tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16757539622245700872024-03-18T23:09:04.802-05:00Sustainable GlasgowBilly Rayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10388845919168009946noreply@blogger.comBlogger213125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1675753962224570087.post-51375603954448074372015-08-10T20:25:00.000-05:002015-08-10T20:54:07.184-05:00Bounty of the Barrens Farmers Market Has a New Website!The Bounty of the Barrens Farmers Market has developed a new website, allowing visitors to learn more about the market, local producers, special events and much more.<br />
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Market shoppers can now go online and read a biography about the vendors they see at the market. They can also see photos of the vendors and their farms, learn more about what they produce and visit vendors' individual websites and social media pages.<br />
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The new website also offers market hours, details about special events, a schedule of produce is in season and an updated calendar of market dates, including live entertainment, visiting vendors and other market details. <br />
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Click <a href="http://www.bountyofthebarrens.com/" target="_blank">here</a> to visit the new Bounty of the Barrens Farmers Market website and learn more about everything your farmers market offers you, your family and your community.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08045349556956644083noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1675753962224570087.post-7966605185656234722015-05-22T05:32:00.003-05:002015-08-10T20:31:21.014-05:00Guest Vendors in 2015<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A really cool new feature for Bounty of the Barrens Farmers' Market in 2015 is our new guest vendor program. We are inviting vendors who are willing to test the Glasgow market for their goods before they are able to make a commitment to joining us regularly. This adds some new variety to the market and helps us convince new vendors to give BOTBFM a try.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This week we are very excited to welcome <a href="https://www.stuartos.com/" target="_blank">Stuartos Olive Oil</a> to the market You read that right! This Saturday at BOTBFM you will be able to purchase finely crafted olive oil. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Stuarto's Olive Oil Company specializes in imported extra virgin olive
oils, balsamic vinegars, and specialty oils from award-winning artisan
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Come to Bounty of the Barrens Farmers' Market this Saturday, and every Saturday morning from 8:00 until noon for the very best in local foods and crafts. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Visit the Bounty of the <a href="http://www.bountyofthebarrens.com/" target="_blank">Barrens Farmers Market website</a> for more information. </span>Billy Rayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10388845919168009946noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1675753962224570087.post-58482680792116930822015-03-31T08:44:00.002-05:002015-08-10T20:30:30.452-05:00Bounty of the Barrens Farmers' Market 2015<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now that Spring is in the air, it's a great time to talk about the <a href="http://www.bountyofthebarrens.com/" target="_blank">2015 Bounty of the Barrens Farmers' Market season</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We are excited about the upcoming market year which officially begins Saturday, April 25 on the Glasgow Square (we still have one more winter market on April 11 at the Cooperative Extension office on West Main Street). We are also very happy to announce some new features for this year's market, including a new "guest vendor" program that will allow new or occasional vendors to bring some special "zing" to the variety of items available each week.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To that end, we are announcing the guest vendor for April 25 will be Caught Wild Salmon!</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These folks are from Lexington, but have a family connection to a wild salmon fishery on the west coast. As you can see from the graphic below, their variety of salmon bears little resemblance to what we are used to seeing in grocery stores. This is what real salmon look like and taste like! Get in your pre-order if you want to make sure you get this year's market season started off right with real food!</span><br />
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<br />Billy Rayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10388845919168009946noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1675753962224570087.post-72187642173204532312015-02-12T15:53:00.001-06:002015-08-10T20:28:03.024-05:00Come to the Winter BOTBFM!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Visit the Bounty of the </span><a href="http://www.bountyofthebarrens.com/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Barrens Farmers Market website</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> for more information. </span>Billy Rayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10388845919168009946noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1675753962224570087.post-48197831273298740622014-08-02T20:42:00.004-05:002015-08-10T20:28:29.006-05:00BOTBFM 2014 is the Best Year Ever!<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Wow. That is a perfect explanation of how today's edition of Bounty
of the Barrens Farmers' Market went. In fact, that is a great
explanation of how the market has gone this whole year! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The weather has
been kind. The barrens region's soil has responded to the love given it
by our farmers by producing an amazingly luscious wealth of tasty food.
