Market is Open!

I apologize if you were trying to order yesterday, I never registered that it was Saturday.

Great products on the market this week.
Chicken from Fountain Springs Farm needs to be ordered before Tuesday.

Casey Farm milk is back on the market.

Double Tree Farms has carrots, leeks, a plethora of green onions, and 13 vegetable plants for your garden; tomatoes, peppers, squash, cucumbers, and more. Petalland has stakes to support your tomatoes.

Happy June!

The market closes at Noon on Wednesday, what’s in your fridge?

Get started here: Tullahoma Locally Grown Market

-Candace

Happy Memorial Day!

Good Morning! I have some important notes this week.

Please order products from Fountain Springs Farm (chickens and Turkey Deposits) before Tuesday.

Casey Farm Milk is hoping to have their pasteurizer fixed and products for sale on Tuesday.

Healthy Harvest Breads are available this week, get your Ezekiel Bread fix!

Get started here: Tullahoma Locally Grown Market

Have you heard of the Food For Life event at Sequatchie Valley Institute? June 27-29th, classes on fermentation and raising, butchering, and eating pigs. Looks like a super informative weekend!

Thanksgiving Turkey pre-order

There are turkey deposits on the market from Fountain Springs Farm for anyone that would like to make sure they have a NON GMO fed and pastured raised, fresh never frozen turkey for Thanksgiving. Place your order for a deposit and the deposit comes off the total price of turkey when picked up. They are $3.75 per pound and weight about 12 to 25 lbs. We delivery the Turkeys the Tuesday before Thanksgiving. When you place your order for a deposit leave a comment on the weight that you would like. We will get as close as we can.

Do you know the Dirty Dozen?
Spinach, cucumbers, potatoes, tomatoes and strawberries are on this list of the most pesticide heavy fruits and veggies!

Support Local Organic Farmers!

The Market is open until Wednesday at Noon
Get started here: Tullahoma Locally Grown Market

See you thursday!
-Candace

Non-GMO chicken and pork

Fountain springs farm is back on the market this week with non-GMO chicken and pork products, including ham slices and chicken livers and breasts. Also double tree farms has green onions for sale, and fox farm had all if their sausages on the market.

See you Thursday 4:15-6!
-Candace

Always room for a salad

Hello May!

There is a true abundance of Lettuce and greens on our market these days. I wanted to share a vinaigrette recipe from one of my favorite blogs I’ve followed for years! And below is the Pork Section of Fox Farm’s research on price comparison.

The Market is open until Wednesday at Noon
Get started here: Tullahoma Locally Grown Market

From The Nourising Gourmet

Creamy Balsamic Vinaigrette

Ingredients

1/3 cup balsamic vinegar 2/3 cup extra virgin olive oil 2 teaspoons dijon style mustard ¾ teaspoon unrefined salt 1-3 garlic cloves, peeled, and finely minced or put through a garlic press 2 tablespoons coconut milk (full fat), cream, or unsweetened, homemade coconut yogurt

Instructions

Mix all of the ingredients together by either whisking in a small bowl, or putting in a 2 cup jar, placing the lid on, and shaking. Shake before each use.

Pork

Fresh pork products purchased from the grocery store have a 12% to 15% solution of additives which can include water, salt, potassium lactate, sodium phosphate, and/or lemon juice/citric acid. The exception is when the package states the meat is All Natural but, even then, look at the label because it may contain water and salt. Locally Grown pork does not have any preservatives or additives in the meat.
Industry Standard for commercial pork sausage is up to 50% fat. Locally grown sausage is much lower in fat – usually about 20% fat or less.
Most commercially produced bacon has nitrates and other preservatives in it. All natural bacon is the exception in the stores but even then read the label for contents. Commercial bacon has a long shelf life in the refrigerator in comparison to locally grown bacon.
The bacon from locally grown is either uncured or cured. Uncured means the meat was sliced and packaged at the processor and nothing has been added to the meat. Cured means seasonings (salt, pepper, and sugar) have been rubbed on the meat and it’s hung in a cooler for a few days to “cure”. There are no nitrites or nitrates in the locally grown bacon and this is why it is kept frozen.
When buying meat, look at the weight on the package because many packages of bacon and sausage are less than one pound. In order to conduct a more accurate price comparison, sausage and bacon packages weighing less than one pound were recomputed to the one pound selling price.

See you Thursday!

Weblog Entry

Hey Everybody! As the spring warms up, our market fills up. We have all kinds of lettuce mixes, radishes, and spinach. And of course we still have our delicious meat products and beautiful flowers and potted plants.

Here’s a short announcement from Dogwood Valley Greenhouse:

Dogwood Valley Greenhouse wishes to thank all our customers for clearing out all our red & pink azaleas. We still have a few white ones left. These have a very long blooming season and will look amazing with their large luminous flowers in your woodland garden or under high trees. The spring perennials are still in full bloom, and the early summer ones are nicely budded. These will all really liven up your garden.

Order before tomorrow at Noon, pick up 4:15-6 Thursday!

-Anson