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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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ALFN Local Food Club: Market Reminder
Good morning everyone!
Don’t forget to place your orders on the market before noon.
Interested in volunteering a few hours with us on the weekend? We are in need of a cashier this weekend. sign up for the Food Club Cashier position from 10-12 this Saturday! You’ll earn membership or credit for your account (and enjoy tasty snacks from the food club).
Best,
Claire Admire
Program & Market Manager
The Cumming Harvest - Closed: This week on The Cumming Harvest
To Contact Us
The Cumming Harvest
thecummingharvest@gmail.com
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This Week
Market opens at 10AM
Carrell Farms is listing this week! They deliver once a month so stock up on your favorite alpaca, water buffalo and lamb products. If you haven’t tried their meat yet, you don’t know what you’re missing.
Ancient Awakenings is listing this week. Their water kefir is gluten-free and dairy-free, but not free on fizz and flavor!
Check out Buffalo Gal Grassfed Beauty’s gift sets in the Bath and Beauty section and give yourself the gift of hydrated skin. The gift set for Normal/ combo skin contains a Tallow Facial balm, Refresh Toning Mist, and an Unscented Handmade Tallow Cleansing Bar. See what else they have to offer.
It’s March already and time to place your next order with White Oak Pastures for their pastured chicken, pork and sausage products. Amber, a Cumming Harvest customer, has generously volunteered to assist me with the order-taking process. Thank you Amber! She has created an email address specifically for White Oak Pastures orders, whiteoakpasturesorder@gmail.com. I’ll post links to it everywhere. Please note that the prices on the order sheet have changed to reflect tax this time.
Order due: March 19
Order ready for pickup: March 31
If you’re looking forward to getting outside and planting a garden (after this last cold snap that we are about to have), consider purchasing Heirloom Garden’s potted herbs, sold in quart containers. To find out what herbs Paula has available, look under the Plants category.
The Cumming Harvest is looking for a few special volunteers to help with various projects. All volunteer positions are compensated with market credit after a brief training period.
EAT LOCAL
Have you ever thought about cutting the grocery store habit and eating mostly local foods? Inspired by Barbara Kingsolver’s book Animal, Vegetable, Mineral, which speaks to her own convictions on food and community, Lynn Pugh (of Cane Creek Farm) has felt called to embark on the journey of eating (mostly) locally-produced foods. Realizing that to do so requires quite a bit of resourcefulness and (mostly emotional) support, Lynn has recruited me to join her and would like to know if there are others out there who are also interested in sharing the joys and challenges of this journey. As Kingsolver herself said, “We live in a culture that’s so thoroughly entitled to have absolutely everything in absolutely every season. It’s just inconceivable that anyone could intentionally give up 90 percent of your choices and not drag around missing them every minute." And yet, that is what we intend to do- joyfully!
Admittedly, the edibles that will be the toughest to find locally are often the ones we enjoy the most— pasta, flour, chocolate and coffee. So to be clear—each person sets his or her own rules. I will certainly not be giving up coffee, nor will I let all of those bananas sitting in my freezer go to waste! However, Lynn and I are invigorated by the challenge of switching up what’s on our plates and excited that there are others who also want to connect with local food sources, create community and strengthen our local food economy. Therefore, if you want to share your own experiences in sourcing and eating (mostly) local foods, PLEASE contact me or Lynn. We plan on having a many-faceted approach to supporting each other, from assisting each other in sourcing those hard-to-get items, to enjoying potluck meals together. Bon appetit!
What is the market missing? Are there any products that you would like to see offered by local artisans and farmers? Please email theucmmingharvest@gmail.com to let us know what your food interests and needs are!
Pick-Up
Market Location and Pick Up
Pick Up every Saturday from 10am-12pm.
Located in a small building directly behind The Episcopal Church of the Holy Spirit.
724 Pilgrim Mill Road, Cumming, GA 30040
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To view the harvest today and tomorrow till 8pm, visit “The Market” page on our website, The Cumming Harvest
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!
Champaign, OH: Call Of The Wreckin' Ball
Call Of the Wreckin’ ball, and the close of this week’s market, at 8am, today!
Song title by my favorite punk band, X, to signal the crashing sound of getting your orders in!!
It’s a big, fun market, this week, with a whole lot of local action shakin’ down. I am sure you don’t want to miss out on the fun.
Grab your coffee, your tea, or whatever grooves your early morning, and throw us your weekly orders. It only takes a few minutes to make your shopping life so much easier for the week.
Be the wreckin’ ball…crash the market!!
XOXO,
Cosmic Pam
Spa City Local Farm Market Co-op: The market is now closed for ordering
The Spa City Co-op market is now closed for ordering. Please plan to pick up your order this Friday between 3 and 4:30 pm.
Should you be unable to pick up, please arrange for a friend to do so for you.
