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Carolina Foothills, SC:  Monday Morning Reminder!


http://carolinafoothills.licallygrown.net/market

Good morning friends,

Remember to get your orders in by 4pm today!

Good, locally grown chemical-free food here to keep you healthy and strong!

Eat well!

Tullahoma Locally Grown:  Power Plants!


The Market is open!

Power Plants is on our market this week with hydroponically grown greens and herbs! Look for bibb lettuce, romaine lettuce, a spring mix of lettuce, large leaf Italian basil, and endvies.

Also this week, DeepSet Farm has wild blackberries, kale, zucchini and yellow squash; Solace Farm has beets, carrots, potatoes, and garlic; Double Tree Farms has leeks for sale; Triple B has fresh sage, thyme, oregano and mint!

Fox Farm‘s products are unavailable this week but will be back next week, I’ll be sure to remind you. If you are near Sewanee, you can purchase her products tomorrow … “Come to the Cumberland Farmers Market in Sewanee at the Community Center and taste Fox Farm’s barbecue. For sale: barbecue sandwiches, 1 lb. containers of honey-cranberry pork barbecue, 1 lb. containers of a more traditional pork barbecue, pork chops, sausage, country bacon, and pork cutlets.”

The market closes at Noon on Wednesday, what’s in your fridge?

Get started here: Tullahoma Locally Grown Market

Heirloom Living Market Hamilton Mill:  Have you placed your order? Market closes at 6:00pm!


Reminder

Market Closes at 6:00pm Today!

Don’t forget My Daily Bread will be on vacation for two weeks starting next week! Be sure and order extra of your Bakery items and freeze them to see you through!

In order for delivery to our Market to be financially feasible for our Farmers and Artisans, we must meet minimums for those that travel farther to provide for us! Milk and Bakery items fall into this category! Members will be notified if minimums are not met.



The produce offerings this week from Doug’s Garden, Fry Farm and The Veggie Patch are plentiful! Be sure and check them out!

Jay of Dances With Bees is back! Honey is available!

Take me to the Market.


Thank you for your support! See you at Market on Wednesday!

South Cumberland Food Hub:  Milk is Here!


Good Morning from the South Cumberland Food Hub.
This week Casey Family Farm in Viola has their rich and creamy whole milk on the market. It’s pasteurized on site at their farm but not homogenized so you can see the cream at the top. Yummy! It’s rare that they have enough to share with us, so don’t miss out.

We still have cherries from Crow Mountain Orchard and lots of squash and zucchini are available now.

Check out the whole list of products here:
Click here to go directly to the Rootedhere Locally Grown Market Page

We close at noon for orders. Have a great day!

Thank you for supporting your local farmers!

Risa

Champaign, OH:  Market Announcements


Just a few announcements that I wanted to post but did not want them to get lost in my Weblog of the day!

This is from Kent, of Nettle Creek…

I’ve added a new chicken product for Nettle Creek Farm and Ranch. We now have half birds that are ideal to put on the Grill! We have also added smaller birds that are perfect for the Crock Pot! And we have lowered prices on some of the larger birds.

From the Ruff family as a reminder…

Lee and Jennifer Ruff of End of the Road Farm would like to invite you on Sunday, June 22nd at 2 pm for a guided farm tour of their sustainable, draft-horse powered homestead. Samples of various goodies made from their sorghum, spelt flour, and pastured eggs will be provided.

Please wear comfortable walking shoes, as you’ll tour the crop fields, mobile chicken and pig pens, two market gardens, and horse paddock/pasture.

We ask that children be well supervised, as this is a working farm as well as our home, and as such, buildings are off-limits.

We look forward to sharing the afternoon with you, and hope you will join us with questions, enthusiasm, and an interest in seeing how and why we have chosen this wonderful farming life! Thank you!!

From LuAnn of Everyday Organics: (LuAnn and her sister, Lori, bring us the lovely granola products!)

Did you know…..The consumption of refined sugar is linked to: Obesity, Diabetes, Hypertention, High Blood Pressure, Inflammation, Depression and more?

Join us on June 24 at 6:30 p.m. for a free workshop designed to permanently change your relationship with sugar!!

So much going on in the locavore world!!

Peace and Love,
Cosmic Pam

Champaign, OH:  Beautiful Day!


It’s a beautiful day
Don’t let it get away
It’s a beautiful day…(U2-Beautiful Day)

I wake up before the sun is up. I begin my baking in the very early hours of most mornings. The Cosmic soul kitchen is all windows, and my most favorite times of the day are watching as the light comes pouring in the windows and door flooding the whole kitchen with beautiful colors of sunshine and light. My other favorite time is when the sun is setting. It’s a lovely view with different splashes of color that spill into the Cosmic kitchen.

