The Weblog
This weblog contains LocallyGrown.net news and the weblog entries from all the markets currently using the system.
To visit the authoring market’s website, click on the market name located in the entry’s title.
Superior Seasons: Cyber Monday Food on Sale! We deliver.
Order Now for Delivery Wednesday! We are still offering HOME DELIVERY to Individual customers! Restaurants, Institutions, and other wholesale customers can access deliver with wholesale pricing – ask us how!CLICK HERE, to see what’s available, set up your account, and order.
Naples,FL: Market is still open
We have kept the market open for this busy weekend of feasting and shopping.
We hope everyone had a very special Thanksgiving.
The Aldays
Princeton Farm Fresh: The Market is Open
Wow, can you believe that it is already December? Where has the year gone? Spring fever is already setting in here at our farm, as I am searching through seed catalogs and planning out the gardens for next year. I spent part of this weekend reading reviews of the best tomatoes of 2014 and making my wish list for 2015 garden.
We will be closed Christmas week and possibly New Years week as we will be taking some time to celebrate with family and getting the market ready for the New Year.
See you on Friday,
Angela
Joyful Noise Acres Farm: On line ordering ends at 8:00pm.
Please remember to place your orders before 8:00 tonight. Also, there are a few spaces left for the Broth and Stock making calss this Saturday. if you still want to sign up.
Blessings,
Mary Beth
Athens Locally Grown: ALG Market Open for December 4
Athens Locally Grown
How to contact us:
Our Website: athens.locallygrown.net
On Twitter: @athlocallygrown
On Facebook: www.facebook.com/athenslocallygrown
On Thursdays: Here’s a map.
Market News
I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving! It was a late one this year, which means only a few weeks of holiday festivities all crammed together. Christmas is on Thursday this year, which means New Year’s Day is as well. Our current plans are to be closed both weeks. I’ll leave the door open to running on an alternate schedule, depending on our farmers, and I’ll be sure to let you know if that’s what we do.
The Athens Christmas parade will be held this Thursday night, and it will be impossible to get through downtown. Plan your travel accordingly! We do not open until 4:30, but we will start filling orders earlier if the growers have all arrived and unloaded on time. If you’re coming late in the evening, be sure to give downtown a wide berth!
This is the time for holiday artisan markets, and it seems like each year there are more than ever in Athens. I hope to provide a list next week of all the upcoming holiday artisan markets, so please let me know if you know of any you want me to mention particularly. I’ll spread the word when I hear of more as they happen via our Twitter and Facebook feeds. If you don’t already follow them, you can find the addresses right above. You’ve already demonstrated your commitment to buy some of your food from local farmers. Giving gifts made from local artisans is just as important, and can be even more rewarding!
Thank you so much for your support of Athens Locally Grown, all of our growers, local food, and our rights to eat it. You all are part of what makes Athens such a great area in which to live. We’ll see you on Thursday at Ben’s Bikes at the corner of Pope and Broad Streets from 4:30 to 8pm!
Other Area Farmers Markets
The Athens Farmers Market is open on Saturdays at Bishop Park. You can catch the news on their website. The West Broad Farmers Market is open throughout the month here in Athens, and you can find more information about them here: www.athenslandtrust.org. The Washington-Wilkes Farmer’s Market in Washington is open every Saturday 9-12 behind the Washington Courthouse. The Oconee County farmers market is open Saturday mornings in front of the Oconee County Courthouse. The other area markets I haven’t mentioned have yet to open for the season, so far as I know.
All of these other markets are separate from ALG (including the Athens Farmers Market) but many growers sell at multiple markets. Please support your local farmers and food producers, where ever you’re able to do so!
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!
Atlanta Locally Grown: Available for Saturday December 6
I hope this finds you all doing well. I hope every one had a wonderful Thanksgiving. We sure did. Lots of great food and family. We also got to build a few new pigs huts with the extra day off.
We have a nice selection of farm fresh products. Taylorganic has some great produce available and we still have a few hog shares along with lots of great cuts available. We should have a few mushrooms to go along with our garden goodies. Ordering is open until 8pm on Wednesday.
We will see Saturday at your selected delivery location.
Thank you all for your orders. We appreciate every one and enjoy being your farmers.
Thanks again and see you Friday,
Brady
Conyers Locally Grown: Available for Friday December 5
I hope this finds you all doing well. I hope every one had a wonderful Thanksgiving. We sure did. Lots of great food and family. We also got to build a few new pigs huts with the extra day off.
We have a nice selection of farm fresh products. Taylorganic has some great produce available and we still have a few hog shares along with lots of great cuts available. We should have a few mushrooms to go along with our garden goodies. Ordering is open until 8pm on Wednesday.
