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.
The Cumming Harvest - Closed: This Week at The Cumming Harvest
WHY BUY LOCAL?
Our farmers are dedicated to stewardship and committed to quality. And while they love what they do, many aren’t doing it as a hobby. They need to make a living. Consumers that value fresh food and a working landscape support local farmers by buying their products. Here are some reasons why:
LOCALLY GROWN food tastes better and is better for you. The crops are picked at their peak, the shorter the time between the farm and your table, the less likely it is that nutrients will be lost. Food imported from far away is older and has traveled on trucks or planes, and sat in warehouses before it gets to you.
Local food preserves genetic diversity. Smaller local farms often grow many different varieties of crops to provide a long harvest season, an array of colors, and the best flavors.
Local farmers aren’t anonymous and they take their responsibility to the consumer seriously.
Local food supports local families. The wholesale prices that farmers get for their products are low, often near the cost of production. Local farmers who sell direct to consumers cut out the middleman and get full retail price for their food – which helps farm families stay on the land.
Local food builds community. When you buy direct from a farmer, you’re engaging in a time-honored connection between eater and grower. Knowing farmers gives you insight into the seasons, the land, and your food. In many cases, it gives you access to a place where your children and grandchildren can go to learn about nature and agriculture.
Local food preserves open space. When farmers get paid more for their products by marketing locally, they’re less likely to sell farmland for development.
Local food benefits the environment and wildlife. Well-managed farms provide ecosystem services: they conserve fertile soil, protect water sources, and sequester carbon from the atmosphere. The farm environment is a patchwork of fields, meadows, woods, ponds and buildings that provide habitat for wildlife in our communities.
Local food is an investment in the future. By supporting local farmers today, you are helping to ensure that there will be farms in your community tomorrow. That is a matter of importance for food security, especially in light of an uncertain energy future and our current reliance on fossil fuels to produce, package, distribute and store food.
Group Buy
Cod Liver Oil – An order for Green Pastures products was ordered and should be available at the market this Saturday. Place your order online or pick up at the market.
Raw Cheese – An order for raw cheese from Meadow Valley Farm was placed this week. We’ll have a variety of cheeses available for purchase online or just ask for some when you come by to pick up.
Butter – I called to place an order for raw butter but haven’t heard if it’s available.
Gelatin – An order for Great Lakes gelatin will be available online and at the market this Saturday.
Classes
Cane Creek Farm
Classes and Workshops
Pick-Up
Market Location and Pick Up
135 Enterprise Drive, Suite I, Cumming, GA 30040
Google Map
To view the harvest today and tomorrow till 8pm, visit “The Market” page on our website, The Cumming Harvest
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!
Tullahoma Locally Grown: Market Closes Today at Noon
1. Your Market Closes Today at NOON.
Your Tullahoma Locally Grown Market is open today until noon. Please ensure you place your final orders by that time. You still have time to order your eggs, dairy, breads, coffee, and other items. As you know, the weather has been favorable of late. As a result, there are an increasing number of fresh vegetables available at the market. Browse and click with reckless abandonment – you deserve it!
Order a loaf of bread or Jumbo Pretzel Rolls today and it will be baked fresh, from scratch, for you Thursday.
Pickup will be tomorrow (Thursday) from 4:15 to 5:15.
Here is the link to the market: Tullahoma Locally Grown Market
Thank you for your support. Have a great day,
Fuel So Good Coffee Roasters
Spa City Local Farm Market Co-op: The market is now closed for ordering
The market is now closed for ordering.
Please plan to pick up your orders at Emergent Arts on Friday April 15, from 3PM to 5:00PM, the earlier the better. If you’re unable to pick up your order at this time, please make arrangements to have your order picked up for you.
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, and you learn so much about local foods in Arkansas.
Have a great week and we’ll see you on Friday!
Karen Holcomb
this market’s manager
501-760-3131
501-282-6314
ksholcomb@gmail.com
CLG: Tuesday Reminder - Market Closes Tonight at 10pm.
Hello Friends,
There’s still time to place your order for pickup this Friday, April 15th. The market closes TONIGHT around 10pm.
