Good evening!

Here is an announcement that I missed this morning:

Sow’s Ear Piggery offers three new products this week: Ground Pork and Hot and Mild Breakfast Pork Sausage, in packages weighing between 1.4 and 1.5 pounds. $7.75 each. From free-range pigs, fed non-GMO feed and vegetables, no antibiotics, hormones, or additives.

Now an administrative note. I must apologize for the formatting on the newsletter. This week’s edition is particularly bad, but a couple of other recent ones weren’t much better. If the formatting mess-ups are causing problems for you, please let me know. My son says that the CSS in the program won’t allow me to do the things I want to do (namely, two column format and other details). But I just take this as a challenge, i.e., the impossible just takes a little longer. So we’ll see what next week’s looks like. If you don’t like it, though, please let me know so I will stop playing.

Blessings,
Linda

Here is the complete list for this week.

Good morning!

The market is open as usual, and will remain open for your orders till Tuesday at 10 pm. Please be sure to read the section of the page entitled “Important Ordering and Pickup Information.”

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

FARM NEWS OF THE WEEK

Flying S Farm has added Delicious Bran Muffins to our baked goods selections.

From Amy Rae of Solace Farm:
Homemade pasta is back! I’ve listed some of the classic Fettuccine, and I’ve added Elbow macaroni. Tri-color elbow and fettuccine – with kale and pumpkin – are coming soon! All my pasta is made with half whole wheat flour, half white flour, and our own duck eggs – the colored pastas have our own Solace Farm kale or winter squashes, dried and powdered. If you haven’t had homemade egg pasta, you really should treat yourself – it’s a different thing altogether than the store-bought flour-and-water stuff.

Also, we are still clearing our freezers for the next installment of grass-fed Scottish Highland beef, coming this next week, so this week we are having a special on cubed steaks, $2 off each package. The classic recipe for these tenderized cuts is chicken-fried steak, but they’re also great for Swiss steak, cheese steak sandwiches, and a number of recipes for braising or crockpot cooking.

Garlic-Basil Jelly; Elbow Macaroni.

Debbie Wittig of Knottynuffacres is back from her trip and has turned her market products back on. Welcome back, Debbie!</p

Linda from Dogwood Valley Greenhouse sends this message:
With really warm weather (is it really still mid-February?) moving in this week, the daffodils may not last much longer. Normally they bloom for three weeks, but this year, we may only get two. If you’d like a bouquet, I suggest you order it this week.

Wayne Diller has added several dozen pullet eggs to the market.

From Molly Cornelison of Kountry Vittles Baked Goods:
Everyone seems to be in the mood for a nice refreshing bite of spring so I have added my Fresh Strawberry Pie and my Ultimate Strawberry Cake to the market. My kitchen was busy this past week as I filled over a dozen orders of these highly popular scrumptious deserts. As if the pictures aren’t mouth watering enough you just wait till you get a bite of one of these. Delicious!

Good morning!

The market is open as usual, and will remain open for your orders till Tuesday at 10 pm. Please be sure to read the section of the page entitled “Important Ordering and Pickup Information.”

FARM NEWS OF THE WEEK

Flying S Farm has added Delicious Bran Muffins to our baked goods selections.


From Amy Rae of Solace Farm:
Homemade pasta is back! I’ve listed some of the classic Fettuccine, and I’ve added Elbow macaroni. Tri-color elbow and fettuccine – with kale and pumpkin – are coming soon! All my pasta is made with half whole wheat flour, half white flour, and our own duck eggs – the colored pastas have our own Solace Farm kale or winter squashes, dried and powdered. If you haven’t had homemade egg pasta, you really should treat yourself – it’s a different thing altogether than the store-bought flour-and-water stuff.

Also, we are still clearing our freezers for the next installment of grass-fed Scottish Highland beef, coming this next week, so this week we are having a special on cubed steaks, $2 off each package. The classic recipe for these tenderized cuts is chicken-fried steak, but they’re also great for Swiss steak, cheese steak sandwiches, and a number of recipes for braising or crockpot cooking.

Garlic-Basil Jelly; Elbow Macaroni.

Debbie Wittig of Knottynuffacres is back from her trip and has turned her market products back on. Welcome back, Debbie!</p

Linda from Dogwood Valley Greenhouse sends this message:
With really warm weather (is it really still mid-February?) moving in this week, the daffodils may not last much longer. Normally they bloom for three weeks, but this year, we may only get two. If you’d like a bouquet, I suggest you order it this week.

Wayne Diller has added several dozen pullet eggs to the market.

