Green Fork Farmers Market:  Weekly product list

Dear Green Fork Farmers Market Customers,

NEW this week—Green Fork Farm has Marconi Sweet Italian frying peppers, both red and green. They also have Shiitakes available this week.

Also available this week:

Eggs—Pastured chicken eggs.

Vegetables—Potatoes, tomatoes, okra, green bell peppers, red bell peppers, jalapenos, large jalapenos, poblanos, red Anaheims, green Anaheims, Long Red Cayennes, habaneros, serranos, poblanos, mixed hot peppers, sweet Italian frying peppers (both green and red) and sweet banana peppers.

Herbs—Green basil, purple basil, Thai basil, sage, rosemary, and mixed herb bunches.

Meat—Pastured beef, chicken, and goat.

Fermented foods—Sauerkraut and jalapenos.

Salsa—Made with locally grown and organic ingredients.

Olives and Olive Oil—organic and directly from the grower in California.

Plants and Flowers—Bee Well Gardens is taking a vacation for a couple of weeks, but don’t worry, they’ll be back!

Place your order from now until Tuesday at noon for pickup on Wednesday from 4-7 pm at Nightbird Books in Fayetteville.

If you aren’t able to place an order, stop by to shop with us on Wednesday. We will have a variety of items for sale from the table.

See you on Wednesday,

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!

StPete.LocallyGrown.Net:  Market NOW Open - Aug. 31st, 2015

PRIORITY Volunteer & Training Opportunities

ATT: RAW DAIRY LOVERS
Our ongoing request for a volunteer to pick up dairy in Oldsmar every other Thursday afternoon. Only TWO Markets remain to train someone to fill this spot. Pam says picking up anytime after Noon until 4 or 5pm will work well. Volunteer will pick up crates (2 or 3 to transport the egg cartons) and 2 or 3 large styrofoam coolers/ice at our home on Thursday on the way to Pam’s. There is a back up person who is ready to help on an emergency basis with 3 or 4 days notice whenever the primary volunteer has something come up. We will no longer carry The Dancing Goat’s products as of Oct. 1st without a volunteer to go to Oldsmar and pick up every other Thursday for our Market. Please respond to make arrangements for training with Nathan this week (on 9/03) if at all possible.

FRIDAY DELIVERIES FOR SEPTEMBER & OCTOBER – We would like to train more delivery people to prepare for the fall wave that will descend upon us. Due to limited resources, we have been operating with just two shifts all summer. We usually have three shifts on Friday deliveries with shifts operating sometime between 1130AM & 630PM. It’s time to start shifting into a higher gear! Delivery volunteers are asked to attend a 20-minute phone conference orientation at their convenience. How does it all work? Volunteer teams of two deliver via a large air-conditioned cargo van throughout St. Petersburg, near Largo, and into Gulfport. Volunteers must be detail oriented to manage checkoff sheets and distribute invoices. Please call Tina right away at 727-515-9469 if you can help!

Message from Your Market Manager

SUSTAINABLE ME RETURNS TO MARKET
Welcome back to Richard & Jeni Duncan, Growers since 2012. Their eggs are renowned and in high demand locally. Check out their Grower Page. Richard is also an urban aquaponic farmer and I’m hoping to enlist him for a talk at an upcoming potluck social.

LAST CHANCE TO VOTE FOR ST. PETE LOCALLY GROWN
Voting ends on Sept. 8th! Please go to Stage 3 at this link to cast your ballots. Here is where you’ll find us listed: Within Goods & Services, please vote for us as Best Farmer’s Market, Best Place to Shop Green, and at the bottom of the list under “Best Category We Forgot” please select Best Online Farmers Market to get it on next year’s ballot. (For Best Farmer’s Market VENDOR, please select “The Dancing Goat”) Within People, Places and Politics, please declare us the Best Place to Volunteer. I appreciate all of you who have stormed the Creative Loafing website and filed your vote!

SPLG’S FRUIT BASKET
Ginger Gold Apples, Gala Apples, Valencia oranges, green seedless grapes, red plum, Medjool dates, AND avocados & star fruit (aka carambola) grown right here in St. Pete!