And the people of our region are responding by making sure that the
farmers are paid for their work by coming to the market and purcha<span class="text_exposed_show">sing real food.</span></span><br />
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For all of the many Sustainable Glasgow folks involved in administering
the market and promoting the idea of growing our local economy by
reinforcing our local food economy, it is hard for us to wipe the grin
off of our faces. In 2014, the dream that we had in 2009 seems to
finally be coming true. The people of Glasgow, and the barrens region,
are getting it when it comes to the health and happiness benefits that
come from buying real food from their neighbors. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> At the market
we see vendors cutting melons, that were still on the vine earlier in
the morning, and conducting fun loving taste tests with the market
patrons. We see the same thing happening with sweet corn, and peaches,
and herbs, and cheeses, and sausages. We see hugs and smiles, and we
hear real conversations that extend far beyond the customary, "how are
you doing?" We see children of vendors playing with each other and
growing up before our eyes, even as they learn to interact with adults,
watch the stand while a parent is helping a patron load fresh food into
their cars, and become the kind of young people that will know things
that their contemporaries at home playing video games, will never know.</span><br />
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Thanks to each and every one of you that is a part of this movement. We
are in love with our community, our land, and the happy life that can
be found in the micro-nutrients trapped in the soil of the barrens, and
we love you. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Visit the Bounty of the </span><a href="http://www.bountyofthebarrens.com/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Barrens Farmers Market website</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> for more information. </span></div>
Billy Rayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10388845919168009946noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1675753962224570087.post-1600124715525814242014-04-09T19:59:00.004-05:002015-08-10T20:28:38.065-05:00BOTBFM 2014 Is Coming!<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This coming Saturday, April 12, the market will be at the Cooperative Extension office for the last time this winter. Some early crops are coming in and we hope you will come out to the Extension Office between 8:00 and noon to start enjoying local food for 2014.<br /><br />Two weeks later, on April 26, Bounty of the Barrens Farmers' Market will return to the Square for the balance of the season. We are going to have some very cool enhancements to the 2014 market. We are reworking our layout to allow the vendors to be closer together so it is easier for our patrons to visit all of the vendor tents. We are also happy to announce that Tubbs Farmstead will be cooking fresh breakfast and serving coffee on Saturday mornings at the market this year!<br /><br />These improvements, and more, will make the center of Glasgow's Square the place to be on Saturday mornings, beginning April 26. We look forward to seeing you! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Visit the Bounty of the </span><a href="http://www.bountyofthebarrens.com/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Barrens Farmers Market website</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> for more information. </span>Billy Rayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10388845919168009946noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1675753962224570087.post-59114741842931738362014-01-21T20:44:00.002-06:002014-01-21T20:44:23.391-06:00Sustainable Glasgow’s Plans for Downtown Indoor Market <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">It has been two months since we first announced our plans to acquire an
unoccupied building on the Glasgow Square and renovate it as a place to house
the Bounty of the Barrens Farmers’ Market year round. Since many local folks
have been so happy with this plan, it is time for us to give everyone an
update.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Unfortunately, Sustainable Glasgow’s initial grant application to the Kentucky
Agricultural Development Fund was rejected. We knew we had a great idea and
that we had assembled a quality application. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But the KADF rejected our idea on the basis
that Sustainable Glasgow does not have the estimated $150,000 in matching funds
which would be required to receive the matching grant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All of us associated with Sustainable Glasgow
knew this was an issue, but we felt that it should not stand in the way of
KADF’s consideration of our project. We felt that if the state agency awarded
us the grant based upon our success in raising the matching funds, the community
would have readily contributed the necessary funds in order to breathe this new
life into our square. Apparently, we were wrong about that, but we certainly
are not about to give up!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">We are more convinced each day that our vision for converting an old building
into a place where our local food economy can be nourished, while our local
farmers and chefs can nourish us, is the answer to many of our woes. We feel
that the establishment of a venue for local food that can be open many hours
each week, a place where folks can walk or cycle to a destination, where we can
communicate with each other and enjoy the bounty of our land, is worth our
extraordinary efforts to secure. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Our next steps include requesting local government to
allocate funds toward this project in their upcoming budget cycle, meeting with
advisors on the creation of a sustainable business plan for the acquisition and
permanent operation of the facility, and refining our renovation plans to get a
much better handle on the real costs of providing this facility for the people
of Glasgow. We are not giving up; in fact, we are just getting started. Stay
tuned and keep letting us know your feelings on this initiative. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"></span>Billy Rayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10388845919168009946noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1675753962224570087.post-47954223983262892442013-12-09T12:35:00.001-06:002013-12-09T12:35:19.529-06:00Sustainable Glasgow Board Meetings<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}">The
Sustainable Glasgow board will hold its regular monthly meeting at 5:00
p.m. at the Sustainable Glasgow office at 108 East Public Square on
Wednesday, December 11.<br /> <br /> We are going to try to do better at
meeting at a regular time (presently second Wednesday of each month at
5:00 p.m. at this location) and also do better at notifying everyone
that might be interested in our deliberations. All are <span class="text_exposed_show">welcome to come and interact!<br /> <br />
As we get better at this, and as the holiday season releases some of
our time commitments, we will also begin to post our Tentative Agenda in
advance as well.<br /> <br /> Sustainable Glasgow has a great vision for
our community. We welcome all who want to come get involved with us and
help formulate that vision and help us make it come to pass.</span></span></span>Billy Rayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10388845919168009946noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1675753962224570087.post-28899673492086834822013-11-17T15:04:00.000-06:002013-11-17T15:04:33.110-06:00Sustainable Glasgow's Boldest Idea Yet<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">On the
occasion of its fifth anniversary, the board of Sustainable Glasgow, Inc.
