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.
The Cumming Harvest - Closed: Newsletter - May 6, 2015
Weedy Soil Farm
Getting to know your farmer….
Hello, my name is Lois Dewey, and it turns out that if you rearrange the letters in my name you get Weedy Soil. I’ve known about that for a while, so when it came time to pick a name for my new farm, I just had to use it. I am now in my fourth year of farming, though I have been an organic gardener for as long as I can remember. It’s just the way it’s always been done!
Weedy Soil Farm is Certified Naturally Grown. Certified Naturally Grown (CNG) is an alternative to the USDA organic certification. The same rules and standards are required, in fact sometimes there are additional restrictions. Instead of relying on a government-sanctioned certifier, CNG uses a method of farmers inspecting other farmers. We each understand the importance of maintaining the reputation of the certification and work hard to ensure compliance. The USDA certification is geared toward large farms and requires too much paperwork and expense for a small farm to handle.
Locally grown food is better for a variety of reasons. The biggest reason is it tastes better because of its freshness. Food grown at Weedy Soil Farm will generally be available the day after it is harvested. Second in importance (to me anyway) is the reduced environmental impact. Buying food from Weedy Soil Farm means minimal packaging and far less fossil fuel burned to deliver it to you.
I work hard to produce the best, freshest, tasty vegetables available. I have a passion for the environment and protecting nature. I hope it shows in my produce.
Look for Lois’s delicious produce on the Cumming Harvest website under “Vegetables” and “fruits”.
Specials this week:
My Daily bread has several items on sale this week…
Chocolate Zucchini Bread – rich dark chocolate bread with bittersweet chocolate bits on top.
Hot Pepper Peach cheese logs – organic cream cheese mixed with our organic sweet & hot peppers and sweet vidalia onion, rolled in crushed pecans. Perfect for Mother’s day brunch.
Buffalo Blue Cheese Dip – “HOT” combo of organic cream cheese, peppers, shredded sharp cheddar, blue cheese, and spices. Great with dipping veggies, on wings, or with tortilla chips.
Beer Buzzed dip – organic cream cheese, sharp cheddar mixed with herbs and a robust Lager.
Look for these sale items under the “Weekly Specials” on the website.
Pick Up Options
COLONY PARK PICK-UP This is our main location and all orders will be prepared for you for pick up at this location, 10am-12pm, if you don’t choose another option below. You can order and pick up meat and seafood at this location.
VICKERY PICK-UP – Vickery Village Cherry Street Taproom pick up is between 1:00-1:30pm. If you would like to pick up at Vickery choose VICKERY PICK-UP item in the categories on the The Market page/tab. Customers choosing to pick up at Vickery should not order meat or seafood as we cannot transport meat and seafood due to Dept. of Ag regulations.
DELIVERY to Vickery/Polo Area – Please add this item to your order if you would like delivery to your home on Saturday between 1:30-3pm. Only prepaid orders will be accepted. Deliveries will be dropped off at your front door. If you are not going to be home, please leave a insulated bag or cooler for your order. The delivery person is not responsible for making sure your food is in the appropriate container once dropped off. Please plan for possible rain and make sure your order will be protected. The delivery person will travel with your orders in insulated bags with ice packs to protect it during travel. No Meat or Seafood will be able to be delivered.
Group Buy
Green Pastures – April orders have arrived and are ready for pick up at the market.
Butter – We have raw butter at the market. Not listed online, but you may email me or ask for it when you pick up.
Gelatin – Great Lakes Gelatin is available for order online this week.
Raw Cheese – We have raw cheese in this week. Check online to order.
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
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!!
It’s Last Call…you know how to groove it!!
Order or be sad that you missed out on the goodness of the little local market of love…
Peace, Love, Good Vibes…
Cosmic Pam
Champaign, OH: Feelin' Groovy...
Slow down, you move too fast…
You got to make the morning last…
Just kicking down the cobble stones…
Looking for fun and feelin’ groovy…
Feelin’ groovy…
(Simon And Garfunkel – The 59th Street Bridge Song (feelin’ Groovy)
Today was one of those groovy kind of days! One of those days where the sidewalks were all alive, my shop neighbor and I were laughing on our back porches, friends were coming and going, it was warm, customers were buzzing in, and the sunshine just made you happy. And, you felt loved. Groovy all around…
So, let’s continue this groovy feeling at our little local market of love…
You have one hour!!! Take advantage, get your orders in, and then sit back, enjoy the week, and let us groove your groovy orders!!
Make me happy, make me feel even more groovy…
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
ALFN Local Food Club: Market Reminder
There is an indigenous American folktale told by the Cherokee that seems relevant to our seasonal produce. According to the origin myth, Sky Woman and First Man had an argument. After Sky Woman left, First Man was overwhelmed with regret. However, First Man couldn’t catch up with Sky Woman; she was too fast. In compassion, the sun created strawberries to distract Sky Woman from her anger so First Man could catch up to her and apologize.
The market is still bursting with vibrant colors of red and green today. Take a break from the hectic week and allow the colors of local produce to distract you for a moment today. Who knows? Maybe what you find in the market will alow you to catch up with your loved ones over a plate full of sun-filled food.
Remember to enter your order this week before the market closes Wednesday at noon!
