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.
Atlanta Locally Grown: Available for Saturday February 7
I hope this finds you all doing well. The market is open and ready for orders. We will see you at your selected delivery location, Brookhaven, Piedmont or Sandy Springs.
Thank you,
Brady
Champaign, OH: Winter Weather Instructions
Good morning!!
Now that we are entering into the real kind of winter weather, your market managers, and the YMCA, would like to make sure that all customers have the proper winter weather instructions for Thursday evening order pick-up, should the weather be in question, on these winter Thursdays…
Champaign Oh. Locally Grown Virtual Market Weather Emergency Customers pick up schedule.
In case of impending severe weather follow these instruction.
Level One Emergency – The YMCA is open. The market will be as scheduled. Normal customer pickup time 4:30-6:30pm. If you do not feel comfortable driving, please call and make arrangements for a delayed customer pickup. Please call Pam-926-4833
Level Two Emergency – The YMCA is open. The Market will be as scheduled. Normal customer pickup time 4:30-6:30pm. If you do not feel comfortable driving, please call and make arrangements for a delayed customer pickup. Please call Pam- 926-4833
Level Three Emergency – The YMCA is closed. The Market is closed. The Market will be rescheduled for Friday (the next day) Normal customer pickup time 4:30-6:30pm. If you do not feel comfortable driving, please call and make arrangements for a delayed customer pickup. Please call Pam-926-4833
If there is a Level 3 by Noon, Vendors don’t deliver and customers don’t come. Refer to Friday delivery and pickup schedule.
Thank you to Charlene for getting this information together for all of us!
Peace and Love,
Cosmic Pam
Heirloom Living Market Lilburn: Market Closes at 8:00pm Tonight
Market closes at 8:00pm
That’s it — Order before close!!
Thanks!
~Maryanne
Heirloom Living Market Hamilton Mill: Market Closes at 8:00pm Tonight
Market closes at 8:00pm
That’s it — Order before close!!
Thanks!
~Maryanne
Heirloom Living Market Lawrenceville : Market Closes at 8:00pm Tonight
Market closes at 8:00pm
That’s it — Order before close!!
Thanks!
~Maryanne
CSA Farmers Market: NEW SOAP MAKERS
New Soap Makers
We have two wonderful new soap companies coming to our group. This means we will have three entirely different soaps for you to choose from. We will still have the wonderful goat milk soaps offered by Pineberry Dairy from Silverwood Michigan. Now we are also offering natural bee product soap from Hive Made Products in Gladwin Michigan. If you prefer Omega rich olive oil soap we have Moon River Soaps made in Rochester Michigan.
Rebekah Townsend from Hive Made Products is passionate about creating a safe enriching soap for her family and yours. She and her husband have taken vast steps for their family to live life simply and naturally. After making some changes to what they put inside their bodies, they decided to take a closer look at the products they used on the outside. They were motivated by what they found to create their own body care products. They became bee keepers in 2013 and now use some of their own honey and beeswax in these products. It’s their passion to share with others the healing and moisturizing qualities they discovered in their body care products. They run their apiary, make quality handmade body care products, and rear their three sons on the homestead in Gladwin, Michigan.
Moon River soap maker Carlos and formulator Elizabeth Aprea, along with their daughter and son-in-law, make their rich moisturizing soaps in the beautiful sage green building downtown Rochester that they also call home. They discovered that synthetic fragrance in commercial soap was triggering her head aches and decided to research essential oils and botanicals. They created their fist batch of cold pressed organic olive oil soap with the knowledge gained from that research. They noticed that national baby wash was causing their grandson dry, irritated skin and after using the soap on him they saw his skin healed up almost immediately! They create this soap with a passion for healthy living and natural healing. They use natural NON-GMO ingredients that are free of chemicals and preservatives. Each hand poured bar of soap is made with omega rich olive oil, nurturing botanicals, and certified 100% pure essential oils. They never use petrochemicals, sulfates, synthetic fragrance or phthalates.
CSA Farmers Market: Westwind Milling Co. Changing
Baking Linda Purdy (from Westwind Milling) has decided to give up baking, each year at about this time Lee & Linda Purdy look at their operation and decide what to change, they also closed their Many Hands Community Foods Grocery store located in Argentine. We will miss Linda’s Baking—As she sadly tells us that she has to give up baking at the same time she says how much she loves to bake. You never know she may decide to bake again.
