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.
Gwinnett Locally Grown: The Market is now Open!
The Market is now open!Thursday at 9am – Monday at noon After that, ordering is disabled until Thursday morning. Pick up your order Tuesday from 4:00-7:00 p.m. only at Rancho Alegre Farm at 2225 Givens Road, Dacula, GA 30019. New to The Market? Learn about how it works here.
Welcome to Fall! My name is Amanda and I am the new market manager. Yesterday marked the first day of Fall and it was beautiful here in Gwinnett. I live just around the corner from the farm in Dacula on a small horse pasture with my two dogs, a Great Dane and a foster Flatcoated Retriever.
The market is something we truly believe in and we think everyone should know about it! We now have an instagram page and are looking to get the word out there about supporting Gwinnett Locally Grown. Follow us @gwinnettlocallygrown and tag us #gatherlearngrown :)
Did you know we have our own SCOBY population at the farm and sell Kombucha starter kits at the market?
Kombucha tea is a fermented black or green tea used as a functional beverage. Drinkers cite many health benefits, including immune support and aiding in digestive health. But what exactly is it? A SCOBY is a Symbiotic Colony of Bacteria and Yeast. This is added to sugar and tea so it can ferment. The result is a delicious, effervescent tea rich in probiotics. YUMMY!!
Cheryl will be sitting in with me on Tuesday to finish my training. I look forward to meeting you all! -Amanda
Upcoming Workshops
Wine Making Workshop with Operation Homebrew
This workshop is 60 minutes, includes a mozzarella cheese sampling once finished. Class size is limited to a maximum of 15 people.
Wine making workshop, Session 2: Tue. Oct. 20, 2015
Time: 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM for both sessions
Cost: $25
– Session 1 | Sanitizing steps, mixing the ingredients, tips/tricks
– Session 2 | Bottle, Cork, and label your wine, take it home
To purchase tickets visit OperationHomebrew.com.
As Always….
Please share with friends and family about us so that we can give more people the opportunity to buy and eat healthy! Local farmers need our support to keep providing us with all the fresh foods! If we don’t give them enough business, it’s hard for them to continue to deliver to us. Please let’s not let that happen! Tell your friends about us so we can keep the Growers supported as this is how they make their living.
Thank you to all of you who support Gwinnett Locally Grown!
If there is something you’d like to see in the Market, please let me know! I would love your input!
Remember…
The Market is extending their hours! The Market will now be open from 4:00 to 7:00pm!
Having said that, if you place an order with us, PLEASE remember to pick it up on Tuesday. As I am so grateful for your orders, I also have a family at home waiting on me too! We cannot hold orders, especially cold items due to limited refrigeration space, so please be courteous and come for your order.
CLICK HERE NOW to Shop Gwinnett Locally Grown!
Thanks for all your support!
Shop often and eat well!
Amanda Berjeski
Market Manager
grow@ranchoalegrefarm.com
Fresh Wishes,
Pilar Quintero
Market Host
Rancho Alegre Farm
Please email grow@ranchoalegrefarm.com for questions pertaining to Market or Raw Milk. It is very difficult to return phone calls. Remember to interact with us on Facebook and follow us on Meetup to get notification on all our wonderful events and news.
Palouse Grown Market: EAT LOCAL
When you buy on Palouse Grown Market, you can rest assured that you’re getting the freshest, highest quality food, with the least amount of emissions used, and it’s grown right here, in your community.
Thank you for eating local!
Not only are you supporting the community’s local farmers, it’s also super healthy for you and your family too!
Enjoy the rest of your week.
Holly
Market Manager
http://pgm.locallygrown.net
Tullahoma Locally Grown: Only 4.5 Hours Left
Good Morning.
Your Tullahoma Locally Grown Market is open for another 4.5 hours — it closes at noon today.
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
The Cumming Harvest - Closed: The Cumming Harvest - This Week
Market News
I love reading the weblog from sister markets. This one comes from our sister market, northeastgeorgia.locallygrown.net. I encourage you to check them out if you’re in the Hall or Habersham area.
