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Market is OPEN -- See you Wednesday
THE STONES RIVER LOCALLY GROWN WEEKLY MARKET IS OPEN!
GOOD MORNING! and …Welcome to the Sunday November 13th and 14th Online Farmers Market.
Market opens on Sunday Mornings at 8AM and closes Monday evening at 10PM.
Look forward seeing you Wednesday November 16th on the
Porch of Quinn’s Mercantile from 5:00 – 6:15pm when you pick up your order.
UPDATED NEWS….. THANKSGIVING is next Thursday November 24th, the Market will be Open Sunday 20th and Monday 21st UNTIL NOON! This will allow Growers to get their orders together for you to pick up and have Delivery will be on TUESDAY Nov. 22nd!\
We will NOT BE ON THE PORCH WEDNESDAY after Thanksgiving!
From Management: Please arrive no earlier than 5:00pm to pickup your orders. You are welcome to come early to see any growers selling their items but arriving earlier to pickup your orders hinders staff getting orders sorted and in place. With the time change and Winter weather approaching, please do what you can to pick up your orders no later thany 6:15pm. This will not only help our Delivery Staff to get on the road and our Market Staff to get the Market Tables and etc. loaded up. Contact the Manager if you think you’ll be later than 6:15pm, we can work out other arrangement for you.
Growers This Week…Subject to change:
A&J Naturale
Bead Wench
C&M Valley Farm
Carole’s Herbs (CS3 Farms)
East Fork Farm/ Worm Castings
Ewe and Me Creamery
Flying S Farms
JillianFaithArt
Linwood Lamb
NashPhilly
Pennie’s Delights
Pinky’s Micros
Quarter Spring Farm
Quinn’s Mercantile
RC Farms TN
Rainbow Hill Farm
Rus-T-Acres
Sap Creek Gardens
Singing Bee Honey
Spring Meadow Farm
Sundae’s Best Dog Treatery
Sweet Beets Farm
Sweet Girl Honey Farm
Thweatt Things
Valentine Family Farm
Growers News:
Quarter Spring Farm: hopes that you are getting excited about the holidays! Put one of our delicious pastures raised chickens on your table this year to show your loved ones how much you care. And it’s never too early to start your holiday shopping. Our lotions and goat milk soaps make great gifts for everyone on your list. And stay tuned, we will have pasture raised lamb on the market soon!
Linwood Lamb: This week we have some delicious items: Chorizo Lamb Brats, Fetta Cheese and Spinach Lamb Sliders and Lamb Kabobs! Enjoy our Spicy Italian Lamb Brats and Thick Cut Lamb Loin Chops and Thick Cut Lamb Rib Chops. We also have ‘Price Reduced’ Lamb Leg Steaks.
Sow’s Ear Piggery: Will return next week.
Rainbow Hill Farm:
Reminder, this is the only time of year that you can get the freshest apples. Not refrigerated and ready to eat, dry or make sauce with them. We’ve already sold out of several popular varieties, don’t wait, get your order in!
Available this week:
Arkansas Black: Typically the last apple of the season.
Pink Lady: Small, tart apple. Green color with pink blush. Excellent for eating fresh or cooking.
Rome: Dark red, mild flavor, somewhat sweet. Good for both cooking and eating fresh.
Gold Rush: Medium sized green-yellow cross between golden delicious and Rome apples. High in vitamin C. Good for both eating fresh and cooking. Does not brown easily when cut so is good for fruit salad. Has excellent sweet-tart flavor.
Yellow Delicious: Very sweet to taste. It is a favorit for salads, apple sauce and apple butter.
Carole’s Herbs (CS3 Farm): We are back with some old and new items. Apicius Gourmet Mustard, Camomile Boby Butter, Elderberry Syrup, Herbal Healing Salve, Hint of Mint Body Butter, Kombucha Soby, Lavender Gourmet Mustard, Lemon Herbal Tea, On Guard Body Butter and Oolong Tea, Red Hawaian Salt, Black Hawaian Salt and Scarbourough Fair Gourmet Mustard.
Valentine Family Farm: Botanical Simple Syrup; we use water, bee balm, low processed sugar and lemon zest. This is great for sweetning ice or hot tea, and selzer water. Meadow Pickles in chips or spear or plain or spicy, Pickled Cauliflower, Pickled Eggs, Pickled Okra plain or spicy. Spicy Picked Sausage.
Pennies Delights: you might catch me on the Porch on Wednesdays with some of my items. On the Market we have: Several variety of Iced Cakes are available this week.Iced Cinnamon Rolls, Apple Filed Cinnamon Rolls or Strawberry Cheesecake Cinnamon Rolls, Strawberry Cupcakes, Sugar Cookies, Snickerdoodle Soft Cookies, Brownies, Breads: Banana Nut, Lemon Blueberry, Pumpkin and Zucchini, Peach Cobbler and seasonal items.
