Joyful Noise Acres Farm:  Don't forget to place your orders before 8:00 tonight.

The market closes at 8:00. There are some wonderful offerings of prepared foods from Farm Fresh Foods. We also have lamb bones and shanks to make a wonderful broth. The hens are loving all the fresh green grass so the eggs are abundant and beautiful.
Joyful Noise Acres Farm will be processing several hogs this week if anyone is interested in purchasing a whole or half hog to stock the freezer. The half hog option is available on the Market under Pork.
Get your orders in and we will see you Wednesday.
Blessings,
Mary Beth

Princeton Farm Fresh:  The Market is Open

I am going to do something unusual this week. I am going to expose myself to you in a way that is pretty scary, but I am hoping that you will accept my story and see the future of our market and farm.
Last summer I was diagnosed with Fibromyalgia, a condition that causes widespread pain that is hard to control with meds. I was devastated and was not sure how to run our farm (since I am the full time farmer) or how to see my future in a positive light. I have battled the last 9 months in pain unsure of how to make it day to day, let alone run the farm, parent, or be a business woman. I am sure you noticed that I was not at all of the markets on Friday. My family filled in for me when the pain was just too much. They have been wonderful to me. Picking up the slack where they could and encouraging me to keep searching for answers.
Last month I finally found the answer. I found a doctor that specializes in Fibromyalgia and she did bloodwork, an intensive interview and a body test on me. What she found astounded me! I do NOT have Fibromyalgia, but a low Vitamin D level and a weak joint structure in my back. Both can be fixed. I have already started therapy, and feel improvement starting. I am renewed with hope for the future of our farm, our farmers market and most importantly myself and what I can accomplish.
I wanted to take the opportunity to thank our customers that have stayed with us through this time, when we may not have had as much available on the market. If you have given up on us, I hope that you will continue to watch for all the wonderful goodies we will have in the future. This weekend we finished our Greenhouse and we will be packing it full of seedlings that will go into our gardens this summer, fall and winter.
If you have stayed to the end of this post, I hope that this has not been TMI, but I felt that you were owed an explanation. Again, I thank you for your continued support and for the future of our farm and farmers market.
I look forward to seeing you on Friday,
Angela

Tullahoma Locally Grown:  New Products and Specials!

Double Tree Farms has listed ground beef, Soup bones, Stew Meat, New York Strip Steaks, Sirloins, and Rib Eyes. They also have plenty of veggie plants like brussel sprouts, peppers and tomatoes listed under “Live Plants”.

Fountain Springs Farm has Pork Cutlets, Ribs, and a special on Ground Pork and Pork Sausage (5 1 lb packages for $20). Also available are Turkey Deposits for Thanksgiving!

Solace farm has quite a lot of Garlic Powder on the market, as well as her gorgeous Handspun Alpaca Wool!

Petalland has listed Edible Flowers.

FROM DOGWOOD VALLEY GREENHOUSE
This strange spring weather continues, resulting in all the spring perennials blooming at the same time. The woodland and sun phlox, columbine, coreopsis, vinca, and catchfly are still glorious. Joining them in bloom this week are the astilbes, early carnations, Sweet Williams (dianthus), Foam Flower & Jacob’s Ladder, as well as a few early azaleas. You can definitely set these perennials in your garden now, although I would wait a couple more weeks to add any annuals you might want. We also have lots of different herbs and several nice varieties of hanging baskets for your summer porch or patio.

We will soon have tomato and pepper plants in several varieties. It’s a bit early to plant them now, but you are welcome to email me at tnhomeschooler@yahoo.com for a list of varieties and to reserve your vegetable plants.

Get started here: Tullahoma Locally Grown Market

CLG:  Chicken from Grass Roots on CLG!!!

Just listed: Chicken breasts, thighs, drumsticks, and whole birds! Also sausages. More to come.

Have a great week!
Steve

CSA Farmers Market:  April 23 News

Conyers Locally Grown:  Available for Friday April 17

I hope this finds you all doing well. The market is open and ready for orders. It’s time to reserve your next hog share. We are taking 7 more next Monday so order up. We will have them ready for delivery in 2 weeks with bacon in 3.
The produce is starting to come along. We should see some great looking produce in the next week or so.

I am going to be listing CSA shares and turkey reservations in the next two weeks.

