The Weblog
This weblog contains LocallyGrown.net news and the weblog entries from all the markets currently using the system.
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Joyful Noise Acres Farm: Extra, Extra
Good morning,
Sorry for the extra e-mail but I wanted to let you know of an opportunity to purchase grass fed lamb and beef. It comes from White Gate Farm in Cochran, GA. Due to logistics, you will have to let me know what you want to order and then pick it up the following week. there will be a little lag time between the order and the pick-up (more on that tomorrow when you stop by.
Prices:
Lamb
Lamb Chops at $15.00/lb
Ground Lamb at $10.00/lb *
Neck Bones at $4.00/lb
Shoulder Roasts at $11.00/lb
Whole legs at $10.50/lb (avg. 4-6 lbs)
Lamb Ribs at $11.00/lb
Ground Beef at $8.00/lb.
Just send me an e-mail if you would like to pick up anything next week. She has to have the orders by this Friday for delivery next week.
Yes, we are still using Four Mile Farm but needed to add another beef and lamb provider to meet demand for quality grass fed meats.
Blessings,
Mary Beth
JNA Farm market
Joyful Noise Acres Farm: Weblog Entry
Lamb
Lamb Chops at $15.00/lb
Ground Lamb at $10.00/lb *
Neck Bones at $3.50/lb
Stew Meat at $8.00/lb
Shoulder Roasts at $11.00/lb
Whole and Half Legs at $10.50/lb
Lamb Ribs at $11.00/lb
Middle Tennessee Locally Grown: Just a Short Time Left to Order!
Please don’t forget to place your market order very soon. This week’s market will close for ordering at 10 a.m. tomorrow (Wed), for delivery fresh from local farms on Thursday. Don’t forget all our yummy vegetables, eggs, creamline milk, and new perennial plants & hanging baskets!
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:
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By phone: (931) 273-9708
On Thursdays: Here’s a map.
CLG: Tuesday Reminder: Order now!
Hello Friends,
There’s still time to place your order for pickup on Friday, May 30th. The market closes tonight around 10pm.
Check out some end of the end of season plants available this week from ABC Greenhouse. Many only 50 cents!
How to contact us:
Our Website: www.conway.locallygrown.net
On Twitter: @conwaygrown
On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Conway-Locally-Grown/146991555352846
Phone or text: Steve – 501-339-1039
Email: Steve – kirp1968@sbcglobal.net
Seedtime and Harvest: Delicious
Our spinach and mixed lettuces are tender and delicious. Radishes are fat and round, juicy, crunchy, with little or no spice. Very delicious!
Carolina Foothills, SC: Special Summer Event
A Special Event
Mr. Riley Johnson, Seneca’s special events coordinator, has recently received a grant to hold a one-time event he is calling an “Organic Garden Party,” in downtown Seneca. Among the family style activities to be promoted, set-ups at no charge will be provided for local farmers to sell their produce, baked goods, cheeses and other aftermarket products. Mr. Riley is looking for input as to the best date (month and day of the week) to hold the event. He also would like to issue invitations to the local producers to sell at this summer market.For more information, please contact: Riley Johnson, 864-723-3910, rhjohnson@seneca.sc.us.
Fisher's Produce Tulsa: Praising God for rain
Today we remembered those who have served our country. We also spent the weekend on break after a good asparagus season. We finished picking on Friday and then spent Sunday and Monday on a family canoe outing. We just got home this evening. We were please to find that it rained an inch while we were gone!!
I just looked over the garden tonight and am doing a late posting here. We still have some strawberries and asparagus available this week. Also, we are getting more squash and have a few cucumbers. We plan to start posting tomatoes next week! Also, I will check the field for new potatoes tomorrow. I am thinking that if we don’t dig any this week, that we for sure will next week.
This week’s CSA shares will likely include:
Broccoli
Rainbow chard
an herb (cilantro, basil, parsley, or dill as you please ,as available. I will harvest more basil and cilantro than dill and parsley).
