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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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Middle Tennessee Locally Grown: Market Is Open for Ordering
Middle Tennessee Locally Grown market
will be open for your orders till Tuesday evening at 10 pm.
Dothan, Alabama: Sept. 2, 2023 - VIP M@D Newsletter- $ Talk & Upcoming Fall Festival
MISC MARKET NOTES
This last week has been a tiny bit exciting and a lot of gut wrenching for M@D. The exiting part is that the bill we lobbied for earlier this year went into effect. It’s not everything we hoped for, but it is a start and yesterday sales tax on Alabama’s groceries lowered by 1%. You can read about it from our legislator who initiated it by clicking . . .
The gut-wrenching part was how to implement it for our customers. Our website is not designed for multiple sales tax percentages and lowering by 1% across the board would force M@D to pay the extra 1% on lovely things like beard balm and candles. A big order on soap or lip balm could easily put us in the red any given week.
One thing I’ve not shared is that for all these years M@D has been absorbing extra expense on standard overhead fees as it is, specifically 3% of all sales tax collected (web hosting) and about 3% of all sales tax from most card payments. We simply cannot absorb any more.
Our four core values are FRESH, LOCAL, SUSTAINABLE and YEAR ROUND. SUSTAINABLE includes finances and in order to continue to service our customers we have to service our obligations. So rather than nickle and dime each order we are leaving our overhead fee at 9% now listed as “Taxes and Fees”. The State of Alabama will receive exactly what they’re due on all products and should there be a surplus in the 9% collected it will help offset the 6% we’ve been losing all along anyway.
So that’s how it’s going to play out and unless something else comes up this all you’ll hear about the matter. This info will be added to the Q&A page of the website for those who might not read this newsletter.
JBW FARM FRESH:Weeds, Forbes, Peanuts, Cotton… Did you know that a peanut plant that comes up in a cotton field is considered a weed? There are many, many weeds in our fields/pastures. We do not spray to single out one variety of plant, we want a diversity of plants in our pastures. The weeds, or what people call weeds, are actually forbes. These forbes are amazing, they have many nutrients, vitamins, and minerals that are important for our animals. Where most people are bush hogging their pastures, we are bush hogging with our sheep and goats. They thrive off of forbes. They turn the forbes into fertilizer, allowing the dung beetles to take that fertilizer down into the soil. By the activity of the dung beetles, it creates soil aggregation which helps with soil erosion. (Soil aggregation is soil particles that bind together—to resist breaking apart when exposed to external forces such as water erosion.) It is truly amazing to see how much thought the Lord put into creation, how every living thing is to work hand in hand with each other.
MOUNT MORIAH FARMS: I can’t believe it’s now September!!! We are two months away from kidding season starting and I am eager to meet all the littles that will be born. I am working on preparation for that time. We are still milking eight does, that number could go up to 13 in November! I absolutely love milking the girls. It is our special time together, as I’m sitting milking I am able to look everyone over and make sure there isn’t anything different. I am seeing some bellies growing! Prayers are already being said for a healthy kidding season, if you want to say some as well, we will certainly appreciate it!
We look forward to seeing you next Friday at one of our pickup locations. 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!
Statesboro Market2Go: Market2Go is Open!
Market2Go Is Open! Are you planning to order this week?
Place your order by 10 pm Tuesday night for pickup on Thursday.
Choose your pickup location or delivery option from the drop-down menu before you check out.
- Statesboro – SCVB Drive Through: Thursday afternoon 4:00 – 6:00
- Statesboro – Saturday Pick Up: at the market Token & Information booth 9am-Noon on Saturdays
- Sylvania: Thursday afternoon at Road-Tisserie 3:30 – 5:00
- Home Delivery – must add delivery to cart and prepay
Online Payment Available Register your debit or credit card at Your Account and click “Pay Now” when you check out. Your card will only be charged after you have received your order, including any adjustments for missed items or other credits.
Use your EBT/SNAP card to purchase authorized EBT items through the Market2Go, and you can receive matching “bonus” fruits and vegetables and raw nuts through the Georgia Fresh for Less program – with NO Limit. Please write “EBT” in the order comment field and select the Statesboro – SCVB drive-through pickup. For more information, email market2gostatesboro@gmail.com
Market News
We are now offering a new option for your Market2Go order pickup in addition to our Thursday afternoon drive thru. During the market season, you can choose the option at checkout to pick your Market2Go order at the Saturday market Information and Token Booth from 9am till Noon.
The Statesboro Mainstreet Farmers Market is open each Saturday morning for the 2023 season! The farmers market is located directly behind Visit Statesboro, at 222 South Main Street! There’s a new bridge and boardwalk connecting the Blind Willie McTell Trail to the market venue! Come out and visit your local farmers and neighbors!
Our Sylvania pickup location is now at Road-Tisserie Takeaway Store, 115 Ennis St, Sylvania
Thank you to our sponsors who are helping our market grow! If you are interested in becoming a sponsor of the Statesboro Farmers Market you can find more info here.
