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How to contact us:
Our Website: athens.locallygrown.net
On Twitter: @athlocallygrown
On Facebook: www.facebook.com/athenslocallygrown
On Thursdays: Here’s a map.

Market News

We’ve got a new grower listing this week, Mana In Our Foods. Alyssa Duvall’s not a grower herself, but she has been a long-time ALG customer and has gone through the process of getting her kitchen certified by the state so she can make available meal kits made from ingredients she has purchased from our growers along with other organic ingredients. You’ll find her first items available through ALG listed in the “Prepared Foods” category, and they include things like Coconut Lentil Curry, Savory Black-Eyed Pea and Quinoa, and Spicy Mushroom, Black Bean, and Quinoa Sliders. I get excited when I see businesses like Alyssa’s, because it’s a sign that our local food system, barely present 15 years ago, is continuing to mature.

Another person who is helping our local food system grow in unusual ways is Cathy Payne, of Broad River Pastures. She is trying to bring back the American Guinea Hog from the brink of extinction, a victim of the industrialization of our meat supply. This homestead hog was a fixture in Georgia family farms, where it thrived in our climate, until after the civil war, and then sporadically until the 1990s when it almost became extinct. She is working on a book about these pigs, and the people who are bringing them back, and is crowdsourcing the funding needed to get it published. Her Indiegogo campaign is off to a great start, but she needs more help to meet her goal. You can find the campaign and browse all the great perks available to supporters, here: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/hogs-with-heart-writing-project—2#home.

Thank you so much for your support of Athens Locally Grown, all of our growers, local food, and our rights to eat it. You all are part of what makes Athens such a great area in which to live. We’ll see you on Thursday at Ben’s Bikes at the corner of Pope and Broad Streets from 4:30 to 8pm!

Other Area Farmers Markets

The Athens Farmers Market is open on Saturdays at Bishop Park and Wednesday afternoons downtown at Creature Comforts. You can catch the news on their website. The West Broad Farmers Market is open throughout the week here in Athens, and you can find more information about them here: www.athenslandtrust.org. The Washington-Wilkes Farmer’s Market in Washington is open every Saturday 9-12 behind the Washington Courthouse. The Oconee County farmers market is open Saturday mornings in front of the Oconee County Courthouse. The other area markets I haven’t mentioned have yet to open for the season, so far as I know.

All of these other markets are separate from ALG (including the Athens Farmers Market) but many growers sell at multiple markets. Please support your local farmers and food producers, where ever you’re able to do so!

We thank you for your interest and support of our efforts to bring you the healthiest, the freshest and the most delicious locally-produced foods possible!