Fresh Harvest, LLC:  Fresh Harvest for October11th

Market News

Hello!

What beautiful weather we are having! Hope you all are able to get outside and enjoy it!

This week Tally will be on vacation. This means you all have to be extra nice to John at Wednesday pick up, as he will be gallantly holding down the fort. Also, there will be a few items not available this week, such as flower bouquets, The Bloomy Rind cheese offerings, and Little Seed Farm soaps. All will be back to normal next week!

There are so many lovely veggies this week! Lots of good greens, winter squashes and potatoes. Also, pie pumpkins! Did you hear there may be a shortage of canned pumpkin this holiday season due to crop failure in the midwest? Now is your chance to stock up for your winter baking/soup needs!

And speaking of the holidays, we are planning on offering Wedge Oak Farm pasture-raised turkeys again this year! Delivery that week will be on Tuesday, November 24th, instead of Wednesday. The turkeys will be frozen, and you will be able to pick them up on Wednesday , November 18th or Tuesday, November 24th.

We appreciate your support, and will see you on Wednesday!

John and Tallahassee

Coming Events

The Wednesday Market:  Time to Order

Good afternoon.

Here is your weekly reminder that it is time to place your order at The Wednesday Market. Please do so by 10 p.m. Monday. Orders are ready for pick up between 3 and 6 p.m. Wednesday. Visit our website to see this week’s product offerings. Here is the link: https://wednesdaymarket.locallygrown.net/market

Concord Street Sweets is away from the Market this week.

We hope you all have a happy Sunday, and we’ll see you Wednesday.

Thanks,

Beverly

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.

Gwinnett Locally Grown:  Market closes tomorrow at noon!!

The market closes tomorrow at noon! Place your orders now!

Don’t forget to follow us on facebook and on instagram @gwinnettlocallygrown for discount codes and promotions!

Upcoming Workshops

These are the upcoming workshops hosted at Rancho Alegre Farm:

Essential Oils for Happy, Healthy Kids
Tuesday, October 13th @ 10am
Come and learn how essential oils are a great way to help keep you little ones healthy naturally!

Soap Making Workshop
Wed, October 14, 6pm – 10pm
led by Mary Bois-Byrne from East Walton Ladies Homesteading Group

Cooking with Essential Oils!
Tuesday, October 20th @ 7pm
Come have fun learning how easy it is to add essential oils to everyday cooking!

OHB Wine Making Workshop Pt2
Tue, October 20, 6pm – 9pm

Visit ranchoalegrefarm.com for more information and as always, contact me for any questions or for more information!

See you Tuesday,
Amanda
-Market Manager

Stones River Market:  Time to Order Local Food

Market News

Welcome back to another week of locally grown and made products. I have an important note about the Market. As we have grown so has the expenses for the Market. Starting November 1, the market surcharge will increase by 3%. I am always working to improve the Market for customers and farmers and this increase should help with that.

There is a wide variety of produce this week that covers both summer and fall options. Erdmann Farm and Rocky Glade Farm brings several types of radishes to the Market.

Vaughn Brothers bring their eggs back this week.

Flying S Farms introduced a cinnamon roll cake bar to go with her tangy lemon bars.

White City Produce and Greenhouse has added Indian Corn to the Market for your fall decorations.

Several of the vendors have messages as well this week:

From Chef Jenny with JENuine Health:

The Seeds of Success is back on the market this week with their fall flavored snacks and seasonings. Cinna-Spice is a nutty blend of ground sunflower seeds, cinnamon, cocoa, and pure cane sugar. Enjoy it with peanut butter, bananas, quinoa, sweet potatoes, pumpkin, butternut squash, oatmeal, rice pudding, yogurt, or coffee.

From Sean with Nuance Coffee & Tea:

Nuance Coffee & Tea is adding several new teas to their offerings in the next couple of weeks. Look for the word NEW in the description of the tea to see what we have recently added for the Fall and Winter seasons. Don’t forget that we also have Bodum brand, 70th Anniversary Edition, French Press and Assam teapot sets. Just click on the “Coffee and Tea” category and then click on “Brewing Accessories” to order these great new items. They make great holiday gifts! Enjoy!

Mike with Ridiculous Chocolate wants to remind everyone that with the cooler weather beginning to arrive, his hot cocoa is still on sale.

