Mercado day!

Our first market pickup! Joel found this co-op of a handful of local farmers and producers who operate an online ordering system with a weekly pickup in Jonesborough, which is 10 miles from the VA. Jonesborough is the oldest town in the state of TN and boasts in being The Storytelling capital of the US.
Wednesday pickup is only from 5:30-5:45 so we had to be on time! The director of the market is a very nice lady named Karen, who emailed us to confirm that actually did mean to place an order in northeastern TN when our address said MI. She told us about about how the market has gone from $70 grossly weekly orders to around $700.
Our order this week includes: one loaf of harvest grain bread, Asian micro greens, 1/2 lb of Ziegenwald colby style goat cheese and 1lb of Shell's Mill fresh stone ground grits. When in Rome...