Independence,VA:  Market is open for delivery Friday November 21

Friends of the Market,
Thank you for a great opening day today! Don’t forget to pre-order your pesticide free Christmas tree and wreaths and you can still purchase raffle tickets for the amazing Farmers Market Gift Basket.
Due to the cold weather Windyhill farm will not have greens this week but look for carrots in a week or two. Thanks for supporting the Market and happy shopping!
the links are here: http://independencefarmersmarket.locallygrown.net/market/
you can also get there from the webpage, www.independencefarmersmarket.org

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

UPCOMING EVENTS AND VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES
at Augusta Locally Grown

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 17
“100 IN HARRISBURG” PROJECT
We’re putting in 100 raised beds throughout the Harrisburg community this fall, and we could sure use your help. This week we’ll be installing beds on Monday from 9am-5pm. Contact kim@augustalocallygrown.org if you can give a few hours!

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21
THE MAGIC OF EDIBLE MUSHROOMS – FARMER FRIDAY AT WHOLE FOODS
Sample a variety of local, farm-cultivated mushrooms; learn the health benefits of eating mushrooms; incorporate some common and uncommon varieties into your holiday and everyday meals; maybe even learn to grow some of your own. Join us at Farmer Friday! This month features Matthew Kelley of Honey Creek Mushrooms. The free workshop starts at 6pm in the community room at Whole Foods Augusta.

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 9
LOCAL GIFTS HOLIDAY BAZAAR
Twinkling lights will create a festive feel at our 3rd annual “Local Gifts Holiday Bazaar” held at the AJCC on-line market pick-up. This mini event is a great place for Columbia County folks to get those locally crafted stocking stuffers! 4pm-6pm.

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12
GIVE THE GIFT OF GROWING FOOD – FARMERS FRIDAY AT WHOLE FOODS
Engage in a conversation of compassionate ways that you can help others learn to grow, cook, and share their own food. This free workshop will be hosted by Steve Fountain of Icebox Farm and Slow Food CSR; Marsha and Phil Jones of Good Neighbor Ministries & G.R.O.W. Harrisburg; and AJ Evans of the Veggie Truck Team. Come share a “stone soup” of local veggies as we share ideas! Starts at 6pm, in the community room at Whole Foods Augusta.

“Ms. Kim’s Nutcracking Christmas Party” – an annual event for our student interns – will also be held at Whole Foods that evening. Join us (around the firepit maybe?) where we’ll be shelling pecans to sell in support of our Veggie Truck Market EBT doubling program!

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 opens on Nov 24. What a great way to network on behalf of our own local foods movement. Visit georgiaorganics.org for more information.

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 on Tuesdays for on-line market customers, please email kim@augustalocallygrown.org.

• 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.

• BURKE COUNTY LOCALLY GROWN – We are currently providing mentorship for an all-new on-line market in Burke County. If you are a farmer/grower interested in selling through that market, please email Taylor Brooks at Tbrooks.bco@gmail.com or call Adam Sowell at 706-551-4331.

YOUR INPUT IS WELCOME:
Our Board of Directors will meet to review this year’s activities on December 2. Your input is welcome! If you have any suggestions, ideas, complaints, feedback or kudos to send our way, we’d be happy to bring them to the table. We’ll be reviewing ALL our nonprofit activities, including the ALG On-Line Market, the Evans Towne Farmers Market, the Veggie Truck Farmers Market, farm tours, educational activities, healthy food access initiatives, crop mobs, teaching gardens and more. Send to Board President Amy Sutter at arsutter@ymail.com.

SEE YOU AT THE MARKETS (OR MAYBE THE GARDENS?!)
CHEERS!
Kim

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

The Hamilton Mill Market Is now Open…Happy Shopping!

Siloam Springs, AR:  Produce update......

Tom, owner of Opossum Hollow Produce, has been working hard all week long to keep the high tunnel warm and the produce alive. Cold snaps like the one we are experiencing this week causes the plants to be stressed. Uncovering them and exposing them to the cold could harm them so there will be no produce available this week at market.

