The Weblog
This weblog contains LocallyGrown.net news and the weblog entries from all the markets currently using the system.
To visit the authoring market’s website, click on the market name located in the entry’s title.
Gwinnett Locally Grown: The Market is open for ordering!
The Market is open Thursday at 9 – Monday at noon After that, ordering is disabled until Thursday morning. Pick up your order Tuesday from 4:00-7:00 p.m. only at Rancho Alegre Farm at 2225 Givens Road, Dacula, GA 30019. New to The Market? Learn about how it works here.
MARKET NEWS
BULK BUY FOR GREEN PASTURES!
We are going to place an order for Fermented Cod Liver Oil for those interested in taking advantage of the many health benefits of FCLO and the savings! It is real pricey if you order individually, so email me if you are interested!
Green Pastures posts…
Many of the great historical cultures had one sacred food which they relied on to ensure strong mind, body, and spirit: Fermented fish/fish liver oil. The Mighty Roman Soldier was given a daily ration of fermented fish oil. The Stoic Scandinavian Viking had a drum of fermenting cod livers outside the door of his home. Grandma always had a bottle of cod liver oil in the back cupboard.
If you ordered from Mother Earth Meats, please email us the order so we can make sure we have all you purchased!
Attention***
*Please share with friends and family about us so that we can give more people the opportunity to buy and eat healthy! Local farmers need our support to keep providing us with all the fresh foods! If we don’t give them enough business, it’s hard for them to continue to deliver to us. Please let’s not let that happen! Tell your friends about us so we can keep the Growers supported as this is how they make their living. *
I hope that this year will be the best year in health for you and your family!
Browse through to see all the great Growers we have and maybe you will find something new!
We have Wilderness Family Naturals Coconut Sugar, Flour and Organic Popcorn in the Market for sale! When you come to pick up your order, check them out! They are also now online!
If there is something you’d like to see in the Market, please let me know! I would love your imput!
Remember…
The Market is extending their hours! The Market will now be open from 4:00 to 7:00pm!
Having said that, if you place an order with us, PLEASE remember to pick it up on Tuesday. As I am so grateful for your orders, I also have a family at home waiting on me too! We cannot hold orders, especially cold items due to limited refrigeration space, so please be courteous and come for your order.
CLICK HERE NOW to Shop Gwinnett Locally Grown!
Thanks for all your support!
Shop often and eat well!
Cheryl Gelatt
Market Manager
grow@ranchoalegrefarm.com
Fresh Wishes,
Pilar Quintero
Market Host
Rancho Alegre Farm
Please email grow@ranchoalegrefarm.com for questions pertaining to Market or Raw Milk. It is very difficult to return phone calls. Remember to interact with us on Facebook and follow us on Meetup to get notification on all our wonderful events and news.
Fountain Fresh Dairy LLC: Market Closed
Hello everyone, We are closing the market for the winter. Thanks for your business this past season!
The Cumming Harvest - Closed: Newsletter - January 14th, 2015
Market News
A couple of things before I get into the second issue of how the market works.
Ancient Awakenings unfortunately will only be able to do deliver to the Cumming Harvest market every other weekend for the time being. This weekend they are out of town, but will be back next week and then every other week there after.
Indian Creek Angus has added a half and quarter cow to the market this week.
1/2 Hanging Weight, 429lbs – Bone In Steaks (Rib Steaks, T bones, and Sirloins). It also includes ground beef, cube steak, boneless stew, roasts, short ribs and soup bones. Approximately 139 lbs of beef.
1/4 Hanging Weight, 429lbs – Bone Out Steaks (Ribeyes, Filets, NY Strips, and Sirloins). It also includes ground beef, cube steak, boneless stew, roasts, short ribs and soup bones. Approximately 64 lbs of beef.
Both of these are listed online.
2B Whole is selling this week, gluten free breads, cakes, cookies and donuts.
My Daily Bread is offering a sale on some of their Jam and Jelly, now only $5. They also have their Sourdough and Multigrain bread loaves on sale for $6.50.
