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This weblog contains LocallyGrown.net news and the weblog entries from all the markets currently using the system.
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Northeast Georgia Locally Grown: Locally Grown - Availability for December 10th, 2014
Hey Local Food Lovers,
We only have two more markets until Christmas! Shop local this year and buy some gifts for family, friends and your own self right here. There are some brand new and very exciting items again this week.
First off, we’d like to welcome long time customer of Locally Grown Jamie Alred to the market this week as a vendor. Those of you who don’t know Jamie, I often call him the biggest purchaser of local foods here in the mountains. He serves it up at his new and highly acclaimed restaurant in Clayton called FORTIFY (opened up back in March). If you can’t get all the way up to Clayton for an awesome meal at this tremendous farm to table experience, no worries, Jamie can send it to you! This week he’s offering BUTTERNUT SQUASH SOUP made with Mountain Earth Farms butternuts and apples, and even comes with 2 ounces of roasted pumpkin seeds to drop on top. YUM! Sold by the quart, and you should just go ahead and buy two and freeze one to break out over the holidays. You’ll be glad you did.
If one reason you love Locally Grown is to learn how to cook good local foods, from hip local farms, you’ll also love Jamie’s Cookbook available for sale on the market for the first time this week called Field Kitchen: Farm Fresh Food from the Northeast Georgia Mountains. It features 9 farms (2 of which sell here on our market) with 3 recipes featuring products from each farm. What better way to enter the new year with great new recipes. And obviously a perfect gift for other local foodies! Buy two, one to keep and one to gift.
And there are even more exciting items this week both for gift giving and for personal enjoyment. Sylvan Mills Falls has brought back their Christmas Specialty the Buche de Noel, which is a french style sponge cake that comes in two flavors, chocolate or almond. I had one of these and it blew my mind! Don’t buy a crummy supermarket cake, do it up right with organic water wheel ground flour cake with just the right amount of Gran Marnier to make it punch.
One last cool holiday item is the Christmas Cactus mugs. Everyone needs a Christmas Cactus, so anyone you know who doesn’t have one, this is a very cute gift. And if they are just incapable of keeping it alive then they can still use the cute mug for morning coffee. Also available are hibiscus tea mugs, and tulsi tea mugs.
Before I wrap up I’ve been on a greens kick this week. Long stewed kale is my standby straight out of Alice Waters cookbook. The recipe is posted on our recipes section. Don’t forget to use our Recipes link and post your own recipes too please. I get bored making the same things, but I never tire of the taste. I also made a swiss chard gratin, also an Alice Waters creation. If I had a clone I’d ask him to post that recipe too, but alas my free time is gone for the night.
God Bless and EAT WELL,
Justin, Chuck, Teri and Andrew
Green Fork Farmers Market: Weekly Product List
Dear Green Fork Farmers Market Customers,
New this week—Chicken Moon Farm has sugar cookies this week, made especially for you by farmboy Ethan. Figgieville is offering their seasonal Kolache pastries, both Apple/Walnut and Poppyseed. Delish!
Duck eggs are still on sale this week.
More products available:
Vegetables—arugula, lettuce, kale, potatoes, spinach, and sweet potatoes.
Herbs—Mint, sage, and a mixed herb bunch.
*Meat*—pastured beef, chicken, lamb, pork, organ meats, soup bones, and parts for stock.
Eggs—pastured chicken and duck eggs.
Specialty foods—fermented sauerkraut and jalapenos, salsa made from local and organic ingredients, sweet pepper jelly, and olives and olive oil directly from the grower in California.
Botanical Bath and Beauty Products—soap, lip balm, mouthwash, scented oil, facial elixir, and muscle salve.
Go ahead and place your order from now until Tuesday at noon. We’ll also have products available for sale at the market. See you on Wednesday!
Green Fork Farmers Market
Wednesdays 4-7 pm
Indoors, Year Round
At Nightbird Books
205 W. Dickson St.
Fayetteville, AR
To place your order, click on the link below to enter the website. Sign in as a customer, then click on the icon next to each product you wish to order. Proceed to checkout, review the list to make sure it’s correct, then scroll to the bottom and click on Place This Order. Make sure you receive a confirmation email—if you don’t, your order was not processed. Payment is at the market pickup with cash, check, debit/credit card, EBT, and Senior FMNP coupons. Ask about our doubling program for EBT and SFMNP!
Fresh Harvest, LLC: Fresh Harvest for December 7th
To Contact Us
Fresh Harvest, LLC
Link to Fresh Harvest
Email us!
Tallahassee May
tally@wildblue.net
JohnDrury
john.drury@att.net
Recipes
“DOWN-SOUTH” STAMPPOT
Mashed potatoes with other root vegetables – try it with rutabaga?!
from chef Nancy Vienneaus blog, Good Food Matters at nancyvienneau.com
3 pounds potatoes, scrubbed, peeled and cut into 2? chunks
1/2 pound carrots, scrubbed and cut into 2? lengths
1/2 pound parsnips, scrubbed and cut into 2? lengths
2 medium onions, peeled and cut into eighths
1 stick butter
salt to taste
black pepper to taste
1 cup buttermilk
Place all of the vegetables into a large pot. Fill with cool water to cover.
