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Suwanee Whole Life Co-op: New Vendors & We NEED Volunteers
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
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New Vendor: FarmHouse Poundcakes
If gives me great pleasure to welcome Ellen Dawe of FarmHouse PoundCakes to our family of producers and growers! Many of you had the opportunity to meet her on Tuesday during pickup and try out some samples of poundcakes, gluten free poundcake, and granola. I’ve heard lots of great feedback!
Starting this weekend their PoundCakes, Gluten Free PoundCakes, Granola, and PanCake Mixes will be listed on the market!
Info about FarmHouse Pancakes:
FarmHouse PoundCakes are made with the finest ingredients, sourcing local ingredients whenever possible. From King Arthur Flour, pure cane sugar, real butter, sour cream and Nielsen Massey Madagascar Bourbon Vanilla to the farm fresh eggs. Simple ingredients, mostly organic and always homemade. Chances are, the eggs in your cake were laid the day it was baked!
Our hens are Heritage Breeds (not genetically modified) and are Animal Welfare Approved, raised and fed the way Mother Nature intended. Happy healthy hens make healthy and delicious eggs!
Our Gluten Free cakes are made with an excellent combination of ancient grains that give a wonderful texture as well as being a healthier gluten free grain (no rice flour used).
New Vendor: Sentient Collective
Introducing Sentient Collective! Sentient Collective’s goal is to connect people with fresh, local, sustainability grown food. Knate and Sam are on a mission to steward as much green-space as possible for the production of clean local food!
From the Spring of 2015 Sentient Collective has been stewarding the land many of you know as BeeBerry Farms. Some of you lucky few may have had the opportunity to come out to the farm and meet Knate and Sam! Sentient collective is now managing all commercial and agricultural operations on BeeBerry Farms! Many of the items that were currently listed under BeeBerry Farms have been switched over to Sentient Collective. We just wanted you to know of the new name change as to not cause confusion. Kevin from BeeBerry Farms will still be part of the co-op but will be launching other products in the near future.
Market News
My Daily Bread is on the Market this week!
My Daily Bread will be listing their items every other week. Feel free to double up on items that you would purchase weekly. Breads, tortillas, muffins, and other items freeze well. Stock up!
REMINDER:Pick Up ends at 6:30 on Tuesdays (repeat)
Just a reminder pick up ends on Tuesday at 6:30pm sharp! I have to have the warehouse locked up and ready to take my daughter to practice so please show up a little before 6:30 at the latest. Thank you all for your support!
Mountain Fresh Creamery (repeat)
We will no longer have Mountain Fresh Creamery on the market. The supplemental feed they give their cows contains GMOs. I am currently looking for a new dairy to provide us low temp pasteurized milk. I will keep you all updated. In the meantime, please consider Cedar Rock Dairy and Lil Tots Estate.
New Items
PoundCakes – Coconut Macadamia
PoundCakes – Fresh Lemon
PoundCakes – Salted Caramel
PoundCakes – Old Fashioned
Granola – Honey Blueberry
Granola – Maple Cranberry
Pancake Mix – Ancient Grain PanCake Mix Gluten Free
PoundCakes (Gluten Free) – Fresh Lemon Blueberry
PoundCakes (Gluten Free) – Honey Vanilla
Brownie Minis: Salted Caramel Pecan
Brownie Minis: Plain
Brownie Minis: Mint Chip
Brownie Minis: Marshmallow Swirl
Herb-Basil
Pistia
Water hyacinth
Blueberry plants – 2 gallon
Volunteers Needed
Please volunteer if you can. I can’t run the co-op without your help!
WE NEED 3 VOLUNTEERS THIS TUESDAY!!
THANK YOU Diana, Pam, Chuck, Brenda, and Vicki for helping out last Tuesday! We couldn’t run the co-op without your support!
September schedule is posted and sign up is available. 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.
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.
Sorghum Syrup – 8/21 – 8/23
Grass Fed Cheese – 9/18 – 9/20
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!
Jonesborough Locally Grown: Saturday Market August 15th
Shopping at Farmers Markets puts money right in your neighbors hands, which directly improves your local economy.
Whats happening at the market this week?
Dotson Farm is returning with eggs and River Island Taters will have those wonderful potatoes
New vendor: Bill Johnson’s melons
UTExtension will have food samples and give aways, don’t forget to pick up the latest recipe card
PLANTS
flowers, butterfly bushes, knockout rose bushes.
Vendor this week: Perry Phillips
Local food is fresh food. If you’re buying at a Farmers Market, the produce has often been picked that morning.
