The Weblog
This weblog contains LocallyGrown.net news and the weblog entries from all the markets currently using the system.
To visit the authoring market’s website, click on the market name located in the entry’s title.
Central Arkansas : Order Reminder
Afternoon folks
Don’t forget to get those orders in before 10:00 pm this evening!!!!
Go to “the market” & “our growers” pages to check out our new products & our newest member Drewry Farm!!
Hope everyone is having a wonderful weekend!!
Happy Marketing & remember Eat Fresh, Eat Local, Be Healthy!!!!
-CAM Market Mama
Paris Arkansas Farmers Market: Order reminder!
Hello market family!
Don’t forget to stop by www.parisarkansas.locallygrown.net today and get your orders in before 10pm!
We have over 200 local items available including meats, cheeses, eggs, veggies, baked goods, soaps and more!
Thank you for your support and for going local!!
PAFM
The Wednesday Market: We're Open! Time to Order
Good afternoon.
The Wednesday Market is open for orders. Please place your order by 10 p.m. Monday. Orders are ready for pick up between 3 and 6 p.m. Wednesday. Please see the website for this week’s product offerings. Here is the link: http://wednesdaymarket.locallygrown.net/market
We hope you are all having a happy Sunday, and we’ll see you Wednesday at the Market.
Thanks,
Beverly
Russellville Community Market: RCM Opening Bell
Hey everyone, and welcome to a new market week!
Be sure to check out the newly listed items this week! Lots of great, local products to be had!
Happy shopping! Eat Local!
Check out the “Featured Items” section as well as the “What’s New” section at the top of the market page for all the latest products available.
Be sure to “Like” our Facebook page for updates and food-related events in your community!
To ensure your order is placed, make sure you click the “Place My Order” button once you have completed your shopping. Remember, you have until 10:00pm Tuesday evening to place your orders.
Happy Shopping! See you on Thursday!
FRESH.LOCAL.ONLINE.
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.
Thank you for placing your order and supporting local farms and businesses!
See you on Tuesday!
Click Here to Place Your Order
Athens Locally Grown: ALG Market Open for February 4
Athens Locally Grown
How to contact us:
Our Website: athens.locallygrown.net
On Twitter: @athlocallygrown
On Facebook: www.facebook.com/athenslocallygrown
On Thursdays: Here’s a map.
Market News
I’ve just arrived home from a week in Lexington, Kentucky, where I served on the staff of the annual conference for the Southern Sustainable Agriculture Working Group. It’s one of my favorite events, and this year was the largest one ever with over 1400 farmers from across the south and beyond gathering to share stories of failure and success, learn from those, and inspire each other to return home and grow even more real food for their communities. The days there are extremely long, and I’m ready to drop into sleep as I type this, but it is always well worth it.
I haven’t had a chance to go over the listings this week in any great detail to gather notes for this week’s mailing, but I do see lots of great food available. I did get contacted a few days ago by a group in town who has begun the process of putting together a bulk order of solar energy collectors for houses and businesses around Athens. They’re called Solarize Athens, and have a coalition of public and private alternative energy and community groups behind them. If you’ve been considering converting to solar generated electricity, or are just curious what it would take, you’ve got two months to get in with them. The first phase of assembling the coalition and finding an equipment supplier and installation company has already happened, and now they’re putting together the bulk order with them for submission on March 31. For more information, check out their website at http://www.solarizeathens.com.
Thank you so much for your support of Athens Locally Grown, all of our growers, local food, and our rights to eat it. You all are part of what makes Athens such a great area in which to live. We’ll see you on Thursday at Ben’s Bikes at the corner of Pope and Broad Streets from 4:30 to 8pm!
Other Area Farmers Markets
The Athens Farmers Market has closed for the winter. You can watch for news during the offseason on their website. The other area markets are also all closed for the season, I believe. If you know of any winter markets operating, please let me know. And they might all be closed, but we’ll be here all year round!
All of these other markets are separate from ALG (including the Athens Farmers Market) but many growers sell at multiple markets. Please support your local farmers and food producers, where ever you’re able to do so!
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!
Siloam Springs, AR: Online Market is Open!
www.siloamsprings.locallygrown.net
There will be some greens available this week! If you start shopping and don’t see them make sure to check back as I know Tom takes inventory and updates on Sunday.