AND: From The Locals: This Thursday is ARKANSAS GIVES, from 8am until 8pm. Check out this link: https://www.arkansasgives.org/organizations/the-locals
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 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Conway-Locally-Grown/146991555352846st
Champaign, OH: Checking The Time!
Hello, little local market of love customers!!
Just letting you know that it is almost 7pm, on Tuesday evening, and you have until 10pm to get those orders all revved up, and ready to rock and roll!!
Don’t miss out on the local goodness and fun!!
Peace, Love, Good Vibes…
Cosmic Pam
Russellville Community Market: Order Reminder
Hey everyone! Just a quick reminder that we’ll be closing for orders tonight at 10:00 p.m. Get your orders in soon!
Sorry about the late reminder!
Happy ordering!
We hope to see you on Thursday for the market pick-up!
Check out our Facebook page for great info on local foods issues and upcoming events.
Be sure to click on the “Like” button at the top of the Facebook page to get automatic updates. Thanks!
FRESH.LOCAL.ONLINE.
Russellville Community Market
ALFN Local Food Club: Market Reminder
ALFN Members,
Remember the market will close tomorrow at noon so I can get all the orders out to our growers. We have some wonderful items on the market right now including fresh strawberries from Barnhill Hill Orchards.
We have four open slots for volunteering on Saturday. You can sign up here: Volunteer Spot
All the best,
Kyle Holton
Program & Market Manager
Old99Farm Market: Old 99 Farm, week of Apr10 2016
Check this documentary, The Cross of the Moment, just out on vimeo, about the absolute uniqueness of Earth, from atmosphere to gravity to tides to sex. It is "A deep-green/deep-time, highly cerebral discussion of the environmental crisis, The Cross of the Moment attempts to connect the dots between Fermi’s Paradox, climate change, capitalism, and collapse. Interviews with top scientists and public intellectuals are woven together into a narrative that is challenging, exhausting, and often depressing as it refuses to accept the easy answers posited by other overly-simplistic climate change documentaries.
The film takes its title from a stanza of W. H. Auden’s poem The Age of Anxiety, published in 1947.
We would rather be ruined than changed;
We would rather die in our dread
Than climb the cross of the moment
And let our illusions die.
And for grounds for optimism about replacing fossil energy see LowTech website, lots of carefully researched profiles of past energy sources, this link is actually about growing mediterranean fruit in Paris, and keeping the Prussian invaders out too!
http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2015/12/fruit-walls-urban-farming.html
We have greens. lots. Mixed greens, collard greens, kale, spinach and chard.
Also, cilantro, leek, green onion and chickweed (just kidding).
Eggs and meats are in good supply.
Stuffed peppers, quiche, or say what would you like Cami to cook for you?
Healthy eating,
Ian and Cami
Middle Tennessee Locally Grown: Just a Short Time Left to Order!
Manchester Locally Grown Farmers’ Market
How to contact us:
Our Website: manchester.locallygrown.net
On Facebook: Manchester Locally Grown Online Farmers’ Market
By e-mail: tnhomeschooler@yahoo.com
By phone: (931) 273-9708
On Thursdays: Here’s a map.
Good evening!
Don’t forget to place your order on Manchester Locally Grown market. The market will be open till 10 pm Tuesday evening. Pickup of your order will be at Square Books, 113 E. Main St, Manchester, from 4:00 to 5:30 on Thursday, or on Friday between 9:00 am and 2:00 pm. If you prefer to pick up on Friday, please make a note on your order or call my cell at (931) 273-9708. Other pickup hours are available by appointment.
Remember that we are a year-round market, not subject to seasonal closings like the local farm stands and Saturday markets. We have beef and pork products; herbal & handmade products; plants for home & garden; milk, eggs, & honey available year round. We can also make you a gift certificate in any denomination.
Thanks for your orders last week! Please encourage your local friends and family to shop at our year-round market and support local farmers!
Blessings,
Linda
CSA Farmers Market: Westwind Closed While Rebuilding. Flour from Eaton Rapids Coming Soon.
NEWS Westwind Milling Co. Sold their historic mill and will be building a building on their farm to mill flour in, which will take about 8 months. Soon we will have organic flour milled in Eaton Rapids Mi. Only a variety of flour will be offered and no mixes.