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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 - market open / volunteer for FARM TOUR


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Hey Local Food Lovers,

We’re only a few days away from the PREMIERE local food and farm event in our region, the SECOND ANNUAL GEORGIA MOUNTAINS FARM TOUR. If you’ve been curious what the farms that sell through Locally Grown are like, this is the best chance of the year to meet your farmer. It’s also a great way to support a new network of farmers that is collaborating to try and increase local foods throughout the region. With the proceeds of the event we’ll be looking into purchasing group liability insurance that will allow farmers to sell to directly to our Local School Systems.

You can find out more about the FARM TOUR (and our farmers network) at this website.

http://georgiamfn.blogspot.com/

There’s so much good food, it’s impossible to describe it all. And the new earlier ordering schedule is working incredibly well. I’d say at least 2/3rds of you are ordering well before Sunday night.

I want to welcome Keep It Simple Bakery and Christy Bowen to the market this week. She’s making an impressive first week showing with 20 Gluten Free items. I’ve noticed that quite a few of you are giving them a try this week. Granola, pie crusts, waffles. She’s making it very easy for folks who must avoid gluten. Ironically I rice noodles rather than flour noodles tonight with my Gibson Farms beef meatballs (with Melon Head cilantro in them-that’s my little secret). I’ve been thinking of taking a gluten break myself just to see how it goes.

Before I go, we are still seeking 4 VOLUNTEERS to help just one of the two days of the FARM TOUR event so if paying for the tour just isn’t in your budget, or you’d really like to get to know a farm well and contribute to the cause this is a great opportunity. All volunteers for at least 4 hours can attend the other day of the tour for free AND will receive a very cool Georgia Mountains Farm Tour t-shirt. Please let me know at soque@windstream.net if you’d like to help.

That’s it for tonight.

EAT WELL,

Justin in Habersham
and
Chuck in Rabun