The Weblog
HELLO to all our Natural food lovers out there, aficionados of great taste and superior nutrition!
The Dawson Local Harvest is your locally-grown all-natural organic-standard online Farmer’s Market. It’s a different way of shopping that may seem a bit odd at first, but we think you’ll be surprised and pleased at how simple and convenient this is. This Weblog is sent to our customers to let them know just what is new and happening with the Harvest market.YOU MUST HAVE CREATED AN ACCOUNT ON THE YOUR ACCOUNT PAGE TO RECEIVE THE EMAILs AND TO ORDER. THIS IS COMPLETELY FREE AND VERY EASY TO DO.
I hope you’ll give us a try and enjoy a new way of shopping.
BBQ Fixins Back on the Menu!
Dawson Local Harvest for June 10th
BBQ Fixins Back on the Menu!
HI EVERYONE!
I know a number of our customers are big on Barbecue, which they consider a southern art form (I’m one of them). So there’s good news in that FIVE HENS FARMS has fresh Pork coming in this week. The first items in are all perfect for BBQ, and include both Boston Butt and Picnic Roast (both great for pulled pork) and Spare Ribs which are just begging to be grilled. I don’t know about quantities yet, so you might want to go ahead and get ’em (and maybe a spare for the 4th of July holiday). FIVE HENS has also added Detroit Suprem Red Beets to the Vegetable lineup. Check The Market for availabilities.
A sidenote: Send a thought towards Jack Forster of 5 HENS who is undergoing back surgery tomorrow. Best wishes, Jack.
FRESH SHRIMP RETURNS! After a short hiatus fresh wild-caught Georgia White Shrimp from TOM’S AWESOME SHRIMP is again on the Menu. It’s ultra-fresh and ultra-good.
In Produce News LEILANI’S has added crisp and delicious Broccoli this week, along with Golden Beets (yes, gold!). LAST CALL! With the approaching heat of summer Cool-weather Vegetables are on the edge of disappearing until next Fall. All of the wonderful Lettuces, Kale, Collards, Carrots, and more only have a couple of weeks of viability left, so you need to act now and order your favorites while you still can!
THE MARKET IS NOW OPEN!
REMEMBER! You can now order until Tuesday night at 9pm. Pick up your order at Leilani’s Gardens Friday afternoons from 4 to 7pm.
You’ll find the DAWSON LOCAL HARVEST at http://dawsonville.locallygrown.net
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! We guarantee your satisfaction with all products in the DAWSON LOCAL HARVEST.
Have a happy and healthy week!
Alan Vining
Market Manager
June Produce for the Dawson Harvest
The Dawson Harvest for June 3rd
June Produce for the Dawson Harvest
HI EVERYBODY
Hope you’re having a nice Memorial Weekend. Just wanted to clue you in on what’s happening with the Harvest. First of all, it’s June, so it can’t be long before warm-weather Vegetables are available from some of our growers. In the meantime there’s still plenty of Snow Peas, Lettuce, Kale, Collards, Chard, purple Onions, and other great-eating Veggies for your table. FIVE HENS FARMS also has free-range Beef, Pork, and Eggs, there’s killer baked goods from MY DAILY BREAD and rich, delicious raw MILK from LITTLE BROWN COW. Don’t forget delicious Fresh-frozen Wild-caught Georgia White Shrimp is still available as well.
AND HONEY! BRADLEY’S FARMS Fresh Local Wildflower Honey is available in pints and squeeze bottles. Local Honey has small amounts of all the local allergens intrinsically in the Honey, which helps “inoculate” you from these allergens thus giving you some degree of immunity. There is also a lot of buzz about the various health benefits of natural local honey which you might want to investigate. And Dawson Harvest is a local source for this Honey, so consider that (also tastes great on some of DAILY BREAD’S yummy Wheat bread!).
THE MARKET IS NOW OPEN!
REMEMBER! You can now order until Tuesday night at 9pm. Pick up your order at Leilani’s Gardens Friday afternoons from 4 to 7pm.