This morning was one of those mornings. I was busy with bread dough, downing coffee, listening to the tunes that keep me motivated, and watching as the golden light lit up my kitchen. It just makes you feel so alive, so happy, and like everything is golden and everything is beautiful!! It sets the tone for the whole day.

It’s Monday at our little market, the morning is rain free, the sun was smiling for a moment, and it’s just an overall beautiful moment. Take this time to think about the start of your week, what you will need to get you through, and place your market orders! Your life becomes so beautifully peaceful when you shop with us and then turn the work over to us. All you need to do is show up at market pick up, we hand you the Locally Grown market goodness, and you are on your way to more beautiful days without the stress of trying to shop in crowded places, the stress of doing all of the work, and the lack of local love…

And, where else do you get entered into a Market Love drawing for the Market Love summer playlist??

We are here, it’s a beautiful day, and we want to make it a beautiful week for you! Get your orders in!

Peace and Love,
Cosmic Pam

Joyful Noise Acres Farm:  The Market closes at 8:00pm.


Good morning,
I hope you had a sweet Father’s Day with those you love, we enjoyed a quieter day, a little pool time (in between rain showers) and a steak on the grill. Chip was happy.

The on-line market closes this evening so be sure to get your orders in.
Please let me know if you would like to order lamb for pick-up next week:
Lamb Chops at $15.00/lb
Ground Lamb at $10.00/lb *
Neck Bones at $4.00/lb
Shoulder Roasts at $11.00/lb
Whole legs at $10.50/lb (avg. 4-6 lbs)
Lamb Ribs at $11.00/lb

Linda at White Gates Farm raises Suffolk sheep for their wool and meat. I will have one of her wool blankets here on Tuesday for you to look over. They are soft, beautiful and will last a lifetime. She also has throws and blankets for every size bed.

Thank you for supporting your local farmer and artisan – it doesn’t get any fresher!
Have a great week and we look forward to seeing you on Wednesday.
Mary Beth

Northeast Georgia Locally Grown:  Locally Grown - Availability for June 18, 2014n


Hey Local Food Lovers,

As usual I have a feast of stories and meals I’d love to share with you this week, and I probably won’t have time for them all. But before I get into any of that let me mention a few reminders.

We currently have two great meat vendors at Locally Grown, BG Farms and O’Hana farms. BG Farms has been with us almost since the beginning, We met Lynda Brady the farmer for BG Farms through Chuck Mashburn (one of our founders and the Tiger Market Manager) since they both sold to Athens Locally Grown. Sustainable meat producers are still few and far between in our area and Lynda was unique in that at different times she might have beef, pork and chicken products. She’s also located pretty far from the rest of us, in Madison, GA. However, since several of our growers still sell to Athens Locally Grown every Thursday, it’s a perfect way to do a little distribution collaboration. After orders for BG Farms are placed for our market Friday through Sunday, Chuck or someone else goes to pick them up the following Thursday and keeps them in a freezer. That’s why orders of meat from BG Farms aren’t delivered to market until the following Wednesday. Over the last four years I can’t guess how many cow’s, pigs and chickens we’ve transported to customers in our area, but it’s been a lot. In fact we just invested in a new freezer to store what we expect may be some increased meat sales. They are great products and so worth the extra wait it requires to get them. We hope you’ll give it a try. Every once in a while some of the more common cuts we’ll keep up here and you’ll actually get them the week you order so don’t be surprised if you get lucky with your order.

O’hana Farms started selling their pork in the last year or so and everything I’ve had from them is simply terrific. There are some really interesting details about the way O’hana raises and feeds their hogs that really influence the unique flavors of the pork, but I’ll have to save that full story for another day. You’ll notice they also provide some helpful hints on how to cook and prepare some of their more unique cuts of meat. These tips are so useful at getting us out of our routines cooking the same thing over and over again. I love any tips that growers provide in their product descriptions of their favorite ways to prepare specific foods. It’s a great way to experience new flavors and you get to know the tastes of the farmer in the process. We all have unique tastes in this market, and learning and sharing how to prepare foods is part of the experience.

Speaking of that, I’m gonna mention my favorite way to cook fennel since I’ve been enjoying all weekend. Fennel is one of my personal favorite crops to grow, and it’s one of the more interesting to learn how to incorporate into different styles of cooking. If you have a dynamite dish with fennel, or any of the products you’re enjoying lately please post it to our facebook page

Ok, here’s the dish. It’s called Moroccan Spiced Chicken and Fennel.

