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Gwinnett Locally Grown: Sunday Market Reminder! Welcome Rockin' H Farm!
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
Welcome Rockin’ H Farm!
Website: www.RockinHFarm.com
Rockin’ H Farm is a small farm in Statham, GA owned by Amanda and Tyler Hall. It is our mission to supply local families with locally grown natural, sustainable, and chemical free vegetables, meats, eggs, honey, and fiber.
We currently raise Lamancha dairy goats, Heritage Ancona Ducks, Silver Fox Rabbits, various laying chickens, huacaya alpaca, Great Pyrenees LGDs, bees, and a small garden.
In 2015 we will offer fresh, raw hormone-free, antibiotic-free goat milk, farm fresh non-soy, non- GMO duck and chicken eggs, honey from our small apiary, heritage rabbit, pastured heritage duck, hand spun alpaca fiber and products, farm fresh veggies, and hopefully pastured heritage turkey for our community.
Rockin’ H Farm has cleared the back 6 acres of the property and is currently tilling, seeding, and fencing to prepare for sheep and pigs later in the year and early next year.
We have also just obtained the neighboring 10 acres, doubling our current size and allowing for several more opportunities for the future!
Currently, there is rabbit meat and goat’s milk with more additions coming! Check them out!
Your Attention Please!
*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 filets them and flash freezes them! They are shipped to Georgia and all this happens within 2 days! You cannot get fresher than that!
UPDATE
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*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. If you are interested in participing in the pre-buy, please email me at grow@ranchoalegrefarm.com! This is through one of our Growers!
There are no workshops next week but I will update new workshops for the month of June as I know!
_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 imput!
Remember…
The Market is 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: News: New Vendor - Cultured Traditions
Suwanee Whole Life Co-?op
Our Website: suwanee.locallygrown.net
Pick Up Location: 4942 Austin Park Avenue, Buford GA 30518 on Tuesdays
Like Us on Facebook: Suwanee Whole Life Co-op
Have a question for other co-op jmembers? Submit questions on our Google Group Discussion Board: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/suwanee-whole-life-co-op
New Vendor : Cultured Traditions
Based on the survey, the most requested new item you all wanted to see on the market was fermented foods. With that being said, I am extremely happy to welcome Tanya and Charles Sharp from Cultured Traditions of Duluth to our family of producers and farmers!
Cultured Traditions’ goal is to reintroduce people to the wonderful world of naturally fermented foods, and the marvelous health benefits they provide.
Their products are 100% raw, made using only the highest quality organic ingredients, using no whey or other starters. Their krauts are wild fermented in their own natural juices (nothing else added), and they add only purified water to their Kvass, preserving and enhancing all of their nutritional and pro-biotic goodness! They work with local farmers who practice organic growing methods without being formally certified.
They will be currently offering the co-op Sauerkraut, Beet Kvass, and Jun.
Beet Kvass is a clean and refreshing health tonic with many health promoting qualities, among which many believe to be: efficient hydration (far surpassing any of the commercial ‘sports drinks’ on the market), *blood builder, *liver detoxifier & cleanser, *immune system builder, and the list goes on. * These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease."
Jun is similar to Kombucha in that it uses a similar culture (or SCOBY), but instead of black tea and white sugar, Jun is made using green tea and honey, both of which are well known for their health benefits. They only the finest quality ingredients for their Jun: green tea brewed from organic loose leaf green tea and purified water, and raw local Georgia honey. Slightly sweet and a little tangy, Jun has a very pleasant and delicate flavor and aroma!
Being originally from Russia, they started with their traditional Russian
style ferment (Russian Sauerkraut, Beet Kvass,‘Soaked’ Apples). However they love to experiment, so along the way they have added many other interesting products to their line, and every few weeks something new inevitably gets produced in their commercial kitchen in Duluth.
Please join me in welcoming them to the co-op!
Market News
Have a safe and happy Memorial Day weekend!
Vacation Hold for Produce Box
Just a reminder if you are going to be away next week please make sure you put a vacation hold on your Nature’s Garden Delivered produce box if you are scheduled to receive one. You can simply do this online or give NGD a call and they can set it up for you.