Sprinkle in a teaspoon of salt. Cover with the lid and place on medium high heat. Bring to a boil and cook until the vegetables are tender—18-20 minutes.
Drain the vegetables and return them to the pot, set on low heat. Shake the pot so that any excess water will cook off. Cut up a stick of butter into the mixture. Sprinkle with salt and black pepper. Coarsely mash the vegetables together.
Pour in the buttermilk and continue to mash. Taste for seasonings, adjust and serve.
Makes 8-10 servings
Market News
Hello!
The days are so short as we approach the coming Solstice. Today we were replacing plastic on one of the greenhouses and it felt too soon to quit working! But the longer nights do force us to have some down time with family, which is welcome.
We are heading into the Holiday season, and we know there is a lot to keep up with! Please remember that we have this week and next week of normal deliveries, then we will be taking two weeks off, December 24th and December 31st. We will resume deliveries (weather permitting!) on January 7th.
We have some items available in the coming weeks that would make great gifts, including Fresh Harvest Gift Certificates! They are up on the Market page this week. We also have back with us soap and lip balm from Little Seed Farm. Other great gift items are Barrel-Aged Honey from Tru Bee Honey, Country Faire English Toffee, and The Bloomy Rind will have up some preserves and caramel as well!Wedge Oak farm has some half turkeys available this week.
Thanks so much for your support, and we look forward to seeing you on Wednesday!
John and Tallahassee
Coming Events
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!
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Plattsburgh Online Ordering: challah bread
It’s not in the online system, but if you haven’t been to the market the last couple weeks you are missing out on some really good (though white flour) challah bread. Email if you want me to bring one to the farm for pickup.
Fresh Harvest, LLC: Fresh Harvest for December 7th
To Contact Us
Fresh Harvest, LLC
Link to Fresh Harvest
Email us!
Tallahassee May
tally@wildblue.net
JohnDrury
john.drury@att.net
Recipes
“DOWN-SOUTH” STAMPPOT
Mashed potatoes with other root vegetables – try it with rutabaga?!
from chef Nancy Vienneaus blog, Good Food Matters at nancyvienneau.com
3 pounds potatoes, scrubbed, peeled and cut into 2? chunks
1/2 pound carrots, scrubbed and cut into 2? lengths
1/2 pound parsnips, scrubbed and cut into 2? lengths
2 medium onions, peeled and cut into eighths
1 stick butter
salt to taste
black pepper to taste
1 cup buttermilk
Place all of the vegetables into a large pot. Fill with cool water to cover.
Sprinkle in a teaspoon of salt. Cover with the lid and place on medium high heat. Bring to a boil and cook until the vegetables are tender—18-20 minutes.
Drain the vegetables and return them to the pot, set on low heat. Shake the pot so that any excess water will cook off. Cut up a stick of butter into the mixture. Sprinkle with salt and black pepper. Coarsely mash the vegetables together.
Pour in the buttermilk and continue to mash. Taste for seasonings, adjust and serve.
Makes 8-10 servings
Market News
Hello!
The days are so short as we approach the coming Solstice. Today we were replacing plastic on one of the greenhouses and it felt too soon to quit working! But the longer nights do force us to have some down time with family, which is welcome.
We are heading into the Holiday season, and we know there is a lot to keep up with! Please remember that we have this week and next week of normal deliveries, then we will be taking two weeks off, December 24th and December 31st. We will resume deliveries (weather permitting!) on January 7th.
We have some items available in the coming weeks that would make great gifts, including Fresh Harvest Gift Certificates! They are up on the Market page this week. We also have back with us soap and lip balm from Little Seed Farm. Other great gift items are Barrel-Aged Honey from Tru Bee Honey, Country Faire English Toffee, and The Bloomy Rind will have up some preserves and caramel as well!Wedge Oak farm has some half turkeys available this week.
Thanks so much for your support, and we look forward to seeing you on Wednesday!
John and Tallahassee
Coming Events
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!
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McColloms Market: News Just In: Harmony Hills is Running A Special
For the bakers in our group, Harmony Hills is running a special this month – eggs are only $4/dozen.
The pricing on the Market Website has just been updated to reflect the Special.
If you’ve already placed an order and want more, let me know and I’ll change the quantity on your order.
If you haven’t placed an order and still want to, just follow the usual procedure.
Thanks a million.
Melinda
Russellville Community Market: RCM Opening Bell
Welcome to another RCM 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.
South Cumberland Farmer's Market: Announcement from Dogwood Valley Greenhouse
Dogwood Valley Greenhouse says:
We are taking orders through December 22 for beautiful Christmas kissing balls. Made with live greens and other natural materials, these balls are about 18" diameter and come in three styles. They are suitable to hang on a shepherd’s crook for a beautiful outside Christmas decoration. Each one is mounted on a sturdy hanger and includes a red ribbon bow.
Make a collection of common culinary herbs, to keep for yourself or to give as a gift. Please see the description under ‘Planters and Baskets’, and specify your choice of herbs from the list. If intended as a gift, please order early to allow time for custom preparation. Includes planter.