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The Online Market is open for ordering from 8 AM Wednesday till 8 PM on Thursday.
Spring time is upon us again. The planting of vegetables and flowers is in full spead as we work to provide an aboundance of fresh new products. Please feel free to make your selections from the great products available this week.
Remember the New Customer Referral Program
From March 20 through June 30
How it Works
1. Tell a friend about the CUMMING HARVEST farmers market.
2. Have them register at cumming.locallygrown.net. (the market managers will contact all new customers to ask who referred them)
3. After their third purchase (3 different weeks), your credit will be applied to your account.
Thank you for sharing your love of healthy food and for helping to support our local growers!
Stephen Daniels
770-905-9155
Newsletter - April 10, 2013
This post expired on April 10, 2023.
RECIPES
Slow Cooker Chicken Cacciatore
via nom nom paleo
2 onions
1/4 cup tomato paste
2 tablespoons of butter
6 garlic cloves
2 teaspoons of dried oregano
1/2 ounce of dried mixed wild mushrooms, rinsed and minced (use all dried porcini mushrooms if you have it)
1/4 teaspoon red pepper flakes
1.5 pounds cremini mushrooms
1 (14.5-ounce) can diced tomatoes, drained
1/2 cup organic chicken broth
1/2 cup dry red wine
3 pounds of boneless and skinless chicken thighs
1/4 chopped fresh basil (optional)
Saute the onions, tomato paste, butter, garlic, oregano, wild mushrooms, and red pepper flakes in a skillet until onions are clear. Add this mixture to the slow cooker and stirr in the cremini, tomatoes, broth and wine. Season the chicken with salt and pepper and add them into the slow cooker and mixed everything well. Then, I put on the lid and cooked the dish for 4-6 hours on low.
Top the dish with some basil chiffonade.
Market News
THIS WEEK
My Daily Bread has all jams $1.00 off this week. Prices are marked.
This is the last of the salmon and halibut. What I have in the freezer, listed online, is it until August.
PLANNING A GARDEN
I thought I’d share a post from Athens Locally Grown this week.
Are you planning a garden of your own? If you’ve been preparing your garden, or just thinking about starting one, be sure to check out the live plants offered by our growers through the market. Sure, you could run off to Home Depot and buy some mass-produced seedlings soaked in synthetic fertilizers, but you can also get hardy seedlings grown by the same people cultivating plants for their own vegetable beds, free of synthetic chemicals.
It’s still a little early to safely put out summer plants like tomatoes, peppers, squash, and eggplants, unless you protect them. The average last frost date for Cumming is still a week away. The weather forecast for the next week looks pretty good, but right now the low for next Saturday is projected to be 43 degrees. That’s well above freezing, but quite cold for tropical tomatoes. If you want to get a jump on things, just use row covers or other protection to keep the cold nights from stunting them.
Why am I encouraging you to grow your own food when I’m in the business of helping growers sell you food they grow? For one, studies have shown that people who grow their own gardens tend to actually increase their yearly purchases at their local farmers markets. Once they take an interest in their food so strong that they begin growing what they can, they find that they can rely even more on their local growers for things that they used to get at the grocery store. And besides, my goal is for every community to become less reliant on food grown elsewhere and shipped in from long distances. And you having your own little patch of garden in your yard is a big step in helping us do just that.
Cane Creek has had some transplants listed online and look for heirloom tomatoes coming up beginning of May from Heirloom Gardens. If you are looking for something for your garden, let me know and I’ll see if I can find it.
Questions?: Please feel free to contact the farmers directly, they are available to answer your questions and concerns. If you have questions about the market, I am always available. If you don’t know who to ask, email us both. :)
LOCATION & PICK-UP
Building 106, Colony Park Dr. in the Basement of Suite 100, Cumming, GA 30040. Pick up every Saturday between 10-12pm.
Google Map
To view the harvest today and tomorrow till 8pm, visit “The Market” page on our website, The Cumming Harvest
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!