Champaign, OH:  An Invitation from Fresh Water Farms!

Join Freshwater Farms of Ohio for an elegant night out featuring a 4-course meal prepared by The FoodSmiths Catering. Each course will be presented with 2 ounces of wine specifically chosen to complement the dish. There is also a food only option for those that do not wish to consume alcohol but still want to enjoy a delicious night out.

This evening is perfect for a post-Valentine’s Day date, a Birthday, Anniversary or a relaxing night out for a group of wine loving friends. We have printable invitations available if you’d like to present the evening to someone as a gift.

Cost: $35 Per Person
Food Only: $25 Per Person
(Tax and Gratuity Not Included.)

Reservation Only: This event is reservation only. Seating is limited. Please contact us no later than 6:00 p.m. on Tuesday, February 17th to make reservations. Call us at 937-652-3701 or email cherie@fwfarms.com. (Be sure to include your name, phone number, how many will be in your party and if you’d like us to email you a printable gift invitation.)

Conyers Locally Grown:  Available for Friday February 6

I hope this finds you all doing well. The market is open for orders. We will see you Friday at Copy Central between 5-7.
Thank you,
Brady

Atlanta Locally Grown:  Available for Saturday February 7

I hope this finds you all doing well. The market is open and ready for orders. We will see you at your selected delivery location, Brookhaven, Piedmont or Sandy Springs.

Thank you,
Brady

Champaign, OH:  Winter Weather Instructions

Good morning!!

Now that we are entering into the real kind of winter weather, your market managers, and the YMCA, would like to make sure that all customers have the proper winter weather instructions for Thursday evening order pick-up, should the weather be in question, on these winter Thursdays…

Champaign Oh. Locally Grown Virtual Market Weather Emergency Customers pick up schedule.

In case of impending severe weather follow these instruction.

Level One Emergency – The YMCA is open. The market will be as scheduled. Normal customer pickup time 4:30-6:30pm. If you do not feel comfortable driving, please call and make arrangements for a delayed customer pickup. Please call Pam-926-4833

Level Two Emergency – The YMCA is open. The Market will be as scheduled. Normal customer pickup time 4:30-6:30pm. If you do not feel comfortable driving, please call and make arrangements for a delayed customer pickup. Please call Pam- 926-4833

Level Three Emergency – The YMCA is closed. The Market is closed. The Market will be rescheduled for Friday (the next day) Normal customer pickup time 4:30-6:30pm. If you do not feel comfortable driving, please call and make arrangements for a delayed customer pickup. Please call Pam-926-4833

If there is a Level 3 by Noon, Vendors don’t deliver and customers don’t come. Refer to Friday delivery and pickup schedule.

Thank you to Charlene for getting this information together for all of us!

Peace and Love,
Cosmic Pam

Heirloom Living Market Lilburn:  Market Closes at 8:00pm Tonight

Market closes at 8:00pm

Heirloom Living Market Hamilton Mill:  Market Closes at 8:00pm Tonight

Market closes at 8:00pm

Heirloom Living Market Lawrenceville :  Market Closes at 8:00pm Tonight

Market closes at 8:00pm

CSA Farmers Market:  NEW SOAP MAKERS

New Soap Makers

We have two wonderful new soap companies coming to our group. This means we will have three entirely different soaps for you to choose from. We will still have the wonderful goat milk soaps offered by Pineberry Dairy from Silverwood Michigan. Now we are also offering natural bee product soap from Hive Made Products in Gladwin Michigan. If you prefer Omega rich olive oil soap we have Moon River Soaps made in Rochester Michigan.

Rebekah Townsend from Hive Made Products is passionate about creating a safe enriching soap for her family and yours. She and her husband have taken vast steps for their family to live life simply and naturally. After making some changes to what they put inside their bodies, they decided to take a closer look at the products they used on the outside. They were motivated by what they found to create their own body care products. They became bee keepers in 2013 and now use some of their own honey and beeswax in these products. It’s their passion to share with others the healing and moisturizing qualities they discovered in their body care products. They run their apiary, make quality handmade body care products, and rear their three sons on the homestead in Gladwin, Michigan.

Moon River soap maker Carlos and formulator Elizabeth Aprea, along with their daughter and son-in-law, make their rich moisturizing soaps in the beautiful sage green building downtown Rochester that they also call home. They discovered that synthetic fragrance in commercial soap was triggering her head aches and decided to research essential oils and botanicals. They created their fist batch of cold pressed organic olive oil soap with the knowledge gained from that research. They noticed that national baby wash was causing their grandson dry, irritated skin and after using the soap on him they saw his skin healed up almost immediately! They create this soap with a passion for healthy living and natural healing. They use natural NON-GMO ingredients that are free of chemicals and preservatives. Each hand poured bar of soap is made with omega rich olive oil, nurturing botanicals, and certified 100% pure essential oils. They never use petrochemicals, sulfates, synthetic fragrance or phthalates.

CSA Farmers Market:  Westwind Milling Co. Changing

Baking Linda Purdy (from Westwind Milling) has decided to give up baking, each year at about this time Lee & Linda Purdy look at their operation and decide what to change, they also closed their Many Hands Community Foods Grocery store located in Argentine. We will miss Linda’s Baking—As she sadly tells us that she has to give up baking at the same time she says how much she loves to bake. You never know she may decide to bake again.

CSA Farmers Market:  Miracles - Future Market Hour Changes

It may not seem like much of a miracle, but pulling off this market often feels like one. There are other markets in other states that do very similar markets. They give their customers about 2 days to order and the farmers 5 days to get the orders together. Some monthly markets actually give the farmers about 10 days to get the order together. We are the other hand give the customers about 4 1/2 days to order and us only about 2 1/2 days to harvest and gather product. Since we give ourselves such a narrow window we will eventually be shortening the order time we give customers. This I believe will give us a little more time to deal with issues that arise and more time to pay attention to detail. The future time we plan to be open the market will be 7:00 pm on Thursday and we will close the market Monday night at 10:00 pm.
On Thursday it sometimes is a madhouse here because we are packing orders at the same time when the market is being opened and it is often that the farmers that have just harvested their crops are also packing their items and they have not always had time to update the website. At the same time we have to back up all files, edit invoices, write the weblog in HTML before we are even down packing order and by 3pm we would love to have all our hair in our head.

Adding three hours for us at the beginning of the market would make a huge difference and the two hours at the end of the market would also help.
The beginning time will be implemented before we go onto a weekly order cycle. The closing the market time we be implemented sooner.
Thanks