CSA Farmers Market: Miracles - Future Market Hour Changes
It may not seem like much of a miracle, but pulling off this market often feels like one. There are other markets in other states that do very similar markets. They give their customers about 2 days to order and the farmers 5 days to get the orders together. Some monthly markets actually give the farmers about 10 days to get the order together. We are the other hand give the customers about 4 1/2 days to order and us only about 2 1/2 days to harvest and gather product. Since we give ourselves such a narrow window we will eventually be shortening the order time we give customers. This I believe will give us a little more time to deal with issues that arise and more time to pay attention to detail. The future time we plan to be open the market will be 7:00 pm on Thursday and we will close the market Monday night at 10:00 pm.
On Thursday it sometimes is a madhouse here because we are packing orders at the same time when the market is being opened and it is often that the farmers that have just harvested their crops are also packing their items and they have not always had time to update the website. At the same time we have to back up all files, edit invoices, write the weblog in HTML before we are even down packing order and by 3pm we would love to have all our hair in our head.
Adding three hours for us at the beginning of the market would make a huge difference and the two hours at the end of the market would also help.
The beginning time will be implemented before we go onto a weekly order cycle. The closing the market time we be implemented sooner.
Thanks
Northeast Georgia Locally Grown: Locally Grown - Availability for February 4th, 2015
Hey Local Food Lovers,
We want to welcome a new grower to the market this week. Staci Sprayberry and Jeffrey C. Baker are Baker Springs Farm located in Lula, GA. This week they started out with just a few of many items to come, radish and mung bean sprouts and hydroponic lettuces. We’ll be featuring many farms in the coming year and going into lots of details about their operations, specialty items, and some of their motivations and passions for producing wholesome local food.
I’m keeping tonight’s message short and simple.
Hope everyone has a great week and don’t forget to
EAT WELL,
Justin, Chuck, Teri and Andrew
Athens Locally Grown: ALG Open for February 5
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
There are a number of workshops and conferences coming up that those of you who are gardeners might want to look in to, especially if you think you might want to expand your gardens and begin selling at ALG or other area markets.
First, there’s Sound and Sensible Organic Certification Workshop on February 5, 2015 from 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m., hosted by the National Center for Appropriate Technology (NCAT). This workshop is intended to enlist new farmers and ranchers and help them learn how to become National Organic Program (NOP)-certified. It will provide information and expertise to farmers interested in NOP and answer questions regarding organic farm practices and NOP certification. This day-long event is free, and lunch will be provided. Location: Athens-Clarke County Cooperative Extension, 2152 West Broad Street, Athens, GA 30606 http://www.ugaextension.com/clarke To register: Please visit https://www.ncat.org/events Questions: For questions and more information, please contact Rockiell Woods at 479-575-1385 or email rockw@ncat.org.
Georgia Organics is again bringing their annual conference, attended by people from all over the county, to Athens next month. You can find details of what’s to come at their website, http://conference.georgiaorganics.org/. It’s one of my favorite conferences anywhere, and there’s something there for everyone involved in the local food system, from growers to cooks to eaters.
Just up the interstate in Greeneville, the SC Organic Growing Conference (known as GROW) will be held on Saturday, February 28 through March 2. COOK, featuring cooking classes taught by the chefs from the Culinary Institute of the Carolinas, will be held on Sunday, March 1. And edible Upcountry’s Food Hub (NETWORK) rounds out the event on Monday, March 2. The Culinary Institute will prepare a locally-sourced breakfast and lunch for GROW, an afternoon tea for COOK, and a locally-sourced happy hour for NETWORK. For more information, see their website: http://scorganicliving.com/GROW__2015_Conference.html
Finally, here’s a workshop you can have on your own time. Georgia has recently enacted cottage food laws, which allows low-risk foods to be prepared in home kitchens for sale at farmers markets and other locations. There is an online seminar that goes over the ins and outs of this new set of rules on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zryAP46dJ4E.
And, one repeat from last week: UGA graduate student in the department of Geography, and Athens Locally Grown Member, Aidan Hysjulien is conducting a Master’s Thesis project trying to understand how the values associated with alternative foods systems are incorporated into decisions at the supermarket. This research will consist of an interview during a shopping trip and will require a very minimal time commitment. For more information please contact Aidan Hysjulien at ahys@uga.edu or at (919)699-4288. Aidan will again be manning a table at our pickups this Thursday, if you’d like to talk to him and get a feel for his research project. He is needing to interview quite a few people for his project, and would love your help.
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!