ALFN Local Food Club:  The Market Is Open

The market is open for commerce!

For a few days last week, I had the opportunity to visit some friends of mine who help manage two working farms. On Thursday, my kids and I helped harvest local restaurant orders of sugar snap peas, kale, collards, spinach and salad mixes. We were harvesting the produce in an urban plot in the middle of a dense intersection of western civilization. The farm grew food in the midst of a cacophony of people from diverse ethnic origins, diverse business interests, and diverse dreams. We worked with a few other volunteers as the farm was an income generating project for a recovery house. We only worked for two hours. Veggies were weighed, bagged, packed onto bike trailers and sent off to high-end restaurants. After a solid mornings work with numerous volunteers, the total invoices amounted to only $149.

The intersection that bustled outside the urban farm serves as a useful symbol for a larger chaotic intersection that local growers must navigate every week. After the proverbial carrot seed is cultivated, tended, and weeded, time gathers the work into produce. The carrot is pulled from the ground, washed, and bundled. This whole process involves a very different kind of economy from the bustling intersection outside the cultivated fields. Our local growers not only have to compete with the lobbying agroindustrial system, but they also face the mechanized food systems embodied in cheap processed foods. Larger corporate and national powers help subsidize industrial food until our food culture is orphaned along the curbside. In the midst of such a cacophonous intersection, how do our local growers subsidize a different food culture? What happens to the proverbial local carrot when it enters an economy foreign to the farm and field? Some argue, the demand of the consumer will tip the scales back to local, organic food. Yes, yes, this is true. But, I don’t think we can simply fall back on the industrial economic system founded solely on supply and demand. Rather, local consumers must partner with local growers to cultivate an economy that protects and preserves local food AND living wages. Our economic system is skewed to reward other types of labor, yet every form of labor in our society is dependent on the cultivation of food. Whether our growers come to market by truck or bicycle, local consumers must find ways to revalue their labor and restore an economy based upon the gift of food.

As you order your food this week or crunch a forkful of salad, consider the combination of time, attention and labor that went into that mouthful. Let’s raise a hearty salutation to our growers, but let’s also raise a new local, balanced economy that is just.

I am still building my volunteer base for Saturday market. Saturday volunteers are divided into two shifts – early bird (from 8:00 to 10:30) and pick up (from 10:00 to 12:30). Volunteers help inventory and set-up before pick-up begins and then help members pick up their orders by collecting the products they ordered for them. Volunteer opportunities are also available at the check-out table. As a volunteer, you get $5.00 credit that you can use towards membership or your order payment each time you volunteer. If you are interested in volunteering, send me an email, and I will put you on our volunteer email list: littlerockfoodclub@gmail.com . We wouldn’t be able to have Food Club without volunteers, so THANK YOU!

Cheers,

Kyle Holton
Market & Program Manager

Stones River Market:  The Market is Back Open - Summer Produce Returning

Market News

The Market is back open this morning and our produce listing has exploded. You can now find beans, potatoes, squash, tomatoes and zucchini in addition to the greens and lettuces that have been a staple of the Market. Here is a list of the farmers bringing these new items:

• Erdmann Farm – pink tomatoes
• Flying S Farms – squash (3 varieties) and zucchini
• Rainbow Hill Farm – stringless beans, squash and zucchini
• Rocky Glade Farm – Happy Rich and red gold potatoes
• White City Produce – cabbage, tomatoes and zucchini

Father’s Day is next Sunday. The Market has plenty of products that many dads will enjoy. Chef Jenny added a new snack gift set especially for this occasion.

Cedar Thicket Farm is on break and will return soon.

Alfresco Pasta had two new products this week – a braised beef ravioli and the Big Cheese with Chocolate.

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.

Gwinnett Locally Grown:  Sunday Market Reminder! Welcome Keena's Kake Designs!

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.

MARKET NEWS

We Welcome Keena’s Kake Designs to the Market!

Keena’s Kake Designs was born from a love of making delicious, custom baked goods for my family and friends at an affordable price. It also evolved from my desire to provide my family with high quality natural and organic foods; come to find out, it’s not always easy to find sweets that do not contain artificial colors, preservatives and other additives. So, Fudgeez and Blondeez will always be all-natural, non-GMO, and made with organic cacao! We’re a snack company with integrity: if I wouldn’t feed it to my family, I won’t feed it to yours!

