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This weblog contains LocallyGrown.net news and the weblog entries from all the markets currently using the system.
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Athens Locally Grown: ALG -- Extended ordering time
Hello! Parts of Athens are still without power, and my house only just now came back online. I’m going to keep the market open through noon on Wednesday to allow folks who have been unable to order the last couple days to get an order in.
I can’t guarantee that the growers will have time to harvest everything on the orders, but we’ll be doing our best to get things to you on Thursday.
Cross Timbers Food Cooperative: CTFC Market Open for September 23 Pick-up
Hi, folks—
Ordering for the second September delivery is OPEN.
Orders can be placed through Sunday, September 17.
Pickup is from 1:30 – 2:30 PM on Saturday, September 23.
Enjoy,
Wylie
for Cross Timbers Food Cooperative
Miami County Locally Grown: Tonight's Featured Vendor is...
Chez Nous Farm!!
Caroline McColloch has been a big supporter of local foods in our area for a long time. So when she initially contacted me about joining the market as a vendor, I was encouraged by the increasing connectivity of our market community. But I wasn’t prepared for the loveliness and tranquility of her farm, when I went to visit before she joined Miami County Locally Grown.
Chez Nous Farm, her 25 acres on the west side of Piqua, has been in her family since 1948. As she showed off her friendly horses, Caroline explained how one of them is the great-grandson of the original mare her grandfather purchased over 50 years ago!
The business plan for her farm has been in the works for several years, as she took courses, studied established practices, and gained ideas from fellow farmers. Wanting to start small, her offerings this summer consisted of potted culinary herbs including basil, parsley, cilantro, and thyme, organically grown in the charming greenhouse built with help (from the best maintenance man in the universe). Finding a niche with low initial inputs allowed her to get her feet wet while building her business and her name.
Her home garden was meticulously neat, the pastures lush, and her woods showing evidence of how much she is committed to hard work – look one direction, the woods appeared as many of our area parks, roadsides, fields, and fence rows do – full of invasive honeysuckle, choking out our native plants and wildflowers. But most obvious was the other side of the path, where she and a friend began the tedious process of battling one of Ohio’s worst invasive species. The difference was staggering, and inspiring.
Caroline glowed when talking about her “big plans” in store for meat goats that she recently brought home to her farm. They’re lightening her load in tackling the honeysuckle, as she rotates them through the woods and uses their appetite to start the clearing process. Can’t you just see sheep and goats grazing along roadsides for the same purpose? I’d like to see the figures comparing the cost and benefit of fencing such an area, and stocking it with meat animals, instead of paying to maintain the same area that produces no food or saleable product. As Caroline talked about her goats, it made me think of the photographs I’ve seen where Ivy League schools at the turn of the 20th century (and earlier) used their large expanses of lawn to keep sheep and chickens that would then be used in the school kitchens. Oh the potential! But I digress ?
Last year, Caroline developed a conservation plan with the Natural Resource Conservation Service. One part of the plan includes some of the acreage to plant pollinator habitat, which also will support another of her new projects – honeybees!
She described how the house and outbuildings were added over the years, including what was once her father’s airplane hangar! Now a godsend for storage of equipment, she still calls it “the hangar”. Then when she explained how she came to own and care for the family farm, Caroline chuckled, saying “The Lord works in mysterious ways”. True, and always for the best – and whether for us to have access to another ecologically-minded grower, or for that 25 acres to be nurtured so mindfully by Caroline McColloch.
www.miamicounty.locallygrown.net!
Russellville Community Market: RCM Order Reminder
Russellville Community Market closes at 10 p.m. this evening – be sure to place your order!
Pick up is Thursday at All Saints Episcopal Church on Phoenix from 4 – 6:30 p.m.
See you on Thursday!!
Russellville Community Market
FRESH.LOCAL.ONLINE.
GFM : Irma
Well,I sure hope Irma is gone from everywhere now.
Praying that everyone’s loved ones, no matter where they live are safe, dry, and being fed.
This site is open for business again.
Thanks and Love to all.
Judy
CLG: Fall Corn! Tuesday Reminder - Market Closes Tonight after 10pm.
Hello friends,
It’s time to decorate for fall! On the extras table this Friday, we will have about 40 bunches of field corn. $1 per ear. Come early if you need a lot.
There’s still time to place your order for pickup this Friday, September 15th.
The market closes TONIGHT after 10pm, maybe even midnight! Come early on Friday for the best selection from the Extras table. See you Friday!
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
Dawson Local Harvest: HOPE YOU'RE ALL OKAY!
Dawson Local Harvest for Sept. 15th
HOPE YOU’RE ALL OKAY!
HI EVERYONE!
Wow, that was some storm! What a mess! I hope you weathered it all right. That was pretty scary at times. There’s lots of branches and debris and some missing shingles, but the Farm is fine and the Dawson Harvest is going forward as usual. You still have time to place any orders you might like for this week. We have fresh-picked heirloom Tomatoes, new Cucumbers, and lots more. But let us hear from you, even if you don’t want to place an order this week.
Thanks, Alan & Lei, Dawson Local Harvest
Champaign, OH: Hello!!
It’s Tuesday, and an excellent day to begin thinking about any orders that you need for the upcoming weekend, and next week!!
The market closes, tomorrow, at 8am, so you have plenty of time to get your lists together!!
XOXO,
Cosmic Pam
New Field Farm's Online Market: Summer's last hurrah?
Hi,
Summer’s back for a couple of days which should give a nice little boost to the crops.
There’s more broccoli this week and we still have some squash and cukes, though they’re both on the way out. The cucumbers are half price due to being of various sizes, and the last of them.
If you want heirloom tomatoes please ask for them in the comment section. It’s getting hard to find marketable ones now. There are still plenty of regular field tomatoes. The Sakuras are finally slowing down, but they’ll enjoy this hot weather.
A number of fall crops are on the way; cabbage, cauliflower, brussel sprouts, baby bok choy, spinach, and ginger, and many others continue to carry on.
Thank you for your orders and support of the farm.
Tim