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This weblog contains LocallyGrown.net news and the weblog entries from all the markets currently using the system.
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Jonesborough Locally Grown: JBO Saturday Market May 5th
We have a great day on tap tomorrow, make sure you come out and see us. The produce is plentiful, all locally grown and fresh from the farm.
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), chard, garlic, asparagus, mint, watercress,leeks, pea shoots, collards, broccoli, arugula, onions, baby pac choi, strawberries, and microgreens!
Vendors this week: Rogue Harbor Farm, Ranchito la Chiva, Uncle Rob, Jane Matheson, White’s Mountain Meadow Farm, Arkangle, Rural Resources.
FROM THE FARM
goat cheese, chicken, beef, pork, lamb, and lots of eggs. In addition, alpaca fiber and products.
Vendors this week: Ziegenwald Dairy, Clover Creek Farm, Shiny C Farm, Sentelle’s Homemade Sausage, Kany/Perservation Farm, Only the Finest.
FROM THE KITCHEN
breads, muffins, tamales,chocolates.
Vendors this week: Farmhouse Gallery, Dona Eva, Jane Wilson.
FROM THE ARTIST
pottery, goat milk soaps, unique handmade aprons
Vendors this week: Don Burger/Barbara Cara, Free Reign Farm, Sophie & Grace
MUSIC
The Symphony Rags
BREAKFAST
This weeks menu:
Sausage Biscuits – local sausage from Sentelles
Egg Biscuits – local eggs from Arkangle
Veggie Frittata – local eggs from Arkangle
Blueberry Scones – local blueberries from Rogue Harbor Farm
A FEATURED FARMER
Christy and Phillip Shivell, Shy Valley Farm.
Featured product: herb and vegetable plants
Vendor at the market since: 2009
McKinney Center will be with us, check out their summer programs.
See you on the street,
Deb
Fisher's Produce: Delivery Today!
Sorry this reminder is a little late, but we are on our way to the Tractor’s Supply parking lot and hope to see you there!
The Cumming Harvest - Closed: Strawberries
Fresh organic strawberries just listed from Watsonia Farms. Peaches will be available in a few weeks!
CSA Farmers Market: Note From Me, My Health & Eyes
Me, My Health and Eyes. Patricia Aldrich will be relocating to Florida within the next 2 Months. Her business practice will continue on every aspect by means of Skype, email, mail and phone. She will also have a by weekly newsletter Via email and a website is under construction. She will have 2 visits per year to Michigan to do in person consults. Because of her relocation, the CSA is in need of a new delivery/pick up location in the Lake Orion area. If you know of a chiropractor, Natural Practitioner, Storefront that would be willing, please contact the CSA, Thank You.
Suwanee Whole Life Co-op: News: Support our vendors!
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 members? Submit questions on our Google Group Discussion Board: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/suwanee-whole-life-co-op
We’re about to lose vendors…
Many of our vendors require a minimum amount ordered to be able to justify delivering to our warehouse. Orders have been very low for Cedar Rock Dairy, Mountain Fresh Creamery and Great Harvest. Unfortunately if our orders don’t increase we will lose these wonderful vendors. Please consider showing your support for these vendors by ordering their products. Your ordering decisions do make a difference!
Great Harvest offers freshly baked breads from freshly milled whole grains. They also offer gluten free breads.
Mountain Fresh Creamery produces all natural (no hormones or antibiotics), non-homogenized Milk, Chocolate Milk, Low Fat Milk and Buttermilk.
Cedar Rock Dairy produces Raw Jersey cow milk from A2 cows. Cows roam on certified organic *pastures of a 1200 acre organic farm.
Market News
SALE Flour – Prairie Gold Whole Wheat White Flour (10 lbs) for $4.75! This Flour has a best by used date of 6/10/2015 It’s so versatile it can be substituted for white flour in some recipes, giving your baked goods unique flavor, plus all of the benefits of whole wheat. 100% whole-wheat flour. Certified Chemical Free. GMO Free. All Natural. Nothing Added, Nothing Removed.
Group Buy from last week- Grass Fed Cheese
If you purchased our group buy from last week (Grass Fed Cheeses) it will be available this Tuesday (5/12) for pick up. If you missed the group buy last week we have extra and they will be listed on the market until they are sold out. You’ll find them in the GROUP BUYS section of the website.
Butter from Southern Swiss Dairy
Butter is back on the market! They thank you for your patience!
New Items
Grains – Einkorn Wheat, 11 LB Bag Organic
Grains – Organic Short Grain Brown Rice, 2 LB
Grains – Brown Basmati & Wild Rice, Organic, 1 LB
Grains – Long Grain White Rice, Organic Heirlooms, 2 lb
Grains – Brown Basmati Rice, Rice – Non GMO
Gift Certificate – My Daily Bread
Essential Oil – Myrrh 1/2 oz.
HELP! We need Volunteers!!
Please consider volunteering. I can’t run the co-op without your help.