PRODUCE
cantaloupes, peaches, blueberries, watermelons, eggplant, green peppers, hot peppers, fresh and dried shiitake mushrooms, summer leeks, okra, onions, heirloom tomatoes, squash, beets, corn, beans, basil, lima beans, microgreens, potatoes
Vendors this week: Rogue Harbor Farm, Ranchito la Chiva, Uncle Rob, Dominick’s Garden, White’s Mountain Meadow Farm, Salamander Spring Garden, McQueen Farm, Sunset View, Buffalo Trail Orchard, Rural Resources, McIntosh Woods, Millwood Greenery, Matheson Farm, Bill Johnson Farm, River Island Taters
FROM THE FARM
chicken, pork, lamb,goat cheese, honey, and eggs
Vendors this week: Sentelle’s Homemade Sausage, Kany/Perservation Farm, Ziegenwald Dairy, Rosey Apiaries, Clover Creek Farm, Dotson Farm
FROM THE KITCHEN
breads, muffins, tamales, granola bars
Vendors this week: Farmhouse Gallery, Dona Eva
FROM THE ARTIST
pottery,goat milk soaps, pet treats, garden flower art from upcycled ceramic plates
Artist this week: Tim Roberts Pottery,
Angie Sheek – Sheek Treats, Becky Chapman – Reblooms
MUSIC
Bluebirds
BREAKFAST
This weeks menu:
Sausage biscuits with Sentelle’s homemade sausage
Egg & cheese biscuits
Parfaits – homemade yogurt and fresh market fruit
A FEATURED FARMER
Dominick’s Garden – Dominick Haynes
Garden produce, grown only 2 blocks from the market, hours fresh from the garden to your table
Season vendor since: 2008
See you on the street,
Deb
Princeton Farm Fresh: Join Us Today at the Caldwell County Farmers Market
The Caldwell County Farmers Market is Open today from 4-6pm at the Princeton Park (in front of the Senior Center on Eagle St). I know everyone is busy with kiddos starting back to school but what could be better than coming out enjoying a lemon shake-up and purchasing your vegetables locally. The park has a wonderful playground to let them get their wiggles out before heading home for dinner and studies. The market is a great experience for ALL AGES! Bring the whole family out today and get your little ones excited about the food they eat , the products they buy and help them learn the importance of supporting local!!
Your local farmers depend on you!
See you there today,
Angela
Old99Farm Market: Aug 13 Earth Overshoot Day
In 2015, 13 August is Earth Overshoot Day. The day marks the estimated calendar date when humanity’s demand on the planet’s ecological services (which produce renewable resources and assimilate wastes) outstrips what the Earth can supply. This means that for the rest of the year, we are taking more than is regenerated, operating in Overshoot. Last year, Earth Overshoot Day was August 19th. We first went into Overshoot in the late 1970s, and since then the day has crept ever earlier on the calendar. This means we are using the ecological resources of just over 1.5 Earths.
Meeting the challenge of providing for all humanity’s needs within the limits of what our Earth can provide will require a radical restructuring of the global economy. In this post I will discuss how a post-growth economy based around not-for-profit enterprise can help us get to One Planet Living.
Read more at Resilience.org
StPete.LocallyGrown.Net: Volunteer Needed for Raw Dairy Pickup
St. Pete Locally Grown Market Needs Volunteer to Pick Up Raw Dairy
Raw Dairy Lovers:
I didn’t think this could wait for Monday. Our recent plan for getting raw dairy to you from The Dancing Goat has been cancelled due to a well deserved promotion and additional responsibilities for our would-be volunteer. Congratulations Miss Carol!
I am back asking for a volunteer to pick up dairy in Oldsmar every other Thursday afternoon. Pam says picking up anytime after Noon until 4 or 5pm will work well. Volunteer will pick up crates (2 or 3 to transport the egg cartons) and 2 or 3 large styrofoam coolers/ice at our home on Thursday on the way to Pam’s. There is a back up person who is ready to help on an emergency basis with 3 or 4 days notice whenever the primary volunteer has something come up.
We will not be able to continue carrying The Dancing Goat’s products as of Oct. 1st without a volunteer to do the pick up. Only THREE Markets remain to train someone to fill this spot. Please respond to make arrangements for training with Nathan next week (on 8/20) if at all possible.
Thank you!
Only the Best,
Tina, YOUR Market Manager
CSA Farmers Market: Growing Season Update Aug 13, 2015
Lots of harvesting of summer produce is happening by all of our farmers. Beans,carrots, cabbage, potatoes and so much more. With hoop house’s season extension is used in early spring and in late fall to keep the crops warm, they also can be used in conjunction with a shade cloth a way to keep crops cooler in the summer. White Pine Farm dedicates one hoop house to summer time cool season crops like lettuce and spinach. The lettuce kept in the shade grows slower and is much less likely to get bitter like lettuce in direct sun and the wonderful spinach thrives in the shade.