Pinky’s Micros:
As the season gets colder, alot of the season fresh product get less available but we’ve got you covered with our nutrious food items, our Sprouts and Microgreens can do just that.
We now have 2 oz. and 4 oz. units available of our Microgreens and Sprouts! This week we have these delicious Microgreens and Sprouts available.
Basic Salad Mix, Broccoli, Pea shoots,
Radish microgreens, Sunflower micro greens.
Here is some ideas how to use Microgreens or Sprouts..Mix into salads, layer in sandwiches, garnish drinks, seasoning soups, juice them or use in stir fry, soups, crries, omeletes, pasta, savory pancakes or fried breads, garnish roasted pumpkin or squash or use in place of lettuce on sandwiches or salads.
NashPhilly: We have another new item that will go well as a side dish for any event you might have. Find “Seasonal Side Dishes” Brussel Sprouts with Carmelized Onions and Bacon! and new this week Mashed Potatoes with sour cream and green onions Not your average side of mashed potatoes! I put these through a food mill so the texture of these potatoes will actually be perfectly smooth. Rich, creamy, buttery, these potatoes will melt in your mouth.
In “Noodles, Pasta and Italian Sauces” find our Beef and Cheese Lasagna in a large family portion or Single Portion and Fettuccine Alfredo with Chicken.
Spring Meadow Farm: Aji Dulce Pepper, Arugula, French Breakfast Radish, Green Tomatoes, Curly Leaf Kale, Lemon Balm, Roma Tomato, Siberian Kale, Spring Mix, Super Greens, Tomatillo, Tomato Mix, Turnip Greens.
Rus-T-Acres: New this week Beauregard Sweet Potatoes, Decorative Corn, Firewwod Bundles, Ham Roast, Hot Breakfast Sausage, Medium Breakfast Sausage, Pork Chops. We will soon have our new supply of meats in, we are at the mercy of our processor!
Flying S Farms: Chicken Eggs, Acorn, Carnival winter squash, Beautiful Fall Lettuces, Tomatos, Sweet Potatoes, Baked goods, Sweet Breads, and Sour Dough Breads, Biscuits…are available this week! You can order your Biscuits frozen but first order the size of Biscuits you’d like them scroll down and see ’Freeze My Biscuits). Stocking up on our Jam and Jellies. New: Apple Jamely (almost a jelly but thick like a jam) Blueberry-Apple Jam, our Almost Seedless Red Raspberry Jam is back! Added Delicous Apple Butter this week and Pumpkin Butter is back!
DELIVERY SERVICE AVAILABLE:
We offer after market Delivery Service for $10 within a 10 mile radius of Murfreesboro, outside areas additional $1.00 per mile is added. If this is the first time you’ve requested delivery please put your address in the comments before you check out and any special instructions. An Invoice will be emailed to you that includes a $1.00 Invoice fee after your order is Delivered. Again, please make sure your email and address is current.
There is an additional $5.00 fee added if Delivery is requested AFTER MARKET HAS CLOSED ON MONDAY EVENING. This fee is so we can make arrangements with our Delivery Staff to prepare your order to be delivery.
The Market methods of Payment is Cash, Checks or Credit/Debit Cards, Invoice ($1.00 fee). Reminder, please make sure your email and address is current.
Thank you for supporting your Locally Grown Market, it means a lot to our Growers and Community by Shopping Local and Staying Local!
Special THANK YOU to Quinn’s Mercantile for their support of our Locally Grown Market and the use of the front porch. Please be sure to check out the Store, several great gift and useful items, along with items made or produced in Tennessee
We look forward seeing you “On the Porch or At the Curb" of Quinn’s Mercantile WEDNESDAY, November 16th from 5:00 – 6:15 pm, please contact the Manager if you are unable to pick up your order or are running late, please phone, email or text the Manager (615.542.1078) so we can make arrangements to get your order to you.
We will always try and reach you as a reminder about your order, we can make arrangements for you to get your order to you. If we do not hear from you, your order will be donated and you will be invoiced for the amount of your order. We still need to pay our Growers for their products. Remember we do have Delivery Service. If you think you will be later than 6:00 pm, when our Delivery Staff begins delivering orders, please contact us, so we can make arrangements with you.
How to contact us:
Email: stonesrivermarket@gmail.com
Website: https://stonesriver.locallygrown.net
Facebook: www.facebook.com/StonesRiverMarket
Locations: Quinn’s Mercantile on Wednesdays: 301 North Spring Street, Murfreesboro
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