Availability for April 19

I had a nice long email to you all planned out, but after spending the evening filing my taxes, my brain has turned to mush. Let’s see if I can hit the highlights.

Sunrise Organic Farm returns after the winter with their first harvest of the year, a radish mix and turnip greens.

We welcome a new grower to Athens Locally Grown this week as well. High Shoals Eggs, run by a friend of a friend I’ve known for several years, has a small flock of 25 free-roaming, well fed, heritage breed hens. They’re starting to lay well now, so their eggs should ease our egg shortage we’ve been suffering of late. I’ve been eating some the last few days, and they’re almost as good as the eggs I used to get from my hens…

We’ll be making a run to Milky Way Farm this week for raw milk, buttermilk and cream from their Jersey cows. In two weeks we’ll return to Split Creek and Diamond Hill.

The bakery is still working on putting their business back together. They’re taking this opportunity to re-organize, and will re-open as “The Granary”, a certified organic bakery still following the same guiding principles as before.

Damage reports are still coming in from last week’s freeze. It looks like local fruit of all sorts will be in very, very short supply this year. Many of us also lost vegetable crops already in the ground, including several items that normally would survive a freeze. On the other hand, varieties that should have perished, such as the 200 feet of various heirloom lettuces, made it through with no harm at all.

Another Locally Grown market has opened this week in Conyers, GA, run by Brady Bala, of Athens Locally Grown grower Double B Farm. If you know anyone in the Conyers area that wants local food, point them to conyers.locallygrown.net.

I think that’s all the highlights for the week. I see 120 items listed on the website, so despite the sudden cold snap, new items are still rolling in.

Thanks for all your support, and we’ll see you on Thursday from 4:30pm to 7pm at Gosford Wine!