Spa City Local Farm Market Co-op:  The Market is now OPEN for ordering

The Spa City Co-op market is now open for ordering at spacity.locallygrown.net. Please place your orders before Tuesday at 9 pm, and plan to pick up your order at Emergent Arts on Friday the 19th between 3:30 and 5:30, by 5 pm if possible.

Be sure to check the Volulnteerspot. site and sign up to volunteer for an upcoming market.

This weeks market manager,
Karen Schuman
nwlve1962@gmail.com
(501)276-3318

Northeast Georgia Locally Grown:  Locally Grown - Availability for December 12th, 2014

Hey Local Food Lovers,

Everybody ORDER BIG this week since this will be the last order of 2014! We’re taking Christmas Week and New Year’s Week off so get all your goodies, all your greens, all your everything while you still can.

Just a quick reminder that we sell GIFT CERTIFICATES to LOCALLY GROWN in $1 increments (just add the quantity you want). A $20 gift certificate would be a great gift to a friend or loved one. We’ve met a lot of great people this year and we hope to meet a lot more in 2015.

Thanks and enjoy this week’s offerings,

The Market Managers!

Statesboro Market2Go:  Merry Christmas! The market is open!

This week we welcome Lee Family Farms! Be sure to try their broccoli and cabbage.

This is your chance to stock up for the holidays. Market2Go will be closed Thursday, Dec. 25 and Thursday, Jan. 1.

Still shopping? We have many great gifts for everyone on your list – soaps, meat gift packs, seafood, honey, olive oil, grits & cornmeal gift bags, sugar cane syrup, gift certificates, and more.

Thank you for shopping with us! The market is open!

South Cumberland Farmer's Market:  Time to Order Local Food!

It’s time to order from the Cumberland Farmers’ Market
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Market News

FROM SOLACE FARM just in time for Christmas – in addition to our soap, lotion, handmade paper, and knitted items, this week we have our first two hand-processed sheepskin rugs! These are from Fox Farm sheep, tanned here at Solace Farm – we only have these two so get one while you can!
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DOGWOOD VALLEY GREENHOUSE is taking orders through December 22 for beautiful Christmas kissing balls. Made with live greens and other natural materials, these balls are about 18" in diameter and come in three styles, shown on the market. Each one is mounted on a sturdy hanger and includes a festive red ribbon bow. They are suitable to hang on a shepherd’s crook or from a chain for a beautiful outside Christmas decoration.

Make a collection of common culinary herbs to give as a gift or to keep for yourself. We have a good selection of herbs available and have expanded the list from last week’s description.

Mints (chocolate, peppermint, pineapple [variegated], spearmint, grapefruit)
Oregano (Greek or variegated)
Rue
Rosemary
Sage, Garden
Thyme (Lemon, English, silver-edged, citrus, lime)
Lemon balm
Stevia (small but healthy)

Please see the description under “Planters and Baskets,” and specify your choice of herbs. If intended as a gift, please order your herb collection early to allow time for custom preparation. Includes planter and will make a unique living Christmas centerpiece as well.
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LAMB IS AVAILABLE THIS WEEK
Joseph’s Garden and In-Town Organics will both have lamb new to the market this week. Check out what yummy cuts they are offering!
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BROWN’S HOLLAR CREATIONS has let us know that the Grundy County/Tracy City Farmers Market will have 6 pumpkin pies for sale over the next 2 weeks and can be delivered any week.

Also, black walnut cakes will be for sale for Christmas or this week along with some spinach and red chard.
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WHITE CITY PRODUCE & GREENHOUSES ANNOUNCES its CSAs are available. Be sure to order soon so you’re not left out. Also offered are Christmas cactus just in time for gift giving.

White City Produce & Greenhouses
931-607-1615

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BEGINNING AT THIS WEEK’S MARKET we will have a large sheet of paper where you will be able to tell us what kinds of new/different products you would like to see on the market for 2015. We will be having a Growers/Artisans meeting in January to let everyone know what kinds of things have been requested. We can’t promise everything on the list will be available, but we do want to present the possibilities to our Growers and Artisans.

We are also working on a way to show the Grower type (Conventional, Organic, CNG, and No Chem.) and what that really means. This information is available on the website, but it has been requested in a format that is easier to see.
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OTHER IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENTS
If you know of anyone who isn’t receiving our (general) e-mails that we send to the entire customer and grower bases (which would include Order Confirmations that come out of our proprietary software e-mail account that is re-directed via Mailgun.us: We have been working with a tech from BLomand who has done a large amount of troubleshooting and research.

If you have an e-mail address that is through Yahoo or BellSouth (Yahoo actually hosts BellSouth e-mail), you will need to go into your Contacts list and add these two addresses:
cumberlandfm@gmail.com
*@mailgun.us

If you have an e-mail address through BLomand, you will need to go into your Gray Mail and add as a Friend these two addresses:
cumberlandfm@gmail.com
mailgun.us

If you have an e-mail address that is from another provider (gmail should be OK, but you never know…), use one of the iterations above.

