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.

Tullahoma Locally Grown:  Happy Sunday: The Market is Open

Hello,

The Tullahoma Locally Grown Market is currently open for orders.

Please remember to place your orders before noon on Wednesday. This will give our growers sufficient harvest time. You can place multiple orders; our system will combine them automatically.

Here is the link to the Tullahoma Locally Grown Market.

Have a great day,
Fuel So Good Coffee Roasters

Gwinnett Locally Grown:  Sunday Market Reminder! Welcome CalyRoad Creamery!

The Market is open Thursday at 9 – Monday at noon After that, ordering is disabled until Thursday morning. Pick up your order Tuesday from 4:00-7:00 p.m. only at Rancho Alegre Farm at 2225 Givens Road, Dacula, GA 30019. New to The Market? Learn about how it works here.

Welcome CalyRoad Creamery!

Website: www.calyroadcreamery.com

CalyRoad Creamery, Atlanta’s only artisan cheesemaker, uses farm fresh ingredients and our commitment to quality to create the delectable flavor for our artisan cheeses. Owner, Robin, Schick, was formally trained at the Vermont Institute of Artisan Cheese and, with her team, skillfully prepares and ages all of our selections on site and by hand. We use all natural cow’s milk and regionally sourced goat curd for a variety of gourmet fresh and semi-fresh cheeses, including feta, our award winning camembert-style Waypoint, chevre, aged goat cheeses, and chocolate and cheese truffles.

Workshops for July

Chemical Free Cleaning with Essential Oils Workshop

Meet with Cheryl of Gwinnett Locally Grown to learn about the benefits of chemical free cleaning with essential oils. She will show you how to create your own effective and all-natural cleaning products that kill germs without adding any harsh or toxic chemicals. Please bring your own 8 oz jar to take home your own laundry detergent.

Thur. July 16, 2015 | 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Cost: Free.

To attend please RSVP on facebook or meetup.com.

Beekeeping for Beginners with Jay

This is a one hour condensed instructional class that will take you through a brief history of honey bees and into the A-Z basics of the keeping of bees.

Wed. July 22, 2015 | 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Cost: $10

To attend please RSVP on facebook or meetup.com.

Yummy Raw Snacks Workshop with Marilyn

The raw food diet: benefits including improved digestion, more energy and improved overall health. Join us for a class about what makes live food so yummy. Watch demos and taste a variety of delicious sweet and savory snacks.

Tue. July 28, 2015 | 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Cost: $10

To attend please RSVP on facebook or meetup.com.

Mozzarella Making Workshop with Operation Homebrew

This workshop is 60 minutes, includes a mozzarella cheese sampling once finished. Class size is limited to a maximum of 15 people.

Tue. Aug. 11, 2015 | 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Cost: $5

To purchase tickets visit OperationHomebrew.com.

Wine Making Workshop with Operation Homebrew

This workshop is 60 minutes, includes a mozzarella cheese sampling once finished. Class size is limited to a maximum of 15 people.

Wine making workshop, Session 1: Tue. Sep. 22, 2015
Wine making workshop, Session 2: Tue. Oct. 20, 2015
Time: 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM for both sessions
Cost: $25

– Session 1 | Sanitizing steps, mixing the ingredients, tips/tricks
– Session 2 | Bottle, Cork, and label your wine, take it home

To purchase tickets visit OperationHomebrew.com.

In other news….

What’s up with the Salmon?
Back in Time Farm will be supplying Alaskan Wild Caught salmon through his son, Running Wild Alaskan Seafood, LLC.
This deliciously fresh salmon is carefully selected directly from the fishermen’s nets from the cold Alaskan waters before it ever enters the ship’s hold. Only the best is chosen to become part of " Running Wild Alaskan Seafood’s" premium offerings. The fish is immediately bled and iced down before making the short boat ride to the processor located in Homer, Alaska. Here it is quickly processed and flash frozen (to ensure freshness) then packed into coolers for the overnight trip to Georgia. This is the freshest salmon available without going to Alaska to catch it yourself. Red Sockeye salmon is packed with flavor and nutrition.
We are within a week or so of having this salmon at our very own market!The packages will be 8 ounces and sell for $9.50 a pack.
I have emailed all those interested that emailed me and I will be making sure that when they place their orders, they have priority. But there will be enough for Market sales. This will be the first catch and then we are hoping for a second catch 3 weeks later, but that isn’t guaranteed yet.
So watch for the email to buy coming in about a week or two.