New Items
Dryer Balls – Alpaca Wool
Sauerkraut – Curtido
Sauerkraut – Simply Caraway
Sauerkraut – Garlic Pickle
Sauerkraut (Kimchi Style)
Sauerkraut – Traditional ‘Red’
Sauerkraut – Traditional ’White
Beet Kvass – Golden
Beet Kvass – Red
Jun with Nectarine
Jun with Beet, Carrot Apple and Ginger
Jun with Ginger – fermented green tea with Ginger added
Lettuce – Butter (Green)
Kale – Vibrantly Nutritious
HELP! We need Volunteers!!
Please consider volunteering. I can’t run the co-op without your help.
THANK YOU Sybille, Pam, Chuck, and Vicki for helping out last Tuesday! We couldn’t run the co-op without your support!
We currently need someone to fill the 5pm slot this Tuesday, May 19th.
If you are interested in volunteering to help at pick up, I have created a volunteer sign up on Signup Genius. I am asking for volunteers to sign up for 1 hour shifts from 2p to 6:45 pm. No packing is involved just need someone to be there to assist other members. You are welcome to bring your kids as long as they are supervised. Here is the link to the sign up http://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0A44AEA623A7FA7-volunteer
The link is also posted on the About page on our website.
Thank you in advance for your support!
Upcoming Group Buys
Below is a list of upcoming co-op group buys to help with planning and budgeting. All dates are subject to change.
Vital Choice (Wild Caught Seafood Only) – 5/29 – 5/31
Fermented Cod Liver Oil- Green Pasture – 5/29 -5/31
Sorghum Syrup – June 2015
Wilderness Family Naturals- (Organic Pantry Items) –June 2015
Raw Mixed Nuts – July 2015
Grass Fed Cheese – 9/18 – 9/20
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!
CSA Farmers Market: May 21 Growing Season Update
BUSY BUSY BUSY All the farmers are hustling to get their gardens and fields planting. Dale has been putting the paper mulch down and planting in them. He is also out seeding some of the fields that the cattle pasture on. With the big temperature swings it is a constant opening and closing the hoop-houses from either frost or too much heat. The potatoes are still sitting in crates waiting to be cut for potato seed. The sweet potato slips will be arriving a little later than normal. The cattle are out of the small front pasture and into the larger pastures. Sweet corn has been planted, the peas outside are needing to be trellised, the bee hives are doing fine.
The two evils attacking the plants in the hoop-houses are grasshoppers and aphids. There are some natural methods to help control them, which we are doing.
Until Next Time
Marian Listwak
Jonesborough Locally Grown: Saturday Market May 23rd
Happening at the market this week: our first Kids day of the season!
TOWN EVENT
Garden Gala
PLANTS
tomato plants, vegetable plants, herbs, flowers.
Vendors this week: Perry Phillips, Eric Isenberg, Shy Valley.
PRODUCE
kale (siberian, red ursa, red russian), lettuces (red butterhead, green romaine, bibb romaine, grandpa Admire, jericho), chard, garlic, mint, shitaki mushrooms, watercress,leeks, pea shoots, collards, broccoli, arugula, onions, radishes, baby pac choi, strawberries, and microgreens!
Vendors this week: Rogue Harbor Farm, Ranchito la Chiva, Uncle Rob, Jane Matheson, White’s Mountain Meadow Farm, Rural Resources, Millwood Greenery, Salamander Spring Garden, Dominicks Garden, Arkangle
FROM THE FARM
chicken, beef, pork, lamb, and lots of eggs.
Vendors this week: Clover Creek Farm, Shiny C Farm, Sentelle’s Homemade Sausage, Kany/Perservation Farm,
FROM THE KITCHEN
breads, muffins, tamales,chocolates, danishes, biscotti
Vendors this week: Farmhouse Gallery, Dona Eva, Jane Wilson, The Fig Lady
FROM THE ARTIST
pottery, pet treats, goatmilk soap, alpaca products
Vendors this week: Tim’s Pottery, Sheeks Pet Treats, Free Reign Farm, Only the Finest
MUSIC
The Bluebirds
BREAKFAST
This weeks menu:
Sausage Biscuits – local sausage from Sentelles
Egg Biscuits – local eggs from Whites Mountain Meadow Farm
Veggie Frittata – local eggs from Whites Mountain Meadow Farm
Strawberry Scones
A FEATURED FARMER
Sentell’s Homemade Sausage
Featured product: pork products including sausage breakfast links, bratwurst, Italian sausage, ribs
Vendor at the market since: 2009
See you on the street,
Deb
Gwinnett Locally Grown: The Market is open for ordering! Welcome Rockin' H Farm!
