The Weblog
This weblog contains LocallyGrown.net news and the weblog entries from all the markets currently using the system.
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Heirloom Living Market Hamilton Mill: Have you placed your order? Market Closes at 6:00pm
Reminder
Market Closes at 6:00pm Today!
Thank you for your support!
See you at Market on Wednesday!
Champaign, OH: The Weight
I picked up my bag and I went lookin’ for a place to hide…(The Band-The Weight)
Well, I bring you this Monday morning weblog from my morning office aka my lovely front porch. I should be busy baking, busy racing around, busy scanning and emailing forms for Art Affair, emailing minutes and an agenda to members of another board that I serve on, getting my daughter ready to move to Knoxville, catching up on the one million things that make up my life.
But, other plans must have been in store for me and well for my surrounding area of the county. We are all without power. At first, I was highly annoyed, highly paranoid about not being able to start my mountain of obligations.
Then, I wandered out to my front porch with the only cup if coffee I managed before the power went out, and I sat on the front step. My face is drinking in the early sunshine, I am listening to birds, enjoying the view, and realizing that for just this moment, I am enjoying not having the weight of things calling my name.
Sometimes we have to be forced into a timeout from life to make us just sit, think, breathe, regroup.
This cannot happen, often, but today, just for a moment, I just really needed the time.
Take your own time, today, and look at our market offerings. Think about how ordering can take a huge weight off of you and your week.
Taking that small step can free you and your mind. Go ahead..
DeForest, WI: Availability for week of June 22
The Market is Open!
Please note that some products are marked at Zero as though they are sold out. We may have available quantities on Friday.
This week we’ll welcome Ripp-N Good Strawberries. Rich plans to have them available at market on Friday.
Athens Locally Grown: ALG Market Open for June 26
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
Anyone setting foot outside this weekend could tell you this without looking at a calendar, but we’re now officially in summer. This heat is really brutal on the tender spring crops, and most of the farms in the immediate Athens area have moved on to concentrate on the summer goodies really coming in heavily now. Some farms, such as Burnell Farm, is experimenting with shade cloth and misting systems to grow broccoli for a little while longer, and our member farms up in the mountains aren’t quite as hot as it is here, and are able to keep the spring things growing for a little longer.
We’re lucky to have the mountains so close by. The farms up there tend to be smaller than those closer in, but their growing season differs just enough that their presence at our market really increases the diversity offered all year ’round. This coming weekend is the perfect time to take a little day trip up there and see firsthand the network of farms that is reviving in the area. The 2014 Georgia Mountains Farm Tour, the third year for this annual tour, is Saturday June 28th and Sunday June 29th from 1-6pm each day. The tour features 16 locations throughout Habersham, Rabun, White, Stephens, Franklin counties and beyond; including community gardens, a honey bee farm, a working grist mill, fruit orchards and optional meal stops with local foods prepared by acclaimed local chefs.
Participants on the tour purchase one weekend pass that allows a carload of attendees to visit as many tour locations as they choose each day of the tour. Among the products featured from the 14 farms on the tour are numerous fruits and vegetables; pasture-raised eggs; grass-fed beef; honey; and water wheel milled organic grains. Other highlights include a farm demonstrating the lost art of horse-powered equipment and several farms using hoop houses for season extension.
In addition to being able to purchase farm products during the tour, many of the farms will have prepared foods to sample, or guests can enjoy a farm-to-table meal at one of the featured meal stops. On Saturday, chef Jeff Morris of the Copper Pot Restaurant in Clarkesville will prepare seasonal snack plates using vegetables harvested from and served in their home garden starting at 11:00 am. On Sunday, Jamie Allred, the acclaimed Executive Chef at the new Fortify Kitchen & Bar in Clayton will feature numerous products from farms on the tour for brunch from 11:00a-3:00p (reservations recommended). Belle’s Diner at Chattooga Belle Farms in Long Creek, SC will also be open for lunch on Sunday from 11:00a – 2:00p. Meals are optional and are purchased separately. Meal stops open two hours before the other tour locations open so that guests can maximize their afternoon tour time. Tour guests should pack extra water, coolers, and be prepared for the weather (sun hats and sunscreen are strongly encouraged!).
Cost of the tour is $35 per carload for weekend passes purchased from any farm on the tour or online. The tour brochure with farm descriptions can be found on the GMFN website: http://georgiamfn.blogspot.com/. Passes can be purchased online starting May 14, 2014 via http://georgiamfn.blogspot.com/, http://www.soque.org and through the Northeast Georgia Locally Grown market, http://northeastgeorgia.locallygrown.net. In person purchases (cash or check only) will be possible starting May 21, 2014 at the SRWA office (downtown Clarkesville), Habersham Chamber of Commerce in Cornelia, Simply Homegrown farmers market in Clayton and Clarkesville Farmers Market on Saturdays. For those on a budget or who would like to show even greater support for local farmers, you can volunteer to help with the tour. For volunteering one day, volunteers receive a complimentary farm tour t-shirt and a pass to attend the other day for free.
Proceeds from weekend pass and t-shirt sales benefit the Georgia Mountains Farmers Network and their future collaborative projects. The tour is sponsored by Georgia Organics, Habersham Chamber of Commerce, Habersham Electric Membership Corporation, North Georgia Turf, Simply Homegrown Farmers Market, and Ingles.