As Always….

Please share with friends and family about us so that we can give more people the opportunity to buy and eat healthy! Local farmers need our support to keep providing us with all the fresh foods! If we don’t give them enough business, it’s hard for them to continue to deliver to us. Please let’s not let that happen! Tell your friends about us so we can keep the Growers supported as this is how they make their living.

Thank you to all of you who support Gwinnett Locally Grown!

If there is something you’d like to see in the Market, please let me know! I would love your input!

Remember…
The Market is extending their hours! The Market will now be open from 4:00 to 7:00pm!
Having said that, if you place an order with us, PLEASE remember to pick it up on Tuesday. As I am so grateful for your orders, I also have a family at home waiting on me too! We cannot hold orders, especially cold items due to limited refrigeration space, so please be courteous and come for your order.

CLICK HERE NOW to Shop Gwinnett Locally Grown!

Thanks for all your support!

Shop often and eat well!

Cheryl Gelatt
Market Manager
grow@ranchoalegrefarm.com

Fresh Wishes,
Pilar Quintero
Market Host
Rancho Alegre Farm

Please email grow@ranchoalegrefarm.com for questions pertaining to Market or Raw Milk. It is very difficult to return phone calls. Remember to interact with us on Facebook and follow us on Meetup to get notification on all our wonderful events and news.

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

Just a friendly reminder that the market closes today at 6 pm. (I decided that since summer days are longer to extend our market just a little longer also to 6 pm instead of 5 pm…)

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

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

See you on Tuesday!

Stones River Market:  The Market is Back Open - Beef is Back

Market News

Welcome back to another week of locally grown and made products. Here is the news for this week:

• Double Star Bar is taking a short break and will return soon.
• Dogwood Valley Greenhouse is braving the heat and chiggers to bring us wild blackberries
• Flying S Farms is introducing some new jams and jellies – Apricot jam, Cactus jelly and Wild Blackberry jam.
• Rocky Glade Farm brings red skin potatoes to the Market.
• West Wind Farms has restocked their beef products.
• White City Produce and Greenhouse has a veggie stir fry medley this week.

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.

Middle Tennessee Locally Grown:  Time to Order Local Farm Products!

Hello, friends!

Manchester Locally Grown online farmers’ market is now open for ordering. The market will be open until Tuesday at 10 pm, and pickup will be on Thursday from 3:00 till 4:30.

This year-round online farmers’ market offers eggs, herbal products, local milk, summer vegetables & greens, live plants, pork & beef products, and much more – all produced on local farms. We appreciate your support of your friends and neighbors who have grown and produced these items.

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NEWS AND NOTES

Milk and eggs; perennial plants, herb plants, and hanging baskets; beef and pork cuts; and more are available here! This week we have zucchini, 3 kinds of tomatoes, summer squash, 2 kinds of peppers, onions, 2 kinds of lettuce, 2 kinds of kale, cabbage, cucumbers, and beans! 3 types of dried herbs and 8 of fresh are also available to flavor those dishes! We have more variety than many large Saturday markets, and our items will be in your hands on Thursday! If you haven’t ordered from us lately, place an order this week for your share of the summer bounty.

(L to R) Riesentraube tomatoes from Erdmann Farm, Masai Bush Haricots Verts bush beans from White City Produce & Greenhouses, Ox Tail from Paccman Ranch, Red potatoes from Wayne Diller, Orange Double daylily from Dogwood Valley Greenhouse.
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Ordering will be open until Tuesday at 10 p.m., and your order will be available for pickup on Thursday between 3:00 and 4:30 at Square Books, 113 East Main Street, Manchester. We can also hold your order in the refrigerator till Friday, if it’s more convenient for you to pick it up then. If you prefer to utilize this free service, please make a note on your order or call my cell at (931) 273-9708.

Thanks so much for your support of Manchester Locally Grown Market, all of our growers, local food, and our right to eat it. Please encourage our local farmers by helping to spread the word about our wonderful market to everyone you know. Nothing makes a farmer more excited than seeing new customers on the market!

Blessings,
Linda

Here is the complete list for this week.

Palouse Grown Market:  Last day to order!

Sunday is the last day of the week to order online from Palouse Grown Market.

Place your order and we’ll see you at Moscow’s 1912 Center for Pick up on Tuesday between 4-6:30.

