Florida Suncoast Locally Grown:  market is open:)

hello everyone,

just want to send out a reminder that the market is back on weekly. eddie will be back at his Saturday market also starting oct. 4 for those of you who pick up there. Kathy will be back at downtown bradentons market starting oct. 4. I have added a few new items and in the coming weeks we will have a new grower selling fresh local grown veggies and prodoce. hope to see everyone soon, thanks.

South Cumberland Farmer's Market:  Poultry Processing Plant for Sale

We wanted to let your group know that we are selling our poultry plant! It is not for a lack of business, we can assure you. Quite the contrary: our business has grown faster than expected and more than these old bones can keep up with. So for health reasons, we are searching for a buyer who will continue the effort we started, which was to bring affordable and convenient USDA poultry processing to Tennessee. We met our goal and then some. Our customer base comes to us from all parts of Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia. We have had requests for ducks and quail, and even emu! Now that the hard part is done, ie; building a plant and creating a HACCP plan that passes federal regulations, the business is poised to really take off for the right person (or people).

The sale price will include the plant, equipment, HACCP plan, staff, customer base and training. The plant sits on 5 cross fenced acres with a 3/2 house, pond and barn and is located in White County near Sparta and just 20 miles south of Cookeville. The new owner merely needs to take a short HACCP class and request their own grant of inspection which will be simple since the building, plan and staff are already approved and proven.

We are still booking appointments and processing until the right person comes along to continue what we began. Please pass this information on to any interested parties you may know. Please call for price and details. Thank you for any assistance you might give.

Sincerely,

Mary Malamatos
931-743-4898
Steve Malamatos
931-239-9633
Nikoandcompany.com

The Wednesday Market:  Reminder to Order; A Boy's Winter Garden

Good afternoon to everyone in The Wednesday Market community. We hope you are having a good day!

The Market is open for ordering. Please place your order by 10 p.m. Monday. Orders are ready for pick up between 3 and 6 p.m. on Wednesday. Visit the website for this week’s product listings. Here is the link: http://wednesdaymarket.locallygrown.net/market

This year is my son Stephen’s first year of middle school, and he has Agriculture as an elective class. Today, he will be working on his project. Stephen is planting a winter garden and will be responsible for watering, tending and harvesting it and documenting the results. Yesterday we purchased the materials he needs to build a small raised bed, including starter plants. I really enjoyed the enthusiasm displayed by Stephen and his brother Charlie when it came to time to choose the plants. Stephen chose lettuce, broccoli, turnip greens, and Brussels sprouts. I selected spinach, rosemary, rutabagas, cabbages and Swiss chard. Charlie is in Kindergarten and does not yet read, but keenly checked the pictures on the labels of the various plants. “Look, Mama, this one is for pizza!” Charlie exclaimed as he chose basil. “I want this one, too, because it’s for deviled eggs,” he said, and picked up a pot of parsley. Now, I know that basil is not a winter plant, but I just could not say no to Charlie’s excitement, not to mention that the plant was lush and green and healthy-looking. And, as several of my Wednesday Market friends know, basil is my favorite herb!

As luck would have it, rain is forecast for later on today, and so, I’d better get to work helping the boys build and plant. Hopefully the rain will come after the planting is done, and we will be well on our way to having some homegrown vegetables soon.

Thank you for supporting The Wednesday Market, and we’ll see you soon.

Beverly

Green Fork Farmers Market:  Weekly Product List

Dear Green Fork Farmers Market Customers,

It’s time to place your order from now until Tuesday at noon for this Wednesday’s market.

New this week—Beyond Organics has Jack O’ Lantern pumpkins, and Green Fork Farm is bringing back microgreens.

Also available this week:

Vegetables—tomatoes, elephant garlic, okra, butternut squash, delicata squash, bell peppers, Anaheims, sweet banana peppers, jalapenos, and serranos.

Mushrooms—fresh log-grown Shiitakes, dried Shiitakes, and mushroom powder.

Herbs—green basil, thai basil, purple basil, sage, lemongrass, lovage, tarragon, and mixed Italian herbs.

Meat—lots of different cuts of chicken, lamb, and pork, organ meats, soup bones, and parts for stock.

Eggs—from free-range hens fed organic grains.

Specialty foods—fermented sauerkraut and jalapenos, salsa, and olive oil from organic California-grown olives.

