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Statesboro Market2Go:  Order Before 10pm Tuesday!


Remember to place your order before 10pm Tuesday!

We’ve got several amazing herbs in season right now that we’d like to highlight this week! What can you do with them? We’re glad you asked!

  • A delightful Dip that pairs well with baguette slices & fresh veggies
  • Refreshing Iced Tea to help you beat the heat
  • Some flavorful grilled Wings to add a little twist to your summer cookout
  • A colorful vegetable Soup to brighten up a rainy day
  • And finally, some savory Biscuits to serve as a side dish
    If you want even more culinary inspiration, be sure to check out our recipe section on Market2Go.

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT

Our in-person Saturday markets have resumed at Synovus parking lot Downtown Statesboro!
Market2Go will still be available for shopping all year – online Friday-Tuesday with Thursday pick up.

Click to order at Market2Go

Fayetteville Farmers' Market:  New Produce & Fruit Added-Order Online Until Wed


FLASH!
*A&A Orchards have added PEACHES for sale online-they will sell fast, so don’t miss out.
*Summer Bloom has PURPLE HULL PEAS! Unshelled but so delicious they are worth the time to get them out of the hulls.
*dH has added POTATOES!
*Rainbow Farm is back this week.
*Hiatt Blueberries still available but going fast.

Online orders are easy and open until 6 am Wednesday morning. Pick up on Thursday afternoon—drive by from 4:30-6:00 PM. No minimum order required.

Order at:

https://fayettevillearkansas.locallygrown.net/market.

Local fresh eggs are plentiful: small and large chicken eggs plus also duck eggs. A variety of local meats (great for the grill), cheese, baked goods, chocolates, sweet treats, crafts, personal care items. Order some amazing pastries and cookies for summer dessert treats.

REMINDER: PICKUP DAY AND TIME:
4:30pm to 6:00 pm on THURSDAY at Fayetteville Public Library Outdoor Parking Lot. NOTE EARLIER PICK UP CLOSING TIME DUE TO THEARTRE PERFORMANCE.

NEED DELIVERY INSTEAD? DEADLINE TO REQUEST IS THURSDAY 9 AM. Instructions are in your order confirmation.

THURSDAY PICKUP LOCATION AND PROCESS:
The OUTDOOR parking area at the south end of the new part of the Fayetteville Public Library. Approach on School Street and turn west into the outdoor parking lot.

Put your name on a piece of paper in the passenger side window and follow the signs to the pickup point in the lot.

Someone will meet your car, and direct you to a parking spot to wait a few moments while we bring out your order.

Thank you for your continued support of the online market!

Siloam Springs, AR:  The Online Market is Open Its a Kids Day weekend!


www.siloamsprings.locallygrown.net

Thank you for supporting our farmers and vendors last Saturday. It was a beautiful 4th of July weekend. We hope to see you this Saturday at Kids Day!

Be sure to register those kiddos for the 2021 POP Club if you haven’t already! Please register your kiddos here: bit.ly/2021PopClub

Then order as many kits as you need for each registered kid in your family at www.siloamsprings.locallygrown.net
Pick up your Kids Day To Go Kits at the Outdoor Farmers Market Hub located in the Memorial Park concession stand from 9am-12pm on Kids Day.
When you pick up your kits, be sure to peruse the market and check out the young entrepreneur Kids Day booths. Your kiddos will earn their $2 tokens each Kids Day, then be able to shop the Outdoor 2021 Kids Days Calendar:

August 14th
September 11th
October 9th

The Power of Produce (POP) Club provides a fun opportunity for children to engage in the local food system through conversations directly with farmers, educational games and demonstrations, and exposure to new fruits and vegetables. In addition to participating in educational activities, POP Club kids receive vouchers to spend at the market, allowing them to make their own shopping decisions at the market.

Thanks to our Kids Day Sponsor Grand Savings Bank and our In-Kind Sponsor Walmart of Siloam Springs!

Have a great week and see you Saturday!

Old99Farm Market:  Week of July 4 2021


Another week, another market and plenty of new arrivals with the summer Sun!

Berries are ripe and ready!

