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.
Champaign, OH: Saturday, At The Farm!!
We would like to invite the virtual market vendors and customers to join us out on our farm Saturday October 10th at 2pm for a sorghum-making demonstration and a guided tour! Our draft horse, Tony, will help us squeeze the juice out of the sorghum cane, and we’ll be cooking it down to make sweet syrup – an interesting process if you’ve never seen it in person. End of the Road Farm may be a work in progress, but we, along with our three young children, have a lot of fun and enjoy working full-time on our homestead. There will be several samples of sorghum goodies to try – we’d love to meet you if you’re able to come!
Lee and Jennifer Ruff
If you want a fun day, full of farm love, and just a real good time…plan on attending this farm tour!! It was great fun, last year, and you don’t want to miss the fun!!
Directions – Take state route 36 West out of Urbana about 20 miles to Fletcher… you’ll go through St. Paris and Lena, and it’s the first “town” after 235.
Turn left at the first stop light, onto 589.
Turn right at the first street (no street sign) – that’s first street which becomes our driveway! Go past the yield and dead end signs, through the gate, and come all the way up to the house – we’ll show you where to park!
Independence,VA: Welcome to the Grand Opening of the 2015-2016 Online Market
Friends of the Market,
Welcome back to the On-line Market! Folks are still adding products so you might want to check in again in a few days for added items.
Just a reminder how this all works: the Market is open for orders until Wednesday evening. If you don’t receive a confirmation of your order, it did not register. Be sure to submit your order as the very last step of the order process. If you have questions, feel free to email me at independencefarmersmarket.org or call 276-768-0597. Pickup is Fridays from 10-noon in the conference room (across from the gift shop)in the 1908 Courthouse. Please bring cash or checks. You’ll still be dealing with each individual vendor.
Happy shopping!Here are the links:http://independencefarmersmarket.locallygrown.net/market/
you can also get there from the webpage, www.independencefarmersmarket.org
Thanks and hope to see you Friday!
Michelle
Carolina Foothills, SC: Market is Open!!!!
Hello all,
I hope you all had a good week. Please stop by and check out the market we have a new farmer.
Have a good weekend,
Susan.
http://carolinafoothills.locallygrown.net/market
Carolina Foothills, SC: Market is Open!!!!
Hello all,
I hope you all had a good week. Please stop by and check out the market we have a new farmer.
Have a good weekend,
Susan.
http://carolinafoothills.locallygrown.net/market
StPete.LocallyGrown.Net: “Intermission” Update
St. Pete Locally Grown “Intermission” Update
Valued Customers, Volunteers, & Growers:
No one is more eager than I to re-open our online Market on November 2nd with fresh fall produce! And we WILL still carry all products from The Dancing Goat! I wanted to let you know in advance about several changes to how our Market will operate regarding schedule and fees.
- We are cutting our Market timeframe by just two hours. We will open earlier on Monday at 3pm instead of 5pm. We will close earlier on Wednesday at 8am instead of noon. Based on past Markets, 99% of all shopping is completed by early Tuesday evening anyway.
- We will sell Certified Organic veggies from Geraldson Community Farm. In order for us to make it work with our schedule and theirs, you will be asked to order from them no later than Monday 8pm. That will give everyone FIVE hours to decide if/what they want from Geraldson’s and place an order. Even if it’s just a partial order, you can always come back later and place additional order(s) with other Growers before the Market closes.
- Our annual membership fee is changing from $90 annually ($7.50 per month) to $80 for the 8-month season ($10 per month). We will pro-rate memberships for fewer months, on request.
- New customers will get to try us once (instead of twice) before they decide to pay the $80 membership fee which gets automatically added to their second order. We will adjust & prorate the fee through the end of our Market season (June 2016) depending on when the second order gets placed.
- Delivery fees are increasing by $2. If you’ve been paying $4 then you will pay $6, and so on.
Please review our website at www.stpetelocallygrown.net with fresh eyes. We have changed a few graphics (finally) and updated it with new info. I want you to be as informed as possible whenever you share the great news of our lovely online Market with others.
We are looking for more urban growers to join our Market. Please contact me if you think you might be interested in selling an over-abundance of chemical-free veggies through our Market. If 10 farmers reserve 4 pounds of tomatoes for our Market then we have FORTY POUNDS to sell to the St. Petersburg Community. Talk about “home grown…”
The future of our Market depends on local dollars AND local volunteers. I am still looking for two volunteers needed every other week on Friday for 2 to 3 hours. Awaiting your call… 727-515-9469
Hope to see you at this month’s potluck social on October 24th. Look for your Evite and come help me celebrate turning 62!