Workshops for June

Introduction to Essential Oils Workshop

Looking to dip your toes in the world of essential oils but don’t know where to start? Many essential oils are available with a numerous amount of combinations which can be overwhelming. How do they work? How do you use them? Are they really safe? Learning what combination of oils to use and how to administer them properly can create more questions and answers.

Let us help you with that! At Rancho Alegre Farm, Cheryl and Pilar would like to share with you their knowledge and experience on how they have successfully alleviated common ailments naturally using powerful essential oils. This essential oils workshop will show you the foundations and basics anyone can apply! At the end of the class you will take home a free 5 ml Wild Orange essential oil.

Date: Thur. June 18th, 2015 7-8pm.
Location: Rancho Alegre Farm, 2225 Givens Road, Dacula, GA 30019
Cost: Free
Please RSVP on facebook.com or meetup.com. Thank you!

In other news….

Sadly, because we didn’t have enough orders from week to week, Johnston Family Farm can no longer provide us raw milk and butter. I’m working very hard to find another Grower for milk and hope in a week or so to a new Grower on board. Having said that though, please tell your friends and family about us because from conversations, they are looking for a minimum order to drive the distance to deliver to us. Stay tuned!

We have the opportunity to get fresh frozen Sockeye salmon which is the best of all salmon as a pre-buy in June. This salmon is picked out of the nets of the Alaskan fishing boats before they are put in the holding area below deck and they take these salmon straight to the processor who filet them and flash freeze them! They are shipped to Georgia and all this happens within 2 days! You cannot get fresher than that!

If you are interested in buying salmon which is only available during their season in end of June and month of July. The word is that packages will be about 8 ounces to a pound and sell between $16 to $18 a pound. They will know more as it gets closer. I have a list of those already interested! If you are interested in participating in the pre-buy, please email me at grow@ranchoalegrefarm.com with your name and phone number so we can contact you! This opportunity is through one of our Growers!

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.

Champaign, OH:  You've Got A Friend

Winter, spring, summer or fall…
All you have to do is call…
And I’ll be there…
You’ve got a friend…
(You’ve Got A Friend- James Taylor)

Happy Sunday, little local market of love customers!! Hoping your weekend is full fun and happiness!

There was a whole lot of local love happening in our community, this weekend!! I participated in The Rhythm and Foods Festival. I was a vendor along with Oakview Farm Meats! As usual, we brought the goodness to the festival circuit!!

We entered a food contest sponsored by Robert Rothschild Farm…your assistant manager, Mark, with Oakview, brought home a medal and cash award!! He entered a secret recipe pork wrap using Rothschild products and took 2nd place out of 40 entries!

Your market manager entered a Cosmic Trippy Pulled Pork sandwich in combination with Oakview and placed in the Top Ten at 9th place!

My Cosmic pizzas debuted as an actual vending food!! Cheese, Veggie, or a meat variety with Oakview products! Grilled on the Green Mountain Pellet grills from Oakview! Rave reviews, comments about it being the best pizza…a Cosmic love fest!

The local love was definitely happening!! We all battled weather but we all came together…vendors, festival management, the customers…it was a total love fest of good vibes.

Rock Stars of Local making the local scene all happen!!

While we were festival bound, Charlene was rockin’ it at The Champaign County Farmer’s market!!

Your market managers…we never sleep!

The one underlining vibe of the weekend was this…you’ve always got a friend. No matter what, someone is always there to help. It’s what we love on this local front, it’s what we promote at this market.

Ok…go show your own local love, and get your orders in. We love, weekly, for doing this!

Peace, Love, Good Vibes…
Cosmic Pam

CLG:  Opening Bell: Squash, Tomatoes, Cabbage & Berries!

Good afternoon,

So many wonderful veggies, and it gets better every week! Our Growers are doing some incredible work and it’s paying off with early tomatoes, herbs, potatoes, corn, and of course, squash out the ears!

One our our long-time Growers, Arkansas Natural Produce, will not be available until further notice. Luckily, several of our Growers have adjusted and expanded their garden plans to provide a wider variety of produce. Look around all the categories and you should be able to fill your shopping cart with plenty of goodness!

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

ONLINE PAYMENT OPTION. When you are done shopping, just hit the “proceed to checkout” button in your cart. You will then see the option to “Pay Now” with credit card near the bottom. Just follow the prompts to add your card. Be sure to read the screen until you see “Thank you for your order” on the top. If you need help, please call 339-7958. A 3% online payment convenience fee will be added when your card is charged.

