ALFN Local Food Club:  The Market Is Open

Good Morning Friends,

The market is open for commerce.

Announcements:

Arkansas Natural Produce will be closing orders early this week due to travel. Consequently, if you want to order something from ANP, please finalize your orders no later than TUESDAY EVENING (8/4/15).

The Food Preservation Workshops in August and September led by The Root and Southern Center for Agroecology are still open for registration. You can get more information here.

As you make your orders this week, you might enjoy watching a 17 minute video produced this year from the Fair World Project that highlights the integral part small scale farmers can have in not only recreating sustainable food systems, but responding to climate change. One of my favorite food activists, Vandana Shiva, is in the video. The short documentary highlights the central role small scale farmers play in not only global food production, but in establishing regenerative agriculture, or agroecology, that provides real solutions to the damaging effects of modern agriculture on our planet. Our local farmers who grow genuine food for a local economy are part of a non-hierarchical network of producers around the globe who truly are central to helping resolve many of the problems we face with climate change and ecological degradation.

I’ve decided to start a small series on Food Sovereignty as the school year starts and we transition into the Fall. I hope to keep making connections and expanding what ALFN does as a mechanism for generating central Arkansas food sovereignty. I would like to start by suggesting our independence and freedom as eaters is severely limited today. Vandana Shiva, an author and food activist, suggests the global food system is based on a kind of “food fascism.” Shiva argues that patents on seeds by international companies such as Monsanto provide a context of totalitarianism in which research into the safety of GMO crops is curbed, and policies are implemented to safeguard the power of industrial agriculture through subsidies and laws. Food sovereignty is directly related to food sustainability in that local, small scale farmers respond more closely to their local consumers and help reduce the unsustainable production of food representative in modern agriculture.

As we start another week, consider the impact thousands of small, independent choices in favor of food sovereignty can make in our region as well as the larger climate and global food systems.

Take care,

Kyle Holton
Program & Market Manager

United States Virgin Islands:  This Week in VI Locally Grown

Greetings,
The Market is now open for orders. Stop on by the historic Lawaetz museum for some delicious local produce, fruits, and other items. See you Wed!
Best,
Castiel Kailani

Bedford County:  The Market Is Open

The Market Is Open!!

Hey everyone,

The market is open for this week’s orders!

Summer veg is continuing to roll in. Erdmann Farms has some beautiful basil for your fresh salads or pestos.

Check out the selection of meats, honey, bread and soap.

Red Fox Berry Farm’s blackberries are out for the season.

If you haven’t yet be sure to check out Double N Urban Farm and Apothecary’s delicious herbal teas.

Please share our facebook page, instagram and website with anybody you think will be interested in this market. We would love to build the customer base and give Shelbyville year round access to wonderful fresh and local products.

See y’all Thursday!

Important Market Information

Customers have from Saturday 5pm until Tuesday at 9pm to place orders. The market will be closed Tuesday evening.

On Thursday’s from 4:45pm – 6:00pm customers can pick up their orders at 865 Union St Shelbyville, TN 37160 (opposite Piggly Wiggly). This is where customers are to pay for their orders in check or cash.

If you have any problems or any questions please do not hesitate to ask (our contact info is above)

Recipes

Please, share your recipes with us on the website, on the Recipes tab. We’d all love to know how you use your Bedford County Locally Grown products, so we can try it too!

DeForest, WI:  Availability for Week of August 2

Farmer Rich says his sweet corn is ready and tasting great! Remember, he doesn’t use any GMO seeds and doesn’t spray his corn- so there may be a bug. But if he isn’t poisoning the bugs, he isn’t sharing poison with you.
Forest Run is hoping for warm nites to help the tomatoes ripen, they should have more varieties coming from the field, along with more peppers and other surprises.

Bauman’s Natural Meats is again making their products available this week; chicken, brats and burgers go great on the grill with sweet corn!!

And, Rusty Dog Coffee only roasts coffee to order. As a small batch local roaster in Madison, they are roasting once per week to fulfill orders guaranteeing you receive the freshest coffee possible.

For those of you with a Forest Run Farm, Farmstand CSA, remember the punch cards are only good on FRF fresh fruits and veggies.

Spa City Local Farm Market Co-op:  Weblog Entry

Good Morning Everyone!!!
The Spa City Co-op market is now open for ordering at spacity.locallygrown.net. Please place your orders before Tuesday at 9 pm, and plan to pick up your orders at Emergent Arts on Friday August 7th from 3:30 – 5:30, preferably before 5 pm.

Don’t forget – this market has no paid positions, so we NEED VOLUNTEERS to run every market. It’s fun, you get a $5 gift card, and you learn so much about local foods in Arkansas.

this market’s manager
Julie Alexander
501-655-9411
Spacity@locallygrown.net

Naples,FL:  Market closes tonight

Please get your orders in.

Spa City Local Farm Market Co-op:  Mountain Meadows Farm

will not be delivering this week. Their items will not be available.

Palouse Grown Market:  Making it easy!

When thinking about your weekly shopping trip, don’t forget about Palouse Grown Market, where you can order fresh, healthy foods from many different local farmers, in one online order!

Making it easy for you to order local.

And we accept EBT!

https://pgm.locallygrown.net

Enjoy the weekend!

Holly
Market manager

Statesboro Market2Go:  The market is open!

Thank you for shopping with us!

Northeast Georgia Locally Grown:  Northeast Georgia Locallygrown Availability list for July 31

Good Evening Locavores,
This is the last day of July and what a month it has been. This month we saw the full range of summer produce available on the market, in spite of some extreme swings of weather.
We are lucky here in Northeast Georgia to have been blessed with enough rain to keep the summer crops growing. Much of the state south of us is in drought conditions that have really limited farm production there.
Today as I was sweating in the garden, Amy brought me some cold, cubed, Melon Head cantaloupe. Cantaloupe has never been better than that delicious,juicy, cold treat.
Garlic season is also in full swing now. Simplyhomegrown Farmers Market in Clayton (at the Covered Bridge Shopping Center)set the season off with their 4th Annual Garlic Festival. Fridays events in downtown Clayton included a garlic tasting and a garlic pie contest.
First place was won by Jane Tomlin of Tomlins BBQ in Dillard and Second place went to Chef John Bradley of the Beechwood Inn in Clayton. Slices of the pies were sold for a donation to the Northeast Georgia Food Bank and Chef Jamie Allred, Fortify Kitchen and Bar, baked a huge shepherds pie laced with garlic as well as round pies for the Food Bank fund raiser.
If you ever have been afraid of using too much garlic in recipes these pies would allay your fears.
Janes winning pie featured spinach and portabello mushrooms and most notably, over 30 cloves of garlic. The judges rated the garlic flavor of the pie as mild.
Check out the garlic and poultry available and it just might be time for you to bake that French classic ‘Chicken with 40 cloves of garlic’.
I will leave you with the following tip from the French for using garlic.
‘Sliced garlic is sweeter than chopped garlic which is sweeter than crushed garlic.’
Have a great week and enjoy fresh local food.