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Conyers Locally Grown:  Available for Friday may 29


I hope this finds you all doing well. The market is open and ready for orders. Sorry for the delay, Got lost in the extra day off.

We will see you on Friday between 5-7.

Thank you,
Brady

Joyful Noise Acres Farm:  Don't forget to place your orders today


The market closes at 8:00 tonight so please get your orders in. Remember, if you dont get a confirmation e-mail, you didn’t finish placing your order.
Riversong Bakery has added 2 new items, Chocolate Pecan Delight and Soft Granola Bars. Farm Fresh Foods has added English Pea, Asparagus and Radish Salad along with the Spring Vegetable and Farfalle Salad – which was so light and delicious.
Georgia Farm to Table is bringing lots of fresh vegetable and fruits again this week. According to Christie, the peaches are Certified Naturally Grown and the blueberries are home grown but not certified.

Thank you for supporting your local farmer, if you don’t, who will?
Blessings,
Mary Beth*

Old99Farm Market:  OLd99 Farm, week of May 24 2015


We got through the frost zone, no serious damage to the crops already planted outside. Looks like it’s full steam ahead now with planting the rest of the beds.

Berries look good: strawberries in full bloom and raspberries with flower buds. Currants already ripening up: will have lots of black currants this year. Good for making syrup for pancakes, cold remedies and cordials.

Lovely greens still in good shape. I have to pick the spinach well to reduce the stemmy bits but it’s all tasty! Thanks for the feedback from one regular about that.

So spinach, kale, lettuces, mixed greens, chard, rocket are the list this week for greens.

Healthy eating,
Ian and Cami

DeForest, WI:  Availability for Week of May 24


Happy Memorial Day!

This week’s offerings are listed. Forest Run Farm continues to have vegetable plants for your garden. And the time window for Friday’s pick up will now be 3-6pm.

Athens Locally Grown:  ALG Market Open for May 28


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

It’s a holiday Monday, where we remember those fallen in our wars. It’s also the symbolic beginning of summer, marked with cookouts and other outdoor activities. If you’re out there, grilling your locally grown burgers and veggies, please remember those who have left us.

There’s not much new to report this week. Summer veggies are really starting to come in now, and the predicted rains and cool nights this week might keep the spring items around a little longer. We’re at the change of the season now, and everything is very weather dependent. Just a little too much heat will end the spring items, and just not enough sun will keep the summer goodies from ripening. Right now, it’s been on the hot and dry side and the spring crops have been struggling, but that can all change day to day.

We’ve nearly depleted our supply of salmon from Doug’s Wild Alaskan Salmon. Doug and his family are now on their boats, catching fish by hand while the summer weather makes it possible for them to do so. We may not get a fresh supply until the boats get put back in the dock at the end of August, so what we have listed will have to do us for a while. Now’s the time to stock your freezer if you don’t want to go without this summer.

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 just 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!

Berea Gardens:  Availability for May 27


Hi Friends,

Here is the listing for this week’s market.

Blessings,
Bob

Siloam Springs, AR:  Online Market is Open!


Have a great Memorial Day Weekend!

Green Fork Farmers Market:  Weekly product list


Dear Green Fork Farmers Market Customers,

New this week—Green Fork Farm has beet greens, collard greens, and turnip greens available this week. And—tomato plants ready for your garden!

Shiitakes are also back this week.

Vegetables*—Green onions, lettuce, kale, swiss chard, red mustard greens, mixed braising greens, radishes, beet greens, collard greens, turnip greens, and gourmet salad mix.

Herbs—Sage, mint, dill, lovage, fennel, parsley, oregano, and mixed herb bunches.

Eggs—Pastured chicken and duck eggs (half and whole dozen).

Meat—Pastured chicken and lamb.

Fermented foods—Sauerkraut and jalapenos.

Baked goods—Sugar cookies and chocolate chip cookies (some made without wheat flour).

Salsa—Made with locally grown and organic ingredients.

Jam—Blueberry, made with organic, locally grown blueberries sweetened with fruit juice.

Olives and olive oil—organic and directly from the grower in California.

Bath and Beauty products—A variety of botanical soaps.

Plants and Flowers—Culinary, medicinal, and pollinator plants, ready-made flower arrangements, and tomato plants.

Place your order from now until Tuesday at noon for pickup on Wednesday from 4-7 pm at Nightbird Books in Fayetteville.

If you aren’t able to place an order, stop by to shop with us on Wednesday. We will have a variety of items for sale from the table.

See you then,

Green Fork Farmers Market

Fresh Harvest, LLC:  Fresh Harvest for May 24th


To Contact Us

Fresh Harvest, LLC
Link to Fresh Harvest
Email us!
Tallahassee May
tally@wildblue.net
JohnDrury
john.drury@att.net

Recipes

What Is “Happy Rich” Pencil Broccoli?

This week we have some ‘Happy Rich’ pencil broccoli organically grown by Rocky Glade Farm. If you are unfamiliar with it, give it a try! It is more of a cooking green than a broccoli – the flowering head is very small, while the greens are large. Al parts are edible.
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Happy Rich is from the brassica family of veggies and also known as Chinese Kale with some little broccoli florets on top, here and there. It is super nutrient-dense just like regular kale and you know you should be eating something dark green every day. It really blows my mind to think that there is about equal amount of calcium in a glass of milk and a cup of dark greens like collards and kale. And, it also contains lutein and zeaxanthin which helps to keep macular degeneration at bay. So eat your greens!
This is how farmer Julie Vaugn of Rocky Glade cooks hers:
“The entire thing is edible . Actually happy rich is much more tender stem wise than the kales (think eating the broccoli stalk tender). I take the whole bunch and with a big knife chop the entire thing in about 1 inch segments. Then I heat up some butter, sauté my onion and bell peppers (I usually freeze a bunch from summer…red are best, but whatever you got) when the onions are tender I throw all of the happy rich in and cover with a plate (I know, I know, but hey I learned to cook this way!) when it is all wilted you can add salt or pepper or some type of asian sauce if you like. I serve this over a bed of rice”

Market News

Hello!

It was a great strawberry season! Boy, they were sweet! However, they are on the decline, so we are not sure how many we will be able to pick this week. We plan on having some available at pick up on Wednesday.

This year we will have The Peach Truck set up next to us for Wednesday deliveries. They will be there at 4:00 – 6:00 every week through their season. We invite The Peach Truck to set up next to us as a service for you, our dear customers! However, please know that we are not responsible for their product – they are a separate entity than Fresh Harvest and we are not affiliated with the farms that grow the peaches that they sell. While ALL of Fresh Harvest’s produce is grown organically, the peaches from The Peach Truck are NOT organic. They are considered “low spray”. If you have further questions about what that means, please contact the Peach Truck directly.

Please remember if you have signed up for the Pre-Paid bouquets, please place your order in the “Pre-Paid Bouquet” box on the Market page.

There of course is a fabulous selection of cheeses up, and Dozen bakery’s delicious, fresh baked artisan bread – the baguette and the country loaf, as well as the brown sugar shortcakes, for instant strawberry shortcake dessert!

As always, thanks so much for your support, and we look forward to seeing you on Wednesday

John and Tallahassee


Coming Events

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!

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Madison GA:  The Market is Open!!!!!!


see everyone Wed!!