1 teaspoon paprika
1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
1/2 teaspoon ground coriander
1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
3/4 teaspoon sea salt
1/4 teaspoon black pepper
1 lb boneless skinless chicken breast
1 tablespoon olive oil
2 cups fennel, thinly sliced
1/4 cup fennel leaves, chopped
1 medium red onion, cut into 1 inch chunks
1 cup orange juice (fresh squeezed but not neccessary)
1/3 cup fat-free chicken broth
2 teaspoons cornstarch
1 tablespoon water

1 Combine spices with pepper and 1/4 teaspoon of salt. Season chicken to coat both sides.

2 Preheat large nonstick skillet, add olive oil. Cook chicken breasts about 5 minutes each side. Remove chicken and keep warm.

3 Add the fennel and onions to the pan and saute for 7 mnutes or so. The fennel should be tender but not mushy. If the pan appears to be too dry, add a tablespoon of water. Should be enough to moisten without steaming the vegetables.

4 Add juice, broth and the last 1/4 teasppon salt and bring to a boil for about 1 minute. Add constarch mixed in 1 tablespoon of water. Stir until it just begins to thicken, about 2-3 minutes.

5 Add chicken and chopped fennel , cook 2 more minutes.

6 Chicken and fennel and onions goes really well on top of rice with sauce spooned on top.

It’s the bomb. Fennel and the sweet citrus flavor of the orange juice really complement each other. You can double up on some of the spices if you’d like as the Moroccoan flavors are subdued by the fennel and oj, so don’t be afraid to be bold with the spices if you like them.

I also wanted to mention, everyone should CHECK BACK TO LOCALLY GROWN more than once over the weekend and into MONDAY. Since we extended the ordering times earlier this year (now Friday to Monday rather than what used to be just Sunday to Monday) lots and lots of farmers add items later in the weekend after they’ve had time to check their fields and realize that something is ready to go. We’ve got lots of new items this week and several of them were added after Friday night. Things like our first tomatoes (unfortunately sold out already), cucumbers, and napa cabbages. So even if you place an order on Friday, check back on Sunday and Monday as their may be something special waiting for you.

We had a great time at our FIRST GAINESVILLE pick-up day. We want to thank our 15 first customers for being there from the very beginning! Help us spread the word! We may go ahead and send out a press release in the next week or so now. We feel pretty confident that our new setup is gonna work great and we can now start spreading the word far and wide.

Here’s what the new pickup looks like:

Well there’s much more I’d love to get into but that’s probably enough for tonight.

Hope you had a great weekend and don’t forget to……

EAT WELL,

Justin in Habersham
Chuck in Rabun
and Teri and Andrew too!

Athens Locally Grown:  ALG Market Open for June 19


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

Save the date! On July 17 the Athens Nurses Clinic is hosting the 5th annual Tomatoes at Terrapin. Join supporters of the free clinic for a fun-filled night of music, locally grown tomato sandwiches, and Terrapin beer.

Founded in 1991, the Athens Nurses’ Clinic provides primary health care to the homeless and uninsured in Clarke County and surrounding areas. The clinic treats acute and chronic illness and provides dental services, hygiene kits, and over-the-counter and/or prescription medications. Currently, the clinic treats about 1,200 individual patients per year. The clinic has gone through some remarkable changes within the past few months – including implementing a successful diabetes management program and educating 1,500 women regarding breast health. Now they are preparing to move to a new building to accommodate the amount of patients coming in.

The fundraiser this year will help the clinic purchase new medical equipment so they can continue giving quality healthcare to low-income and uninsured residents in Athens. Tickets will soon be available around town, including through ALG.

Thanks 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 city hall. You can catch the news on their website. The West Broad Farmers Market is open throughout the week here in Athens, and you can find more information about them here: www.athenslandtrust.org. The Washington-Wilkes Farmer’s Market in Washington is open every Saturday 9-12 behind the Washington Courthouse. The Oconee County farmers market is open Saturday mornings in front of the Oconee County Courthouse. The other area markets I haven’t mentioned have yet to open for the season, so far as I 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!

DeForest, WI:  Availability for week of June 15


The market is once again offering Forest Run Farm veggie plants: buy 3 get one free. Order the 3 and then in your comments put the one you want free. This will probably be the last week for most of the plant offerings until the transplants for fall are ready.

Rusty Dog coffee is still offering varieties of coffee ground locally.