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Time to Order Fresh Local Farm Products!
Manchester Locally Grown market
We always have a few new farmers, waiting their turn to join our market and offer their wonderful products to all our customers. In order to add more farmers, we feel it would be best to grow our customer base a bit. We want to be able to offer you and your friends some new local farm products.
The farmers and market managers would really appreciate your efforts to help spread the word about our fantastic market. What a great local resource for fresh, local farm products. Please pick up a few business cards to hand out to your friends, neighbors, and co-workers. Advertising is very expensive, and we want to use our slim market funds in a responsible manner.
To Contact Us
Our Website: manchester.locallygrown.net
On Facebook: Manchester Locally Grown Online Farmers’ Market
By e-mail: tnmomof10@gmail.com
By phone: (931) 273-9708
Our pickup location is across the street from the Manchester City Schools administration building:
Good morning!
Welcome to this week’s offerings from your online farmers’ market. Everything you see on our website is the “cream of the crop” from local farmers, the best products picked and made with pride especially for YOU! When you place an order with our farms, you know you are supporting your friends and neighbors, most located within 30 miles of Manchester, Tennessee.
The market 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
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Some recent vegetable additions from Flying S Farms include:
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(Top) Small Broccoli Heads; Pickling Cucumbers; and Onions “Candy.”
(Middle) Squashes “Flying Saucer,” “Straight Neck,” and “Sunburst.” (Bottom) Squashes “White Scallop” and “Zephyr.”
Frontier Family Farm has added blueberries and green beans. They will sell out fast, so get yours soon!
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Triple T Farms has added Grass-fed Brisket.
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Solace Farm Homestead has a variety of animals – chickens, geese, turkeys, ducks, Scottish Highland cattle, goats, alpacas, sheep, a miniature horse, bees, dogs and cats. We do virtually everything by hand here, from growing corn to grinding it into cornflour, spinning yarn, tanning goatskin, butchering goats, splitting firewood, making pasta, laundry soap, granola, etc. We are dedicated to meeting as much of our own needs as possible, then providing excess to our local customers.
Our farm is located on a reclaimed stripmine, gardening in raised beds made with reclaimed cinder blocks and filled with leaf mulch, old hay, compost, and a variety of manures. We are Certified Naturally Grown, and therefore follow all organic guidelines. For bug control, we utilize the poultry as much as possible as well as garlic and Neem oil sprays and hand-picking. We have a large unheated hoophouse for winter growing, enabling us to have greens, carrots, beets, etc. most or all of the year. We share our strawberries and garlic on the market, as well as herbs year-round. I often have other produce.
We currently have around 40 duck hens and a few drakes, as well as Scottish Highland beef available most of the year. We never use any hormones, and only use antibiotics in medical situations. We never feed grain – only grass, hay and mineral supplements, with a protein supplement in winter.
We also have alpacas, and I do all the processing of raw fleece and spinning of yarn myself.
I also make lotion bars, body butters, and deodorants, and soaps both vegetable-oil based and goat’s milk, in both scented and unscented varieties. I source my supplies from reliable sources, and buy organic as much as possible.
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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 the pavilion across from Manchester City Schools administration building, 215 East Fort Street, Manchester.
We can also deliver your order to your home (or other location) on Friday afternoons, for a small fee, 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.
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. 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 & Michael
Here is the complete list for this week.