ALFN Local Food Club:  The Market is Open!

Good Beautiful Day,

Have you yet re-emerged from your Thanksgiving-induced food coma? Thankfully, it’s far too beautiful outside to be sitting around on the couch (or to already be hearing Christmas music, for that matter). As hard as it may be to think about ever eating another bite, I promise that you will get hungry again, and when you do, the market is here for all of the healthy, delicious local products to get you feeling good.

• There’s no better way to green up your diet than with a greens medley box from Barnhill Orchards. Snag this box of delicious green onions as well as turnip, mustard, and collard greens under specials.

• How about some grassfed buffalo from Ratchford Farms? Use it as a lean replacement in any beef dish, which shouldn’t be too hard with Ratchford’s selection of brisket, ground, strip steaks, sirloin steaks, snack sticks, and summer sausage.

• There’s also plenty of protein-packed legumes from Kornegay Berry Farm. Their butter beans, lady cream peas, and purple hull peas would all do well with a side of cornbread.

• Organic kale from Green Acres Atkins. Kale is a great addition to hearty up your favorite soup or the perfect start to a delicious salad.

• There’s so much fruit that I won’t even list it all, but you can still enjoy all of the sweetness and nutrition of the Arkansas summer with a delicious breakfast smoothie!

When it comes to sourcing locally, there’s no restaurant that does it better than The Root. They’re representing Little Rock by participating in HLN’s Growing America documentary series where teams of MBA students travel across the country to help small businesses. They could really use your vote as the most inspirational business, so please take a minute to do so here.

Enjoy this weather, cause it’s definitely not gonna last!

- Alex Handfinger
Director of Operations

Do you have questions or comments about this, or any, weblog? Thoughts on local food, goods, or events? Reply to this email and let us know what’s on your mind. Your feedback is always greatly appreciated!

Naples,FL:  Market is still open

We have kept the market open for this busy weekend of feasting and shopping.
We hope everyone had a very special Thanksgiving.
The Aldays

Champaign, OH:  2,000 Miles

2000 miles…
Is very far through the snow…
I’ll think of you…
Wherever you go…
(Pretenders – 2000 Miles)

Happy Sunday, lovely little market of love customers!! Are we ready to start rockin’ the market, the orders, the upcoming month of December? We definitely are rockin’ the local scene…I hear it everywhere that I go, everywhere that I turn.

And, as I type today’s Weblog, I think of how we are on the cusp of December. How did that happen? How did we land on one of the most magical months of the year, so soon, again?

December has always been such a twinkling kind of month for me. Not for the presents or the material way that the month has come to represent, but in all of my best memories, they all somehow take place around the holidays and December.

As you all have gotten to know me, you know that I have made my circles of friends into my family. I share deep bonds with friends dating back to Kindergarten, and I have been collecting precious friends, all of my life.

The song that I chose for today, represented my college Christmas years, and my Los Angeles Christmas years. In college, I used to love rushing through finals, packing my car, hugging sorority sisters goodbye, and heading back to the West End. December always called for old friends, old familiar haunts, Christmas jobs at our mall, parties, running around, catching up in little hole in the wall places. I loved being packed in booths of dimly lit clubs with all of my favorite people, and just enjoying the season. This song would play on jukeboxes, and it just seemed to be the perfect place in all of the world.

When I moved off, after college, and had my first apartment in Venice Beach, I remember my first California Christmas. I wasn’t used to the warmth or the beaches in December. I wasn’t able to return home in those years because as a flight attendant, that month was a busy flight schedule month. On my days off, I would roam the village of Westwood, looking at the decorations, meet up with new friends, started to make new traditions, explored the Canyons, went to homes of new friends for holiday celebrating. But it always seemed a bit off. Weird that I was not returning to the arms of my old pals, my old haunts.

One gloomy day, I was in a bookshop in Westwood, and this song started to play. I got so teary eyed as I listened to it…both for missing the old but also for being so happy with the new.