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.

ALFN Local Food Club:  The Market Is Open

Welcome back! The market is open and bursting with fresh, local food.

News/Updates

Central Arkansas New Agrarian Society (CANAS) is hosting a fundraiser at the White Water Tavern on Thursday October 22 from 7-11:30. The event is to raise funds to send a CANAS group of farmers to attend an agroecology conference in Cuba. Joshua Asante will be playing, the Beast Food Truck will be there, and I’m told to expect music by DBK as well as games such as Beer Pong, a Bean Bag Toss, and a raffle. You don’t want to miss this! Check out their facebook page for further news and events.

Warning: the following blog post is a rant.

Arkansas governor, state officials, and over fifty Arkansas business leaders made a trip to Cuba a couple of weeks ago to try and open trade with the country. Specifically, the delegation is hoping to export agricultural products such as chicken and rice to the country. With the relaxing relationship between Cuba and the U.S., business leaders in Arkansas are hoping to be some of the first to do business with the country. I listened to an interview Roby Brock conducted with the Agricultural secretary of Arkansas last week, and governor Hutchinson spoke today with Roby Brock over the trip. In both interviews, Mr. Brock asks about the visitors expectations hinting at the “abject poverty” and 1950’s lifestyle. To Mr. Ward’s credit, the secretary of Agriculture, he said he didn’t see destitution. However, both men suggested the Cuban people needed Arkansas agricultural products, but needed to decentralize the government and open up better relations with the private sector.

Ok, I’m not a political animal, but I am a fanatic of supporting sustainable agriculture especially when that agriculture is developed by the marginalized. These conversations with Mr. Brock continue to rankle me, and I would like to rectify a few misconceptions that illuminate the strength, resilience and sustainability of small-scale agriculture that works with nature, not against it.

The end of the Cold War signified the beginning of hunger for Cubans. During the Cold War, Cuba received all the fossil fuel based products they needed from gasoline to petroleum-based fertilizers and pesticides. In short, Cubans feed their country through industrial agriculture practices. With the fall of the Soviet Union, Cubans suddenly lost access to fossil fuels. Exacerbated by tightened U.S. embargoes, the early nineties are a case study for what happens when a nation is suddenly cut off from fossil fuels. What happened? Over a rocky few years, farmers adopted agro-ecology techniques (farming that mimics ecological process in nature). During this time, the Cuban government owned 79% of agricultural land. Under pressure from farmers, the government decentralized land holdings where farmers could pass the land on to their children with legal rights. To this day, Cuba models a decentralized small-scale agriculture system that provides the majority of produce and meat that residents consume. In a few years, Cubans modeled what was possible when a global, agro-industrial regime collapses. It wasn’t an apocalypse.

There is a deep irony here. We are working to send our local farmers to Cuba so that we can learn from them, while big business suggests Cuba needs us. I worry that as Cuba opens up to trade with the U.S., they won’t open up to free market capitalism, but to a return to dependence on an agriculture system that is bankrupt. It behooves us to be accurate historians and not glibly skip the period of Cuban isolation. Many may disagree with their government, but that shouldn’t be used by the industrial agriculture sector to conquer another region based on local, small-scale farming. Like capitalism, communism has a history of environmental degradation and oppression. Nevertheless, due to the larger history narrative, communist Cuba sequestered small-scale, family-owned agriculture from western industrial agriculture.

What does this have to do with us? Imagine if fossil fuel imports abruptly stopped for Arkansas. Would we have a sufficiently robust local food economy to weather the storm? Perhaps, we should spend more time learning from those who have been scraped along the underbelly of history to gather cues for our own future.

Let’s support our growers as they travel to Cuba for this Agroecology Conference. But, let’s also learn from the history of the marginalized. Resilient food systems are often established on the edges of the history of empire.

Sincerely,

Kyle Holton
Program & Market Manager

CLG:  Opening Bell: Beets, Kale, Tomatoes, Turnips!

Good afternoon,
Over 500 items available again this week! Some standouts you should try: Red Russian Kale and Tomatoes from Kellogg Valley Farm, or Okra and Squash from Barnhill Orchards. And of course the excellent Apples, Sweet Potatoes and Eggs.

Your homework for the week: What’s all the buzz about Kombucha? We will have samples available on Friday.

