Availability for March 20

What a weekend for weather. I hope you were spared the brunt, where ever you may be. I was a little tense on Saturday. I was in Atlanta, taking my daughter to see a kid’s concert, and during the show four separate tornado warnings for my neighborhood were issued (and notices sent to my cell phone). My home phone line went dead, so I didn’t know what I’d find when I got home. There was only a lot of limbs down, things blown around the yard, so so forth—nothing bad at all. Three years ago, while I was at the Locally Grown drop off in fact, one went directly over our house, bouncing over our ridge but taking out homes on either side. So, I’m a little jumpy about these things now.

Anyway, you’ll find more of the same veggies on the site this week, but in a little greater quantity. There are a few new things, too, including plants for around your house. Those of you craving granola from Mertie’s Oven will find some listed this week as well.

There’s a couple events next weekend you might be interested in. First, Georgia Organics is hosting a full day workshop in Decatur Saturday called “Organic Growing 101”. Several of you have been asking about workshops on this topic, so if you can attend on this short notice, now’s your chance. You can find more info and RSVP here on the GO website. Also next Saturday is the closing of the “Ingest” art exhibit at Athica, in Athens. The closing has a lot of events associated, including performances Friday, a Slow Food brunch on Saturday followed by discussions on local organic farming and gardening and a demonstration of rain barrels for saving water. More information can be found at their website.

Finally, a number of Athens Locally Grown growers came into Athens this afternoon instead of taking advantage of the lovely day to work in their gardens. They put together the semi-final plans for a new Saturday farmers market in town. I’ll let you know more when the plans become more final, but the intent is to open on the first week of May. Many growers are selling everything they have through Athens Locally Grown, but others rely on both markets to support them working on the farm full time. A better, more active Saturday market can only help all of us.

Thanks for all of your support! We’ll see you on Thursday from 4:30 to 8pm at Gosford Wine!