Yes, I’ve been away a while. Off on a business trip driving around deep south Georgia, among other things. But perhaps this exhibit will help ease the separation anxiety:
Over the last five years, I’m been to Louisville quite a few times on business and never got a chance to pull into the shady road outside of town with the sign reading “Revolutionary War Cemetery”. On May 8, 2003, I finally had the time.
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Athens Locally Grown How to contact us: Our Website: athens.locallygrown.net On Twitter: @athlocallygrown On Facebook: www.facebook.com/athenslocallygrown On Thursdays: Here’s a map. Market News Our third free Farmer for a Day event was this past Saturday at Covenant Valley Farm. Cathy Payne, our event coordinator, had this report: The third Farmer for a Day event of 2013 began at 2 p.m. ... [Link]
Athens Locally Grown How to contact us: Our Website: athens.locallygrown.net On Twitter: @athlocallygrown On Facebook: www.facebook.com/athenslocallygrown On Thursdays: Here’s a map. Market News What a beautiful weekend for gardening, finally! Well, excepting the small but fierce hail storm that came through yesterday. It missed me, but parts of the athens area had large hail, the size of a quarter, for ... [Link]
Athens Locally Grown How to contact us: Our Website: athens.locallygrown.net On Twitter: @athlocallygrown On Facebook: www.facebook.com/athenslocallygrown On Thursdays: Here’s a map. Market News Hello, all! I’m a bit under the weather, so I’ll be quick. The market is open and ready for your orders! We have the first of the strawberries, and the asparagus is really coming in strong. The ... [Link]
Athens Locally Grown How to contact us: Our Website: athens.locallygrown.net On Twitter: @athlocallygrown On Facebook: www.facebook.com/athenslocallygrown On Thursdays: Here’s a map. Market News I was hoping to get into the garden this weekend, but the rain at my house just didn’t let me. I woke up on Friday to a pretty heavy frost that caught me off guard — I ... [Link]
Athens Locally Grown How to contact us: Our Website: athens.locallygrown.net On Twitter: @athlocallygrown On Facebook: www.facebook.com/athenslocallygrown On Thursdays: Here’s a map. Market News I’m well behind in my garden, the remnants of Boann’s Banks farm, but today I managed to get a bit done in preparation for planting all the tomato plants I bought through ALG last week. All 52 ... [Link]
Athens Locally Grown How to contact us: Our Website: athens.locallygrown.net On Twitter: @athlocallygrown On Facebook: www.facebook.com/athenslocallygrown On Thursdays: Here’s a map. Market News The official average last day of frost (for Athens) arrives this week, and all of our growers have their gardens going full-tilt. It’s perhaps the busiest time of the year for them, for not only are they ... [Link]
Athens Locally Grown How to contact us: Our Website: athens.locallygrown.net On Twitter: @athlocallygrown On Facebook: www.facebook.com/athenslocallygrown On Thursdays: Here’s a map. Market News Today was a beautiful day, perfect for working out in the garden. I’m way behind on mine, but the really good growing weather seems to hit my little patch of Franklin County about three weeks after most ... [Link]
Athens Locally Grown How to contact us: Our Website: athens.locallygrown.net On Twitter: @athlocallygrown On Facebook: www.facebook.com/athenslocallygrown On Thursdays: Here’s a map. Market News I fully admit to eating far more chocolate than is good for me this weekend. But I did it for my kids, so that they wouldn’t suffer the ill effects of chocolate overload. Truth be told, I ... [Link]
Athens Locally Grown How to contact us: Our Website: athens.locallygrown.net On Twitter: @athlocallygrown On Facebook: www.facebook.com/athenslocallygrown On Thursdays: Here’s a map. Market News After a week of sunny skies and days in the seventies, this week reminded us how volatile the spring weather can be. We started our summer-long series of “Farmer for a Day” events yesterday in the cold ... [Link]
Hello, all! There are several food events coming up in the next few days you may be interested in, and I didn’t want to wait until Sunday night to send them to you. First, there is a new 2-day workshop to help food entrepreneurs in Georgia learn what they need to know to put a food product into the marketplace. ... [Link]