You’ll find the DAWSON LOCAL HARVEST at http://dawsonville.locallygrown.net
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! We guarantee your satisfaction with all products in the DAWSON LOCAL HARVEST.
Have a happy and healthy week!
Alan Vining
Market Manager
Memorial Day Meals and More!
Dawson Local Harvest for May 27th
Memorial Day Meals and More!
HI EVERYONE!
Hoping you’re looking forward to a big Memorial Day weekend, the unofficial start of summer. Here’s what’s happening.
FIVE HENS FARMS has their delicious Snow Peas again this week. Peas usually are only available 3-4 weeks, so get this great Asian staple while you can. Incidentally, here’s a twist on the usual Stir Fry. Guam Fried Rice is made with bacon or, Heaven forbid, SPAM and snow peas! I thought I was the only one eating it that way.
LEILANI’S has another Asian mainstay, Pak Choi or Bok Choi which would go perfectly with the snow peas, (Spam or not). They also have Green Onions, both the standard green with white tips and an interesting purple tipped variety. Baby Carrots, Collards, Kale, Swiss Chard,and lots of Lettuces are ready, and Scarlet Turnips have been added to the Menu again.
MY DAILY BREAD is back! Bruce is recovering from his surgery and they are back in production.
DON’T FORGET! For this upcoming weekend MY DAILY BREAD also has wonderful Cheese logs and dips, Cream Cheese spreads, wonderful Desserts (try the organic Chocolate Zucchini Bread) and much more
PUT SOME SHRIMP ON THE BARBEE for Memorial Day! Wild-caught Georgia white Shrimp from TOM’S AWESOME SEAFOOD is available quick-frozen for excellent flavor.
THE MARKET WILL OPEN Sunday night at 8pm!
REMEMBER! You can order until Tuesday night at 9 pm. Pick up your order at Leilani’s Gardens Friday afternoons from 4 to 7pm.
You’ll find the DAWSON LOCAL HARVEST at http://dawsonville.locallygrown.net
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! We guarantee your satisfaction with all products in the DAWSON LOCAL HARVEST.
Have a happy and healthy week!
Alan Vining
Market Manager
HI GUYS!
Dawson Local Harvest for May 20
HI EVERYONE!
Every family has problems and issues which have to be dealt with, and I don’t want to bother people with personal problems, but my Mother is in assisted living. Yesterday (Sunday) they had to take her to the emergency room in Atlanta and we had to deal with all that. She’s OK, but as a consequence I am opening the Market later than usual.
We will have more of Tom’s Awesome Fresh Shrimp and a full listing of Vegetables, Milk, Eggs, Pork and Beef and all the natural products from Hanalei Bath and Farmhouse Essentials. My Daily Bread is not listing and I haven’t been able to update Bruce Will’s condition after surgery because of my own family circus, but please send thoughts and prayers to him when you can.
THE MARKET IS NOW OPEN!
REMEMBER! You can now order until Tuesday night at 9pm. Pick up your order at Leilani’s Gardens Friday afternoons from 4 to 7pm.
You’ll find the DAWSON LOCAL HARVEST at http://dawsonville.locallygrown.net
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! We guarantee your satisfaction with all products in the DAWSON LOCAL HARVEST.
Have a happy and healthy week!
Alan Vining
Market Manager
HAM's On Sale, Fresh Shrimp and Mucho Produce
Dawson Local Harvest for May 13th
The GREAT HAM SALE, Fresh Shrimp and Mucho Produce
HI EVERYONE!
Love this time of year, great weather and lots of great eats!
First up, FIVE HENS FARMS has their delicious free-range Ham on SALE for just $5.75 a pound! This is a very good price for some extremely tasty Ham. It’s a limited time offer, so get it while you can!
Next up, more Fresh wild-caught Georgia White Shrimp from Tom’s Awesome Seafood will be available this week. Again, we do not always have this, so take advantage while you can! Both are in the Meat section of The Market.