Apples are here Almars are no longer harvesting the early summer varieties they are now harvesting the later varieties, starting with the Paula Reds which have a longer shelf life, although they still need to be refrigerated. Almar grades their apples into two grades #1, which is close to being blemish free and #2’s which have more blemishes (these are also called weather kissed), these apples are not bruised. The apples are hand picked and the ones that don’t make either grade are than turned into a wonderful blend of cider. When making the cider they use more than one variety of apples in combinations that make wonderfully flavored cider. To add other products to the mix they make switchel, apple cider vinegar and hard cider. When the fall season is in full swing they start making apple cider donuts.
Even though John Simmons from North Branch is semi retired and letting his son farm the land. He has delved into developing products from the open pollinated organic corn that he grew. His latest new product is corn tortilla shells.
Racheal Yonkman took a package home to feed to her family and gave great reviews as to how wonderful they are.
GFM : We are at the Fair !
Sorry Everyone. We were so busy getting ready for the fair, I forget to post about it.
We are set up at the Fair with our Produce, Fudge, Crafts, and Goat Milk Soap.
We have 2 tents on either side of the Heritage building between the Heritage Building (fair office) and the Commercial Building. We will be glad to hold your purchases while you enjoy the fair.
Thursday Night: The Ole Farm House with Goat Milk Soap, Okra, Tomatoes,yellow squash and maybe some peppers. Cuffs Crochet with Tomatoes, Maybe Baby Watermelons if they are ready, and Crocheted Items, Monkey Fist Bracelets. The Fudge Bug, with the best Fudge in the state of Tennessee, possibly the US.
Friday Night: The Ole Farm House, Cuffs Crochet, and the Fudge Bug….not sure what we will have yet….have to wait and see what is ready.
Saturday: Fair opens at 1 pm today. The Ole Farm House, Cuffs Crochet, The Fudge Bug, and Prime Number Farm,w/ all kinds of beautiful tomatoes, maybe some beans.
Thank You,
The Vendors of the Greeneville Farmers Market.
Champaign, OH: Tonight, Live, At The Market!
Tonight, in the lobby of the YMCA, during market pick-up, we will be featuring our newest producer, Dialton Farms!!
They will be set up with produce to sell, and they will be on hand to introduce themselves, talk about their farm, and what they grow!!
Don’t forget that you will be paying them, directly, so bring a bit of extra money for shopping!!
I can tell you that their peppers from last week were AMAZING!
Also, show Charlene some LOVE, tonight…she will be working the market all by her lonesome…
Peace, Love, Good Vibes…
Cosmic Pam
Gwinnett Locally Grown: The Market is Open for Ordering
The Market is open Thursday at 9 – Monday at noon After that, ordering is disabled until Thursday morning. Pick up your order Tuesday from 4:00-7:00 p.m. only at Rancho Alegre Farm at 2225 Givens Road, Dacula, GA 30019. New to The Market? Learn about how it works here.
Salmon Update!
The Salmon is Available for Ordering!
Good morning! Thanks so much for your patience and support on Tuesday. We made it through a very busy market week. There’s still some salmon left to order.
See you Tuesday!
Iris Potter
Market Manager
Upcoming Workshops
Wine Making Workshop with Operation Homebrew
This workshop is 60 minutes, includes a mozzarella cheese sampling once finished. Class size is limited to a maximum of 15 people.
Wine making workshop, Session 1: Tue. Sep. 22, 2015
Wine making workshop, Session 2: Tue. Oct. 20, 2015
Time: 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM for both sessions
Cost: $25
– Session 1 | Sanitizing steps, mixing the ingredients, tips/tricks
– Session 2 | Bottle, Cork, and label your wine, take it home
To purchase tickets visit OperationHomebrew.com.
As Always….
Please share with friends and family about us so that we can give more people the opportunity to buy and eat healthy! Local farmers need our support to keep providing us with all the fresh foods! If we don’t give them enough business, it’s hard for them to continue to deliver to us. Please let’s not let that happen! Tell your friends about us so we can keep the Growers supported as this is how they make their living.
Thank you to all of you who support Gwinnett Locally Grown!
If there is something you’d like to see in the Market, please let me know! I would love your input!
Remember…
The Market is extending their hours! The Market will now be open from 4:00 to 7:00pm!
Having said that, if you place an order with us, PLEASE remember to pick it up on Tuesday. As I am so grateful for your orders, I also have a family at home waiting on me too! We cannot hold orders, especially cold items due to limited refrigeration space, so please be courteous and come for your order.
CLICK HERE NOW to Shop Gwinnett Locally Grown!
Thanks for all your support!
Shop often and eat well!
Iris Potter
Market Manager
grow@ranchoalegrefarm.com
Fresh Wishes,
Pilar Quintero
Market Host
Rancho Alegre Farm
Please email grow@ranchoalegrefarm.com for questions pertaining to Market or Raw Milk. It is very difficult to return phone calls. Remember to interact with us on Facebook and follow us on Meetup to get notification on all our wonderful events and news.