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Independence,VA: Market is back Open!
The market is back up and running for orders to be picked up February 19th!
Just a reminder, the Market closes to orders at 8 pm Wednesday evening. If you have questions, feel free to email me at IFMmarketplace@gmail.com or call 276-235-8230. Please bring cash or checks. You’ll still be dealing with each individual vendor.
Happy shopping! Here are the links:http://independencefarmersmarket.locallygrown.net/market/
you can also get there from the webpage, www.independencefarmersmarket.org
Thanks and hope to see you Friday!
Penny B
Champaign, OH: How Sweet It Is!
And, what would Valentine Weekend be without a little sweet talk??
Today, in our ongoing series about local love, and the love of our vendors, we get a sweet blog from Marc Stadler of Valley View Woodlands!!
You love their products, you love the artistic way that he and Shary bottle the syrups, many of you have been to one of their boils…and now, Marc gives us the sweet low down on their maple syrup process…
“Tis the season!” We refer to the maple season, of course. Here at Valley View Woodlands, that sweet season has begun. It means spending time in the woods during longer, beautiful, sunny days. It means boiling down the collected sap on our stainless steel evaporator, watching through the sweet steam.
We tapped our maple trees last week—earlier than usual because of the warmer el nino year. We tapped and had our first boil a full month earlier than we did during last year’s extremely cold winter. Our first boil on Monday yielded only a half-gallon of syrup after five hours of boiling. This is typical for the first boil of the season, as the sap in the evaporator has to be concentrated or “sweetened” before you can draw off significant amounts of syrup. As we boil we are raising the amount of sugar in the sap from 2.5 percent to 67 percent. This requires approximately 45 gallons of sap to make one gallon of syrup! That’s why maple syrup is so special.
Deciding when to tap is subject of great debate among “maple people.” Taps will stay open for four to six weeks before they naturally dry out and begin to grow closed. Tap too early and you won’t catch the runs later in the season. Tap too late and you miss the early runs. We hope we didn’t tap too early, and that we will catch some big runs in mid-February.
Temperatures are well below normal now—the trees are frozen and no sap is flowing. We have some time to prepare for the next warmup, which we hope will occur next week. Sap flows in the maple trees when we have nights below freezing and days above freezing. The freeze-thaw cycle not only pushes the sap out into the buckets but also makes it sweeter.
This is a great time of year to enjoy our syrup on buttery pancakes and waffles—well, that’s true for any time of year! We also enjoy our syrup on Greek yogurt in the morning. That’s a tasty high-protein breakfast.
Stay tuned as we hope to be busy next week collecting and boiling that sweet sap.
Marc Stadler
Valley View Woodlands
Champaign, OH: Matters Of The Heart
This month is all about the love, being in love, showing people how much you love them, (ALTHOUGH, it would be super groovy if EVERYDAY was a love fest to EVERYONE), but since we are approaching this Valentine weekend of love, let’s take a minute to love us, love our health, and spend some love time with a few matters of the heart…
Charlene from Swisher Hill Herbs has a very heartfelt blurb and product that is just now on the market!!
Thanks, always, Charlene and Joe!!
The first of this year the CDC and FDA came out with new salt consumption guidelines for the general public. They recommend 1 teaspoon of salt a day. This is not an impossible lifestyle change to achieve, especially thinking of our children and future generations. But we know cutting back on salt results in some foods being blah and lacking flavor. Thus you reach for the Salt.
Wait for it! Wait for it! Now we are coming to it. Seasoning with herbs and spices are here to save the day Swisher Hill herbs is on the way! As you know all of all of our products are salt free. This week we are introducing All-Season Salt Substitute to the Virtual market. As with all of our herbs, spices and seasoning blends, we offer you Save a Jar! Save Money! Refill bags for your jars when you run low. Check it out!
Heirloom Living Market Lilburn: Good Morning! Market is Open!
The Market is now Open…Happy Shopping!
Be sure and check out…
Pork Liver
Pig Heart
Plain Bagels
Everything Bagels
Blueberry Jam
Jalapeno Jam
Rolled Oats (Organic Rolled Oats)
Stone Ground Grits (Organic Corn Grits)
Einkorn Wheat Berries Organic Perfect to mill yourself and make your own Bread!
Einkorn Flour Organic Freshly milled when ordered!
Red Wheat Organic Freshly milled when ordered or request the berries and mill yourself!
Schedule for Market Ordering and Pickup
Lilburn Members Pickup Location
All Saints Lutheran Church
Pickup Day and Time: Thursday 4:30pm – 6:30pm
Pickup Location:
722 Rockbridge Road SW
Lilburn, GA 30047
Click Here for Map
Order now since you are just a click way!