Botanical bath and beauty products—soap, lip balm, mouthwash, scented oil, facial elixir, and muscle salve.

Plants—Figgieville still has fig trees ready to plant this fall.

We’re looking forward to receiving your order!

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!

Dawson Local Harvest:  ORGANIC BREADS, COOKIES, AND JELLIES NOW AT DAWSON HARVEST!

DAWSON LOCAL HARVEST for October 3rd

New Organic Breads, Cookies, Jellies, and more with MY DAILY BREAD

HI EVERYONE

We are very pleased to welcome a new vendor, MY DAILY BREAD, to the HARVEST. These guys present a wonderful range of Organic Breads with favorites like Sourdough and Honey Whole Wheat as well as Vegan Spelt Bread, Dessert Breads such as Cinnamon Buns or Dark Chocolate Bread w. Organic Zucchini, Bagles, Cookies, and even gluten-free Brownies! Check out their entire Bakery Goods listing in the Products section on the left of The Market page.

MY DAILY BREAD also does Organic Jams, Jellies, and Preserves, including the delicious Organic Rosy-Peach Jam and the Chemical-Free Fig Preserves. You’ll see these and others listed in the Processed Foods tab in the Products section, and you might want to see their website under the Our Growers page for more on their story.

A Couple of Other Notes: On the Vegetables front, 2 varieties of Kale are making their first Fall appearance courtesy of LEILANI’S, along with Zucchini, Squash, and Okra, and FIVE HENS FARMS has Beets. There’s still a pretty good offering of other veggies from Green Beans to Butternut Squash, so take a good, thorough look at everything that’s available for your table right now!

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.

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.

Champaign, OH:  Join Together!

Everybody join together, I want you to join together…
Come on and join together with the band.
We need you to join together, come on and join together…
Come on and join together with the band..
(Who – Join Together)

Good morning, little local market of love!!

Yesterday was a big day in downtown Urbana as we celebrated another amazing Chili Cook Off!! There are two huge, Monument Square District sponsored events, downtown. Art Affair is one (My baby along with my co-chair, and committee), and then Chili Cook Off! These events are huge. Not only do they bring in lots of people, lots of revenue, and lots of PR for the downtown, but they also do what this market is always talking about…they bring together community spirit and local pride!

I was a vendor, yesterday, as I usually am. I was set up in conjunction with Oakview Farm Meats, as I usually am. My other neighbors were new chili contestants who went on to win Third place, and as I was nestled in between my neighbors, and surrounded by so many friends who continued to come up to my canopy, give me a hug, give me a high five, talk, dance, wave…I had to just stop and take it all in.

Community spirit and pride make us strong. They makes us proud. They make us believe that we can conquer all as a united local front.

I felt very proud and very loved, yesterday. I love the networking and the building of a stronger and stronger local fabric. It reassured me that through this building of fabric, we can stand strong, we can face anything, and with the help of all of us, we can make a whole happen on the local front.

I am thankful for so much in my Cosmic life but I am most thankful that you put your faith in me, each week, with this market. I am only one person, though, in this local market of love. I also have my ever true, ever wise, Charlene Stapleton. She and Joe of Swisher Hill Herbs are such icons in this community. I love seeing her smiling face, each and every Thursday, as we prepare the market for each of you.

I am thankful for Mark Runyan and the entire Runyan family behind Oakview Farm Meats. He is my other assistant at this market who helps me get your orders out to you, each and every week. They are a power house of a family in this local community, and we are lucky that they are a part of this little local market of love.

Paul Wadsmith and the YMCA…I cannot say ENOUGH about this team!!! We would be very, very sad without the YMCA and their hard work that keeps our financials, houses our market home, and supports us out in the community.

Heather T…we are a market because of her vision, her hard work, and her endless hours in getting this market up and running in the early days and years…

To the vendors…without you, the market would be nothing!

To the customers…THANK YOU!!!! We appreciate all of you, each and every week!!! We welcome you, we applaud you, we love you!!

I feel like sometimes you just have to stop, look around, know who to thank for the goodness, and make sure that everyone knows how much they are appreciated!

We join together in many, many ways…and I thank you for this local front.

The market is open! It’s Sunday…the best day to organize the upcoming week, to see what you may need or want, and get your orders in!

