Russellville Community Market:  RCM Opening Bell

Welcome to another RCM Market Week!

Be sure to check out the newly listed items this week! Lots of great, local products to be had!

Happy shopping! Eat Local!

Check out the “Featured Items” section as well as the “What’s New” section at the top of the market page for all the latest products available.

Be sure to “Like” our Facebook page for updates and food-related events in your community!

To ensure your order is placed, make sure you click the “Place My Order” button once you have completed your shopping. Remember, you have until 10:00pm Tuesday evening to place your orders.

Happy Shopping! See you on Thursday!

Russellville Community Market

FRESH.LOCAL.ONLINE.

Suwanee Whole Life Co-op:  Reminder: Place your co-op order today!

Just a friendly reminder that the market closes today at 6 pm.

Please remember that we need to hit certain minimums in order for our farmers and vendors to deliver to us.

We need more orders for GREAT HARVEST BREAD (Honey Whole Wheat, Spelt, Gluten Free breads, soft pretzels and other baked items) to meet their min for delivery.

Thank you for placing your order and supporting local farms and businesses!

See you on Tuesday!

Stones River Market:  Time to Order Local Food - September Arrives

Market News

Did you enjoy the break from the summer heat and humidity last week? September arrives this week and we are still seeing signs of summer. However at the Market, more produce typical of fall are appearing. Sweet potatoes and more winter squash from Rocky Glade Farm have been listed.

Labor Day is next weekend. Be sure to stock up on items you might need for any activities you are planning. In addition to their salads and dips, The Blue Porch has added pickled peppers to the list. You will also find baked goods from Casa Segovia-Paz, Double Star Bar Farms, Flying S Farms and Ms. Rosie’s.

If you are interested in peas, White City Produce and Greenhouse has added crowder peas in addition to her purple hull peas.

There are plenty of other products available this week. Browse the categories to see what your will find.

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. Look for them to return soon.

Martin's Farmstand:  The hot pepper story

Tomatoes, cantalope, watermelon, sweet corn, peppers, lettuce, red, beets and 50 other things- our stand is full of wonderful food. Now is the time to order freezing corn and canning tomatoes if you are planning to do so this year. Now is the time to get out to Martins Farmstand and get the food for a good supper. Late summer and fall is the time the stand is in its full glory.


Here is this years simple hot pepper story- There is a group of us working together to grow food for the market here. We try to plan to grow a balanced supply of all the differant crops that we should have and also to time all of our plantings so as to have a broad diversity of food for your supper spread out over as long of a season as the climate and our energy allows. So somehow in this we ended up with about 1500 hot pepper plants spread out over several of our gardens. They are doing well. If each plant gives 5 pounds of peppers from now till October we could have over 2 ton of hot peppers (mostly jalapeno and hungarian)to sell. I can not quite comprehend selling so many hot peppers. This means that somebody needs to make pickled hot peppers. Following is the recipe

Sweet Pickled Hot Peppers
2 cups vinegar
2 cups sugar
2 cups water
1/2 tsp salt per quart
Slice the peppers, pack into jars. Add salt. Mix brine and pour over peppers. Put jars in canner and cover with water. Bring to hard boil for 5 minutes over high heat. Remove jars. These are good to eat in 2 weeks.

These peppers are really nice in that the sweetness and the hot interacts nicely and tempers the heat. They can sit in the refrigerater and one can fish one on two rings out as needed when cooking or sometimes I use the brine. My children like to eat them with small pieces of hard cheese folded over each ring. They call them pepper wraps. We have bulk amount of peppers available for $1.50 lb. Daniel

Champaign, OH:  Dancing In The Moonlight

Everybody here is out of sight…
They don’t bark, and they don’t bite…
They keep things loose, they keep things light…
Everybody was dancin’ in the moonlight…
(Dancing In The Moonlight-King Harvest)

So, what a crazy, busy, fast paced life this past week was!!! My baking was never ending (a very good thing!), everything that I am involved in needed attention, or was so busy, or took me in all directions…but, you know me, and you know that I wouldn’t have it any other way.

I would get home, each evening, go out to my back deck with a glass of wine, and just relax in the beauty that has been the moon, these past nights.

This song always makes me smile, makes me think of summers of my growing up, and I sing it to myself every time there is an amazing moon to watch.

The lyric that I chose not only makes me sing, but it reminds me of the love that I feel, each week, with this market. Everyone shines so super bright, nobody is uptight, we all move and groove like a big family, and we try to keep it all as light and easy for you as we can!

It’s Sunday…we have amazing, amazing selections on the market!! Make sure to take advantage of local, of nutrition, of affordability, of ease…

You will feel like dancing in the moonlight…

I would also like to welcome back so many long lost customers, this week!! I am seeing your orders pop in, and your names make me smile…

Do the local dance…place your orders…

Peace, Love, Good Vibes…
Cosmic Pam

ALFN Local Food Club:  The Market Is Open

Welcome to another week of cyber-foraging; the ALFN market is open!