Farm Fresh Foods is taking this week off, she’ll be back next week.
Cheese and Butter I will be sending in a group order of Raw Cheese from Meadow Valley Farm in Indiana and of Raw Butter. The cheese is between $7.25-$8/lb and comes in Monterey Jack, Pepper Jack, Havarti, Jalapeno Cheddar, Colby, Gouda, Baby Swiss, Mozzarella and Sharp Cheddar. Place your order online.
Farmer of the Day We have a new vendor coming to the market, Snack N Joy, offering a line of gluten free items. She is currently a “grower” with Mary Beth at Joyful Noise Acres and is currently a vendor in the Atlanta area with Whole Foods Markets. Her gluten free items are milled in small batches with nutrient rich organic grains into flour which are then baked into muffins, cookies and breads. Organic fruits and nuts are used whenever possible. Preservatives or fillers are never used and all dairy is from cows not treated with rBST.
Now, back to the market detail…last week I reviewed legal issues and how the money is transferred. This week we’ll go over finances. This is pretty lengthy and much of it is copied from our mother market manager, Eric Wagoner, at Athens Locally Grown. He’s got this market thing down since this is his 15th year. We’ve been in business going on 5 years this coming August and even though I should have it down, I still need to refer to the mother ship from time to time.
First off, we’re legally an LLC, and the market is owned and operated by me. You may have heard the market described as a co-op but it has never legally been one even though it’s run in a cooperative spirit.
We’re not a non-profit, either, but we’ve structured things so that over time the market can just barely cover its own expenses. Just like all of our member farms are sustainable growers, the market itself needs to be sustainable. So how do we cover its expenses? One small way is through the memberships you pay. The $25 a year you give to the market is enough (to put it bluntly) to cover most of the costs of having you as a customer: banking fees from depositing your checks, paper and ink for printing, web hosting fees, and that sort of thing. There really isn’t much left and I’m happy to provide those that ask, a copy of our budget. We currently have 190 paid members out of the 1552 active accounts on the website.
By far the bulk of our funding comes from the growers themselves. They pay a 10% commission on their sales through the site. This money covers the storage we use, the tables and shelves used to spread out and organize your orders, the food allowance we offer our volunteers, rent and utilities, etc. During the slow parts of the year, the sales are usually not enough to cover our weekly costs, but in the busy times (late fall and early spring, for us) there is extra. If we plan things out well, it pretty much all evens out in the end.
Last year, the total sales and memberships combined through the market amounted to $168,509.00. 90% of the sales went straight to our growers, and the rest went to a food allowance for our volunteers ($50 a week), rent ($120/month), web hosting ($5,140/year), transportation, insurance and various small business expenses. The “profit” gets counted as personal income on my tax forms, and comes out to roughly $3000/year.
The growers get paid out of the shared cashbox for their previous week’s sales when they drop off their items, during the hour before we open the market. Then, you arrive and pay into the cashbox for your order. We used to then rush to the bank to deposit the money to cover the checks we just wrote to the growers, but now the growers get paid the following week (money you pay via credit cards takes up to a week to reach our account). As explained elsewhere on the website, you are really ordering directly from and paying the growers yourself, but our shared cashbox system makes things convenient for you and them. (Imagine if you ordered from ten growers having to write ten checks when you picked up your items!) This shared cashbox system has so far satisfied the tax man, but it does mean that if you place an order and then never arrive to pick it up, we’re left holding the bag. For that reason, you are responsible for paying for orders not picked up, and that amount is automatically added on to your next order for your convenience.
So, in probably far too much detail, that’s how we operate financially. Our market might be more expensive to run than a traditional “booths and tables” farmers market, but that price buys a system that’s simple, time-saving, flexible, and in my opinion, just better. There’s no money in the bank, but the market is paying for itself and that’s my primary financial goal. If you’d like to talk with me in person about this or any other aspects of TCH, just pull me aside when you come by to pick up your order.
