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!

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Russellville Community Market

ALFN Local Food Club:  Don't Forget!

The Market will NOT be open next week, so make sure to order everything you need for two whole weeks of beautiful breakfasts, luscious lunches, and delicious dinners. I’m thankful that locally grown food is so fresh that even the delicate stuff lasts quite a while, although there’s no shame in brewing up a batch of veggie soup and popping it straight in the freezer.

While you’re shopping for all the usual must-haves, consider ordering a little piece of history. The Sweet Life Apiary is headed for new digs, and the batch of summer honey available now will be the last that hails from Hillcrest. Although they will undoubtedly be back and better than ever next season, it’s a sad day when I no longer have a good excuse to let my “lawn” go to flower.

-Rebecca Wild
Program Manager

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Jonesborough Locally Grown:  Saturday Sept. 27th market

Happy fall everyone, what beautiful days we are having! Perfect time to visit the market.

This week we have The Jeters providing our tunes.

For your menu planning:
Whites Mountain Meadow Farm will have broccoli, cabbage, okra, snow peas, lettuces, beets, chard & kale.

Salamander Springs Gardens will have plenty of shiitake mushrooms along with buttercup winter squash, sweet potatoes and the last chance for garlic.

Notes:

• Our new ORGANIC cotton, made-in-the-USA market shopping bags are in! $15 each, $12 for vendors/volunteers/members. At the market on Saturday!
  

• This is the last Saturday to become a “member in September” with a $5 discount on an advance Friends of Locally Grown membership! Membership gives us operating funds, and you earn it back through store discounts. Learn more at the info booth on Saturday, or at jfmstore.blogspot.com

• Remember that there will be no market next Saturday, Oct. 4th during the Storytelling Festival. The online market will open on Friday, Oct. 3rd and close on Sunday, Oct. 5th. Pick up will be on Monday, Oct. 6th at the Visitors Center between 500 & 600 pm.

• NEW! Come see us during the festival! Our team of volunteers have cooked up a fundraiser for the store—at the store! Enjoy some locally-grown treats all weekend: Homemade soups, baked goods, hummus, tamales, coffee, apples, cider…don’t miss it! All sales support the store!

See you on the street,
Deb

Champaign, OH:  End Of The Road Farms

As you know, The End Of The Road Farms is having their annual Sorghum Festival, this coming weekend, on September 27th!!

I kick it all off, Lee and Jennifer will be joining us, Thursday, at market pickup, over at the tasting area, giving everyone samples and letting them know what to expect at the festival!!

YAY…we LOVE our local farmers!!!

Our vendors are a busy and active bunch!! We continue with the invitations and hope to see customers, vendors, and friends, taking advantage of all these fun events!!

This is from Lee and Jennifer Ruff:

Have you ever wondered how sorghum molasses is grown, harvested, squeezed, and processed using draft horse power?

If so, please join us at

End of the Road Farm

Saturday, Saturday 27th
2pm – 4pm

Sorghum samples, recipes, CSA information, pastured eggs,
and other organic, seasonal produce will be available!

We ask that you please remember this is a working farm, as well as our home, and we are happy to have you over as guests, BUT
To ensure this is a fun, SAFE afternoon for all, please understand:
Children must be well supervised
No public restrooms are available
Buildings are off-limits

Thank you, and hope to see you Saturday
455 W. First St. Fletcher 45326
Take St. Rt. 36 West out of Urbana – you’ll go
thru St. Paris and Lena, then pass Poor Farmer’s
Campground just before entering Fletcher
Turn left at the 1st stoplight in Fletcher
Take the first Right at the large white church –
you’re now on First Street which becomes our driveway! Follow it pass the Dead End sign,
thru the gate, and we’ll show you where to park!
Please RSVP to Jennifer at (937)903-5249 or endoftheroadfarmoh@gmail.com if you plan on attending to help us prepare! Thanks!!

Champaign, OH:  Reserve The Date For State Of The Plate!

Hello, my lovely local market customers and vendors!!

This afternoon I come to you not as your market manager but as your representative of the Local Foods Council. As your representative, I come to you with an exciting news story, and the ability to make reservations to attend the event that is making this a very news worthy story!

Last year, we introduced, State Of The Plate. A look at our local food system, your local growers and producers, and our goals and visions that we, as your local front, would like to see happen.

As your local market manager, you know that I support local, I believe in seasonal eating, I believe in always buying as much from my hard working, local growers and producers as I can, and in turn, giving them the huge shout outs and praises that they deserve!! I love this community, I want our local front to continue to grow and be strong, and I want to see our hard working local front succeed on so many levels!!

