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Harvest News 1/12/12


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Upstate Locally Grown Market
www.upstatesc.locallygrown.net

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Market Director
Donna Putney

EDITOR
Heidi Williams
GREENWOOOD Market Manager:

Courtney Rebovich
Packing Coordinator: Shae Smith
DROP_OFF SCHEDULE

Recipes


Vegetable Beef Soup
Great for a crowd or freezes well. Serves 8-10

3 medium *onions, chopped
1 ½ lb. lean ground *Nature’s Beef
2 T extra-virgin Olive Oil
4 cups beef broth
6-8 garlic cloves, finely chopped
1 beef bouillon cube or packet
5 (14.5 oz.) cans diced tomatoes
2 c. *carrots, chopped
1 ½ cups celery, sliced
3 c. potatoes, peeled and cubed
2 c. frozen cut green beans
1 ½ c. frozen niblet corn
2-3 T *parsley flakes
3 tsp dried basil
2 tsp. dried *thyme
1 T. salt, or to taste
1 tsp. freshly ground black pepper, or to taste.

Brown onions and beef in oil using 12-quart soup pot. Add all remaining ingredients,
simmer 1 ½ hours.

  • These products can currently be found fresh on the Market page at USLG




Market News


MARKET NEWS


Hello Folks!
Upstate Locally Grown is made for folks like you, who believe in pulling together for the cause of local food and local business.

  • In Transition: Remember to draw down your balances to zero, and pay-as-you-go for a time. USLG is on the move, with many good changes ahead of us.

We are so glad that you are fans of our local growers! And we are thankful that you choose us as your local food system! We select our “growers” very carefully before we approve them to sell on our market. Growers must meet certain standards to be Upstate Locally Grown Approved.
Produce:
Upstate Locally Grown Approved produce growers are folks who have the cooperative spirit and the integrity to use organic methods, no matter how hard it is. Their (our) farms are visited by our peers so we know the growing methods of each grower. The growers come highly reccomended by their peers and by our memmbers. Every produce grower uses sustainable “beyond organic” methods We pick your veggies just hours before you get them. Where else can you get veggies delivered to you any fresher or more pure? You can feel good about feeding your family USLG selected produce, as we stand behind that promise with a guarantee that if you are dissatisfied, we will gladly credit your account, or else replace the item for you.
*Processed and Baked Goods: *
Our folks who process your foods use the freshest and most pure ingredients possible. Your products are prepared to order, meaning that they are just hours old when you get them. Using the freshest ingredients possible and using no preservatives makes USLG baked goods better for you than conventional.
Not all of the ingredients are organic in baked goods, so they are considered conventional but without preservatives.

Meats:
Every meat grower on this site allows their animals to free range. When supplemented with feed, the feed has no antibiotics, and no horomones are used. We don’t routinely use any antibiotics at all.
So, we hope that this information will help you to feel good about the food you order through us.
Welcome to new growers: Swamp Rabbit Cafe and Grocery!!!! Mary and Jac will be offering up some scrumptious bakery items fresh from the oven to you! Look under “New Products” and you can order directly from there, or else go to “Baked Goods” and see all of our luscious mouth-watering baked goods (pies, breads, cakes, rolls) from Swamp rabbit Cafe and our other very tralented bakers.

NEW DROP-OFF LOCATION!
SWAMP RABBIT CAFE AND GROCERY, Cedar Lane, Greenville, will be our newest drop-off location for USLG’ers near Traveler’s rest or Downtown Greenville: along the Swamp Rabbit Bike trail!

New Year, New opportunities for potential MARKET HELPERS! (It takes a villiage to make a food system work, you know)
Upstate Locally Grown is a market in transition and on the grow! You may be the special person who will help to transition us into a successful 2012! The wonderful part is that we have divided up the tasks so that a busy person like you might still be able to fit US Locally Grown into your busy schedule. (And some can be done while picking up your order anyway!) :0)
Do you long to write? Would you like to contribute articles, recipes, or photos to the weekly Harvest News weblog? (Get in on the good stuff before anyone else knows). Click here and reply to “Harvest News Opportunity”-
Be an administrator on our Facebook page/ build our fan following on Facebook/Twitter/Etc.
- work on website; such as: adjust cheese prices for your drop-off, edit market page, upload photos, add recipes, etc.
And other areas. Whether you have an hour a month, or a couple of hours a week, there are so many ways that we could use your unique talents to benefit local farms, artisans, and families.
To see if you might fit into a slot, please email (click here:) Donna at putneyfarm@aol.com

Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle Your Egg Cartons With USLG!
Reduce greenhouse gases and save a trip to the recycling can by throwing your CLEAN Putney Farm cardboard or PET egg cartons back in your reusable grocery bag when they have been emptied out, and bring them to drop-off next time. We can reuse these for your future egg purchases. Thanks!

Prayer Request
Please keep Donna and her wonderful husband, Lenard, in your prayers as they struggle through some health issues. We need your support and helping hands to carry us through this rough spot.

Featured and Fresh Products to Look for this Week:
Greens
Fresh Herbs
Baked Goods galore
Beef
Pork chops
Pork sausage
Scallions
Spinach, lettuce, and beet greens
Broccoli
Rutabaga
and much, much more!

Make Your Own Bath and Beauty Products
Hair Spray, Lotion, soap, lip balm, and more are easy to make with ingredients from your garden and/or Upstate Locally Grown. A great primer from Natural Home & Garden magazine gives you the basics.
Or, try making this simple hairspray recipe contributed by our local expert on these things: Courtney Rebovich! We love ya, Court!
Hair Spray Recipe
1/2 cup nearly boiling water
3 TBS sugar (yes, sugar)(more for coarse hair, less for fine hair)
a splash of vodka for preservative (in the hair spray, silly)
a drop or two of essential oil (Courtney used lime, but you can choose rosemary or lavender; anything)(or go fragrance free)
mix together till sugar is dissolved, put into a bottle with a fine mist pump spray. Spray once, and if you need more, wait at least 30 seconds to re-apply so the first layer can dry a little. (the alcohol in the vodka helps here, too.)
I thought Courtney’s hair looked pretty good when I saw her yesterday, so I reccomend it!
Have a wonderful week, happy shopping on USLG, and good family meals from all your goodies!
Donna and Lenard, and the whole gang of Market helpers.

USLG Events & Updates


A few of us have just discovered WinterSown, which tells you how to sow seeds now and have them come up at just the right time this spring. I’m trying it to see how it works in our area, and thought some of you might want to give it a whirl. I figured you might be like me; going ionto withdrawals from not being able to play wioth the dirt and make thigs grow. Try this link or go to www.wintersown.org. You can even get or give free seeds! :0)


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!