Grand Opening is Tuesday May 7th – 3:30-6:30pm

We are so excited that we are opening up in 1 month! Aren’t you? We are on the hunt for some passionate local food lovers to volunteer to help with the Market.

“Hi all, it’s Mary Crimmins here – your 12 South Farmers Market Manger. This year we need your help to make this Market be the best Farmers Market in Nashville! I am reaching out to you because as much as I would like to admit I am super woman, I am not. I really want to create a wonderful atmosphere and spread the word about the Market and am asking for your help. Please share this with your friends and neighbors. I am thrilled about starting our 3rd season at Sevier Park, and look forward to another fantastic year of delicious local food!”

Who We Need:

• Someone to coordinate our live music – responsible for getting musicians, setting up and tear down music gear, and communicating with musicians.
• Several people to help us pass out fliers and posters around the neighborhood.
• An event coordinator – someone who can help organize and brainstorm really cool and educational “special events” for the Market.
• Volunteers committed to helping us spread the word through Social Media.
• Volunteers to help us set up and tear down the Market each week.
• Volunteer to set up and take down Market signs every Market day.

We want this Market to be YOUR market, and are really excited about partnering with our 12 South Neighbors to make this possible. Please contact the Market Manager Mary Crimmins if you are interested in helping. And THANK YOU in advance!!

Email: Mary@12SouthFarmersMarket.com

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Hooray for Fall! Join us this Tuesday October 30th for our Fall Festival. Lots of free activities including Live Music, Hay Ride, Pumpkin Painting, Facepainting, Trick or Treat with Farmers, a Pie Eating Contest at 4:00, and a very special Doggie Costume Contest at 4:30. So dress those dogs up in costume and show them off – special prize to winners! We will be dressed up and hope you bring the whole family to strut your costumes and enjoy a beautiful day in the park!

Plus a special apperance by our Market Mascots: Peas and Carrots

To view the Facebook Event Page: Click Here

Huge thanks to all those who made it to our very 1st Chef Demo with Chef Brandon Frohne. If you would like the recipes here they are.

Curry Scented Sweet Potato & Apple Salad w/ Citrus Fig Dressing

Makes 4 servings

• 1 cup of Sweet Potatoes
• 3/4 cup of Apples medium diced(Can substitute for pears or peaches)
• 1/2 tsp nutmeg
• 1/2 tsp cinnamon
• 1/2 tsp powdered ginger
• 1/2 tsp curry powder
• 2 tbsp of brown sugar
• 1 tbsp safflower oil
• 1/2 tsp kosher salt
• 1/4 cup celery small diced
• 1/4 cup sun dried cranberries or Cherries
• 1/4 cup toasted pistachios(Can substitute for pecans, walnuts or almonds)
• 1/4 cup chopped parsley

Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Mix all ingredients in a mixing bowl. Spread evenly on a baking pan and roast in the oven for 7-10 minutes or until lightly caramelized. Once caramelized, place the ingredients in the refrigerator to cool down for 15-20 minutes.

Place the pistachios in a skillet or saute with the burner on medium to high heat. Toast in the pan for about 3-4 minutes until you hear the pistachios start to crackle and lightly brown. Remove from heat to cool.

Add the roasted sweet potato and apple mixture into a mixing bowl with the toasted pistachios. Add the chopped celery, sun dried cranberries, and parsley. Add the orange fig dressing and mix well. Recipe follows.

For the Citrus Fig Dressing

• 3/4 cup of fresh aioli or mayonnaise
• 1/4 cup of fig jam(Can substitute for peach or blackberry jam)
• 2 tbsp of fresh squeezed orange juice
• 1/4 cup of white balsamic vinegar

Mix all ingredients in a mixing bowl.

