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.
Independence,VA: Market closes Monday night!
Good morning!
I hope everyone is having a great holiday weekend! Don’t let all of the fun you’re having prevent you from placing your online market order this week! The market will close tomorrow night at 8 pm. You can get a good bit of grocery shopping done without having to set foot in the store!
To Shop: Independence Farmers Market.
Don’t forget to purchase your Ice Cream Social Fundraiser tickets in advance on the online market! Advance ticket purchases will help us have a better idea of how much cake, ice cream and yummy toppings to offer on September 10th!
Thank you for supporting the Independence Farmers Market!
Abby
Middle Tennessee Locally Grown: Time to Order Fresh Local Farm Products!
Manchester Locally Grown market
To Contact Us
Our Website: manchester.locallygrown.net
On Facebook: Manchester Locally Grown Online Farmers’ Market
By e-mail: tnmomof10@gmail.com
By phone: (931) 273-9708
The farmers and market managers would really appreciate your efforts to help spread the word about our fantastic market. What a great local resource for fresh, local farm products. Please pick up a few business cards to hand out to your friends, neighbors, and co-workers. Advertising is very expensive, and we want to use our slim market funds in a responsible manner.
Good morning!
Did you know that by ordering on the locallygrown market, you are virtually assured of receiving the “cream of the crop” from each farmer? You will receive the best products picked and made with pride especially for YOU! You can’t get any fresher and higher quality than that! Thank you for supporting your local farmers and small businessmen and women.
The market is open as usual, and will remain open for your orders till Tuesday at 10 pm.
This week our very busy farmers haven’t had time to share their weekly news with me, and I haven’t had time to look through the entire list to see if anyone has any new items. So sorry. Please take the time to shop your favorite categories on the market. And then, if you possibly can, check out one more category and see if you can find something new and interesting to try.
Please be sure to read the section of the page entitled “Important Ordering and Pickup Information.”
Important Ordering and Pickup Information
Ordering will be open until TUESDAY at 10 p.m., and your order will be available for pickup on THURSDAY between 4:00 and 5:30 at our tents located outside Manchester Farm Store, 251 Interstate Dr., Manchester. We can also deliver your order to your home (or other location) on Friday afternoons, for a small fee, if it’s more convenient for you. If you prefer to utilize this service, please place an order for it, same as other products, selecting your delivery area. Don’t forget to give us your location address in the comments section of the order. Also please text Linda at (931) 273-9708 for specific arrangements.
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. Please encourage our local farmers by helping to spread the word about our wonderful market to everyone you know. We offer a great variety of local farm products, and our items will be in your hands in time to plan for the weekend. Wonderful local products are available for ordering from the comfort of your own computer.
More new farmers are considering joining our market, if they can expect enough sales to help pay their transportation costs. Please help us grow the market by sharing this e-mail with your friends and inviting them to give us a try. And if you haven’t ordered from Manchester Locally Grown for a while, please check out our wide variety of offerings this week. Also please let us know if we can improve our selection or scheduling in any way to better suit your needs.
Blessings,
Linda & Michael
Here is the complete list for this week.
CLG: New Grower!: Coffee, Goat Cheese, Pork
Good afternoon!
We are very excited to announce our new Grower: Julie’s Sweet Shoppe! Julie and her bakery staff work very hard to consistently produce top quality sweets at competitive prices, all conveniently delivered to market every Friday. This addition will expand our Baked Goods section with items previously not offered. Great for all types of parties and get togethers. Thank them for joining us by ordering some treats now. :-)
Lots of okra available from Strack Farm this week. Get some before the season is over!
Goat cheeses have been restocked, and check out all the freshly roasted coffee varieties!
Be sure to SEARCH for your favorite items using the search field. Over 625 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
Dothan, Alabama: Sept. 2, 2107 Market Newsletter
This Week’s Newsletter:
New Vendor Welcome!