Tom says, “We’ll be back next week with Spinach, Kale, Chard and Lettuce. Its too early to tell if we’ll be posting an inventory on the https://siloamsprings.locallygrown.net/ on-line market site, but we’ll keep y’all posted. Thanks for sticking with us. This is a tricky time of year complicated by even trickier weather”.

We appreciate Tom and all his hard work. We thank our customers for understanding this situation.

See you tomorrow morning!

Heirloom Living Market Lawrenceville :  Market is Open!

The Market Is now Open…Happy Shopping!

Heirloom Living Market ~ Crossfit O-Zone is now open!

Market Closes at 6:00pm Monday!
Pickup Day and Time: Thursday 4:30 – 6:30pm
Pickup Location: Crossfit Ozone
519 Hurricane Shoals Rd., Suite J
Lawrenceville, GA 30046

“Bits and Bites” Newsletter will arrive in your Mailboxes tomorrow!

Take me to the Market.

Joyful thoughts and bountiful blessings,

~Maryanne


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Heirloom Living Market Lilburn:  Market is Open! Come on in...

The Lilburn Market is OPEN for ordering!

Suwanee Whole Life Co-op:  Market is OPEN for orders!

ORDERING:
The market is now open for ordering!
suwanee.locallygrown.net

If you do NOT receive a confirmation email immediately after you placed your order, then your items are still in your cart and your order is not complete. All orders must be placed by 5pm on Sunday.

PICK UP:
Pick up is on Tuesday at 4942 Austin Park Avenue, Buford 30518 from 1pm to 6:45 pm.

PAYMENT:
We take checks, cash, credit card and Dwolla

If you are planning to pay using Dwolla please make sure your deposit includes the 25 cents fee. For example, if your order total is $22.50 make your deposit for $22.75.

Please make sure you understand our pick up policy before you order.

Have a blessed weekend!
Nor

Joyful Noise Acres Farm:  The on-line market is open for ordering.

Happy frosty Friday!
The pigs were bedded down with bales of hay for added coziness and the lettuces were bedded down with straw in hopes of keeping them from freezing. Hot Chocolate is on the menu around here.
We will be open the Wednesday before Thanksgiving. I will open and close early so that you can get your orders and get back home to your preparations. The market hours will be 10-2 for Thanksgiving and Christmas and New Year’s weeks.
Eggs, Living Free Farm is providing us with a few dozen eggs each week, Please limit your orders to one dozen. This way we can spread the egg love around. If she has extra on Wednesday, she will bring them and make them available.
Blessings and thank you for supporting locally grown.
Mary Beth

CLG:  CLG Pickup TODAY 4-6pm. Bring glass jars, egg cartons please.

Good Morning,
We can still use more bags and egg cartons, so please bring a bag of bags and your empty egg cartons if you can.

This is a pickup reminder for those of you who ordered this week. Thank you for your order! You can pick up your order from 4:00 p.m. until 6:00 p.m. today at Saint Peter’s Episcopal Church at 925 Mitchell Street in Conway.

If something comes up that you cannot personally pick up your order today, please contact someone to pick up for you.

Remember to bring your glass jars for recycling, egg cartons, and bags for ordered items. Reduce, reuse, recycle! See you this afternoon.

Come early for the best selection from the EXTRAS table!

Thank you,
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

Suwanee Whole Life Co-op:  New Grower and Market News

New Grower: Peacefield Farm

I am very excited to welcome Jeff and Tammy Sosby of Peacefield Farm to our family of growers and producers!

They are a family owned Certified Naturally Grown (CNG) Farm located in Carnesville, GA.

They strive to offer the best healthy,naturally grown produce the way God intended it to be. They are CNG but follow the national organic guidelines.

They offer hydroponic tomatoes year round,and seasonal produce that we grow outside on raised beds with drip irrigation from their wells,and inside high tunnel houses on raised beds.