To your Health & a successful Fall Season…
Tina, YOUR Market Manager
stpete@locallygrown.net
727-515-9469
Suwanee Whole Life Co-op: Eggs from Rocky Acres are NOT sold out!
Rocky Acres still has large and medium pastured eggs available. Marty forgot to update his listings.
Just wanted to let you all know in case you ordered this morning and thought those eggs were sold out.
Link to website to order: https://suwanee.locallygrown.net
Thank you,
Nora
Augusta Locally Grown: Weblog Entry
TUE, OCT 13 – MOVIE NIGHT AT ICEBOX MINISTRIES – Join the good food folks at the Icebox Campus for a free showing of “Food Inc” in Harrisburg. Warning: healthy, delicious, seasonal snacks may be served. Contact tasha@iceboxministries.org for more information.
TUE, OCT 13 & OCT 20 – DOWNTOWN MARKET MANAGER CHANGE-UP – Tara’s taking a much-deserved break this month from our downtown on-line market pick-up location. Kim will take up the reigns while she’s gone. If you’ve got to reach your market manager during those two weeks, don’t call Tara! Call Kim at 706-288-7895.
THU, OCT 15 – HERBAL BLENDING WORKSHOP AT WHITE HILLS FARM – Seriously folks, if you haven’t been to one of these workshops yet, you are missing out. Lisa Kessler at White Hills Farm in Dearing, GA, is a gifted herbalist and lavender farmer who will rock your world with the joy of natural scents and flavors. This workshop is called “Chefs’ Secrets: Herbal Blending.” October is the perfect time to harvest, dry and “crack” herbs for cooking, and with Lisa’s guidance, you’ll make several take-home blends for the season. Session runs 10am-2:30pm and includes tea, demonstration with lunch, great dessert and fellowship. Cost is $28/person. Register by email at whitehillsfarm@gmail.com or through the ALG On-Line Market.
THU, OCT 15 – KIDS WITH A FUTURE GARDENING PROGRAM – Our fall youth gardening program starts this week, in partnership with the Kids with a Future After School Program at St. Luke UMC in Harrisburg. A few extra volunteer hands would be welcome! 4pm-5:3pm. Contact kim@augustalocallygrown.org if you’d like to help.
SAT, OCT 17 – G.R.O.W. HARRISBURG WORK DAY – We’ll be painting a “Farmacy at the Harrisburg Family Healthcare Clinic,” finishing up raised beds at Icebox Ministries, and planting blueberry bushes at Ms Willie’s … all in a day’s work in the downtown neighborhood of Harrisburg. 9am-4pm. What a great way to get those service hours done! And yep! We always serve a fabulous lunch to our volunteers! Email kim@augustalocallygrown.org to rvsp.
SUN, OCT 18 – FALL FARM FEST AT CLYDE’S FRESH PRODUCE – Tour this local, Certified Naturally Grown farm in Grovetown. Get to know your farmers! Bring the kids. Buy fresh from the farm. 2pm-6pm.
SUN, OCT 25 – WINE CAP MUSHROOM CULTIVATION WORKSHOP – Join local mushroom farmer Matthew Kelly at Honey Creek Mushrooms in Martinez. This is a rare, 3-hour, hands-on opportunity to learn from a local guru. Tastings and nutritional information about other varieties, including oyster mushrooms, lions mane, and shitake will also be shared. Workshop is $25/person. 1pm-4pm. Take-home spawn to grow-your-own can also be purchased for an additional cost. Space is limited. Order tickets by email: kim@augustalocallygrown.org.
MON, OCT 26 – ALG AT THE KIWANINS CLUB – Looking forward to sharing the news about our educational initiatives, including G.R.O.W. Harrisburg, with this local group, the 4th largest Kiwanis Club in the world! Thanks for the invitation!
TUE, OCT 27 – CLOSING DAY OF THE VEGGIE TRUCK FARMERS MARKET – Join the GROW Harrisburg team along with the Augusta Junior League and Wholesome Wave Georgia as we put on a Halloween theme community meal and healthy kids festival. 4pm-7pm. 1850 Broad Street, Augusta. Across from the Kroc Center.
