Madison GA:  The Market is Open!!!!

See everyone Wed!!!!

Russellville Community Market:  RCM Mother's Day Edition!

Happy Mother’s Day to all the mothers in the RCM community! Thanks for all you do!

Check out the newly listed fresh kale available from Stellar Garden Patch!

Also, don’t miss the Butcher’s Buy of the week from Meatworks this week! They are offering an Anniversary Burgers and Franks package. Yum!

Happy shopping! Eat Local!

Check out the “Featured Items” section as well as the “What’s New” section at the top of the market page for all the latest products available.

Be sure to “Like” our Facebook page for updates and food-related events in your community!

To ensure your order is placed, make sure you click the “Place My Order” button once you have completed your shopping. Remember, you have until 10:00pm Tuesday evening to place your orders.

Happy Shopping! See you on Thursday!

Russellville Community Market

FRESH.LOCAL.ONLINE.

Champaign, OH:  Good Love!

Just an update with a new egg vendor!!

The vendor is not new to us…it is our lovely little, End Of The Road Farm…the same vendors who bring us the popcorn, spelt flour, and molasses! Now, they have entered their pastured eggs, as well!

Our egg demand is high so we bring you eggs from Oakview Farm Meats, End Of The Road Farm, and Lonny’s Green Acres.

Good eggs…good love…all for you!

Siloam Springs, AR:  Happy Mother's Day!

The online market is now open! Hope all of our Mom’s are enoying this day with their families.

Blessings!

Stacy

Carolina Foothills, SC:  Last minute?

http://carolinafoothills.locallygrown.net/market

Happy Mother’s Day!

There are lots of NEW products for real good eating and sharing.

It’s really important to buy local food first! I personally get most of my weekly groceries here. ( And I grow a lot of my own food as well). It’s so satisfying knowing that my dollars went into a farmers hands than into corporate entities.

Farm Tours are scheduled soon. A lot of our farms here are participating in the CFSA coming in June. More details later. CAFE is planning a tour of farms as well. So there will be plenty of opportunity to visit any farm you want!

Plus, most farmers allow a stop in visit. May even put you to work. ( I know I would!)!

Take care of your moms, buy local food and craft , and Eat Well!

CLG:  Opening Bell: Enjoy some Early Season Goodness!

Good afternoon,

Wow, another week with 700 products listed! Right around the corner will be berries and summer squash too. Thanks Growers! There are several listings for bulk amounts so you can preserve the goodness by canning, freezing, or dehydrating. Enjoy the goodness!

SPECIAL NOTE: Backyard Gourmet, sponsored by the Library and La Lucha Space is on May 17 from 5-8 PM. This year we have a grant from the Department of Arkansas Heritage to celebrate Heritage Month with the theme: “Come to the table: Celebrating the flavors of Arkansas”. Our event is called “Beans, Greens and Cornbread” and we are inviting everyone to come to the library to celebrate our local food traditions with this free meal. This is also a dessert potluck, so bring a dessert to share!

We’ll have live music from Joe and Jeff, High Lonesome, and the Arkansas Country Dance Society. There will be a mini-seed swap and some seed saving demonstrations, plus winning photos from our photography contest.

Lots of great produce coming to the market every Friday. Come early for the best selection from the EXTRAS table.

Action: Please add your cell number to your account in case we need to contact you quickly regarding your order. Maybe you just left the market and we realize you accidentally left one of your items. This will allow us to call you before you get home. Email me if you would like me to add it for you. kirp1968@sbcglobal.net

The market is now +OPEN +for orders. Please check your email about 5 minutes after you place your order to make sure you get an order confirmation. Thank you for being a valuable part of CLG!

Have a great week!
Steve

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

The Wednesday Market:  Happy Mother's Day from The Wednesday Market

Good afternoon and Happy Mother’s Day!

The Market is open. Please place your orders by 10 p.m. on Monday. Orders are ready for pick up on Wednesday between 3:30 and 6 p.m. Be sure to check the website for all of this week’s product offerings. Here is the link: http://wednesdaymarket.locallygrown.net/market

Concord Street Sweets is taking the week off from the Market. Look for their products to be back soon.

We hope everyone has a great day, and thank you for supporting locally grown agriculture and for choosing to buy locally.

Thanks,

Beverly

Stones River Market:  Happy Mother's Day and the Market Has Opened

Market News

Happy Mother’s Day to all our mothers out there. We appreciate everything you do especially feeding your family locally grown and made products.

There are several items of interest for the Market this week. Meadow Branch Beef is on vacation. Wedge Oak Farm has re-stocked their offerings of pork and chicken. With the weather warming up, there is an abundance of fresh produce this week including several varieties of kale and lettuce.

The marvelous weather and hens growing up nicely have left Rock Hill Road Farm with extra Junior sized eggs. RJ is running a sale on young pullet eggs for $3.00 per dozen.

Still more plants for your garden are being added. These include cucumbers, potatoes and peppers from Rainbow Hill Farm and White City Produce and Greenhouse.

Many of you were able to enjoy strawberries from Rocky Glade Farm last week. They have once again made them available to order. They will go quickly though.

There are plenty of other products available this week. Browse the categories to see what your will find.

Thanks so much for your support of Stones River Market, all of our growers, local food, and our rights to eat it. We’ll see you on Wednesday at Southern Stained Glass at 310 West Main Street from 5:00 to 6: 30 pm!

Recipes

Please, share your recipes with us on the Recipes tab. We’d all love to know how you use your Stones River Market products, so we can try it too! There is an abundance of springs onions on the Market this week, so we are featuring a reciping using them from Yummly and Kalyn’s Kitchen.

