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Farmers Markets Promote Sustainability

Farmers Markets Promote Sustainability Behind the rows of produce, busy vendors, and eager customers, farmers markets are a bustling hub of sustainability. Local farmers deliver fresh, local food to a growing number of shoppers demanding food that is not only healthy, but environmentally friendly. But farmers markets take sustainability a step further. They also ensure farmers can make a living off sustainably grown food, while providing an outlet where communities can find and purchase their products. Sustainability is the overarching theme in this system. Farmers engage in sustainable farming practices to produce healthy food to sustain the ...

Farmers Markets Support Healthy Communities

Farmers Markets Support Healthy Communities In today’s fast-paced world, most Americans don’t know where their food comes from – let alone who grew it or how it was grown. Our connection to food has diminished to nothing more than a quick transaction at the check-out line, with no thought to who is behind the spinach in our salads or the steak on our grills. Farmers markets reconnect communities to their food system. They create an opportunity where farmers can simultaneously sell fresh, local food and serve as food educators, revitalizing the way consumers shop and eat. They are places where farmers and neighbors meet to socialize and ...

Farmers Markets Stimulate Local Economies

Farmers Markets Stimulate Local Economies On the next visit to your local farmers market, take a moment to observe the wheels of your local economy in motion. The rows of fresh, colorful produce. The delicious aroma of sizzling fare. The neighborly conversations. At the center of these lovely diversions are the transactions taking place between farmer and customer; the exchange of money for goods. Enticed by the festive sights, sounds, smells, and tastes, more and more people are choosing to shop for fresh, local foods sold at farmers markets. According to an impact study conducted by Civic Economics, locally owned retailers like farmers markets ...

Farmers Market Week

In celebration of National Farmers Market Week, August 2-8, we are highlighting the many reasons why farmers markets are more than just a place to find fresh, local food. Across the country, evidence shows farmers markets are significantly improving the health and well-being of their community, economy, and environment. And as support for farmers markets continue to grow, so will the ways their communities prosper.      

Homemade Gummies

Every time I go into a store, one of the first things my children ask for is gummies.  There is just something about this sweet, chewy treat that calls to them.  Instead of giving into the ones we find in the grocery store, I started making our own. The great thing about making them at home is they can be made with almost any fruit or juice that you have on hand.  It also allows me to control the sweetness and bulk up the nutritional value. I, typically, use Great Lakes Kosher Grass Fed Beef Gelatin to make my gummies.  (I have used fish gelatin as well.)  Grass Fed Gelatin helps improve your skin, teeth, hair, nails and digestion ...

The Recipe We Like Best

This is the recipe we serve up each week at the Roswell Farmers and Artisans Market where we have been building community and building trust since 2006 Producers only: Our rules state growers and producers may sell at market only products they grow, raise, or produce themselves. This rule helps insure high quality, freshness, and making it easy to know who grows or makes your food. Local focus: our  market support the local food economy by restricting  farmers and artisans to a 100 mile radius of Roswell, Georgia. The majority of our vendors are much closer.  Strict rules, thorough Inspections: insures our growers are bringing you ...

Shrimp, Tomato and Peach Salad

Grilled Local Shrimp, Heirloom Tomato & Peach Salad, Avocado, Arugula, Ginger Vinaigrette Serves 4 appetizer servings Salad: 4 Heirloom tomato, ripe 3 peach, ripe 12 shrimp, cleaned and grilled 1 avocado ¼ lb arugula Ginger Vinaigrette 6 oz fresh ginger, peeled 3 T champagne vinegar 1 T honey 2 t soy sauce ¼ C olive oil blend or grape seed oil 1 sprig rosemary Combine all ingredients (except oil and rosemary)  in a blender, puree until smooth. Slowly drizzle oil into mixture. Remove to another container, add rosemary and steep. Clean and quarter tomato and peach. Slice avocado. Add arugula and shrimp. Toss with vinaigrette and ...

Pie Day Registration

  PIE DAY at the Roswell Farmers and Artisans Market is July 25th! For entry rules and an online application, click here.  

Martha Stewart’s Watermelon Punch

            Ingredients 3 cups seeded watermelon, cut into 1 1/2-inch pieces 1 1/2 cups white vermouth 1 1/2 tablespoons superfine sugar 3 cups crushed ice Edible pansies, for garnish Directions Place watermelon, vermouth, and sugar in a blender; process until watermelon has been liquefied, about 10 seconds. Add ice; process 3 seconds more. Garnish with pansies, and serve in chilled glasses. That's it! Enjoy!

Independence and Being There

Independence, wrestled from tyranny, was hard fought and costly. The 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence pledged their fortunes, their honor and their lives for freedom. Five were captured, tortured and killed by the British, nine were killed in battle, twelve had their homes burned to the ground and four lost their sons. These men were lawyers, merchants, traders and of course farmers. Most of society was made up of farmers in 1776 and it was largely the farmers who made up the Continental militias. Today, farmers make up 2% of the population, but 40% of military volunteers come from farming communities. We encourage you to be there ...