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Market is OPEN -- Tuesday Delivery
Welcome to the Thanksgiving week market November 22th and 23rd Stones River Locally Grown Online Farmers Market. The Market opens 8:00 am on Sunday Morning and closes 10:00 pm Monday evening. This week pickup will be Tuesday November 24th 5:00-6:30pm.
We look forward seeing you on the Porch or Curb TUESDAY from 5-6:30pm with deliveries after. Please comment to Manager when you checkout that you would like curb service so we can have your order ready and watch for you. https://stonesriver.locallygrown.net
Be sure to check again over the next 2 days as some of our Growers may be updating their inventories.
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!
With the Holidays approaching The Market’s Gift Certificates are a great way to share the Market with others. Give a Gift of Locally Grown food and other items.
The Market has 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 Market:
Thanksgiving is THIS WEEK!, be sure to stock up on your favorite items. Delivery on Tuesday (24th) instead of Wednesday so you will have time to thaw frozen items or travel to be with families and friends.
Stones River Locally Grown Market would like to thank everyone for supporting our Growers of the Market and sharing the word about our Market. This year the Market has seen a increased with Growers and Customers because you are spreading the word! As a SPECIAL THANK YOU, when you order over $50.00 you will receive a FREE Reusable Market Tote, and orders over $100 will receive ‘2’ Reusable Market Totes.
Special request… if you have any jars and reusable lids from the Growers on the Market please return them to the Market. It has been difficult locating jars and when they do the prices are outrageous!
News from some of our Growers:
Rainbow Hill Farm:
We are getting close to the end of our Apple Season, be sure to stock up on your favorites, apples will store well in cool dry place for later use.
Our Delicious Apples this week…….
Arkansas Black Apples are now available. Tart flavor. Best keeping of any apple. Will keep all winter if kept in cool dry place. Last apple of the season.
Rome:Dark red. Mild flavor, somewhat sweet. Good for both cooking and eating fresh.
Granny Smith: very hard and tart apple, perfect for baking.
Yellow Delicious: Very sweet to the taste. It is a favorite for salads, apple sauce, and apple butter.
Gold Rush: Medium sized green-yellow cross between golden delicious and
Winesap: Hard green apple. Very tart.
Mutsu: large green to yellow apple similar to yellow delicious, also a very good cooking apple.
Carole Herbs (CS3 Farm): We have some delicious romaine and wildfire (red) lettuce, pickled black walnuts, Italian parsley, and Siberian kale.
Mama D’s Bakery: Hi everyone! Happy Thanksgiving week!! We have everything available this week. Get something for everyone for (in my opinion) this best of holidays. :) We have Pumpkin Spice Bagels, Banana Breads and Pumpkin Breads (with the option of nuts or not) Caramel Apple Cinnamon Rolls, Gingerbread Cake Roll, Pumpkin Cake Roll, Spicy Ginger Cookies, Pumpkin Streusel Jumbo Muffins, Bagels, Donuts, Cheese Danishes, Pies (Chocolate Fudge, Pecan, Chocolate Chip Pecan, Pumpkin and Sweet Potato), Cookies, Granola and Protein Bars, Cinnamon Rolls, Breads, and Fruit Scones. Thanks so much to everybody for your business!
The Flour Girl: Enjoy Candy Cane Fudge and/or Classic Fudge as well as several delicious GLUTEN FREE items this week…Angel food Cake, Blueberry Muffins, Chocolate Cake or cupcakes, Loaf Bread, Chocolate Chip Cookies, Peach Cobbler and Vanilla Cake with buttercream icing.
Sassy Cassies:
We have delicious Holiday side dishes. We have some unique twists on the old classics:
Green Beans with warm Bacon Dressing
Brussels and Bacon
Hashbrown Casserole
Sweet Potato and Cranberry Saute (savory)
Sweet Potato Casserole with hints of Vanilla and Orange, with a Streusel Topping
Best Squash Casserole ever!
Southern Cornbread Dressing, made with Homemade Turkey Soup
They come frozen, so can be ordered ahead of time.
Farrar Farms LLC: Instead of Turkey, enjoy a Beef Brisket this holiday! Our GROUND BEEF SPECIAL continues, purchase 5 pounds of Ground Beef and get 1 pound free. Get out those Soup/Chili Pots out and enjoy Pasture Raised Beef making delicious Stews, Chili, Spaghetti…the list is numerous.
Fungalicious:
As the holiday approaches we find ourselves wondering who would like to have gourmet mushrooms to pare with their dishes for a wonderful Thanksgiving meal. The uses are numerous and don’t forget our Powders they will enhance any dish and increase the mushroom flavor.
Body and Soul Teas:
Our Herbal Teas Blends will go great with Holiday meal. Herbal tea blends for sipping and soaking. My current product line includes herbal tea blends, bath teas, and herbal steams.
Flying S Farms: Some of the items we have this week include; Rainbow Swiss Chard, Salad Onions, Sweet Potatoes, Cheddar, Purple and White Cauliflower. Also Radishes (try them roasted-delicious) Turnips, Daikon’s, Kale, Turnips Greens, Mustard Greens, Winter Squash: New Blue Squash and Kuri!, Acorn, Butternut and Carnival. Sweet breads, assorted brownie and lemon bars, pumpkin bread as well as cookies are back on the market. Artisan Breads and Sour Dough Breads and biscuits. As well as our Sour Dough Breads in loaves and rolls. We have been updating several of our Jams.. Christmas Jam (Cranberry + Strawberry) and Cowboy Candy (Candied Jalapenos), Dark Cherry Jam and Seriously HOT Strawberry, we keep Jammin’ so be sure to check back. Do you have a favorite that I don’t have listed, let me know.
Look forward seeing you “On the Porch or At the Curb" (If you would like Curb Service, be sure to let me know in Comments to Manage) of Quinn’s Mercantile Tuesday this week because of Holiday November 24th 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