?

Interested in weekly food deliveries from ridge2reef farm? Check out their CSA program. Signup is right now for the 15 week season starting Jan 9! You essentially get a weekly delivery of produce, fruit, egg, or coffee (your choice), with some items at a discounted rate from the marketplace by paying for the season up front. http://ridgetoreef.csasignup.com/members/types

Thanks!