StPete.LocallyGrown.Net:  Market NOW Open - Mar. 26, 2012 Zucchini & Leeks!

Market opens Mondays @ 5 PM and closes Wednesdays @ NOON. We deliver on Fridays.

SUPPORT YOUR LOCALLY GROWN VEGGIE MARKET AND ORDER YOUR STPETE LOCALLY GROWN T-SHIRTS TODAY – COST JUST $15 – $17 INCLUDING TAX

Due to rising fuel costs, The Dancing Goat products are available on our Market during the 1st & 3rd weeks of each month. Please stock up on eggs & dairy during those weeks.

Where to Find Us

VISIT OUR Weblog page & Calendar of Events: http://stpete.locallygrown.net/weblog
CHECK OUT our Market Community Blog on Google: stpetelocallygrownnet.blogspot.com Learn to cook the familiar AND unfamiliar; like to author on our blog? send your request to tlevy@tampabay.rr.com.
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Message from Market Manager

NEW CO-OP FORMING
For customers up in Clearwater, we are forming a new drop spot at 49th St. N. & US 19. If you, or someone you know, live in Clearwater, please let us know if this would be a good fit you to pickup your order on Friday morning. Exact delivery time is not yet known. We also have a drop spot at Starkey & Park Blvd. in Largo Friday mornings. Pass the word!

INVOICES PROVIDED ONLY ON REQUEST
Read about it here If you “must have” a printed invoice then please tell us—in the comment area—each time you place your order.

BEEF PRICING
Packages of 100% grass-fed ground beef weigh somewhere between just under 1 pound and up to 1.25 pounds. When you order, we will charge your account for one pound and then, prior to delivery, we will adjust your invoice for actual weight. Just a heads up that these packages can cost somewhere between $7.00 and 9.25 each.

STPETE.LOCALLYGROWN.NET PARTNERS IN FUNDRAISING EFFORTS ==> Funding is at 7% of the $18K goal. Please support the making of this documentary and give whatever you can afford to this Tampa Bay Area project. A pledge of just $200 will make you an Honorary Sponsor with the following perks: a Documentary Poster; a DVD signed by director; a downloadable copy of the film before it’s uploaded online; A shout-out on the newsletter as a honorary sponsor. PLUS an invitation ticket to one of the premiers in Tampa Bay. Get your name in the credits. Receive a Code Green Community T-Shirt. Gain access to 100+ new youtubes to watch on Code Green’s channel including the documentary post premier night. If funded, STPETE.LOCALLYGROWN.NET will be one of the subjects of this documentary!

New Growers

HELP US FIND GROWERS FOR THIS MARKET Grower Qualifications: We want both large scale growers and backyard gardeners who use only organic methods in their farming process: composting, etc. They also do not use synthetic chemicals to either fertilize or to control pests in their garden. Our range of search is currently within Pinellas & Manatee Counties but we will consider other areas. This is needed to meet current customer demands UNTIL St. Petersburg growers are more able to subsidize Market needs. Local growers (St. Petersburg) are still our main priority and highest preference.

Upcoming Events

NEW NEW NEW SATURDAY WORKSHOP – March 31st, 2012 from 1 pm – 3 pm. “Summer Vegetable Growing in St. Petersburg” with Nathan Levy. Cost is $35 per individual OR pay $25 each when you bring a friend. (price includes copy of “What We’ve Learned”)
Want to eat fresh greens and vegetables all summer long? Nathan will show you how to grow them in your own backyard even in extreme heat. Learn:

• Which plants from around the world flourish in 90 degree weather
• How to plant in full sun or under trees
• How to save time and money watering and weeding
• How to deal with summer pests
  A great workshop for those who don’t want to give up greens and fresh homegrown vegetables this summer. This 2-hour workshop is jam-packed with information to help your garden flourish despite the summer heat. Seeds from prior harvests will be available. LOCATION: Nathan’s Backyard Garden, 5305 20th St. N., St. Petersburg, FL 33714 QUESTIONS: Call Nathan at 727-403-1655.

SUNDAY LECTURE SERIES – April 1st, 2012 from 2:30 – 3:30 pm. FREE LECTURE “Growing for StPete.LocallyGrown.Net” with Chris Tisch. Have YOU ever considered selling your extra produce through our online Market? Hear what Chris Tisch of Velouria Farms has to say about being a Grower for StPete.LocallyGrown.Net. He joined us as a Grower soon after we opened our online Market in January 2011. He grows vegetables year round and has been a key player in selling his vegetables all summer long through the Market. Chris will share his insight on the benefits of growing chemical free produce for himself and sharing his excess with the St. Petersburg community through the Market. SPONSORED BY STPETE.LOCALLYGROWN.NET.

