United States Virgin Islands:  6 easy questions about market locations: We want your input!

Hello VI Locally Grown Members!

We are considering some additional market locations to better serve you. Please let us know in this 6 question survey about your preferences for where and when we hold our market. Also, there is a space to tell us anything you would like!

Survey link:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/16lY6BQdfT4jGRZnWAWuJxdhy8VzW69jwOAUe0TUaHKA/viewform

We always appreciate your feedback, so we can help our growers and you connect in the most convenient ways possible!

Thanks!

VI Locally Grown

Champaign, OH:  Terrapin Station

Inspiration, move me brightly…
Light the song with sense and color…
(Grateful Dead – Terrapin Station)

Inspiration…it’s the basis for all greatness. Without inspiration, where would we all be? How would we get our ideas out? How would we accomplish our goals? How would we live our lives?

As you know, your market manager is a Dead Head taking much inspiration from her love of The Grateful Dead. When people say there is/was nothing like a Grateful Dead concert, well, that is very true. But, what is really amazing, really inspiring, is that each individual would take what they would from each performance. Terrapin Station was a suite of songs/music. A drifting, haunting, suite of Jerry’s voice, drums, taking you on an inspiring journey and then leaving you feeling much different than before the suite began. Your mind could float through the beats, the lyrics, and in the end, you would look around and think…wow…yes, and yes.

I use the term, Inspiration, Move Me Brightly, in quite a lot of my Cosmic Charlie writings and promoting. Inspiration is what I am all about, what I try to make both of my businesses about, and what I love about this little local market of love.

Each and every vendor in this market brings their own spark, their own imagination, their own inspiration. I love hearing from them, each week. I get lost in what they all are doing, working on, planning, executing. This market is just a hotbed of inspiration. A band of richness in ideas. This little market that has become such a rich in ideas little family, continues to amaze me and inspire me, each and everyday.

Much like the years when I was standing at Dead shows, finding inspiration everywhere I looked and listened, I get that same inspired feeling with my band of fearless vendors, keeping the inspiration alive and well.

This is Monday morning. I am blown away by the numbers, so far, at this market. We have all of today and all of tomorrow to order but we are poised to blast through and possibly break our highest record.

Be inspired to order…if you have never placed an order, be inspired to do so. You never know where that first leap will take you. Just as you never knew quite where Jerry’s voice and music would take you, it was always better on the other end, after that leap into his magic and lyrics. This market can do the same. It can turn you on to our local vibe, it can start your local journey, and it can inspire you to always turn to us for all of your local goodness.

Take the journey…

Peace and Love,
Cosmic Pam

Martin's Farmstand:  Celeriac and parsnips

We still have a large selection of good food at our stand. Eat up on things like lettuce, celery, peppers etc. There lots of them now, soon they will be gone.
This is the season to be thinking about packing a stash of the storage vegetables away. Potatoes like cool and dark (45-55 degrees), Squash likes warm and dry (45-70 degrees), Onions and garlic like dry and some air circulation (32- 75 degrees) These are all harvested and ready for you now. Next week we will be harvesting red beets, carrots, turnips, rutabaga, parsnips, celeriac etc for storage. This group gets stored moist and as cold as you can with out freezing. You can pack them into wet sand or sawust to keep the humidity in them or if if you can keep them cold (30s)just plain plastic bags work ok. Should we save some for you?
Does your diet change as the selection of local food changes? Eat lots of what is in season; by the time you are tired of it something else will be coming into season. Daniel

Northeast Georgia Locally Grown:  Locally Grown - Availability for October 22nd, 2013

Hey Local Food Lovers,

Just a reminder to get some good local food this week. I want to emphasize how special breakfast foods are here on Locally Grown. I just had family in town for the weekend and was able to cook up an entirely local food feast with local sausage from Smart Chick Farms, eggs from Ohana (with peppers from Oakcrest cooked in), then corn muffins featuring Sylvan Falls corn meal.

We’ve also been eating the Cinnamon Roll Bread from Keep it Simple. Yum, yum, yum. She also has muffins, and pancake mix. Eating local is an event 3 times a day, so if you’re not yet eating local food breakfast every day give it a try. We also have granola from Habersham Bakers. Leslie’s Garden Dream is offering some brand new breads that look like they’d go great for breakfast or anytime.

That’s it for this week.

