Don’t Panic!

There’s still time to get your weekly order in. Lots of time. Now that The Market is open from noon on Sunday until noon on Wednesday, you have an extra five hours each week to plan your menus and browse the awesome offerings of some of Arkansas’ finest farmers. Offerings like:

• Apple bratwurst – Falling Sky Farm. is offering a special on these crowd-pleasing sausages. If you can spare freezer space for 10 pounds, you’ll save $1.50 per pound. If you can’t spare the space, invite everyone you know over for a backyard brat-fest!

• Juliet tomatoes – Whether you order from Crimmins Family Farm or Bee in My Bonnet Farm, you can’t go wrong with this workhorse of a tomatoes. They’re a bit drier than slicing tomatoes, a bit more moist than paste tomatoes, and positively packed with flavor. Use them in salads, sauces, soup, sandwiches, or any other tomato endeavor.

• Blackberry and muscadine jam – The fantastic folks at Bluebird Hill Berry Farm know that you don’t want to steam up your kitchen making jam, but you still want something delicious to jazz up your toast. Lucky for you they make delicious jam with fruit grown on their own farm. Locally made using locally grown ingredients. It doesn’t get any better than that!

While you’re shopping for next week’s fare, don’t forget about this week! If you find yourself wishing you’d ordered just a bit more and don’t want to wait until Saturday to restock your refrigerator, stop by Whole Foods this evening and shop ‘till your heart’s content. No need to feel guilty, because they’re donating 5% of today’s sales to ALFN! In fact, we’ll be there until 7:00pm. So stop by and say hi. We’d love to see you there!

-Rebecca Wild
Program Manager

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