We have You-Pick black currants, raspberries, josta berries and mulberries available this week. Black berries aren’t quite ready yet, another week or so.
Plenty of greens and veggies also available like the popular OR Lettuce blend, grand rapids lettuce, Leeks, tropeana onions, parsley, Swiss chard, collard greens, young green cabbage, carrots, mint, sweet cicely, lemon balm, two different types of turnips and much more! Don’t forget to check out the herbs section to add some flavoir and flare to your creations.

Plenty of steaks also available for BBQ, as well as pork chops and chicken.

Don’t forget we have NEW products in stock from Mat’s Fine Oils – Sunflower, Flax, Camelia and hemp oils are all available fresh and cold pressed. Get those healthy fatty acids into your daily nutrition plan for good brain and joint health.

Please remember to place your order before 7am Thursday. Orders placed after this time may not be processed.

Market times are Thursday and Friday from 4pm to 6pm.

See you at market folks!

Nick & Angela
Ian & Cami

Champaign, OH:  In The Summertime


When the weather’s fine
We go fishin’ or go swimmin’ in the sea
We’re always happy
Life’s for livin’ yeah, that’s our philosophy…
(Mungo Jerry)

Hello, lovely market customers!!

Here’s hoping that you had a lovely holiday, yesterday, and if it extends into today, I hope you have a lovely one!

Your market manager had a busy one, and ended it, yesterday evening, with the first country cruise of the season, in my convertible, and this random 70s playlist cd was in the car, so I popped it in, and this song was playing…perfect for a warm summer evening, celebrating the July 4th experience!

So, now that you have this song rattling around in your head, take some time to get your market orders in! The holiday weekend gets away, and on Tuesday morning, you don’t want to be left all sad, and blue, because you forgot…

XOXO,
Cosmic Pam

Stones River Market:  REMINDER -- Market is OPEN until 10pm


Reminder — if you have not placed your order for this week market or would like to add to your current order, you have until 10pm tonight.

Hope everyone has had a great ‘Fourth of July’ weekend along with many having a holiday today and not having to work. Most all our Growers seldom have a ‘holiday off’, constantly working with crops, animals and supplying other items to support their families. Our Market Growers appreciate you supporting our Online Market and look forward each week providing you with their bounty.

Weblog sent Sunday morning:

Welcome to the ‘Fourth of July’ market and July 5th Stones River Locally Grown Online Farmers Market.

We wish everyone a wonderful and safe Fourth of July Holiday.

The Market opens 8:00 am on Sunday Morning and closes 10:00 pm Monday evening. Order early before quantities available run out! https://stonesriver.locallygrown.net

We look forward seeing you on the Porch or Curb Wednesday July 7th from … 5-6:30pm … with deliveries following. Please comment to Manager when you checkout that you would like curb service and approximate time of arrival so we can have your order ready and watch for you. https://stonesriver.locallygrown.net

Reminder…Delivery Service is available within a 10 mile radius of Murfreesboro, outside areas additional $1.00 per mile is added and we have delivery available to Woodbury at a host location. If this is the first time you’ve requested delivery please put your address in comments before you check out….Method of Payment is Cash, Checks or Credit/Debit Cards or we can email an Invoice including a $1.00 service fee. For Delivering and Invoicing please make sure your account information is current.
Thank you for supporting our Locally Grown Market, it means a lot to our Growers and Community by Shopping Local and Staying Local!

News from a few of Our Growers:

The Market has over 19 Growers this week with over 600 items available, from A to Z!

Oakview Farm: We have no-spray produce this week. We have acorn and buttercup winter squash, patty pan squash, yellow crookneck squash, zucchini, and small carrots. We also made fresh batches of our delicious and unique jam: Rosemary Red Onion and Mango Mint!

Mama D’s Bakery: Hi everyone! We have everything available this week! We have a Sourdough Sandwich Loaf, Oatmeal Cookies, Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies, Strawberry Swirl Bread, Raspberry Swirl Bread, and Apple Cinnamon Swirl Bread, Blueberry Muffins, Crusty French Bread, Organic White Wheat Bread, Mocha Muffins, Chocolate Swiss Roll, Cinnamon Rolls, Caramel Apple Cinnamon Rolls, Blueberry Lemon Yeast Rolls, Banana Bread and Pumpkin Bread(with the option of nuts or not), Bagels(plain, cinnamon-raisin, blueberry, and everything), Donuts(cake and yeast), Cream Cheese Danishes, Pies(chocolate fudge, pecan, chocolate chip pecan, pumpkin and sweet potato), Cookies, Granola and Protein Bars, Yeast Breads, Sourdough Breads, and Fruit Scones. Thanks so much to everybody for your business!!

