Buford Locally Grown :  Market is OPEN for ordering!

ORDERING:
The market is now open for ordering!
Click link to order: Buford.LocallyGrown.net

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 Tuesday at 285 E. Moreno St. Buford 30518 from 1 pm to 6:30 pm. Pick up is behind the building on S. Hill St.

PAYMENT:
We take checks, cash, and credit card. 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 Tuesdays.

Champaign, OH:  Turn On Your Lovelight!

So, what are you waiting for? I am getting ready to open the market for the week!!

Before I do that, let me just caution you about ordering from here. Only order if you are interested in all things local! Only order if you love knowing that your food is being grown/produced, right here, in your own backyard. Only order if you love the thought of spending your money in our own community. Only order if you love the ease of our market, the ease of the weekly pick up, the fun of being greeted by your market managers, handing you your baskets, bags, or armloads of local goodness…

Only order if this is all important to you!!! If it is not important to you, then…what? How can this NOT be important to you?

Ok…you seasoned, loyal, weekly customers…proceed to the market!! You new, timid, unsure, sort of scared or sort of trying to make that jump into all local, affordable, nutrition, people….well, ok, you move right on along to the market site, too!! There is no time like the now time!! Just do it!!

Our market is opening…and, let me give you all a few heads up on a couple of items that I purchased, from this week’s market.

The new paw paws from Valley View Woodlands…AMAZING…could not quit obsessing about them. Almost custard like. I termed them a tropical crème brulee!! They are so tender, your market managers ate them with spoons, right out of their skin. MUST ORDER.

The triple chocolate gluten-free take and bake cookies from Madison Ling! Popped a cookie sheet full of them, into my oven, the minute I walked in the door, and started dinner…After they cooled, and after I had my steamed brown rice with slow roasted tomatoes from the all organic gardens of Hippie and the Farmer, I sampled one of the cookies…yes, yes, yes!! I cannot express just how delightful these are!!

These are just a FEW of the many items on our market, and only a few of what I purchased!!

You all rocked the market out, this week…let’s do it, again!!

XOXO,
Cosmic Pam

Independence,VA:  Market is OPEN for Oct. 4th pickup!

Good evening!

The Market is now open for orders that will be available to be picked up on October 4th! This is a bit of a transition period for produce, but we have plenty more to offer! Be sure to give yourself some time to sit down and take a look when you have a chance. Save yourself some stress and grow our local economy by getting your holiday shopping done early right here on the Market!

To Shop: Independence Farmers Market.

FALL FINALE is October 13TH! Join us for our final day of the outdoor market for the 2017 season! Our apple dessert contest AND giant pumpkin contest, both win a $100 first prize! We’ll also have a community apple pressing! If you have apples and/or containers to donate, please let us know! If you happen to have kids home that day, be sure to bring them out to press apples and participate in some STEM activities!

Thank you for supporting the Independence Farmers Market!

Abby

ALFN Local Food Club:  Market Reminder

Don’t forget, there’s only a few more hours left to place your orders on the market. We also need a few more volunteers on the early and late shift this weekend.

Thanks!
Claire Hodgson
Market Manager

The Cumming Harvest - Closed:  This Week at The Cumming Harvest

Champaign, OH:  Get Your Groove On

This week’s market closes at 8am, this morning!!

Go ahead…you still have time to join the fun!!

Ready, set, order…

XOXO,
Cosmic Pam

Miami County Locally Grown:  The Need of Community...

It may seem unusual for me to dwell on them when I spend every moment touting the benefits of your neighborhood producers and truly local food… but Mary-Howell’s words really hit home, as she responded to a fellow farmer who, having just lost his soybeans to a recent hail-storm, sent his condolences to the Martins after their fire.

We’re trying to make a list of all the things that were in the barn for insurance, but we can’t list the memories of our daughter’s FFA cow project that consumed the entire family, feeding pigs with our oldest son in the baby backpack, laughing as we (poorly) sheared sheep as a young couple, Klaas feeding the heifers each evening, watching our youngest son when in high school sitting beside our intern from Kazakhstan learning a few words in Russian as they milked the cows, the Hassidic rabbis camping out beside the spelt dehuller as we dehulled their kosher spelt overnight. So much of our lives and our children’s lives revolved around that old barn, and it is gone. And the kids are grown.

But remarkably, the bin of Kosher spelt that was right beside the worst of the blaze, complete with its full propane tank, is not even charred, and when the rabbis got here from Brooklyn late yesterday afternoon and checked the grain, it looks fine! Somehow in the midst of the destruction, it still stands.