We are so blessed to have this beautiful weather in the middle of winter. I hope everyone takes time to get out and enjoy it. My family will be grilling outside today.
Enjoy shopping and see you Saturday!
United States Virgin Islands: This week in VI Locally Grown
Hi Everyone!
Market is open for orders! See you Wed!
Thanks,
Your VI Locally Grown Growers
ALFN Local Food Club: The Market Is Open
ALFN Members,
Welcome to another weekly rotation on ALFN’s market. Despite the 70 degree weather, we are still in deep winter. Nevertheless, our market is full of fresh produce.
Updates/News:
1. We had a wonderful Community Market Day with Tammy Sue’s Critters yesterday. I know many of our members walked away with a little something extra from Tammy. Beyond simply a “show-and-tell” opportunity, it was a chance to make a connection with an individual in our local economy. Whether it is body butter or purple-top turnips, our consumption of products puts us in relationship with a larger economic body. By making those connections personal, we humanize our economy. Furthermore, we transform mechanical consumption into thoughtful consumption.
Thank you Tammy for taking the time to hang with us on Saturday!
We will have another Community Market Day at the end of February. If you know an interested musician, or have a mini-workshop idea, please let me know!
2. There are two evening classes at Pulaski Tech that many of you may find interesting. This Thursday, there will be a Kombucha class offered for $20. You have to sign up my Monday night. Here is the link: Kombucha. There will also be a class on February 11th covering sauerkraut. You may also find this post on Kombucha to be interesting. The author is the instructor.
Small Random Acts of Slowness
Every morning, I grind my coffee with a hand crank grinder. I spoon the beans into a small opening, close the lid, place the grinder between my legs and begin to churn. The churning usually causes me to look up into thin air. Depending on my state of mind, I either stare blankly into my kitchen, or…ah, let’s be honest, I typically just stare into space. Grinding my coffee isn’t a daily chance to sit under the Bodhi tree. But, I have resisted a mechanical grinder for years now. My father once asked why I refused to move to a more efficient way of prepping the morning brew. I could have argued that cheapy electric grinders can burn the beans, these same grinders can’t adjust the grit size, but I didn’t find those reasons too compelling. In the end, I only had the past as the reason for my present behavior. In Mozambique, we grew some of our own coffee and purchased some of our coffee from an ancient Portuguese man who only grew _Robusta _bean. Coffee beans were precious, but not artisanal. We lived off solar panels. Consequently, our use of electricity was always intentional. So, I always hand-cranked my beans. I’m swimming in electricity now, but I persist to grind those beans with arm power.
I think my persistence has more to do with my own stubbornness, than philosophical or environmental reasons. In fact, there are days where I don’t want to grind my beans. I’m in a hurry or just want to press a button. But I’m afraid of the electric coffee grinder. It’s purr threatens to lull me into less-remembered life. The hand grinder jolts me awake AND rejoins disparate threads of my life. It slows me down and it helps me remember. Culinary traditions work in similar directions. Kitchen smells are incense; culinary practices are liturgical movements that bind our past into the present. As direct connections to memory, slowing down and doing things with less efficiency often provide mental space for deeper living. Whether it is the way momma did it, or whether it reconnects us to people and memories, the artifacts of our edible life offer a way to humanize a mechanized world.
Manifestos can be precocious, but read this Slow Food Manifesto as poetry.
Our century, which began and has developed under the insignia of industrial civilization, first invented the machine and then took it as its life model.
We are enslaved by speed and have all succumbed to the same insidious virus: Fast Life, which disrupts our habits, pervades the privacy of our homes and forces us to eat Fast Foods.
To be worthy of the name, Homo Sapiens should rid himself of speed before it reduces him to a species in danger of extinction.
A firm defense of quiet material pleasure is the only way to oppose the universal folly of Fast Life.
Be well,
Kyle Holton
Program & Market Manager
CLG: Opening Bell: Eggs, Frozen Fruit, Mushrooms, Sweet Potatoes!
Good afternoon!
We are back and fully stocked with over 500 items to support your healthy lifestyle. It’s amazing to see so much wonderful fresh produce in the middle of winter. Great job, Growers! Although it’s 70 degrees today, don’t start looking to put out tomato plants just yet. However, if you’re in the mood to plant something now, how about onions or garlic? Both need cold weather for proper development. 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
Our Website: www.conway.locallygrown.net
On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Conway-Locally-Grown/146991555352846