Berea Gardens:  Market Open

I’m a little late opening ordering today, but I am going to blame it on the weeds and say “an enemy hath done this.”

Great Cauliflower and Lettuce this week with some extras on the tables from our vendors this week. Plants, baked goods, honey, onions, and maybe a little spinach will be available to you as you pick up your orders.

Hope to see you Wednesday,
Bob & Lynnita

Russellville Community Market:  5/5/24 closing

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.

Be sure to check out our amazing extras table when you pick up your order from 4-7 PM on Tuesday!

“Wow” definitely describes the local foods, plants and more that you can find at RCM this week! Remember to get your Ralston Farms rice this week; they won’t be back until next month!! Create a delicious rainbow with their healthy rice! Have you tried the red, golden or purple rice or their rice grits? This week is your last chance to purchase plants from the ATU Agriculture plant sale! They have lots of quality flowers, herbs and vegetables for your yard and garden at very competitive prices! We will still have plants from our amazing growers like Mary-Ann King and Violet Fields after this week so keep watching to see what’s available. Welcome back to Sulphur Springs Truck Patch! Check out their lettuce and fresh flowers! If rice is not your favorite dish, consider trying B&B Legacy’s soybeans and take a look at Wild Hare’s handmade pastas that include gluten-free options! Make delicious dishes with Meadowlark’s fresh ricotta or try Sorrentino Family Farmstead’s unique salad dressing or new goji berry nut bars. Enjoy Weatherford’s whoopie pies or Maple Brook’s herb sourdough loaf and shop for your favorite sandwich bread from Pleasant View! Isn’t She Sweet is online this week with her apple bread, banana nut muffins or Polynesian bread. Sweetbirds Candy Kitchen’s flavor of the week, Pink Starburst, sounds delicious and there are still lots of fresh herbs available. Don’t overlook the huge selection of eggs and take advantage of fresh mushrooms from The Fortunate Mushroom! Get some Italian sausage from Porch Swing Farms to pair with the fresh ricotta for a locally sourced lasagna, create a family pot roast dinner with a beef roast from R&D or plan a backyard BBQ with C3 Beef ground beef or ready made hamburger patties. Enjoy a rack of ribs from Michael’s Garden or some chicken drumsticks from Dunrovin! There are great deals and gourmet quality ingredients galore this week at RCM! What’s on your menu this week?
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RCM accepts cash, checks, credit and debit cards and SNAP/EBT transactions.

Check back frequently as our farmers regularly update what they have available. Multiple orders are encouraged. :)

Russellville Community Market

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Foothills Market:  The Market is Open!

Foothills Market is open with a selection of fresh foods for you.

Browse the market between now and Wednesday at 5:00 p.m. Your order will be ready on Thursday afternoon.

Eat something fresh this week!

Stones River Market:  Market is OPEN -- See you Wednesday

The May 5th abd May 6th Market is OPEN, closed Monday evening at 9PM.

Pickup Orders on Wednesday May 8th 5:00 – 6:15pm, if you are unable to pickup, please contact me so other arrangements can be made.

Growers News: Always check back when market is open, some Growers add or update their inventories.

Backyard Tailz
C&M Valley Farm
Calico Farms
Carole’s Herbs (CS3 Farms)
Dogwood Valley Greenhouse
East Fork Farm/ Worm Castings & Luffa
Emerald Acres
Flying S Farms
Foster Bakery
Heath Homespun
Hollow Springs Farm
Kumaika Coffee
Lavendar Cottage
Linwood Lamb
NashPhilly
Oakview Farm
Periwinkle and Pine Co
Pinky’s Micros
Quarter Spring Farm
Quinn’s Mercantile
RC Farms TN
Rainbow Hill Farm
Safe & Sound Soap Co.
Singing Bee Honey
Sow’s Ear Piggery
Sunshine Farms
Sweet Beets Farm
Tailwynds Farm
Triple LLL Farm
Valley View Farm and Garden

Growers News:

WELCOME Foster Bakery: New to our Market, highly recommended by NashPhilly.

