Fresh Harvest, LLC:  Weblog Entry

Market News

Hello!

Valentine’s Day is fast approaching, so please remember to spread the Local Love! We will have for you some nice gift items. While we don’t have flowers this time of year, we will have Flower Subscription Gift Certificates for the flower lover in your life! We will provide a lovely card for you to give which you can pick up on Wednesday the 11th. We will also next week have potted blooming hyacinths which you can pick up next Wednesday, and would be great gifts for a teacher, co-worker or neighbor.
The Bloomy Rind has some sweet heart shaped cheese for whatever special meal you may be fixing.

Our veggie quantities are low this week. It’s winter out there, folks! Now may be the time to try a new veggie – escarole and endive for cooking and salads, and kohlrabi is wonderfully versatile as well. Lots of nice beets and carrots as well, which are always great no matter if they are raw, roasted or steamed.

Thanks so much for your support, and we look forward to seeing you on Wednesday!

John and Tallahassee

Coming Events

Plattsburgh Online Ordering:  online farmers market ordering open

Hi folks. We are accepting orders through Tuesday evening. See you Saturday!

Green Fork Farmers Market:  Weekly Product List

Dear Green Fork Farmers Market Customers,

New this week—Green Fork Farm has blueberry jam available, made from local, organically produced berries.

Also available this week:

Vegetables—lettuce and spinach.

Herbs—Cilantro.

*Meat*—pastured beef, chicken, lamb, pork, organ meats, soup bones, and parts for stock.

Eggs—pastured chicken eggs.

Specialty foods—fermented sauerkraut and jalapenos, salsa made from local and organic ingredients, sugar cookies, and olives directly from the grower in California. Figgieville will also have a new shipment of olive oil coming in soon.

Place your order from now until Tuesday at noon, and we’ll reserve your products for pickup on Wednesday from 4-7 pm. Or you can stop by to see what we have for sale on our tables.

Thanks so much for supporting our local farmers and artisans!

Green Fork Farmers Market

Wednesdays 4-7 pm
Indoors, Year Round
At Nightbird Books

Dawson Local Harvest:  Preparing for February

The DAWSON LOCAL HARVEST for February 6th

Preparing for February.

HI EVERYBODY!

A couple of Notes about vendors. MY DAILY BREAD has not been listing lately because they’re in Florida tending to a sick daughter. They will be there for a bit, yet. We’ll let you know as soon as they are able to do the HARVEST again.

On a brighter note, LEILANI’S GARDENS has rebuilt both of their coldframes (like a greenhouse without the heaters and fans). Coldframes extend the growing season by protecting tender plants from the cold, which means earlier Tomatoes in Spring, longer producing cold crops in Winter. LEILANI’S will also be adding a third coldframe later this year, along with other improvements for better production. We’ll keep you up to date on other news as it comes along.

In the meantime, take a look at The Market to see all that’s available this week.

THE MARKET IS NOW OPEN!

REMEMBER! You can order until Tuesday night at 8pm. Pick up your order at Leilani’s Gardens Friday afternoons from 4 to 7pm.

You’ll find the DAWSON LOCAL HARVEST at http://dawsonville.locallygrown.net

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! We guarantee your satisfaction with all products in the DAWSON LOCAL HARVEST.

Have a happy and healthy week!

Alan Vining
Market Manager

Suwanee Whole Life Co-op:  Reminder: Don't forget to place your co-op order today

Just a friendly reminder :-)

Don’t forget to place your order today by 5pm

suwanee.locallygrown.net

I noticed a few people still have items in their carts. If you need those items please login and submit your order.

If you did NOT receive a confirmation email immediately after you placed your order, then your items are still in your cart and your order is not complete.

The Wednesday Market:  Your Friendly Reminder to Order

Good afternoon!

Well, it just started raining here, and the weather forecasters say we are going to be socked in for a while. I guess it’s good that we have the Superbowl to watch this evening!

Before you settle down in front of the TV to watch the big game, please remember to place your order. The Wednesday Market is open. Please place your order by 10 p.m. Monday. Orders are ready for pick up between 3 and 6 p.m. on Wednesday. Be sure to check the website for all of this week’s offerings. Here is the link: http://wednesdaymarket.locallygrown.net/market

We’ll see you on Wednesday!

Thanks,

Beverly

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.

ALFN Local Food Club:  The Market is Open with New Products!

Hey There Food Club,

The market is open, and even in the dead of winter, our growers keep us excited and full with loads of new products like…

• Heritage breed pasture-raised brown eggs from McSwain Ranch. Our favorite lamb grower also raises happy and healthy hens that are now laying delicious eggs!

• Red Russian kale from Arkansas Natural Produce, which I’d say should be sauteed with smoked paprika.

• A whole host of preserved products from Drewry Farms & Orchards, including spicy pickled green tomatoes, chow-chow, apple jelly, blueberry peach spread, cinnamon apple jelly, peach spread, rhubarb berry jam, and Kenny’s best ever salsa. They’re also baking apple cranberry, honey sweet potato, and Italian garlic and herb breads, harvesting honey, and yes, they’ve STILL got plenty of Arkansas black apples!

