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Market is OPEN -- See you Wednesday Walk-up or Curb
Welcome to the October 18th and 19th Stones River Locally Grown Online Farmers Market. The Market opens 8:00 am on Sunday Morning and closes 10:00 pm Monday evening. Order early before quantities available run out! https://stonesriver.locallygrown.net
Be sure to check again over the next 2 days as some of our Growers may be updating their inventories.
We will continue to have our “Pull Up or "Step Up” delivery on the curb in front of Quinn’s Mercantile to pickup your orders Wednesday afternoon October 21st from 5-6:30 pm….Drive up to the canopy or you are welcome to park across the street and walk to the canopy to pickup your order using social distancing. We want to leave the area in front of Quinn’s Mercantile for their customers.
Reminder…Delivery Service is available within a 10 mile radius of Murfreesboro, outside areas will be considered and delivery is available to Woodbury at a host location. Please put your address in comments before you check out….Method of Payment is Cash, Checks, Cards or Invoice. For Delivering and Invoicing please make sure your account information is current.
Thank you for supporting our Locally Grown Market, it means a lot to our Growers and Community by Shopping Local and Staying Local!
The Market’s Gift Certificates are available, great way to share the Market with others. Give a Gift of Locally Grown food and other items.
Be sure to check out the Markets Recipe Section, recipes are posted by our Customers and Growers, you can view In Season Recipes or search for a recipe.
News from the Market:
We now have Reusable Market Totes available, 10 × 12 with a 8 inch gusset, not too small and not too big and reusable. This is a joint venture between Quinn’s Mercantile and our Stones River Market.
News from the Growers:
WELCOME…The Flour Girl…she will be offering GLUTEN FREE items on the market and some other item.
Fungalicious: is a small exotic mushroom farm that grows several varieties but mainly oyster mushrooms offering only the highest quality.
Body and Soul Teas: Herbal tea blends for sipping and soaking. My current product line includes herbal tea blends, bath teas, and herbal steams.
Sow’s Ear Piggery: New products this week. *Please note, all products will likely be in vacation mode next week* Freshly stocked: 1" chops in 2#-packages of 2 chops with thin fat rind. Also, NonMSG ground pork sausage (1 pound), great sliced into breakfast patties or fried up into crumbles for tacos, spaghetti, or stir-fry. Plus, 1-pound packages of lean cutlets for chicken-fried pork steaks. Still have ground pork and bratwursts for sale. Will be adding other new products in the near future! All our pork is from heritage pigs on NonGMO diet.
Mama D’s Bakery: Hi everyone! This week we have banana breads and pumpkin breads (with the option of nuts or not) carmel apple cinnamon rolls, gingerbread cake roll, pumpkin cake roll, spicy ginger cookies, pumpkin streusel jumbo muffins, bagels, donuts, cheese Danishes, pies, cookies, granola and protein bars, cinnamon rolls, breads, and fruit scones. Thanks so much to everybody for their business!!
Farrar Farms LLC:
Our GROUND BEEF SPECIAL continues, purchase 5 pounds of Ground Beef and get 1 pound free. Get out those Grills or Chili Pots ready and enjoy our cuts of Pasture Raised Beef making some delicious Stews, Chili, Mexican Dishes, this list is numerous.
Belle Fleur Organics:
New this week.. Braising Greens, Cilantro and Mei Qing Pac Choi other items are Arugula, Crunchy King Radishes, Cayenne Peppers, Jalapenos, Ping Tung Long Eggplant, Tusli Basil and Wildfire Lettuce Mix.
Wedge Oak Farm: Thanksgiving and Christmas are coming soon! Time to think about a turkey? Wedge Oak Farm’s pasture raised turkeys are grown here in Lebanon, Tennessee. They peck and stroll in the rolling hills and cedar glades of Wilson County. Never fed antibiotics, growth stimulants or animal by-products. They are moist and delicious.
Rainbow Hill Farm:
Delicious Apples this week…….
Jonathan: Slightly tart red apple with exceptionally good flavor. Excellent cooking apple.
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
Winesap: Hard green apple. Very tart.
Mutsu: large green to yellow apple similar to yellow delicious, also a very good cooking apple.
Yellow Delicious: Very sweet to the taste. It is a favorite for salads, apple sauce, and apple butter.
Valentine Family Farm:
Our Valentine Family Farm’s Smoke House Salsa has a delicious smoke flavor because of it’s fire roasted vegetables. Serve it with chips or use it as an ingredient to add some smokiness to your next batch of chili.
Flying S Farms: Sweet breads and bars are back on the market and by request for a limited time Rosemary Bread. Radishes, Turnips, Daikon’s, Kale, Turnips Greens, Tomatoes, Ancho Poblano Peppers, Sweet Peppers, Winter Squash: Spaghetti, Butternut, Carnival and Delicata. Sour Dough Breads. We have been Jammin’ ….several favorites are back in in stock…Seriously HOT Strawberry and Habanero Peach and Strawberry. New Apple Cardamom Jam and Old Fashion Pear Preserves. Wild Fox Grape Jelly, Pomegranate Jelly.
Carole’s Herbs (CS3 Farm):
We are still in ‘transition’ We expect to be in our new house by the end of October and should be able to offer lettuce, spinach and micro greens soon. Thank you for your patience and understanding during our transition.
Look forward seeing you “At the Curb" of Quinn’s Mercantile Wednesday October 21st from 5:00 – 6:30 pm, please contact me if you are unable to make delivery or are running late, please phone, email or text me so we can make arrangements to get your order to you. if we don’t hear from you, your order will be donated and you will be invoiced for the amount since we still need to pay our Growers for their products. Remember we do have Delivery if you think you will be later than 6:30 pm.
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
map: https://goo.gl/maps/GAkJS1wawbr