Azure Standard
Azure Standard Order Deadline: Tuesday, March 1st at 6:00pm
Azure Standard Pickup: Monday, March 7th at 10:15am
Pickup Location: 963 Buford Drive, Lawrenceville, GA 30043
Drop #: 796431 Route: Q5
Drop Name: Heirloom Living Market Lawrenceville
Drop Coordinator: Maryanne Vaeth
Contact Information: Email Drop Coordinator
Phone: 404-432-4337
This Group on Facebook will keep you up to date on the “happenings” with this service!
Azure Standard Lawrenceville Drop Information: My Azure Standard Drop Lawrenceville
“Like” us on facebook!
BUY LOCAL ~ Know your Farmer!
Don’t miss this opportunity. It is available by the piece as well as in a 3# quantity!
Heirloom Living Market Hamilton Mill: Good Morning! Market is Open!
The Market is now Open…Happy Shopping!
Be sure and check out…
Pork Liver
Pig Heart
Plain Bagels
Everything Bagels
Blueberry Jam
Jalapeno Jam
Don’t miss this opportunity. It is available by the piece as well as in a 3# quantity!
Hamilton Mill Members Pickup Location
Crossfit PURE
Pickup Day and Time: Thursday 2:30pm – 4:30pm
Pickup Location: Crossfit PURE
1342 Auburn Rd.
Dacula, GA 30019
Click Here for Map
Order now since you are just a click way!
Azure Standard
Azure Standard Order Deadline: Tuesday, March 1st at 6:00pm
Azure Standard Pickup: Monday, March 7th at 10:15am
Pickup Location: 963 Buford Drive, Lawrenceville, GA 30043
Drop #: 796431 Route: Q5
Drop Name: Heirloom Living Market Lawrenceville
Drop Coordinator: Maryanne Vaeth
Contact Information: Email Drop Coordinator
Phone: 404-432-4337
This Group on Facebook will keep you up to date on the “happenings” with this service!
Azure Standard Lawrenceville Drop Information: My Azure Standard Drop Lawrenceville
“Like” us on facebook!
BUY LOCAL ~ Know your Farmer!
Heirloom Living Market Lawrenceville : Good Morning! Market is Open!
The Market is now Open…Happy Shopping!
Be sure and check out…
Pork Liver
Pig Heart
Palin Bagels
Everything Bagels
Blueberry Jam
Jalapeno Jam
Don’t miss this opportunity. It is available by the piece as well as in a 3# quantity!
Market Opens for Ordering: Friday at 9:00am
Market Closes: Monday at 8:00pm
Market Pickup: Thursday
2:30pm – 5:30pm
Pickup Location: 1385 Winder Highway
Dacula, GA 30019
Click Here for Map
Take me to the Crossfit Market.
Market Closes: Monday at 8:00pm
Market Pickup: Thursday
2:30pm – 5:30pm
Pickup Location: 1385 Winder Highway
Dacula, GA 30019
Click Here for Map
Take me to the Crossfit Market.
Order now since you are just a click way!
“Like” us on facebook!
BUY LOCAL ~ Know your Farmer!
CLG: CLG Pickup TODAY 4-6pm. Bring EGGSHELLS, glass jars, egg cartons please.
Good morning,
This is a pickup reminder for those of you who ordered this week. Thank you for your order! You can pick up your order from 4:00 p.m. until 6:00 p.m. today at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church at 925 Mitchell Street in Conway.
If something comes up that you cannot personally pick up your order today, please contact someone to pick up for you.
Remember to bring your EGGSHELLS, glass jars for recycling, egg cartons, and bags for ordered items. Reduce, reuse, recycle! See you this afternoon.
Come early for the best selection from the EXTRAS table!
Thank you,
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 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Conway-Locally-Grown/146991555352846
Champaign, OH: The Little Local Market Of Love
It’s what we are all about, it’s why we come here, to shop, it’s a way of eating, it’s a way of living…
Keeping up the love on the local front continues to get easier and easier, through our market.
I am opening the market for the week, and I just want to tell the vendors, the customers, my assistant managers, and the YMCA, how much you all fill me with local love!!
Let’s keep the lovelight shining…
Peace, Love, Good Vibes…
Cosmic Pam
Suwanee Whole Life Co-op: Market is OPEN for orders!
ORDERING:
The market is now open for ordering!
Click link to order: suwanee.locallygrown.net
If you do NOT receive a confirmation email immediately after you placed your order, then your items are still in your cart and your order is not complete. *All orders must be placed by 6pm on Sunday.
PICK UP:
Pick up is on Tuesday at 4942 Austin Park Avenue, Buford 30518 from 1pm to 6:30 pm.
PAYMENT:
We take checks, cash, credit card and Dwolla (credit card online by clicking “Pay Now” button at check out)
Suwanee Whole Life Co-op: News: Reduced Items from Lizzie's Pantry & My Daily Bread
Suwanee Whole Life Co-op
Our Website: suwanee.locallygrown.net
Pick Up Location: 4942 Austin Park Avenue, Buford GA 30518 on Tuesdays
Like Us on Facebook: Suwanee Whole Life Co-op
Have a question for other co-op members? Submit questions on our Google Group Discussion Board: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/suwanee-whole-life-co-op
Lizzie’s Pantry Closeout deals
Lizzie’s Pantry has a few items remaining that have been reduced to sell final inventory.