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
Welcome Rockin’ H Farm!
Website: www.RockinHFarm.com
Rockin’ H Farm is a small farm in Statham, GA owned by Amanda and Tyler Hall. It is our mission to supply local families with locally grown natural, sustainable, and chemical free vegetables, meats, eggs, honey, and fiber.
We currently raise Lamancha dairy goats, Heritage Ancona Ducks, Silver Fox Rabbits, various laying chickens, huacaya alpaca, Great Pyrenees LGDs, bees, and a small garden.
In 2015 we will offer fresh, raw hormone-free, antibiotic-free goat milk, farm fresh non-soy, non- GMO duck and chicken eggs, honey from our small apiary, heritage rabbit, pastured heritage duck, hand spun alpaca fiber and products, farm fresh veggies, and hopefully pastured heritage turkey for our community.
Rockin’ H Farm has cleared the back 6 acres of the property and is currently tilling, seeding, and fencing to prepare for sheep and pigs later in the year and early next year.
We have also just obtained the neighboring 10 acres, doubling our current size and allowing for several more opportunities for the future!
Currently, there is rabbit meat and goat’s milk with more additions coming! Check them out!
Your Attention Please!
*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 filets them and flash freezes them! They are shipped to Georgia and all this happens within 2 days! You cannot get fresher than that!
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*If you are interested in buying salmon which is only available during their season in June, please email me at grow@ranchoalegrefarm.com! This is through one of our Growers!
There are no workshops next week but I will update new workshops for the month of June as I know!
_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 imput!
Remember…
The Market is 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.
The Cumming Harvest - Closed: Peaches
Organic South Carolina Peaches were just added to the market!!
The Cumming Harvest - Closed: Newsletter - May 20, 2015
GROUP BUYS
As a Cumming Harvest member you get to take advantage of our group buys….products offered to you at a discounted price. One of our frequent group buys is Cod Liver oil. We get our CLO from Green Pastures, a company who is recommended by the Weston Price Foundation.
If you have shied away from CLO in the past because of the unpleasant taste give Green Pastures a try. They have done a great job of disguising the taste of CLO, with many flavors to choose from like cinnamon, chocolate and mint. Plus you would be taking advantage of the many, many benefits…too many to name all here, but here are some highlights….
Benefits of COD LIVER OIL
Cod liver oil greatly improves heart function to prevent heart disease. Weston Price noted that heart attack deaths increased during periods when the vitamin A content of the diet was low. Cod liver oil can provide vitamin A on a continuous basis throughout the year. Cod liver oil has lowered blood pressure induced by stress-elevated levels of cortisol. Vitamin D in cod liver oil promotes absorption of calcium and magnesium, thereby lowering blood pressure.
In numerous studies, omega-3 fats found in cod liver oil have been shown to improve brain function, memory, stress response, immune response, allergies, asthma, learning and behavioral disorders, including bipolar syndrome and manic-depression.
Cod liver oil is most famous for contributing to bone health, Osteoporosis responds to vitamin D and to cod liver oil. Cod liver oil is effective in treating arthritis as well reducing both pain and damage in inflamed joints. Topically applied, cod liver oil contributes to faster wound healing and improvement in skin quality. An excellent treatment for diaper rash and other skin conditions is cod liver oil mixed with zinc oxide. And cod liver oil taken orally helps maintain soft skin and minimize wrinkles.
And what about cancer? All the nutrients in cod liver oil help prevent cancer. Vitamin A has been part of every successful alternative cancer therapy so far. In a study of Norwegian men and women, consumption of cod liver oil was found to protect against lung cancer.
Evidence is accumulating that these diseases of civilization are the result of high levels of omega-6 fatty acids and low levels of omega-3 fatty acids along with deficiencies of fat-soluble vitamins. We may be paying a very high price for our rejection of parental wisdom to take our cod liver oil.
Source: http://www.westonaprice.org/
Check our “Group Buys” section regularly to take advantage of these opportunities.