LEILANI’S has a pretty full slate of cool-weather Produce ready now. Newest arrivals include Bok Choi (aka Pak Choi), red and green varieties of Buttercrunch Minihead Lettuce (very tender and creamy baby head lettuces), Baby Carrots, Swiss Chards (green w. red stems and Peppermint) to go along with Turnips (red and white), Baby Georgia Collards, Kales (see the Kale Chips recipe below), and several varieties of other Lettuces. In the Vegetable section of The Market.
SEND A SUPPORTING THOUGHT out to Bruce Wills of MY DAILY BREAD who will be undergoing open-heart surgery this week. Naturally there will be no Baked Goods available for this Market.
Kale Chips
So easy, so tasty, and like potato chips you can’t eat just one! All you need is some of LEILANI’S delicious Kale, plus salt (seasoned, sea salt, kosher, etc.) and olive oil (drizzled or spray).
PREPARATION IS EASY! Preheat oven to 350. Wash Kale thoroughly, pat dry, cut the leaves off the stems and tear into bite-sized pieces. Use parchment paper or lightly spray a cookie sheet and place the Kale pieces on the sheet. Drizzle or spray the olive oil, salt or season as you wish, then put into the oven and bake until the edges are crispy and brown, about 10-15 minutes. THAT’S IT!
VARIATIONS YOU CAN TRY: Sprinkle with Garlic powder, Onion powder, Pepper, or shaken Parmesan. Be creative, the possibilities are endless.
THE MARKET IS NOW OPEN!
REMEMBER! You can now order until Tuesday night at 9pm. Pick up your order at Leilani’s Gardens Friday afternoons from 4 to 7pm.
You’ll find the DAWSON LOCAL HARVEST at http://dawsonville.locallygrown.net
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! We guarantee your satisfaction with all products in the DAWSON LOCAL HARVEST.
Have a happy and healthy week!
Alan Vining
Market Manager
Fresh Shrimp (I PROMISE), Carrots, and more!
Dawson Local Harvest for May 6
HI EVERYONE!
FRESH SHRIMP This Week. I promise! And lots of fresh Produce, too, including the first Carrots of the Spring, red Turnips, Collards, Swiss Chard, Kale, and lots and lots of Lettuce, all from Leilani’s. Check out The Market for other delicious Meats, Eggs, Baked Goods, and more!
THE MARKET WILL OPEN Sunday night at 8pm!
REMEMBER! You can order until Tuesday night at 9 pm. Pick up your order at Leilani’s Gardens Friday afternoons from 4 to 7pm.
You’ll find the DAWSON LOCAL HARVEST at http://dawsonville.locallygrown.net
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! We guarantee your satisfaction with all products in the DAWSON LOCAL HARVEST.
Have a happy and healthy week!
Alan Vining
Market Manager
HEADS UP! Head Lettuce, Kale, Collards, and Shrimp!
Dawson Local Harvest for April 29
HEADS UP! Head Lettuce, Kale, Collards, and Shrimp!
HI EVERYONE!
Hope you are all enjoying this beautiful Spring weather! We’re certainly looking forward to more and more availability for fresh, scrumptious eats and treats and healthy all-natural products free of the chemicals and “unknowns” of the commercial world. So here’s what’s going on this week.
From LEILANI’S, dress up your salads with colorful and tasty Swiss Chard (also great added to pasta after sautéing with olive oil and garlic). Several new varieties of fresh-picked Head Lettuces are now available, along with dusky ‘Red Russian’ and green-leaf ‘Siberian’ Kale and extra-tender baby Georgia Collards (don’t forget the FIVE HENS Fatback for true southern taste). In the Vegetable section.
YIKES om the Shrimp faux pau. Ordering has been enabled and you can get all the Georgia White Shrimp your heart and taste buds desire! This week it’s wild-caught and quick-frozen for superb taste. In the Meat section of The Market.
THE MARKET WILL OPEN Sunday night at 8pm!
REMEMBER! You can order until Tuesday night at 9 pm. Pick up your order at Leilani’s Gardens Friday afternoons from 4 to 7pm.
You’ll find the DAWSON LOCAL HARVEST at http://dawsonville.locallygrown.net
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! We guarantee your satisfaction with all products in the DAWSON LOCAL HARVEST.
