Athens Locally Grown:  ALG Market Open for June 19

DeForest, WI:  Availability for week of June 15

The market is once again offering Forest Run Farm veggie plants: buy 3 get one free. Order the 3 and then in your comments put the one you want free. This will probably be the last week for most of the plant offerings until the transplants for fall are ready.

Rusty Dog coffee is still offering varieties of coffee ground locally.

Martin's Farmstand:  Weblog Entry June 16

The online market is open for orders. We have lots of nice tomatoes, cucumbers and lettuce. My boys found a few quarts of strawberries that were near ripe. They were very good with the cake. The plants are packed full of green strawberries. I will send an update later this week with the first picking dates. I think it will be either Saturday (June 21 or Monday June 23. The bulk of the strawberries are still dead green- It will be 10-14 days till peak season. All the rain and cool this past week was perfect for strawberries while they are sizing. It gives them time to grow big and sweet better than warm weather does. This is the last week for asparagus. When you come to our farm you are getting some of the finest “No spray” food around. You will also find that some of the headlands, pond banks and edges have not been mowed recently. I do this limited mowing on purpose as part of insect managment. You will also find assorted cover crops. Some of the effect is to provide food and cover for benificials and some of it is working as trap crops for bad bugs. I hope you enjoy some of our fine food this summer. Daniel

Fresh Harvest, LLC:  Fresh Harvest for June 18th

Market News

Hello!

It seems like the wet weather is behind us for now. It was pretty stressful having the fields so wet and being completely unable to do any work out there! The weeds sure enjoyed it, and now that it has finally dried up we’ve got lots of transplanting to catch up with, beds to turn over, and a whole bunch of weeding to do! The summer crops are starting to come in slowly but surely with this warm weather. Certainly summer is here!

There will be no flowers this week, but they will return next week! Let Tally know if you have any special requests!

A reminder that we will reuse any of the plastic bags, egg cartons, or other containers that we use for packing. Please don’t give us other bags that are not usable for us – it makes for a lot of work separating everything out. We do appreciate you bringing us back our Fresh harvest bags when you pick up your order!

We know you have a lot of options these days when shopping for local produce. We really appreciate your support of Fresh Harvest, and do our best to provide you with a great selection of the freshest organically grown produce you can find anywhere. Please know the best way you can support us small local farmers is by eating A LOT of vegetables during your week! Not only does it make for better sales for all us farmers, it helps keep you – our dear customers – healthy and happy. We all win!

Once again, thanks so much for your support, and we look forward to seeing you on Wednesday!

John and Tallahassee

Coming Events

Atlanta Locally Grown:  Available for Saturday June 21

I hope this finds you doing well and hope all you fathers had a wonderful day. The market is open. We have lots available including a few hog shares ready for delivery.

Please remember to have your orders placed by 8 pm on Wednesday. We will see you Saturday at your selected market between 9-10 at your selected delivery location.

Thank you,
Brady

Conyers Locally Grown:  Available for Friday June 20

I hope this finds you alm doing well and hope all you fathers had a wonderful day. The market is open. We have lots available including a few hog shares ready for delivery.

Please remember to have your orders placed by 8 pm on Wednesday. We will see you on Friday between 5-7 at Copy Central.

Thank you for all your support. We appreciate your orders.

Thank you,
Brady

Madison GA:  The Market is open!!!!!!!!

See everyone Wed!!!!

Cedar Grove Farm:  CSA Availability for 6/18

Hi everyone,

I’m avoiding the ever-growing squash, zucchini, and cucumbers that need to be picked and updating the CSA instead. This week we’ve added pole beans, chives, lemon cucumbers, and flowers. The strawberries are no longer producing and this will probably be the last week for carrots. It’s about time to lay the spring crops to rest and focus on the summer goodies. Eating with the seasons can sometimes be bittersweet, but that allows us to appreciate what we have when we have it. There’s also a freezer full of strawberries that makes me feel a little better. Well, it’s about time I get outside…

Hope you find something you like this week.

Pick ups are from 4-7 at the downtown AFM, 4-6 at Lindsey’s Culinary Market, and 4-6 at Oglethorpe Fresh in Lexington.

Have a happy and a healthy,

Cedar Grove Farm

The Wednesday Market:  Time to Order

Good afternoon, and Happy Father’s Day to all of you Dads out there!

The Wednesday Market is open. Please place your order by 10 p.m. on Monday. Orders are ready for pick up on Wednesday between 3 and 6 p.m. Be sure to visit the Market website to see all of this week’s product offerings. Here is the link: http://wednesdaymarket.locallygrown.net/market

Several customers told us last week that they never received notice that the Market was open for orders. We don’t really know what happened! Technology is great – when everything works. I wrote and posted the weblog, as I always do, last weekend, but apparently the e-blast went into Never-Never-Land. Anyway, rest assured that even if you do not get a notification, the system will ALWAYS be on for ordering no later than Sunday morning. You can type Wednesday Market into Google to bring up the website and do your ordering from there. If you forget your username, please don’t make another account. Just shoot us an e-mail, and we’ll help you get back on track.

Here is what I wrote in last week’s blog. If you are one of the few who may have received it last week, please pardon the repeat:

Summer vegetables are coming in. Broccoli, cucumbers, green beans, peas, squash, and zucchini have all arrived, and tomatoes should be ready soon!

Whenever I think about vegetable gardening, I can’t help but think of my grandparents: Grandma and Grandpa Dean and Mamaw and Papaw Pickelsimer, all of whom lived in Fannin County, Georgia. Grandma’s garden had tomatoes, asparagus, and potatoes. Papaw’s garden had squash and green beans. And, although I can’t remember whose garden they came from, we had corn and okra, too. All of them were fabulous gardeners, probably more from necessity than by choice, but when they had more produce than they needed or wanted for themselves, friends and neighbors were bestowed with the extras.

Oh, the meals we consumed at their tables! Fried squash, fried okra, sliced tomatoes, green beans, mashed potatoes, cornbread, and biscuits were regular fare in both households. The food was not fancy, but it sure was fresh and bounteous, and tasted so good, especially when we washed it all down with milk from Papaw’s cows.

Even as they aged, Mamaw and Papaw continued to plant sizable gardens, and when we were teenagers, my sister Sharon and I would be sent to North Georgia to help them “put up” the garden. Mamaw’s specialty was canning green beans. Lord have mercy, one summer we processed so many green beans that our fingers were calloused from all the work of stringing and snapping! At the time, I didn’t think I ever wanted to eat green beans again.

Thankfully, my parents have continued the planting tradition. Mama’s garden is now in bloom, full of white half-runner green beans, elegantly staked and strung by my Dad and brother Jeremy. The tomatoes are blooming, too. Hills of squash and cucumbers, along with rows of corn and okra, and a pepper plant or two round out this year’s spread.

With any luck, Mama and I will soon be in the kitchen, “putting up” vegetables, just like the old folks taught us. Thank you, Grandma and Grandpa and Mamaw and Papaw, for teaching us to grow our own food.

And, thank you to our farmers at The Wednesday Market for providing a bounteous harvest for us all! We will see you on Wednesday.

Thanks,

Beverly

Siloam Springs, AR:  Market is Open!

Happy Father’s Day!