Those who have been a part of local food scenes for some time may have experience with a random box of goodies… and are probably better off for it. Some do really well with opening a big box of produce, getting ideas for meals from the item of most abundance, and highlighting the seasonal ingredient. Some find that idea terrifying and need a recipe along with a cooking mentor. Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) was, and still is, a great business model for small farmers not relying on subsides and loans. The goal is to support the farmer with a financial commitment before the produce is harvested! This typically takes the form of a subscription to a single farm but happens in all forms and fashions. It’s a way to say “I support what you do, and I will pay you upfront for your commitment to growing food.” Some CSA’s encourage you to volunteer on the farm, some allow to you to pick items from their market stand, while others have a weekly box ready for pickup on their farm. The key component is that the community is consistently supporting the farmer throughout the year. This is also one of the goals behind Northeast Georgia Locally Grown. This is a year ‘round market so you continue to get fresh food and farmers continue to have a source of income. We have many farmers that grow produce for only the summer months, some that use the winter to regenerate healthy soil, and some able to extend their production into the winter months. Some growers even prefer the colder months due to less pests and extended life cycles!
Regardless, I am excited to see what will make its way to the market throughout the year! Every season, subtle changes happen as individual growers take different approaches based on their resources, past experiences, and customer feedback.
This market combines elements of CSAs, Farmers Markets, and Food Hubs. We are not having an identity crisis, but rather one of the puzzle pieces in rebuilding food systems based off of the demand for fresh, local, and sustainable foods. It is pretty amazing to be able to support farmers throughout the year, and it wouldn’t be possible without YOU!
Thanks Andrew! Market Manager for Northeast Georgia Locally Grown in Gainesville.
Your Account
FREE MEMBERSHIP You can now waive your membership fee of $25 just by signing up to volunteer one full Saturday morning, 8:30am-12:30pm. It’s fun and rewarding to experience “behind the scenes” of our locally grown market. Volunteers greet farmers and customers, organize food delivery and pick up, and check-out customer orders using a ipad. Check out this online sign up sheet to find an opening. http://www.signupgenius.com/go/4090d4baca92fa13-thecumming
UPDATE CONTACT With all the hustle and bustle of back-to-school and new routines, it’s easy to forget things like picking up your TCH order. Remember that we can’t keep your items past 12pm, and we’ll try contacting you any way we know how to make sure you get what you ordered. Now’s a great time to check the phone number on your account to make sure it’s a number I can reach you at 11:45am on a Saturday. I start calling everyone who hasn’t picked up yet then, and will keep trying to reach you until 12pm, when we have to pack it all up. I hate seeing people’s food go somewhere else, and having a good phone number on your account is the best way to keep that from happening.
DELIVERY We are postponing Vickery pick up and delivery in September.
Main Market Location and Pick Up
Building 106, Colony Park Dr. in the Basement of Suite 100, Cumming, GA 30040. Pick up every Saturday between 10-12pm.
Google Map
To view the harvest today and tomorrow till 8pm, visit “The Market” page on our website, The Cumming Harvest
To Contact Us
The Cumming Harvest
thecummingharvest@live.com
Facebook
Twitter
The contact information for each farmer and vendor is located on the Grower page.
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: Last Call!!
This will serve as your last call for orders!!
Go, quick, make it all work in these last few minutes!
Peace, Love, Good Vibes…
Cosmic Pam
ALFN Local Food Club: Market Reminder
The past drives us into the inevitable future while we live somewhere in the middle. In all honesty, the present doesn’t exist. Try to identify this present moment, and it will have already slide into the past. We hydroplane up into our future. Farmers live on this glassy edge too. The romaine leaf stands up, robust, alive with chloroplast pumping. The knife’s edge pauses at the stem before plant becomes salad and death cascades a series of effects. Bags are arranged, cold rooms can stretch the present, but ultimately, we quickly arrange the bodies of plants and animals on tables so that our bodies may continue before the present moment escapes us. Life bleeds into life. Here’s to the bodies of others who nurture our own bodies.
Click, order, and be joyful for tomorrow the market closes.
Sincerely,
Kyle Holton
Program & Market Manager
New Field Farm's Online Market: Happy Autmnal Equinox
Greetings,
Cool nights and mild days – a nice stretch of weather. But dry, so irrigating continues, even this late in the season.
We can offer some lettuce, but it’s still limited as we get into the first of the last three plantings.