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!

Tullahoma Locally Grown:  Weblog Entry

Local Real Food

Market News

I am so loving this weather!!

My daughter and I went to the Iridologist (natural doctor that reads the iris part of the eye) last week and learned some very interesting things. First, most of us have an overgrowth of yeast in our bodies from our “Western” diet, which is high in refined carbs and sugars. You really don’t realize how much of that you eat until you go on a diet that restricts you from eating ANY of these foods. Yeast is responsible for an AMAZING amount of health problems. Everything from low thyroid, diabetes to joint problems and most likely cancer.

The things which feed yeast in your body are, of course, any sugar: this includes fruit, fruit juice, milk, white sugar, agave nectar, honey, arificial sweenteners, white potatoes, all grains -even if they’re whole grain, pasta, etc. Also, any mold or fungus related food such as: vinegar (can’t eat mayonaisse!), hard or aged cheeses, mushrooms, anything with yeast or yeast extract in it.

So a week ago today my daughter and I started this anti-Candida (yeast) diet. We can’t have any of the above mentioned foods for 6 weeks! No dressings, no mayo, no grains, no sugars or fruits,etc, etc. After the first day, I didn’t think I was going to make it, lol! Like I said, you don’t realize how much of these things you eat that turn into sugar in your body. The cravings were really bad! After 4 days, things got better.

The funny thing is, after the 1st day, my sinuses cleared and felt very different. Usually my nose runs every day and I have to have a tissue constantly. That has gone away. When I woke up this morning, I felt very strange. I actually was awake when I woke up, and got out of bed and started working right away. I didn’t feel “terrible” like I usually do when i wake up, and I didn’t get to bed until midnight and my alarm went off at 6am. Very strange for me! One thing I have experienced, I already feel better in so many ways, only after one week!

So, the moral of this story is, if you want to actually feel good and get rid of allergies and disease, eat fresh chemical free vegetables (as many as you can, everyday), hormone free meats, take some supplements and drink lots of water.

I was always sold on eating healthy, but now I understand what truly “healthy” is and I am totally determined to keep feeling the way I feel right now, in spite of the cravings. (they’ll go away soon enough)

So, Tullahoma Locally Grown is your one stop shopping for your chemical free, fresh produce and hormone/chemical free meat. We’re making it easy for you to become more healthy! Also, try growing some of your own veggies this year. I can help you get started with a manageable organic garden and we have some seedlings available on the market and more to come.

Enjoy this weather!!

Don’t Forget!!! We will be at our new location this Thursday for pick up:

201 NW Atlantic St. I’m including a “live” link in this email this time-my apologies about the last one. Park in the parking lot in the back and you will see us on the loading dock back there.

Please click on this link to see location of the NEW location Map to TLG

Our hours will be from 4-6pm for pick up.

Seeya Thursday!

Risa

Thank you for eating locally!!

James, one of our customers, having fun with the ceramic cowboy boot planters at the Open House.
 

 
    
       
       
       
    

 

 
 

Follow the link to get started: Link to Tullahoma Locally Grown Market Section

Coming Events

I will be giving a class on Beginning Organic Gardening at Lawns Unlimited on Saturday April 14th at 10am. We will be discussing how to get started with a garden, how to maintain it organically, how to choose seeds, how to prepare your soil and other topics. The class is FREE and I would love to see you there!

The Open House event this past Saturday was pretty busy! The weather was nice-until it rained us out, but we did some good advertising :)

A special THANK YOU to Edward, from Double Tree Farm, for holding down the fort with me! And thanks to those of you who came by to say “hello”!

CAFE:  Friends indeed!

MONDAY UPDATE: 3.26.12

FRIENDS INDEED!

There are few growers/chefs in the area more experienced with lovingly grown local food than Katie Tillman and Valerie Lowe of Friends at the Farm. They have been growing and serving the best of local products in the Anderson area for over 15 years, and have been active in the organization of local farmers and markets in Anderson County, the Upstate, and even throughout the Southern Appalachian region.

Friends at the Farm listed products on CAFÉ last summer up until October when they left town to cater a large event in Asheville. I have just posted pictures from a trip Elian and I took to visit the farm last September. http://www.facebook.com/ClemsonAreaFoodExchange

We can see by your purchases that you are happy to have them back and we look forward to tasting many more of their innovative products, whether grown in their gardens (hydroponic lettuce, microgreens) or prepared in their certified kitchen (cranberry pepper jelly).

