Gwinnett Locally Grown:  Sunday Market Reminder!

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.

MARKET NEWS

Growers of the Week!

We are sooooo excited to announce our newest Growers to Gwinnett Locally Grown! Check out all the fabulous veggies and meats they have listed with us!

The Veggie Patch at Bouchard Farms
USDA Certified Organic
Local USDA Organic Produce Farm

Website: www.veggiepatchga.com

The Veggie Patch grows a huge variety of organic vegetables practicing sustainable organic farming in order to provide locally grown produce for a healthy lifestyle. On our 300 acre farm we harvest from about 30 acres as well as from 7 green houses.
Throughout the year the Veggie Patch grows a wide variety of vegetables including; 6 varieties of kale, lettuces, tomatoes, watermelon, okra, eggplant, peppers, collards, beets, squashes, carrots, celery, Asian lettuces and cabbage, spinach, corn, culinary and medicinal herbs…….and the list goes on. We have a large variety of seedlings available for home gardeners as well in the spring and the fall.
The Veggie Patch organic veggies can be purchased at Athens Farmer’s Market, on-line locally grown markets, at the farm, or join our CSA to get a veggie box every week.

Callidora Farms

Website: www.callidorafarms.com

Grass-fed, pasture raised meats
Callidora Farms is owned and managed by Raul and Genel Rivera (The Farmers). Farming is new to them, but it has been in Raul’s heart since his childhood days. In 2008, Raul began searching for the perfect land to purchase and start farming. After 5 years of searching, he finally found the perfect 71-acre plot in historical Madison, GA where he and his family could live the dream of operating a sustainable farm. Soon after buying the land, The Farmers realized that sustainable farming is both a way of life and a business. Having little knowledge in farming, the first year and a half was a definite learning curve. During that learning curve the one philosophy they adhered to was to provide natural solutions to all of the challenges that they face so that the animals experience the best life possible.

A growing number of people want to know where their food comes from, how it is being raised, and who is raising it. The Farmers believe that the best way to obtain these answers is to get connected to farmers who are very passionate about how food is raised. Their passion for staying connected to their food source drives them to continue to seek better ways to farm.

We also have yummy baked goods in time for the holidays!

Rancho Alegre Freshly Made

Website: ranchoalegrefarm.com

Rancho Alegre Freshly Made produces freshly-made products for you and your family. We focus on gluten-free, low carb baking as well as healthy salsas with NO PRESERVATIVES. Everything made fresh on market pick up day.

If you are trying to be gluten-free or are looking for delicious freshly-made products, order from Rancho Alegre Freshly Made.

In stock now! Saddle Creek Bee Farm specializes in pure raw wildflower honey. This honey is collected from Gwinnett and Barrow Counties. It is a great item to beat those allergies! Mixed selection of squeezable plastic, and glass containers.

We also have Wilderness Family Naturals Coconut Sugar, Flour and Organic Popcorn in the Market for sale! When you come to pick up your order, check them out! They are also now online!

Remember we have Kombucha available! If you are not familiar with it, Kombucha is a naturally fermented tea with natural probiotics! It has been around for centuries originating in Asia. It is said to have healing properties and because it is naturally fermented, is a great support for the digestive system. When your here, ask me for a sample! I’d love your feedback!

If there is something you’d like to see in the Market, please let me know! I would love your imput!

*If anyone has plastic grocery bags you’d like to get rid of and recycle, we can always use them at the Market! Feel free to bring them with you on Tuesday…

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!

Cheryl Gelatt
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.

Madison GA:  The Market is open..... Please read

Market is open and back to normal business. All growers and customers can drop off and pick up at Dixie Seafood Co on Wed. Thanks,Kevin

Stones River Market:  Time to Order Local Food - Congratulations Walter and Carol Clarke

Market News

The Market is back open this morning as we welcome December this week. I hope everyone had a safe and happy Thanksgiving last week.

Congratulations, Walter and Carol Clarke with Rainbow Hill Farm. This weekend they celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. Go to the Market’s Facebook page to see a picture of the happy couple.

The holidays have arrived and we have plenty of products for your various needs. There are baked goods and processed foods that can be shared at parties you might be attending. We have gift certificates and baskets, soaps and skin care products that make great presents. New products this week include kissing balls from Dogwood Valley Greenhouse that are used to decorate your house.

We still have plenty of fruits and vegetables available.

Chef Jenny is taking a break this week. She will return next week with her seasoning and seed mixes.

Rod with Double Star Bar Farms is taking a break and will not be baking any of his artisan bread for a few weeks.

Flying S Farms has added to their variety of soups and now have a couple of vegan options.

The Blue Porch returns this week with their cold salads, cookies and hot sauces.

There are plenty of other products available this week. Browse the categories to see what your will find.

Thanks so much for your support of Stones River Market, all of our growers, local food, and our rights to eat it. We’ll see you on Wednesday at Southern Stained Glass at 310 West Main Street from 5:00 to 6: 30 pm!

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! If you have created a dish and want to share with everyone, please send it to me.

I am taking a break from recipes. Look for a new one next week.

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!