Summer squash
A few early pulled bulb sweet onions
beets and carrots
This is an A-week delivery to Brookside, South Tulsa, Beggs, and Okmulgee. We are at Brookside from 7:30-11:00am and at the Spirit Event Center from 12:00-12:30.
Please have orders in by noon, but the sooner the better.
Luke
Champaign, OH: Being Kind and Showing The Love
Strangers stopping strangers just to shake their hand,
Everybody’s playing in the heart of gold band, heart of gold band…(Scarlet Begonias, Grateful Dead)
The title of this weblog has to do with the kindness of strangers. The banding together of the community spirit. The communal brotherhood that emerges when you need it.
I just got back from my weekend away at a music festival. Whenever I slip behind the gates of a music festival, set up camp, and greet my yearly friends, I feel an almost immediate friendly connection. A weekend away, amazing Grateful Dead music, a beautiful farm surrounding the grounds, and strangers who become friends, all weekend long.
Once the festival is over, and everything is packed up, you hug your friends that you will not see until next year, you shout goodbyes to your weekend neighbors that you shared laughs, coffee, wine, food with.
As you begin the drive back out of the gates, down the winding drive of the beautiful farm called, Maggie’s Farm, you take one last look back, smile, and also become a bit sad to see the empty stages, all of the tents coming down, and knowing that at the end of the lane, reality waits to take you back to the everyday.
I always feel so lucky to be a part of such a kind, loving rich fabric of friendship.
Just like at this market…strangers meeting, customers and vendors becoming friendly, trust and bonds are built.
It makes me happy to also see this kind, loving rich fabric of friendship and respect so strong even in our everyday, through our market.
As we start the week, as we start the summer, as we place our orders, today and tomorrow, let the theme of being kind and showing some love lead your way…
Peace and Love,
Cosmic Pam
Spa City Local Farm Market Co-op: ABC tomato and pepper plants $1 each!
From ABC greenhouse, get their plants while you can!
We have reduced our pepper and tomato plants down to $1.00. This will be the last time we will be offering plants this season. Since we have become a seasonal greenhouse and farm, we will be closing down June 1, 2014 till later in the Fall. We may resume in October, 2014 depending on how the summer goes!
Have a great summer. Thanx
Debe
StPete.LocallyGrown.Net: Market NOW Open - May 26, 2014
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FIRST TIME CUSTOMERS You are invited to watch our Market Tutorial before you begin. If you do not receive an email confirmation immediately after you order, then you did not click the SUBMIT ORDER button and we did not receive an order from you. Call your Market Manager for help.
MARKET TUTORIAL
Don’t miss our helpful shopping hints now posted as a link at the top of every web page on St. Pete Locally Grown. Check it out and then share it with anyone who asks about us! Thanks so much to Volunteer Jeff Yentzer for his dedication to helping our Market succeed within the St. Petersburg Community.
SO MUCH TO SEE!
Customers do you know there are too many items to assign as featured on the online website marquis? Although you may shop directly from the marquis by selecting an item, you may be missing out on a variety of that produce that is listed elsewhere with maybe a better price! That’s why is it always better to scan the list of items in alpha order or, better yet, do a search for “kale” if you want to see all types from all Growers. it’s the best way to narrow down your choices and compare pricing, etc. quickly if you are concerned about missing out on limited items.
Equitable Veggie Pricing
What price can you put on FRESH? As you might imagine, it is difficult for us to compare our pricing with that of local retailers because our produces cannot be equitably compared. Our chemical-free, locally grown produce is usually harvested within 12 to 24 hours of delivery compared to (so much of it) that which is trucked in and stored before a customer can examine and purchase. What price can you assign to “truly fresh” and still keep it affordable? Even though we are chemical-free and not certified organic in all cases, our produce is fresher than most USDA produce sold by local retailers. Our pricing reflects our philosophy that healthy fresh chemical-free produce has to be affordable for the general population. Every day, we strive to meet this challenge.
