Heirloom Living Market Lawrenceville :  Please Read!! IMPORTANT Market Info

Crossfit O-Zone Market Members:

In October we found it necessary to establish minimums for each Market. If the minimum is not met and you have ordered items, after Market close, you will receive an email letting you know that your items cannot be delivered. We sincerely hope that this will not be the case; however, at the time of this writing the total for the Market is slightly more than 1/2 of the $650 minimum.

Orders have been low for Cedar Rock Dairy over the last month. Consistency is key. The cows don’t stop producing milk just because we forgot to order! Sam Jones and his helpers work very hard and travel several hours in order for us to enjoy the healthy and wonderful milk produced by his tested A2 cows. These girls enjoy grazing on 1200 of organic pastures and producing milk!

Unfortunately, if our orders don’t increase we stand to lose this great Farmer and the healthy goodness he provides. The quality and taste of the milk produced by Sam’s cows is undeniable!

It takes a lot of work to provide the quality of the products found on our market. The growers and artisans offer us the best products to support the healthy choices we are making. Please consider showing your support for these Farmers and Artisans by ordering their products. Your food dollars matter greatly to these dedicated folks.

Please be assured that we are doing everything we can to provide you with what you want from the local Farmers/Growers and Producers; but, please understand that Buying Local means supporting those who are committed to providing ‘Local’!

Tidbits

Marie of Bakery on Brooks is back and has Gluten Free Cinnamon Rolls on Special this week. These come frozen, so you can pop one out, let it rise and put in the Toaster Oven for a very tasty addition to your Breakfast!

For our friends who can eat wheat..please check out all of the wonderful offerings of My Daily Bread! Dabrielle creates all Organic items to feed our families!

Be sure and check out the Turkey products from Heritage Farm. Ground Turkey, Smoked Turkey, Whole Turkey, Turkey…Turkey…Turkey! Turkey Backs are available at $5.00 per pound. You MUST email me to order! heirloomlivingmarket@gmail.com

Check your Grocery List and get your orders in for fresh, local Organic Baked Goods, Gluten Free Organic Baked Goods, Grass-fed Meats, Eggs, Raw Milk (for your ‘pets’, of course) both Cow and Goat, wonderful yummy veggies; seedlings ready to plant, honey, and more! Market closes at 8:00pm!

Hop on over to Crossfit Market

Thank you for your support. We hope to see you on Thursday!

Princeton Farm Fresh:  The Market is Closed this Week

Sorry folks, the market is closed this week so that our family can graduate two amazing young individuals. Aaron is graduating Friday from Lyon County High School and Hannah is graduating Saturday from our Homeschool program. Thank you for understanding and I can’t wait to see everyone next week.
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Angela

Joyful Noise Acres Farm:  Don't forget to order.

Don’t forget to place your orders for JNAFarm.locallygrown.net so that you can get the cleanest, freshest foods in our area!

Blessings,
Mary Beth

Green Fork Farmers Market:  Weekly Product List

Dear Green Fork Farmers Market Customers,

NEW this week:

Green Fork Farm has dill available this week.

Also available for pre-order this week:

Vegetables—Green onions, lettuce, kale, swiss chard, red mustard greens, mixed braising greens, radishes, and gourmet salad mix.

Herbs—Sage, mint, dill, cilantro, lovage, fennel, oregano, and mixed herb bunches.

Eggs—Pastured chicken and duck eggs (half and whole dozen).

Meat—Pastured chicken and lamb.

Fermented foods—Sauerkraut and jalapenos.

Baked goods—Sugar cookies and chocolate chip cookies (some made without wheat flour).

Salsa—Made with locally grown and organic ingredients.

Jam—Blueberry, made with organic, locally grown blueberries sweetened with fruit juice.

Olives and olive oil—organic and directly from the grower in California.

Bath and Beauty products—A variety of botanical soaps.

Plants and Flowers—Culinary, medicinal, and pollinator plants, as well as ready-made flower arrangements. Bee Well Gardens will also be at the market 4-6 pm this week, so stop by to ask questions and purchase plants.

Place your order from now until Tuesday at noon for pickup on Wednesday 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 then!

Green Fork Farmers Market

DeForest, WI:  Availability for Week of May 17

Forest Run Farm will again have offerings from the fields and hoop house: small head lettuce, spinach, baby bok choy, asparagus, rhubarb and herbs. In the next few weeks the selection will increase.

Forest Run Farm also offers certified organic vegetable plants for your garden—all started at the farm. They are not listed this week but can be picked up at the Farm on Fridays or at Hilldale Market. The selection of plants includes tomato, peppers, herbs, kale, lettuce, kohlrabi, broccoli, cucumbers, squash, eggplant, tomatillos. Note: Plants can not be purchased using the CSA punchcard.

Bauman’s Natural Meats has its first offerings of the season just in time for the Holiday. Rusty Dog Coffee is also available!

Orders made this week (Starting Sunday evening till Tues at midnight) can be picked up on Friday at the farm from 4-6pm until Memorial Day. Then, after Memorial Day, it is extended to 3-6pm.

Athens Locally Grown:  ALG Market Open for May 21

Atlanta Locally Grown:  Available for Saturday May 23

I hope this finds you all doing well. The market is open and ready for orders. We have lots of great produce this week. Order up, the weather is going to take them away till fall soon. We may have two weeks left. While that’s bad news for spring veggies, it’s great news for summer stuff.

We also have a tremendouse pork selection. The hogs shares are ready for delivery and look incredible. We would love to fill your freezer this week. You will enjoy the meat and we will get te next feed bills paid. It’s a win win.

You will have 21 meals this week, 28 with snacks. How can we be a part of them?

Thank you for all your support. We will see you Saturday at pick up.