Smoked Tomato Bisque w/ Goat Cheese Foam & Crispy Basil

Makes 8-10 Servings

• 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
• 1 tbsp safflower oil
• 1 medium onion, finely chopped
• 1 medium carrot, finely chopped
• 1 celery rib, finely chopped
• 2 garlic cloves, finely chopped
• 1.5 cup Chardonnay Wine
• 4 cups chicken stock
• 2 lbs of Tomatoes
• 3 tablespoons tomato paste
• 1 Bay Leaf
• 1 tsp Fresh Thyme
• 2 tbsp Fresh Basil
• 1 tsp Fresh Rosemary
• 2 teaspoons sugar
• 1 cup heavy cream
• Salt and freshly ground white pepper
• 4 oz of cornstarch
• 3 ounces of water

In a saucepan on medium heat add the safflower oil & melt 2 tablespoons of the butter. Add the chopped onion, carrot, celery and garlic, rosemary, and thyme.  Cover and cook over medium heat, stirring occasionally, until the vegetables begin to soften, about 5-7 minutes. Add the tomato paste and cook for an additional 2-3 minutes. Deglaze the pan by adding the white wine and allowing the wine to reduce by half.  Add the chicken stock, bay leaf, tomatoes, and sugar. Bring to a boil. Cover partially and cook the soup over moderate heat, stirring occasionally, until the vegetables are tender, 15 minutes.

Transfer the soup to a blender and puree until smooth. Return the puree back to the saucepan, add the heavy cream and cook until the soup reaches a soft simmer.  Turn off heat.  In a separate bowl add the cornstarch and water to make slurry.  Slowly add the cornstarch slurry to the soup while whisking until the soup is slightly thickened enough to coat the back of a spoon.   Season the soup with salt and white pepper and swirl in the remaining 2 tablespoons of butter. Ladle the soup into bowls, garnish with goat cheese foam, balsamic gastrique, and crispy basil.

Goat Cheese Foam

• 8 oz soft goat cheese with herbs
• 4 oz of sour cream or crème fraiche
• 4 oz heavy cream
• 2 tbsp safflower oil
• salt and pepper to taste

Preparation

Blend goat cheese, safflower oil, sour cream and seasoning in a blender or food processor. When seasoning, keep in mind that the mix will expand 2 or 3 times so you should season 2 or 3 times
more than you would normally do.

Strain mixture through a fine sieve

Add heavy cream and mix.

Pour the mixture into a whipped cream dispenser, screw one N20 cream charger (2 chargers if using 1L dispenser) and shake vigorously.

Refrigerate for a minimum of 1 hour.

Join us for an awesome special event this Tuesday!
Chef’s Demo with Chef Brandon Frohne

Demo Starts at 4:00pm

***First 25 people to RSVP and comment on the event page on Facebook get a free bag of all the local ingredients needed to make his recipe plus $1 off coupon to Grilled Cheeserie***

WITH CHEF BRANDON FROHNE

Brandon is most well-known in the food world as a young rising chef who displays a high level of creativity with his New Southern/Euro culinary style. Frohne applies a modern day approach to old world cookery & draws influences from the abundance of each seasons harvest while supporting local farmers,  highlighting hyper local foods, and exercising his own greenthumb where he utilizes sustainable practices to raise heirloom produce.

Check out his website & beautiful food photography here 
and join us September 25th for a cooking demo that is sure to blow your mind and give you some new ideas on how to cook local!

• Touch a Tractor
• Doggie Costume Contest
• Games and Crafts

This week we have a couple special guests. Your Farmers Market Carrot and PeaPod Friends, and they want to grab a photo with you! And to sweeten the deal (as if being pictured with a life size vegetable isn’t sweet enough) we will give you $1 off at Grilled Cheeserie.

What’s In Your Basket? All you have to do is show us what you bought at the Market that day and get a picture with your loot while holding a sign that says I {HEART} the 12 South Farmers Market. Then we upload that to Twitter and Facebook and BOOM – $1 Off!

