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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: The Market is Open and Green Groceries Gala!
Good Morning Market,
First off, a huge, gigantic THANK YOU to the Board members, growers, customers, volunteers, friends, and family that came out and supported us at Whole Foods Market Little Rock last Tuesday. It was awesome to see so many friendly faces and we can’t thank Whole Foods enough for having us. While we don’t yet have the totals on the amount raised, whatever it ends up being, it’ll be thanks to all of you, our amazing network of supporters.
Anyways, the market is open and it’s making me hungry!
- Welcome to new grower The Root Cafe and their scrumptious canned and pickled products. That’s right, folks, besides running the premiere local foods restaurant of the same name, the folks at The Root are actually expert canners as well. Be it dilly beans, chicken stock, green tomato pickles, muscadine wine jelly, pickled okra, or spicy garden pepper marmalade, you’ll find all of that and so much more under locally produced products.
- For those feeling down about the end of fresh peaches, look no further than fresh organic cantaloupes from Crimmins Family Farm to fill the void. I’ll probably eat mine with a dollop of fresh ricotta, but there’s plenty of other options if you’re feeling more adventurous.
- Lots of delicious legumes from Kornegay Berry Farm. Be it butter beans, brown crowder, purple hull, or lady cream peas, they’re all great sources of protein, dietary fiber, and so much more.
- You know when you’ve got that last piece of bar soap that’s too small to do anything with? Thanks to Homayd Natural Care Products, you can save it! Order a suds saver in red, black, or blue under apparel & fabric items.
- Check out the special sale on pawpaw trees from A B C Nature Greenhouse and Herb Farm. They’ll give you a mango and sunflower hybrid pawpaw tree at a great price, and you’ll have delicious homegrown fruit for years to come!
For those of you that haven’t heard of the Green Groceries fresh food pantry, it’s an amazing partnership with our hosts at Christ Episcopal Church to get fresh groceries to low-income folks that often can’t afford it, all while supporting local farmers. On Saturday, September 13th, the church will host a Farm to Church Gala, using the BEST local chefs and ingredients to benefit Green Groceries. You can purchase tickets in the Christ Church office during the week or by calling (501)375-2342.
Thanks for supporting a stronger local food system for all!
- Alex Handfinger
Director of Operations
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Stones River Market: The Market is Back Open - Stock Up on Tomatoes and Peppers
Stones River Market
How to contact us:
Our Website: stonesriver.locallygrown.net
On Facebook: www.facebook.com/StonesRiverMarket
On Wednesdays: Here’s a map.
Market News
Welcome to the last week in August and some new products have been added today. Double Star Bar Farms has added two kinds of artisan bread. Erdmann Farm brings back gladiolas but in orange, red and white. Kelly Creek Farm introduces hydroponic Better Boy tomatoes. Ozark Gold and Rhode Island Greening apples return from Rainbow Hill Farm. White City Produce and Greenhouse has an abundance of concord grapes.
You will also find an abundance of peppers and tomatoes from most of our produce farmers. Now is the time to stock up for canning and freezing to have locally grown produce this winter.
Wild Flours is back this week as well with their breads, flours and cinnamon rolls.
A note from Chef Jenny about her new product – Pumpkin Spice:
Pumpkin Spice is a mixture of toasted seeds and pecans combined with honey, vanilla, and fall spices. This crunchy snack is sure to satisfy all your taste buds. For a special treat, try it with: Sweet Potatoes, Baked Apples, Acorn Squash, Pumpkin Lattes, or Vanilla Yogurt.
There are plenty of other products available this week. Browse the categories to see what your will find.
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Thanks so much for your support of Stones River Market, all of our growers, local food, and our rights to eat it. We’ll see you on Wednesday at Southern Stained Glass at 310 West Main Street from 5:00 to 6: 30 pm!
Recipes
Please, share your recipes with us on the Recipes tab. We’d all love to know how you use your Stones River Market products, so we can try it too! I am taking a break from recipes this week. If you have created a dish and want to share with everyone, please send it to me.
I am taking a break from recipes this week. They will return next time.
I 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!
John
See the complete list of products at http://stonesriver.locallygrown.net/
Farm Where Life is Good: Online Market is OPEN for Business (Week 35)
What is it we do with these again? (Rog contamplating Zephyr squash)
Life on the Farm (Week 35)
We are in a race between the weather and the winter squash! The plants are beautiful, the beds and rows are nicely weed-free with a clover interplanted covercrop sprouting, and the squash beetles are nowhere to be seen. Cucumber beetles have found the blossoms, but we are hoping that is just flower cosmetics. So if the weather holds out, and the first frost is late, we may be looking at a good harvest of winter squash this year.
No weeds, just nitrogen-fixing clover! Yay!
The Market is now open for a wide selection of warm weather produce.
Ordering will be open from Sunday morning until Monday 8pm. Get your orders in now so harvesting can begin specific to your requests.
Deliveries will be made Wednesday per usual to your chosen Dropsite Location .