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/146991555352846

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

Good morning!

The Manchester Locally Grown Online Farmers’ Market is now open for ordering. However, I live only a few miles from the Bonnaroo music festival, and I’m experiencing serious internet lag because of all the cell phone usage at Bonnaroo. I will post the new market annoucement sometime later today, when the internet is (hopefully) a bit more reliable than it is right now. Thanks for your patience. Meanwhile, feel free to look over the offerings on the market and to place your order for Thursday delivery.

Blessings,
Linda

Dodgeville, WI:  Market week of June 14

Thanks for the interest in our market. place your order and we will be in touch with you with where and when we will get the order to you. You can pick it up or we can deliver – what works best for you.

The rain has been beneficial. Will give the weeds something to grow with but they are now smaller than the vegetables so don’t compete as much. This week I see blossoms on the peas and should have a good volume of yellow beans in about a month.

Bedford County:  Weblog Entry

The Market Is Open!!

Hey!

The market is open. KIC Produce and Chef Jenny are back, check out all the fresh vegetables rolling in.

The market will be in the Shelbyville Times-Gazette on Sunday.

We really appreciate all the new customers and we are so excited that this market is becoming a part of your week. Keep spreading the word.

Thanks so much

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!

South Cumberland Farmer's Market:  Time to Order Local Food!

It’s time to order from the South Cumberland Farmers’ Market

click here to go directly to the marketpage

Market News

Animal Alliance South Cumberland is having a fundraiser, courtesy of
The Smokehouse. For a $2.00 donation, a lucky participant will win a
14 LB fully cooked and smoked Brisket from The Smokehouse. It’s a $125
value. Drawing will be on the 4th of July. Judy Magavero will be at
the market pickup with tickets. Animal Alliance is a low cost
spay/neuter group that serves Grundy County and areas of Marion and
Franklin County on the plateau.
http://www.animalalliancesouthcumberland.com/index.htm
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BROWN’S HOLLAR has blackberry cobbler, chard, lip balm and lotion made from beeswax on the market. She will also have extra eggs this week. Envelope for money will be in the cooler. Thanks.
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DOGWOOD FARM BAKERY will again have extra baked goodies on her table. Check them out!
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DON’T FORGET THAT FOUNTAIN SPRINGS FARM has the Turkey Deposits on the market for people to order for Thanksgiving. Order soon so you won’t be left out! They are only going to take deposits for the next 2 weeks. After that they will not take any more orders. Most likely they will not have very many extra turkeys at Thanksgiving.
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REQUESTING DELIVERY
If you would like your market order delivered, please contact Rachel Lynch. E-mail: radelo50@yahoo.com or phone 931-598-0774.

Payment of all CFM orders MUST be made in advance of Tuesday’s delivery. Checks must be mailed in time to be posted to customer accounts before closing of market ordering on Monday. Mail checks made out to CFM to Kir Strobel, 744 Timberwood Trace, Monteagle, TN 37356.
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PLACING AN ORDER
Before you order, be sure you see the little shopping cart. If you do not, log out and log in again. If this fails, turn off your computer completely and start again. This includes ordering from smart phones.

If you want to leave a comment for a grower, be sure to put it in the “Leave comment for grower” area in RED beneath the item you’re ordering. Placing comments in the market manager section will not be seen by the growers.
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Don’t forget…
If you do not receive an order confirmation within 5 minutes, your order has NOT been placed in the system. E-MAIL OR CALL US to get the problem solved so you will not be disappointed on market day.

Please remember the market closes at 10 a.m. on Monday; therefore, your order must be completed and placed, and you should be signed out of the software.
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If you have any questions, please call (931.592.3399, no voice mail) or e-mail (cumberlandfm@gmail.com) us.

Kir Strobel & Linda Boynton
Market Co-Managers

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There is plenty more available so take your time and check out the whole list.

Click here to browse the whole list.

Coming Events

Keep up to date with the CFM by visiting our organization’s blog. or our Facebook Page .

Dothan, Alabama:  THE BEST, LOCAL & SUSTAINABLE PRODUCTS THIS WEEK...

Market At Dothan_Eating Locally, Year Round

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Market At Dothan Locally Grown

How to contact us:’
Our Website: marketatdothan.locallygrown.net
Our Email:2farmersdaughters@gmail.com
On Facebook: www.facebook.com/MarketAtDothan

Market News

AUGHTMON 1918…
Lots of great featured products: soaps, oils, lotions. Perfect for #Father’sDay.