ON SALE THIS WEEK
Coffee, apples, dried dates, ginger, onions, GROUPER, remedy(s), and dairy products!

STILL ON CLEARANCE
All remaining local lamb and Alaskan Sockeye salmon products. Stock up and get them while they last! We will NOT be carrying these items in the future.

GOOD CUSTOMER FEEDBACK!
“Everything we received was great! Love that we can get fresh greens in the dead of summer. I won’t be ordering the next round because we will be on vacation but plan on ordering when we get back. Thank you!” Thanks to new customer Meghan W.

Upcoming Events

All these and more are posted on our Calendar of Events

WORKSHOPS & EVENTS

• “Monthly Potluck Social”, Sept. 26, Nathan’s Garden Tour Begins at 5:30PM for active Market customers, growers, and volunteers. BY Whoozin.com e-vite ONLY. Debra Black will talk about unusual herbs, their uses and growing conditions. She will bring some of these herbs to display. Debra is owner of Mrs. Chippy’s Plant World and Edible Landscape Design and is a grower for St. Pete Locally Grown. She has turned most of her lawn into food (fruit, vegetables and herbs) with lots of plants to attract pollinators. She has been gardening in Florida for 6 years and has made every mistake that can possibly be made. She is a graduate of the School of Hard Knocks. She gets many of her unusual herbs from seed but also when she travels to the east coast of Florida and visits the Mounts Botanical Gardens in Lake Worth, as well as the Wat Thai Temple in Tampa on a Sunday where there is a plant market on the Palm River.
• NO WORKSHOPS BY NATHAN IN SEPTEMBER
  

DeForest, WI:  Availability for Week of August 30

For those of you that attend our market regularly, this is no surprise, but the list that follows is what was available Friday during farm stand hours from Forest Run Farm:
potatoes, carrots, head lettuce, slicing tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, paste tomatoes, salsa box-paste toms/tomatillos/hot peppers, oregano, basil, green onions, 3 types of beans, hot peppers, kale, eggplant, bell peppers, ground cherries, cucumbers, patty pan, zuchinni, and beets.

Ripp-N-Good had additional sweet corn too. And please remember, that since Farmer Rich doesn’t spray his sweet corn with bug poisons, there may be a cute little worm or 2 on the tip of an ear. If there is, you will know that it is a really sweet one since the bugs seem to know the corn best!!

So, just because it isn’t listed on the product listing, doesn’t mean we might not have what your looking for. Each week there seem to be surprises during our harvesting.

For those of you with a FRF Farm Stand CSA share, please be aware of the dates and dollar amounts remaining on your punch cards.

Oglethorpe Fresh Locally Grown:  Updating Customer E-mail

Oglethorpe Fresh locally grown is try to update our customers e-mail list, please reply back to us so we know our customers are receiving our update and e-mails. Thank you for supporting our locally grown site and store, if we can help with any of your fresh produce needs let us know. Thanks again, looking forward to great fall of fresh produce.

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.

Hello!
We’re in between growing seasons, so vegetable production is way down, but this is a great time to order meat. Have you considered a share of one of Double B’s hogs? I got a half hog a while back, and it took up much less freezer space than I expected. I fit it into the two freezers in my two ordinary refrigerators with all of my other stuff.

Thanks so much for your continued support!
Iris

Back by popular demand! Our resident beekeeper, Jay Parsons, will be conducting a class on the basics of beekeeping.
When: September 16, 2015 at 7 PM
Where: Rancho Alegre Farm
Cost: $10/ person
Tickets must be purchased in advance for this class. Please purchase your ticket here: Beekeeping Workshop Tickets

Upcoming Workshops

Wine Making Workshop with Operation Homebrew

This workshop is 60 minutes, includes a mozzarella cheese sampling once finished. Class size is limited to a maximum of 15 people.

Wine making workshop, Session 1: Tue. Sep. 22, 2015
Wine making workshop, Session 2: Tue. Oct. 20, 2015
Time: 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM for both sessions
Cost: $25

– Session 1 | Sanitizing steps, mixing the ingredients, tips/tricks
– Session 2 | Bottle, Cork, and label your wine, take it home

To purchase tickets visit OperationHomebrew.com.