Recipes for your consideration
Sometimes a sub-sandwich or wrap-sandwich just needs a little pizzaz. 3-4 slices of pickled peppers is just the key. And being a capsaicin (i.e. (E)-N-(4-Hydroxy-3-methoxybenzyl) -8-methylnon-6-enamide, trans-8-Methyl-N-vanillylnon -6-enamide) wimp, I need the sweet ones to start with. So, I sneak only a little bit of fire in these beauties!
11 cups peppers, sliced ¼" (seeded or not)
—options include combinations of sweet or hot; banana, jalapeno, serrano, paprika, peperoncino, habanero
6 cups white vinegar
2 cup water
3 cloves garlic, crushed
Prepare your jars, lids and rings.
In large glass or stainless steel bowl, combine peppers and set aside.
In large stainless steel sauce pan, combine vinegar, water and garlic. Bring to boil, reduce and simmer for 5-8 minutes until garlic has infused liquid.
Pack peppers into ½" head space, covering peppers.
Wipe rim, place lid and rings on and tighten.
Place jars in steam canner, and immerse insuring covered with at least 1" water.
Bring to boil, process 10 minutes.
Remove canner lid, waiting 5 minutes. Remove jars to counter and allow to seal 24hrs.
Remove rings, confirm sealed and store.
A bit of a twist on the fresh summer soup, Gazpacho. Take a trip to the Greek isles!
2 thick slices day-old bread, such as ciabatta or peasant white, crusts removed
6 large cloves garlic, chopped
2 Tbsp freshly chopped oregano leaves
2 Tbsp chopped flat-leaf parsley
5 Tbsp red wine vinegar
5 Tbsp good olive oil
1 red bell pepper, seeded chopped
1 orange bell pepper, seeded and chopped
2 red onions, chopped
1 seedless cucumber, unpeeled, and chopped
4 tomatoes, chopped
3/4 cup kalamata olives, pitted and chopped
1 1/2 lb tomatoes, pureed (approx 6 tomatoes)
4 tsp sea salt
2 tsp ground black pepper
Place the bread, garlic, oregano, and parsley in a food processor and process until everything is finely chopped. Add the vinegar and olive oil and process again until smooth. Transfer the mixture to a large mixing bowl.
Place the peppers, red onion, cucumbers, tomatoes, and olives separately in the food processor and process until very coarsely chopped. Add to the mixing bowl.
Add the tomato puree, salt, and pepper and stir well. Taste for seasoning, cover, and refrigerate for at least 3 hours. Serve cold.
Light tomato soup with pasta to add body. Refreshing and simple. You will want to double this for leftovers!!
Sopa de Fideo (South of the Border Tomato Noodle Soup)
1 Tbsp olive oil
1 medium onion, diced
3 medium tomatoes, diced
2-5 garlic cloves, minced
7 oz fideo pasta or broken angelhair pasta (less or more as you desire)
4 cup vegetable broth
1/2 cup cilantro, chopped
tortilla chips, crushed
Sauté onion in olive oil over low heat until soft. Add tomatoes and garlic and simmer until tomatoes are soft/dissolving.
Meanwhile, toast pasta in 2 Tbsp olive oil until just seeing color change.
Add broth and tomatoes to pasta; bring to boil and simmer until pasta cooked thru (approx 4min.)
Remove from heat; stir in cilantro. Top with crushed tortilla chips and serve.
If anyone has some good recipes for this weeks ingredients, pop on over to the website and enter them there for everyone’s benefit!.
Did You Know…
The next generations are the future of agriculture. (Well, of course you did, but maybe the significance of that has yet to come to the fore.) Will they be stewards or users of the land? Now is the time to cultivate (pun intended!) the ethic that will guide their choices in careers, eating habits and social endeavors. This Parent and Teacher Curriculum Guide is a canned (another pun!) program to help parents and teachers enter the realm of growing food with their kids/charges.
See what you think and pass it on.
Subscription Box Highlights
Anticipated this week for the CSA/Subscription Boxes:
Tomatoes
Carrots
Summer squash/Zucchini
Cucumbers
Sweet peppers
Eggplant
Broccoli
Chard
Onions
Jalapeno pepper
Cilantro
Parsley
Start your meal planning now!
We hope to feed you soon!
Roger and Lara
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Champaign, OH: Market Fun!
Berries are back from Champaign Berry Farm! They won’t be here, long, so join the market fun and race to get your berry order on!
The Wednesday Market: Good Morning! Time to Order.
Good morning to The Wednesday Market community.
The Market is open for orders. Please place your order by 10 p.m. Monday. Orders are ready for pick up Wednesday between 3 and 6 p.m. Be sure to browse the website for all of this week’s product offerings. Here is the link: http://wednesdaymarket.locallygrown.net/market
We hope everyone has a good day, and we’ll see you on Wednesday.
Thanks,
Beverly
CLG: Opening Bell: Peppers, Squash, Meat, Tomatoes...
Good afternoon,
Be careful if you have to be out in the heat. Stay hydrated and take breaks. I’m really looking forward to some cooler fall temps, and rain. If the gardens don’t burn up, they will continue to produce til frost. Oh, frost, that sounds good right about now!