THANK YOU Pam, Chuck, Marianna, and Vicki for helping out last Tuesday! We couldn’t run the co-op without your support!
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) – 5/15 – 5/17
Fermented Cod Liver Oil- Green Pasture – 5/22 -4/24
Sorghum Syrup – 5/29 -5/31
Wilderness Family Naturals- (Organic Pantry Items) –June 2015
Raw Mixed Nuts – June 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!
Spa City Local Farm Market Co-op: Veggie Plants
Debe Hudson of A B C Nature Greenhouse & Herb Farm will deliver veggie plants only two more times this season.
The price for these healthy plants has been lowered $1.14 each.
Take advantage of this wonderful offer during the next two markets. When Debe sells out, there will be no more of her fine veggie plants until next season.
Martin's Farmstand: Asparagus
Asparagus harvest is starting. I cut the first today. We will be open at our farmstand tomorrow . ( Thursday). Summer stand hours are 10am – 6pm Mon- Sat. Daniel
Gwinnett Locally Grown: The Market is open for ordering! Welcome Back in Time 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 new Grower Back in Time Farm!
We are a small 14 acre family farm located just down the street in Statham, Ga. We specialize in non-gmo, non-soy, pastured poultry & eggs. We also grow many types of small fruits and vegetables with non-certified organic methods. Featured is the “Back in Time bird” raised the old fashioned way.
Ruth & Bill Hayden
Check out their whole chickens on Market and wonderful eggs!
Workshops
Join us for a workshop! You’ll be amazed by the plethora of information and lessons offered by our fantastic workshop instructors. Our workshops cover subjects such as gardening, nutrition, nutrient dense foods, natural remedies, essential oils, and much more!
Our goal is to host one workshop a week which will always be on Tuesday. The workshop schedule will rotate from 10:30 AM, 6:00 PM and 7:00 PM for the community’s convenience. The farm brings workshops to the community as an outreach to share the wealth of knowledge we have attained over the years. We do not charge for these events but allow the speakers to charge a fee to cover their time and supplies. We hope everyone will take advantage of this wonderful opportunity.
Please share this with all your friends and family and RSVP via FB Eventsand/or Meet-Up.
Workshops @ the Farm
Wine Making Workshop – 2nd Session of 2
Each Session Approx 60 min. (1 session each month)
Session 2 | May 12 @ 7:00 PM: Bottle, Cork, and label your wine, take it home
Each person will take home 2 bottles at the end of the 2nd session
Cost: $10 per person
RSVP on Facebook or Meetup.com
*Easy Paleo Meals with Keila Workshop – Lose Weight, Have More Energy
Tuesday, May 19 at 7:00pm
RSVP on Facebook or Meetup.com
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_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 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.
The Cumming Harvest - Closed: Newsletter - May 6, 2015
Weedy Soil Farm
Getting to know your farmer….
Hello, my name is Lois Dewey, and it turns out that if you rearrange the letters in my name you get Weedy Soil. I’ve known about that for a while, so when it came time to pick a name for my new farm, I just had to use it. I am now in my fourth year of farming, though I have been an organic gardener for as long as I can remember. It’s just the way it’s always been done!
Weedy Soil Farm is Certified Naturally Grown. Certified Naturally Grown (CNG) is an alternative to the USDA organic certification. The same rules and standards are required, in fact sometimes there are additional restrictions. Instead of relying on a government-sanctioned certifier, CNG uses a method of farmers inspecting other farmers. We each understand the importance of maintaining the reputation of the certification and work hard to ensure compliance. The USDA certification is geared toward large farms and requires too much paperwork and expense for a small farm to handle.
Locally grown food is better for a variety of reasons. The biggest reason is it tastes better because of its freshness. Food grown at Weedy Soil Farm will generally be available the day after it is harvested. Second in importance (to me anyway) is the reduced environmental impact. Buying food from Weedy Soil Farm means minimal packaging and far less fossil fuel burned to deliver it to you.
I work hard to produce the best, freshest, tasty vegetables available. I have a passion for the environment and protecting nature. I hope it shows in my produce.
Look for Lois’s delicious produce on the Cumming Harvest website under “Vegetables” and “fruits”.
Specials this week:
My Daily bread has several items on sale this week…
Chocolate Zucchini Bread – rich dark chocolate bread with bittersweet chocolate bits on top.
Hot Pepper Peach cheese logs – organic cream cheese mixed with our organic sweet & hot peppers and sweet vidalia onion, rolled in crushed pecans. Perfect for Mother’s day brunch.
Buffalo Blue Cheese Dip – “HOT” combo of organic cream cheese, peppers, shredded sharp cheddar, blue cheese, and spices. Great with dipping veggies, on wings, or with tortilla chips.
Beer Buzzed dip – organic cream cheese, sharp cheddar mixed with herbs and a robust Lager.
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 – We have raw butter at the market. Not listed online, but you may email me or ask for it when you pick up.
Gelatin – Great Lakes Gelatin is available for order online this week.
Raw Cheese – We have raw cheese in this week. Check online to order.
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!