Tullahoma Locally Grown:  Market Closes Today at Noon

Your Market Closes Today.

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 fudge, coffee, bread, eggs, dairy, candles, and other items.

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

Martin's Farmstand:  Dried Apples

My dad (Luke) has about 4 acres of orchard over on the homefarm. In this orchard you will find all kinds of old heirloom apples growing along with pears, blueberries plums etc. He also has various fruit trees tucked into all sorts of corners and along fence rows etc all over the farm. All this orchard is manged without the use of any chemical fertilizers or sprays. Mixed into this is all sorts of wildflowers and in general a huge diversity of life.

In the winter I take some of these fine heirloom apples (mixed kinds) and dry them. They make a lovely snack food when you are driving or walking out to the field to work etc. You can also use them in the more tradional ways for pie etc. In bygone years dried apples were a major industry here in New York. Somehow in the rush for progress many of us have skipped past this fine, healthy snack food and now eat soda and chips instead.

I have a homemade apple dryer that I use to do the drying. After supper on winter evenings or first thing in the morning when the cookstove is going, we slice a batch of apples. (I need warm, dry air for the drier to work) It takes about 8 lbs of fresh apples to get 1lb of dry apples. The price is $2.50 for a quarter pound bag or $8.00 per LB. We also sell them in larger amounts (10lbs) for $6.00 Lb. Daniel

CLG:  CLG Pickup Reminder & Crimmins Family Farm Update

Good morning,
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 4:00 p.m. until 6:00 p.m. today at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church at 925 Mitchell Street in Conway.

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!

Thank you,
Steve

At the market last Friday, many members of CLG asked what they could do to help the Crimmins family that suffered a total crop loss due to flooding. I reached out again to them to let them know about the huge interest in supporting their operation. Lucrecia informed me that Tammy Keith had come to their place and written an article about their experience. Here’s a link to that article:

http://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2016/jan/10/heifer-floods-gardens-no-livestock-lost/?f=rivervalley

And here’s a note from Lucrecia Crimmins: We’re very touched by everyone’s offer support, but we all feel as Chuck says in the article: “no, no, no, to donations… there are many others much worse off than we are.” Please thank everyone once again though. We hope to see everyone again later in the year.

I think you’ll agree that this family exemplifies the kind of grit it takes to be a farm family, now and in years past.

Champaign, OH:  Hazy Shade Of Winter

I look around…
Leaves are brown, now…
And the sky is a hazy shade of winter…
(Hazy Shade Of Winter-Simon and Garfunkel)

Yes, my lovely local market of love customers…we are now smack in the middle of wild winter weather!!

Just last week, I was skipping around, a sweater over one of my hippie sundresses, so excited that we might be skipping winter weather while I was skipping around in my outfit.

Not so much. It’s here, it’s loud, and it’s cold! And, snowy! But, don’t let that be a negative to getting your orders in, think of all the positive spins to this!

You still have until 10pm, tonight, to leisurely place your order. You get to stay cozy, and warm, and stress free while you do that! You can do it while you are keeping warm with coffee, tea, or a glass of wine, or bubbly, or whatever you feel like! Right now, your market manager is enjoying a glass of Cabernet while dinner is in the oven. I have placed my market orders, I know that I won’t have to fight the crowds, the snow, the wind, or the cold, to schelp around a large store, just trying to shop, quickly, so that I can be home.

When we shop quickly, and stressed out, and without poor planning, we buy all the wrong things, we spend WAY too much money, and chances are, you want to be done SO quickly, that you hit up the bad food choices. The foods that will be the quickest, fill the void, cheapest…OR SO YOU THINK.

Not so much. Here, at our little local market of love, we want you to shop in the comfort of your home, office, apartment, car (while not driving)…we want you to select our amazing products. We want to help you get breakfast, lunch, and dinner on the table. We want to save you money. AND, we want it to be all healthy, all local, and all packed up with love when you come to grab those orders!

Where else will you be able to find this kind of tender love and care? Only with us…

So, bask in this hazy shade of winter…it’s only temporary, but we are forever, and we want to take the haze out of these cold days!

Order, now, make your life a hazy shade of happiness!

You have until 10pm…AND, we are once again poised to have an outstanding market!! What are you waiting for??

Peace, Love, Good Vibes…
Cosmic Pam

Old99Farm Market:  Eggs and chicken this week on special

I forgot to put this in the memo just out.

Eggs: 3 doz for price of 2, that’s $4.50 average.

Roasting chicken, stew hens: 10% off.

Make this the week for chicken.

Ian

Old99Farm Market:  Old 99 farm week of Jan 10 2016

Come and get your eggs, meats, root vegetables. We’re open. Eggs on special 3doz for price of 2, that works out to $4.50/doz.

There is a growing interest in getting ready for climate upset happening in Hamilton. We won’t see fire storms or hurricanes, but we might see floods, and we’ll certainly experience the results of climate upsets elsewhere. Think: california drought, florida freezeups, etc affecting price of food. The coalition that coming together is Hamilton 350; focused on enhancing the local capacity to cope with climate change and reduce its causes. The next meeting is on Wed Jan 27, 630pm at 294 James St North (parking available). Come on out and see whether this is for you!

Healthy eating
Ian, Cami and Kazlyn

Russellville Community Market:  RCM 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!

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

Good Morning ALFN Members,

Remember to finalize your orders for this week’s rotation by Wednesday at noon. We are still busting with fresh produce and local goods in the market.

Waste Revolution: Thinking in Circles

There is a great opportunity to meditate about modern waste this March 12th. The annual Keep Little Rock Beautiful event will take place in the morning until noon. You can either organize your own neighborhood area to clean, or volunteer to help clean the Fourche Creek Area. Check out their website…you may even see a picture of one of our growers on the front page:)

Picking up trash is necessary, but I’m also interested in thinking deeper into our own waste system. Our current economy extracts natural resources and then transforms them into products (usually with the addition of chemicals) and then eventually streams these same resources into permanent dumps. I have a good visualization of this problem. Take the Christmas tree. I’m sure you’ve seen them on the roadside lately. No problem here. The city can pick them up, mulch them and cycle them back into the soil. However, I’ve seen a more Americanization of this lately. I’ve observed a number of Christmas trees with the lights still on the tree. Our linear economy does this to many natural products. Natural resources are processed with various non-biodegradable substances that render these products toxic and true waste. So much of our waste is based on efficiency instead of resilience and regeneration.

What’s the tagline here? Think in loops. Consider how all your economic actions can be regenerated back into systems based on transforming the dormant energy in waste back into the top of our food and production infrastructure. The hard part to all of this means we are bucking a system based on efficiency. It may slow us down a bit. But hey, we are part of a slow food movement, right? Slow it down and think about waste streams…and take lights of Christmas trees:)

Wastefully yours,

Kyle Holton
Program & Market Manager

Cape Locally Grown:  Market is open! New products!

New products!

Granola

Sourdough Dinner Rolls

and Focaccia bread

have been added by Green’s Garden!

Nulls Farms also have Lard for sale!

cape.locallygrown.net

CLG:  Tuesday Reminder - Market Closes Tonight at 10pm.

Hello Friends,
There’s still time to place your order for pickup this Friday, January 15th. The market closes TONIGHT around 10pm.

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