FRI, OCT 30 – AUGUSTA CHEFS’ WHOLESALE ON-LINE MARKET OFFICIAL LAUNCH! – Downtown market manager Tara Roberts is putting the final touches on our new Wholesale Market for local chefs. Hugs to her! We’ll experiment during the month of October with a few farmers and chefs. Our goal is to have it running smoothly for the holidays.
FRI, OCT 30 – AUGUSTA EATS LOCAL CAMPAIGN – Just got word that the Georgia Food Oasis will sponsor our “Augusta Eats Local” campaign, starting this month. What a great way for our community to acknowledging local chefs who support local farmers. We’re recruiting a few more volunteers to help with this down-right-delicious campaign! Email kim@augustalocallygrown.org if you’d like to be involved.
SAT, OCT 31 – HAUNTED HARRISBURG: MEET THE NEIGHBORHOOD’S FRIENDLY GHOSTS – ALG will join efforts with GRU students and Harrisburg residents to host a botanical clean up and children’s carnival, including healthy snacks, at the Rollersville Cemetery in Harrisburg. Volunteers definitely needed! Times: 9am-3pm.
SAT, OCT 31 – ROAD TRIP TO ASHEVILLE FOR THE SOUTHEASTERN ANIMAL FIBER FAIR – Join the gifted local fiber farmers of Southern Made for a road trip to the much-talked about “Southeastern Animal Fiber Fair” (SAFF) on Sat, Oct 31. For $50 you’ll be sharing the cost of a van, gas, parking. Better yet, you’ll have wonderful company and you won’t have to drive! Contact Susannah at 706-401-8446 to enroll.
MON, NOV 2 – MEET & GREET FOR THE TEDX AUGUSTA SPEAKERS – What better way to embrace our community’s movers and shakers than by feeding them local foods and introducing them to the people who grow it. Volunteer farmers and cooks: we need you for this one!
TUE, NOV 3 – TURKEY ROSE GARDEN CLUB – We always appreciate the opportunity to speak to garden clubs about local foods. Want to add us to your calendar? Contact kim@augustalocallygrown.org.
THU, NOV 5 – AUGUSTA FOOD OASIS – It’s time to get this thing rolling! We’ll host our second meeting of Local Food Activists on Thursday, November 5, 6pm-8pm. The gathering will be held at “The Clubhou.se” on Telfair Street & 5th, in Augusta. If you want to help create a more vibrant local foods culture in the CSRA, then please know: you are invited!!!! Email kim@augustalocallygrown.org for more info.
SAT, NOV 7 – MAKE SPA-GRADE PRODUCTS: A WORKSHOP AT WHITE HILLS FARM – Once again, Lisa Kessler will share her herbal secrets, much to the delight of the rest of us! This workshop runs 10am-2:30pm, with crafting of three bath and beauty preparations. You will learn to make balms, scrubs and body butters using organic herbs and oils and will receive the latest information on best preparation practices. Fun and relaxing! Lisa will also serve a teatime lunch with dessert! Cost is $32/person. Register by email at whitehillsfarm@gmail.com or through this ALG on-line market.
JAN 29 – TEDX AUGUSTA – We’re very excited to again play a part in helping with the TedxAugusta event in 2016. What a great way to promote local foods among our community’s deep thinkers. Wanna help that day, or in the months leading up to it? Contact kim@augustalocallygrown.org.
CHEERS!
Kim
Champaign, OH: Weblog Entry
Don’t forget…tomorrow is Farm Tour Day out at End Of The Road Farms!!!
Here are the directions, it’s going to be a beautiful day, and a perfect day for the short drive to visit their very interesting farm!!!
See you there…
Directions – Take state route 36 West out of Urbana about 20 miles to Fletcher… you’ll go through St. Paris and Lena, and it’s the first “town” after 235.
Turn left at the first stop light, onto 589.
Turn right at the first street (no street sign) – that’s first street which becomes our driveway! Go past the yield and dead end signs, through the gate, and come all the way up to the house – we’ll show you where to park!
Tullahoma Locally Grown: Weblog Entry
Good Afternoon.
Your Tullahoma Locally Grown Market is now open. Feel free to browse and select your items between now and Wednesday at noon. Quantities on some items are limited so order early.
In the mood for a seasonal treat? Try a dozen Gluten-Free Pumpkin Donut Bites. They are mouth-popping delicious! They will be baked on market day for maximum freshness. You can take a peak at them at the end of this email.
Here is the link to the market: Tullahoma Locally Grown Market
Thank you for your support. Have a great day,
Fuel So Good Coffee Roasters