For more info on CLO, Weston A Price and Green Pastures check out these websites:
http://www.greenpasture.org/public/Home/index.cfm
Specials this week:
My Daily bread has several items on sale this week…
Hot Pepper Peach Cheese Logs – Reg $9.50 --Sale $8.00
Greek Pasta Salad Reg $6 pint - Sale $5 pint
Look for these sale items under the “Weekly Specials” on the website.
Pick Up Options
COLONY PARK PICK-UP This is our main location and all orders will be prepared for you for pick up at this location, 10am-12pm, if you don’t choose another option below. You can order and pick up meat and seafood at this location.
VICKERY PICK-UP – Vickery Village Cherry Street Taproom pick up is between 1:00-1:30pm. If you would like to pick up at Vickery choose VICKERY PICK-UP item in the categories on the The Market page/tab. Customers choosing to pick up at Vickery should not order meat or seafood as we cannot transport meat and seafood due to Dept. of Ag regulations.
DELIVERY to Vickery/Polo Area – Please add this item to your order if you would like delivery to your home on Saturday between 1:30-3pm. Only prepaid orders will be accepted. Deliveries will be dropped off at your front door. If you are not going to be home, please leave a insulated bag or cooler for your order. The delivery person is not responsible for making sure your food is in the appropriate container once dropped off. Please plan for possible rain and make sure your order will be protected. The delivery person will travel with your orders in insulated bags with ice packs to protect it during travel. No Meat or Seafood will be able to be delivered.
Group Buy
Green Pastures – April orders have arrived and are ready for pick up at the market.
Butter – Next order will be available on Sat. May 30th.
Gelatin – Great Lakes Gelatin is available for order online this week.
Raw Cheese – Swiss and Monterey Jack. Next order will be available May 30th. Send me an email to request your favorite.
Main Market Location and Pick Up
Building 106, Colony Park Dr. in the Basement of Suite 100, Cumming, GA 30040. Pick up every Saturday between 10-12pm.
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!
Fisher's Produce Tulsa: Market & CSA Today
We are at Brookside market this morning from 7:30 until 11:00.
We are also delivering CSA bags to JCT, B’nai Emunah, and Beggs.
This week’s CSA includes:
Carrots
Beets
Celery
Lettuce
Sugar Snap Peas
Two fresh onions
Napa Cabbage (with our favorite Napa salad recipe!)
Champaign, OH: Are You Kind?
Anybody’s choice…
I can hear your voice…
Wo, oh, what I want to know, how does the song go…
(Grateful Dead – Uncle John’s Band)
Shedding a little Grateful Dead into the market, tonight. One of my very favorite Dead songs. Off of Workingman Blues. I urge you to pull this song up, listen to it as you place your market orders.
It will put a smile on your face, a song in your heart, a big thank me, always, after you are done listening.
I am about ready to depart to my annual music festival trip, this weekend. Off to celebrate The Grateful Dead, relax, meet up with old friends, get a whole lot of sunshine, soul shine, groovy vibes. By the time I pull into the gravel lane that is Maggie’s Farm, I am transported back to the 1960s, 1970s…it’s all peace, love, music.
We all set up our camp, we get our tapestry lounges all set up, we greet all of our camping neighbors, make sure our tents are all secure, and then the fun begins! We all drift down to the stage areas, the sun sets on Friday evening, and we are treated to hours of the first night’s music. Grateful Dead fun, dancing, feel good times.
It’s such an outpouring of fan loyalty, fan love, bongo drums, fire twirlers, flower children…a little slice of local love. Just like this market. A slice of little local heaven. The best products, the best vendors, the best prices, the best way to shop. Full of love, full of goodness, full of good vibes.
So…how does the song go? It goes like this. We are extremely fortunate to have a market like this. It’s a farmer’s market made easy. Take a moment, think about the upcoming weekend holiday, and think about how your song will go…
You have until 10pm to get your orders in. Don’t leave your groove until the end. You never know what you might miss! We make it easy, we make it fun, we make it full of love…
I will be twirling out of town on Thursday. Your market will be run by Mark and Charlene…thankfully, they realize how important this weekend is to me. I couldn’t run the market without them!
Go, order, show some love…
Peace, Love, Good Vibes…
Cosmic Pam