announced plans to seek funding to purchase and renovate a large unoccupied building
on the Glasgow Square. The bold plan they revealed is to acquire the building <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>at 124 South Public Square, which was formerly
the home of the Western Auto Store and most recently PJ’s College of
Cosmetology. The building would be converted into a permanent home for Bounty
of the Barrens Farmers’ Market and an indoor food-court for the marketing of
fresh local farm products and farm to table prepared foods.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Sustainable
Glasgow President, Dr. Jerry Ralston, revealed the conceptual plan for the
building <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and stated, “The board and
volunteers <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>who make up Sustainable
Glasgow are very excited to present this plan to establish a garden of
opportunity right in the middle of Glasgow, and we hope that it will flourish
and that more hope and excitement will grow on the Square at the very center of
life in Glasgow.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Immediate
past President of Sustainable Glasgow, Dr. William Travis, expanded on the
concept and the economic incubator nature of the plan. “I believe that our
downtown can become a livelier, more attractive, and more pedestrian friendly
place. We have hope for more restaurants and local businesses to find the
public square an attractive place to locate. We want this facility to become a
catalyst for the realization of those goals by building upon our local food
movement activities and the highly successful history of the Bounty of the
Barrens Farmers’ Market.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The SG board
has applied for a matching grant from the Kentucky Agricultural Development
Fund which they hope will provide 50% of the funds necessary to acquire and
renovate the building. .The other half of funding would need to come from local
sources that have an interest in establishing this anchor point for the future
of Glasgow’s downtown economy. The plans include space for a variety of vendors,
a full commercial kitchen and cold storage for produce to be retailed by
vendors in the facility, as well as wholesaled to local restaurants, hospitals,
schools, and other institutions. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Producers
can cost-effectively use the Kitchen to add value to their products by canning
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">President
Ralston added “Sustainable Glasgow has a dedicated group of volunteers who are
passionate about this community and are striving to improve it for everyone. We
composed a very high quality application for the Kentucky Farmers’ Market
Competitive Grant Program and we are optimistic about our chances to receive
funding. But for the initiative to be successful we must find local supporters
who share this passion for making our local economy more durable, improving the
livability of our community, and are motivated to donate money to match any
grant funds we receive,” . The total estimated cost of getting this dream to
become a reality is about $300,000. Therefore, Sustainable Glasgow is seeking
to raise half of that from citizens in the community who believe this project
is worthwhile. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Sustainable
Glasgow, Inc. is a 501-C3 non-profit organization which may provide tax
advantages to those who choose to support this project.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Plans for the 2013 Bounty of the Barrens Farmers' Market continue to evolve. First, you should know that we have one more winter market, on April 13th, at the Cooperative Extension Service office on West Main Street. This will be an exciting day as it will also be the Extension Service's Earth Expo Day. Our vendors will be out in the parking lot along with many other exciting exhibits that day. We hope you will be there.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The next weekend, April 20, will be our opening day on the Glasgow Courthouse Square, and what a day we have planned! That morning there are a number of exciting community events. The Butterflies for Maddie Run, and a new event, the Tour de Farm will also be that morning. The Tour de Farm will begin at WKU Glasgow Campus and it will be a great opportunity for you to walk, jog, cycle, push your stroller, allow your kids to ride tricycles, in other words, a great opportunity to be outside on a short jaunt from WKU to the Glasgow Square. And when you get to the Square, BOTBFM will be open for the business of bringing fresh, healthy, local food to your table. There will also be celebratory speeches, including our Secretary of Agriculture, James Comer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We also hope you will take a few minutes and view the short video above. What he has to say is right in line with the way we think about food and the opportunities for our local farmers to provide food that is simply better than anything you can get at a supermarket. Please take a few minutes to view it and then mark your calendars for these important dates in April. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Visit the Bounty of the </span><a href="http://www.bountyofthebarrens.com/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Barrens Farmers Market website</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> for more information. </span>Billy Rayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10388845919168009946noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1675753962224570087.post-10748361140379654682013-02-05T12:49:00.001-06:002013-02-05T12:49:03.676-06:00The Award Winning Bounty of the Barrens Farmers' Market - 2013<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We haven't posted here lately as most of our information is now being posted to the Sustainable Glasgow Facebook page at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/sustainableglasgow" target="_blank">this link</a> or our Bounty of the Barrens Farmers' Market Facebook page at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/BOTBFM" target="_blank">this link</a> , but it seems timely to make sure you know what is going on here as well. On the left side of this page are some important items about SG and the market for 2013. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The first link on the left takes you to the 2013 Vendor Application. If you want to join in on the fun of being a vendor at Bounty of the Barrens Farmers' Market in 2013, now is the time for you to download the application and fill it out and return it to us along with the appropriate fees. Opening day is April 27 and we have a real party planned for that day!