EAT WELL,
Justin, Chuck, Teri and Andrew

GFM :  Online Market Open

Orders are currently available for placement between Monday and Thursday. p(. Orders can be picked up at the Greeneville Farmers Market, between 10 AM and 11 AM. The Greeneville Farmers Market is located at the Greene County Fairgrounds, under the livestock pavilion. If there is a change in our location during season, we will notify you when we send out the list on Monday.
The Market is now open year round..
From 6 pm Monday, through Thursday at 3 PM customers can place orders on “the Market” page of this website for delivery to the Fair Grounds on Saturday from 10 am to 11 am.. To get notification when the market is open, create your free customer account. When ordering is open, just click on “the Market” and start shopping! See the Q&A section for all the details!
Make Checks out to the Greeneville Farmers Market, or bring Correct Change.
p(. Featured Vendor: Apple Town Bagels
We import bagels and bread from Brooklyn, NY in bulk and pack them for resale at local markets. The founders of Apple Town Bagels arrived in Erwin, TN when the home made balloon they used to escape the Peoples Republic of New England crash landed in Rock Creek Park. The wonderful people of Unicoi County granted Kelly and Joyce political asylum and they quickly set up a homestead on an acre of land just outside the city limits. 
One day Kelly had a craving for an onion bagel, so he went shopping. He went to super markets in three counties but alas he had no luck. Being the resourceful fellow that he is, Kelly started calling every bagel shop he could find in the five boroughs of New York City. Three days later a man named JJ agreed to sell him some onion bagels but he had to take a pallet of 45 cases.
Kelly said “Great, I will figure out what to do with the other 44 cases when they arrive!”
Lucky for Kelly he had a neighbor with a little extra freezer space so he would have a place to keep them fresh. A few days later his mom found a little deli downtown they could lease for a few months. The store is now closed but our bagels are still available through outlets like this. The rest as they say is history! I hope you enjoyed this some what true tale.

Thanks for Shopping with us.

GFM :  Physical Market Closes for Season

Winter is coming….brrrrrr! So our Physical Market has closed. We had a great Halloween Bash. Thanks to all who came out.If you were not able to make it, I will be posting pictures on our Face Book Page over the next few days. We had several Kids enter the Costume and Pumpkin Painting Contest this year. Great Vendors, with a variety of things available. Apple Town Bagels did a great job of providing breakfast for both vendors and customers.

Thanks Greeneville for a great season.

BUT IT’S NOT OVER YET !.. That’s right, we are available year round, right here on gfm..locallygrown.net….

Some of our vendors grow year round in Green Houses Now…and we are encouraging them to make those products available to you the consumer, right here year round. If one of these farmers or artisans happens to be you or your neighbor, friend or relative…have them give me a call, (423) 552-3023 or have them check out this website to get signed up.

You don’t have to have a farm either, you can be a backyard gardener, that just has “xtras” and wants to make a little spending money.

Check out what our vendors do have available for purchase right now.

Thanks for Shopping Local.
J. Shelton

Athens Locally Grown:  ALG Market Open for October 23

Plattsburgh Online Ordering:  The market is open until 9 p.m. Tuesday.

Good evening. We have added Parker Maple Products back into the online order system.

Rehoboth Homestead added arugula, lettuce, pac choi, and braising greens from the hoophouse.

We will accept orders through 9 p.m. Tuesday. Pickup either at the Saturday market or at Rehoboth Homestead.

Thank you.

Princeton Farm Fresh:  The Market is Open

What a weekend we have had here on the farm. I picked 7.5 gallons in peppers. I had no idea that there were that many peppers on the plants.
Eric and I planted 800 garlic cloves and 800 onion sets for next Springs production.
We successfully got the foundation laid, most of the rafters up, and part of the front and back done this weekend on the greenhouse. I can’t thank the folks that came out enough for all of their help. Our family loved having all the kiddos here and being able to share our farm with you.
I love that we are growing our farming family here in Kentucky. You have all made us feel so welcome here, and I can’t thank you enough.
See you at the market on Friday,
Angela

DeForest, WI:  Availability for Week of October 19

This week Bauman’s Natural Meats and Pheasants will be listed, but not available. They should be available to order next week so be sure to check out their listings and add some natural meats to your fall menu.
With the cool weather, Rusty Dog Coffee is a great addition to the start of your morning. Be sure to check out their offerings.
Once again Forest Run Farm will have winter squash and pumpkins to add to your order at pickup.