Although they have not been listing on CAFÉ, Katie and Val have not sat idly all winter. Keep watch for a Big Blue Bus bringing good things to eat your way soon!

Eat well to stay well! Lance
lance@clemsonareafoodexchange.com
elian@clemsonareafoodexchange.com
renee@clemsonareafoodexchange.com
http://cafe.locallygrown.net/welcome
http://www.facebook.com/ClemsonAreaFoodExchange
http://www.clemsonareafoodexchange.com/

We Are One Farmers Market:  Vegan Quinoa Salad with Roasted Butternut Squash

Please welcome the We Are One Resident Chef, Ashley Richardson. Ashley is a Chef as well as Nutritionist, we are so thrilled she is demonstrating what she can do with items from the market.
Read more about it here.

Chef Ashley is presenting two prepared dishes this week, Quinoa Salad with Roaster Butternut Squash and Carrot and Beet Dip mixed with yogurt and spices!

In addition, new this week from Simply Made Treats is Hummingbird Cake and Red Velvet Cupcakes.

Have you tried the organic lemongrass sugar cookie dough yet? I made dinosaurs this weekend.

Raw milk & eggs too- ever seen a turkey egg? Check out the pics on facebook.

Cheers for a great week.

Fisher's Produce Tulsa:  Delivery this Wednesday

Hello Friends,

We are back on the Tulsa Wednesday delivery schedule. CSA doesn’t start until A WEEK FROM THIS WEDNESDAY but we have some early season veggies ready none-the-less. More asparagus and radishes. Some different spinach than last week. Larger and more mature than last week’s baby spinach but still very tasty and excellent for cooking.

Delivery to Okmulgee will be: Tuesday evening 6:30-7:00pm

JCT: Wed, 12:30pm
Spirit Tower: Wed, 1:00pm
Spirit Event Center: Wed, 2:00pm

Luke

Porterdale, GA:  Porterdale Locally Grown - available for pickup March 31st

Hello everyone!

First off, I want to thank everyone who went above and beyond to help out with Saturday’s markets. Carol, who rocked the locally grown table. Scott, who was signing people up for locally grown on an ipad. Sara, Lyn, and Sam, who couldn’t be there but made sure their products were there enticing people to the locally grown table. Deanna and Brady, who coordinated to create an awesome table. Combining both the locally grown market with the in-person market went off without a hitch because of everyone’s willingness to help.
Thanks also to Ranger, a vendor from last season who now lives in North Dakota. He sent his mother, Diane, money to treat all of the vendors to breakfast at Porterdale Perk – what a nice surprise and statement about the relationships that are created through a Farmers’ Market.

This week on locally grown we welcome Dan Parker from Stillwater Farm in Mansfield. Dan lives close to the land and raises free range chickens (for eggs) and seasonal vegetables.

Thank you all for being a part of this market, and please forward this to any of your friends who may be interested. Anyone can sign in, get the emails, and see what is available each week with no obligation.

Remember – ordering is open until Wednesday at 9pm and the pickup is from 10-11 on Saturday at the depot in Porterdale. See you there!
Thanks-
Helen
770-788-9120

Athens Locally Grown:  Availability for March 29

Northeast, Ga.:  Locally Grown Availability for March 28, 2012

Hey Local Food Lovers,

Wow, we’re just days away from April and you can tell! Yes, partly because the whole world is blooming, but also because we have Chocolate Easter Eggs and tons and tons of transplants for the garden (29 different options). Get your gardens prepped, it’s early planting time.

I had a heckuva a good time the last several days as I got to visit two farms. I’ve got good news, just two weeks from this Wednesday we’ll officially be adding Mountain Fresh Creamery based in Clermont, GA to our list of producers. As the name suggests Mountain Fresh Creamery is a cow dairy farm that built their own bottling facility less than a year ago and is now making: whole milk, low fat milk, chocolate milk, cream, butter, buttermilk and even ice cream out of their creamery/store located on Hwy 129 south of Cleveland. Though they won’t be able to sell all those items through locally grown, they’ll have quite a few just two short weeks from now. I’ve been drinking their milk for the last 9 months and I’m a big fan. I’ll give more details next week for their grand entry, but will add that after we visited them today a container of Vanilla Bean Ice Cream didn’t survive the drive home.

It’s also just really exciting to see a brand new business like this doing so well. They’ve got a great location, they’re open 7 days a week, they have great marketing and people skills and they’re also supporting other local businesses. They had Nadine’s Pimento Cheese (using their milk) and Jumpin’ Goat Coffee (based out of Helen), and even some local Honey.