Do you like bread? Enjoy this staple guilt-free by buying a whole wheat loaf from me. Unlike many commercial bakeries that use bromated/carcinogenic ingredients, I use simple and minimally processed ingredients to make a delicious and filling bread. Bread made from whole wheat flour contains greater amounts of protein, fiber, and vitamins. 2-3 slices meets 15% of your daily iron needs and over a quarter of the recommended fiber intake. Whole wheat bread is also a great food to aid weight loss (ask me: I lost 20 pounds after I started making this bread)! This loaf makes approximately 10-12 slices + 2 endpieces. Slice as you go for best quality (unless if you plan to freeze it). Since my bread doesn’t contain any preservatives, it’s best to consume or freeze within 3-4 days of picking up. The bags are freezer friendly.

Safe and Sound Soap Co.: This week I’ve added a new product for Mother’s Day. My Citrus Gift Baskets! Each basket comes with an Orange Bergamot Room Spray and Hand Sanitizer, as well as a Lemon Zest Body Scrub and a Citrus Bar Soap! Each item is tucked into a cute gold wire basket with some decorative paper shreds. You won’t have to worry about buying a gift bag because it’s already in a cute basket! I also decided to continue running my Laundry soap sale. This will be the last week that I’ll have them discounted for a while so if you’ve been thinking about ordering some now is the time!
I also have added two new scents to my Car Air Freshener collection. The Lavender car freshener is scented entirely using essential oils. It’s relaxing and light, the perfect scent to relieve stress on your morning commute to work. The Suit and Tie Car Air Freshener is scented using the highest quality blend of non toxic, vegan, phthalate and paraben free fragrance oils. It smells very similar to mahogany teakwood, so if that is one of your favorite scents you’ll love this one.

Yentz Family Farm:

TWO gluten-free options for you this week: Peanut butter oatmeal chocolate chip & chocolate crinkle, both equally delicious in their own ways!

New this week are our wild blueberry thumbprint cookies – a rich, buttery cookie with a generous dollop of wild blueberry jam baked right into the center.

All cookies are sold in 6-packs, and are organic & vegan.

Our mild organic salsa is here – canned in 16 oz jars & perfect for dipping, topping tacos, nachos, eggs, etc. We use fresh tomatoes and there’s no added sugar, just freshness in a jar. This has become a customer favorite.

New this week to our wellness items are our citrus shower steamers – so refreshing, with grapefruit & lemon essential oils to turn your shower into an aromatherapy spa experience. Sold in a resealable 2-pack.

Valentine Cottage: Getting ready to start gearing up for the fresh veggies coming out of the Garden this week. Back in stock this week freeze dried local strawberries, freeze dried apple bites, turnip greens powder, freeze dried pineapple bites and one of my favorites freeze dried sugar snap peas.

Rainbow Hill Farm. Several live produce plants available and Strawberry Plants, more to come. Excited to be back this season.

Emerald Acres: Delicious Lettice Mix and Lettuce Mixed Heads, Sugar Snap Peas, Spinach, Spring Mix Flowers and Strawberries.

Tailwynds Farm: We have some new cuts of beef available. We have a Picanha Roast Cut. This cut can be grilled to perfection, has wonderful flavor and a similar texture to a sirloin steak and to top it off try a homemade fresh strawberry pie for dessert. If you have not tried a Tomahawk steak we still have some available. We have had amazing reviews on these cuts with customers saying it was the best and most tender steak they have ever eaten. Fire up those grills and give one a try. We have many crops already growing and plan to have all the farm fresh vegetables available as soon as they start coming in.

NashPhilly: Several prepared items in the Soup, Seasonal Side Dishes and Noodles, Pasta, Italian Sauses Category. Perfect for your upcoming Mother’s Day meal or this weeks meals.

Sow’s Ear Piggery: “BEST-SELLERS” this week: mild pork breakfast sausage (no MSG) and pork chops! Heritage-breed, pastured pigs on non-GMO/non-soy/non-corn diet. More cuts to be added soon!

Pinky’s Micro’s:
New Spring blend of power packed microgreens…Romaine, Golden Leeks, Lemon Basil and Red Panda Sorrell.
Also check out our other Micro’s – Basic Salad Mix, Broccoli, Cilantro, Pea, Radish, Red Amaranth, Sunflower and Wheat Grass Shots.

