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Welcome to the February – Sunday – 4th and Monday – 5th 2024 online Market. Market will close at tomorrow Monday the 5th at 10pm.

Our Growers have been busy getting ready to start the new season.
Several Growers have updated their inventories and adding new items.

Please note we have change our Market hours slightly. Please pickup your orders from 4:15 to 5:30pm.

We will NOT be able to offer Delivery Service this week. You are welcome to contact us if we can
make a different day arrangement, traffic and darkness has been hindering our delivering.

Reminder: You can always check the Market when it is closed, most the Growers update or add new items
during the week, you can get your list ready for Sunday Morning when Market opens.

Growers with items this week, subject to change:

Arrington Bread Co
Backyard Tailz
Calico Farms
Carole’s Herbs (CS3 Farms)
D B Collectibles
Dogwood Valley Greenhouse
East Fork Farm/ Worm Castings & Luffa
Flying S Farms
Heath Homespun
Lavendar Cottage
M&S Farms
NashPhilly
Oakview Farm
Periwinkle and Pine Co
Pinky’s Micros
Quarter Spring Farm
Quinn’s Mercantile
RC Farms TN
Rus-T-Acres
Safe & Sound Soap Co.
Singing Bee Honey
Sow’s Ear Piggery
Sunshine Farms
Sweet Beets Farm
Tailwynds Farm
The Natural Nook
Triple LLL Farm
Valley View Farm and Garden
Yentz Family Farm

Growers News:

Get your ‘Valentine’ orders in for next week, we will have Market just don’t want you to be late sharing your love with your love ones!

Safe & Sound Soap Co.:
Introducing my newest Car Vent Air Fresheners! I wanted to create a line of car fresheners that I could sell to y’all at a cheaper price point. I used high quality fragrance oils that are vegan and toxin free!! These scents are amazing and I’m so excited for y’all to try them. They are $10 and each freshener will last two weeks or more in your vehicle! I have 3 classic scents and three Valentines Day scents.
For the classic scents I have:
Creamy Coconut
Leather and Bark
Laundry Day

And for the Valentine’s Day scents I have:
Cashmere Date
Almond milk and Blossoms
Forest Musk

M&S Farms: ANNOUCEMENT….we have lowered the prices of our beef so we can fill up our freezers for Spring.

New to the Market last week…Backyard Tailz: find our products in Gardens and Yards!
New item this week: Just in time for Valentine’s Day: Heart Bird Seed Ornaments! Show the bird lover in your life a little love this year by making their backyard the favorite in the neighborhood. Solid sunflower chips and cayenne pepper means no mess and (hopefully) no squirrels. Combine them with a Giant Cupcake Seed Cylinder for the ultimate gift and backyard bird feast.

Also available Giant Cupcake Seed Cylinder with Hanging Basket, Bird Seed Cylinder – Just Nuts no Waste, Just Berry Fruit, Woodpecker Snack, Bird Seed Wreath – Just Nuts No Waste, Nut Berry Fruit, Woodpecker Snack, Suet Balls – Blueberry Sunflower, Cayenne, Cranberry Sunflower, P-Nutty and Nice, Blueberry Sunflower, Cayenne, Cranberry Sunflower and P-Nutty and Nice.

Triple LLL Farm: We have several ‘New Year Pork Packages’ along with single cuts of Pork Products: Center Cut Pork Chops, Chicken Soup Kits, Pork Cutlets, Seasoned Jowl and Boneless Pork Chops…..This week we have newly added Specials on Chicken Thighs and Drumsticks.

Yentz Family Farm: Needing snacks for Superbowl Sunday (or really any day ending in -y :) We’ve got you covered with 3 types of cookies this week & all freeze incredibly well, scouts’ honor! Choose from: Strawberry thumbprint, maple sea salt & snickerdoodles. All are organic & dairy-free, too.

We have 4 types of nuts to fill those snack bowls or boards: Cinnamon pecans, regular & extra spicy herbed mixed nuts (if you haven’t tried these yet, they’re unlike any nuts you’ve ever had – cooling herbs with a tasty cayenne kick) & sweet & spicy pecans. All packaged in 10 oz resealable bags making them great for on-the-go or a quick unique gift.

Last, but not least, is our wildly popular vanilla extract made with organic Madagascar vanilla beans & aged for a minimum of 2 months. It’s sure to make any baked goods THAT much yummier. Also a great Valentine’s day present for your favorite baker.