Val’s Sweet Cabbage Slaw with Green Onion and Parsley
(Makes 4-6 servings, recipe from my sister Val.)

Ingredients:
1/2 large head green cabbage (about 6 cups coarsely chopped cabbage)
3/4 cup chopped parsley (or more, you can use curly or flat parsley)
3/4 cup thinly sliced green onion (or more)
1/4 cup canola oil
1/4 cup white balsamic vinegar or white vinegar
1/2 cup sugar or Splenda (use Splenda for South Beach Diet)
salt to taste (I used about 3/4 tsp. sea salt)
freshly ground black pepper to taste (I used about 1/4 tsp.)

Instructions:
Cut out core from cabbage, then thinly slice and coarsely chop slices until you have about 6 cups chopped cabbage. Wash and coarsely chop parsley, and thinly slice green onions.

In small bowl or glass measuring cup, stir together the canola oil, white balsamic vinegar or white vinegar, sugar or Splenda, salt, and pepper.

Put chopped cabbage, chopped parsley, and sliced green onions into salad bowl and toss to combine. Add just enough dressing to moisten salad, and toss again. (You may not need all the dressing.) Taste to see if you want more salt or pepper, then serve.

This will keep for a day or so in the fridge, although I think it’s better freshly made when the cabbage has more crunch.

Gwinnett Locally Grown:  SUNDAY REMINDER

This email is a gentle reminder that ordering through Gwinnett Locally Grown will close tomorrow (Monday) 9.a.m.

The Market is open Thursday Noon – Monday 9:00 a.m. After that, ordering is disabled. Pick up your order Tuesday 4:30-6:30 p.m. only at Rancho Alegre Farm at 2225 Givens Road, Dacula, GA 30019. New to The Market? Learn about how it works here.

As I write this, my husband is patiently waiting to take me shopping for bags of dirt. Two girlfriends spent their vacation here the past few days: we bought five shopping carts of plants at Grower’s Outlet, and I scored many large pots at estate sales so I can spend the day planting goodies in my new container garden. Yeah!!!!

MARKET NEWS
Lisa from Bo & Lisa’s Lil Patch contacted me yesterday that she had a new but late addition to her offerings for this market: Bok Choy. You can find it here.

GROUP BY REMINDER
Mother Earth Meats: Ordering and delivery is available for Mother Earth Meats this month! IMPORTANT NOTE: Delivery will now take place on Saturdays. This month’s final order date is Saturday, May 17. Delivery will be Saturday, May 31. We are in the process of establishing a firm time for the drop, and will let you know as soon as we know :-) If you have never ordered before, check out our last blog for the details.

See you Tuesday!
Debbie Moore
Market Manager
grow@ranchoalegrefarm.com

Fresh Wishes,
Pilar Quintero
Market Host
Rancho Alegre Farm

Please contact grow@ranchoalegrefarm.com for questions pertaining to Market or Raw Milk. It is very difficult to take phone calls, especially in the spring on a working farm. Remember to follow us on Facebook and Meetup to get notification on all our wonderful events and news.

ALFN Local Food Club:  The Market is Open!

Good Sunday, Foodies,

And a happy Mother’s Day to all of the wonderful mamas in our lives. Personally, I owe just about everything to my mom, and though I could never thank her enough, a brunch full of local food at The Root is not a bad place to start. Thanks so much to all of our mothers for instilling a love of good food and community in supporting small, diversified farms like the ones in our market. Speaking of good food, in the market this week…

• I’m so excited that my pork: farmer’s choice bundle from Farm Girl Meats arrived this week. This is an incredible deal for a variety of cuts from their animal welfare approved, woodland raised hogs, and thanks to Farm Girl, we’ll be having pork for weeks to come!

• We’re so lucky to have artisan breads from Bryant-based bakery Arkansas Fresh. Their Arkansas sourdough, birdseed multigrain, ciabatta, and honey flax seed sourdough are all absolutely gourmet, and make sure to check out the extras list at Food Club pick-up to seek out some of their even more creative loaves.

• Enjoy some Skyphos red lettuce from the ALFN-sponsored Victory Garden Project. This beautiful dark red butterhead has a velvety texture and sweet taste. Expect to see many more great things in the near future from the Victory Garden, as they just received $500 from the ALFN Community Fund to complete their ongoing hoophouse project!

• Loads of wonderful beet greens, be they ruby red from Barnhill Orchards or chioggia and bull’s blood from Crimmins Family Farm. Whether eaten raw in a salad or sauteed with garlic and oil, there’s no wrong way to enjoy these wonderful greens.

• Nabak kimchi from Garden Works. Kimchi is a tasty, fermented condiment similar to sauerkraut loaded with healthy, alive bacteria that’s good for your gut, and I’m super excited to try Garden Works’ take on it.

• Order some custom embroidery from Bluebird Hill Berry Farm. Those talented folks can place names, pictures, or symbols of your choice on just about anything!

Thanks to the Arkansas Times for their coverage of our Green Groceries fresh, local food pantry program. Through a partnership with our wonderful hosts at Christ Episcopal Church, Green Groceries gets low-income families healthy, fresh food from all local growers, providing much-needed nutrition and support to small farmers. You can support many of these same families and farmers by adding donation greens to your cart in the market. Thanks to Christ Episcopal and to our local farmers for supporting this really wonderful and unique program.

Enjoy the day, especially you mothers out there!

- Alex Handfinger