Stones River Market
Murfreesboro, TN

Aug 8-9 Market is OPEN -- See you Wednesday on the Porch or Curb or request Delivery

Welcome to the August 8-9 Stones River Locally Grown Online Farmers Market! We have a guest blog manager, so if something doesn’t feel (or isn’t) right please 1) forgive, and 2) notify Carter so it can be corrected.

Please copy and share this web address with at least three of your health-conscious friends before the end of the day, via text, email, or social media. https://stonesriver.locallygrown.net

The Market opens at 8:00 am on Sunday morning and closes at 10:00 pm Monday evening. Order early before we run out of that one item you “must have!” You can always come back to order more (and some growers may identify added produce while the market is open).

We look forward to seeing you on the Porch this Wednesday August 8th from 5-6:30pm, with deliveries following. Know that our growers have the hour prior to get their products organized so things might be a bit hectic (and crowded) if you come early.

Please comment to the Manager when you checkout if you require curb service, and include your anticipated time of arrival so we can have your order ready and watch for your arrival.

Delivery Service is available within a 10 mile radius of Murfreesboro, outside areas additional $1.00 per mile is added. Delivery is also available to Woodbury at a host location. If this is the first time you’ve requested delivery please put your address in comments before you check out….Method of Payment is Cash, Checks or Credit/Debit Cards or we can email an Invoice including a $1.00 Invoice fee. For Delivering Invoicing please make sure your account information is current.

News from Our Growers:

Sap Creek Gardens: Our main focus is in growing medicinal and culinary herbs as well as antique roses. We will also offer herbal extracts.

Ewe and Me Homestead: Have you tried Sheep’s Milk, if NOT, you are missing out on a delicious and healthy milk. Use like you would ‘milk’, makes delicious ice cream and cheese.

East Fork Farm/Worm castings: Worm castings contains minerals such as concentrated nitrates, potassium, magnesium, calcium, and phosphorus. They are 100% organic fertilizer that can increase a plant’s yield, protects both soil and plants from diseases, repel insects and help the soil retain moisture. Worm castings have a very long shelf life and never lose their potency if they are kept DRY. They can be used to revitalize old soil in gardens and around your household plants.

Mama D’s Bakery: Hi everyone! We have everything available this week! We have a Sourdough Sandwich Loaf, Oatmeal Cookies, Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies, Strawberry Swirl Bread, Raspberry Swirl Bread, and Apple Cinnamon Swirl Bread, Blueberry Muffins, Crusty French Bread, Organic White Wheat Bread, Mocha Muffins, Chocolate Swiss Roll, Cinnamon Rolls, Caramel Apple Cinnamon Rolls, Blueberry Lemon Yeast Rolls, Banana Bread and Pumpkin Bread(with the option of nuts or not), Bagels(plain, cinnamon-raisin, blueberry, and everything), Donuts(cake and yeast), Cream Cheese Danishes, Pies (chocolate fudge, pecan, chocolate chip pecan, pumpkin and sweet potato), Cookies, Granola and Protein Bars, Yeast Breads, Sourdough Breads, and Fruit Scones. Thanks so much to everybody for your business!!

RnR Farm: RnR Farms has a full lineup of lettuce this week. Head lettuce and bagged lettuce mixes like always, and cherry tomatoes. New this week are wax beans, cayenne peppers, and sweet snack peppers. The snack peppers are a great addition to any of our salad mixes.

Sassy Cassies: We are back from a little Summer break and rolling out our August Featured Dish at the Stones River Market today. Chicken Marsala is our Featured Dish for August. We lightly dredge, then brown, chicken breast medallions. Then they slow cook for hours in a succulent Marsala sauce, using local Blue Oyster mushrooms. A bed of seasoned linguine rounds out this Italian classic. As an added bonus, all our yeast rolls are on sale for $10 (6 rolls) this month.

Carole Herbs/CS3 Farms: We have lots of pumpkins/winter and summer squash and some herbal and regular tea, all of which is great cold or on ice for a hot summer day. The winter squash will keep for a couple months if not too warm, so stock up now for fall! We also have a little bit of ginger fig shrub available.

Trinity Rose Oberhasli Dairy Goats: Will be taking a week off, will return next week.

Oakview Farm: We know it’s still summer but our ‘winter’ squashes are growing fast. Winter Squash are a harder skin and with a thicker texture than Summer Squash, stores well. Acorn, Buttercup, Yokihama and Small Sugar Pumpkins are available this week along with Mango Mint Jam, Okra, Yellow Squash, Japanese Cucumbers and Lemon Balm.

Rainbow Hill Farm: OUR PEACHES HAVE ARRIVED, order early before we run out. Also enjoy our delicious Sangre potatoes, they are thin skinned potato that bakes or boils well. Creamy with a sweet taste. Organically grown.

Spring Meadow Farm: Back this week with several delicious items! Mint, Garlic Bulbs, Kale, Lemon cucumbers, Red Pontiac Potato, Sunburst Squash, Assorted Cherry Tomato’s and White Kennebec potato’s.

Quarter Spring Farm: If you want to enjoy being outside without being feasted on by flying foes, try our Bug Off bar from Quarter Spring Farm. It is formulated to be easy on your skin and the planet, but hard on bugs. We have several new scents available for our lotion bars and have released our seasonal summer soap scents.

Sow’s Ear Piggery: We continue to have lots of great choices of products for grilling and smoking. As always, our pork is raised outdoors, in sunshine and fresh air. No antibiotics or hormones. Fed non-GMO feed and fresh vegetables.

Dogwood Valley Greenhouse: Something NEW! Rudbeckia, NEW FOR 2021! This popular plant produces a mass of golden yellow daisy-like flowers from July to September. The flowers are borne to a height of 24 inches, above slightly hairy, lance-shaped foliage. Dazzling mounds of yellow flowers with a deep brown center. Rudbeckia is very long blooming, unbothered by insects or drought. Grows in rich, moist soil in full sun to part shade. Plant in the border garden or cottage garden, where the nectar rich flowers will attract butterflies. Use as a cut flower. Hardy in zones 4-9. Also several varieties of Mints and herb plants available and Hosta Plants this week, miniature and midsize as well Hanging Baskets.

Short Mountain Cultures: We have many delicious and usable items to select from its hard to just select a few to highlight. Our Bulk Dry Products are plentiful, Fermented and Culture Products are always delicious and beneficial. We feature Hatcher Dairy Milks and various other products for body and health.

Flying S Farms: We have some Bodacious corn, long horn okra, and tomatoes — beefsteak and big beef!

*Stones River Market – *https://stonesriver.locallygrown.net

Always a Special THANK YOU to Quinn’s Mercantile for their support of our Locally Grown Market and the use of their front porch. Quinn’s Mercantile is listing some of their wonderful Tennessee made items on the market.

Thank you for supporting your Locally Grown Market, it means a lot to our Growers and Community by Shopping Local and Staying Local!

We look forward seeing you “On the Porch or At the Curb" of Quinn’s Mercantile Wednesday August 11th from 5:00 – 6:30 pm, please contact us if you are unable to make delivery or are running late, please phone, email or text ASAP so we can make arrangements to get your order to you. After trying to reach you and 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:
Temp blog manager: Carter@CS3Farms.com
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/GAkJS1wawb