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This weblog contains LocallyGrown.net news and the weblog entries from all the markets currently using the system.
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Siloam Springs, AR: The Online Market is Open!
We have plenty of products on our online market to keep you stocked through the off season! This week we are featuring baked goods from Susi’s Kitchen! Susi has plenty of great breads, cookies, and pastries. There’s even some sweet treats already available for your valentine! Pick up for your online orders will be available on Saturday mornings from 9am-10:30am in the Moss House. See you this Saturday!
Lathemtown Farm Fresh Market: This Week at the Market
It is starting to feel like spring around here! The hens are producing lots of eggs, all the bulbs are coming up, the fruit trees are blooming! It feels great! We are hoping to open the farmstad back up in a couple weeks as well!
This week Brown Bakehouse has 2 new breads – Lemon Blueberry and Cinnamon Sugar!
Have a great week!
Farmher Chef Amy
Frontier Farms: All better now
Hope everyone is well, I’m happy to be out and about again.
https://frontierfarms.locallygrown.net/market
Connie's Cornucopia: NOW In Stock
Bacon Smoked
Ground: Beef, Buffalo, Buffalo & Organs, Chicken, Pork & Lamb.
Liver In: Beef, Chicken & Lamb/Mutton
Beef Shank
Microgreen Seasoning You Can Put That on Everything.
Check It Out.
Thanks
Connie
Fayetteville Farmers' Market: Online Orders NOW OPEN
Online ordering is now open!
Closing is at 6am on Wed morning.
Order at:
https://fayettevillearkansas.locallygrown.net/market.
NEWS AND NOTES THIS WEEK:
PICKUP at the library will be Thursday March 7 from 4:30-5:30 pm.
HATCH FARM is back online: they have daffodil bouquets available as well as local apple juice, syrups, and jams.
EGGS Honey Hole Farm eggs are back!
VEGIES: kale and spinach so far, but check back for possible additions on Monday and Tuesday.
NEED TO PLANT SOME GARDEN FRAGRANCE? Plentygood Farm has Tuberose bulbs available!
EASTER AND OTHER SPRING CELEBRATIONS AND HOLIDAYS ARE COMING SOON! Consider adding some local meat to your table—available online now.
Charlie’s Vegetables has a good selections of jams, jellies, preserves, fruit butters, and pickled products.
Ozark Natural Breads and Dirty Apron have a variety of bakery items. Celi Bakes and Cake Theory are online with gluten free and/or vegan goodies. Bartleby’s is back with their locally made seitan products. We can say from our experience that ALL of these products are yummy!
OTHER GOOD THINGS AVAILABLE: local meats, local honey, locally made food products including salsa and hot sauce, locally handcrafted items and other goodies.
2024 FAYETTEVILLE DELIVERY SERVICE
In the past, our nonprofit partner Seeds that Feed graciously delivered online market orders to Fayetteville addresses. However, their funds for this service have run out. Therefore we have added delivery service as an item, to help their volunteers cover the expenses of delivery to Fayetteville addresses.
Delivery will still be FREE for the following Fayetteville customers:
-SNAP customers
-customers 70 or older
-customers who are not able to drive to pickup location on Thursday
—customers who already donate each time they receive a delivery
If you are a customer in any of the above categories, please put “Free Delivery” in the comments as you finish ordering.
If you request delivery and you are not in the above categories, please choose delivery service as one of your items when you order. You can find this item under Delivery and the cost will be no more than $7 for each delivery date. This service will be charged to your order. We will make sure that Seeds that Feed receives all of those fees. Thanks!
INFO YOU ALREADY KNOW IF YOU HAVE ORDERED BEFORE:
DRIVEBY PICKUP TIME AT THE LIBRARY OUTDOOR PARKING LOT is THURSDAY afternoon from 4:30-5:30. Note: if you already know that you cannot make it by 5:30 pm Thursday and you want to order this week, just reply to this email or text 479-935-5111 and we will work with you on a plan.
SEARCHING TIP: On large categories such as baked goods or meats click on the category to get a drop down of specific items in that category.