SugarRoos: Watch for new items being added to our inventory each week. This week the Donimator a GLUTEN FREE cookie and Peanut Butter Cookies. Our Fried Pies are fresh, made the same day you pick them up.

RnR Farms: This week we still have the best naturally grown lettuce in Middle Tennessee. And we will have it all through the summer, fall, and winter. It takes hard work and dedication to nurse a crop that hates heat and humidity through the heat and humidity. But we are committed (in more ways than one) to providing locally grown, naturally grown, better than organic salad greens to you year-round. We also grow items that complement salads, such as cherry tomatoes, cucumbers, and other greens. So as the weather heats up, choose an RnR Farms salad bag and the appropriate accessories to fully enjoy the coolness that locally grown, naturally grown salads will bring.

Quarter Spring Farm: Summer is great. Long days at the lake and long nights around the campfire. Good times with friends and family. And bugs. Lots of bugs. If you want to enjoy being outside without being feasted on by flying foes, try our Bug Off bar from Quarter Spring Farm. It is formulated to be easy on your skin and the planet, but hard on bugs. We have several new scents available for our lotion bars and have released our seasonal summer soap scents: Kiss from a Rose and Cream Soda. Be sure to check them out this week on the market.

Emerald Acres: this week enjoy our baby carrots, bundled larger carrots, green pickling and green slicing cucumbers and our popular beautiful bouquets this week flowers are Snap Dragons.

Sow’s Ear Piggery: we have added some new additions this week, including pork ribs and tenderloin. We have lots of great choices of products for grilling and smoking. As always, our pork is raised outdoors, in sunshine and fresh air. No antibiotics or hormones. Fed non-GMO feed and fresh vegetables.

Dogwood Valley Greenhouse: We have several varieties of Mints and herb plants available and Hosta Plants this week, miniature and midsize as well Hanging Baskets.

Flying S Farms: Several of our Summer Produce is becoming more available. Most requested Tomatoes, Corn and Okra are on the market this week. Other items include: several Eggplant varieties, Cabbage, Potatoes, Variety of Summer Squash.

A Special THANK YOU to Quinn’s Mercantile for their support of our Locally Grown Market and the use of the front porch. Please be sure to check out the Store, several great gift and useful items, along with Tennessee made items.

Thank you for supporting your Locally Grown Market, it means a lot to our Growers and Community by Shopping Local and Staying Local!
We look forward seeing you “On the Porch or At the Curb" of Quinn’s Mercantile Wednesday July 7th from 5:00 – 6:30 pm, please contact me if you are unable to make delivery or are running late, please phone, email or text me so we can make arrangements to get your order to you. After trying to reach you and if we don’t hear from you, your order will be donated and you will be invoiced for the amount since we still need to pay our Growers for their products. Remember we do have Delivery if you think you will be later than 6:30 pm.

How to contact us:
Email: stonesrivermarket@gmail.com
Website: https://stonesriver.locallygrown.net
Facebook: www.facebook.com/StonesRiverMarket
Locations: Quinn’s Mercantile on Wednesdays: 301 North Spring Street, Murfreesboro
map: https://goo.gl/maps/GAkJS1wawb

Independence,VA:  Market closes TONIGHT at 8 pm!


Good morning!

Be sure to place your order by tonight at 8 pm! Your order will be ready this Wednesday from 4-6 pm. Feel free to schedule a curbside pickup with Calendly, or stop by at your convenience and come inside the Grayson Landcare office to pickup your order.

Remember, a wide variety of organic Southern Exposure seeds are now available to order on the Online Market! Save on shipping and help support the Market!

Thanks again and happy shopping!
To Shop: Independence Farmers Market.

Schedule Your Pickup Time (OPTIONAL): Calendly.
After you click “Confirm” on your time, be sure to enter your information and click, “Schedule an Event”. You will get a confirmation e-mail. If you do not receive a confirmation, you are not scheduled and need to try again.

Thank you all so much for supporting the Market!