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you are interested in helping us fulfill the mission of Sustainable Glasgow, Inc., we are looking for financial support. There is another link on the left side of the page which takes you directly to our approved 2013 budget. As you can see, it takes a few dollars for us to do what we are doing in our efforts to make Glasgow an all-around cooler place to live. Can you or your firm step up and help us? Please give our budget a review and contact us if you want to be a part of our movement! </span>Billy Rayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10388845919168009946noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1675753962224570087.post-31581579960774947352012-04-21T11:05:00.000-05:002015-08-10T20:29:09.710-05:002012 Bounty of the Barrens Farmers' Market - Your Chance to Sustain<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Now is the time for all fans of Sustainable Glasgow, and/or Bounty of the Barrens Farmers' Market, to get involved. On April 28 the center of our community will once again come alive with truly local commerce and camaraderie. The act of reinvigorating our local economy and reinforcing our ability to feed ourselves is not a spectator sport, it requires your active participation. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Many friends and colleagues have asked how they might help Sustainable Glasgow achieve its goals. Here is what we need. We need for you to show up on April 28 for the first day of Bounty of the Barrens Farmers' Market 2012. We need for you to talk some of your friends into showing up. You need to spread the word about the importance of getting healthier through eating locally. We need for you to help us walk our talk by voting with your fork and with your wallet. You can become a player in the movement that is bringing life back to our public square. You can be a soldier in our struggle to help those who want to create their own jobs and provide for our food security by farming the land that surrounds our home.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Sustainable Glasgow team now begins its fourth year of experience at putting the market together. We have learned how to do this well, but putting the market together, giving local vendors a way to meet with local eaters, and giving local musicians a place to perform on crystal clear Saturday mornings, is not enough to allow us to declare victory. We only win when you and your friends become a part of the market by showing up and participating. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This year you will be greatly rewarded by becoming a part of the market. New vendors will be appearing this year, local artists will be displaying painting, sculpture, and other objects. Produce so fresh that it still has dew on it will be available for consumption less than ten miles from where it was grown. Local restaurants around the square will be open to serve you hot coffee and breakfast as part of your market day experience. There will be no better way for you to enjoy your life in Glasgow than by becoming a part of our Saturday mornings on the square. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Please help us keep this thing growing by bringing your friends. Introducing them to local food may well be the most thoughtful thing you can do for a friend! </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Visit the Bounty of the </span><a href="http://www.bountyofthebarrens.com/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Barrens Farmers Market website</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> for more information. </span>Billy Rayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10388845919168009946noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1675753962224570087.post-53929534638098816832012-04-10T09:40:00.002-05:002012-04-28T14:02:59.680-05:00Bounty of the Barrens Market 2012<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimGCojK0sQUB_y1gzzPldOnnj3UjrgCu446LUz1OUScKaSWf5r2uaYHeWo_Cb8KlB2S_JQ-h898WPaRHLZbNyELv7tOCeHfDRBK5aKwItT3nqjOjfiJVUVlDcqZ6ZzEbU5hKcfHMTU0_Gy/s1600/BOTBM+052111-2.JPG"></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial;">It is just about that time again! The planning has been going on for months. Permissions have been sought and received. Vendors are gearing up for a bigger and better year. It looks like local food and crafts are going to be more available and even more important to our local economy in 2012 than ever before.<br /><br />This Saturday will be the last "warm up" for the 2012 Bounty of the Barrens Market. Come to the Barren County Agricultural Extension Service office on West Main, just beyond the Dana Plant, on Saturday April 14 from 8:00 until noon, and you will get a chance to purchase early spring produce and talk with the BOTBFM vendors and the Sustainable Glasgow team about this year's version of the full market.<br /><br />The BOTBFM will begin its 2012 run on the Glasgow Square on April 28, and will be there each Saturday thereafter through October. Josh Johnson will be managing the market and the music for us this year and we are all very excited about the reappearance of our established vendors and the appearance of some exciting new vendors to the BOTBFM family.<br /><br />Hope to see you Saturday the 14th and each Saturday during the summer market run, commencing April 28 2012!</span>Billy Rayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10388845919168009946noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1675753962224570087.post-67246386866865272902011-11-27T15:25:00.006-06:002011-11-27T15:49:11.539-06:00The Last Waltz - Glasgow Style<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMV7TkWuzIn-BW-HCfYVD8l89cqnI7qU8lHcwqVXqZbm9E_rSFYtHOz4ghf5ZJzFJVtJ7dv5essdg0OHPLFk4E8o2o4Vl9LDM-73HwrvXcs9Q-3OPGjLjQ7u0DKVG3td7qzVdltxZJukxX/s1600/last+waltz+logo.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 238px; height: 212px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMV7TkWuzIn-BW-HCfYVD8l89cqnI7qU8lHcwqVXqZbm9E_rSFYtHOz4ghf5ZJzFJVtJ7dv5essdg0OHPLFk4E8o2o4Vl9LDM-73HwrvXcs9Q-3OPGjLjQ7u0DKVG3td7qzVdltxZJukxX/s320/last+waltz+logo.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5679795948194670114" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Everyone knows that Sustainable Glasgow is all about promoting the idea of living locally. While we have spent a lot of our time trying to get people to live local be eating local food, we also have other ideas and initiatives to promote local living. We are happy to provide you the details about the very latest one of those projects, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/GlasgowLastWaltz?sk=wall">The Last Waltz - Glasgow Style</a>, our planned New Year's Eve celebration of local business and local musical talent.