The Weblog
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.
Locally Grown - Availability for July 9, 2014
Hey Local Food Lovers,
Welcome back from the 4th of July! Hope you had a tremendous holiday. The weather could not have been better.
Summer’s bounty is rolling in. Mountain Earth has blueberries this week! All kinds of beans are rolling in from Promise Land, Wild Earth Gardens, Liberty Farms, Oakcrest, and Taylor Creek. If you’re a bean lover try two from different farms. Also cukes and tomatoes and basil are here which means the summers best salad is ready to be made. If you haven’t peeled and seeded a cuke, diced a tomato and shredded basil and mixed in a bowl with balsamic then you haven’t had the most refreshing salad you can eat.
Lots of eggs this week so order extra. The dewberry/blackberries from Hill Manor were awesome last week. Only 3 left as of this writing. Let’s leave ‘em with 0. Garlic galore is coming on from Promise Land, Leah Lake and Mill Gap. The first of peppers started last week and there are more varieties this week.Taylor Creek’s purple islander pepper is a beauty. There are over 400 products this week. That may be a record.
Last week was also our highest sales week of all-time. Thanks to everyone who is digging in this summer to make Locally Grown a staple part of your diet. We think the FARM TOUR promotions probably helped drive sales up a bit. We’re inching closer and closer to $2k in sales each week. If we could do that every week of the year (since we’re a year-round market) that’d be $100k a year. That’s a decent chunk of local economy.
Thanks again for supporting the FARM TOUR a week ago. We have two things to share with you to help us wrap up this great event.
The first is a request for all FARM TOUR ATTENDEES to take our quick SURVEY! This really helps us brainstorm new ideas to make the tour better each year. Hopefully you’ve seen some of your comments reflected in the tour over the years.
If you came to the TOUR just click on this link. The survey should take only 1-3 mins.
FARM TOUR SURVEY
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/2014_FARM_TOUR
As a reward for attending the event (and taking the survey) we want you to enjoy this year’s FARM TOUR VIDEO. Andrew Linker created this work of art that really captures the spirit of our collaboration amongst farmers throughout the mountains to produce local food, in the case of Locally Grown…distribute local food, and in the case of the FARM TOUR promote local food.
Even if you didn’t attend we think this video will inspire you.
FARM TOUR VIDEO
http://vimeo.com/99583620
HUGE THANKS to all the FARMERS whose hardwork produces the great food and the great culture we all get to enjoy.
EAT WELL,
Justin in Habersham
Chuck in Rabun
and Teri and Andrew too!
(the list below is for quick reference only – click on the website link and sign in to order)