Thank you for ordering from Spa City Co-op
This weeks market manager
Karen Schuman
501-276-3318
karenschuman9@gmail.com
Statesboro Market2Go: Strawberries!
Just added – Strawberries from Jacobs Produce!
Market2Go hours extended until 7am Wednesday for orders this week!
CLG: Tuesday Reminder - Market Closes Tonight after 10pm.
Hello friends,
There’s still time to place your order for pickup this Friday, March 9th
The market closes TONIGHT after 10pm, maybe even midnight! Come early on Friday for the best selection from the Extras table. See you Friday!
How to contact us:
DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL. Instead…
Phone or text: Steve – 501-339-1039
Email: Steve – kirp1968@sbcglobal.net
Our Website:
https://conway.locallygrown.net/market
On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com
Miami County Locally Grown: Welcome our Newest Vendor!!
Bad Seed Mustard Company has joined the market with their three deli-style mustards!!
From the Perfect Burn of their Sweet Habanero mustard to the No Heat Zone of their Sweet Deli recipe, they’ve got something for every palate!
Whether you make some killer deviled eggs, a classic sandwich, or pair it with the perfect pretzel, possibilities are endless!
Bad Seed Mustard Company started out like any other condiment business; in the kitchen! Sam’s Grandfather Richard Powell came across a recipe for an Old Fashioned Sweet and Hot Mustard back in 1981 while traveling the state of Ohio as an Insurance Adjuster. He brought the recipe home to Springfield Ohio, and Grandmother Phyllis would spend the next 5 years fine-tuning and correcting the recipe so that is was just right.
For years the mustard was renowned inside the Powell Family household; finding its home on everything from Turkey Sandwiches to Hamburgers and Hotdogs. In 2012 Sam asked his Grandmother if she would share her secret recipe so that he could start a small project, selling the mustard locally to family and friends.
“The project has quickly grown into a small business, one I know my Grandmother would be proud of. Her culinary passion extended beyond the food she plated, it encompassed even the condiments that complemented her dishes. Bad Seed Mustard Company continues this passion, providing the World’s Most Versatile Mustards!”
www.miamicounty.locallygrown.net!
Russellville Community Market: National Pie Day is 3/14 (Market Closes at 10PM)!
Russellville Community Market closes at 10 p.m. this evening
– be sure to place your order!
Next Wednesday is National Pie Day 3/14!
And you know where to find awesome pie ingredients! That’s right! Here. Online. At your Russellville locally grown market. Check out the pecans from Bluebird Hill Berry Farm! Or maybe you want to make a sweet potato pie using those orange gems from Green Acres! Be a true Southern Rebel and make a savory pie with greens or leeks! And once you make your delicious pie for National Pie Day – Don’t forget to take a picture and tag us on Facebook!
We want to see your creations!
Thank you to everyone who stopped to visit us on Friday at the Art Walk! We are just as excited about supporting local farmers and producers as you are! Check out our pictures on Facebook!
To ensure your order is placed, make sure you click the “Place My Order” button once you have completed your shopping. Pick up is Thursday at All Saints Episcopal Church on Phoenix from 4 – 6:30 p.m.
Russellville Community Market
FRESH.LOCAL.ONLINE.
Champaign, OH: Positively 4th Street
I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes
And just for that one moment I could be you
Yes, I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes…
(Positively 4th Street-Bob Dylan)
For no other reason, today, except that I think these lyrics are beautiful, and I am in a Dylan kind of way, this morning…
Go ahead…spin some Dylan, and thank me, always for setting the tone of your day.
It’s Tuesday, it’s sunny, and it’s going to be a warm 52 degrees!! Perfectly inspiring for ordering from this perfectly inspired little local market of love!!
Oh, and you know…it’s climbing to be quite a market, this week! You don’t want to miss out on all of this positive vibing local goodness…we are open until tomorrow at 8am. Don’t linger, and don’t forget…
Another fun tidbit about the song that I chose for you, today? It’s the song that I put on replay, endless amounts of play, when I am on the cusp of making business decisions. And, the Jerry Garcia version is the one that I listened to, constantly, on the night that I put Cosmic Charlie into action, 9 seasons ago. What’s the song that sends you into action? We all have a song…
Okay! Groove it out…get your orders ready!
And…on a follow up to the chipmunk adventure of yesterday. The little intruder had trapped himself into my powder room trash can, must of scared himself into a sad farewell, and was then disposed of in the fields…so long…
Now…let’s get this Tuesday underway…
XOXO,
Cosmic Pam
Spa City Local Farm Market Co-op: Reminder
Don’t forget to place your co-op order before tomorrow, Tuesday at 9pm. Also, any orders for ANP vegetables need to be placed before 9pm this evening.
There’s lots of great foods from local farmers waiting for you.