And the amazing number of friends and neighbors who stopped by yesterday, offering help, standing with us beside the smoking battle scene, bringing enough food for a funeral, hugs and caring, and our community firefighters of all ages, sizes, and genders. What a group! Knowing that so many people gave their entire night and much of yesterday to help us, support us, love us. We are humbled beyond belief. We are strengthened beyond belief. This is not a tragedy – this is actually an opportunity for us to feel and appreciate our community, both in Penn Yan and literally (thanks to Facebook) around the world!

But honestly, you won’t get any of that when your field of soybeans get hit by hail, you won’t get it when your milk market collapses, when your spouse gets sick, when your teenage child gets in trouble, when your key employee quits.
Our ‘event’ will give us all sorts of support and kind words, but most events that farmers deal with get hardly any notice, totally alone, without any support, without any caring.

We understand that very very well, and in some ways, this excessive outpouring toward us right now makes that even more stark, and a little embarrassing. Most bad things, we go through alone. And community/friend support means so very much. Having people around yesterday was a truly wonderful thing.

So Tim and Kris – here are our hugs, our caring, our understanding – for your loss and discouragement. You have no idea how well we understand! You too will be dealing with insurance today, the clinical humiliation and dissatisfaction of that. You too will be wishing there was some way to wind back the clock, change something, make it not happen. You are not alone in understanding this.

Perhaps that is the most important thing we have learned in the past 48 hours. We need to go through these things with a community.”

no one would’ve known the loss – yet they would’ve had to do exactly as they are doing now, picking up the pieces to try again. I’ve heard so many times, when the going was terrible, “well, that’s farming!” but it’s easy to say when you shop at a big box store and your livelihood isn’t contingent on so many uncontrollable variables. You plan as well as you can, yet 5 minutes of inclement weather can destroy weeks, months, years worth of work.

Where do you find Mary-Howell’s optimism, the day after such devastation? In love of the life and its challenges. And especially in community. In the face of customers who understand sweet corn doesn’t grow in Ohio in April, who want to learn why you don’t have the variety to sell that you would’ve liked, and who are willing to exchange chard for kale because the cabbage worms decimated the kale last night. In the encouragement from a new vendor who’s bursting with enthusiasm. In the brand new customer who’s thrilled to find a convenient source for truly local food.

Russellville Community Market:  Remember to Order!

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

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

See you on Thursday!!

Russellville Community Market

FRESH.LOCAL.ONLINE.

Greener Acres Farm:  Last Minute Addition -- CHESTNUTS !!

Last Minute Addition — CHESTNUTS !!

Farmer Cathie at Green"er" Acres Farm, spent the morning playing squirrel !! She gathered 21 pounds of Chestnuts from the trees on the farm. There are still more on the trees, if the squirrels don’t beat her to them.

We are offering them in half pound and pound bags. A seasonal item, they are only available for a short time in the fall, and as we mentioned, you have to beat the squirrels to them.

If you have already placed your order for the week, no worries, you can simply go into your order and edit it, or simply place a second order.

We will be trying to gather Shagbark Hickory nuts this week (again, if we can beat the squirrels to them) and we soon being gathering Black Walnuts.

Old99Farm Market:  Old 99 Farm, week of Sept 24 2017

Wow what a hotspell, ground is really drying up but still a way ahead of last year. Greenhouses are really too hot, can’t get the heat out of them. But it means lots of ripe tomatoes, the yellow plum type, red slicing and jumbo beefsteak.

I look for the orders friday morning to pick for the 4pm arrival time. You can leave me a msg if you plan to pick up at a time more convenient, sat or sunday.

Eggs are back to normal pricing, thanks to all for coming last week with extra orders. Will hope to see you this week too!

The young Perpetual Green chard is really yummy and tender. We had a full bed of it in the greenhouse over the winter, it went to seed and self-propagated a month ago or so. Now is prime condition for salad greens or sauteing, steaming, soups. All leaves no stem.

Also now ready are new crop carrots, beets and lettuce, to add to the squash, tomatoes (including Beefsteak), garlic, cilantro, parsley, watermelon, chives, Russet potatoes, onions, kale, spinach and arugula.

In the fruits department: apples, blackberries, pears, asian pears, and tomatoes.

Special this week: Beef roasts 15% off listed price. Most are around 3 to 4 lbs. Try cutting in steak slices, marinating and barbequing. I did one like that last nite, a sirloin tip roast which is fine grained, no fat, and it was tender and flavourful.

Meats are still available in good selection. If you want roasting chickens for next winter, please give me your order and deposit of $5 per bird. I have beef, pork, lamb and goose in the freezer.

I’ve posted some good content on my facebook page lately, if you haven’t friended me, please do, you’ll see a tidy collection of really current sources on the climate, and some fun stuff on farms, food and animals!

Naomi Klein posted a tender essay about the family vacation this summer on the Sunshine Coast, smokey and tarnished by the huge forest fires raging out there.