Enjoy the bounty that the Palouse has to offer, on Palouse Grown Market!

Thank you.

Holly
Market Manager

Siloam Springs, AR:  Online Market is Open!

ALFN Local Food Club:  The Market Is Open

Happy Sunday to all of you. The market is open!

Today I’d like to diverge from the usual and discuss a few important logistical needs with ALFN. I know this isn’t the best hook as a topic sentence, but let’s face it—sometimes one needs to talk nuts and bolts. In our case, we need to discuss a couple of open positions on the Board of Directors and an upcoming change to membership in August.

First, we are still searching for a treasurer to fill Michelle’s shoes this fall. She has done such a wonderful job setting up a structured system, and we simply need to find a person skilled in accounting to come alongside us. The transition should be smooth, but it will help us greatly to find someone early. Please shoot us an email if you know of any possible candidates.

Second, Rebecca Kaufman is stepping down from the Governance position, and we need a fresh individual to help us stay legal. We will miss her professional guidance, but we are excited as she moves to a new place.

Do you know anyone who would be suited for the Governance Chair? Here is a description of the position:

Responsible for organizational compliance with internal bylaws and constitution, as well as advises on any legal questions. Required skills: Significant legal experience, preferably in nonprofit, environmental, agricultural, or restaurant law.

Again, if you know of any legal-minded folks, please shoot an email to us.

Finally, I want to give all of you a heads up to a small change we plan to implement in August. As you know our membership fees help us pay operational costs. Lately, we have found it difficult to maintain a consistent membership quota from our monthly subscribers. We are happy to continue to offer payment plans from the monthly to the quarterly. However, due to the infrastructure of the locallygrown.net website, adjusting monthly/quarterly memberships is quite time consuming. Consequently, the board has decided to make a small change. Annual membership fees will be the same—$60. However, we are asking members who choose to pay monthly to pay $7.50. This small increase will help us maintain a more sustainable management of our time as we transition from weekly market to weekly market. This small change will not begin until the first of August. I will continue to remind everyone, as we change these details on the website.

A final word about membership fees: We hope all of you view these annual costs not as fees, but as membership dues. We hope you feel connected to a larger community of people who are working to establish a more robust local food network. There are numerous people at different stages in this process. We have conventional farmers and organic certified farmers. We have elderly eaters and young eaters. We have vegetarians and carnivores. We have cheerful individuals and… cheerful individuals:) However, through all of our diverse reasons for connecting to ALFN, all of us share the desire to cultivate a local foodshed that ties grower and eater into a web of sustainability and societal health. Sixty dollars isn’t a tax, but a brick for building a local food economy. Thank you for joining us.

After all this talk of membership, I’m feeling poetic. Expect an “Ode to $60” next week.

Enjoy food and friends this week,

Kyle Holton
Program & Market Manager

Bedford County:  Weblog Entry

The Market Is Open!!

Good Saturday evening everyone,

The market is open for this week’s orders!

KIC Produceand Erdmann Farms have lovely summer veg.
Erdmann also has cut flowers! Tom’s has all the spice/seasonings for delicious cook outs and so much more! Berries are listed, Mary has organic baking extracts and it looks as though Fountain Springs will be on a break this week but we look forward to their return!

Thank you for your patience while we work out lots of first-year kinks and stumbles for this wonderful market!

A big welcome to Nicole and Nick from Double N Farm & Apothecary!! Their items will be listed and stocked starting next order week so look forward to some Herbal Tea blends, Tinctures, bath soaks and more from these fine Nashville farmers!

Check out “Our Growers” for more info on all our incredible farmers/artisans!

Also, *Red Fox Berry Farm *has a U-pick special through this Sunday, July 12 on blackberries. One gallon for $10. This isn’t on the market but we wanted to pass this deal along to you.

See y’all Thursday!

Important Market Information

Customers have from Saturday 5pm until Tuesday at 9pm to place orders. The market will be closed Tuesday evening.

On Thursday’s from 4:45pm – 6:00pm customers can pick up their orders at 865 Union St Shelbyville, TN 37160 (opposite Piggly Wiggly). This is where customers are to pay for their orders in check or cash.

If you have any problems or any questions please do not hesitate to ask (our contact info is above)

Recipes

Please, share your recipes with us on the website, on the Recipes tab. We’d all love to know how you use your Bedford County Locally Grown products, so we can try it too!