They make their own compost with all plant materials using no animal manure and make our own organic fertilizer as a supplement to the compost. Thus providing healthy grown produce leaving a small footprint in the environment. Psalm 34:8 Taste and see that the Lord is good!

Look for their locally grown produce on the market starting this weekend!

Market News

Pick up ends at 6:45pm on Tuesdays! There are no changes to market due to Thanksgiving holiday. We will have normal pick up during Thanksgiving and Christmas week.

Volunteers Needed!

*THANK YOU Stephanie, Candace, Tanya, Pam, Diana and Marie for helping on Tuesday! You guys are a blessing! We couldn’t have a co-op without volunteers and we appreciate you all so much!

If you are interested in volunteering, I have created a volunteer sign up on Signup Genius. I am asking for volunteers to sign up for 1 hour shifts from 2p to 6:45 pm. No packing is involved just need someone to be there to assist other members. You are welcome to bring your kids as long as they are supervised. Here is the link to the sign up http://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0A44AEA623A7FA7-volunteer

The link is also posted on the About page on our website.

Thank you in advance for your support!

Wellness Event: How’s your Stress Meter?

Melissa Gauna is a local Nutritional Therapist and a member of the Suwanee Coop. She would like to invite you to the following:

How’s your Stress Meter?

Join us Wednesday, November 19th at 6 p.m. as
Vitality Method Pilates Studio hosts:

“Stress-free for the holidays!”

with Energy Body worker & certified Personal Trainer Debbie Barker & Nutritional Therapist, Melissa Gauna

This powerful duo will teach you:
• How to minimize stress through foods & healthy eating
• How to avoid processed foods this Holiday season
• Different ways to release stress & chronic pain
• How to exercise to get rid of stress

Enjoy a healthy snack & take home some “goodies”!

Cost is only $10. You don’t want to miss it! Bring a friend and learn how to de-stress naturally.

Register here today! or call Melissa Gauna @ 404-941-6069 to reserve your spot.

Personal Training Co-op Discount from Body Construction

My name is Kelly Bryant and I have been a member of the Suwanee Whole Life Co-op for a couple of years. The co-op has provided our family convenient access to healthy and local foods that we love! I am a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist (RDN) and a personal trainer and I enjoy helping others to achieve their nutritional and health goals through functional nutrition and working out.

My husband and I own personal training studios in Duluth and Buckhead, where we have been in business for 18 years. The type of strength training that we specialize in is called “Superslow” (or slow movement high intensity) training. This type of training is different than the common “faster” training styles that often create lifetime muscle and joint issues. Our method of training is easy on your joints, effectively increases strength, while reducing body fat, increasing lean muscle mass, and improving overall health.

This training is also perfect for time-crunched individuals because you get superior results in as little as 20-30 minutes a week – No more running to the gym 4-5 times a week and spending an hour each time. Our private studios have state-of-the-art equipment which can be adjusted to fit all different sizes of people.

We also have no membership fees and you only pay month-to-month. Please contact me to schedule an appointment for a FREE training session to learn more and experience the workout.

I would enjoy the opportunity to meet you! PLUS, just for Suwanee Whole Life Co-op members only, I am offering a second FREE session when you sign up for at least 4 sessions of training. Kelly Bryant 706-207-6922; kbryantrd@gmail.com.

Please check out our website www.bodyconstruction.com

Upcoming Group Buys

Below is a list of upcoming co-op group buys to help with planning and budgeting. All dates are subject to change.

Saltworks – Unrefined Sea Salts – 11/7/14 – 11/9/14

Wilderness Family Naturals – Organic Coconut Oils/Pantry Items – 11/14/14 – 11/16/14

Green Pasture – Fermented Cod Liver Oils – 11/28/14 – 11/30/14

Grass Fed Cheeses – TBD December

Raw Mixed Nuts – Bulk – TBD December

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!