Market Chitchat
Food Festival Update
Grower Notes
WELCOME BAIN HOME GARDENS
“Once upon a time my husband and I both watched our mothers work hard cultivating our home gardens. As a kid you never fully appreciate the value of home grown vegetables. We are proud to say we do now! Much like our parents we are trying hard to instill the value of home gardening into our children. It is a challenge well worth the work! Our home has been transformed. Checking the mail now includes a stroll our past honeydew melon patch, greetings from butterflies and the occasional bumblebee. The most pleasant feeling of peace has resulted all from getting our hands dirty! Our garden has brought us nice yields of which we are excited to share with the community. We are very excited meet you, learn from you and grow with you towards sustainable, organic, pesticide free produce for our Market at Dothan community. Stay tuned…”
MARKET CHITCHAT
If you were one of the folks who placed orders last week, wasn’t it WONDERFUL that the rain waited till after the Market was closed? The gusts of wind and cooler temperatures were a nice change for everyone, hints of good football weather!
If anyone sees or notices anything odd with their Market account or notifications, it’s because the participation fee goes into effect this week. Current customer accounts are set to expire in the year 2030. We look forward to changing them again then!
FOOD FESTIVAL UPDATE
VIP – Our regular Market online schedule with orders and pickups will continue without interruption while the Farmer’s Market and Food Festival take place.
THIS WEEK’S GROWER NOTES
We have the best Growers in the Wiregrass! Please learn more about them on our Grower Page.
BAIN HOME GARDENS: Hello market! We are so happy to be a part of this exceptional group of growers serving the Wiregrass area! As many of you have already expressed in the weblog, we too have experienced some losses late this summer due to pests. We are not giving up! We will continue our endeavor to grow wholesome homegrown veggies – from our family to yours.
HAWKINS HOMESTEAD FARM: Please join us in welcoming Bain Home Gardens to the market! They snuck up on us last week but hopefully some of you were able to take advantage of their okra as we did! We know this family and their growing practices personally. They have lots of fresh Non-GMO produce growing for the fall season. We encourage you to try them out as they make them available!
Back on our homestead, chickens are back this week! Please take advantage of fresh organic whole chickens and while you’re at it grab some chicken feet to make a delicious and healthy bone broth or your favorite stock for cooking stews or soups! As always, we thank you for your continued support.
We recently picked up some new laying hens. So more eggs coming soon! Be sure to read the newsletter next week to see why we’re listing fewer eggs for sale on the market now.
Oh! Just in case you missed it, Working Dairy Cows added chocolate milk!! It’s delicious! Plus if you like lamb, you will have to try some from Smith Farms and while you’re at it add a nice green salad bunch from Danny’s greens. We did! Happy shopping!!
Horton’s Farm By popular request we are now offering our Local Honey in 1 Gallon Sizes. For anyone who uses a lot of honey this offers the lowest overall cost, however we do not recommend it for occasional users. Before I became a beekeeper someone gave me a gallon of wonderful local raw honey in a glass cider jar. We LOVED it . . . until it solidified and became hard as a rock. That was a valuable lesson years later as we would not want anyone who enjoys our honey to experience the same thing!
On a more personal note, those of you who knew we were anticipating another grandchild – the wait is over! Soren Keats Wehry was born about 9am Saturday weighing in at 6lb 3oz. Both mother and baby are doing fine. The grandmother is a basket case. We can’t wait to visit this delicious little bundle of love.
RICHTER FARMS: With the days starting to shorten our chickens have started to molt again. Molting causes a seasonal decrease in egg production as the chickens shed and renew feathers. During the molt the reproductive physiology of the bird is allowed a complete rest from laying and the bird builds up its body reserves of nutrients. All chickens will molt annually starting about 16-18 months of age. It occurs in response to decreased light as summer ends and winter approaches. This is the reason we, along with our other egg producers, are not listing as many eggs as we were a few weeks ago. Thank you for your understanding and support!
FOOTNOTES
We would love to hear from you! If you have a favorite recipe, want to write a product review, have an idea or request for an article or information, let us know! You can reply to this newsletter or write marketatdothan@gmail.com.
