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We send out cool articles and farmer highlights using a different email program. You can see the archives of those emails here and through our facebook page! We use this “weblog” every Friday evening to let you know the market page is accepting orders (look for the little add to cart buttons next to products). Northeast Georgia Locally Grown was officially OPENED on Monday, April 26th, 2010 and we are so thankful that you are helping support fresh local foods each week.



 
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Locally Grown Availability for February 12th, 2014


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Hey Local Food Lovers,

There’s a bit more wintry weather headed our way tomorrow and Wednesday but hopefully it won’t interfere with the market.

Thanks to everyone who purchased some of the bareroot trees last week. I hope they are in the ground and getting comfortable before the spring creeps up on us. If they haven’t quite been planted you may want to take a quick look at this quick planting guide we whipped up last year.

http://www.soque.org/pdfs/TREE_PLANTING_brochure_2013.pdf

It may be interesting to others who are interested in planting trees. We planted 50 bareroot blueberries at the Green Way Garden in Clarkesville way back in january 2010 and they are all over 5 feet tall and putting out prodigious amounts of berries now. A fantastic reward for the efforts.

Speaking of current efforts for future awards take a look at this quick map that depicts how Locally Grown works as a distribution collaborative, with our hopes to expand just slightly the area into Gainesville.

You can see clearly from this map how Locally Grown helps to create a network across the region helping us move food around so that more farmers can reach more customers with more food. It’s pretty neat and each and every one of you is an important part of the process.

We’re still scouting out locations in Gainseville for us to consider placing a new market pickup site. After a tour of the area one spot that really appealed to us was the Northeast Georgia History Center located just one block off of Green Street very close to the downtown area but in a very pedestrian friendly neighborhood.

Here’s a photo of the entrance:

If anyone has any connections with this organization let us know as we’ll have to introduce ourselves (a very good introduction would be great) and get to know each other in order for them to consider letting us pop up at their front entrance every week for eternity. We do want to keep all of you in the loop as we’re certain that just like Locally Grown has created a community of local food enthusiasts, this network has connections and relationships that will be incredibly valuable to us as we try and grow and expand.

The other thing that may be obvious from looking at that map is that Gainesville Farmers will soon start to network in to a new Gainesville drop site, providing all kinds of new options. We’re starting to compile a list of growers in Hall County and other close by counties so if you have friends in the local food business, send us their names and contact information as well. Or better yet send it to our friend Maggie who is helping to compile a list. Her e-mail is m.vancantfort@gmail.com

Well that ought to be enough dreaming about the future for one day. That’s what the last days of winter are for right…..anxiously anticipating the near future and brighter and warmer days ahead.

Before I go, I’d like to encourage everyone to buy a few pounds of jerusalem artichokes (or sunchokes for short) from Chuck and Amy Mashburn this week. If you haven’t discovered this incredibly nutritious tuber you really don’t know what you are missing. They are much healthier than potatoes, and are incredibly versatile tasting great in salads raw, fantastic in a lemon chicken dish that I’ve described here before, and even taste great as hummus. Check out all these in the recipes section. Guaranteed to enjoy!

EAT WELL…..EAT SUNCHOKES!

Justin in Habersham
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Chuck in Rabun