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.
Athens Locally Grown: ALG Open for March 12
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
One of my favorite local yearly events is coming up in a few weeks, the Old-Timey Seed Swap hosted by Grove Creek Farm out in Crawford. They sent me an email about it a few days ago, and I’m just going to repeat it here verbatim:
“18th Annual Old-Timey Seed Swap: Join us for a casual potluck gathering and seed swap April 4th 2015 from 1pm-6pm. With spring around the corner, we’re excited to share our plans for the 18th Annual Old Timey Seed Swap! Originally organized by the UGA Anthropology Department and Professor Dr. Bob Rhoades in 1998, this is a celebration of heirloom seeds, local food sources, traditional agriculture, and good conversation as folks share stories and swap seeds. Why swap seeds? There are hundreds of varieties of heirloom seeds throughout the South with fascinating histories linked to families through generations of seed saving. Since the 1900’s however, thousands of varieties of heirloom vegetables, flowers and fruit have disappeared. Once lost, these varieties can never be recovered —their important genes and a piece of American history are lost forever. Swapping seeds helps preserve the varieties that remain so they can be used for agriculture for years to come- help save them!”
“Bring your heirloom seeds to swap, your questions or your gardening stories and knowledge, picnic blanket or chairs, musical instruments, or even a potluck dish to: Grove Creek Farm 10 Legacy Rd. Crawford, GA 30630. Potluck will be at 2pm this year. You don’t have to have seeds to swap- just come to learn how you can help. For updates please visit us on Facebook or www.grovecreekfarm.org. See you in April! NO DOGS PLEASE. Contact us for more information at grovecreekfarm@gmail.com”
I love this event, and try to go every year. Not only is it an opportunity to get a few seeds that I just can’t get anywhere else, but I get to see Grove Creek’s beautiful farm, share food with like-minded people, have great conversations, and just enjoy spending some time outside. I’m looking forward to doing it all again this year.
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 has closed for the winter. You can watch for news during the offseason on their website. The other area markets are also all closed for the season, I believe. If you know of any winter markets operating, please let me know. And they might all be closed, but we’ll be here all year round!
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!
Conyers Locally Grown: Available for Friday March 13
I hope this finds you all doing well. The market is open and ready for orders. We have some great produce liste this week along with plenty of alpaca , pork and water buffalo. Order up and enjoy the fruits of our labor. We will see you Friday between 5-7 at Copy Central(1264 Parker Road)
Thank you for your support and please share us with a friend,
Brady
Atlanta Locally Grown: Available for Saturday March 14
I hope this finds you all doing well. The market is open and ready for orders. We have some great produce liste this week along with plenty of alpaca , pork and water buffalo. Order up and enjoy the fruits of our labor. We will see you Saturday at you selected delivery location, either Brookhaven Farmers Market, Piedmont Green Market or the Sandy Springs Farmers Market.
Thank you for your support and please share us with a friend,
Brady
Northeast Georgia Locally Grown: Locally Grown - Availability for March , 2015
Hey Local Food Lovers,
We’re hopping on into spring this week and henceforth, so prepare yourselves for an increase in products slowly but then steadily, and then a full blow onslaught by May. Nearly 300 total products listed this week.
I really want to plug all our incredible EGG GROWERS. I know many of you have come to appreciate the sheer wonder of PASTURED organically fed eggs from hens hanging out in the sunshine eating bugs and wearing sunglasses. Ok, that last one was an exaggeration, but there’s no doubt these chickens are happier and healthier by a factor of 100 compared to store bought eggs. I’ve been in my share of conventional poultry houses and the closest thing I can compare them to is concentration camps. That’s not an exaggeration and I encourage you to visit one if you’d like to put it to the test.
When animals of any kind are either kept in undersized cages (laying hens and conventional pigs are kept this way all day and night their entire lives), or huddled so closely together that they can’t fully extend their wings without hitting their neighbor they release a nearly continuous flood of a stress hormone called corticosterone. This stress hormone is passed on into the egg (it’s called maternal stress…some of you can relate) and then we eat it. I don’t know if its bad for you (this stress hormone), but I do know that birds that have high corticosterone get sick more often including with Campylobacter and Salmonella.
If this is making conventional food sound unappetizing it should.
That’s why were encouraging ALL our customers to consider buying an EXTRA dozen eggs this week and GIVE the SECOND DOZEN to a close friend that you care about and would like to see get the enhanced nutrition of eggs from chickens that don’t have stress or disease, and have higher omega 3s in their eggs yolks because Omega 3’s come from the chloroplast of leaves and these birds eat a lot of grass.