LOCATION
Building 106, Colony Park Dr. in the Basement of Suite 100, Cumming, GA 30040.
Google Map
PICK UP HOURS
Saturday from 10-12pm.
106 Colony Park Drive, Suite 100 Cumming, GA 30040
Please contact me if you have any questions, problems or suggestions. EMAIL ME
To view the harvest today and tomorrow till 8pm, visit “The Market” page on our website, The Cumming Harvest
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!
Champaign, OH: Show Us The Love!
Just a reminder that you have one hour to get your orders in!
Don’t miss out!!
Peace and Love,
Cosmic Pam
ALFN Local Food Club: Weblog Entry
Step right up and place your order! The Market is still open and ready to fulfill all your local foodie needs. From arugula to zucchini, we have all the hardy winter produce and frozen fruits and veggies you could want, along with a few delicate greenhouse-grown goodies, too. And don’t forget the fresh herbs! Just a pinch each of fresh parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme is enough to make any dish sing.
For those of you who prefer to leave the cooking to other folks, you’ll be pleased to hear that Drewry Farm & Orchard is back in action with their Arkansas black apple and sweet potato pies. I won’t lie, these are tasty pies, but I like to hoard Arkansas black apples in their unadulterated form to munch on for months to come.
Whatever you fancy, you should know that we’ll be here for the Monday pickup in spite of the holiday. If you won’t be around and need to make other arrangements, just reply to this weblog and we’ll do our best to make sure you can take advantage of this mid-winter bounty.
-Rebecca Wild
Program Manager
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Citrus County Locally Grown: Market Thursday January 15, 2015
Our growers thank you for supporting local growers and businesses. Your orders make a real difference
Thank you for supporting your On-Line Farmers Market. Your purchases have made a difference to many families
Your CCLG Team
THE MARKET IS OPEN
The link below will take you there.
Russellville Community Market: RCM Order Reminder
Hey everyone! Just a quick reminder that we’ll be closing for orders tonight at 10:00 p.m. Get your orders in soon!
Happy ordering!
We hope to see you on Thursday for the market pick-up!
Check out our Facebook page for great info on local foods issues and upcoming events.
Be sure to click on the “Like” button at the top of the Facebook page to get automatic updates. Thanks!
FRESH.LOCAL.ONLINE.
Russellville Community Market
Champaign, OH: Greens!
Just an announcement that Strive Growes has added greens and lettuces!
Don’t wait…they will be gone, quickly!
Get your greens while we have them!
Peace and Love,
Cosmic Pam
Champaign, OH: Taking Care Of Business
And we be takin’ care of business every day…
Takin’ care of business every way…
We’ve been takin’ care of business, it’s all mine…
Takin’ care of business and working overtime…
(Bachman – Turner Overdrive – Takin Care Of Business)
Well….A big, huge, standing ovation to your Buckeyes!! They went, they took care of business, they left with the victory!! The kind of heart warming, adrenaline pumping story of victory that makes it all so sweet. No matter who your team is, what school you usually cheer for, during the season, there was no denying that last night was simply amazing!
I am always about the under dogs, the ones who just kept the focus and let it lead them to success or victory.
This little market of love was the underdog. The little one that had the naysayers, the doubters, the, dare I even say it? The haters? Every solid team goes through this. The difference is how you show up, how you keep your vision, your focus, how you play it all out, how you take care of business.
I hope that everyone is basking in the victory, recovering from fun, proud to be a part of this state, of this community.
Today is Tuesday…the market will close, tonight, at 10pm. How about taking care of some business, right here? Show some love, right here? If you order, now, you will be ready for an early night to relax after last night’s crazy fun.
Peace and Love,
Cosmic Pam
South Cumberland Farmer's Market: Agenda for Today's Annual Meeting
This is the location of the online agenda for today’s annual market meeting:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pICSaKD6DcJpRU_2eNUtQmvdtJKRpFPzRVzkTjULlXw/edit?usp=sharing
If the link is broken, just copy and paste it into your browser window.
See you there!
Kir and Linda