Suwanee Whole Life Co-op:  Reminder: Place your co-op before 6pm today!

Just a friendly reminder that market orders are due online today by 6 pm.

Please remember that we need to hit certain minimums in order for our farmers and vendors to deliver to us. Due to Spring Break some farmer/vendor orders are low and we will contact you if the minimum has not been met.

Thank you for placing your order and supporting local farms and businesses!

See you on Tuesday!

Click Here to Place Your Order

Siloam Springs, AR:  Online Market is Open!

I’m counting the days until outdoor market opens! Tuesday, April 26th is Opening Day 3-7 pm and our first Saturday is April 30th, 8 am to 1 pm.

Enjoy this beautiful day!

CLG:  Opening Bell: Bread, Spinach, PLANTS, Jellies!

Good afternoon!
It’s time to plant!!! To see what PLANTS are available now, just type PLANT in the search field on the main market page. You’ll also find more beef options from Ratchford Farms.

From Tammy Sue: We have our spring open house next Saturday. It runs from 10-2. Folks can come see what we do, visit our baby chicks and bottle fed baby goats. Looks like beautiful weather! I’m looking at the calendar and there is also a possibility of live births that weekend! The address is 4 Cheyenne Tr, Sherwood, AR, 72120.

From The Locals: This Thursday is ARKANSAS GIVES, from 8am until 8pm. Check out this link: https://www.arkansasgives.org/organizations/the-locals

Usually our volunteers have the market ready for customers to pick up before 4pm. If you are out and about and want to know if we are ready, just text me to see: 501-339-1039

Check out almost 500 wonderful items listed right now. Have a great week!

See you on Friday!

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

Stones River Market:  Weblog Entry

Market News

Beautiful morning to you all!

Thank you for making Stones River Market a part of your weekly grocery (and more) shopping needs!

We want to say a huge thank you to L & L Contractors for providing us with the beautiful space to hold market pickup! PLEASE check out their website and support these local craftsfolk in kind turn for them supporting us!
http://www.landlcontractorsmurfreesboro.com/

Alfresco Pasta and Seeds of Success are both on vacation this week and will return next week!

Double Star Bar Farms is hosting a wonderful, family Spring Festival. Here is the flyer info. Contact Maura White, whitem4@hotmail.com, with any additional comments or questions:

April 30th is our SPRING FESTIVAL here at Double Star Bar Farms! Come visit the farm! Bring the family, listen to a couple of lectures, learn a couple things, hike, eat, listen to live music, and take a deep breath of fresh country air!! You can even bring your own camping gear and camp overnight!

Lectures include learning to inoculate logs to grow your own mushrooms, how to make your own mozzarella cheese, learn about herbs, and a fun lecture from the funny and expert egg lady!!

See what is growing. Ask questions about getting started farming. Tour the greenhouse. Walk among the beautiful peach trees. See how asparagus grows.

Even though International Homesteading Education Month, sponsored by Mother Earth News Magazine and Grit Magazine, is usually held in September, we decided to hold ours in the spring this year so that people could see what’s growing and what to be on the lookout for as we transition into summer.

Come out and visit and see what is growing!!

SweetPea has added a few more plant starts to the growing list.

Dogwood Valley has added a blackberry jam: “This jam is made from blackberries gathered on my own farm. It has been strained a bit, but still has most of the seeds for texture. Chemical-free, but not certified organic because of prohibitive charges associated with this certification. Ingredients are sugar, blackberries, and Sure-Jell.”

White City Produce has tomatoes! Frontier Family Farms continues to provide us with wonderful broccoli.

There are many listings to choose from for eggs, meat, milk, skin care, animal food and treats along with spring plantings.

Now the fun stuff! GIVEAWAY For each person ordering this week, you will be entered into a drawing for a $10 Stones River Market Gift Certificate for yourself AND one to give to someone else who is not a current customer!
Good luck!

Have a beautiful day market family and we will see you Wednesday!

Ashleigh & Tracey
Market Managers
(931)952-1224
stonesrivermarket@gmail.com

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

ALFN Members,

What a beautiful weekend! The market is open for commerce! Zucchini and squash have wobbled into the market! Also check out new products from Tammy Sue this week.

