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    Market NOW Open - Aug. 31st, 2015


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    FIRST TIME CUSTOMERS You are invited to watch our Market Tutorial before you begin. If you do not receive an email confirmation immediately after you order, then you did not click the SUBMIT ORDER button and we did not receive an order from you. Call your Market Manager for help.

    GROW YOUR OWN: How to Deal With Bugs Organically

    Pests may not always be as bad as they seem. First ask yourself, Are these bugs REALLY doing that much damage to my beautiful vegetable plants? They may munch a few leaves, but do they leave behind enough for you to eat? Take a look at Nathan’s video “Dealing with Garden Bugs, Think More Organically” filmed during one of his backyard gardening classes. Take some measures to control the pests in your garden using organic methods.

    PRIORITY Volunteer & Training Opportunities

    ATT: RAW DAIRY LOVERS
    Our ongoing request for a volunteer to pick up dairy in Oldsmar every other Thursday afternoon. Only TWO Markets remain to train someone to fill this spot. Pam says picking up anytime after Noon until 4 or 5pm will work well. Volunteer will pick up crates (2 or 3 to transport the egg cartons) and 2 or 3 large styrofoam coolers/ice at our home on Thursday on the way to Pam’s. There is a back up person who is ready to help on an emergency basis with 3 or 4 days notice whenever the primary volunteer has something come up. We will no longer carry The Dancing Goat’s products as of Oct. 1st without a volunteer to go to Oldsmar and pick up every other Thursday for our Market. Please respond to make arrangements for training with Nathan this week (on 9/03) if at all possible.

    FRIDAY DELIVERIES FOR SEPTEMBER & OCTOBER – We would like to train more delivery people to prepare for the fall wave that will descend upon us. Due to limited resources, we have been operating with just two shifts all summer. We usually have three shifts on Friday deliveries with shifts operating sometime between 1130AM & 630PM. It’s time to start shifting into a higher gear! Delivery volunteers are asked to attend a 20-minute phone conference orientation at their convenience. How does it all work? Volunteer teams of two deliver via a large air-conditioned cargo van throughout St. Petersburg, near Largo, and into Gulfport. Volunteers must be detail oriented to manage checkoff sheets and distribute invoices. Please call Tina right away at 727-515-9469 if you can help!

    Message from Your Market Manager

    SUSTAINABLE ME RETURNS TO MARKET
    Welcome back to Richard & Jeni Duncan, Growers since 2012. Their eggs are renowned and in high demand locally. Check out their Grower Page. Richard is also an urban aquaponic farmer and I’m hoping to enlist him for a talk at an upcoming potluck social.

    LAST CHANCE TO VOTE FOR ST. PETE LOCALLY GROWN
    Voting ends on Sept. 8th! Please go to Stage 3 at this link to cast your ballots. Here is where you’ll find us listed: Within Goods & Services, please vote for us as Best Farmer’s Market, Best Place to Shop Green, and at the bottom of the list under “Best Category We Forgot” please select Best Online Farmers Market to get it on next year’s ballot. (For Best Farmer’s Market VENDOR, please select “The Dancing Goat”) Within People, Places and Politics, please declare us the Best Place to Volunteer. I appreciate all of you who have stormed the Creative Loafing website and filed your vote!

    SPLG’S FRUIT BASKET
    Ginger Gold Apples, Gala Apples, Valencia oranges, green seedless grapes, red plum, Medjool dates, AND avocados & star fruit (aka carambola) grown right here in St. Pete!

    ON SALE THIS WEEK
    Coffee, apples, dried dates, ginger, onions, GROUPER, remedy(s), and dairy products!

    STILL ON CLEARANCE
    All remaining local lamb and Alaskan Sockeye salmon products. Stock up and get them while they last! We will NOT be carrying these items in the future.

    GOOD CUSTOMER FEEDBACK!
    “Everything we received was great! Love that we can get fresh greens in the dead of summer. I won’t be ordering the next round because we will be on vacation but plan on ordering when we get back. Thank you!” Thanks to new customer Meghan W.

    Upcoming Events

    All these and more are posted on our Calendar of Events

    WORKSHOPS & EVENTS

    • “Monthly Potluck Social”, Sept. 26, Nathan’s Garden Tour Begins at 5:30PM for active Market customers, growers, and volunteers. BY Whoozin.com e-vite ONLY. Debra Black will talk about unusual herbs, their uses and growing conditions. She will bring some of these herbs to display. Debra is owner of Mrs. Chippy’s Plant World and Edible Landscape Design and is a grower for St. Pete Locally Grown. She has turned most of her lawn into food (fruit, vegetables and herbs) with lots of plants to attract pollinators. She has been gardening in Florida for 6 years and has made every mistake that can possibly be made. She is a graduate of the School of Hard Knocks. She gets many of her unusual herbs from seed but also when she travels to the east coast of Florida and visits the Mounts Botanical Gardens in Lake Worth, as well as the Wat Thai Temple in Tampa on a Sunday where there is a plant market on the Palm River.
    • NO WORKSHOPS BY NATHAN IN SEPTEMBER

    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!

    Posted by: Tina Levy at Sunday August 30, 2015 05:27 PM EDT