Have a happy and healthy week!
Alan Vining
Market Manager
YES, SHRIMP IS AVAILABLE NOW!
YES, SHRIMP IS AVAILABLE NOW!
HI EVERYONE
Due to a severe technical problem (diagnosed as operator stupidity) the Shrimp order button was not turned on. That problem has been rectified (the operator stupidity problem has not been eliminated since I am still running the website. So Sorry!).
You should be able to order now.
Thanks
Alan Vining
Market Manager
SHRIMP and SALAD!
DAWSON LOCAL HARVEST for April 22nd
SHRIMP and SALAD!
HI EVERYBODY!
Ya gotta love this time of year! Finally, Produce is starting to roll in, and now the Shrimp is back, courtesy of TOM’S AWESOME SEAFOOD! Just to remind you, this is wild-caught fresh Shrimp right off the docks of Brunswick, GA on Wednesday, delivered here on Thursday, and into your mouth on Friday!! It just doesn’t get better than that!
Now for the Salad part. LEILANI’S is adding Kale, both Red Russian and Siberian Greenleaf to their availability this week, along with Swiss Chard, Collards, and Red Turnips for your dining delight. Oh, and don’t forget about FIVE HENS FARMS Fatback for the ‘correct’ way to cook those Collard Greens and Turnip Greens!
THE MARKET IS NOW OPEN!
REMEMBER! You can now order until Tuesday night at 9pm. Pick up your order at Leilani’s Gardens Friday afternoons from 4 to 7pm.
You’ll find the DAWSON LOCAL HARVEST at http://dawsonville.locallygrown.net
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! We guarantee your satisfaction with all products in the DAWSON LOCAL HARVEST.
Have a happy and healthy week!
Alan Vining
Market Manager
April-Showering You with Great Products!
Dawson Local Harvest for April 15th
April-Showering You with Great Products!
HI EVERYBODY!
You’re getting this Weblog early because we have to be in Atlanta to tend to my mother for a couple of days. That’s okay, the Harvest will open at its usual time. There’s a lot to talk about this week, so let’s get to it. Now I’m a Southern boy born and bred, and while I subscribe to the whole organic-healthy thing there are certain foods that must be prepared a certain way to be “right”. I’m talking about collards, turnip greens, and green beans which must be slow-cooked with fatback in order to be edible. Well, thank goodness for FIVE HENS FARMS for their free-range Pork Fatback! A very large portion of fatback is just $5.00 and it will last for months, plus it goes a long way towards making store-bought greens more edible when the real things are not available from the Harvest.
Next up, HANALEI BATH has added their Litsea Lavender Hand Soap to their Spring availability. This HANALEI soap combines 2 of their best-selling fragrances in their trademark smooth and luscious all-natural soap blends. Great as a small gift, or treat yourself to something special. In the Bath and Beauty section.
Been trying FARMHOUSE ESSENTIALS Natural Laundry Detergent which is kinda pricey until you realize that it doesn’t take much to do a full load of clothes (a little goes a long way) and it has none of those seven-syllable chemicals found in the commercial products. You find it in Home and Garden Supplies.
Finally, if you think that all Lettuce pretty much tastes like cardboard filler because you’ve been buying at the grocery store, know that a revelation is at hand. LEILANI’S Lettuce has amazing flavor! This “expensive restaurant quality” Lettuce is crisp and flavorful, hand-picked just for you on Friday mornings for phenomenally fresh taste. Try both the Waldmanns Green and the Red Sails and you’ll never buy grocery store Lettuce again!
THE MARKET WILL OPEN Sunday night at 8pm!
REMEMBER! You can order until Tuesday night at 9 pm. Pick up your order at Leilani’s Gardens Friday afternoons from 4 to 7pm.
You’ll find the DAWSON LOCAL HARVEST at http://dawsonville.locallygrown.net
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! We guarantee your satisfaction with all products in the DAWSON LOCAL HARVEST.
Have a happy and healthy week!
Alan Vining
Market Manager