It’s fun to share the knowledge behind the food here at Locally Grown. It takes extra time for us all to understand our environments well enough to make better informed decisions, but doesn’t it feel good to know that your supporting the kind of farms that make us healthier, the environment healthier and our communities healthier. It also feels good to show appreciation simply through opening our wallets each week, rewarding those things we want to see more of. And by doing so you are depriving your dollars to the things you think we need less of. It’s an act of sustainability, community and health planning all at the same time.
So no kidding, we hope you’ll buy some extra eggs this week (or anything else that looks good to you). Do a little google research and tell your own version of what makes these eggs special to someone you know. I’ve got the person I’m going to do this for picked out right now and I’m about to hit ORDER!
We hope you enjoy this coming week’s opportunities to
EAT WELL!
Chuck, Justin, Teri and Andrew
PS – if you do cook some eggs this week please send us a photo. I made a pretty good open face egg sandwich this morning I should have shot. And get ready to see a short video real soon on one of our egg producers. They will also be featured on this years FARM TOUR in June.
Dawson Local Harvest: Organic Plants for your Veggie Garden
DAWSON LOCAL HARVEST for March 13th
Organic Plants for your Veggie Garden
HI EVERYONE!
Good News for the gardeners out there. LEILANI’S has live Veggie plants grown in organic soil, non-GMO seed, in 4-packs ready for planting. Lettuce, Kale, Collards, and Spinach are ready now with more varieties available next week. Elsewhere, take a look at The Market to see all the yummy products for this week.
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.
Have a happy and healthy week!
Alan Vining
Market Manager
Fresh Harvest, LLC: Fresh Harvest for March 8th - We're Back!
To Contact Us
Fresh Harvest, LLC
Link to Fresh Harvest
Email us!
Tallahassee May
tally@wildblue.net
JohnDrury
john.drury@att.net
Recipes
Market News
Hello!
It is time to pre-order your flower bouquets for the summer! Now is a special offer to current customers only: pre-pay for 10 bouquets over the course of the season, and save $20! The flower season will start in May and continue until October. You do not need to order a bouquet every week – just when you want it. Don’t fresh from the field flowers sound so wonderful right now? Treat yourself!
Although the time change usually signals our move back to the lower parking lot at Delivery, we will continue to be under the porch this week as the forecast looks pretty wet.
Thanks for your support and we look forward to seeing you on Wednesday!
John and Tallahassee
Coming Events
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!
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GFM : March 14th Market
Sorry Folks there will not be a market this week as I will be out of town, at a Farmers Market Conference. I will open the market again for orders the following week.
Thank you for your understanding.
J. Shelton
The Wednesday Market: Your Friendly Reminder to Order
Good afternoon.
Here is a quick note to let everyone that know that The Wednesday Market is open for orders. Please place your order by 10 p.m. Monday. Orders are ready for pick up between 3 and 6 p.m. on Wednesday. See the website for all of this week’s product offerings. Here is the link: http://wednesdaymarket.locallygrown.net/market
I hope everyone takes an opportunity to go out and enjoy today’s sunshine. After all, we’ll have an extra hour to spend in it, thanks to the return of daylight savings time. The Walter family is headed out to a soccer game. We’ll try not to get sunburned!
See you on Wednesday.
Thanks,
Beverly
Gwinnett Locally Grown: Sunday Market Reminder! Order Now for Mother Earth Meats!
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
Time to order from Mother Earth Meats(MEM)!
Now is the time to take advantage of a group buy with Mother Earth Meats! If you have never done an order from Mother Earth Meats, I encourage you to do so. They 
produce grass-fed, ethically-raised and organic fed meats, including chicken, bison, beef and pork. By ordering in bulk, the savings are huge!! Ordering is easy:
Immediate payment is required after you place your order on their website: www.motherearthmeats.com. They will prompt you to call in to make payment as they are no longer using PayPal for payments.
Here’s how to order:
1- Place your order of Mother Earth Meats on their website before Tuesday, March 10th.
2- At checkout, fill out the Shipping Address with OUR address as follows: Rancho Alegre Farm, 2225 Givens Road, Dacula, GA 30019. Click on Buyer’s Club so you are not charged shipping! Remember to call them to pay for the order so it will get delivered to us.
3- Forward us your order confirmation via email with subject line MEM ORDER* to grow@ranchoalegrefarm.com
4- Pick-up your order Saturday, March 21st here at Rancho Alegre Farm.The exact time will be communicated a day or so before.
Also, browse through to see all the great Growers we have and maybe you will find something new!
Remember, we have items like dog treats, wonderful raw honey and our pork farmer, Brady who came on with more items a couple weeks ago! We are working to get more jams, freshly canned items and more dry goods, so stay tuned!
_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.