Oakview Farm:
We will have some of its customer favorites this week: Scandanavian Buttermilk Sourdough Bread, Artisan Sourdough bread, Roasted Strawberry Jam, and Homemade Peppermint Patties! Our hens have been laying like crazy, so we have fresh eggs, too.
From our garden, we have our Salad Greens Mix, Cabbage, Rainbow Swiss Chard, and Spinach. We don’t use any chemical fertilizers or pesticides on our produce, so you know it’s good for you and the environment.

Quarter Spring Farm: has all the affordable luxury that you need this spring. From our moisturizing soaps to our delicious meats and eggs, we have all the goodies to pamper you. You work hard, so treat yourself to an incredible dining experience with our lamb or chicken. It’s healthier and tastier than conventionally grown meats, and better for the planet, too. Our amazing goat milk soaps and lotions will leave your skin feeling like you just dropped 2 grand at a high end spa. You deserve nice things, so let us provide them to you.

Kumaika Coffee:
If you have not started your morning with our Coffee, you are missing out! We have Dark, Medium and Light Roasted Beans. We are a Certified USDA Organic Product provider. We have a small coffee roaster business. We specialize in roasting and crafting small batches of organic, high altitude single origin and fair trade coffee beans. We bring the coffee beans directly from Nicaragua and roast small batches in our home located in Lascassas TN. We have Beans and/or Ground Coffee available or can’t decide order our Sampler of all 3.

Dogwood Valley Greenhouse: Several items ready to plant in cooler weather. Herbs, Ferns, Hosta and Shrubs

Valley View Farm & Garden:
Crocheted Baby Blankets and Decorative Eastern Bluebird Nesting Boxes and several selections of Dried HOT Peppers along with dried Floral Bouquet.

RC Farms:
STRAWBERRIES HAVE ARRIVED! We have several items restocked and frozen produce, and delicious desserts, we’ve been working and preparing our tunnels for spring produce. Spring will be here before you know it!

Triple LLL Farm:
We Several Special available, great price. We also have added Chicken Thighs and Drumsticks. We also have added more eggs available.

Flying S Farms:
We now have our Strawberries coming in. FRESH FARM EGG SPECIAL, is still going on! We have a really Eggcellent Special this week, single dozen or 3 dozen Fresh Farm Eggs Special. Our delicious Sour Dough Breads, along with delicious Brownies, Biscuits, Various Friendship Breads, few Jams available, we will Jamming soon updating our inventory.

Look forward seeing you Wednesday, May 1st when you pickup your orders.
We will always try and reach you as a reminder about your order, we can make arrangements for you to get your order to you. “If we do not hear from you, your order will be donated and you will be invoiced for the amount of your order”. We still need to pay our Growers for their products.
We will be looking forward seeing you “On the Porch or At the Curb" of Quinn’s Mercantile WEDNESDAY, May 8th from 5:00 – 6:15 pm, LITTLE CHANGE WITH CLOSING, IF YOU THINK YOU’LL BE LATER PLEASE CONTACT ME. Please note time change, but we still like getting off the porch earlier, please contact the Manager if you are unable to pick up your order or are running late, by phone, email or text the Manager (615.542.1078) so we can make arrangements to get your order to you.
We will always try and reach you as a reminder about your order, we can make arrangements for you to get your order to you. “If we do not hear from you, your order will be donated and you will be invoiced for the amount of your order”. We still need to pay our Growers for their products.
We have Delivery Service again, if your new to our Delivery Service, please put direction to your address in the comments when you place your order.
How to contact us:
Email: stonesrivermarket@gmail.com
Website: https://stonesriver.locallygrown.net
Facebook: www.facebook.com/StonesRiverMarket
locations: Quinn’s Mercantile on the corner of Spring and Lytle.

Grumpy Goat:  Weblog Entry

Just a shout out to let you know that this will be the last week for spinach. We need the space to put the tomatoes in the ground!

