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Old99Farm Market:  Why Buy Local Food?


Try doing a google search on the phrase ‘why buy local food’ and you’ll get dozens of lists. I’ll be posting a few.

Here’s one of the best, from U Vermont.

http://www.uvm.edu/vtvegandberry/factsheets/buylocal.html

by Vern Grubinger
Vegetable and Berry Specialist
University of Vermont Extension
Adapted from ‘Growing For Market’ newsletter article.

Vermont has a wide variety of farms. While known for our dairy production, there also many farms that raise fruits and vegetables, flowers and herbs, and animal products of all kinds. Our farmers are dedicated to stewardship and committed to quality. And while they love what they do, they aren’t doing it for entertainment. They need to make a living. Consumers that value fresh food and a working landscape should support local farmers by buying their products. Here are ten reasons why.

1) Locally grown food tastes and looks better. The crops are picked at their peak, and farmstead products like cheeses and are hand-crafted for best flavor. Livestock products are processed in nearby facilities and typically the farmer has direct relationship with processors, oversijng quality – unlike animals processed in large industrial facilities.

2) Local food is better for you. The shorter the time between the farm and your table, the less likely it is that nutrients will be lost from fresh food. Food imported from far away is older and has traveled on trucks or planes, and sat in warehouses before it gets to you.

3) Local food preserves genetic diversity. In the modern agricultural system, plant varieties are chosen for their ability to ripen uniformly, withstand harvesting, survive packing and last a long time on the shelf, so there is limited genetic diversity in large-scale production. Smaller local farms, in contrast, often grow many different varieties of crops to provide a long harvest season, an array of colors, and the best flavors. Livestock diversity is also higher where there are many small farms rather than few large farms.

4) Local food is safe. There’s a unique kind of assurance that comes from looking a farmer in the eye at farmers’ market or driving by the fields where your food comes from. Local farmers aren’t anonymous and they take their responsibility to the consumer seriously.

5) Local food supports local families. The wholesale prices that farmers get for their products are low, often near the cost of production. Local farmers who sell direct to consumers cut out the middleman and get full retail price for their food – which helps farm families stay on the land.

6) Local food builds community. When you buy direct from a farmer, you’re engaging in a time-honored connection between eater and grower. Knowing farmers gives you insight into the seasons, the land, and your food. In many cases, it gives you access to a place where your children and grandchildren can go to learn about nature and agriculture.

7) Local food preserves open space. When farmers get paid more for their products by marketing locally, they’re less likely to sell farmland for development. When you buy locally grown food, you’re doing something proactive to preserve our working landscape. That landscape is an essential ingredient to other economic activity in the state, such as tourism and recreation.

8) Local food keeps taxes down. According to several studies by the American Farmland Trust, farms contribute more in taxes than they require in services, whereas most development contributes less in taxes than the cost of required services. Cows don’t go to school, tomatoes don’t dial 911.

9) Local food benefits the environment and wildlife. Well-managed farms provide ecosystem services: they conserve fertile soil, protect water sources, and sequester carbon from the atmosphere. The farm environment is a patchwork of fields, meadows, woods, ponds and buildings that provide habitat for wildlife in our communities.

10) Local food is an investment in the future. By supporting local farmers today, you are helping to ensure that there will be farms in your community tomorrow. That is a matter of importance for food security, especially in light of an uncertain energy future and our current reliance on fossil fuels to produce, package, distribute and store food.
Published: April 2010

Old99Farm Market:  OLd 99 Farm, week of Oct 12 2014


Did any of you make it to the Rockton World’s Fair last weekend? Glorious weather, lots of events and agricultural exhibits to take in.

Tomorrow’s market day, no one has placed an order as of now, which is a great pity. We have so much organic produce in the ground, ready to be harvested. Carrots, tomatoes, greens, beets, celeriac, leeks, squashes, sweet potatoes, solanum potatoes (the usual kind), chard, kale, collards, onions, etc.

This month I’m offering ground beef at $3.30 off the kilo price of $14.30 (that’s $1.50 off $6.50 a pound). Lean ground beef, born and raised here on grass.

Eggs are in short supply.

Hope to see you,

Healthy eating,
Ian and Camelia

South Cumberland Food Hub:  Greens are In!


Good Morning from the South Cumberland Food Hub.
Green Door Gourmet has lots of greens available this week- turnip, mustard, bok choi, red russian kale, green kale, swiss chard and they even have some green beans for sale. Butternut squash is in too.

Brown’s Hollar has an abundance of organically grown hot peppers ready for your favorite mexican dishes. Plan a cinco de mayo in October!