Calico Farms: Trying to increase your protein intake this year? Go nuts! Be sure to check out our spicy herbed mixed nuts & sweet & spicy pecans – a mouth watering snack straight out of the resealable bag, thrown in chicken salad, or topping your favorite mixed greens.

When it’s this cold outside…it’s definitely tea time. Check out our organic house-blended teas (all delicious hot or iced!): Peppermint hibiscus, Bed time, Immune support & Summertime fruits. We also have in-mug tea steepers to go along with these loose teas to get more bang for your buck than the ball-style steepers because they allow the tea leaves to completely open up, meaning you can use less tea per brew!

If you’re looking to pamper yourself or someone else this this Valentine’s Day, consider our wellness products like our herbal bath tea & shower steamers. They are the perfect way to add aromatherapy to your daily routine.

Lavender Cottage: We are excited to be adding a few more new items. Some seasoning mixes as well as a new powder to our line up. With Valentines just aroud the corner don’t forget to order some freeze dried sweets for your sweetheart!

Tailwinds Farm: We have been busy these past couple weeks on our farm with kidding and lambing season starting. We are also preparing for this spring and summer ordering, working our plant bed to bring more delicious farm fresh good available to our customers. We have some newer cuts of beef one is our – One Bone Tomahawk steaks we have had great customer reviews on these steaks. We are currently running a SALE on Ribeyes and Sirloins. We have also added a few of our baked goodies we make all of these from scratch when we get an order. Give one a try we do not think you will be disappointed. Thank you for supporting your local farmers. Tailwinds Farm.

Carole’s Herbs (CS3 Farms): Welcome to the post subarctic blast. I am writing this email before our hilly sheet of ice road has melted having faith the much warmer temps will melt the shady spots by Wednesday. We have freshly made elderberry syrup and plenty of elderberry spilanthes tincture to fight the colds. We use the tincture daily to keep any viruses at bay. They come in 4oz and 2oz sizes.

Pink’s Micros:
This is our WINTER microgren blend! Every season we create new blends to represent the time of year. OUR WINTER blend has ’YELLOW BEETS, RED PAC CHOI, IGLOO CAULIFLOWER and CURLY WATERCRESS.

What better way to start the New Year than with highly nutritional greens called Mirogreens? They pack 40 to 100% more vital nutrients than the adult verion. We grow organically with NON-GMO seeds and nutrient-dense soil. We look forward to providing the best for you in 2024.

NashPhilly: Be sure to stock up with your favorites, Find our Items in Noodles, Pasta & Italian Sauses, Season Side Dishes and in the Soup Section:

Soup season is here and I added a new soup, a hearty Manhattan clam chowder. Filled with juicy clams and tomatoes, chunky potatoes and carrots. Sure to warm you right up!

Some more hearty and warm dishes are my green bean casserole. And I am now making chicken rosemary pot pie. The casserole is sure to be a delightful side to any dish. I make my own cream of mushroom soup for this and finish it with Parmigiano cheese. The pot pie is what you would be expecting loaded with peas, carrots, potato with the added flavor of rosemary. Puff pastry is laid on top and acts as the pie crust.

Finally if you haven’t had a Philly cheese steaks in a while. Try one of mine! 100% 1/2 pound of rib eye meat, delicious homemade cheese wiz sauce, sautéed onions, red bell peppers, and mushrooms. Sure to be one of the best sandwiches you have ever had!

D.B. Collectables: We will still have cold weather next few months. Help ward off those chills with these warm hat and scarf sets. The hats are knitted, and the scarves are woven or knitted.

RC Farms TN: We have updated and added several items on our market listing. Few new items this week, Breaded Okra, Breaded Green Tomatoes, Broccoli Casserole, Brunswick Stew.

Flying S Farms: Fresh Farm Eggs Special: Bundle of 3 dozen discounted price or by the dozen. Sour Dough Breads, Friendship Breads, we have added a new Friendship Bread ‘Butterscotch’ to our inventory! Along with delicious Brownies, Biscuits and Jams to name of few.

We will be looking forward seeing you “On the Porch or At the Curb" of Quinn’s Mercantile WEDNESDAY, February 7th from 4:30 – 6:00 pm, please note time change, 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.

Due to darkness and traffic, we will NOT be able to offer Delivery Service for after market at this time, but you are welcome to contact us and make arrangement for a time the next day.

How to contact us:
Email: stonesrivermarket@gmail.com
Website: https://stonesriver.locallygrown.net
Facebook: www.facebook.com/StonesRiverMarket
locations: Quinn’s Mercantile on the corner of Spring and Lytle.