Reduced this time -
- Gluten Free Flour on for $12.00 which is below cost.
- 4 pales of the 7-Grain Cereal left (8 pounds) $20.00
- Einkorn Wheat, $25.00
- Quinoa, $5.00
- 25lb Brown Rice – $25.00
- The Gamma lids are a bargain for $6.00!
Also, I have great news – Liz will continue to provide Spices (in bags instead of glass jar- $1 off) to the market on a weekly basis! In addition, we will have a quarterly group buy with Liz for Georgia Olive Oil! More details to come as we get closer to buy date.
Salmon, Water Buffalo and Pastured Meats fully stocked!
It’s been a busy week for our farmers and fisherman!
Doug has Wild Caught Alaskan Salmon & Halibut back online! We are fully stocked with Halibut steaks, Salmon Filets, portions, burger, and smoked salmon!
Carrell Farms has ground water buffalo and sausages back on the market!
B&G has grass fed beef, pastured pork and chicken all stocked up too! Please note that the LABEL on B&G’s meat will have the processor label on it instead of the farm’s. Lynda has been trying to get her new label approved by the state of GA for 3 weeks now. They rejected it this time because the picture of GA state line was not quite straight. In order for her to have meat listed this week she asked her meat packer to put their label on her product. This is completely legal since they package the meats for her. She wants to make sure you all know that it is HER meat though not Williamsburg Packing.
Market News
Specials this week from MY DAILY BREAD
- Organic Blueberry Jam on sale $5.00 reg $6.00
- Sourdough bread is on Sale for $6.50, reg $7.50
Cheese Group Buy If you were not able to pick up your cheese order last Tuesday it is in Frige #3
New Item: Gluten Free Tiramisu Roll From My Daily Bread Whole Grains Bakery – Flourless Gluten free light spongy cake flavored with rum, expresso and cocoa and filled with organic marscapone and cream cheese, vanilla and organic sugar. Iced with white chocolate and bittersweet chocolate shavings. Beautiful and delicious!
B&B Raw Honey and Cottage Garden Teas will be on vacation this week but their honeys & teas are still available as a table sale item on Tuesday. Look for them on the far left side on the extras table.
Fry Farm Update- Fry Farm had to put all their produce listings on hold due to freeze damage. I’ll let you all know when they are back on the market.
Volunteers Needed
Please consider volunteering during market pick up. I can’t run the co-op without your help!
THANK YOU Diana, Cindy, Chuck, Annabel, and Sean for helping out last Tuesday! We couldn’t run the co-op without your support!
The schedule through the end of the year is posted. To sign up click: Vounteer Sign up
No packing is involved just need someone to be there to assist other members. You are welcome to bring your kids as long as they are supervised.
FACEBOOK
Many of you have told me that you can’t volunteer due to your work/family schedule and I completely understand. You’ve also asked what else can I do help out the co-op? Here’s one way that will really help us out – if you are on Facebook or other social media please consider posting a pic of your co-op goodies! I have a very limited marketing budget and really depend on word of mouth advertising. Please feel free to spread the word about our wonderful market!
Thank you in advance for your support!
Upcoming Group Buys
Below is a list of upcoming co-op group buys to help with planning and budgeting. All dates are subject to change.
Fermented Cod Liver Oil – 2/19/16 – 2/21/16
Vital Choice (seafood only) 2/26 – 2/28
Plastic Milk Carriers TBD
Wellness Partner’s offers and events
One of our wellness partners, Georgia Complete Care Centers, has an introductory offer for co-op members! Dr. Collin has helped my family and me tremendously! This is where we go for our chiropractic adjustments, food sensitivity analysis, therapeutic massage, and functional medical needs. Plus, they take insurance!
From Georgia Complete Care Centers:
Looking to achieve peak, whole-life wellness? Looking for answers to unsolved or long-standing health concerns? Georgia Complete Care Centers, located in Sugar Hill, is pleased to offer Suwanee Whole Life Co-op members this introductory offer. No coupon is needed, just mention the Co-op!
Dr. Rich Collin, Best of Gwinnett Chiropractor 2015 nominee & Suwanee Whole-Life Co-op partner is thrilled to meet with you to help you reach your goals for wellness. Please call to schedule today: (770) 831-1155 or visit www.GeorgiaCompleteCare.com, offer valid through February 29, 2016
$55 for Initial Chiropractic Consultation, X-rays & One Chiropractic Adjustment
$65 for Initial Chiropractic Consultation, X-rays, One Chiropractic Adjustment & one 60-minute Massage
Georgia Complete Care Center looks forward to welcoming Co-op members to our family!
To book an appointment call 770-831-1155
We thank you for your interest and support of our efforts to bring you the healthiest, the freshest and the most delicious locally-produced foods possible!