Order Saturday 5pm to Tuesday 5pm weekly for Pickup the following Friday
Dothan Pickup: Dothan Nurseries, 1300 Montgomery Highway, Dothan, AL 36303
Daleville Pickup: Daleville Chamber of Commerce Office
Our Website: marketatdothan.locallygrown.net
Our Email: marketatdothan@gmail.com
On Facebook: www.facebook.com/MarketatDothan
Be sure to use our hashtag! #marketatdothan
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!
Spa City Local Farm Market Co-op: The market is now open for ordering
The market is now open for ordering
The Spa City Co-op market is now open for ordering at spacity.locallygrown.net.
Please place your orders before Tuesday at 9 pm, and plan to pick up your orders at Emergent Arts on Friday from 3PM to 4:30PM. If you’re unable to pick up your order at this time please make arrangements to have your order picked up for you.
Remember to scroll all the way down and click place this order.
Don’t forget – this market has no paid positions, so we NEED VOLUNTEERS to run every market. It’s fun, you get a $5 gift card as well as extend your membership by 2 months, and you learn so much about local foods in Arkansas.
Have a great week and see you on Friday!
this market’s manager
Karen Schuman
karenschuman9@gmail.com
501-276-3318
Champaign, OH: Hurricane Harvey
Our hearts go out to all who have been affected by Hurricane Harvey. In times like these, we stop and realize that we are all in a position to help, in some way.
In conjunction with the Champaign County Chamber of Commerce, and the United Way of Clark, Champaign & Madison Counties, we will be helping out!
This week, on our market, there is a featured product for Hurricane Harvey. When you are placing your weekly orders, or if you would just like to donate to the relief fund, you can click on the listing. When you check out, you can edit the “quantity” of the product, to increase your donation, if you wish.
Right now, it is a 1.00 donation. Just shop that, as you would any product that is listed, and after the September 9th date, I will ask the YMCA to submit a check from our market, to the combined efforts of the Chamber, and United Way, for the relief fund!
We thank you, from the bottoms of our hearts, and from those in need…
XOXO,
Cosmic Pam
Northeast Georgia Locally Grown: Market is open for orders!
Good Evening Locavores!
Northeast Georgia Locally Grown is open for orders!
Go to the market now >>
Chemical-free Fruit
Fresh Vegetables
Baked Goods with Organic ingredients
Gluten-free products
Pastured Eggs
Clean Meat
See all products
PICKUP TIME is Wednesday from 5-6:30pm!
Thank you for choosing Northeast Georgia Locally Grown as a way to support your local producers. This online farmers market allows you to buy directly from multiple farms committed to chemical-free and local produce all year long! CHEMICAL-FREE means produce and pastures grown without synthetic fertilizers, herbicides, fungicides, or insecticides. LOCAL means within 80 miles from the market pickup locations (usually much much closer). Do you know someone who grows chemical-free food in the area? Get them in touch with us. Know someone who wants fresh food? Spread the word. Put the two together, and that’s growing organically!
CLG: CLG Pickup TODAY 4-6pm. Bring eggshells, glass jars, & egg cartons please.
Good morning!
Julie will have lots of tasty treats on the extras table today so come by and grab some for your Labor Day weekend.
And Sandra has organized a Farm Tour on September 10th. The tour will feature 4 unique gardening operations in Conway. Space is limited and tickets are $20 each or $30 per couple. Talk to Sandra at pick-up today!
This is a pickup reminder for those of you who ordered this week. Thank you for your order! You can pick up your order from 3:30 p.m. until 6:00 p.m. today at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church at 925 Mitchell Street in Conway.
Usually our awesome volunteers have the market ready for customers to pick up before 4pm. If you are out and about and want to know if we are ready, just text me to see: 501-339-1039.
If something comes up that you cannot personally pick up your order today, please contact someone to pick up for you.
Remember to bring your EGGSHELLS, glass jars for recycling, egg cartons, and bags for ordered items. Reduce, reuse, recycle! See you this afternoon.
Come early for the best selection from the EXTRAS table! Even if you didn’t make an order, you can come by to shop the EXTRAS table.