HOW TO CHECK ITEMS FROM A PARTICULAR SELLER: Scroll down on left side until you see “show specific growers”. If all the boxes are checked, you can click on “reverse all” then click the boxes on or off of those sellers you want to see. Then click “show specific growers” again.
BUYING TIP: If you see items that you want but not much available, order and pay and then log back in and continue shopping. Your orders will be combined and you will only be charged once.
SNAP CUSTOMERS ONLY: you may choose pay at pickup and bring your EBT card on Thursday. We will swipe your card and match up to $100 of your order. NOTE: please do not bring tokens or match cards to pickup at the online market.
NOTE: New customers and new orders always welcome—no minimum order required, no weekly order required.
TIPS:
1) Sellers sometimes add more products later in the ordering period, so be sure to check back. The product list changes each week, even from the same seller, so it’s worth exploring the categories you are interested in.
2) Multiple orders from you at different times will be automatically combined into one order before pickup and you will only be charged once.
PICKUP LOCATION:
The OUTDOOR parking area at the south end of the new part of the Fayetteville Public Library. Follow the line of cars towards the building and stay in your car in line while we get your order.
Thank you for your continued support of the online market.
Reply to this email or 479-935-5111 if you have questions.
Stones River Market: Market is OPEN -- See you Wednesday
Welcome to the March 3rd and March 4th online Stones River Locally Grown Market,
pickup orders on Wednesday March 6th between 4:15 to 5:30pm.
March is here, busy time for some of our Growers..getting fields and greenhouses ready to start planting.
Seed books are open pages are marked, seed packets are spread out on the table and list are being made
Watching the weather forecast and checking soil temperatures.
Please note we have change our Market hours slightly.
Please pickup your orders from 4:15 to 5:30pm.
We will NOT be able to offer Delivery Service. You are welcome to contact us if we can make
a different day arrangement, traffic and darkness has been hindering our delivering.
Reminder: You can always check the Market when it is closed, most the Growers update or add new items
during the week, you can prepare your list to order for Sunday Morning when Market opens.
Growers this week, subject to change:
Arrington Bread Co
Backyard Tailz
Calico Farms
Dogwood Valley Greenhouse
East Fork Farm/ Worm Castings & Luffa
Flying S Farms
Heath Homespun
Hollow Springs Farm
Kumaika Coffee
Lavendar Cottage
Linwood Lamb
M&S Farms
NashPhilly
Oakview Farm
Periwinkle and Pine Co
Pinky’s Micros
Quarter Spring Farm
Quinn’s Mercantile
RC Farms TN
Safe & Sound Soap Co.
Singing Bee Honey
Sow’s Ear Piggery
Sunshine Farms
Sweet Beets Farm
Tailwynds Farm
The Natural Nook
Triple LLL Farm
Valley View Farm and Garden
Yentz Family Farm
Growers News:
Welcome Hollow Springs Farm:
We are new to the area and excited to be part of Stones River Market. We will have our locally raised chicks and eggs. Raw honey, handmade craft items, quilts, various flavors of jams and jellies. Woodworking craft items in the future. Summer time fresh vegetables. This week we are starting with Apple Pear & Blackberry Jam, Grape Jam and Sour Cherry Jam.
Yentz Family Farm: We are back this week with our ‘goodies’, Country Breads, Hand pies, Banana Bread and Various Snack Bags.
Safe & Sound Soap Co. This weeks featured items: Non toxic Car Air Fresheners! These are made with high quality, safe fragrance oils that are vegan and phthalate and paraben free. They smell amazing and last over 2 weeks in your vehicle. They also make excellent gifts! I have these following scents available:
Sea Salt & Sand
Pink Leather
Laundry Day
Cashmere Date
Vanilla Macaron
Watermelon Sugar
Don’t forget to check out my All Natural Laundry Soaps, as well as my amazing sugar scrubs and moisturizing hand sanitizing sprays.
Oakview Farm: will have our delicious Salad Greens Mix on the exchange again this week, with a fresh mix of lettuces, kale, small beet greens, arugula, and small mustard greens! We also have our cabbage heads, and large mustard greens, which are great for stir fries. We follow organic practices- no pesticides or chemical fertilizers on our produce!