Also, if you want an entire domain to be “approved,” you can, for example, enter the following as a Contact/Friend (for gmail, let’s say):
*@gmail.com

If, after doing all this, you are still not receiving our e-mails (at the very least the Saturday Blog opening the market), you will have to get in touch with your e-mail provider and tell them to recognize our address as well as the mailgun address. Just giving them the cumberlandfm@gmail.com address will not be sufficient.

We hope this helps resolve these problems going forward!

Kir and Linda
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ANSWERING MARKET E-MAILS
Please DO NOT press “Reply” to our software’s automated e-mails. This includes Blog e-mails (such as this one), your Order Confirmation e-mail, or even Account Balance/Adjustment e-mail. If you need to contact us via e-mail, just compose a new e-mail with an appropriate Subject line and send it to cumberlandfm@gmail.com. This will ensure your e-mail is seen (not always possible with a Reply to Order Confirmations, for example) so we can best help you.

ALSO, we are checking e-mail only several times a week, so it may take a short while for us to get back with you. You are always welcome to call 931.592.3399 (no voice mail) to reach us more quickly. Thanks!
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EBT CAPABILITY IS BACK!
We are pleased to announce that the CFM is once again able to process EBT cards.
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REQUESTING DELIVERY
If you would like your market order delivered, please contact Rachel Lynch, the new Sewanee delivery driver. E-mail: radelo50@yahoo.com or phone 931-598-0774.

Please remember that payment of all CFM orders MUST be made in advance of Tuesday’s delivery. Checks must be mailed in time to be posted to customer accounts before closing of market ordering on Monday. To ensure your account always has a positive balance, the CFM prefers payments in increments of at least $100.00. Mail checks made out to CFM to Kir Strobel, 744 Timberwood Trace, Monteagle, TN 37356.

Should at-home delivery not work for you, your second option is to leave your order at the Center to be picked up by you or a designée by 6 p.m. Wednesday. As with any left-behind order, there will be a $3.00 fee unless that order has been prepaid in full in advance. Don’t forget there is no freezer at the Center for the foreseeable future, so it is imperative your items be picked up in a timely manner.
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PLACING AN ORDER
Before you order, be sure you see the little shopping cart. If you do not, log out and log in again. If this fails, turn off your computer completely and start again. This includes ordering from smart phones.

If you want to leave a comment for a grower, be sure to put it in the “Leave comment for grower” area in RED beneath the item you’re ordering. Placing comments in the market manager section will not be seen by the growers.
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PANETTONE COMING FOR THE HOLIDAYS! Be looking for it from Dogwood Farm.
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Don’t forget…
If you do not receive an order confirmation within 5 minutes, your order has NOT been placed in the system. E-MAIL OR CALL US to get the problem solved so you will not be disappointed on market day.

Please remember the market closes at 10 a.m. on Monday; therefore, your order must be completed and placed, and you should be signed out of the software.
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If you have any questions, please call (931.592.3399, no voice mail) or e-mail (cumberlandfm@gmail.com) us.

Kir Strobel & Linda Boynton
Market Co-Managers

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Augusta Locally Grown:  THE ON-LINE MARKET IS OPEN AT AUGUSTA LOCALLY GROWN

SO GRATEFUL TODAY FOR LOCAL SUPPORT – Augusta Locally Grown was celebrated today as one of 38 local nonprofits to receive grants from the Community Foundation of the CSRA. The grant will support our local foods educational efforts in 2015. We are humbled to receive this gift during this season of giving.

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12: GIVE THE GIFT OF GROWING FOOD – Marsha Jones and Kim Hines will be at Whole Foods in Augusta this evening, 6pm-7:30pm, sharing news of exciting ways to get involved as an urban agriculture volunteer in 2015. This includes work with the Fruit & Veggie Rx program, the Veggie Truck Farmers Market, the “G.R.O.W. Harrisburg” urban agriculture teaching center, our student intern program, and multiple projects and connections with other organizations such as the Slow Food CSR movement. Bring your ideas and your calendar! We’re ready to sign you up!

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 16:?BRING YOUR POT TO THE MARKET DAY! In fact, bring a bunch of them! Our holiday project this season is collecting hundreds of used planting pots for donation to the horticulture occupational therapy program for vets at the VA. All sizes, colors, plastic or clay. We’ve already collected more than 200! Bring them to the AJCC or the West End Market, Tue 16, 3p-6p.

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18:?“100 IN HARRISBURG” PROJECT – We’ll be working on our 100 raised beds in Harrisburg project again this coming week. This will be our last hurrah before starting up again in the new year! Volunteer anytime between 9am-3pm on Thursday, December 18. Text Kim at 706-288-7895 if you can help!

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 30?NO ON-LINE MARKET? – There will be no ALG On-Line Market on Tuesday, December 30. This is the only week each year that we close. Stock up for New Years on December 23rd! We will resume the ALG On-Line Market on January 6.