Field tomatoes are just about over, with still some here and there.
There are plenty of potatoes, except for Purple Majesty which are just about gone. Also lots of carrots, beets, leeks, onions, garlic, peppers, scallions, chard, bok choy, spinach, kale, parsley, and lettuce (to come).
Thank you for your orders and happy autumn.
Tim
Champaign, OH: In The Midnight Hour
I’m gonna wait ‘till the midnight hour…
That’s when my love comes tumbling down…
(In The Midnight Hour-Wilson Pickett)
So, it’s not the midnight hour, BUT, we ARE in the last hour of this week’s market!!
Stop whatever you are doing, think about how we can help you shop, and place your orders!
We have talked about local love, we are getting ready for State Of The Plate, we have talked about the pleasure of cooking with simple, local products. We have talked about the nutrition, the affordability, the pride in shopping for your food, right here, right where it is grown and produced…
Take this last hour…show us some local love…
Peace, Love, Good Vibes…
Cosmic Pam
Russellville Community Market: RCM Order Reminder
Hey everyone! Just a quick reminder that we’ll be closing for orders tonight at 10:00 p.m. Get your orders in soon!
Happy ordering!
We hope to see you on Thursday for the market pick-up!
Check out our Facebook page for great info on local foods issues and upcoming events.
Be sure to click on the “Like” button at the top of the Facebook page to get automatic updates. Thanks!
FRESH.LOCAL.ONLINE.
Russellville Community Market
Champaign, OH: Feed Your Head
Why reserve a day (or even a few hours) for meal prep?
•You’ll save time cooking throughout the week…
•You’ll have a healthy meal waiting for you when you’re experiencing fatigue or have an especially busy schedule….
•You won’t need to worry about stopping at the grocery store after work….
•You won’t need to worry about what you’re going to make for dinner – its already done!…
•You’ll save money by planning out meals and grocery purchases ahead of time….
•You’ll be more likely to reach your health goals (weight loss, muscle building, weight gain, etc.)…
One more note of love from your market manager…
I am, right at this moment, in my kitchen, with trays of local tomatoes all slow roasting in my ovens. Later, I will begin to sauté the rest of the ingredients for a few things this week.
Tomorrow, is the kick off for Cosmic Soup Season, at The Depot Coffeehouse. We rock the sandwiches and the soups in there!! The Depot has been my home away from home from the beginning of Cosmic Charlie. My breads are used for their sandwiches, and now, everyone gets excited for soup season!
Also, this weekend hosts another fun filled, great time of a local event…The Simon Kenton Chili Cook Off!!
Once again, I will be set up as a vendor with Oakview Farm Meats as we rock locally produced sandwiches, my breads, each of us sell chili, AND, you can even get a combo of Cosmic/Oakview chili!! It’s great fun, it’s an annual local event, and for many of us, it marks the end to a very long summer of multiple vending at various farmers markets, and festivals. Not all markets close down, but I am speaking from my markets…except for this year round lovely market.
ANYWAY…this time of year is when I turn back to the days when I was running my daughter to every activity, working a cool little part time gig, and making sure that when we arrived home, each evening, there was something healthy to pull out for dinner.
This is where I learned to make certain things, in larger batches, when items are in season, and then having them on hand for quick grab and go, give me a glass of wine, dinners…stress free, cost friendly, and super nutrition packed!
Back then, I wish this market had been in existence. I would have breezed through, placed my order, been able to race in, grab my order, feel good about shopping local, feel good about the cost friendly prices, AND, loaded up my pantry, fridge, and freezer, for quick, at home dinners…
Think about that as you get ready to place your orders before we close, this evening!
Right now, the trays of slow roasted tomatoes will come out of the oven, cool, go into containers for my fridge, and be ready to add to my Cosmic Soup of the Week, at The Depot, AND be ready when I am making Cosmic Veggie Chili to serve at this weekend’s event.
Do yourself a favor, show yourself some love, and do the planning/ordering/cooking to feed your head…
The market will close at 10pm, this evening…don’t be left with fast food options at the end of your busy evenings. Shop with us…let us be part of your evening dinner plans…
Peace, Love, Good Vibes…
Cosmic Pam