Farm tour locations for the 2014 tour are: White County – LoganBerry Heritage Farm, Nacoochee Valley Farm; Habersham County – Melon Head Farm, Indian Ridge Farm, MTN Honey, Liberty Farm**, Copper Pot Gardens; Rabun County – Mill Gap Farm**, Sylvan Falls Mill, Old School Garden, Fortify Kitchen & Bar**; Stephens/Franklin Counties – Shade Creek Farm**, Taylor Creek Farm, Jan & Zen’s Garden, and in neighboring states – Chattooga Belle Farm (Longcreek, SC) and Leah Lakes Farm (Otto, NC). Farms with a ** are only participating on one day. See the tour’s website for the full schedule.
For additional information visit http://georgiamfn.blogspot.com/, email gmfnfarmtour@gmail.com or call 706-754-9382.
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!
Champaign, OH: Welcome Back!
We are excited to welcome back and usher in the season…Champaign Berry Farms has just added red raspberries and gooseberries to the market!
Race, run, don’t miss out!!
Get your berry fix while you can!!
Cedar Grove Farm: CSA Availability for 6/25
Hello,
It’s been a pretty standard week around here…sweating, hoeing, sweating, picking, planting, sweating, and so on. We’ve added a few herbs this week, but otherwise things are looking the same for now. The first round of cherry tomatoes will be here before you know it and the okra is on its way as well. If anyone wants to do a rain dance for us this week, that would be much appreciated. Thanks, and enjoy this week’s offerings!
Have a happy and a healthy,
Cedar Grove Farm
Atlanta Locally Grown: Available for Saturday June 28
The market is open and ready for orders. We have lots of vegetables listed. Taylorganic has loads of squash and beans to go along with the last of the cabbage and other greens. Grant Wallace has a nice load of items listed also.
You can order your family a wonder 1/2 hog or 1/4 hog share. You will get a great selection of cuts and fantastic sausage.
Please remember to have your orders placed by 8pm on Wednesday. We will see you on Saturday between 9-10 at your selected delivery location to pick up your orders.
Thank you for all your support,
Brady
Conyers Locally Grown: Available for Friday June 27
The market is open and ready for orders. We have lots of vegetables listed. Taylorganic has loads of squash and beans to go along with the last of the cabbage and other greens. Grant Wallace has a nice load of items listed also.
You can order your family a wonder 1/2 hog or 1/4 hog share. You will get a great selection of cuts and fantastic sausage.
Please remember to have your orders placed by 8pm on Wednesday. We will see you in Friday between 5-7 at Copy Centrl to pick up your orders.
Thank you for all your support,
Brady
Citrus County Locally Grown: Smoked Kielbasa for the Grill
News from our Market
Ocala Central Pickup Point
A New Earth Farm and Feed
Located at:
3423 E Silversprings Blvd
Ocala, FL 34470
Link to Location Map.
Dunnellon “Temporary”
Located at:
1644 W. Pinion Lane
Dunnellon, FL 34434
Link to Location Map.
An New Earth Farm and Feed
Check out the Kielbasa.
3 Rock Farm
Look for Microgreens to our market soon.
Florida Fresh Meat
Your “One Stop” Gourmet Shop for locally raised, healthy, sustainable meat!
Grass Fed & finished Gourmet Beef, Pasture raised Pig, Lamb, Goat, Chicken & Duck.
Farm Raised Gator – Phosphate & Preservative Free.
All raised without any hormones or antibiotics.
Simply, Great GOURMET quality meat.
Our growers thank you for supporting local growers and business.
Pickup is Thursday June 26th
Usual time and place.
Thank you for supporting your On-Line Farmers Market. Your purchases have made a difference to many families
Your CCLG Team
THE MARKET IS OPEN
The link below will take you there.
Champaign, OH: Junior's Farm
Let’s go, let’s go, let’s go, let’s go
Down to Junior’s farm where I want to lay low
The low life, high life, oh, let’s go
Take me down to Junior’s farm…
(Wings – Junior’s Farm)
It was an amazing day out in Fletcher at Lee and Jennifer Ruff’s farm!! They are the most delightful and interesting couple with plenty of tales that weave their dating, farming, marriage all into a sweet and hilarious life.
The drive down their lane was so pretty and you could catch a glimpse of Lee finishing up his afternoon chore list. We were greeted by Jennifer who gave us a bit of history of them, their past plans, future plans, and how they came to be on this little, sustainable, organic/chem free farm.
It is amazing what these two accomplish…they are out there, every single day, doing it all. We saw their beautiful fields, their chickens, their pigs, got to see the beautiful lettuce that is growing and that they bring to us, each week. They showed us where the sorghum action all happens. Lee has moved buildings, they have cultivated a life that involves just about everything they are growing, butchering, planning.
The tour ended all too soon and I enjoyed the day so very much!!
I would love for each of you to think about conducting a farm tour. It was so exciting to see another one of our growers/producers in their habitat.
This little market is so fortunate to offer so many unique growers/producers, all with different backgrounds, different visions, different goals. It brings us all together, one story at a time, and allows us to bring such a colorful backdrop to our customers, each week.
This finds us on a Sunday night after a busy week for most of us. Think about the week to come, and think about how busy you will be. Think about how the growers and producers, of this market, want to do the work for you! Place your trust in us, your faces of all things local, and we will make the week a bit easier for all of you…
It’s already a rock and roll kind of market on a Sunday night with all kinds of orders and SO MANY NEW CUSTOMERS!! Keep it up!! Let’s blow the market out of it’s best record!!
Peace and Love,
Cosmic Pam