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It's Time to Order from Manchester Locally Grown Farmers' Market


Manchester Locally Grown online farmers’ market is now open for ordering.

What a bountiful supply of vegetables we still have available! White City Produce and Greenhouses still has lots of green beans, several types of peppers, pickling cucumbers, eggplant, mixed greens, okra, onions, summer squash, zucchini, and several varieties of tomatoes. Solace Farm has beets, carrots, and several types of garlic. Frontier Family Farms has bibb and green oakleaf lettuce, which make excellent salads and wraps.

Doorstep Bakery French Sourdough bread and “Mad Hatter” jams make awesome snacks or elegant additions to any meal.

Dogwood Valley Greenhouse has some beautiful fall-flowering anemone and aster plants just budding up nicely. Several varieties of the ferns, lots of herbs, colorful coral bells, and the gauras are beautiful in the fall.

The market also includes a great selection of herbal bath & body products, local honey, creamline milk, fresh-laid chicken & duck eggs, and other goodies from local farmers.

Check out all our offerings here.

REMEMBER:

  • PLEASE do not write out your checks ahead of your market pickup. Growers can sometimes remove items at the last minute, affecting your invoice. Please wait until your total is established at market.
  • If you do not receive an order confirmation within 5 minutes, your order has NOT been placed in the system. Try logging back in and see if there is anything in your cart. If so, press the Place Your Order button; then you should receive an e-mail to confirm the order. E-MAIL tnhomeschooler@yahoo.com OR CALL US at (931) 273-9708 if the problem persists so you will not be disappointed on market day.

Take a look at our offerings and support your friends and neighbors who produce these quality items on their own farms. Remember: ordering will close on Wednesday at 10 a.m.

(L to R) Zucchini and Grape tomatoes from White City Produce & Greenhouses, Autumn fern plant from Dogwood Valley Greenhouse, Duck eggs from Solace Farm, Bibb lettuce from Frontier Family Farms.



We’ll see you for pickup of your order on Thursday between 3:00 and 4:30 at Square Books, 113 E Main, Manchester. We can also hold your order in the refrigerator for you till Friday morning, if that’s more convenient for you. Just call (931) 273-9708 if you prefer to utilize this free service. Square Books will be open on Friday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Thanks so much for your support of Manchester Locally Grown Market, all of our growers, local food, and our right to eat it. Please encourage our local farmers by helping to spread the word about our wonderful market to everyone you know. Nothing makes a farmer more excited than seeing new customers on the market!

~ Linda

Here is the complete list for this week.

How to contact us:

On Facebook
By e-mail
By phone: (931) 273-9708
On Thursdays: Here’s a map. .

Just a Short Time Left to Order!


Please remember to place your market order very soon. This week’s market will close for ordering at 10 a.m. tomorrow (Wednesday), for delivery fresh from local farms on Thursday. Don’t forget all our yummy vegetables, eggs, creamline milk, summer fruits & vegetables, local honey, jams and bread! What good eating, so easily available on our online market! We also have a great selection of perennial plants & hanging baskets, herbal & handmade products.

Pickup will be at Square Books, 113 E. Main St, Manchester, from 3:00-4:30 on Thursday. Please e-mail me or call (931) 273-9708 if you would prefer to pick up on Friday morning between 10 am and 1 pm.

Thanks for your orders last week! Please encourage your local friends and family to shop with us and support local farmers!

Here is the complete list for this week. See you on Thursday!

~ Linda

How to contact us:
On Facebook
By e-mail
By phone: (931) 273-9708
On Thursdays: Here’s a map.

It's Time to Order from Manchester Locally Grown Farmers' Market


Manchester Locally Grown online farmers’ market is now open for ordering. Here are some of the current highlights at the market:

  • Frontier Family Farm green leaf and green oakleaf lettuces, cucumbers, and sweet green peppers.