IMPORTANT NEWS

Remember this Thursday (April 7) is the big fundraising day—Arkansas Gives! From 8 AM to 8 PM on Thursday Arkansans can give to their favorite non-profits. ALFN is on the list again for this year, and we are excited and thankful for the promotion ArkansasGives provides to statewide organizations. During this one-day event, each donation you give will help your favorite nonprofit organizations qualify for additional bonus dollars from Arkansas Community Foundation. All participating nonprofits will receive a portion of a pool of bonus dollars provided by Arkansas Community Foundation; the more a nonprofit raises, the more of the bonus dollars it will receive. To give on Thursday, please go to our page on the Arkansas Gives website: ALFN

ALFN GEAR

Also, it is time for me to purchase more ALFN paraphernalia to replenish our stock. I’m always wanting to catch the pulse of our members so that ALFN moves in sync with our members. I’m looking to purchase ALFN shirts, totes and aprons. Would you mind spending 1 minute to help me gauge interest? Check out this new survey medium…it’s fun. Take ALFN Gear Survey

Thanks for all you do!

Kyle Holton
Program & Market Manager

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

Good beautiful spring morning, everyone!

The market is open this morning as usual, and will remain open for your orders till Tuesday evening at 10 pm, so come see what we have to offer this week. Also see the section of this message entitled “Important Ordering and Pickup Information.”

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NEWS AND NOTES

Welcome back to Doorstep Bakery! Rita has listed French Sourdough Bread this week, fresh and delicious from her licensed Domestic Kitchen in Manchester.

Paccman Ranch has added some new cuts of grass fed Angus beef this week.

Cool weather vegetable plants from White City Produce & Greenhouses and beautiful perennial and herb plants from Dogwood Valley Greenhouse are anxious to get into your garden.

April 25 is the deadline to sign up for a share of the Summer/Fall CSA by White City Produce & Greenhouses.

Remember to look for wonderful early spring vegetables, delicious pork, beef, and chicken cuts, fresh and dried herbs, rich creamline milk, organic free-range eggs, jams and jellies. Please take note of our great selection of hand crafted farm products, candles, essential oils, bath & beauty products, and house and garden plants.

Stop by Square Books soon and see our MLG Table, with lots of non-perishable farm products for sale. Pick up some jam or jelly, hand lotion, herbal tea, or a basket of herb plants to enjoy or to give as a gift.

(L to R) French Sourdough Bread from Doorstep Bakery, Beef Tenderloin Filet from Paccman Ranch, Plantain Salve from Terra Hills Natural Products, Dwarf Coral Bells from Dogwood Valley Greenhouse, Spinach from Frontier Family Farm.

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 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 offer a great variety of local farm products, and our items will be in your hands in time to plan for the weekend. Although the Saturday markets are closed for the season, wonderful local products are available for ordering from the comfort of your own computer.

More new farmers are considering joining our market, if they can expect enough 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. Also please let us know if we can improve our selection or scheduling in any way to better suit your needs.

Blessings,
Linda

Here is the complete list for this week.

Statesboro Market2Go:  The market is open!

Sorry we are late opening this week! Having some software issues – but here’s what we have at market2go this week. Enjoy shopping!

United States Virgin Islands:  This week in VI Locally Grown

Greetings Everyone,

The Market is now open for orders. Thanks for supporting your local producers. See you Wed! :)

Blessings,

Your VI Locally Grown Growers

Champaign, OH:  Here Comes The Sun!

I know that it feels like we have taken a step back with the chilly winds and temperatures, today, but we do have some solid sunshine, outside!! And, it’s April!!

My favorite time of the year because it means we really have come through another winter, we begin seeing regrowth, sunshine, green, we feel our bodies and souls rejoicing in the warmth.

April is also my birthday month!! Yay!! And, it’s also so fitting that it’s my favorite time of the year because I begin touching base with our growers, gathering estimated times that they will be back on the market, how their growing season is progressing, how they have been since we last saw them, and getting all excited that we are only weeks away from adding them all back, little by little.

Swisher Hill Herbs did that for me with this market!! Charlene took a tour of one of her greenhouses and saw a few plants that were ready, so she is making us all happy by adding them to the market!! They will go fast, they are the first of the live plants, and you need to get your orders in, pronto!

It’s a perfect Saturday morning for market orders…

Have a great day!! Fill it with sunshine and love…

Peace, Love, Good Vibes…
Cosmic Pam

Naples,FL:  MARKET CLOSES TONIGHT

MARKET CLOSES TONIGHT