Suwanee Whole Life Co-op:  Market is OPEN for ordering!

ORDERING:
The market is now open for ordering!

Click link to order: suwanee.locallygrown.net

Link to current newsletter: https://www.smore.com/teg0m

If you do NOT receive a confirmation email immediately after you placed your order, then your items are still in your cart and your order is not complete. All orders must be placed by 6pm on Sunday.

PICK UP:
Pick up is on ***WEDNESDAY*** at 1300 Peachtree Industrial Blvd. Suite 1104, Suwanee at Cultured Traditions from 1 pm to 6:30 pm.

PAYMENT:
We take checks, cash, DWOLLA, PayPal, and credit cards online.

To pay by credit card click Pay Now button at the bottom of the check out page. I don’t run credit cards until after pick up on Wednesdays.

If paying by DWOLLA or PayPal, please pay on time. I pay our vendors on your behalf before you pick up so I need all payments intiated by Wednesdays.

The Cumming Harvest - Closed:  Market Closes Soon

Just a friendly reminder that the market orders are due today by 8 pm.

Thank you for placing your order and supporting local farms and businesses!
See you on Saturday!

Click Here To Order

Independence,VA:  Market is OPEN for March 7th pickup!

Good evening!

The Market is open and ready for your orders.

Be sure to look for our GoFundMe! sponsored ad on Facebook. You can help us out by sharing and commenting so more people see it!

To Donate: IFM Go Fund ME!.

To Shop: Independence Farmers Market.

Upcoming Events

Have you thought about becoming a vendor at the Farmers Market? Here’s your chance to join returning vendors and find out about the coming season and enjoy a potluck lunch on Friday, April 6th from 10am-2pm at the Grayson Landcare office. Check out our Facebook event page for more information.

You guys are the best, thank you for supporting the Independence Farmers
Market!

Abby

ALFN Local Food Club:  Market Reminder

Good morning!

Don’t forget to order on the market before it closes at noon.

We are full for volunteers this weekend, but if you’re interested in volunteering with us in the future to earn credit and membership for your account, sign up for a future spot, they fill up fast!

Claire Admire
Program & Market Manager

The Cumming Harvest - Closed:  This week on The Cumming Harvest

Miami County Locally Grown:  We are OPEN for orders with a New Featured Vendor!!

As we near the end of the Maple Syrup run for this season, it’s only fitting to feature Sugar Grove Maple Products tonight!!

If Braden Fisher is cooking down his sap to produce maple syrup when you step out of your car at Sugar Grove Maple Products, you’ll think you walked into a candy kitchen – the cooking maple syrup smells so rich, and so sweet, you can almost taste it. I was instantly sorry we didn’t have more maple trees on our own farm, or a fresh batch of pancakes!

And I was shocked by his infrastructure… the romanticized picture in my mind was of old-fashioned buckets on the trees collecting sap, and a simple pan heated with woodfire, not the super-efficient vacuum tubing collection system through the trees and sleek, ultra-modern, diesel-powered evaporator and reverse osmosis separator he could adjust with the touch of a button. With reverse osmosis, he can remove 80% of the water from the sap before he ever begins to cook it into syrup… the essence of efficiency!

When he said this had been a hobby for twelve years, I wanted to laugh – other people call collecting stamps, reading, or knitting a hobby, not this kind of massive annual undertaking. Collecting and processing 20,000 gallons of sap from 1,000 trees? I think we’re all glad Braden is so committed to his “hobby”!

At the family farm stand on State Route 41 just west of Troy, it all began when Braden, then in high school, learned the art of maple sugaring from his cousin in Indiana. With a convenient location on a high-traffic road, and more than a little determination, his first year saw him collecting sap with buckets, stoking his fire with wood, and cooking down the sap in a 2 foot by 5 foot pan… and one year the old-fashioned way was enough! Enter a new evaporator, the tubing pipeline to collect the sap from the trees, and Braden was on his way to becoming the area’s go-to maple syrup producer!

When I visited recently to see his process in action, he was constantly and capably working, fine-tuning this, adjusting that, moving here and there… it was all I could do to be relatively quiet (believe me, a herculean feat), so floored I was by the art unfolding before my eyes that I asked only one million questions. It cracked me up that he was so calm and nonchalant about what to me was the neatest thing I’d see in some time.

Like so many agricultural productions, the maple syrup process is severely affected by the weather – changes in barometric pressure can fluctuate daily or hourly, and hinder production. The warm weather we’ve enjoyed recently is scary to the maple syrup producer, as just the right mix of warm days and below freezing nights allow for optimum yield. This season Braden says the run started two weeks earlier than normal, but it won’t be until the trees bud out and the run is finished that he’ll be able to know whether this was a great syrup season or not. So much thought, planning and care goes into Braden’s syrup, and you can taste not only the quality but the effort it’s production demands.

You couldn’t find a lovelier personality than his mother, Marilyn, who is a familiar face both at the Downtown Troy farmers market in the summer with both Braden’s syrup and the scrumptious sweets she makes with, of course, maple!

Braden attracts many customers to Miami County Locally Grown… We are undoubtedly fortunate to be in an area able to support a plethora of delicious, quality products… Home Grown Great, indeed!

CLG:  Tuesday Reminder - Market Closes Tonight after 10pm.

Hello friends,

There’s still time to place your order for pickup this Friday, March 2nd.

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

Russellville Community Market:  Online Ordering Ends at 10pm!

Russellville Community Market closes at 10 p.m. this evening
– be sure to place your order!

Don’t Forget about the Art Walk on Friday!

The first Art Walk of 2018 is this Friday, March 2nd and Russellville Community Market will be there! As we ready ourselves for the move to the Train Depot at the beginning of May, we are participating in several events downtown and this will be the first. Please stop by, say hello, and check out some of the fabulous local goods we will have on hand. For more details visit their Facebook page – Downtown Art Walk

Pick up is Thursday at All Saints Episcopal Church on Phoenix from 4 – 6:30 p.m.

Russellville Community Market

FRESH.LOCAL.ONLINE.

Dawson Local Harvest:  REMINDER! Dawson Local Harvest Market Closes @ 9pm!

Dawson Local Harvest for March 2nd

BEST COLLARD GREENS EVER? Order Collard Greens before 9 pm Tonight!

HERE’S HOW: Leilani’s Collard Greens, a smoked turkey leg, salt, pepper, garlic powder, hot sauce and 2 hours simmer, and you’re in Southern Cooking Heaven!

Fresh-picked Veggies, free-range Meats and Eggs, Toffee Almond Cookies, and so much more await! Place your Dawson Harvest order NOW!

Thanks, Alan, Market Manager

Champaign, OH:  Hello, Tuesday!!

Just a reminder, before the day gets away from you, that we are open, for the week, until tomorrow at 8am!!

Spend a little time, today, to make sure you don’t miss out on all that this little market has to offer…

XOXO,
Cosmic Pam