December has always been that way for me…a celebration of the old, a welcoming of the new, a quiet thankfulness that so many people have allowed me into their lives, have touched my life, and all of it is just tied up in a celebration of love.

Because that, to me, is what this upcoming month is about…the love. Just the love.

Bringing me to how much this little local market of love can play into the love factor. We are here to nourish you, to give you the best love possible in our products, to make you feel warm, happy, and to fill your souls with local love.

Think about all that you have coming up, crazy weeks, loved ones coming and going, meeting up with old and new friends, entertaining, showing the love, all month. You are going to need us, now, more than any other time of the year. Let us help you bring the love to your loved ones…shop with us, use our market as your gift sources, use us to make your life a celebration of all that is good…

It’s Sunday…the holiday weekend is winding down…set aside some time to get those orders in. We love when you love us…

Peace and Love,
Cosmic Pam

CLG:  Opening Bell:

Good afternoon,
The market will run the first 3 weeks of December. Milder weather has extended the season for many products!

Available now!: 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.

Check out all the Featured Products and use the SEARCH field on the main Market page to quickly find the items you want.

Come early on Friday for the best selection from the EXTRAS table.

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

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 Twitter: @conwaygrown

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

Siloam Springs, AR:  Online Market is Open!

Carolina Foothills, SC:  Market Closed This Week.

Hello all,

Sorry this is late I just realized it is Saturday.

My husband and I decided to stay up all night Wednesday and cook so we could just eat, sleep and play family games on Thursday.

I hope everyone had a safe and happy Turkey Day.

Unfortunately, I had a fear confirmed…….

I have a puppy with Parvo. So far my other 3 dogs appear symptom free but Panda was acting “off” about 3 days before it hit and by the time it was confirmed by a friend (I brought it into my house when she called me over to check out one of her puppies that has been sick since it was born 6 months earlier)Taco was having seizures and on Tuesday (I went over on Monday) and by Thursday she had lost 3 dogs including Taco.

Anyway, by the time it was confirmed on Turkey Day Panda was in very bad shape. So lack of sleep then trying to save my puppies life Friday rolled around and I never even thought about the market.

I couldn’t open it anyway. I seriously doubt any of you that may have ordered would want me go touch your products knowing I am completely submersed in the Parvo Virus.

To try and protect my other dogs I have quarantined myself and Panda in the bedroom and the dogs in the front of the house.

I couldn’t leave if I wanted too.

I would like to give some valuable info though just for future reference. I have a completely herbal remedy that appears to be slowly but surely pulling Panda back from the brink of death. My friend has used it and she brought 4 of her effected dogs back. Hers appeared to recover by the following day. Panda has not recovered as quickly but he is definitely showing signs of improvement. If all goes well and he makes a full recovery I would be.more then happy to share my solution with anyone that prefers natural healing over Meds.

Thank You for understanding,

Susan.

Statesboro Market2Go:  The market is OPEN!

Welcome back Fisheads lettuce and Southern Swiss Dairy milk, ice cream, butter, and egg nog!

Enjoy shopping!

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Spa City Local Farm Market Co-op:  Volunteers

We need one volunteer for the 2:00-3:30 pm slot on Friday.

There are also several openings in the volunteer schedule over the coming weeks and months. Check out our calendar and sign up by visiting http://tinyurl.com/Co-opVolunteers

Please email me with any questions or problems, or if you prefer not to use VolunteerSpot but still want to volunteer.

Thank you!

-Karen Harbut
kgharbut@aol.com
Volunteer Coordinator

Spa City Local Farm Market Co-op:  The market is open for ordering

The market is open for ordering until 9 pm Tuesday Dec. 2nd. Pickup will be Friday Dec. 5th at Emergent Arts between 3:30 and 5:30, by 5 pm if possible. Enjoy the rest of your holiday weekend.
http://spacity.locallygrown.net/market
Julie Alexander this week’s market manager
spacity@locallygrown.net
501 6559411