The Weblog
This weblog contains LocallyGrown.net news and the weblog entries from all the markets currently using the system.
To visit the authoring market’s website, click on the market name located in the entry’s title.
Siloam Springs, AR: It's time for the Homegrown Festival!!
Saturday, October 7th the market will move over to the end of Broadway St and East Main, by Twin Springs Park, so we can be part of the Homegrown Festival!!
It is the last day of the outdoor market season and our Kids Day. There will be so many great free activities for the kids, a pumpkin patch, a blacksmith demonstration, live music, the bounce castle, Yeyo’s Mexican Grill, and all the Homegrown makers and vendors- somewhere around 60 booths. Our market will be full with 20 farmers, makers, and bakers.
Come out and support your farmers and shop the market and the festival for great gifts for the upcoming holidays and treat yourself to something nice as well!
We will be open 8-1 and the festival hours are 10-5. See you Saturday!!
Spa City Local Farm Market Co-op: Reminder to place orders by 9 pm tomorrow
Just a reminder to place orders today or tomorrow before 9 pm.
See you Friday for pickup!
Julie
Green Fork Farmers Market: Weekly product list
Dear Green Fork Farmers Market Customers:
NEW this week! Beyond Organics has green beans, turnips, and butternut squash available.
Riverside Specialty Farm has kale and pickling cucumbers.
Figgieville has new flavors of olive oil and a Fiddleleaf Fig houseplant available.
Vegetables—Kale, radishes, pumpkins, turnips, turnip greens, butternut squash, celery, cucumbers, eggplant, green beans, tomatoes, tomatillos, okra, many varieties of sweet and hot peppers, potatoes, sweet potatoes, onions, and squash.
Eggs—From pastured hens.
Meat--Pastured beef and chicken.
Olives and Olive Oil—Direct from the organic grower in California.
Fermented foods—jalapenos.
Salsa—Tomato and tomatillo salsas made with locally grown and organic ingredients.
Live plants—Fig trees, fig houseplants.
Crafts—Natural, handmade soy candles scented with pure essential oils (no toxic chemicals!)
Place your order now, then pick up and pay on Wednesday from 4-6 pm at Nightbird Books in Fayetteville.
We will also have a selection of locally grown and handmade goods available for sale from the table at the market on Wednesday.
We look forward to seeing you!
Green Fork Farmers Market
Wednesdays 4-7 pm
Indoors, Year Round
Inside Nightbird Books
205 W. Dickson St.
Fayetteville, AR
To place your order, click on the link below to enter the website. Sign in as a customer, then click on the icon next to each product you wish to order. Proceed to checkout, review the list to make sure it’s correct, then scroll to the bottom and click on Place This Order. Make sure you receive a confirmation email—-if you don’t, your order was not processed. Payment is at the market pickup with cash, check, debit/credit card, EBT, and Senior FMNP coupons. Ask about our doubling program for EBT and SFMNP!
Athens Locally Grown: ALG Market Open for October 5
Athens Locally Grown
How to contact us:
Our Website: athens.locallygrown.net
On Twitter: @athlocallygrown
On Facebook: www.facebook.com/athenslocallygrown
On Thursdays: Here’s a map.
Market News
October already? Looks like a beautiful week ahead of us, just right for both the summer veggies hanging on in the garden and the fall crops coming in. Hopefully we can get more like this right on to frost (preferably mixed with a bit more rain)!
Here’s something I haven’t talked about in a while… despite all of our best efforts, sometimes the things you order don’t make it into your baskets come Thursday. The growers try their best, but sometimes they aren’t able to fill orders for a variety of reasons. They almost always go into the system and remove the items they can’t fill by 2pm on Thursday, so by then you should be able to look at your order on the website and get a reasonable expectation of what we’ll have ready for you when you arrive. Even then, though, things can go wrong. A grower can leave a box at home, sitting on their kitchen counter, and when we go to fill your order, an item might be missing. We mark those items off on the spot, using our little hand-held devices, and try to tell you when we hand you your items. And sometimes, we mess up ourselves filling your orders and think we put everything in your box only to find a bag with your name on it at the end of the night. In that case, we take it off your order and automatically issue a refund to your account if you paid in person when you picked things up.
The majority of you are pre-paying these days, though, using cards online. That’s great for everyone, as it really streamlines the process. It’s a bit of a misnomer, though, because even though you placed your order on Monday or Tuesday, I don’t actually run the cards until the end of the night on Thursday, after all the orders have been finalized. That way, you’re never charged for items the growers took off, or didn’t bring, or that we left out of your box. You can see exactly what you were charged for, and what the status was for every item on your order, by looking at your order history on the Your Account page. There, you can see a PDF invoice for every order you have ever placed at ALG, a line-by-line accounting for every item, and the total you were charged (or paid in person).
And if you ever have any question, please don’t hesitate to ask them of me. Just reply to any email the system sends you, and it’ll come right to me.
Thank you so much for your support of Athens Locally Grown, all of our growers, local food, and our rights to eat it. You all are part of what makes Athens such a great area in which to live. We’ll see you on Thursday at Ben’s Bikes at the corner of Pope and Broad Streets from 4:30 to 8pm!