Calico Farm: If you haven’t tried our delicious maple sea salt cookies…why not? They are organic, dairy-free & perfectly sweet with a hint of Himalayan sea salt to balance it out. Enjoy these super – soft cookies with your coffee, tea or as a dessert anytime. Sold in 6-packs.
Get all your baking essentials on hand before Easter is upon us. We have the best-tasting vanilla extract you’ll find – homemade with organic Madagascar vanilla beans & aged a minimum of 2 months (this batch was actually over 3 months, & the longer it ages, the better it tastes). Also, be sure to pick up our organic vanilla sugar – raw cane sugar that is processed with the paste of the vanilla beans then infuses with the spent pods for weeks. It truly up-levels anything you put it in; coffee, tea, baked goods etc. Both items also make unique gifts for the foodie/baker in your life.
M&S Farms: We still several great cuts of beef available at a very reasonable price.
Kumaika Coffee: 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 Ground Coffee available or can’t decide order our Sampler.
Backyard Tailz: Treat your birds arriving from their winter break with my new Cardinal, Chickadee, Woodpecker snacks. Variety of mixes. Still have a few hanging wreaths availabe.
Tailwynds Farm:
Several cuts of Beef on Sale and other assorted cuts of beef available, Coconut Pie, Oreo Cookie Pie and Strawberry Pie.
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.
Lavender Cottage: We are excited to be adding a few more new items. Some seasoning mixes as well as a new powder to our line up. Weather permiting we plan to be on the porch Wednesday during pickup so you can view and purchase from our inventory.
Pink’s Micros:
This is our WINTER microgren blend! Every season we create new blends to represent the time of year. OUR WINTER blend has ’YELLOW BEETS, RED PAC CHOI, IGLOO CAULIFLOWER and CURLY WATERCRESS.
What better way to start the New Year than with highly nutritional greens called Mirogreens? They pack 40 to 100% more vital nutrients than the adult verion. We grow organically with NON-GMO seeds and nutrient-dense soil. We look forward to providing the best for you in 2024.
RC Farms: 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 have our specials posted. We also have added Chicken Thighs and Drumsticks still on sale. We also have added more eggs available
Quarter Spring Farm: We have all of the healthy and delicious pasture raised poultry that your family craves. We are also fully stocked with equally healthy and tasty grass-fed lamb, and we have plenty of free range chicken eggs available this week on the market. As always, we have plenty of skin softening goat milk soaps, shampoo bars, and lotions. Try some today to feel the difference for yourself.
Nash Philly: Nashville Hot Chicken Parmesan? My creative twist on two great dishes. It’s everything you would expect from a chicken parm dish. Tender pan fried chicken cutlets, pounded out, and seasoned with garlic, onion, cayenne, paprika, white pepper and freshly crackled black pepper. Breaded and pan fried to golden brown and delicious. And covered with homemade marinara sauce, mozzarella cheese and Parmesan cheese. Served with spaghetti noodles. For those of you not keen to spicy things we are also doing a regular chicken Parmesan as well.
Beef Wellington a true American classic. Seared 6 oz sirloin steaks that are wrapped in prosciutto exclusively being sold from the Hammery here in Murfreesboro. And a sautéed mushroom and onions mixture ( mushroom duxelle) wrapped in puff pastry. As you bake this dish watch it come to life with its flakey buttery crust. Surely to wow yourself, significant other or guests.
Collard greens done differently but well. Try these creamed collard greens. It’s like a hardy spinach and artichoke dip but without the need of having chips, but a good piece of bread goes very well with this side.
Flying S Farms: We have a few new Happy Chickens added to our flock, don’t be surprised is you see a different colored egg in your carton! The ladies are very happy with the weather getting warmer, we are overrun with eggs! So we have a really good Eggcellent this week, single dozen or 3 dozen Fresh Farm Eggs Special. Also our have our delicious Sour Dough Breads, along with delicious Brownies, Biscuits, Friendship Breads (please order Friendship Breads by 3pm on Monday) still have few Jams available, we will Jamming soon updating our inventory.