Check out all the Featured Products as well. Use the SEARCH field on the main Market page to quickly find the items you want.
Come early for the best selection from the EXTRAS table.
The market is now +OPEN +for orders. Please check your email about 5 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
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: www.conway.locallygrown.net
On Twitter: @conwaygrown
On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Conway-Locally-Grown/146991555352846
Champaign, OH: Wonderwall
And after all…
You’re my wonderwall…(Wonderwall-Oasis)
I have a love of early 90s music, and I have had it on overload, all week. I had a huge love and crush on the Oasis bad boys. I played this cassette over and over and over. Who knew that this song would come to mean so much to me and my life. Or come to describe this market in my mind.
Some, or most of my weeks are crazy. This week seemed even more crazy and busy than normal. Amazing amounts of baking, obligations on all boards I am on, tasks that needed my attention, all mixed in with making sure that all markets, venues, events, and my shop were taken care of.
The kind of week that made me both kick it hard with excitement but at the same time let sheer exhaustion set in. When I hit that wall, I just sort of stop and sink…and it’s just at that point that I think all of the people and friends who are near and dear to me feel that I need them to swoop in, give me a sign of love, and swoop back out. They sense that I need to reconnect or just be given a moment of out, just to recharge.
I got random texts that made me smile, random running into old pals that offered hugs, an amazing gift from a lovely Bread Head, a long afternoon on a lovely front porch with one of my most treasured friends in this world while we had wine and discussion on all things. When I feel at my most overloaded moments, I need these wonderwall moments.
This little market of local love is our local wonderwall for you. You are busy, your are tired, you get overwhelmed, and it would be easy for you to just do the easy way out, load up on fast foods, processed foods, snack foods, just to keep you going.
BUT…guess what?? You could just as easily and a whole lot healthier,and easier on your wallet, sit down, recharge, enjoy a quiet little space of time, and shop our market. Make it your get away time from reality. Make it your recharge time with your market friends. Make it your wonderwall.
We all need those moments of help. Those moments where you turn, and that person or wonderwall is waiting to help. Use us, depend on us, let us help you build your local wonderwall.
It’s Sunday, I am taking the day off, I will see you all when I check the market, tonight.
Peace and Love,
Cosmic Pam
(Your Wonderwall:)
Middle Tennessee Locally Grown: It's Time to Order from Manchester Locally Grown Farmers' Market
Manchester Locally Grown online farmers’ market is now open for ordering. New this week are seedless Concord grapes from White City Produce & Greenhouses. This week’s market also includes cucumbers, peppers, tomatoes, and lots of other summer vegetables and other goodies from local farmers. Check out all our offerings here: http://manchester.locallygrown.net/market
REMEMBER:
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PLEASE do not write out your checks ahead of your market pickup. Growers can sometimes remove items at the last minute, affecting your invoice. Please wait until your total is established at market.
- We continue to hear from customers who are sure they have placed their orders only to find nothing waiting for them at market. REMEMBER — If you do not receive an order confirmation within 5 minutes, your order has NOT been placed in the system. Try logging back in and see if there is anything in your cart. If so, press the Place Your Order button; then you should receive an e-mail to confirm the order. E-MAIL tnhomeschooler@yahoo.com OR CALL US at (931) 273-9708 if the problem persists so you will not be disappointed on market day.
Take a look at our offerings and support your friends and neighbors who produce these quality items on their own farms. Remember: ordering will close on Wednesday at 10 a.m.
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(L to R) Duck eggs from Solace Farm; Concord grapes and Yellow Pear tomatoes from White City Produce and Greenhouses; Autumn Fern from Dogwood Valley Greenhouse; Green leaf lettuce from Frontier Family Farms.
We’ll see you for pickup of your order on Thursday between 3:00 and 4:30 at Square Books, 113 E Main, Manchester. We can also hold your order in the refrigerator for you till Friday morning, if that’s more convenient for you. Just call (931) 273-9708 if you prefer to utilize this free service. Square Books will be open on Friday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Thanks so much for your support of Manchester Locally Grown Market, all of our growers, local food, and our right to eat it. Don’t forget to spread the word about our wonderful market to everyone you know.
~ Linda
Here is the complete list for this week.
How to contact us:
On Facebook
By e-mail
By phone: (931) 273-9708
On Thursdays: Here’s a map. .
Local Farms First: Canning Season!
Greetings Local Farms First food lovers!
The Season To Preserve Is Upon Us!
Check out all of the seasonal items we have on the market this week! Pickling Cucumbers from Rockwall Gardens are a perfect start to preserve the season by making PICKLES!!! Log on today and taste the season of Colorado Western Slope Summer!!
Thanks for supporting local family farms,
Amy Konash- Market Manager
LocalFarmsFirst.org – a 501c3 non-profit
970-641-7682
click here to start shopping on the website:
www.LocalFarmsFirst.com
Siloam Springs, AR: Online Market is Open!
We need your help! The Siloam Springs Farmers Market is considering the possibility of a Tuesday evening market. Will you help us by taking this survey and sharing with friends in Siloam Springs and the surrounding areas?