The other farm I visited this week was Indian Ridge Farm which is Ed Taylor and Michael Hendricks operation up the road here in Habersham County. Even though Indian Ridge isn’t selling to Locally Grown this year, it was exciting to see how their farm developed over this past year. Like so many farms have in the last year, they constructed a high tunnel hoop house, and it’s amazing to see how much is in it at this time of year. They have raised beds in there too, so labor is really quite simplified. One of the more inspiring things these guys have discovered is how to find and market wild edible plants. This is a rising rage amongst chefs in Atlanta and Michael is an expert forager. In addition to 8 species of mushroom, they’ve identified at least 25 wild plants that grow on or around the farm that have economic value to chefs and market customers as well. Things like chickweed, sorrell, wild mustard. They would pick them up off the ground and have me taste them and I’d be amazed at the unique flavors.

Things are a flurry these days on everyone’s farm. New greenhouses are being completed (and party’s thrown in their honor), solar panel workshops held, expansion plans, new compost sprayers being constructed and tweeked. Down at the Green Way Garden I did some bed preparation the old fashioned way, with rakes and shovels.

But what about the food. I’ve been rather farm focused lately with my entries in part because this is preparation season, but food is coming on strong now. We’re just one product away from having 200 products listed this week.

We’ve kind of let Locally Grown slowly grow via word of mouth these first two years, but we’d actually enjoy watching it take off this year. One way that you can help is this week we encourage everyone to take at least one of our new business cards and think of someone you could share it with. We’ll also have a little postcard size flier perfect for people putting on their refrigerators. With milk coming in two weeks this would be the perfect time to share with a friend.

We’d also like your ideas and help with a project we’re thinking of doing later in the summer. For the past two years the Soque River Watershed Association has hosted a Tour of Sustainable Farms that has visited 3 farms throughout the region on a Saturday afternoon. It’s been a very popular outing with between 45-70 people attending. This year we’re thinking of retailoring this event and calling it the GEORGIA MOUNTAIN FARM TOUR. It would be sponsored by the brand new Growers Network that has recently begun and would have a slightly different format. Each carload of participants would purchase a PASS for maybe $30 that would allow that whole car (and everyone in it) to visit any of the farms on the tour. The tour would be on Saturday and Sunday with different farms available to visit on each day between 1-5pm. You’d have between 10-20 farms to visit, and there would be some optional stops along the way like our two community gardens in Clarkesville and Clayton, and some restaurants that serve local food. The PASS that you’d purchase would also be a bumper sticker promoting NE GA local food and farms and could be used as a promotional tool long after the event. The proceeds would help the new Farmers Network develop collaborative projects, workshops, and perhaps even some shared equipment and marketing schemes. Oh yeah and about $5 or $10 of the Farm Tour fee would be returned to each car in the form of a certificate to either the Locally Grown market or the Simply Homegrown market in Clayton.

We’d love to have ideas, and possibly even volunteers to help with this as we’re just getting started and we’d like to shoot for late June as the Tour date. Give us your thoughts (expertise, artwork, connections, sponsorship suggestions, etc). We’d like for this to become an annual event that draws attention to the many farms that are growing sustainable foods in the NE GA region. There’s rapidly growing interest in this region, and it seems like a great way to develop the character of our area.

Thanks for helping us make it happen and hope you enjoy the many outstanding offerings we have this week and …..

EAT WELL!

Justin in Habersham
and
Chuck in Rabun

Fisher's Produce:  Asparagus is here!

Hello Friends,

This week will be our first vegetable delivery of the season. Our CSA starts next week, but the Asparagus, spinach, and radishes are all ready for harvest.

Produce will be available for pick up on Thursday evening from 5:00 to 6:00pm at the Tractor Supply parking lot. Please contact us if you would like to meet in Stroud.

We are looking forward to a great season this year. Tell all of your friends about our online market!

Luke

(918) 639-0244
www.fishersproduce.com

LocalFarmsFirst.com:  Last day to order!

Greetings local food lovers!

Don’t forget to place your orders by 7 AM tomorrow!

Product of the week… Red Spanish Onions! Slice ’em and use as a burger topping or dice ’em and top a salad.

Thanks for supporting local family farmers!

Chelsea Bookout
Market Facilitator LocalFarmsFirst.com – a 501c3 non-profit
303-775-5318
click here to start shopping on the website
www.LocalFarmsFirst.com