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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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Fresh Harvest, LLC: Fresh Harvest - New items offered!
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Fresh Harvest, LLC
Link to Fresh Harvest
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Tallahassee May
tally@wildblue.net
JohnDrury
john.drury@att.net
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Market News
Hello!
Happy Rainy Monday!
Just letting you know we have some new special items just put up on the market page.
Dozen Bakery has listed their peanut butter cookies (better late than never!) and ALSO has a special offering of a Variety Pack of Cookies!! This features one cookie each of chocolate chip, chocolate chip pecan, oatmeal cranberry, snickerdoodle, ginger and peanut butter. This is available for $7 this week, which usually goes for $9.00
Also, Bear Creek has some special cuts for Fresh Harvest to celebrate the winding down of summer! Try their Sirloin Steaks for the Grill, on special for $8.00. – enjoy these 6 oz sirloin steaks on the grill or cast iron..
There are still lots of nice veggies to order as well!
We appreciate your support, and will see you on Wednesday!
John and Tallahassee
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Tullahoma Locally Grown: Saved for a Rainy Day
Good afternoon.
All this rain reminds us of the water crops need to grow. Speaking of that, have you placed your order this week? Now is a great time.
Here is the link to Your Tullahoma Locally Grown Market.
Stay safe and dry,
Fuel So Good Coffee Roasters
Martin's Farmstand: Summer prices on tomatoes
In the summer and fall; this area is blessed with a wonderful selection of beautiful and delicious homegrown food that has no bad stuff used on it. This is your chance to be filling freezers and jars with this bounty. Or you can just enjoy lots of it fresh at every meal.
This mornings pick gave over 500 lbs of cucumbers and about 350 lbs of tomatoes. There are round red slicers, romas, Funny colored heirlooms, rainbow colors of cherries, and Tomitillios. We have dropped the tomato prices on the stand to normal summer prices and it is soon that there will be canners available.
We have an abundant pear crop this year. We picked the Clapps Favorite and Stacy pears late last week. These are both good eating or cooking pears. Right now we have over half a ton of pears in the cooler. Does anyone want to make pear preserves or canned pears? Daniel
Joyful Noise Acres Farm: Order reminder.
Dont forget to place your orders before 8:00 tonight.
See you Wednesday.
Blessings,
Mary Beth
Yalaha, FL: Market Open Week of Aug 17-21
Still not much new to offer. We have done much farm clean up and are hoping to get some more farms on board offering products.
We are getting fall seeds in and hopefully it will be a busy fall.
If you are on the fence about joining now I encourage you to join. There are no fees just to join. You can make your fist two orders before paying any membership fees so you can try it out to decide if this is for you or not. The more people we get involved in local food, the more we will have available to offer.
Princeton Farm Fresh: The Market is Open
I am getting very excited for fall veggies this year. We are planting leaf lettuce, winter squash, and seeding kale, broccoli, spinach, onions, carrots, beets, and peas this week. Am I in a rush? No! Since we moved here to Kentucky, I really look forward to the change in seasons. I love the fall, with its changing leaves, crisp mornings, and early nights. Our family enjoys bonfires, campouts, and watching the stars in the fall. Kentucky has the best fall weather. Plus the fall vegetable options, the veggies that love getting frost. I had never experienced a sweet brussel sprout, now I can’t wait to get that first frost, just for this tasty treat.
See you on Friday,
Angela
Athens Locally Grown: ALG Market Open for August 20
Athens Locally Grown
How to contact us:
Our Website: athens.locallygrown.net
On Twitter: @athlocallygrown
On Facebook: www.facebook.com/athenslocallygrown
On Thursdays: Here’s a map.
Market News
One of the things I love most about our maturing local food system around Athens is all of the small food businesses that have popped up that use the great food our farmers grow. The most visible are the many restaurants that Athens is getting known for, but just as important to the system are the bakers and picklers and preservers and all the other people who create something ready to eat using locally grown ingredients.
ALG is lucky to have several such vendors, and the recent enactment of Georgia’s “cottage food” laws means it’s easier than ever to put your talents in the kitchen to work for you. If you’re interested in doing this, there’s an upcoming workshop in Griffin, GA you might want to check out.
