Buy Fresh, Buy Local

The 2008 Buy Fresh Buy Local – Green Country Farmers’ Market Guide is now available for download!

Green Country Farmers’ Market Guide

The Green Country Farmers’ Market Guide lists farmers’ markets in the 18 counties that make up northeastern Oklahoma. Markets in the cities of Tulsa, Muskogee, Okmulgee, Collinsville, Owasso, Bartlesville, Sperry, Wagoner, Jenks, Stilwell, Tahlequah, Haskell and Claremore are represented. Each listing includes market start dates, times, and contacts. Get your Green Country Farmers’ Market Guide now!

Scott Smith serves it up fresh on the outskirts of downtown with his recently opened grocery, BlueJackalope, in Crosbie Heights (corner of Charles Page and Phoenix Ave). Smith hopes to pursue several goals near and dear to SGC’s collective heart. Social justice prompted the idea of putting a neighborhood supermarket in an area bereft of [...]

Newsome Community Farms: North Tulsa EATS Project

Friday, July 11, 2008
Location: North Sheridan Church of Christ
1313 North Sheridan Avenue
Film: The GMO Trilogy
Supper starts at 6pm, the film starts at 6:30pm, and the discussion follows the movie at 8:30pm.  To RSVP contact Demalda Newsome, (918)-955-8559, newfars777@aol. com.  Please consider using Oklahoma grown products in your dish.  Find [...]

Thank you for your interest in becoming a member of Buy Fresh Buy Local! If you have not yet read our introductory letter, please do so below. If you HAVE read our letter and you’re here to download the Membership Agreement and Order Form, you’re in the right spot!

You have two choices on how you can sign-up for membership, please take a look at them, and then click on the appropriate “DOWNLOAD MEMBERSHIP FORM” link to proceed.
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Attention Oklahoma Farmers & Ranchers!

Producing for a LOCAL marketplace can be an additional source of revenue for your farm or ranch. Here’s our story. I could sell a TON of Oklahoma grown potatoes every month at $1.25/lb. Also 2500 pounds of corn on the cob, 300 heads of cabbage, 1100 pounds of tomatoes (both paste and slicing), 600 pounds of carrots, 600 pounds of fresh peas and beans, 300 bunches of cooking greens, 600 heads of lettuce, 725 pounds of onions, 300 pounds of summer squash, and 500 winter squash. I need 750 pints of berries, 300 pounds of apricots, 600 pounds of apples, and 300 pounds of pie cherries. And 100 pounds of cornmeal, 400 pounds of dried beans, 660 gallons of milk, 80 pounds of hull-less oats and 700 dozen eggs.

That’s what my “grocery list of unmet demand” at the Oklahoma Food Cooperative looks like based on membership surveys in the fall of 2007. Our sales increased more than 100% each year, 2003-2007. In 2008, we expect to sell a million dollars of local food and non-food products, and by 2012, we will sell one million dollars a month–if the production for the local market is there.

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Dear Producers,
The Kerr Center for Sustainable Agriculture, Oklahoma Sustainability Network, and Sustainable Green Country have been working together over the past year (+) on a Buy Fresh Buy Local campaign for Tulsa and the surrounding area. The goal of the campaign is to link customers and producers together in order to support local agriculture. This [...]

“Cultivating Good Food for Good Health in Green Country” is a new long-term project that will help ensure Oklahomans have convenient access to healthy and affordable Oklahoma-produced foods. The USDA’s Community Food Projects program has awarded a three-year $299,996 grant to the project, which is a partnership of eleven Oklahoma nonprofit organizations and agencies.

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Come celebrate the opening of Center One Market! Thursday, November 8th from 6:00 – 9:00 p.m. Silent Auction, live music, food demonstrations, and more.
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The last several years, I have shopped at farmers’ markets, but my reasons for doing so have evolved over time. And as they’ve evolved, I’ve worked toward spending a bigger and bigger percentage of my food dollars locally.
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[ September 1, 2007; ] Sustainable Green Country (SGC) will be at the Saturday Cherry St. Farmers Market tomorrow, 7:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m., located at 15th & Peoria in Tulsa, giving away our free Local Food Guides! We also will be offering a Buy Fresh, Buy Local (BFBL) bumper sticker, ($2) and BFBL Oklahoma poster($10) , proceeds are for the BFBL campaign’s many goals.
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