A reminder…we are in the last month of late summer produce…take advantage!

Champaign Berry just let me know that they have added a very limited supply of Golden Raspberries!!!!

Volk Fruit Farm has added a few new varieties of apples!!!

And, as always, we bring you the best of the best of the best from the rest of your local vendors!!

Peace and Love,
Cosmic Pam

ALFN Local Food Club:  ALFN Foodcraft: Fall Workshops

Good Morning Locavores,

Though our market is closed this week, we’ve got some exciting news: Tickets are now on sale for ALFN’s Fall Fundraiser titled Foodcraft: Fall Workshops. With the holiday season approaching, learn how to create an appetizer plate just in time for your next gathering. Join us on Saturday, October 11th for any or all of 3 consecutive interactive workshops led by some of the best artisan foodies around.

• At 1:00pm, preservationist extraordinaire Angela Gardner of GardenWorks will teach participants how to make pickles. Fall is in the air and soon it will be the end of a fair growing season; full of late summer stragglers and fall delights. In this session, Angela will demonstrate how to make pickles using the last of the summer’s bounty and also discuss the equipment and techniques to properly can up produce that you will savor throughout the winter. Bring a crack-free pint jar and we’ll put a lid on it.

• At 2:30pm, Kent Walker will teach folks how to make some of his artisan ricotta cheese. Kent will teach participants how to make this fresh Italian-style cheese using a “direct set” method, giving you the skills you need to replicate this delicious recipe in your own home.

• At 4:00pm, Ashton Woodward of Arkansas Fresh Bakery will teach you how to make the absolute best Bavarian pretzels. The pretzel is an iconic northern-European bakery snack. Arkansas Fresh makes their soft pretzels using an authentic German process, complete with imported ingredients and a long-fermentation method. In this class, you will learn the fundamentals of baking your own soft pretzels at home. Included in this workshop are some of the hard-to-find ingredients that the bakery uses to make their pretzels for you to take home.

The cost is $25 per session or $60 for all three, and tickets can be purchased online here. Each session will last approximately one hour and will be held at Christ Episcopal Church, 509 Scott Street in downtown Little Rock. All proceeds benefit the Arkansas Local Food Network, a 501c3 nonprofit working to build a stronger local food system.

For more information, contact Alex at 291.2769 or arlocalfoodnetwork@gmail.com.

And even though our market is closed this week, you can still snag delicious food from local farmers through some of the other wonderful markets in town, which can be found in our FRESH Local Foods Directory.

Thanks so much! We could not do the work we do without your constant support.

- Alex Handfinger
Director of Operations

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Stones River Market:  Time to Order Local Food - October Arrives

Gwinnett Locally Grown:  Sunday Market Reminder!

:This email is a gentle reminder that ordering through Gwinnett Locally Grown will close tomorrow at noon.

The Market is open Thursday at 9 – Monday at noon. After that, ordering is disabled until Thursday morning. Pick up your order Tuesday 4:30-6:30 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

So many new things are happening at the Market!
We are carrying natural laundry products, jams and are working to bring more items in the coming months! So watch for that!!

LAST WEEK TO RESPOND TO BULK PURCHASE!**

I’m reaching out to see if anyone is interested in purchasing Fermented Cod Liver Oil from Green Pastures and Certified Organic Expeller-pressed Coconut Oil from Wilderness Family Naturals? We buy in bulk a few times a year to help everyone save on the cost because it is pricey on small orders, but the health benefits of these products are amazing! Please email or call us if you are interested in placing an order with us!

We are going to be offering gift baskets for the Holidays! How fun to give someone a basket of yummy natural products to pamper themselves with! We will keep you posted on those!

Look forward to seeing everyone on Tuesday!

Grateful for each and every one of you!!

Shop often and eat well!

Market Manager
Cheryl Gelatt
grow@ranchoalegrefarm.com

Fresh Wishes,
Pilar Quintero
Market Host
Rancho Alegre Farm

Please contact grow@ranchoalegrefarm.com for questions pertaining to Market or Raw Milk. It is very difficult to return phone calls. If you are interested in Goat’s Milk, contact Nik The Goat Guy at 404-542-0981. We generally have some goat’s milk available during market hours, whether you have placed a market order or not. Please contact him first though to confirm. Remember to interact with us on Facebook and follow us on Meetup to get notification on all our events and news.