<br /><br />On New Year's Eve, December 31, at George J's on the Glasgow Square, we want you to join us and your friends to celebrate the end of a fantastic year and the beginning of 2012. Sustainable Glasgow in cooperation with George J's and other local sponsors, is presenting this tribute to The Last Waltz with several local musicians playing and performing their versions of the music and the feeling of the movie, better described at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Waltz">this link</a>. It should be a phenomenal evening and an opportunity to ring in the new year right here in Glasgow and keep your fun and your money local!<br /><br />Tickets are $25 and seating is obviously limited. The plan it to start the evening with finger foods and snacks and listen to the music organized by Josh Johnson until midnight. Then the staff at George J's will serve you the first breakfast of 2012. It is our sincere hope that you will attend with your closest friends and start a new tradition centered around our life here in Glasgow. If you wonder just what sort of music this will be, check out <a href="http://youtu.be/c-rTkqn-4qg">this link</a>. Contact us at localfirst@glasgow-ky.com for more information or to purchase tickets. We hope to see you there!<br /></span>Billy Rayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10388845919168009946noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1675753962224570087.post-4021138775526841262011-11-18T13:19:00.001-06:002011-11-18T13:20:49.177-06:00The Food Bill -- We Need To Worry<object height="360" width="640"><param name="movie" value="https://www.youtube.com/v/LRnlTEhDX_A&rel=0&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&version=3"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><embed src="https://www.youtube.com/v/LRnlTEhDX_A&rel=0&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&version=3" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" height="360" width="640"></embed></object>Billy Rayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10388845919168009946noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1675753962224570087.post-82455212187238500422011-10-30T14:54:00.001-05:002011-10-30T14:56:45.352-05:00We Owe Thanks to Many<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQsmrbgDcZ373i5TWHnwwkC5HO4Pbk71bq4n9waqRbsjNqQmMkrQa9D4KNW44_rXHjRI6mHN7eu7ktyBSHoq6kbhR2ZuKUNUqK4qkgVj52cVo6Fy37w9_6rSdvXVaJVWoInSej3wnmDRIL/s1600/botbm+082711-19.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQsmrbgDcZ373i5TWHnwwkC5HO4Pbk71bq4n9waqRbsjNqQmMkrQa9D4KNW44_rXHjRI6mHN7eu7ktyBSHoq6kbhR2ZuKUNUqK4qkgVj52cVo6Fy37w9_6rSdvXVaJVWoInSej3wnmDRIL/s320/botbm+082711-19.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5669376573931745042" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Yesterday we had our last outdoor version of Bounty of the Barrens Farmers’ Market for 2011, and even though we will continue to have the market on the second Saturdays of each month though the winter (at the Barren County Cooperative Extension Service office), it is time to pause and reflect on our third year of operating the market.<br /><br />We have so many folks to thank. First of all, we continue to owe Debbie Livingston and the team at BB&T for allowing us to give birth to the market at their property and to continue to give us a place when other events prevent us from using the Glasgow Square. Of course, next we need to thank Judge Executive Davie Greer and the Barren County Fiscal Court for allowing us to move the market to the Barren County Courthouse lawn this year. That move was also facilitated by the approval of Mayor Rhonda Trautman and the Glasgow Police Department, and we are thankful for all of the confidence these folks have in us. I think all of us, including the local elected officials, are thrilled with the way the market has brought life back to the Square this year on Saturday mornings.<br /><br />We are so lucky to have gotten so much support from the locals who made the market a required part of their Saturday mornings and for the new folks who discovered Glasgow and the Square and the unique qualities of our community through their attraction to the local food and the festive atmosphere created by Bounty of the Barrens Farmers’ Market on the Glasgow Square.<br /><br />Of course, the festive atmosphere and the local food are things we owe to the farmers and craft people and local musical artists that gave of their time and talent for the twenty weeks of the outdoor market season. Their decision to employ themselves and their land in the work of feeding their neighbors is at the very core of the Sustainable Glasgow movement. Without them, we accomplish nothing.<br /><br />We are still working to attract more local farmers and land holders into the local food economy that is represented by the market. We know that a sustainable local food economy begins and ends with local people willing to till the soil and work with the weather to firmly establish our region as one capable of producing food which can also be consumed by local folks. We have enough folks working the commodity crop business – we still need a lot more of them growing food that we can put on our tables right here in Glasgow such that our food system will serve us no matter what else happens in the business world outside of our region. The pursuit of this mission will continue to be at the very center of our efforts.<br /><br />As this year’s outdoor market ends, the Sustainable Glasgow team begins its plans for next year, and beyond. We will be looking for ways to improve the market on the Square next year and we are always looking for more food vendors to set up shop there. Eventually, we hope our market evolves into a year-round indoor facility with a commercial kitchen and other features which will continue to move us toward a totally sustainable food economy. At the same time, we continue to lobby for improved pedestrian and cycling facilities in Glasgow as an alternative way to improve our transportation and health options in our town.<br /><br />The Sustainable Glasgow movement is alive and growing and we know that is because of all of the folks who have made it a part of their life. We are thankful for all of the support we have gotten in our work and look forward to the many ways we can make our little corner of the world a better place for us all to live. Keep your eyes on our website and our Facebook page for exciting new developments, coming soon!</span>Billy Rayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10388845919168009946noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1675753962224570087.post-27481408168750502272011-06-03T08:15:00.002-05:002011-06-03T08:27:05.272-05:00Big Day at BOTBM this Saturday!