From Molly Cornelison of Kountry Vittles Baked Goods:
Everyone seems to be in the mood for a nice refreshing bite of spring so I have added my Fresh Strawberry Pie and my Ultimate Strawberry Cake to the market. My kitchen was busy this past week as I filled over a dozen orders of these highly popular scrumptious deserts. As if the pictures aren’t mouth watering enough you just wait till you get a bite of one of these. Delicious!

Good morning!

The market is open as usual, and will remain open for your orders till Tuesday at 10 pm. Please be sure to read the section of the page entitled “Important Ordering and Pickup Information.”

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

FARM NEWS OF THE WEEK

Debbie Wittig of Knottynuffacres is still traveling, and her products are unavailable to the market this week. We hope to see her soon.

Weaver Farms has a new supply of all pork and beef products. Home raised, no antibodies or hormones, family farm, USDA inspected.

Pork shoulder roast, ham slice.

Spring is almost here! The daffodils are in glorious bloom at Dogwood Valley Greenhouse in Hillsboro! Brighten your dining table or bedroom with one dozen beautiful long-stemmed garden-fresh blooms, in a pretty vase tied with a bow. Flowers have white petals and yellow centers, and are very fragrant, my garden favorite for many years. This bouquet is perfect for gift-giving to someone special or to yourself.

The late winter-flowering perennials are also beginning to bloom in the greenhouse. Look for weekly additions to the market under “Live Plants”.

Daffodil Bouquet, Helebore – Lenten Rose

Good morning!

The market is open as usual, and will remain open for your orders till Tuesday at 10 pm. Please be sure to read the section of the page entitled “Important Ordering and Pickup Information.”

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

Kountry Vittles Baked Goods has finally added a bunch of new cookies – check ‘em out. You’re bound to find an ole favorite, or try something new and tickle those taste buds. I have added my best selling Stay Soft Sugar Cookie with buttercream icing, just in time for Valentine’s Day. Wouldn’t your Special Someone just love these?

Debbie Wittig of Knottynuffacres will be traveling, visiting grandchildren, for the next few weeks and has made her products unavailable to the market. We wish her safe travels and look forward to her return.

Next week is Valentine’s Day! This year, instead of a box of chocolate, why not give something different? Dogwood Valley Greenhouse has begonia planters dressed up for the holiday and guaranteed nonfattening! They are under “Live Plants —> Houseplants” as well as under “Seasonal Items”. Quantities are limited, so order yours soon. For your gardening Valentine, we also have Gift Certificates custom completed in any denomination you choose. “Think outside the box” of chocolates this year!

Good morning!

I’m sorry, I’m playing with new formatting and trying to get it right. Please excuse multiple messages. They are all identical except the formatting. Read whichever one is best for you.

The market is open as usual, and will remain open for your orders till Tuesday at 10 pm. Please be sure to read the section of the page entitled “Important Ordering and Pickup Information.”

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

Kountry Vittles Baked Goods is celebrating their 2nd Anniversary this Week, thank you everyone for you Support. I’ve been busy baking lots of cakes, pies and goodies and will be adding more to the list shortly. This past week the most popular item has been my Banana Pudding Pie with it’s Nilla wafer crust and ole fashioned homemade pudding mixed with lots of banana slices and more Nilla wafers inside. It’s topped off with a generous portion of Meringue and baked to perfection. Next runner up has been the Ole fashioned Coconut Cream Pie topped with Real Whipped Cream. Just can’t beat those ole Timey recipes. Back to baking everyone have a Blessed Day.
Molly

My work travel schedule has prevented listing of Sow’s Ear Piggery premium pork products for a few weeks. We’re back on the market this week and hope to make up for the absence with special pricing across the board. All of our products are listed below $4/pound this week. With the return of winter weather, pork is a versatile entrée for comfort food prepared indoors on chilly January nights. Braised, baked, pan fried, or in stroganoff or goulash, pork from the oven hits the spot!
Thanks!
Andra

Note: Our pigs are raised outdoors in the fresh air and sunshine, graze clover and native grasses, forage on acorns and persimmons in season, and are also fed non-corn, non-soy, non-GMO feed (pellets of milo, black oil sunflower seed, and wheat) and fresh fruit and vegetables. They are happy, docile, friendly animals who enjoy a good life and re-pay us in natural, non-antibiotic, non-hormone meat and lard for frying and baking. Our pork is nicely marbled and sweet flavored.

Good morning!

I’m sorry, I’m playing with new formatting and trying to get it right. Please excuse multiple messages. They are all identical except the formatting. Read whichever one is best for you.