This coming week will still be our winter hours – so just open Tuesday. The week after though (May 14th and 17th) we will be starting our Tuesday and Friday schedule!!! I’ll message out next week with more info on that!

Connie's Cornucopia:  New Tomato Sauces & Pizza Sauce

We are now carrying a variety of locally made Sauces for Pasta, Pizza and other Italian dishes. Recently, I visited a Metro Atlanta-based Company named Frik & Frak – they handcraft very tasty high-quality, small-batch sauces with imported ingredients; all of their products are Gluten Free, No Sugar Added and No Preservatives.

Check it out!

Click to start shopping.
conniescornucopia.locallygrown.net

Connie's Cornucopia:  Now Have Hamburger Patties

Just added Rock House Pasture Raised Hamburger patties. In a 2 pack.

Their cattle are a heritage breed, Devon, crossed with Angus. This means more tender and more flavorful beef being produced throughout the year, regardless of the season. Our beef is grass-fed and finished and is processed at Farmview Market in Madison, GA.

Check it out.

Click to start shopping.
conniescornucopia.locallygrown.net

Champaign, OH:  Asparagus Has Arrived!

Yay!! The season has started, and here we are with Harrigan’s Harvest Asparagus!!!!

You know it goes fast, and the season is short!!

Also, this market, and inside the retail shop, of Oakview Farm Meats, home of this market, will be the only places to get Beth’s asparagus!!

XOXO,
Cosmic Pam

The Wednesday Market:  Ordering Time Is Upon Us - Place Your Order Now!

Good afternoon.

The Wednesday Market is open for orders. Please place your orders by 10 p.m. Monday. Orders are ready for pick up between 2 and 4 p.m. Wednesday. See the website for this week’s product offerings. Here is the link: https://wednesdaymarket.locallygrown.net/market

We have new growers! Please welcome Bedrock Farm and Thistle Spring Farm. You may read their profiles under the “Our Growers” tab on the website. Bedrock Farm sells bearded iris plants, while Thistle Spring Farm offers radishes, heirloom tomato plants, sunflowers, and champagne vinaigrette.

Thank you for for supporting Georgia Grown. We’ll see you at the Market.

Thanks,
Beverly

P.S. If you have questions about your order, please contact Nelda. She is available by text, email, or phone call.

Nelda Miller
678-859-6074
neldamiller411@hotmail.com

Martin's Farmstand:  Sunshine and Planting

The farmstand will be open this afternoon from noon till 5 pm.
This is the last Saturday of winter hours for this season. The asparagus is coming up. I estimate that we will begin harvesting asparagus starting sometime during the middle/ late part of next week (Thursday or Friday???) depending on how warm the weather is and how much sun we have. Summer hours begin when we harvest the first asparagus. The plan for 2024 is to be open from 10 am till 6 pm Tuesday through Saturday. We will be closed Sunday and Monday.This is the same schedule as last year.
In the early spring the sunshine makes a big differance on soil temps as the cold underneath is pushing up and the warmth from the sun is pushing down. If it is cloudy the soil tends to be cold in the seed/ root zone. Of course cold rains bring the soil temps down quickly also. When you are planting things like sweet corn, beans, sqush etc and are using organic/ untreated seed it is important that they begin to sprout as soon as possible. During the first few days after you plant them if the do not sprout quickly they are likely to rot or just to disappear. Once they are sprouted even just a tiny bit they are somewhat secure. During this time of the year I prepare the soil for the heat loving seeds but do not plant right away. I let it rain and in general sit tight. I am watching the weather forcast for about 3 days of bright sun (ideally somewhat warm also). Then I plant. Seeds that sprout in the cool soil (lettuce, peas, beets, dill, cilantro, spinach etc) can be planted anytime you get to it. If the weather conditions are not ideal sometimes I also presprout seeds in the house till the sprout tip is just showing and then set them out by hand. Again once they are sprouted they are much less likely to disappear or rot.
For us, this week has been dominated by lots of planting. We set all the onions, parsley, leeks, early cabbage, lettuce etc out along with various seeds. We plant with hope. God, we pray that you send your rain and sunshine and give us our daily bread. Daniel