We are so excited to be back for our 2nd full season! We’ve got more vendors, more produce and the same great community spirit! Join us next Tuesday May 8th for our Grand Opening Day 3:30-6:30 at Sevier Park.

NEWS:

• We want to reward you for not driving! If you walk or ride your bike, hit up the information booth for a $1 off coupon to use at any of the Market booths. Yipee to conserving gas!

• Don’t forget yours reusable bags and your cash

• Make sure to sign up for our Newsletter if you haven’t already

This is one of my favorite festivals that Nashville puts on each year. This year, the 12 South Market gets to be a part of it. Come out and say hi to us at the Nashville Earth Day Festival at Centennial Park. Rain or Shine.

Bring the kids and the dogs and enjoy a really amazing celebration of living green and healthy. And don’t forget to stop by our booth and enter to win some pretty awesome Market giveaways for our Grand Opening May 8th!

“The event will feature many exhibits and activities aimed at educating Middle Tennesseans about protecting our environment. With nearly a 100 family-friendly booths, hosted by community groups, environmental organizations and government agencies, will offer fun and exciting hands-on activities for all ages. Plus lots of live music and great food”

Help support 12 South Farmers Market’s newest farm that will be at the Market this season. They need you! Visit their Kickstarter Page here. 

This is Delta Sun Farm!  Welcome to our dream! 

Caitlin and I met five years ago when we were both studying sustainable agriculture in North Carolina.  Our passion for Organic farming is what brought us together.  Since then we have worked and interned on many different farms to truly learn all we could. Now that we have found land and are at home in Tennessee we are super inspired to make this happen.

OUR MISSION HERE AT DELTA SUN FARM! 

• To be a diversified small farm that raises fruit, vegetables, mushrooms, honey, eggs, and pastured pork using Organic, Biodynamic, and Sustainable methods that all work in harmony together recognizing the farm itself as a single, living, breathing organism to be cared for while reviving the community around us!

• To have a successful Community Supported Agriculture program is of most importance.  This is a great paradigm that ensures the future of the small farm while feeding the surrounding community the most nutritious and freshest food possible.  It is a truly unique and personal relationship between the farmer and the people we grow for!

• Raising and preserving the future of the Red Wattle Hog.  They are critically endangered and need to be saved.  They are such unique animals with amazing traits that speak to their friendly personalities, disease resistance, and foraging abilities!

• And to be Stewards of our land in the most sustainable ways that demonstrate environmental and social responsibility while encouraging community involvement and taking every opportunity to educate about this way of life and ways to make a difference!

WHAT WE NEED TO MAKE THIS HAPPEN!

• Build a greenhouse for starting seeds early in the season and to extend the growing season for many vegetable varieties

• Begin the Organic/Biodynamic certification process

• Build a pack shed and vegetable processing station

• Purchase seeds

• Purchase a cooler for vegetables, eggs, and pork

• Purchase a tractor, implements, and trailer.

• Purchase fencing for livestock and crop protection.

• Build a moveable pasture coop for our heritage breed chickens

• And last but not least Red Wattle breeding stock.

There are many expenses behind starting Organic CSA farm and there is still so much to do and your support is what will make all the difference and it will definitely not go unrecognized.  We offer many rewards and returns on your support to our farm from one dollar up.  Everyone that makes a donation will be thanked on our website very much for your help!  We are offering handmade screen printed Delta Sun Farm t-shirts and stickers, packets of Organic, Heirloom seeds we have raised and saved ourselves, farm dinners hosted by yours truly serving food grown by yours truly, and even CSA shares! And other goodies listed on our page…

Another way you can truly help this project be a success, for those of you who live in the Middle TN area is to join our Community Supported Agriculture program.  You can find more information about our­­ program on our website. Deltasunfarm.com

We would love for you to be involved in this project it!  Kickstarter does not work without you!  We are super excited to be here and have this opportunity to farm and know that it is well worth doing!  This is very important to us and any support will be greatly appreciated!  Thank you for watching!