News & Updates

1. Next weekend is Labor Day weekend, but ALFN will be open for pick-up on Saturday and Monday as usual.

2. You may notice there is a smell of freshly roasted coffee wafting through ALFN’s market. We have a new participant to join our list of growers and producers. Mylo Coffee, located in Hillcrest on Kavanaugh, is roasting for ALFN members. You can now order a batch of coffee, and it will be freshly roasted for Saturday pick-up. To check out what roasts and beans will be available, check out their page on ALFN’s market. Let the brewing begin!

3. One of our members, Rebecca Davis, is starting a documentary on the concept of bartering in collaboration with Aileron Media and East Creek Studios. The documentary will be used to help fund and promote a new Bartering Fair in Little Rock. Much like the “30 Days” TV series by Morgan Spurlock, the documentary will follow a life of bartering for goods and services. The idea is to open up a conversation about how bartering develops community economic exchange that isn’t built on money, but relationships. If you are interested in getting involved, email Rebecca at: mrsmagiclee@gmail.com.

Food Sovereignty #2: Cooperatives at Work

From our previous discussion on food sovereignty, I suggested our national food system is similar to medieval royalty. Corporations retain a kind of sovereignty over the public as a legal right. However, we are seeking to establish a kind of sovereignty that is collective. Decisions on what we eat, its origin, and who produces it are made from the bottom up in cooperative systems of democracy. You might find it interesting that cooperatives, such as Grass Roots Farmers’ Cooperative, are an ancient system of self-direction. Collectives are organizational structures that involve group decision-making AND group sharing. This kind of sharing is basic to human civilization. One person cannot afford 30 acres to begin farming, so five families start a cooperative to purchase the land with agreements over production and profits. On the micro-scale, families are basic collectives. The labor and service of a family is shared; the family cooperative economy culminates in daily rituals of sharing: meals. When we give chores to our kids, we are teaching the basics of this cooperative economy; an economy that is based on sharing life.

Cooperatives have greater social and economic power through the act of sharing. Many economists would argue we are in a stage called late-capitalism where battles between local interest and corporate interest are constant. For example, there are multiple battles over farm labor, fair wages, and GMO production in Mexico right now. These battles are originating from the U.S. food system and spilling into Mexico. (See the recent problem over wages and Driscoll on the West Coast)A collective called Demanda Colectiva AC that is composed of lawyers, chefs and producers fighting Monsanto in the Mexican courts. Without the formed collective power and ownership of many local participants, there would be no battle.

ALFN is a quasi-collective. All of us pay membership dues to collectively draw producers and eaters into a tighter relationship. However, there is still so much more we can do. Self-directed food collectives begins with individual ownership through communal sharing. A food system based upon sharing, ownership and cooperation is system based on food sovereignty. Let’s take back our ownership in local food.

Cheers,

Kyle Holton
Program & Market Manager

The Wednesday Market:  We're Open

Good morning.

The Wednesday Market is open. Please place your orders by Monday at 10 p.m. Orders are ready for pick up between 3 and 6 p.m. Wednesday. See the website for this week’s product listings. Here is the link: www.wednesdaymarket.locallygrown.net/market

Concord Street Sweets is away from the Market this week but will be back next week.

Have a great day, and we’ll see you Wednesday.

Thanks,

Beverly

CLG:  Opening Bell: Peaches, Apples, Peppers, Cukes!

Good afternoon,

Shiitake Mushrooms! We anticipate having those wonderful Shiitake Mushrooms from Sweden Creek Farms on the Extras table again this Friday. They will be listed for ordering once we get the logistics worked out consistently. 8 ounces for only $5.25. Come early to be sure to get some!

Honey! If all goes well, we will have a new honey producer this week. He maintains over 200 hives in central Arkansas. Pure, strained honey: $8 a pint.

COFFEE! Stock up on your favorite fresh-roasted coffee from RoZark Hills Coffee Roasterie.

Lots of delicious APPLES and PEACHES are listed, in small and bulk quantities. Great for school lunches!

Come early on Friday 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

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How to contact us:

DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL. Instead…

Phone or text: Steve – 501-339-1039

Email: Steve – kirp1968@sbcglobal.net

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Siloam Springs, AR:  Online Market is Open!

Dodgeville, WI:  Market Week Aug 30

Rain the past week has improved the prospects for some late season greens. This week the special item will be raspberries. We pick almost every day and get several pints each picking. Supply should be good for the next couple of weeks. Potatoes are plentiful also. Will be digging white potatoes and red potatoes this week.