Grower News
STRAWBERRY PASSION FARMS
All orders from this Certified Organic Grower must be in by Wednesday @9AM or you will miss out. I have to place my order with them at that time. So order from them first (they have unlimited volume!) and shop for the rest at your leisure. I had hoped for blueberries this week but they are gone for the season! HOWEVER, we have stringbeans, cucumbers, and black spicy Spanish radishes so take advantage now from our new Grower in Thonotossassa. Their farm will likely close down in the next 3 weeks but we are committed to partner in the fall. UNTIL THEN, please take advantage of what they have available.
SUMMER GROWERS ON BOARD! WILL YOU BE A CUSTOMER THIS SUMMER?
As far as we know, we’ll have plenty of produce this summer to serve your voracious appetites for freshly harvested, locally grown, chemical-free produce. So far we have commitments from Brenon’s Homegrown, Faithful Farms, Glory Road Gardens, Nathan’s Natural Veggies, Pioneer Settlement Garden, The Faith House, The Dancing Goat,and Toad Stool Ponds. We sincerely appreciate our customers who inform us that they are leaving for the summer. It helps us not to wonder why their orders stop coming! THANKS IN ADVANCE to all our summer Growers AND summer Customers. We need ALL of your participation to sustain this local Market especially during the hot months ahead.
LOOKING FOR A NEW LETTUCE EXPERIENCE?
Do a product search on our Market for beautiful salad mixes foraged from the urban food forests of Nathan’s Natural Veggies & Brenon’s Homegrown. Salad dressing recipes are included on many of the product descriptions. These mixes will be available all summer long and offer a nice change of pace to the lettuces of which you are more familiar. Here is a new Paleo-Style French Dressing I tried recently! It was a big hit at Saturday night’s potluck.
Message from Your Market Manager
SOMETHING’S BURNING… tada-tada-ta-ta… SOMETHING’S BURNING…
Not sure what’s happening but I am pretty sure we have hit a milestone this week. Our Market is seeing the WIDEST VARIETY OF PRODUCE ever listed online and the VOLUME IS STEADILY increasing due to expanding grower commitment. Can you say “Alleluia!”? BTW, where else can you buy 1 pound of collards for $1? I am estimating that we have no less than 4 varieties of eggplant and kale and spinach, 12 varieties of herbs and greens, and LOTS of tomatoes and carrots and beets at last. Faithful Farms has got some flat leaf spinach and will be having young string beans soon. It may be a coincidence and temporary but I’ll take it as an omen that we are “arriving”. THANKS TO ALL OF YOU for the support. Please keep spreading the word and they will come!
YOUR ASSIGNMENT SHOULD YOU CHOOSE TO ACCEPT IT…
Please help us spread the word about our new 6-month $50 membership promo offering for first time members of St. Pete Locally Grown.
IF FRUIT IS IMPORTANT TO YOU
OK, I broke down and bought Certified Organic apples from Chile. They are just $4.99 for 3# at RO! I cried “Uncle!” as I SO missed my apples. Go get them while they last! They are small but juicy and crunchy. YUM. Please tell them that St. Pete Locally Grown sent you over!
WELCOME TO OUR NEWEST CUSTOMERS!
Once you have submitted your order, if in doubt about what you owe, you can always confirm what you have been charged for by checking your account history and viewing your most current invoice. Instructions on how to do that are on our Q&A page under the question entitled Since you don’t provide an invoice with delivery, how do I know what I owe? Also, since your vegetables are picked fresh within 24 hours of delivery, they should be lasting for WEEKS in your refrigerator. When you accept delivery, please take a few minutes to inspect your order to protect your vegetables from unnecessary spoilage. Lastly, it is imperative that you understand our policy on Unclaimed Orders found on our Q&A page. When you make a purchase you are agreeing to abide by this policy.
Volunteer Opportunities
We are currently organizing our volunteer needs by Grower and by Market. So when you are interested in learning how to garden and/or how to run an urban market—including a model for great delivery service for the Market—consider volunteering for the organizations below. Check back for more Growers to be listed.
Nathan’s Natural Veggies
Pioneer Settlement Garden
St. Pete Locally Grown Market
The Faith House
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!