  • White City Produce and Greenhouses vegetables – green beans, peppers, pickling cucumbers, eggplant, mixed greens, okra, onions, summer squash, zucchini, and tomatoes.

  • Solace Farm beets, carrots, several types of garlic, chicken and duck eggs, and herbal products

  • Doorstep Bakery French Sourdough bread and “Mad Hatter” jams

  • Little Raven Woodworks handmade toys

  • Dogwood Valley Greenhouse perennial, fern, and herb plants

  • Steve’s Bees local honey

  • Brooks Girls Cookie Creation and Debbie’s Delites baked goods

  • Casey Family Farm creamline milk

  • Triple B Farms herbal products

  • Check out descriptions of all of this week’s offerings here.

    REMEMBER:
    • PLEASE do not write out your checks ahead of your market pickup. Growers can sometimes remove items at the last minute, affecting your invoice. Please wait until your total is established at market.
    • If you do not receive an order confirmation within 5 minutes, your order has NOT been placed in the system. Try logging back in and see if there is anything in your cart. If so, press the Place Your Order button; then you should receive an e-mail to confirm the order. E-MAIL tnhomeschooler@yahoo.com OR CALL US at (931) 273-9708 if the problem persists so you will not be disappointed on market day.

    Take a look at our offerings and support your friends and neighbors who produce these quality items on their own farms. Remember: ordering will close on Wednesday at 10 a.m.

    (L to R)
    Baby mocassins from Solace Farm; Organic, gluten-free cookies in several varieties from Brooks Girls Cookie Creation; Orange reblooming daylily and Japanese tassel fern from Dogwood Valley Greenhouse; Fresh sage from Solace Farm.



    We’ll see you for pickup of your order on Thursday between 3:00 and 4:30 at Square Books, 113 E Main, Manchester. We can also hold your order in the refrigerator for you till Friday morning, if that’s more convenient for you. Just call (931) 273-9708 if you prefer to utilize this free service. Square Books will be open on Friday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

    Thanks so much for your support of Manchester Locally Grown Market, all of our growers, local food, and our right to eat it. Please encourage our local farmers by helping to spread the word about our wonderful market to everyone you know. Nothing makes a farmer more excited than seeing new customers on the market!

    ~ Linda

    Here is the complete list for this week.

    How to contact us:

    On Facebook
    By e-mail
    By phone: (931) 273-9708
    On Thursdays: Here’s a map. .

    Just a Few Hours Left to Order!


    Please remember to place your market order very soon. This week’s market will close for ordering at 10 a.m. tomorrow (Wed), for delivery fresh from local farms on Thursday. Don’t forget all our yummy vegetables, eggs, creamline milk, perennial plants & hanging baskets! And all the summer vegetable and fruit bounty on the market, as well as Steve’s Bees local honey! And our newest additions, Mad Hatter jams and Doorstep Bakery bread! What good eating, so easily available on our online market!

    Pickup will be at Square Books, 113 E. Main St, Manchester, from 3:00-4:30 on Thursday. Please e-mail me or call (931) 273-9708 if you would prefer to pick up on Friday morning between 10 am and 1 pm.

    Thanks for your orders last week! Please encourage your local friends and family to shop with us and support local farmers!

    Here is the complete list for this week. See you on Thursday!

    ~ Linda

    How to contact us:
    On Facebook
    By e-mail
    By phone: (931) 273-9708
    On Thursdays: Here’s a map.

    It's Time to Order from Manchester Locally Grown Farmers' Market


    Manchester Locally Grown online farmers’ market is now open for ordering.

  • This week we are happy to see the return of Frontier Family Farm vegetables – their green leaf and green oakleaf make excellent salads, especially in combination with their cucumbers and sweet green peppers.

  • What a bountiful supply of vegetables we still have available! White City Produce and Greenhouses still has lots of green beans, several types of peppers, pickling cucumbers, eggplant, mixed greens, okra, onions, summer squash, zucchini, and several varieties of tomatoes. Solace Farm has beets, carrots, and several types of garlic.

