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Middle Tennessee Locally Grown market
will be open for your orders till Tuesday evening at 10 pm.
Due to the Coronavirus restrictions, if you would prefer home delivery of your order, please just ask. No charge during this time.
Please also remember that our market is much safer than any grocery store.
All our products are direct from grower/producer to consumer, with no middle men handling.
Please share this information with your friends and help them to understand how safe our open-air markets are.
From Dogwood Valley Greenhouse:
Dogwood Valley Greenhouse is overflowing with tomato plants, finally. The weather has been too unpredictable to harden them off, but it’s time they were in your yard doing that, rather than in mine. All the varieties I’m offering this year are heirlooms, and several have very pretty multi-colored fruits. I have added several different varieties to my listings this year. These plants have been inside too long, where they didn’t get enough light, and are therefore a bit “leggy.” (I had planned to list them by May 1, but the weather has not cooperated.) But if you plant them deeply, they will grow fantastic root systems out of the long underground stem, and bear even larger harvests of fruit because of it. I will be listing them a few at a time, as I get them potted up. If you don’t see what you’d like this week, please feel free to drop me a request, and I will do my best to fill it. Please remember to harden them off before planting into the full sun vegetable garden, and if you need help with that, drop me a note.
It’s also time for Fresh-Cut Herbs, which taste so much better than dried! The selection of herbs will vary from week to week, as my stock plants grow through the summer. If you’re looking for something in particular, again, please drop me a request. I will also have a good selection of herb plants for sale, if you’d rather grow your own.
Watch next week for a greatly expanded listing of Hostas to add color and texture variation to your shady areas. And if you haven’t picked up some astilbes yet, you should get some soon, as they are about to come into bloom. I will also add a good selection of hanging baskets for your porch, both blooming and foliage, but that’s all I will say about them for now.
Oh, yes – for the sunny areas – Coneflowers in abundance, and almost starting to show color now. They’ll be on the market within two weeks, I’d say.
(L to R, top): Tomato ‘Arkansas Traveler’, Fresh Cut Herb Lemon Balm.
(L to R, bottom): White Astilbe, Couble Pink Coneflower.
(Left) Triple T Cattle Farms ground beef is on sale for $5.00 per package (0.95 – 1.0 lb)
(Right) Weaver Farms bone-in pork chops are on sale for $4.50 per package (2 chops to a package, weighing between 1.0 and 1.5 lb)
To Contact Us
Our Website:
Middle Tennessee Locally Grown
On Facebook:
Middle Tennessee Locally Grown Online Farmers’ Market
By e-mail:
tnmomof10@gmail.com
By phone:
(931) 273-9708
Our Manchester pickup location is across the street from the Manchester City Schools administration building, at
216 East Fort Street, Manchester, TN
Our Tullahoma pickup location is in front of “Nature’s Elite”, in the Cherokee Square Shopping Center next to Dunham’s Sports,
open air during this time, at
1802 N Jackson St, Ste 800, Tullahoma TN
For a map, click on the address link.
Only the best fresh flavorful farm products for your family! No more week-old produce trucked cross-country. All the fresh local farm products listed come from your grower and maker neighbors in Middle Tennessee. The freshest produce is picked the day you receive it!
Your year-round weekly market is open for ordering from Sunday morning at 8 am till Tuesday evening at 10 pm.
Receiving options:
THURSDAY afternoon pickup (4:15 – 4:45 p.m.) at the market pavilion on Fort Street, Manchester.
THURSDAY afternoon pickup (5:30 – 6:00 p.m.) outside “Nature’s Elite”, Tullahoma. Open air market during this time.
Delivery on THURSDAY evening will be free during this time, or at other hours by arrangement.
See the “About” page for details.
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