We will be looking forward seeing you “On the Porch or At the Curb" of Quinn’s Mercantile WEDNESDAY, March 6th from 4:30 – 5:30 pm, please note time change, please contact the Manager if you are unable to pick up your order or are running late, please 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.
Due to darkness and traffic, we will NOT be able to offer Delivery Service for after market at this time, but you are welcome to contact us and make arrangement for a time the next day.
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.
Middle Tennessee Locally Grown: The Market is Open for Ordering
Middle Tennessee Locally Grown market
will be open for your orders till Tuesday evening at 10 pm.
Russellville Community Market: 3/3/24 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!
The beautiful warm weather means that the daffodil season will be short this year! If you went to the Wye Mountain daffodil festival this weekend and were inspired by the cheerful blooms, you can get daffodil bouquets to brighten your home here at RCM! Get your good doggies some treats like peanut butter bacon doggie donuts from Treat Street Pet Bakery or find a special gift for a friend like the colorful handmade shawl from Hoof Hollow Hobbies! The vegetables sold very quickly this week, but you can still get some young Swiss chard from Pine Ridge Gardens or turnips from Hoof Hollow Hobbies! Indulge in turtle brownies from Kaitlyn’s Sweets and Treats or Kourtney’s homemade marshmallows or snack on pretzel bites from Maple Brook Bakery. If you like scones, there are quite a few flavors available like blackberry lemon from Victoria’s Little Bread House- or try one of her savory focaccias. Her new caprese focaccia looks pretty good! Fresh mushrooms from The Fortunate Mushroom should be available again next week, but you can grow your own or treat a friend with a mushroom grow kit! There is such a wide variety of bread available in the baked goods category, you are sure to find one that is perfect for you! Maple Brook Bakery has a variety of sourdough loaves, some from historical starters, and Victoria’s Little Bread House has a perfect looking sandwich loaf. Pleasant View offers whole wheat sandwich bread and Cecelia and Otis creates artistic sourdough loaves. RCM is proud to be able to offer our customers handmade pasta in addition to all the amazing baked goods. Be sure to take a look at the pasta category for Wild Hare Nursery’s pasta creations! Enjoy some sliced ham from Porch Swing Farms with your great breads, make a family dinner with a pork roast from Bluff Top, savor some New York Strip steaks from R&D or get a great deal on a family pack from C3 Beef! Don’t forget some fresh apples from Drewry or try her jams and jellies like pineapple upside-down butter! There are lots and lots of fresh eggs available; choose your favorite colors and shop a variety of sizes to get just what you need! Duck eggs are available. too! Whether by the dozen or by the flat, there are some great deals on farm eggs! Check out over 30 different kinds of cookies to snack on this week; make sure to look at Cecelia and Otis’ vegan cookie choices (my favorite is the black and white cookie!) or old fashioned favorites like Pleasant View’s Gingersnaps! RCM is full of fantastic finds and great flavors!
Don’t forget to follow us on Facebook and Instagram!
REMINDER- We can no longer accept credit or debit cards. We will still be able to process cash, checks and SNAP/EBT transactions.
Check back frequently as our farmers regularly update what they have available. Multiple orders are encouraged. :)
Russellville Community Market
FRESH.LOCAL.ONLINE
Dothan, Alabama: March 2, 2024 - M@D is Open for Orders!
MISC MARKET NOTES
At some point in life we become more conscious of making and cherishing good memories. One of my best recent memories was laughing and crying till it hurt while my son shared YouTube videos with me.
So what’s that got to do with the Market?
Well, the videos were basically about us. He had found a channel that involved pretty much everything we’re about:
Sustainability
Healthy Lifestyle Choices
Natural Healing
Organic and sustainable foods
Avoiding Toxins
Etc.
And . . . it was pure satire. So much straight faced satire that if you didn’t realize it was satire it could be really REALLY offensive.
So today I want to introduce you to ReallyVeryCrunchy. For me this channel was a refreshing opportunity to laugh at myself without compromising any principals. In fact I doubled down on learning to make sourdough after seeing it (see photo below if you don’t believe me – it came out of the oven last night.)
This video about selling GIRL SCOUT COOKIES is a great place to start.