The market is open as usual, and will remain open for your orders till Tuesday at 10 pm. Please be sure to read the section of the page entitled “Important Ordering and Pickup Information.”

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

Kountry Vittles Baked Goods is celebrating their 2nd Anniversary this Week, thank you everyone for you Support. I’ve been busy baking lots of cakes, pies and goodies and will be adding more to the list shortly. This past week the most popular item has been my Banana Pudding Pie with it’s Nilla wafer crust and ole fashioned homemade pudding mixed with lots of banana slices and more Nilla wafers inside. It’s topped off with a generous portion of Meringue and baked to perfection. Next runner up has been the Ole fashioned Coconut Cream Pie topped with Real Whipped Cream. Just can’t beat those ole Timey recipes. Back to baking everyone have a Blessed Day.
Molly

My work travel schedule has prevented listing of Sow’s Ear Piggery premium pork products for a few weeks. We’re back on the market this week and hope to make up for the absence with special pricing across the board. All of our products are listed below $4/pound this week. With the return of winter weather, pork is a versatile entrée for comfort food prepared indoors on chilly January nights. Braised, baked, pan fried, or in stroganoff or goulash, pork from the oven hits the spot!
Thanks!
Andra

Note: Our pigs are raised outdoors in the fresh air and sunshine, graze clover and native grasses, forage on acorns and persimmons in season, and are also fed non-corn, non-soy, non-GMO feed (pellets of milo, black oil sunflower seed, and wheat) and fresh fruit and vegetables. They are happy, docile, friendly animals who enjoy a good life and re-pay us in natural, non-antibiotic, non-hormone meat and lard for frying and baking. Our pork is nicely marbled and sweet flavored.

Good morning!

The market is open as usual, and will remain open for your orders till Tuesday at 10 pm. Please be sure to read the section of the page entitled “Important Ordering and Pickup Information.”

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NEWS AND NOTES

Several of our growers have new things in the works this winter. Amy Rae of Solace Farms sends this note:
We have added a few more cuts of our grassfed Scottish Highland beef – some sirloin steaks, round roasts, and have lowered the price of our ground beef and added a value-pack 5 lb listing. Also, this week only, we’re taking $2 off T-bone packages! We need to make some room for the next steer we are getting processed, so there may be more specials coming soon.
We are sold out of lamb chops and ground lamb, but still have plenty of ribs and roasts for those wonderful winter slow-cooked meals!
I’ve also added several new soaps – a Sandalwood & Cedar that comes in a wild animal shape, and a Ginger, Lime & Lavender goat milk line as well. There are also some new listings for small-bar multi-packs if you want to sample several different soaps and fragrances, and lastly I’ve added a smaller version of my ever-popular alpaca-wrapped felted soap, in the same natural or hand-dyed colors. Try one out this week!

From Corey Mack Raper of Macks’ Mushrooms:
Hello Folks,
It is that time of year !! Macks’ Mushrooms is staying busy cutting new mushroom logs and inoculating them. Macks’ will be adding at least 200 logs into production which means more beautiful shiitakes !! Macks’ also has plenty of dehydrated shiitake available that keep great on shelf for later use
Best Regards,
Corey Mack

Catherine from Flying S Farms writes:
We will only have our value added products till farming season. Eggs, Sour dough breads and rolls, bar cookies, cakes, and jams. Will have Tart Cherry and Almost Seedless Blackberry jams added this week, may add more depends what all I get made Monday. Working on a yeast roll not sour dough recipe to make dinner rolls and/or cinnamon rolls…fine tuning my recipe.

We will be glad to deliver your order to you, at home or a location of your choice, on Friday afternoons for a small fee. Order delivery just like any other product.

(L to R) Several scents and shapes of goat milk soap from Solace Farms, White Oak Logs innoculated with shittake mushroom spawn by Macks’ Mushrooms, Sweet Cream Home Churned Butter from Altamont Mennonites, Chicken Eggs and Soft & Tender Sourdough Bread from Flying S Farms.

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 at our tents located outside Manchester Farm Store, 251 Interstate Dr., Manchester. We can also deliver your order to your home (or other location) on Friday, if it’s more convenient for you. If you prefer to utilize this service, please place an order for it, same as other products, selecting your delivery area. Don’t forget to give us your location address in the comments section of the order. Also please text Linda at (931) 273-9708 for specific arrangements.

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 offer a great variety of local farm products, and our items will be in your hands in time to plan for the weekend. Wonderful local products are available for ordering from the comfort of your own computer.