  • Doorstep Bakery French Sourdough bread and “Mad Hatter” jams make awesome snacks or elegant additions to any meal.

  • It’s time to think about what perennial plants your garden needs this fall. Dogwood Valley Greenhouse has some beautiful fall-flowering anemone and aster plants just budding up nicely. Several varieties of the ferns, lots of herbs, colorful coral bells, and the gauras are beautiful in the fall.

  • The market also includes local honey, creamline milk, fresh-laid chicken and duck eggs, and other goodies from local farmers.

  • Check out all our offerings here.

    REMEMBER:
    • PLEASE do not write out your checks ahead of your market pickup. Growers can sometimes remove items at the last minute, affecting your invoice. Please wait until your total is established at market.

    • If you do not receive an order confirmation within 5 minutes, your order has NOT been placed in the system. Try logging back in and see if there is anything in your cart. If so, press the Place Your Order button; then you should receive an e-mail to confirm the order. E-MAIL tnhomeschooler@yahoo.com OR CALL US at (931) 273-9708 if the problem persists so you will not be disappointed on market day.

    Take a look at our offerings and support your friends and neighbors who produce these quality items on their own farms. Remember: ordering will close on Wednesday at 10 a.m.

    (L to R) “Mad Hatter” Three Berry Jam and French Sourdough Bread from Doorstep Bakery, Green Oakleaf Lettuce from Frontier Family Farms, Garlic leaf card set from Solace Farms, and Southern Maidenhair Fern from Dogwood Valley Greenhouse.



    We’ll see you for pickup of your order on Thursday between 3:00 and 4:30 at Square Books, 113 E Main, Manchester. We can also hold your order in the refrigerator for you till Friday morning, if that’s more convenient for you. Just call (931) 273-9708 if you prefer to utilize this free service. Square Books will be open on Friday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

    Thanks so much for your support of Manchester Locally Grown Market, all of our growers, local food, and our right to eat it. Please encourage our local farmers by helping to spread the word about our wonderful market to everyone you know. Nothing makes a farmer more excited than seeing new customers on the market!

    ~ Linda

    Here is the complete list for this week.

    How to contact us:

    On Facebook
    By e-mail
    By phone: (931) 273-9708
    On Thursdays: Here’s a map. .

    Just a Few Hours Left to Order!


    Please remember to place your market order very soon. This week’s market will close for ordering at 10 a.m. today (Wed), for delivery fresh from local farms on Thursday. Don’t forget all our yummy vegetables, eggs, creamline milk, perennial plants & hanging baskets! And all the new summer vegetable and fruit bounty on the market, as well as Steve’s Bees local honey! And our newest additions, Mad Hatter jams and Doorstep Bakery bread! What good eating, so easily available on our online market!

    Pickup will be at Square Books, 113 E. Main St, Manchester, from 3:00-4:30 on Thursday. Please e-mail me or call (931) 273-9708 if you would prefer to pick up on Friday morning between 10 am and 1 pm.

    Thanks for your orders last week! Please encourage your local friends and family to shop with us and support local farmers!

    Here is the complete list for this week. See you on Thursday!

    ~ Linda

    How to contact us:
    On Facebook
    By e-mail
    By phone: (931) 273-9708
    On Thursdays: Here’s a map.

    Non-GMO Feeds Available


    The Scotts, who own Manchester Farm Center in Manchester, have forwarded this information for your consideration. Please contact them directly if you are interested. Mrs. Scott writes:

    We are ready to place on order for non-GMO livestock feeds, so we’re taking orders for the quantity of feeds each customer wants to determine how much to order. The feed prices are listed below and come in 50 lb. bags. Please let us know by Wed. Sept. 10th what feeds you would like and the quantity.

