The Market is Open with Plenty of Gifts!

Good Morning Market,

Is it officially the most wonderful time of the year yet? Cause it sure is starting to feel like it. The lights in my neighborhood are popping up night after night, some radio stations are now only playing holiday music, and everyone’s begun the mad scramble for gifts. Speaking of gifts, the market’s got plenty of ’em! Besides the incredible quality of our products, purchasing local really is the gift that keeps on giving. When you spend your money with a small Arkansas family business, it allows them to invest that money back into making even more wonderful products that we then get to enjoy! Products like…

• Cookies in a jar from Green Acres Atkins. These cute quart mason jar kits come complete with all of the dry ingredients for one of nine varieties of cookies…just add liquid ingredients and bake!

• Glazed pecan meats from Bluebird Hill Berry Farm. Pecan meats are coated with egg whites and a sugar cinnamon mix then baked to produce a wonderful snack. A delicious gift…if you can handle giving them away!

• Check out the gift baskets and sets section for some beautiful gift sets from Tammy Sue’s Critters. Order any combination of her wonderful goat’s milk soaps, lotions, body butters, lip balms, and hair bars….just let her know in your order comment which scents you’d like.

• Or snag some stocking stuffer individual soaps from Homayd Natural Care Products. They’ve got everything from all-natural hand sanitizing spray to butter bars.

• My wish list is full of canned and pickled products like apple thyme sauce, spicy garden pepper marmalade, and Caribbean Paw Paw Sauce. Just saying’…

Remember filling out a customer survey in September as part of ALFN’s strategic planning? Welp, I’ll be sharing the results of our first phase of planning this Wednesday, December 10th from 1-1:45pm at the Clinton School of Public Service Sturgis Hall Classroom I. Just e-mail tljohnson@clintonschool.uasys.edu if you plan on attending. If you can’t make it but are still interested in the results, e-mail me at arlocalfoodnetwork@gmail.com to receive a copy.

Thanks so much and happy shopping!

- Alex Handfinger
Director of Operations

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