More new farmers are considering joining our market, if they can expect enough sales to help pay their transportation costs. Please help us grow the market by sharing this e-mail with your friends and inviting them to give us a try. 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.

Good morning!

The market is open as usual, and will remain open for your orders till Tuesday at 10 pm. Please be sure to read the section of the page entitled “Important Ordering and Pickup Information.”

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NEWS AND NOTES

Spring came rolling into Middle Tennessee last week, and the mild weather promises to continue this week too. Some of the winter vegetables aren’t faring too well because of the mild temperatures. But never fear, we’ll still get winter – probably in April!

Tami from White City Produce & Greenhouses writes:
I added some green onions this week. Still have plenty of cider. A great hot beverage on cold winter days when heated in a crock pot. Will be another week or so before tomatoes are back.

Dogwood Valley Greenhouse plans to set up a sales display at market again this Thursday, with some beautiful hanging basket houseplants, Aloe vera and Rex begonias. And maybe even a few more flowering Christmas cacti. Pick up a couple of plants to beautify your home and to help raise the inside humidity this winter.

We will be glad to deliver your order to you, at home or a location of your choice, on Friday afternoons for a small fee. Order delivery just like any other product.

(L to R) Green Onions and Muscadine Cider from White City Produce & Greenhouses, Apple Crumble Pie from Kountry Vittles, Bibb Lettuce from Frontier Family Farms, Aloe vera plant from Dogwood Valley Greenhouse.

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 at our tents located outside Manchester Farm Store, 251 Interstate Dr., Manchester. We can also deliver your order to your home (or other location) on Friday, if it’s more convenient for you. If you prefer to utilize this service, please place an order for it, same as other products, selecting your delivery area. Don’t forget to give us your location address in the comments section of the order. Also please text Linda at (931) 273-9708 for specific arrangements.

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 offer a great variety of local farm products, and our items will be in your hands in time to plan for the weekend. Wonderful local products are available for ordering from the comfort of your own computer.

More new farmers are considering joining our market, if they can expect enough sales to help pay their transportation costs. Please help us grow the market by sharing this e-mail with your friends and inviting them to give us a try. 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.

Good morning!

The market is open as usual, and will remain open for your orders till Tuesday at 10 pm. Please be sure to read the section of the page entitled “Important Ordering and Pickup Information.”

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NEWS AND NOTES

Whew! What a cold market day we had last week! Thank you to all our farmers and customers who arrived so promptly! Michael and I were able to wrap up market and leave premises before 5 pm, much to our great relief. We will look forward to spending time with everyone and chatting about new products, etc, on a warmer day! Hopefully this week will be a lot different, weather-wise.

Weaver Farms hamburger is normally $6.50 a pound, but this week they will do a special: 5 pounds for $30!

Catherine from Flying S Farms writes:
We will have farm fresh eggs, sour dough plain, 7-grain and wheat breads available in full or half loaf size as well as rolls, great for grilled cheese sandwiches or peanut butter jelly sandwiches. Rolls make great sliders or mini buns. Your toast deserves the best with some of our award winning jams. Enjoy a treat with our Friendship breads, slice for a cake type dessert or top with fruit topping or your favorite ice cream. Dip in egg mix for French type toast.

If the weather is as nice as the forecast now says, Dogwood Valley Greenhouse will have some beautiful hanging basket houseplants, Aloe vera and Rex begonias at market on Thursday. And maybe even some flowering Christmas cacti. Pick up a couple of plants to beautify your home and to help raise the inside humidity this winter.

We will be glad to deliver your order to you, at home or a location of your choice, on Friday afternoons for a small fee. Order delivery just like any other product.

(L to R) Several scents of Goat Milk Soap and Deodorant from Solace Farm, 1 lb Butter from the Altamont Mennonites, Brussels Sprouts from Frontier Family Farm, Eco-Soy Candle from Botanical Harmony.

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 at our tents located outside Manchester Farm Store, 251 Interstate Dr., Manchester. We can also deliver your order to your home (or other location) on Friday, if it’s more convenient for you. If you prefer to utilize this service, please place an order for it, same as other products, selecting your delivery area. Don’t forget to give us your location address in the comments section of the order. Also please text Linda at (931) 273-9708 for specific arrangements.

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 offer a great variety of local farm products, and our items will be in your hands in time to plan for the weekend. Wonderful local products are available for ordering from the comfort of your own computer.

More new farmers are considering joining our market, if they can expect enough sales to help pay their transportation costs. Please help us grow the market by sharing this e-mail with your friends and inviting them to give us a try. 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.