The Wednesday Market:  It's Sunday and It's Time to Order!

Good afternoon.

The Wednesday Market is open for orders. Please place your orders by 10 p.m. Monday. Orders are ready for pick up between 3 and 6 p.m. Wednesday, at our NEW location, 139 Adams Street, Zebulon. Check the website for all of this week’s product listings. We have a lot of summer items now! Here is the link: http://wednesdaymarket.locallygrown.net/market

Concord Street Sweets is taking the week off from the Market, but will be back again soon.

Enjoy the rest of the weekend, and we’ll see you on Wednesday.

Thanks,

Beverly

Russellville Community Market:  RCM Opening Bell

Welcome to another RCM Market Week!

Muerer Ranch has joined the RCM family! Soon they will be offering locally raised, grass-fed beef on the market. Grain, hormone and antibiotic free!

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.

Suwanee Whole Life Co-op:  Reminder: Place your co-op order today!

Just a friendly reminder that the market closes today at 6pm. (I just decided that since summer days are longer so why not extend our market just a little longer also…)

Please remember that we need to hit certain minimums in order for our farmers and vendors to deliver to us.

Thank you for placing your order and supporting local farms and producers!

See you on Tuesday!

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

Middle Tennessee Locally Grown:  Market is Open

Good Sunday morning!

Sorry, I’m running behind this morning. Our market announcement will follow in mid-day. Lots of goodies are available this week! :-)

Blessings,
Linda

ALFN Local Food Club:  The Market Is Open

Thermophilic People & Systems

Good Morning! The market is open and ready for another week.

It’s official. Summer has arrived with her ninety-degree weather. On Friday and Saturday we reached 90 degrees, the air was sultry, and the sky smiled a bright, wide cloud-toothed grin. The rising heat brings promises of melons and other goodness refined by fire. Are you a thermophilic creature? For those who love (philic ) the heat (thermo), summer offers countless forays into the sun-washed landscape. However, I am reminded of a different thermophilic creature that is resident under our toes.

Thanks to the billions of microbes in our sentient soil, the earth processes surface-dwellers’ waste and converts it into fertile soil. Thermophilic bacteria are those responsible for heating up piles of compost as trash is refined by microbial fire. Without these microbes, the earth would continue to pile up with refuse. Unfortunately, our modern waste systems with its towers of trash disconnect the ecological loop between trash to microbe to soil. American society throws away too much food.

But guess what? A new business in Little Rock wants to help reconnect this loop. The Urban Food Loop, founded by Read Admire, launched new services to Little Rock residents last week. The news release explains how residents can sign up for weekly pick-up of food waste. Here is an excerpt from their news release :

The Urban Food Loop’s i-Compost! Service will recover local food waste by offering Little Rock residents a home composting bin in exchange for a monthly fee. Residents toss food scraps and leftovers into their i-Compost! bin weekly. The Urban Food Loop team will exchange full bins with clean ones and compost the food waste.

According to the Natural Resources Defense Council, Americans are throwing away the equivalent of $168 billion each year by wasting 40% of food produced for human consumption. That translates to 34 million tons or 680 billion pounds of food wasted annually in the U.S. Every pound of food waste results in 3.8 pounds of greenhouse gas emissions, and less than 3% of national food waste is recovered or composted.

In response these issues, the United Nations General Assembly recently declared 2015 the International Year of Soils. The IYS aims to be a platform for raising awareness of the importance of soils for food security and essential eco-system functions. Chris Hiryak, founder of the Southern Center for Agroecology and director of Little Rock Urban Farming believes that, “Access to high quality mature compost (stable humus) is key to the successful development of our food system.” Food waste is a valuable natural resource perfect for making stable humus.

By participating in The Urban Food Loop’s i-Comoost! Service, customers earn compost, which can be requested for drop off at their home gardens or donated, to community partners like Little Rock Urban Farming or The Arkansas Hunger Relief Alliance Gleaning Garden. Last year the Gleaning Garden grew and harvested over 8,000 lbs. of fresh local produce at Western Hills Park, all of which was donated to local food pantries in efforts to fight local food insecurity.

For $31 a month, The Urban Food Loop will pick up your food waste every week, compost it, and you can either donate it to local food producers, or you can receive the compost for your own soil-based projects!! You can directly sign-up for their services online. Check it out here: http://www.theurbanfoodloop.com/compost-services/

May your week be filled with thermophilic productivity.

Kyle Holton
Program & Market Manager

United States Virgin Islands:  Weblog Entry

Greetings!

Once again there are even more new crops coming into the market. Dolores from Bijou farm has been bringing lots of delicious herbs including Rosemary, Sage, and Basil. She also has been bringing ripe papaya and passion fruit seedlings. Chef Tahirah of Divine Delight Delectables is experimenting with new bread recipes, so come on out and taste some of her bread and let us know what you think. Ridge2Reef also has some new crops available at the market including eggplant, cucumbers, sweet and hot peppers, mangoes, carambola, and tamarind.

Also, check out the stellar CSA season Ridge2Reef is having! Just look at all that food you can get for $35!—> https://www.facebook.com/groups/ridge2reef/. There is still time to join and support the territory’s only certified organic CSA. —>http://www.ridge2reef.org/csa-registration-page.html

We hope to see you this week! Thank you for your support of the local good food revolution!

Blessings,
Castiel and your VI Locally Grown Growers.

Gwinnett Locally Grown:  Sunday Market Reminder! Welcome back Back River 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 back Back River Farm!

*Certified Naturally Grown *

Back River Farm offers locally and naturally grown fruits and vegetables. We are a family owned and operated farm with community ties for over 18 years. We do not utilize any chemicals or insecticides. We are Certified Naturally Grown.
Farmer Brown and Back River Farm would love to provide you with Local, Natural and Delicious produce.

*In other news….

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 participing 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!_

We are still working on workshops for June and I will let you know about those very soon!

_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.

United States Virgin Islands:  This Week in Vi Locally Grown

Greetings!
Once again there are even more new crops coming into the market. Dolores from Bijou farm has been bringing lots of delicious herbs including Rosemary, Sage, and Basil. She also has been bringing ripe papaya and passion fruit seedlings. Chef Tahirah of Divine Delight Delectables is experimenting with new bread recipes, so come on out and taste some of her bread and let us know what you think. Ridge2Reef also has some new crops available at the market including eggplant, cucumbers, sweet and hot peppers, mangoes, carambola, and tamarind.

Also, check out the stellar CSA season Ridge2Reef is having! Just look at all that food you can get for $35!—> There is still time to join and support the territory’s only certified organic CSA. ?

We hope to see you this week! Thank you for your support of the local good food revolution!

Blessings,
Castiel and your VI Locally Grown Growers.

Stones River Market:  Time to Order Local Food