I think that I can speak for so many when I tell you that being a local provider is not an easy lifestyle. It is hard work. It is endless work. It is work that brings tears and then it is work that brings the highest of highs. It is passion, it is drive, it is compassion, and it is love.

I run two markets and a shop front. I allow only local producers. It is not enough to talk the talk of local. Local, to me, is not about just sort of, kind of, or occasionally. I demand that you walk the walk.

I am honored to surrounded by so many people who support this local way of life. All levels of support.

I now bring to you the news article, written by our own local hero of the local media and HUGE supporter in all of our local endeavors. The article is written by Gary Schenkel. You will notice familiar names as speakers, and then I am so proud to say that so many of our vendors, right here, your tireless vendors, will be offering their products as part of this event.

This announces our second State Of The Plate. I will be taking reservations, at each Thursday market order pick up!! I will be turning names and money into the Chamber, each Friday, up until the deadline of Oct.2!! Please plan to be a part of this amazing day…

*Local food dinner to be served in historic barn

Submitted Story

A professionally catered dinner of locally grown and produced food, served in a restored barn that is on the National Registry of Historic Places, and an opportunity to talk with the people who grew the meal’s ingredients.

That’s the unique experience in store for guests at the 1 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 12, State of the Plate local food dinner. A social time with snacks and cider will begin at 12:30 p.m.

Reservations are being taken for the limited-seating event, which will be held at the Pretty Prairie Farm of Todd and Jill Michael, 4440 Prairie Road, Urbana.

To make reservations, stop by or call the Champaign County Chamber of Commerce, 107 N. Main St. (937-653-5764), by Oct. 3. Reservations may also be made during the Champaign Locally Grown online farmers’ market order pickup, 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. on Thursdays through Oct. 2 at the Champaign Family YMCA, 191 Community Drive.

Cost of the dinner, catered by Amy Forrest and Lori Forrest Garrison of In Good Taste Catering, is $15. The event is being planned by the Champaign County Local Food Council, a cooperative effort of the Community Improvement Corporation and the Champaign County Chamber to help expand markets for local food producers.

During the dinner six local farmers and entrepreneurs will talk and answer questions about the beginnings, growth and success of their food production businesses. They include:

•Ethan Deselem of Springfield, who founded Deselem’s Royal Quality Gardens of Ohio in 2013, after studying environmental science at The College of Wooster. He specializes in chemical-free produce sold at area farmers’ markets.

•Pam Bowshier of Urbana, who founded Cosmic Charlie Bread five years ago, specializing in artisan vegan breads. She continues to sell at farmers’ markets, where she started out, and has expanded to supplying retail stores and restaurants, and opened her own shop. She also serves as manager of the Mechanicsburg Farmers’ and Artisans’ Market and the Champaign Locally Grown online farmers’ market.

•Mark Runyan of Urbana, who operates Oakview Farm with his father and son, raising grain for feed and pigs for meat and breeding stock. They sell pork, beef and chicken at their retail shop, Oakview Farm Fresh Meats, and at local markets and the online Champaign Locally Grown market. Runyan and Bowshier will also talk about their cooperative marketing efforts.

•Brett Tossey and Paden Green-Tossey of Marysville, who launched small-scale hops production in 2011, supplying local craft breweries.

•Dave Smith of Urbana, whose family in 1983 began transforming a former chicken farm into what has become Freshwater Farms of Ohio, the state’s largest indoor fish hatchery and only Ohio producer of fresh trout products. The farm, which has become a tourist destination and home of the annual Ohio Fish & Shrimp Festival, features a year-round market. The farm also offers consulting, supplies and stocking fish for recreational ponds and water gardens.

•Todd Michael, the dinner host, long-time co-owner of Michael Farms and now owner of Michael Family Farms with his son, Kyle. Michael will talk about his current operations in food production and marketing as well as the history of Michael Farms, started more than 50 years ago by his father, Doug Michael, and which has grown to supply fresh vegetables to major grocery retailers and foodservice distributors throughout Ohio and neighboring states.

About the Pretty Prairie Barn

The rectangular, Pennsylvania Dutch section of the barn was built in 1840, and in 1896, a 12-sided, 42-foot diameter barn was added. The dodecagonal addition remains the largest of its kind on the National Register of Historic Places. The barn was used for steam threshers, storing hay and housing work horses. A third addition, built in the 1950s, housed beef cattle.