    Thank you!
    Dorothy Scott"

    BROILER ……………………$24.57
    CHICK STARTER…………..$25.25
    LAYER………………………..$23.57
    SOY-FREE LAYER………….$25.57
    SWINE……………………….$21.25
    CATTLE………………………$24.25
    GOAT…………………………$24.25

    Manchester Farm Center
    251 Interstate Drive
    Manchester, TN 37355
    931-954-5533
    celebrationfeeds@blomand.net

    Welcome Doorstep Bakery!


    This week we welcome to our market a local Domestic Kitchen, Doorstep Bakery from Manchester, featuring Mad Hatter jams and a gorgeous French sourdough bread, with more products to follow. Can you say “scruptious toast and jam” anyone?

    If you have already placed your order for this week, you can order again, and the software will total it all up for us at pickup.

    See you on Thursday!

    ~ Linda

    Weblog Entry


    Manchester Locally Grown online farmers’ market is now open for ordering.

    This week White City Produce and Greenhouses has added to the list two new varieties of green beans and some sweet red bell peppers. The market also includes local honey, cucumbers, peppers, tomatoes, and lots of other summer vegetables and other goodies from local farmers. Don’t forget our great local creamline milk and chicken and duck eggs! It’s time to think about what perennial plants your garden needs this fall. Dogwood Valley Greenhouse has some beautiful fall-flowering anemone and aster plants just budding up nicely. Several varieties of the ferns, lots of herbs, and the gauras are beautiful in the fall.

    Check out all our offerings here.

    REMEMBER:

    • PLEASE do not write out your checks ahead of your market pickup. Growers can sometimes remove items at the last minute, affecting your invoice. Please wait until your total is established at market.

    • If you do not receive an order confirmation within 5 minutes, your order has NOT been placed in the system. Try logging back in and see if there is anything in your cart. If so, press the Place Your Order button; then you should receive an e-mail to confirm the order. E-MAIL tnhomeschooler@yahoo.com OR CALL US at (931) 273-9708 if the problem persists so you will not be disappointed on market day.

    Take a look at our offerings and support your friends and neighbors who produce these quality items on their own farms. Remember: ordering will close on Wednesday at 10 a.m.

    (L to R) Mississippi Mud Cake from Debbie’s Delites, Pink anemone plant from Dogwood Valley Greenhouse, Sweet red peppers from White City Produce & Greenhouses, Creamline milk from Casey Family Farm, Hardy aster plant from Dogwood Valley Greenhouse.



    We’ll see you for pickup of your order on Thursday between 3:00 and 4:30 at Square Books, 113 E Main, Manchester. We can also hold your order in the refrigerator for you till Friday morning, if that’s more convenient for you. Just call (931) 273-9708 if you prefer to utilize this free service. Square Books will be open on Friday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

    Thanks so much for your support of Manchester Locally Grown Market, all of our growers, local food, and our right to eat it. Don’t forget to spread the word about our wonderful market to everyone you know.

    ~ Linda

    Here is the complete list for this week.

    How to contact us:

    On Facebook
    By e-mail
    By phone: (931) 273-9708
    On Thursdays: Here’s a map. .

    Just a Few Hours Left to Order!


    Please remember to place your market order very soon. This week’s market will close for ordering at 10 a.m. tomorrow (Wed), for delivery fresh from local farms on Thursday. Don’t forget all our yummy vegetables, eggs, creamline milk, perennial plants & hanging baskets! And all the new summer vegetable and fruit bounty on the market, as well as local honey!

    Pickup will be at Square Books, 113 E. Main St, Manchester, from 3:00-4:30 on Thursday. Please e-mail me or call (931) 273-9708 if you would prefer to pick up on Friday morning between 10 am and 1 pm.

    Thanks for your orders last week! Please encourage your local friends and family to shop with us and support local farmers!

    Here is the complete list for this week. See you on Thursday!

    ~ Linda

    How to contact us:
    On Facebook
    By e-mail
    By phone: (931) 273-9708
    On Thursdays: Here’s a map.