Here’s to blue skies!
Kyle Holton
Program & Market Manager
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Champaign, OH: Show Your Mother Some Love
It’s the annual Sunshine Gardens Mother’s Day Open House!! This coming weekend!!
It’s tradition, and it’s great fun!! As always, they will be offering annuals, perennials, hanging baskets, herbs, vegetable plants, baked goods, Amish cheeses, refreshments, and door prizes!!
What a way to shop for your mother, spend the beautiful days of the weekend, or just to treat yourself!!
Friday and Saturday, May 8& 9…open from 9am-7pm, both days!!
11772 N. SR 4, Mechanicsburg!!
Go out and enjoy the tradition that is Sunshine Gardens Mother’s Day Open House!
CLG: Tuesday Reminder - Market Closes Tonight at 10pm.
Hello Friends,
There’s still time to place your order for pickup on Friday, May 8th. The market closes TONIGHT around 10pm.
How to contact us:
DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL. Instead…
Phone or text: Steve – 501-339-1039
Email: Steve – kirp1968@sbcglobal.net
Our Website:
www.conway.locallygrown.net
On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Conway-Locally-Grown/146991555352846
Champaign, OH: Have A Little Faith In Me
You know time, time is our friend…
Have a little faith in me…
(Joe Cocker – Have A Little Faith In Me)
Well, have faith in this market, have faith that we strive to continue to bring you the best of the best, and have faith that this little local market of love continues to grow, build, add, and groove into what is going on it’s fourth year in operation!!
Yes, that’s right…we continue with the original vision, the original hope, and the original growth plan!! Your three market managers, myself, Mark, and Charlene, have been a part of this market since before it even opened it’s doors. We are some of your original vendors. We began volunteering with the market in the late spring and early summer of that first year. The three of us were the among the first faces that helped run the onsite location. We then stepped into what would become the management team both onsite, and behind the scenes, that you have grown to know and love!! We watched the market begin with the bare bones of a working market. Each year, we watched the numbers of customers, vendors, sales, all climb. We became a solid market. We became a permanent fixture at the YMCA. We got shiny new equipment. We have become a community name. We are now the market umbrella that encompasses all area farmers markets.
We are the faces, the vendors, the products that you put your faith in, each week. You are the faces, the customers, the sales, that we have faith in seeing, each week.
It took all of us…the circle that makes up this community, the circle that is this little local market of love…to make us the little powerhouse that we are, today!!
Have a little faith? Yes…it’s what this market was built on.
It’s Tuesday…the market will close, tonight, at 10pm! Get your orders in!! Don’t forget to take advantage of the short season that is asparagus!! Beth, of Harrigan’s Harvest emailed me that her crop is crazy growing and over the sad freeze of last week!!
Make me happy, show me that faith, place your orders…
Peace, Love, Good Vibes…
Cosmic Pam
Bedford County: The market's first week.
Bedford County Locally Grown
How to contact us:
Our Website: bedfordcounty.locallygrown.net
Email: botanicalharmony@gmail.com
On Facebook: www.facebook.com/bedfordcountylocallygrown
On Thursdays: 865 Union St. Shelbyville, Tennessee
On Instagram: @bedfordclocallygrown
Call: 931 – 952 – 1224
The Market Is Open!!
We are so excited that the market is finally opening. Bedford County Locally Grown has been something that we have wanted to do for a very long time now and we are so pleased its finally here.
You can find spring greens, radishes, sprouts and micro-greens on the market. We have Chicken and duck eggs (duck eggs are in limited supply). There is a beautiful assortment of herbs, planters and flowers available. We have fresh pasta, fresh bread and fresh cream-line milk. Organic extracts, organic goat milk soap and organic body care products. Lots more produce to come as the season progresses, more specialty foods on the way. So excited to have all these wonderful products available in Shelbyville. Please spread the word, tell friends, family and neighbors so they can get theirs too.
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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!
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!
Ashleigh + Tracey
See the full product list here: bedfordcounty.locallygrown.net
Middle Tennessee Locally Grown: Just a Short Time Left to Order!
Manchester Locally Grown Farmers’ Market
How to contact us:
Our Website: manchester.locallygrown.net
On Facebook: Manchester Locally Grown Online Farmers’ Market
By e-mail: tnhomeschooler@yahoo.com
By phone: (931) 273-9708
On Thursdays: Here’s a map.
Hi there!
Don’t forget to place your order on Manchester Locally Grown market by this evening at 10 p.m. for delivery fresh from local farms on Thursday.
Remember that we are a year-round market, not subject to seasonal closings like the local farm stands. You will find special items here – honey, jellies & jams, herbal & handmade products, plants for home & garden, and more – as well as spring vegetables, eggs, and baked goods. And gift certificates are available in any denomination. Give the gift of great local products!
Pickup of your order will be at Square Books, 113 E. Main St, Manchester, from 3:00-4:30 on Thursday. We can also hold your order in the refrigerator till Friday morning, if that’s more convenient for you. Square Books will be open on Friday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Just make a note on your order, or text or call (931) 273-9708 if you prefer to utilize this free service.
Thanks for your orders last week! Please encourage your local friends and family to shop at our year-round market and support local farmers!
Blessings,
Linda