• Tammy Sue’s Critters is at it again, this time with adorable pumps filled with her homemade goat’s milk lotions. These come in a variety of scrumptious scents including cherry almond, gracious gardenia, grapefruit, juicy pear, lavender, lemon verbena, lemongrass, midnight pomegranate, peppermint, southern peach, or unscented.

• Willow rooting compound from Food For Thought Farm. I had to Google it, but this stuff apparently works magic for propagating plant cuttings.

Thank you for supporting local growers all year-round!

- Alex Handfinger
Director of Operations

Do you have questions or comments about this, or any, weblog? Thoughts on local food, goods, or events? Reply to this email and let us know what’s on your mind. Your feedback is always greatly appreciated!

Stones River Market:  The Market is Back Open - Welcome to February

Market News

Wow! February is already here which means Spring is fast approaching. Farmers are getting their greenhouses filled for the coming season. It has been a particularly tough Winter on our year round growers but they will get more products added soon.

Some items of interest this week:

Flying S Farms has a new biscuit – sour cream sweet potato butter biscuit.

Frontier Family Farm’s greenhouse has been very productive this winter with them offering spinach and a gourmet spring mix.

In anticipation of spring, Carol’s Vibration Cooking has added a bug and sun protection lotion bar.

Nuance Coffee & Tea has added several new coffees to their offerings this week. They are ALL Peaberry bean coffees from: Kenya, Malawi, Papua New Guinea, and Zimbabwe. These are some rare and outstanding coffees that have been hand sorted to ensure only the finest beans are selected. Enjoy!

Ever cooked with duck eggs? Wedge Oak Farm has them on the Market and many people are finding benefits to using them in their cooking.

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!

It is still soup weather. If you have a favorite soup recipe, please send them to me so I can share with everyone.

Gwinnett Locally Grown:  Sunday Market Reminder!

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

I thought I would share with you the more “behind the scenes” details on how we operate Gwinnett Locally Grown since many people ask if we can do things not realizing why we may or may not be able to do that. So I’m sharing a little of our hosekeeping rules we follow. I’m going to talk about the many legal issues surrounding our market. Even though many people call our Market “the co-op”, GLG is legally a market managed by me and owned by Pilar and Rancho Alegre Farm, so we can have a place to sell items we occasionally offer from her own garden and the Farm. There’s no board of directors, no shield corporation, no pot of grant money. It’s just me managing the week to week and Pilar’s belief in offering the community a good source for healthy and nutrient dense foods and other chemical free products to make your lives healthier. While that keeps things very simple, it also exposes the Farm to a ton of potential liability. It’s never been an issue (except when the whole raw milk thing erupted a few years ago) but there are several things we do specifically to minimize that risk:

The growers list their own items and set their own prices. When you buy from them, it is from them, not from us, and not from Gwinnett Locally Grown specifically.
Gwinnett Locally Grown never takes ownership or possession of the food. The growers drop it off, and you pick it up.
Everything at the market has a customer’s name attached to it when it arrives unless it may be stocked on our shelf or you buy a Rancho Alegre product.
When you pay, you’re paying into a shared cash box for all of the growers. This lets you write a single check or swipe your card once for convenience, but you are really paying all of the growers directly and individually. Your money goes in, the software we use to keep track of the growers sales and what is owed them. At the close of Market, I write checks for each of the growers you buy from based on the software’s calculation of what is owed them. This is a labor of love for us, not a huge “money making” business. Just folks wanting to provide a good service to other folks!
The growers give a small percentage of their sales, generally 10%, back to the market to cover the many expenses of keeping the market going. We also pay a 3% weekly fee to the software person who developed our software program.
When a grower sells items that need licenses from either the state or the federal government, GLG verifies that the proper licenses have been obtained.
The ownership issue is key. It’s one of the reasons why we don’t offer delivery, and why we usually can’t hold items for you if you aren’t able to pick up your orders. Delivery might be a good business for someone (if they could figure out all the legal requirements), but it’s not at all what we personally want to be into right now. Many food co-ops and even some farmers markets aren’t as careful with keeping ownership straight as we try to be, and that has gotten other groups similar to us into serious legal trouble (deserved or not) over the years. There are so many grey areas in all this, and the written regulations still don’t even consider that something like Gwinnett Locally Grown might exist. We’re so firmly in the grey areas with most everything we do that it’s just too risky for us.
I hope that gives you an idea of how important this Market is to us and for you! We are very grateful for our customers and their support of Gwinnett Locally Grown!

*_If anyone is still interested in ordering from Green Pastures for Fermented Cod Liver Oil, please email me!

Thanks for a great Market last week!

*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. *

I hope that this year will be the best year in health for you and your family!

Browse through to see all the great Growers we have and maybe you will find something new!

We have Wilderness Family Naturals Coconut Sugar, Flour and Organic Popcorn in the Market for sale! When you come to pick up your order, check them out! They are also now online!

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.