Thank you for all your support.
We will see you Friday between 5-7 at Copy Central.
Thanks again,
Brady

Atlanta Locally Grown:  Availablbe for Saturday April 18

Hello. I hope this finds you all doing well. The market is open and ready for orders. The Brookhaven market opens Saturday. We are excited to see you all. The sandy springs market and Piedmknt green market are both also back in season. Order up and we will see you there between 9-10.
Place your order for the next round of hog shares. We are delivering 7 next Monday. They will be ready for the market in two weeks with bacon in 3.
Thank you for all your support.
Brady

Atlanta Locally Grown:  Availablbe for Saturday April 18

Hello. I hope this finds you all doing well. The market is open and ready for orders. The Brookhaven market opens Saturday. We are excited to see you all. The sandy springs market and Piedmknt green market are both also back in season. Order up and we will see you there between 9-10.
Place your order for the next round of hog shares. We are delivering 7 next Monday. They will be ready for the market in two weeks with bacon in 3.
Thank you for all your support.
Brady

Northeast Georgia Locally Grown:  Locally Grown - Availability for April 15th , 2015

Hey Local Food Lovers,

Me oh my! Things are cranking up! Locally Grown just bought our first piece of property. It’s a 5×8 enclosed trailer with a side door! That’s right, your food will now be traveling down the road in style. There’s even a big fat sticker in red white and blue that says PATRIOT! And shouldn’t it be patriotic to be eating local food from local farms!

Ok, I know the 4th of July is too far away for the flag waving but we are proud at how far we’ve come. Locally Grown started in 2010 as an experiment between two communities and about 10 or 12 farmers. Farmers in Clarkesville and in Clayton had very small markets at the time and everyone was looking for a way to reach new customers. That’s when Chuck Mashburn had the idea to bring the Locally Grown model (invented in Athens) to the mountains.

It was amazing, is amazing how quickly it began. And how quickly farmers we didn’t know found us. In fact it still works that way today. Both Waukau Meadows and Homegrown Products LLC (who just joined us this week by the way) found us and gave us a call just in the last several months.

Growth was slow. The first 3 years sales were under $40,000 and were only growing by a bit of a %.

Then last year. POW! Growth! The move to Gainesville helped. But sales were up, way up at our original locations too. In fact, today, Clarkesville is by far our biggest location. We expect Gainesville to catch up and pass them soon, but way to go Clarkesville! For such a small town we have a lot of dedicated local food eaters. Most of them come every week, and many have been there since almost the beginning.

As things change we hope to retain everything that Locally Grown has always been, a laid back, fun-loving way to help farmers distribute food to more people, while ALSO becoming some new things as well. For example, we hope we’re getting better at communicating who are farmers are and why they are special. This year we have a featured farmer calendar and as each farm comes up we hope to share with you some of the things that we LOVE about the farms, the farmers, their products, and what inspires them to produce this wonderful food!

The whole point of the FEATURED FARMERS is for you to get a chance to meet some of these folks. Just imagine having a mental image of the face of the farmer behind almost every meal you eat. That’s possible now!

Well, that’s all the time I have tonight. Really want to encourage folks to check our newest growers Tara and Russ Grindle at Homegrown Products. They are egg producers and soon to be lots of veggies in the weeks ahead. Their website link is on our FACEBOOK and under our GROWERS section. Pay their site a visit and order some eggs this week and in the weeks ahead!

Thanks to you all for your dedication and EAT WELL,

Justin and Teri in Habersham
Chuck in Rabun
and Andrew in Hall

Fisher's Produce Tulsa:  Harvest Update

Hello Friends,

This week we are delivering to Brookside (Whole Foods), Spirit Event Center, and the Hwy 16 and 75 Junction. We have added a few more items to our online market this week. If you haven’t tried our Hakurai salad turnips, you are missing out!

This week’s CSA share will likely include:

Asparagus
Butterhead lettuce or spring mix
Collards or Kale (or Spinach if you request it)
Salad Turnips
Green Onions
Fall harvested sweet potatoes (They are really good!)

We have a few spots left on our Wednesday CSA. If you have any friends that are interested, we would be glad to have them join. Just have them fill out a registration form and sign up on this market site.

We are looking forward to seeing you.

Luke