WHAT: Starting a New Food Business in Georgia
WHEN: October 6-7, 2015
WHERE: Room 174 of the Melton Building, UGA Campus at GRIFFIN, Georgia
DEADLINE TO REGISTER: Thursday, September 10, 2015
COST: $150 per person
REGISTER ONLINE with a credit card at https://estore.uga.edu/C27063_ustores/web/store_cat.jsp?STOREID=42&CATID=205
SPACE IS LIMITED TO 40 PARTICIPANTS, so register early!
Comments from past attendees: Informative, organized, planned, full of resources, networking. Enjoyed the interaction with the speakers & the attendees, the frank discussions & valuable advice.
The program will answer: Should I produce my product myself or have a co-packer do it? What federal and state food safety regulations will I have to meet? How do I get started?
This workshop will address many of the concerns of the food entrepreneur just getting started. The course will include presentations by Extension faculty from the UGA Department of Food Science & Technology in Athens, the Food Product Innovation and Commercialization (FoodPIC) Center in Griffin, representatives from the Georgia Department of Agriculture and FDA, and others.
Topics of concern to the food product entrepreneur, may include: Food safety and sanitation, Getting your label reviewed, Meeting GDA and FDA regulations, Record keeping and product traceback, Choosing a co-packer or shared kitchen. The program will conclude with product show & tell by attendees, and a panel discussion with experts and faculty answering your questions about the challenges in starting, running, and growing a food business in Georgia.
LODGING: Participants are responsible for their own lodging. A block of rooms at the Quality Inn & Suites, 2014 North Expressway, Griffin, GA 30223, will be available until Friday, Sept. 10, 2015. The room rate is $72.99 plus tax for either single or double room. Do NOT make your hotel reservation online for this workshop! Call 1-770-229-6001 and mention the “Starting a New Food Business” group to get the discount rate.
Thanks so much for your support of Athens Locally Grown, all of our growers, local food, and our rights to eat it. You all are part of what makes Athens such a great area in which to live. We’ll see you on Thursday at Ben’s Bikes at the corner of Pope and Broad Streets from 4:30 to 8pm!
Other Area Farmers Markets
The Athens Farmers Market is open on Saturdays at Bishop Park and Wednesday afternoons downtown at Creature Comforts. You can catch the news on their website. The West Broad Farmers Market from the Athens Land Trust is open Saturday mornings and their farm stand is open Tuesday afternoons. They have a website too. A new Athens Sunday market has opened up at the Classic Center, every Sunday from 11 to 4 now through October. They have a website here: http://www.sundaycentermarket.com. The Comer Farmers Market is open in downtown Comer on Saturday mornings. The Oconee County farmers market is open Saturday mornings in front of the Oconee County Courthouse in Watkinsville. The Shields Ethridge Cultivator Market is held monthly in Jefferson. If you know of any markets operating, please let me know.
All of these other markets are separate from ALG (including the Athens Farmers Market) but many growers sell at multiple markets. Please support your local farmers and food producers, where ever you’re able to do so!
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!
Conyers Locally Grown: Available for Friday August 21
I hope this finds you all doing well. The market it’s open and ready for orders. We got some hogs loaded up and heading to the processor first thing tomorrow morning. We should have a fresh batch of pork in a week or so. We hope to get the fall garden going soon as well.
We will see you on Friday between 5-7 at Copy Central
Thank you for all your support,
Brady
Old99Farm Market: Old 99 Farm Week of Aug 15 2015
Did you notice that post on friday that we are now in ecological ‘overshoot’ as a planet, as of Aug 13? Means even the renewable resources we consume from here to the end of the year, cannot be replaced/renewed in an annual cycle. Worth pondering…
Fewer items each week passing as the seasonal items get sold out, and we’re waiting for the next harvest. But fun to say, today I picked the crop of peaches from our orchard, organic, mostly untended fruit trees. One whole 10 kg basket! Needless to say you will not be seeing these in the store! Unless you ask me very nicely …
Special is now over for lamb, but I am taking several animals to butcher at the end of the month. I have a sad story to relate on that; I found that the sheep have a high parasite load from not being rotated often enough around my paddocks and I lost two to anemia. The rest had to be treated with antibiotics so they are no longer organic. But you decide if that’s a deal breaker: they have had great pasture, no drugs, a good life.
Did you ever see the BBC series on This Living Earth with David Attenborough? I just found his two documentaries on The Truth about Climate Change, one from 2006 and one from 2013. They’re on youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JmrmwIyhAE
Healthy eating
Ian and Cami