Thanks for all the Eggshells! Someone dropped of their eggshells on Friday in the best way I’ve seen yet: in a glass pasta jar. Keep the jar of shells in your fridge. We will dump out the eggshells and then recycle the glass jar! A win-win situation!

Come early on Friday for the best selection from the EXTRAS table. And save your eggshells throughout the week for the laying hens! :-)

The market is now OPEN for orders. Please check your email about 5 minutes after you place your order to make sure you get an order confirmation. Thank you for being a valuable part of CLG!

Have a great week!
Steve

ONLINE PAYMENT OPTION. When you are done shopping, just hit the “proceed to checkout” button in your cart. You will then see the option to “Pay Now” with credit card near the bottom. Just follow the prompts to add your card. Be sure to read the screen until you see “Thank you for your order” on the top. If you need help, please call 339-7958. A 3% online payment convenience fee will be added when your card is charged.

How to contact us:

DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL. Instead…

Phone or text: Steve – 501-339-1039

Email: Steve – kirp1968@sbcglobal.net

Our Website: www.conway.locallygrown.net

On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Conway-Locally-Grown/146991555352846

Middle Tennessee Locally Grown:  Time to Order Local Farm Products!

Happy sunny Sunday afternoon!

Fall is definitely in the air! The weather forecast looks promising for some good yard work this week!

Manchester Locally Grown online farmers’ market will be open for ordering until Tuesday evening at 10 pm. See the section of this message entitled “Important Ordering and Pickup Information.”

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NEWS AND NOTES

Don’t forget Dogwood Valley Greenhouse’s “Fall Special” on perennial and herb plants and ferns: Buy 3, get one of equal or lesser value at no charge. Please make a note on your order form of which plant you would like for free (name 3 choices).

Summer and fall vegetable production is still in full swing, and several of our farmers have a good selection on the market. Plan your weekly menu around these great vegetables available on our market from local growers: zucchini, tomatoes, summer squash, spinach, red potatoes, peppers, okra, lettuce, cucumbers, and beans.

But our farmers’ market is not only about vegetables. Please take note of some of the seasonal items available this week: Live Water Kefir Grains and Square Bale Grass Hay from Triple B Farms; Ground Beef from Paccman Ranch; Scuppernong and Muscadine ciders, jelly, and fruits from White City Produce & Greenhouses.

We also have lots of our regular year-round items: perennial, herb, and fern plants, as well as a good selection of houseplants; local milk, eggs, and honey; pork and chicken cuts; dried herbs and fresh, as well as lots of homemade herbal products too.

(L to R) Open Range Eggs from Wayne Diller, Light Pink Anemone, now in bloom from Dogwood Valley Greenhouse, Yellow Crookneck Squash and Jalapeno Peppers from White City Produce & Greenhouses, Honey in four size jars from Steve’s Bees.

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Important Ordering and Pickup Information

Ordering will be open until Tuesday at 10 p.m., and your order will be available for pickup on Thursday between 4:00 and 5:30 (note later pickup hours) at Square Books, 113 East Main Street, Manchester. We can also hold your order in the refrigerator till Friday, if it’s more convenient for you to pick it up between 9:00 am and 2:00 pm. If you prefer to utilize this free service, please make a note on your order or call my cell at (931) 273-9708.

Thanks so much for your support of Manchester Locally Grown Market, and your friends and neighbors who have grown and produced these items. Please encourage our local farmers by helping to spread the word about our wonderful market to everyone you know. We have more variety than many large Saturday markets, and our items will be in your hands on Thursday! Instead of fighting the crowds and getting up early to search for what you want at the Saturday market, check out the wonderful products our local growers have for you, from the comfort of your own computer.

We have some new farmers considering joining our market, if they can expect large sales to help pay their transportation costs. Please help us grow the market by sharing this e-mail with your friends, calling their attention to the later pickup hours, which may be more convenient for them. And if you haven’t ordered from Manchester Locally Grown for a while, please check out our wide variety of offerings this week.

Blessings,
Linda

Here is the complete list for this week.

Siloam Springs, AR:  Online Market is Open!

United States Virgin Islands:  This Week in VI Locally Grown

Hello everyone!
The market is open for orders! Come support your local farmers and enjoy some delicious food and more :).

Blessings,
Your VI Locally Grown Growers