My personal favorite is the VALENTINE’S DAY short video.
Grier Acres: Hi everyone Harry and Jeannie are overwhelmed as usual but HAPPY. We purchased a 100% Kiko goat herd from a rancher in Albany Ga who was retiring. 1 buck and 13 does. That brought our herd up to 23. Our original plan was to only breed one of the does that was old enough and let the 12 doelings get to 1+ year of age. All 13 arrived on our farm on September 16, 2023. Goats have a gestation period of 150 days +- 5 days. Well 150 days from September 16, 2023 is February 13, 2024.
February 12 we had twin doelings delivered, and February 13, we had a single buckling born. Who’s the baby daddy? Is he the buck that arrived with the does or is the baby daddy another buck that was still in Albany? DNA tests will tell. (yes with a 100% New Zealand Kiko registered herd, we get DNA tests.) At any rate, the twin doelings, Speckles and Ames are both healthy and doing well. They are smart and intuitive. Blue, the buckling, is rock solid and growing at .55# per day. He can keep up with his mother anywhere she goes. We’re excited to have him on the farm regardless of who “da baby daddy is”. (inset photos here)
Males are always so PRETTY and Blue is no exception. Goats are doing extremely well and we are so relieved this particular kidding is over. However, lots more kidding coming. LOL.
Garden: We’ve been collecting natural fertilizer throughout the fall and winter. What can’t be used in our own garden will be made available for sale. Jeannie has plenty of poop from both chickens and goats. The chicken poop is not hot as it’s been aged for quite a while. Let us know if you need any poop for your compost. Harry has told Jeannie the poop is not valuable to others. So….if you want to help Jeannie prove Harry wrong ring us up. Tell your friends. Lol.
Also if anyone needs mullen let us know. We have several spots on the farm where it naturally grows.
Jeannie’s nursing home resident chickens are laying (a little). She has 10 hens and 3 have finally begun laying. We aren’t holding out for the other seven, hence the term nursing home chickens. Sigh….
Cold weather means wood for the fireplace. Harry is earning his keep by keeping the fat lighter split to help start the fireplace. If you are needing some fat lighter, we will be doing table sale bundles in Dothan when you pick up your weekly purchases. Please feel free to forward anyone to the market who might benefit from this wonderful smelling starting wood.
Avalon Farms:
So excited and a little anxious! I’ve never grown strawberries before. Silly me, didn’t realize they bear so early. They should be ready by the end of March. (Maybe sooner! I’m watching them closely.) They’ll be available in the market ASAP.
Thankfully these were planted back in October. (Before the leg issues.) It is nice to spread the farm labor out.
THIS & THAT
The state recently reported that our state grocery tax will NOT go down another 1% this year but will remain at the 1% reduction we received in 2023. This is because the reduction is tied to the state Education Trust Fund (EFT) which did not meet projected growth. For more information you may read THIS ARTICLE from 1819 News.
We look forward to seeing you next Friday at one of our pickup locations. 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!
The Wednesday Market: Here is Your Reminder to Order
Good afternoon.
The Wednesday Market is open for orders. Please place your order by 10 p.m. Monday. Orders are ready for pick up between 2 and 4 p.m. Check the website for this week’s product offerings. Here is the link: https://wednesdaymarket.locallygrown.net/market
Please help us. We are still in need of egg cartons, so if you have any, please bring them with you when you come to pick up your order on Wednesday.
Also, beginning this week, we are adding a 50 cents per order fee to help offset the cost of our utilities. This charge will be added to your order at check out. As a reminder to our customers, we are and always have been an all-volunteer run organization and strive to keep our overhead costs as low as possible. Even so, we still require electricity and water. Thank you for helping us keep the lights on!
Thank you for supporting Georgia Grown. We’ll see you at the Market.
Thanks,
Beverly
P.S. If you have questions about your order or if you need to contact us, please start with Nelda, as she is our primary market manager. I (Beverly) am also available, but I may not reply immediately. You may contact us by text, email, or phone call.
Nelda Miller
678-859-6074
neldamiller411@hotmail.com
Beverly Walter
770-468-8237
bdwalter@bellsouth.net