Abby

Athens Locally Grown:  ALG Market Open for July 8


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

Happy Independence Day weekend to everyone out there! Today we celebrated our independence from the tyranny of a king, but it’s also a great occasion to think about our independence from all sorts of things. Your support of Athens Locally Grown greatly helps the cause of food independence for our community, for starters. Did you know that, on average, American farmers receive only nine cents out of every dollar that gets spent on food? By the time you take out the cut of the processors, the distributors, the wholesalers, and so forth, only 9% is left for the farm. And of course, they’ve got to try to meet all of the expenses of running a farm with that money, and pretty much the only way to do that is by consolidating the farmland into huge “corporate” farms that can get by with the economies of scale. The farms might be independent family-owned enterprises on paper, but they’re beholden to all of those other interests that control the other 91% of the food dollar. Here at Athens Locally Grown, the growers keep 90% of every dollar, turning small, truly family owned and operated farms into viable businesses. The other 10% powers the market every week. That fosters variety for you, provides a sustainable use of our community’s green space, and helps in no small way Athens be a more self-reliant community.

We’ve all learned the hard way this last year that our supply chain is a fragile one, and not just for food. Mountains of potatoes in Idaho were dumped into pits in the ground because there was no way to get them to customers. Meat processing plants shut down and industrial pork producers “disposed” of their animals because their finely tuned system couldn’t afford to keep them on the farms longer than necessary. And now that the plants are up again, meat prices are soaring because there just isn’t enough to go around. It’s a terrible system when you look just under the surface, even in the best of times, and your support of out local growers lets us all become independent of that terrible system.

For you, too, these growers and their products let you become independent from the corporate grocer, who is told by the corporate office in Cincinnati or Bentonville or Asheville what they can and can’t stock and who they can source their produce from. You’re given the freedom to choose who grows and produces your food and how they grow and produce it. If you don’t like one grower’s products or methods, you have a hundred others, all located right here, to choose from.

And of course by sourcing your food so close to home, you don’t have to be reliant on an overtaxed and under-vigilant inspection system to make sure your food is safe. The government at all levels actively tries to reduce your ability to choose where your food comes from in the name of safety, so not everything is rosy. Sometimes the regulations are warranted, but often the rules put in place are easy for corporate farms but extremely difficult for small farmers to meet. Our fight for independence is an ongoing one, and your voice in support of the small local producer does get heard.

Thank you 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 at our market’s home on Tallassee Road!

We are still getting new customers every week (and we love seeing new faces!) so for all of you you can find a detailed run-down of how Thursdays go on our website here: https://athens.locallygrown.net/faq#7

Other Area Farmers Markets

If ALG doesn’t have everything you need, please support our growers at the other markets that are now back up and running, or at their own locations. The Comerian takes online orders for Saturday pickup at the bakery here: https://www.thecomerian.com/online-ordering. The Athens Farmers Market is holding their Saturday market once again in Bishop Park. They’re still operating under pandemic rules, so you’ll want to read up on all the changes on their website, http://athensfarmersmarket.net. The West Broad Farmers Market is back, holding a drive through market just like us (and using my software too, so it’ll be nice and familiar). You can join them at https://wbfm.locallygrown.net. The Saturday market in Comer has also returned. They’re small, but sometimes an early Saturday drive to Comer is just what the soul needs. And of course Collective Harvest is going strong over at https://www.collectiveharvestathens.com.

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!

Dawson Local Harvest:  THE MARKET IS OPEN!


DAWSON LOCAL HARVEST, July 4th, 2021.

Free-range Meats and Eggs, fresh Seafood, locally-grown all-natural Tomatoes and Veggies, Your Dawson Harvest is Open Now.

Russellville Community Market:  The Market Closes at 10 Tonight!


To ensure your order is placed, make sure you click the “Place My Order” button once you have completed your shopping. You will receive a confirmation email.

Orders will be ready for pick-up from 4PM – 8:00PM this Tuesday at the Downtown Russellville Train Depot. You may now come inside the Depot, or your order will be brought out to your car in full-service fashion!

HAPPY 4TH OF JULY!!! We have Apple Butter, Mesquite Lime and Jalapeno Polish Sausage, a variety of Potatoes, Pork Chops, Fresh Lettuces, Sweet Red and Yellow Onions, Russian Red Garlic, Dairy-Free Lemon Bread, Decorated Cookies, and more!
Check back frequently as our farmers regularly update what they have available. Multiple orders are encouraged!

Russellville Community Market

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