Other Area Farmers Markets
The Athens Farmers Market is open on Saturdays at Bishop Park and Wednesday afternoons downtown at Creature Comforts. You can catch the news on their website. The West Broad Farmers Market is up and running, Saturdays from 9am to 1pm, and you can find out more here: http://www.athenslandtrust.org/west-broad-farmers-market/. The Oconee County Farms Market is open on Saturdays in Watkinsville. Their website is www.oconeefarmersmarket.org. The Comer Farmers’ Market is open on Saturday mornings from 9am to noon. Check www.facebook.com/comerfm for more information. Washington, GA also has a lovely little Saturday market, running on Saturdays from 9-12. Folks to the east can check out the Hartwell Farmers Market, which starts bright and early on Saturday morning from 7am to noon, and Tuesday afternoons from noon to 4pm. You can learn all about them here: www.washingtonfarmersmkt.com. If you know of any other area markets operating, please let me know.
All of these other markets are separate from ALG (including the Athens Farmers Market) but many growers sell at multiple markets. Please support your local farmers and food producers, where ever you’re able to do so!
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!
Greener Acres Farm: Addition to Market -- LOTS of Grapes
Addition to Market — LOTS of Grapes
Jamboree Farm has just added a ton of grapes to the market.
Jamboree Farm is owned and operated by Beth Roxby and Todd Fasnacht in Alum Bank, PA. Both Beth and Tod are military veterans and members of the Farmer Veteran Coalition and use the marketing tool ‘Homegrown By Heroes.’
Reach out today to support a fellow veteran farmer.
If you have already placed an order this week, no worries. You can add these to your current order, or start a second order.
Fresh Harvest, LLC: Fresh Harvest for October 1st
To Contact Us
Fresh Harvest, LLC
Link to Fresh Harvest
Email us!
Tallahassee May
tally@wildblue.net
JohnDrury
john.drury@att.net
Recipes
Market News
Hello!
Welcome, October!
October is a beautiful month, but also is usually the driest one of the year! Lots of crops still growing in the field, and getting them well watered is a big chore. Thankfully the cooler temperatures- especially at night- keep them from drying up!
Dozen Bakery is here for you with a timely Fall treat with their Apple Gallette. This free form pastry is made with top quality ingredients and is a delicious dessert. Also good for breakfast, just sayin!
We have so many amazing veggies this week! Still have tomatoes! We’ve got greens of all kinds! Lots of varieties of winter squash and delicious potatoes! Try some delicious herbal lemon balm tea!
We thank you so much for your support! We look forward to greeting you smiling faces!
See you Wednesday!
John and Tallahassee
Coming Events
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!
Greener Acres Farm: Online Market is still OPEN !!
Online Market is still OPEN !!
Yes, we are still open. We had our first frost this morning, but we still have produce available. Our peppers and tomatoes are in a protected environment, so we continue to have sweet peppers and some tomatoes, although supplies are limited. We also have cold hardy produce such as kale and swiss chard.
We also still carry potatoes, onions and garlic which are storage crops. As well as chestnuts, sweet corn, pumpkins and more.
HORSERADISH !!
Green"er" Acres Farm will be soon selling fresh horseradish root, they are waiting for two more frosts before they dig it up. It will come as a bare root since they can not process it at the farm for retail as ground horseradish, as they do not have a certified kitchen.
Winter Produce On the Way
Green"er" Acres Farm has started their winter produce such as lettuce and spinach and onions already and will be starting carrots, beets, turnips and more in the coming weeks.
Suwanee Whole Life Co-op: Reminder Order by 6pm & Carrell Farms order is this week
Just a friendly reminder, if you haven’t already placed your order, that market orders are due online by 6 pm TODAY. Place your order now so you don’t forget!
My Daily Bread will be off for 1-2 weeks after this week so order extra if you need to. Please remember that we need to hit certain minimums in order for our farmers and vendors to deliver to us.
Thank you for placing your order and supporting local farms and businesses!
Click Here to Place Your Order For THURSDAY pick up
THIS ORDER IS FOR THURSDAY PICK UP AT SUWANEE LOCATION FROM 1PM to 3PM (1300 Peachtree Ind. Blvd, Suite 1104, Suwanee 30024 at Cultured Traditions)
*If you want to order from BUFORD LOCALLY GROWN pick up on TUESDAYS in Buford Click here to be redirected to Buford website
YOU CAN ONLY PICK UP FROM THE LOCATION YOU HAVE ORDERED FROM!
Buford Locally Grown : Reminder Order by 6pm & Carrell Farms order is this week
Just a friendly reminder, if you haven’t already placed your order, that market orders are due online by 6 pm TODAY. Place your order now so you don’t forget.
My Daily Bread will be off for 1-2 weeks after this week so order extra if you need to. Please remember that we need to hit certain minimums in order for our farmers and vendors to deliver to us.
Thank you for placing your order and supporting local farms and businesses!
Click Here to Place Your Order
THIS ORDER IS FOR TUESDAY PICK UP AT BUFORD LOCATION (285 E. Moreno St. Buford 30518 from 1 pm to 6:30 pm. Pick up is behind the KCO Audio building on S. Hill St.)
CLG: Opening Bell: Arugula, Squash, Apples, Meat!
Good afternoon!
No rain in the forecast, but our Growers are still producing some excellent food. Armstead Farm is back with Arugula, heirloom Lettuce, Shunkyo Radishes, Hikurei Turnips, plus Garlic, Butternut Squash, and Sweet Peppers.
Bar C Farm is continuing their sale on Italian Sausage and Andouille Sausage. Time to stock up!
Be sure to SEARCH for your favorite items using the search field. Over 650 items available now!
Most items are listed by 6pm Sunday, but check back again before the market closes Tuesday night to see if any other items are ready to be harvested for you! Eat fresh! Eat local! Eat for better health!
And save your eggshells throughout the week for the laying hens! :-)
The market is now OPEN for orders. Click here to start shopping:
www.conway.locallygrown.net
Please check your email a few 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