Todd and Jill Michael bought the farm in 1996, restoring the barn and house, which also was built in 1896. Most recently the barn hosted their daughter Kathy’s wedding reception. They now rent it for weddings and special events.

Submitted on behalf of event organizers.

Don’t forget…you can get your reservations to me, each Thursday, or you can call or stop in the Chamber office to place your reservations.

Peace and Love,
Cosmic Pam

Middle Tennessee Locally Grown:  Just a Short Time Left to Order!

Please remember to place your market order very soon. This week’s market will close for ordering at 10 a.m. tomorrow (Wednesday), for delivery fresh from local farms on Thursday. Don’t forget all our yummy vegetables, eggs, creamline milk, summer fruits & vegetables, local honey, jams and bread! What good eating, so easily available on our online market! We also have a great selection of perennial plants & hanging baskets, herbal & handmade products.

Pickup will be at Square Books, 113 E. Main St, Manchester, from 3:00-4:30 on Thursday. Please e-mail me or call (931) 273-9708 if you would prefer to pick up on Friday morning between 10 am and 1 pm.

Thanks for your orders last week! Please encourage your local friends and family to shop with us and support local farmers!

Here is the complete list for this week. See you on Thursday!

~ Linda

How to contact us:
On Facebook
By e-mail
By phone: (931) 273-9708
On Thursdays: Here’s a map.

Statesboro Market2Go:  Be sure to order today before midnight

Southern Native Plantings is online with plants and trees that are perfect to plant right now. We also have plenty of fresh, seasonal, local veggies and fruit.
Be sure to order today!

www.statesboromarket2go.locallygrown.net

Cross Timbers Food Cooperative:  CTFC Market Open for October 4 Pick-up

Hi, folks!

Ordering is open for the Saturday, October 4 pick-up. The order window will close Sunday, September 28.

Enjoy,
Wylie
for Cross Timbers Food Cooperative

Champaign, OH:  Turn, Turn, Turn..

To everything, turn, turn, turn…
There is a season, turn, turn, turn…
(The Byrds, Lyrics by Pete Seeger-Turn! Turn! Turn! To Everything There Is A Season)

Yes, this is always my official turn of the seasons song that plays in the Technicolor soundtrack of my brain:)

I have been living in denial, happily still in the sunshine mode of the summer months. Still wearing my cutoffs, walking around like the long days would last forever.

Well, my little fantasy world had to come to it’s reality, this morning. First, it IS the first day of autumn! Second, I was out, early this morning, to investigate a big mischief making party of my cat and her edgier field cat buddies. It was just daylight, I had a ton of bread in the ovens making my kitchen a cozy haven of warmth, coffee, and fresh bread.

When I looked out one of the windows, I noticed the trio of mischief makers and grabbed a flannel shirt and my cup of coffee to go investigate. WOW! Hello, fall morning chill!! I walked to the top of the driveway, saw that they were all excited over a ton of nuts that had fallen to the ground, and I turned to walk back inside. But, as I turned, on the very top of my drive, I took in the view. It was definitely the look of autumn. A bit of fog was coming off of the ponds in the field, the fields were giving off a golden haze, the leaves had a tint of color on the trees, and in this time of the year, I can see the hills and fields that go on and on behind my house. A beautiful view, a beautifully chilly morning, a definite turn of the season. One of those mornings that you were glad to be a part of.

Anyway, yes…here we are at yet the cusp of another season. But, as each of the seasons changes, our little market of love continues to work it’s magic, each and every week, all year long.

You will want to make sure to take advantage of all the produce, berries, and apples before they leave us for the season. You can begin your fall menu planning with all that we offer. Your market is here for you, with each turn and each season!

Today is Tuesday…the market will be open until 10pm, this evening! Take advantage of fall goodness, new vendors, old favorites…turn to us, we are always here for you!

In the course of today, you will be getting a couple of emails concerning market/vendor announcements and happenings. These are important and you will not want to miss the upcoming events!! We seem to be more than just your market, these days…we seem more of a family, more of a friendship bond, and more of a locally, love filled, united local front:) You all make me proud, customers and vendors, alike! Thank you for giving me so much to report on. It shows what an active, involved group we all are!!

Get your orders in!

Peace and Love,
Cosmic Pam

CLG:  Tuesday Reminder - Market Closes Tonight!

Hello Friends,
There’s still time to place your order for pickup on Friday, September 26th. 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 Twitter: @conwaygrown

On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Conway-Locally-Grown/146991555352846