SAVE THE DATE: FEB 20-21?GEORGIA ORGANICS CONFERENCE?We’d love to see the CSRA make a big splash at the annual Georgia Organics Conference. This February, it’ll be held in Athens. Registration for this event is open now. What a great way to network on behalf of our own local foods movement. Visit georgiaorganics.org for more information.

WORK OPPORTUNITIES AT AUGUSTA LOCALLY GROWN?We are currently encouraging folks to consider the following opportunities with our organization:

• MARKET DELIVERY SERVICE – If you are interested in starting your own delivery service business on Tuesdays for on-line market customers, please email kim@augustalocallygrown.org. This requires someone with a start-up entrepreneurial spirit to get a small, self-owned business off the ground. We’ve got a lot of great ideas for you!

• GROVETOWN PICK-UP LOCATION – If you are interested in managing a pilot on-line market pick-up location in Grovetown for ALG, please email kim@augustalocallygrown.org.

SEE YOU AT THE MARKETS (OR MAYBE THE GARDENS!)

-Kim

Independence,VA:  The Market is open for orders for orders to be delivered December 19th.

Friends of the Market,
Stock up this week for Christmas! We will be CLOSED December 26th. We will be open for pick up January 2nd to start the New Year right!
The links are here: http://independencefarmersmarket.locallygrown.net/market/
you can also get there from the webpage, www.independencefarmersmarket.org
Happy Holidays and thanks for making 2014 such a great year!

Jonesborough Locally Grown:  Holiday Market 12/13

Eleven shopping days until Christmas! We have a great lineup of vendors on the Boone Street Market plaza this Saturday, offering local, handmade gifts.
Holiday market runs 1100 – 300
Boone Street Market open 1000 – 500

Sheek Treats – pet treats for your four legged family members.

Ginny Wall, All Nature Sings – soaps, balms and paintings.

Tim Roberts – Unique handcrafted pottery, one of a kind.

Todd Peters, The Heavy Metal Milkman – handcrafted wind chimes and unique crafts made from recycled items.

Don Burger, Dragonfly Cottage Design – handcrafted pottery with carved images and hand etched designs.

Julie Martin, The Rusty Barn Star – quilted kitchen and holiday items.

Mitchell Ridge Farm – alpaca fiber products.

Eric Isenberg – wreaths, greenery and mistletoe.

Dona Eva – delicious tamales

And stop in the store for a great selection of items that would make the perfect gift basket or stocking stuffer.

See you on the plaza,

Deb

Heirloom Living Market Lilburn:  To Market...To Market!

The Market Is now Open…Happy Shopping!

Marie of Bakery on Brooks has her wonderful items listed on the Markets this week. Marie’s schedule will allow her to participate in Market this week and then she will be gone the week of Christmas and the week of New Years! Please remember to plan accordingly! All of Marie’s items freeze well, so stock up this week! Check out her Holiday Gluten Free goodies packaged in lovely tins and baskets! Perfect for gift giving or order one to put under the tree for Santa!

Market pickup for the week of Christmas will be on Tuesday, December 23rd from 4:30pm – 6:30pm. For the week of New Years, pickup will be on Tuesday, December 30th from 4:30 – 6:30pm!

Market Closes at 8:00pm Monday!
Pickup Day and Time: Thursday 4:30 – 6:30pm
Pickup Location: All Saints Lutheran Church
722 Rockbridge Road SW
Lilburn, GA 30047
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Hop on over to the Market and place your order…

Thank you for your support!

See you at Market on Thursday!

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Heirloom Living Market Hamilton Mill:  To Market....To Market

The Market Is now Open…Happy Shopping!

Important News

We will have Markets the week of Christmas and the week of New Years. Pickup will be at the Lawrenceville location for those 2 weeks and the pickup times will be extended. Look for details in the Newsletter this weekend!

Marie of Bakery on Brooks has her wonderful items listed on the Markets this week. Marie’s schedule will allow her to participate in Market this week; however she will not have items listed the week of Christmas and New Years. Be sure and order what you will need for that time period! Her offerings freeze well! Check out her Holiday Gluten Free goodies packaged in lovely tins and baskets! Perfect for gift giving or order one to put under the tree for Santa!

Thank you for your support!

See you at Market on Thursday!

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BUY LOCAL ~ Know your Farmer!

Heirloom Living Market Lawrenceville :  Market is Open!

The Market Is now Open…Happy Shopping!

Important News

Marie of Bakery on Brooks has her wonderful items listed on the Markets this week. Marie’s schedule will allow her to participate in Market this week; however she will not have items listed the week of Christmas and New Years. Be sure and order what you will need for that time period! Her offerings freeze well! Check out her Holiday Gluten Free goodies packaged in lovely tins and baskets! Perfect for gift giving or order one to put under the tree for Santa!

Joyful thoughts and bountiful blessings,

~Maryanne


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