Sustaining
Clayton Digital Reprographics
Visit Statesboro
Kiwanis Club of Statesboro
Sowing
Great GA Realty
Ogeechee Technical College
Statesboro Properties
Personal Finance Service of Statesboro
Quality Inn & Suites
Queensborough National Bank & Trust
RE/MAX Preferred Realty
Southern Palace Restaurant
Statesboro-Bulloch County Library
Vyve Broadband
ExperCARE Health Statesboro
Sprouting
Citizens Bank of the South
Synovus
Bulloch County Farm Bureau
Institute for Coastal Plain Science, Georgia Southern
Seedling
Georgia Southern University Libraries
Bulloch Solutions
Friends of the Market
Michelle Oliver
Anna Clifton
Jennifer Moran
Debra Chester
Cynthia Frost
Sam Wainford
Ann Smith-Wilson
Laura and Patrick Wheaton
Kathy and Larry Smith
Martha Joiner
Happy Shopping!
Northeast Georgia Locally Grown: Market is open for orders!
Locavores, Northeast Georgia Locally Grown is open for orders!
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Produce
Baked Goods with Organic Ingredients
Pastured Meats
Cultured/Fermented Foods
Pastured Eggs
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Market is open Fridays at 9 p.m. through 9 p.m. Mondays!
Thank you for choosing Northeast Georgia Locally Grown as a way to support your local producers. This online farmers market allows you to buy directly from multiple farms committed to chemical-free and local produce all year long! CHEMICAL-FREE means produce and pastures grown without synthetic fertilizers, herbicides, fungicides, or insecticides. LOCAL means within 80 miles from the market pickup locations (usually much much closer). Do you know someone who grows chemical-free food in the area? Get them in touch with us. Know someone who wants fresh food? Spread the word. Put the two together, and that’s growing organically!
PICKUP TIME is Wednesday from 5-6:30 p.m.
If you do not get an email ORDER CONFIRMATION after you finish the checkout process, then your order is NOT complete. Head back to the market page, and your order might still be there waiting for you to check out! If you have any trouble or questions at all, we are here to help; simply reply to this email.
Once you place an order, be on the lookout for the order reminder email on Wednesday with further pickup and payment notes. Thanks for your support!
CLG: Tuesday REMINDER: tamales
Good morning!
Last day to put in your orders for the week. The market closes at 9pm
*https://conway.locallygrown.net/market
It is Tamales Week
Use this link to order
*https://forms.gle/B8TLG3sz3bRNYYkQ7
CLG: Opening BELL: tamales week
Good afternoon
The market is now OPEN for orders. Click here to start shopping: *https://conway.locallygrown.net/market
It is Tamales Week
Use this link to order
*https://forms.gle/B8TLG3sz3bRNYYkQ7
Most items are listed by 6 pm Sunday, but check back again before the market closes Tuesday night to see if any other items are ready to be harvested for you! Eat fresh!
How to contact us:
You CAN reply to this email or…
Phone or text: Sandra – 206-890-7460
Email: Sandra – conwaylocallygrown@gmail.com
CLG: CLG Pickup TODAY 3-6: milk bottles
Hello
This is a pickup reminder for those of you who ordered this week. If you ordered milk WITHOUT deposit, don’t forget to bring your bottles :)
You can pick up your order starting at 3:00 p.m. until 6:00 p.m. at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church at 925 Mitchell Street in Conway.
Please NOTE: the church parking lot may be full between 315p and 345p when the Junior High lets out and kids are getting picked up.
Please remember that although the doors are open before 3pm, we are still getting everything ready for the market. If you arrive before 3pm, you are welcome to come in and sit while you wait. In order to avoid mistakes, we will not check anyone out before 3pm. Thank you for understanding.
If something comes up that you cannot personally pick up your order today, please contact someone to pick it up for you.
Remember to bring your reusable market bags. Reduce, reuse, recycle! See you this afternoon!
How to contact us:
You CAN reply to this email or…
Phone or text: Sandra – 206-890-7460
Email: Sandra – conwaylocallygrown@gmail.com
Brassell’s Sprouts Market: Brown’s Bees
What’s your favorite recipe that includes honey?
Do you sweeten your herbal teas with it?
Brown’s Bee Removal & Apiary has LOCAL honey for you on the market!!
Not only honey, but also BBQ Sauce, lip balm, and lotion bars you know you’ll need this winter to prevent dry skin.
Shop the market today to get yours!
Brassell’s Sprouts Market: Briscoe Homestead
In addition to pasture raised, hormone free chicken, Briscoe Homestead also offers beef tallow soaps. These are available on the market!
Also check out their page for more info on preorders for whole chicken! Secure your spot now before they’re sold out!
Champaign, OH: A September To Remember
Here we are, ready to jump into September, ready or not, so let’s make this month one for the books, and get so many orders in!!
Also, Champaign Berry is listing their sweet corn, and produce, on the market! And, like our other vendors with seasonal produce, the season won’t last, forever!
Take advantage!!
XOXO,
Cosmic Pam