<span style="font-family: arial;">Every Saturday morning at Bounty of the Barrens Farmers' Market is a special celebration of life in our community, but this one will be extra big! It is Highland Games weekend in Glasgow so there will be a lot of visitors in town for that. We expect a lot of them to spend some time in the welcoming shade of the Barren County Courthouse Lawn. At the same time, the Courthouse lawn is also right on the route of historic US 68 which is the site of the famous 400 Mile Sale. So, we expect a lot of folks to pull into the market and explore the items for sale under our festive white canopies!<br /><br />Everyone who drops by will enjoy spending some time with the local folks of Barren County, the local food produced by our wonderful vendors from Barren and surrounding counties, and they will get to immerse themselves in the pure joy of local music, provided this week by Bob and Joanna Harvey. We look forward to seeing you among the group enjoying the shaded lawn and the wonderful food prepared by the restaurants around the Square between 8:00 and noon tomorrow!<br /></span>Billy Rayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10388845919168009946noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1675753962224570087.post-28452952877862731562011-05-18T13:55:00.003-05:002011-05-18T15:52:02.392-05:00What You Can Do to Help<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:trackmoves/> <w:trackformatting/> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:donotpromoteqf/> <w:lidthemeother>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther> <w:lidthemeasian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:lidthemecomplexscript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> 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mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} </style> <![endif]--> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"><span style="Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:100%;" >This Saturday, May 21, at 9:00 a.m., the ribbon will be cut to officially open Bounty of the Barrens Farmers’ Market for 2011. The market is now on the lawn of the Barren County Court House on Saturday mornings.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"><span style="Calibri","sans-serif"font-size:100%;" >Three years into Sustainable Glasgow’s efforts to make Glasgow better by reinforcing the local economy, we are proud of what we have accomplished with Bounty of the Barrens Farmers’ Market, but we have only begun the work of building the durability of our economy, starting with our food system. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"><span style="Calibri","sans-serif"font-size:100%;" >In a world where our drive to build a sustainable local food economy, starting with locally grown food at our outdoor market, is challenged at every turn by the marketing might, convenience, and momentum of the big box supermarket system of feeding ourselves, the volunteers at Sustainable Glasgow are largely outgunned. Still, we continue to fight against the odds. We love our community and we are convinced that the future of local food production is indistinguishable from the future of the land in Barren County, which, in turn, is not distinguishable from the future of our community as a viable place to live out our years in peace and happiness (Thanks Wendell Berry for pointing this out to us!). </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"><span style="Calibri","sans-serif"font-size:100%;" >Obviously this task is too daunting for a handful of Sustainable Glasgow volunteers to pull off alone. This is a job for us all, that is all of us who have decided to put down roots in this community and make it the place we dream of. We need everyone’s work and the intelligence of the collective. You do not have to win an election to participate in this transformation, you only need to find what part you have the skills, or resources, to play.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"><span style="Calibri","sans-serif"font-size:100%;" >Here is what must be done.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"><span style="Calibri","sans-serif"font-size:100%;" >Grow. Barren County is rich in fertile farm land. Right now our high schools are graduating hundreds of bright young folks who are looking for their mission in life. These two ingredients should be combined and nurtured by sunlight and support from “we the people who like to eat.” The opportunity is obvious. Many studies are now predicting that the long term value of many college degrees is not worth the cost. We need more local folks growing food for local folks on local farms.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"><span style="Calibri","sans-serif"font-size:100%;" >Study. We are sensitive to what we gaze upon with our eyes and what we listen to with our ears. Why then are we so flippant about what we swallow? Don’t take our word for it. Read the label of something in a box in your freezer. Does it sound like the ingredients to a chemistry experiment? If you want to purchase less medicine, eat more local food and less things with more than four ingredients. That leads one to real, local, food instead of fake food-like substances. A good variety of real food is available at Bounty of the Barrens Farmers' Market.<br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"><span style="Calibri","sans-serif"font-size:100%;" >Innovate. Rebuilding our food economy from the ground up does not just mean planting more vegetables in Barren County soil. A few visits to Bounty of the Barrens Farmers’ Market will reveal scores of other opportunities for someone looking to improve their lot, as well as the community. Watch the mad rush to purchase the very limited supply of cold pasteurized milk from JD’s County Milk and you will have to wonder why no Barren County dairy farmer has yet replicated that idea and product. Dare to come between local market patrons and the supply of peaches from the Jackson’s Orchard truck and it is obvious that more locally grown fruit will find a market here. A commercial kitchen operation would allow local producers to cook, can, and otherwise process their bounty when there is much and sell it the rest of the year. Opportunities abound for those who are looking for them.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"><span style="Calibri","sans-serif"font-size:100%;" >Participate. Just show up at the market and become a part of it. Not sure if you even like vegetables enough to shop at the market? No problem, come and listen to the pure sounds of local musical artists who love the community so much that they just want to share their talents with us. Sit in the grass and give them an audience. It costs you nothing yet means everything to the artists. Mill about and chat with your neighbors and drink in the free milk of human kindness. Be late for soccer practice. Miss a few cartoons. Gain a new relationship with this place we call home.