Thanksgiving News

Good Morning,

It’s Thanksgiving time and we have you covered for veggies and homemade baked and prepared dishes. KKD Sweet Snacks has listed a variety of classic Thanksgiving sides for your table. Search for Thanksgiving and you should get the items special for this holiday.

Also, My Daily Bread has their famous dinner rolls and a special pumpkin roll dessert listed for the holiday along with all their other delicious baked breads. A necessity for the table.

Five Hens Farm Reserve your 1/2 of a Hog to be raised just for you. They are a Yorkshire/China Polland/ cross, very tasty, tender and darker pork. Raised outdoors, we feed them a diet of non-GMO, soy-free, locally grown feed and all our farm produce they can eat. We do not use any chemical dewormers, antibiotics or growth hormones. We raise them to around 200-300 lbs. You will get the all the representative cuts of the entire side (chops, Boston Butt, Picnic Roast, ribs, uncured ham steaks (or whole, if you want), uncured bacon (or sausage, if you want), neck bones, and breakfast sausage or Italian Hot or Italian Sweet sausage). You will get around 65 to 100lbs of meat at $5.75 per lb. That price includes vacuum packaged processing. I will bring each half to market for pick up. You can fit about 30lbs of meat per cubic foot of freezer so you will not need a big one. The deposit is to hold the pig for you. The final cost will be adjusted to $5.75 lb. For example if the processed weight is 100 lbs you will still owe and additional $300 when we deliver for a total of $575 for the half hog. If you are interested in the liver please let us know ahead of time. The price includes the market fees paid to locallygrown. Will contact you for cut options. Allow approx 1-2 months for delivery.

Heritage Farm No milk this week.
Other milk sources are…Carlton Farm – pick up on Wednesday from 3:30-4:30pm at Chalcedon Church off Pilgrim Mill Road.
Don’s Farmers Market – off 141

BIGGER NEWS – WE ARE MOVING

The big news this week is that the unit we use has been sold and we will be moving. We are actively looking for a new location and planning to make the move no later than the week of Dec 1-5. Many of our farmers that are able to sell through out the winter do so because that’s their primary income. Therefore, having a transition like this at this time isn’t easy. We hope we can locate a good place and move without much down time not only for them but also for you.

So we can focus on packing, we will not have a market next week, November 28th. We’ll see you next at a new place hopefully not too far in the future.

If by chance you know of someone that has space and would love to support our locally grown coop please let me know.

Happy Thanksgiving!
Suzanne

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FREE MEMBERSHIP You can now waive your membership fee of $25 just by signing up to volunteer one full Saturday morning, 8:30am-12:30pm. It’s fun and rewarding to experience “behind the scenes” of our locally grown market. Volunteers greet farmers and customers, organize food delivery and pick up, and check-out customer orders using a ipad. Check out this online sign up sheet to find an opening. http://www.signupgenius.com/go/4090d4baca92fa13-thecumming

UPDATE CONTACT With all the hustle and bustle of back-to-school and new routines, it’s easy to forget things like picking up your TCH order. Remember that we can’t keep your items past 12pm, and we’ll try contacting you any way we know how to make sure you get what you ordered. Now’s a great time to check the phone number on your account to make sure it’s a number I can reach you at 11:45am on a Saturday. I start calling everyone who hasn’t picked up yet then, and will keep trying to reach you until 12pm, when we have to pack it all up. I hate seeing people’s food go somewhere else, and having a good phone number on your account is the best way to keep that from happening.

We thank you for your interest and support of our efforts to bring you the healthiest, the freshest and the most delicious locally-produced foods possible!

Manchester Locally Grown Farmers’ Market

How to contact us:
Our Website: manchester.locallygrown.net
On Facebook: Manchester Locally Grown Online Farmers’ Market
By e-mail: tnhomeschooler@yahoo.com
By phone: (931) 273-9708
On Thursdays: Here’s a map.

Good morning, everyone!

Whew! It’s been a fast and furious weekend and early week with kids’ activities. I opened the market on Sunday morning, but have been unable to send a message till now. I’m sorry that this catches you a bit short on ordering time, as I will close the market about midnight tonight. But I want you to know that, barring a catastrophe, the market always opens on Sunday morning for ordering, regardless of whether I send a timely message. See the section of this message entitled “Important Ordering and Pickup Information.”

Welcome to Just Like Home In Tennessee from Manchester! Donna Slipher has been selling at Manchester and Tullahoma farmers’ markets for two years. This week she has added to our market Hand Twisted Wreaths, and will be adding some baked goods soon.

Weaver Farms has added several types of grape jelly, including single 8 ounce jars, as well as a case of 12 jars, which can be mixed by flavor to your specifications.

Vegetable production is easing off, but these great vegetables are still available on our market from local growers: Brussels sprouts, broccoli, cabbage, kale, onions, peppers, red potatoes, spinach, tomatoes, and turnips; and several types of lettuce.

But our farmers’ market is not just about vegetables. Please take note of some of the seasonal items available this week: Live Water Kefir Grains and Square Bale Grass Hay from Triple B Farms; Ground Beef from Paccman Ranch; and Scuppernong cider and jelly from White City Produce & Greenhouses.

Dogwood Valley Greenhouse is offering fabric-lined baskets filled with three herb plants, each in its own 4" pot. These pretty baskets will make great Thanksgiving decorations or hostess gifts. Herbs included will be those commonly used in baking and cooking, a great addition to any kitchen. Specify your preference of herbs from this list: green or purple basil; lemon balm; orange, pineapple, apple, chocolate, spearmint, or grapefruit mint; Greek or variegated oregano; silver-edged, English, common, variegated lemon, citrus, or lime thyme. Basket #1 is approximately 8-9" round with a handle, but may be different from the picture on the market. Pattern of fabric may vary, but will be fall/Thanksgiving themed.

We also have lots of our regular year-round items: perennial, herb, and fern plants, as well as a good selection of houseplants; local milk, eggs, and honey; pork cuts; dried herbs and fresh, as well as lots of homemade herbal products too.

(L to R) Hand Twisted Thanksgiving Wreath from Just Like Home in Tennessee, Open Range Brown Eggs from Wayne Diller, Chardonel Grape Jelly from Weaver Farms, Cut Romaine from Frontier Family Farm, Hand Twisted Honeysuckle and Willow Wreath from Just Like Home in Tennessee.

Important Ordering and Pickup Information

Ordering will be open until Tuesday at 10 p.m., and your order will be available for pickup on Thursday between 4:00 and 5:30 (note later pickup hours) at Square Books, 113 East Main Street, Manchester. We can also hold your order in the refrigerator till Friday, if it’s more convenient for you to pick it up between 9:00 am and 2:00 pm. If you prefer to utilize this free service, please make a note on your order or call my cell at (931) 273-9708.

Thanks so much for your support of Manchester Locally Grown Market, and your friends and neighbors who have grown and produced these items. Please encourage our local farmers by helping to spread the word about our wonderful market to everyone you know. We have more variety than many large Saturday markets, and our items will be in your hands on Thursday! Instead of fighting the crowds and getting up early to search for what you want at the Saturday market, check out the wonderful products our local growers have for you, from the comfort of your own computer.

We have some new farmers considering joining our market, if they can expect large sales to help pay their transportation costs. Please help us grow the market by sharing this e-mail with your friends, calling their attention to the later pickup hours, which may be more convenient for them. And if you haven’t ordered from Manchester Locally Grown for a while, please check out our wide variety of offerings this week. Also please let us know if we can improve our selection or scheduling in any way to better suit your needs.

Blessings,
Linda

Here is the complete list for this week.