Hello, all! This coming Saturday we kick off our monthly “Farmer for a Day” events at Long Shot Farms in Arnoldville. I’ll just repeat this blurb about the event and let you go right to ordering. See you Thursday! March 23rd: Be a Farmer For A Day at Long Shot Farms Have you ever wanted to learn how to plant ... [Link]
Athens Locally Grown How to contact us: Our Website: athens.locallygrown.net On Twitter: @athlocallygrown On Facebook: www.facebook.com/athenslocallygrown On Thursdays: Here’s a map. Market News Today was just the most perfect day ever to be out in the garden, cleaning out the overwintered debris and getting seeds and plants in the ground, Just perfect. I spent it looking at dinosaurs at the ... [Link]
Athens Locally Grown How to contact us: Our Website: athens.locallygrown.net On Twitter: @athlocallygrown On Facebook: www.facebook.com/athenslocallygrown On Thursdays: Here’s a map. Recipes ASSERTIVE GREENS WITH ONIONS OR SHALLOTS AND CREAM A bit of background — all leafy greens are not interchangeable. Some are delicate enough for salads; others can be tough as shoe leather. In general, though, they fall into ... [Link]
Athens Locally Grown How to contact us: Our Website: athens.locallygrown.net On Twitter: @athlocallygrown On Facebook: www.facebook.com/athenslocallygrown On Thursdays: Here’s a map. Market News My family and I returned this afternoon from this year’s annual Georgia Organics conference, held this time next door to Atlanta Airport. Yeah, they can’t always be held at beautiful scenic locations. Truth is, though, there are ... [Link]
Athens Locally Grown How to contact us: Our Website: athens.locallygrown.net On Twitter: @athlocallygrown On Facebook: www.facebook.com/athenslocallygrown On Thursdays: Here’s a map. Market News I’d like to remind you this week about a feature of the website that’s been there for some time, but that you may have missed. When we started filling orders paperlessly a few years ago, I revamped ... [Link]
Athens Locally Grown How to contact us: Our Website: athens.locallygrown.net On Twitter: @athlocallygrown On Facebook: www.facebook.com/athenslocallygrown On Thursdays: Here’s a map. Market News It’s just a short mailing today, so you can get right to ordering. First, though, I want to bid a fond farewell to longtime Thursday volunteer Regan Huff, who left Athens this past week for work in ... [Link]
Athens Locally Grown How to contact us: Our Website: athens.locallygrown.net On Twitter: @athlocallygrown On Facebook: www.facebook.com/athenslocallygrown On Thursdays: Here’s a map. Market News There are a number of events coming up, so I’ll devote this weeks mailing to them. First up, “Building Nourishing Traditions”, a full-day workshop from the Weston Price Foundation, hosted my ALG member farm Rancho Allegra. You ... [Link]
I’m somewhere in far West Georgia as I type this, returning from a week in Little Rock, Arkansas, for the annual conference for the Southern Sustainable Agriculture Working Group. I was joined by about 1200 other like-minded individuals, swapping information, stories, and inspiration. I got to meet a number of other Locally Grown market managers, many for the very first ... [Link]
Athens Locally Grown How to contact us: Our Website: athens.locallygrown.net On Twitter: @athlocallygrown On Facebook: www.facebook.com/athenslocallygrown On Thursdays: Here’s a map. Market News I’ve been focused most of this week getting things ready for a week-long trip to Little Rock, Arkansas for the annual conference of the Southern Sustainable Agriculture Working Group (SSAWG). About 1300 growers from across the country ... [Link]
Athens Locally Grown How to contact us: Our Website: athens.locallygrown.net On Twitter: @athlocallygrown On Facebook: www.facebook.com/athenslocallygrown On Thursdays: Here’s a map. Market News I’m devoting the newsletter these first few weeks of the year to documenting in detail just how ALG works. I’ll spend some time next week talking about how growers get allowed in the market, and what standards ... [Link]
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