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"><span style="Calibri","sans-serif"font-size:100%;" >Stick. This is the very easiest way to become a part of this movement. Just resist the urge to travel to Bowling Green, Louisville, Nashville, or farther, to acquire your food or other needs. Gasoline is $4 per gallon. Big box retail stores, even if they are called Kroger or Whole Foods, might suit your personal desire for nutrition, but nurture our home place they do not. Rejoice in the uniqueness of the local vendors at our market and while you are there soak in the pure joy of dining in a locally owned restaurant around the Square like Fine Arts Bistro or George J’s. For some added spice to your Saturday morning adventure, walk or bicycle to the market and leave the SUV at home! Free yourself from the wanderlust and siren song of the distant corporation and celebrate the joy of localism.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"><span style="Calibri","sans-serif"font-size:100%;" >Together we can continue our progress toward a sustainable economy by uniting local land, local sunlight, local intelligence, and local work. Will you pick one or more of these tasks and join us?</span></p>Billy Rayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10388845919168009946noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1675753962224570087.post-59455378109036535512011-05-13T13:06:00.002-05:002011-05-13T13:07:05.839-05:00Great Reasons To Buy Local<a href="http://www.elocal.com/infographics/why-buy-local.html"><img src="http://www.elocalwebsites.com/externalAssets/Blogs/WhyBuyLocal.jpg" alt="Why Buy Local Infographic" /></a><br />Source: <a href="http://www.elocal.com">eLocal.com</a><br />Billy Rayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10388845919168009946noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1675753962224570087.post-12209763931389425732011-04-06T09:44:00.001-05:002011-04-06T09:50:58.117-05:00Bounty of the Barrens On the Square Starts Saturday!<span style="font-family: arial;">In Glasgow there is no better sign that spring has arrived than the opening of our Bounty of the Barrens Farmers’ Market, and that happens this Saturday April 9, on the beautiful bountiful lawn of our Barren County Courthouse at the center of Glasgow’s downtown! For the Sustainable Glasgow team, this move has meant a great deal of work and planning throughout the winter but we are very excited about the new possibilities for improving our local food initiative at the new location. We are deeply grateful for the support and confidence we have gotten from Barren County Fiscal Court and other local officials who believe in us enough to give us permission to have the market in the center of town. Now, it is our job to show them that they made a great decision!<br /><br />Of course it is April and, while there will not be a vast variety of fresh fruits and vegetables yet available during the first few weeks, there will be a lot of locally raised beef, poultry, buffalo, and pork. There will be baked goods, local milk and cheese, some early season produce, and some of the craft items you have come to expect at the market. Starting at 8:00 a.m., the white tents of Bounty of the Barrens Market will be arranged on the Courthouse lawn and the market will be underway. You can come early and enjoy breakfast at George J’s or Fine Arts Bistro with your family and friends before, or after, strolling around the vendor tents and purchasing your needed items. The Sustainable Glasgow team will be there learning from the initial experience at operating the market on the square and, together, we will learn and adjust and get the kinks worked out of the process during the early season so we can have it all well adjusted by late May when the market, the vendors, the local music, and you, the patrons, are all in full swing.<br /><br />As with all events on the square, parking will be an issue. Please be aware of the parking available in the parking structure behind the buildings on the north side of the square, the City parking lot behind City Hall, parking behind US Bank, and the city lot on the west side of the square as well as all of the on-street parking available on the many streets leading to and from the Glasgow square. Most of all, please be careful as you leave and return to your vehicles as we all learn how to better mix pedestrian and vehicles around Glasgow’s downtown area! Local law enforcement folks as well as the Sustainable Glasgow team will be working to help drivers recognize the presence of pedestrians on the square to help everyone get to where they are going safely.<br /><br />It looks like we will enjoy warm weather, copious blooming trees and flowers, great food from the restaurants on the square, and a wonderful opportunity to renew friendships with each other and the vendors who lovingly raise food and create local crafts for our enjoyment. Please make plans to attend the market this Saturday and help us celebrate the beginning of year three of Bounty of the Barrens Farmers’ Market at our new location!<br /><br /></span>Billy Rayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10388845919168009946noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1675753962224570087.post-2963992617704391642011-03-28T12:37:00.002-05:002011-03-28T12:40:32.556-05:00Times Community Review Article<span style="font-family: arial;">In case you missed it, Glasgow Daily Times in its Time Community Review, just did a fine set of articles on Barren County's biggest industry, agriculture. By special permission, the following copy of the article they did on us is copied below. 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Ray is a board member of Sustainable Glasgow, an organization focused on creating a more sustainable economy by focusing on building a local movement in Glasgow.</p> <p class="MsoPlainText">The idea was that if residents spent more of their money in local businesses, buying produce from local farmers, etc., that those dollars would continue to circulate within the Glasgow economy and would make the city's economy stronger.</p> <p class="MsoPlainText">"Ownership matters," Ray said. "It makes a difference. Every time they pick up a fork, they are in effect voting for which economy is going to be more durable."</p> <p class="MsoPlainText">Sustainable Glasgow began with a group of five people who started talking about what they would do to improve Glasgows economy. They began meeting in each others homes, and decided their first goal was to foster a sustainable, local food economy, Ray said. Barren County was ranked one of the top agriculture-producing counties east of the Mississippi River, but local residents were not eating a lot of Barren County food.