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 input!

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!

Iris Potter
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.

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.

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

Just a friendly reminder that the market closes today at 6 pm.

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

We need more orders for GREAT HARVEST BREAD (Honey Whole Wheat, Spelt, Gluten Free breads, soft pretzels and other baked items) to meet their min for delivery.

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

See you on Tuesday!

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

Market News

Did you enjoy the break from the summer heat and humidity last week? September arrives this week and we are still seeing signs of summer. However at the Market, more produce typical of fall are appearing. Sweet potatoes and more winter squash from Rocky Glade Farm have been listed.

Labor Day is next weekend. Be sure to stock up on items you might need for any activities you are planning. In addition to their salads and dips, The Blue Porch has added pickled peppers to the list. You will also find baked goods from Casa Segovia-Paz, Double Star Bar Farms, Flying S Farms and Ms. Rosie’s.

If you are interested in peas, White City Produce and Greenhouse has added crowder peas in addition to her purple hull peas.

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!

I am taking a break from recipes. Look for them to return soon.

Martin's Farmstand:  The hot pepper story

Tomatoes, cantalope, watermelon, sweet corn, peppers, lettuce, red, beets and 50 other things- our stand is full of wonderful food. Now is the time to order freezing corn and canning tomatoes if you are planning to do so this year. Now is the time to get out to Martins Farmstand and get the food for a good supper. Late summer and fall is the time the stand is in its full glory.


Here is this years simple hot pepper story- There is a group of us working together to grow food for the market here. We try to plan to grow a balanced supply of all the differant crops that we should have and also to time all of our plantings so as to have a broad diversity of food for your supper spread out over as long of a season as the climate and our energy allows. So somehow in this we ended up with about 1500 hot pepper plants spread out over several of our gardens. They are doing well. If each plant gives 5 pounds of peppers from now till October we could have over 2 ton of hot peppers (mostly jalapeno and hungarian)to sell. I can not quite comprehend selling so many hot peppers. This means that somebody needs to make pickled hot peppers. Following is the recipe

Sweet Pickled Hot Peppers
2 cups vinegar
2 cups sugar
2 cups water
1/2 tsp salt per quart
Slice the peppers, pack into jars. Add salt. Mix brine and pour over peppers. Put jars in canner and cover with water. Bring to hard boil for 5 minutes over high heat. Remove jars. These are good to eat in 2 weeks.

These peppers are really nice in that the sweetness and the hot interacts nicely and tempers the heat. They can sit in the refrigerater and one can fish one on two rings out as needed when cooking or sometimes I use the brine. My children like to eat them with small pieces of hard cheese folded over each ring. They call them pepper wraps. We have bulk amount of peppers available for $1.50 lb. Daniel

Champaign, OH:  Dancing In The Moonlight

Everybody here is out of sight…
They don’t bark, and they don’t bite…
They keep things loose, they keep things light…
Everybody was dancin’ in the moonlight…
(Dancing In The Moonlight-King Harvest)

So, what a crazy, busy, fast paced life this past week was!!! My baking was never ending (a very good thing!), everything that I am involved in needed attention, or was so busy, or took me in all directions…but, you know me, and you know that I wouldn’t have it any other way.

I would get home, each evening, go out to my back deck with a glass of wine, and just relax in the beauty that has been the moon, these past nights.

This song always makes me smile, makes me think of summers of my growing up, and I sing it to myself every time there is an amazing moon to watch.

The lyric that I chose not only makes me sing, but it reminds me of the love that I feel, each week, with this market. Everyone shines so super bright, nobody is uptight, we all move and groove like a big family, and we try to keep it all as light and easy for you as we can!

It’s Sunday…we have amazing, amazing selections on the market!! Make sure to take advantage of local, of nutrition, of affordability, of ease…

You will feel like dancing in the moonlight…

I would also like to welcome back so many long lost customers, this week!! I am seeing your orders pop in, and your names make me smile…

Do the local dance…place your orders…

Peace, Love, Good Vibes…
Cosmic Pam