WELCOME 2 C FARMS…
New this week, Okra. Coming soon…Silver Queen Corn, Butternut squash & Jubilee Watermelon!
“At 2C Farms we believe stewardship of the land, education of the next generation, and clean ethical growing practices are of greater import than making a sell. We strive to produce natural, healthy, delicious food for our families and our community. We grow typical garden vegetables such as squash, butternut squash, eggplant, sweet corn, zucchini, tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, and much more.” Jeremy Kelley

SANDSPUR FARMS…
***NEWS FLASH…Great new Pastured Pork/Egg, Veggie & Herb Bundles and Boxes available as well as Gift Certificates! Great options of porky goodness!

PRICELESS HEALTH FARM & HYDROPONICs…
Restocked for Summer. CSA shares are back…Unique & diverse Priceless products available. Check it out.

HORTON FARMS…
NEW…
Strawberry Vinaigrette Dressing
Strawberry Balsamic Sauce
All Natural Sunscreen
Blackberry Peach Preserves
Old Fashioned Peach Preserves

MARYS PEEPs…
FRESH Blueberries hand picked from the farm. Big,sweet & delicious! Homemade Blueberry Syrup & Blueberry Lemon Buttermilk Pound Cake. Sweet treat for Dad!

SPRING HILL FARMS…
Spring Hill Farm – On vacation this week but will be back 6/20!

CASABLANCA RANCH…
LOCAL GRASS FED, GRASS FINISHED BEEF…Half Beef Available there is NO Additional Processing Fee…you pay Hanging Weight $4.60 per pound and pick up from Market At Dothan…NO driving to processor wasting your time or gas! STEAKS – Rib Eyes, Filet Mignon, NY Strip, T Bone; Ground Beef Bundles – bulk pricing.
“Locally raised in Abbeville, AL. Grass Fed and Grass Finished. Our cattle are never given hormones, any type of steroids or growth enhancing medications. We do NOT feed them corn, chicken litter or cotton gin waste. Their diet is grass and hay. We give them minerals and salt as needed. We vaccinate them for diseases and parasites under the oversight of a veterinarian. Our meat is inspected and approved during processing by a USDA inspector and carries the USDA seal of certification.”
*GROUND BEEF, 93% LEAN
*GROUND BEEF PATTIES
*SIRLOIN TIP ROAST
*CHUCK ROAST
*BRISKET
*STEAKS: Filet, Rib Eye, NY Strip, T-Bone
*STEW MEAT
**SOUP BONES, MARROW BONES, OXTAIL

SUMMER 2015…
Extra CHEMICAL FREE Summer Produce will be available for sale Friday mornings during peak harvest times this summer!
Market at Dothan WILL be open Friday, July 3rd for all of your holiday grilling, BBQ & picnics!

#SHOPLOCAL…
PLEASE SUPPORT these LOCAL businesses! “It’s not hard to support your local economy. Just shift your spending to local independents. Every bit counts.” #ShopLocal. Order Online @
www.MarketAtDothan.locallygrown.net

DEBIT/CREDIT CARDS…
Now accepting Debit & Credit cards when you PICK UP your order during designated Market hours of 10A-12P on Fridays. Using SQUARE, is a FLEXIBLE payment option that allows you to get receipts via email or text message. EASY & CONVENIENT way to pay!

EASY & CONVENIENT Online Ordering @
www.MarketAtDothan.locallygrown.net

Farm to Table Recipes

A Tomato Sandwich Worthy of a Little Bacon
Ingredients
3 slices bacon, cooked crisp, crumbled and rendered fat reserved
1 room temperature egg
1 clove garlic
1 avocado
Juice of half a lemon
3/4 cup vegetable oil
The Bacon-Avocado Aioli
Toasted slices of a good rustic Italian bread
The best tomatoes you can find, sliced about 1/4 inch thick
Salt and pepper
Notes / Directions
1. Process the bacon, egg, garlic, lemon juice and avocado in the bowl of a mini food processor until smooth. Add the vegetable oil and the rendered bacon fat through the holes on the lid slowly while continuing to process until very smooth and thick. Refrigerate for about an hour to thicken a bit more.

2. Slather as much of the aioli as you like on a slice of the toast. Top with a few slices of tomato and sprinkle with salt and pepper. I like these open face but if you like, slather a second piece of bread with more of the aioli and place on top.