Brady

Conyers Locally Grown:  Available for Friday May 23

I hope this finds you all doing well. The market is open and ready for orders. We have lots of great produce this week. Order up, the weather is going to take them away till fall soon. We may have two weeks left. While that’s bad news for spring veggies, it’s great news for summer stuff.

We also have a tremendouse pork selection. The hogs shares are ready for delivery and look incredible. We would love to fill your freezer this week. You will enjoy the meat and we will get te next feed bills paid. It’s a win win.

You will have 21 meals this week, 28 with snacks. How can we be a part of them?

Thank you for all your support. We will see you Friday at pick up.

Brady

Berea Gardens:  May 20 Availability

Hi folks,

We have some new customers to welcome this week and I want to remind you to read the Q’s and A’s page if you have any questions. For those of you that would rather pick up during market hours Wednesday at the Calhoun County Farmer’s Market (9 AM to 1 PM), please remember to tell us in the comment line so we can have it ready for you there.

Blessings,
Bob

Northeast Georgia Locally Grown:  Locally Grown - Availability for May 20th , 2015

Hey Local Food Lovers,

Greetings from half way around the world. This message is being sent from Tapei, Taiwan which is about 8,000 miles away from North Georgia. I think this is what you call truly “getting away from it all!”

It’s been two years since my last trip here, so let’s refresh on some of my favorite things….and some of the more unusual aspects….of traveling in Taiwan and Asia more generally.

I’ll start with the basics. The U.S. and western countries in general tend to think horizontally. Buildings, vehicles, even our own bodies tend to spread outward on the sides (You know what I’m talking about). Since Taiwan is a very small country (at least 3 Taiwan’s would fit inside of the state of Georgia), yet the population is 4 times larger at 24 million, and it’s also an island, space is a precious commodity. So everything is about maximizing space, especially vertical space.

For example, my in-laws house is modest, yet has 4 stories plus a rooftop with a great view of the sunrise…pretty much like every house in the area. The width of the front entrance is probably only 16 feet across, which includes a garage door for parking their van. The van itself is tall and skinny, just like all the trucks here. Two cars can easily pass each other on a narrow alleyway.

Businesses on the main streets are very dense, one right after the other so all the signs are oriented upright vertically, long and skinny, and span several floors of the buildings they are affixed to. People here are skinnier too, but not due to lack of food. Food is everywhere! And the Taiwanese love to eat. There are markets with fresh fruit. In season right now is mango (my favorite, more on that later), water melon (shee qwa) and pineapple. Fresh cut meat is displayed each morning on the carts of butchers lining the roadway with little spinning fans with long strings hanging down to keep insects away.

The primary modes of transport are scooters and trains. Many, many people jetting around on scooters is a sight to behold. It’s even more fun to be on the scooter jetting yourself. You kind of know what it feels like to be a single blood cell being pumped through a circulatory system. Having a baby in a stroller this time around, we’ve found you literally can’t walk down the sidewalk for all the scooters parked there. I’d guess there are more than 50 but less than a 100 scooters for every single block you walk.

So what about the food? This isn’t a travel blog after all…. tell us about the food. Well I should start by saying that most meals so far have been at home, since my father in law is an incredible cook. I’d choose his cooking over most other Taiwanese food any day. Just as in most of the world, preparing meat for guests is a sign of generosity. However, the method of preparation is very different compared to the states.

Chicken and duck for instance is salted and streamed then chopped with a large butcher’s knife into diagonal cut pieces. These cuts go straight through the bone, so you are constantly picking little pieces of bone out, or chewing around them. But, since you aren’t just eating the thigh or breast meat, you often get more dark and white meat mixed together, for a greater diversity of flavor. An accompanying orange dipping sauce is very tasty too.

Our first night here, right off the plane we had stir fry noodles with seafood which included squid, octopus, and shrimp. Taiwanese love all chewy foods, and after several trips here I’ve acquired a taste for some of them too. Cuttle fish is another squid substitute that is quite good.

Pork is a backbone to much cooking here, though never in big pieces like a pork chop, usually it is cooked for a long time in different types of sauce then pulled apart and used as a flavoring in different dishes. Though we did have some whole ribs cooked in a soy based sauce that was so good! Tender salty meat falling off the bone. All meals are eaten with a small rice bowl in hand and chop sticks then you pick and choose from all the dishes in front of you. You can have a few bites of pork, then a few of chicken, then some stewed squash or napa cabbage (this one with mushrooms, pork and little tiny dried shrimp).

For breakfast we’ve had two options most mornings. Little cafes around town specialize in what’s called egg pie, which is just a rice flour tortilla type thing on a griddle with a scrambled egg poured on top to cook. Before flipping it closed and sliced into pieces you can add many different fillings. One of my favorites is dried pork (which is kind of fluffy and hair like) with corn, and a sweet mayo sauce. Our other breakfast has been these amazing traditional Tawianese pastries. I’ll describe those for you later.

Since I’m almost out of time for today, let me wrap up with my favorite sweet treat that I had yesterday (oh there are so many I hope to describe). It’s a mango shaved ice. Shaved Ice is a taiwanese speciality I’ll try and describe later, but for this version the ice is actually flavored like Mango, then fresh mango pieces are frozen and put on top, then two scoops of mango ice cream, and some condensed milk over it all, with little chocolate sprinkles. It’s very refreshing, and very Mango!!

There are many more tales to come. On Tuesday, we’re on our way to Japan, so that should be all new experiences to describe.

Not missing Georgia yet, but I’m sure that’ll happen before the end of the trip.

I hope everyone orders big this week! Keep your bellies full of good food while we’re away!

and EAT WELL,

Justin in Taiwan
Chuck in Rabun
Teri in Clarkesville
Andrew in Gainesville