Check out the rest of the harvest here:
Click here to go directly to the Rootedhere Locally Grown Market Page
We’re open till noon today. Have a great weekend!
Risa

The Cumming Harvest - Closed:  Newsletter - October 15, 2014


Market News

The market is open and ready for you to place orders online. You may pay online or when you pick up with either cash, check or a credit card. A 3% convenience fee is added to all credit card payments, online and in person.

Salmon Doug’s Wild Alaska Sockeye Salmon will be delivered this week. You will see the salmon listed online but won’t be able to order until later today when they update. Watch the website for updates.

Group Buy

Cheese Look online for Raw Cheese from our friends at Meadow Valley Farm in Indiana. Cost will be adjusted once cheese is received and sorted. It’s $6.50/lb but most come in between 1.25-1.40 lbs. $7.50/lb for cheddar and baby swiss.

PICK UP LOCATION
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!

Spa City Local Farm Market Co-op:  The market is closed.


The Spa City Co-op market is now closed for ordering. Please plan to pick up your
order this Friday from 3:30 to 5:30, earlier the better.

Karen Holcomb
501-760-3131
501-282-6314
ksholcomb@gmail.com

Champaign, OH:  Ready, Steady, Go!


We are on the count down!!

15 minutes to get those orders in!!

Make it happen !!

Peace and Love,
Cosmic Pam

New Field Farm's Online Market:  Broccoli ?


Greetings,

We woke to our third light frost Monday morning. Still no killing frost. The only drawback to that is that our worst weed, galinsoga, continues to grow and flower so I haven’t yet had the satisfaction of walking into the field and seeing it all killed back by the cold.

We’ll do our annual bulk order either the last week of October or the first week of November.

I put broccoli on the site with the hope that this mild weather will make it available by Friday.

This has been our best year for lettuce since we began 28 years ago and it continues to be nice even now. The last of the salad mix is also looking good.

We’re down to two kinds of potatoes – Kennebecs and Yellow Finns.

The Copra onions are bigger than I’ve ever seen and seem like they cured well and so should store well for the winter.

Thank you for your orders.

Enjoy,
Tim

Champaign, OH:  California Dreamin'


All the leaves are brown and the sky is gray…
I’ve been for a walk on a winter’s day…
I’d be safe and warm if I was in L.A…

It wasn’t at all a winter’s day, today, but by the time I reached home, after a very busy day down in my shop, I had been rained on, repeatedly, and felt so chilled and in need of a glass of wine, and the shelter of my favorite blankets, that it made my mind drift off to the days I lived in California..

I have been reflecting, a lot, about that time in my life. I think it has a lot to do with this past weekend’s State Of The Plate celebration. The theme was, Dare To Dream. I started my speech off with….“I am the girl who dared to dream…”

Dreams…of the Cali nature or any nature, they are what we are made of! They are the magic to our thoughts! They are the pixie dust to making it all happen for us!! They tell us to reach for what you wish, and the dream will come true.

It occurred to me that I have always had an easy time of jumping on the dream…making what I want all happen! I never set out with a clear cut plan, but somehow, I always make it all happen.

I was always teased for being such a Pollyanna. Always believing that it would all be ok, all good. I just believed that if I wanted it, I could make it all happen. And, I usually did. I mean, I had my setbacks. Who doesn’t. But, in all of my thoughts back on my life, most of them reflect back on dreams, not knowing how I would achieve them, but always knowing that somehow I would!

Dreams are important. Dreams fuel us. They feed us. They drive us. They can make us insane but then, right at the height of insanity, dreams can bring clarity…they bring us the plan, the vision, the rainbow.

This little local market of love was all about a long ago dream. A dream of bringing local markets to a whole new level. A different playing field. Uniting all things local under one umbrella.

I like to think that with each week, with each order, we continue the path that the original dream started to take us. We are such a strong little community, a vibrant little market, such a source for local love…

It was the dream…and now we are living it…how amazing is that??? To dream a dream and help it take shape…California or Champaign County…the dreams are the same.

Tonight is Tuesday, we close the market at 10pm, and we want you on that dream!! Get your orders in!! Be part of this amazing movement that once was just a dream…

Peace and Love,
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

Citrus County Locally Grown:  Nights get longer


We really notice the evenings getting darker earlier. Some of the mornings are cooler too.

Mom’s Kitchen and Gardens Chilli

For just 4 short weeks we will have Chilli available. Great for those cooler evenings.

Also Pepper jelly is selling out at every market it is taken to. We have some

Charlies Produce

Offering pumpkins, naturally grown, from the ARMISH Farms of Pennsylvania. All sizes and designer types too for all you decorators.

Our growers thank you for supporting local growers and businesses. Your orders make a real difference

Pickup is Thursday October 16th

Thank you for supporting your On-Line Farmers Market. Your purchases have made a difference to many families

Your CCLG Team

THE MARKET IS OPEN
The link below will take you there.

www.citruscounty.locallygrown.net/.*