We will see you on Friday between 5-7 at Copy Central.
Thank you all for your orders. We appreciate every one and enjoy being your farmers.
Thanks again and see you Friday,
Brady
Plattsburgh Online Ordering: get your maple online
We will have the pint, quart, and half gallons of maple syrup on the collaborative table. If you want fancy jars, sugar, cream, etc, or dark syrup, place your order online (or call Parker’s to place your order and pick up at the collaborative table).
Looking for easy hostess gifts? Caramels, cheese and goats milk soap are welcomed.
Have a good week.
Northeast Georgia Locally Grown: Locally Grown - Availability for December 3rd, 2014
Hey Local Food Lovers,
Welcome Back! This was our first Thanksgiving off in Locally Grown history and I have to admit it was kind of nice. One thing that made it so nice is that our last market the week before was the 2nd Largest sales day in our four year history, nearly $2,800. Everyone really stepped up to make it a special Thanksgiving, from growers listing new items to you guys buying it up.
I enjoyed a lot of things over the holidays, but that pumpkin pie exceeded all expectations. You can find it under Gluten Free Items. If you did eat your local foods over the holidays and took a snapshot, please, please, send us a copy. We’d love to see your food pics.
It’s hard to believe but there’s only 3 and a half weeks to Christmas. We talk so much about food around here, but in the run up to the big gift giving day I’m gonna talk a little more about our non-food items that make great gifts at the Holiday Season. This week I want to mention some items from Wild Earth Gardens and Herbals. Marantha has been with Locally Grown from the start and you’ve probably eaten some of the vegetables that she grows as well. She keeps quite a few bath and beauty items such as bath salts, salve and lip balm all times of the year. This year she has some special gift sets, that include herbal mist, salve, lip balm and vegan soap, with a handmade organic cotton face cloth.
Before we go I want to say a special Thank you to one of our newest growers this year. KP FARMS who is one of our rare EGG Producers on the market is run by Larry Kennimer who lives over near Dahlonega. I know that I personally have probably eaten close to 100 eggs from Larry’s momma hens over the last 6 months or so and I’ve loved and been thankful for every one of them. We’re also especially thankful that Larry appears to be recovering quickly from some very scary heart trouble a few weeks ago. It’s a very small group of people that make it possible for us to eat so well, and we want to wish Larry well in what appears to be a speedy recovery. In fact, Larry showed off his new truck decal advertising the farm the other day and he had the northeastgeorgia.locallygrown.net website posted right on there under his farm name. That means a lot to us, and Larry means a lot to us. I hope everyone will wish him well while they scramble up his delicious eggs this week and every week for weeks and weeks to come. You can see his truck magnet and a photo of Larry our FACEBOOK page which you should friend (oh wait it’s like now). Larry’s Facebook can be found there as well.
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https://www.facebook.com/NGLGmarket
Well that ought to do it. Looking forward to meeting our new customers this week. There’s at least 4 newbies!
EAT WELL,
Justin, Chuck, Teri and Andrew
Green Fork Farmers Market: Weekly product list
Dear Green Fork Farmers Market Customers,
New this week—Green Fork Farm has potatoes, Shiitake mushrooms, and sweet pepper jelly available. Also—duck eggs are on sale!
More products this week:
Vegetables—arugula, lettuce, red mustard, spinach, sweet potatoes, bell peppers, Anaheims, and jalapenos.
Herbs—Mint, sage, and a mixed herb bunch.
*Meat*—pastured beef, chicken, lamb, pork, organ meats, soup bones, and parts for stock.
Eggs—pastured chicken and duck eggs.
Specialty foods—Flourless almond torte, fermented sauerkraut and jalapenos, salsa made from local and organic ingredients, and olives and olive oil directly from the grower in California.
Botanical Bath and Beauty Products—soap, lip balm, mouthwash, scented oil, facial elixir, and muscle salve.
Don’t forget we are open year round and look forward to bringing you local, naturally grown and handmade artisan products throughout the winter. Go ahead and place your order now until Tuesday at noon for pickup on Wednesday 4-7 pm, and we’ll see you then.
Green Fork Farmers Market
Wednesdays 4-7 pm
Indoors, Year Round
At Nightbird Books
205 W. Dickson St.
Fayetteville, AR
To place your order, click on the link below to enter the website. Sign in as a customer, then click on the icon next to each product you wish to order. Proceed to checkout, review the list to make sure it’s correct, then scroll to the bottom and click on Place This Order. Make sure you receive a confirmation email—if you don’t, your order was not processed. Payment is at the market pickup with cash, check, debit/credit card, EBT, and Senior FMNP coupons. Ask about our doubling program for EBT and SFMNP!