</p> <p class="MsoPlainText">Why are we producing so much food around here but not consuming it locally? Ray said was the big question.</p> <p class="MsoPlainText">In order to promote a local food economy, Sustainable Glasgow began the Bounty of the Barrens Market, a farmers market that stemmed from an earlier market at St. Andrews Episcopal Church. St. Andrews had begun their market after the tobacco buyout had hurt so many livelihoods in Glasgow.</p> <p class="MsoPlainText">It started out as kind of a justice issue and a community issue, said Suzanne Barrow, the vicar at St. Andrews.</p> <p class="MsoPlainText">The farmers market was something we realized people really wanted, said Barrow, now a Sustainable Glasgow board member. Sustainable Glasgow was able to build upon that market to create the Bounty of the Barrens, which was first held in the BB&T parking lot on West Main Street at the end of 2008.</p> <p class="MsoPlainText"><span style=""> </span>From a physical health standpoint, local physician and Sustainable Glasgow president William Travis said that food bought from farms is much healthier, without hormones and antibiotics pumped into the animals. Theres also the benefit of being able to trust the source of your food.</p> <p class="MsoPlainText">One of the great things about buying food at a farmers market is that you can talk to the person who grew it, look them straight in the eye, Travis said.</p> <p class="MsoPlainText">Barren County farmer Joe Trigg sells beef and produce at the market, and said Sustainable Glasgow has done a good job of trying to be an advocate for farmers, which is easier said than done.</p> <p class="MsoPlainText">To emphasize gardening, produce production goes against the normal thing, said Trigg, also a board member. But Sustainable Glasgow wants Barren County farmers to lean their focus away from cash crops like corn and soybeans and focus more on produce that can be eaten locally.</p> <p class="MsoPlainText">Dr. Jerry Ralston, superintendent of Barren County Schools and Sustainable Glasgow board member, has already seen the positive benefits of providing local produce for consumption. Ralston has pioneered efforts to promote healthy, local eating in the Barren County school system. Barren County students eat apples and salads from local farms, and some elementary schools are creating edible schoolyards, where the teachers and students grow their own gardens on school property. Ralston said that consumption has increased dramatically since the schools started providing healthy local food.</p> <p class="MsoPlainText">I think its a way we can better take care of ourselves,? </p> <p class="MsoPlainText">Ralston said.</p> <p class="MsoPlainText">But Sustainable Glasgow still sees building a local food economy and having a farmers market as just the beginning.</p> <p class="MsoPlainText">I see it as a broad effort to not only bring the availability if local foods to a local market, but as a way to address local concerns, Ralston said.</p> <p class="MsoPlainText">Members of Sustainable Glasgow, especially Ray, would like to see the groups efforts expand into the development of biking and walking paths throughout the city. Sustainable Glasgow has started a push called Bicycles of the Barrens, submitting a plan to local government for a network of paths.</p> <p class="MsoPlainText">Unfortunately, that proposal has met with nothing more than a yawn from local government,?Ray said.</p> <p class="MsoPlainText">We have a long road to hoe to get this community to think about anything but wider roads, more vehicles,?he said. Kentucky was found to be one of the top five least-active states in a study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, released in February and based off data from 2007-2009.</p> <p class="MsoPlainText">Its a quality of life thing,?Travis said.</p> <p class="MsoPlainText">The organization has also started talking to local banks about the possibility of starting a local Slow Money movement, where banks would help residents invest in local businesses, so their money would remain in the local economy helping local businesses.</p> <p class="MsoPlainText">Rhonda Trautman, now mayor of Glasgow and a Sustainable Glasgow board member, said that it was the economic development aspect of Sustainable Glasgow that caught her attention. There are many studies that show that if a person spends one dollar in a local business, it circulates within the local economy much more than it would if that dollar were spent in a nationwide chain.</p> <p class="MsoPlainText">Its a multiplier effect, its just better for everyone,? </p> <p class="MsoPlainText">Trautman said.</p> <p class="MsoPlainText">Dan Iacconi, Sustainable Glasgow board member and director of the Industrial Development Economic Authority (IDEA) board, said that Sustainable Glasgow improves the local economy not only by creating jobs in the farming sector, but by attracting businesses to settle in Glasgow.</p> <p class="MsoPlainText">Prospective clients really appreciate that we have a grassroots movement committed to benefitting our community, Iacconi said. He added that it is a pleasure to showcase Sustainable Glasgow to prospective clients.</p> <p class="MsoPlainText">That commitment to benefitting the community is what drives the members of Sustainable Glasgow.</p> <p class="MsoPlainText">Its more than just a market on Saturday, its a way of life, Barrow said.</p> <p class="MsoPlainText">Ray said that having a sustainable community wont happen without risks, but he wants Glasgow to be as appealing as a small European town. He doesnt want people to feel like they have to travel thousands of miles for a scenic bike ride.</p> <p class="MsoPlainText">Why dont we just make it so we can live a vacation lifestyle here all the time??Ray said. Why not? Why cant we do that?By Amanda Loviza Glasgow Daily Times</p> <p class="MsoPlainText"> </p> <p class="MsoPlainText">When the recession hit Glasgow in 2008 along with the rest of the country, a small group of people decided they wanted to do something about it.</p> <p class="MsoPlainText">We wanted to help build a more durable economy in Glasgow,<span style=""> </span>said Billy Ray, superintendent of the Electric Plant Board. Ray is a board member of Sustainable Glasgow, an organization focused on creating a more sustainable economy by focusing on building a local movement in Glasgow.</p> <p class="MsoPlainText">The idea was that if residents spent more of their money in local businesses, buying produce from local farmers, etc., that those dollars would continue to circulate within the Glasgow economy and would make the city's economy stronger.</p> <p class="MsoPlainText">"Ownership matters," Ray said. "It makes a difference. Every time they pick up a fork, they are in effect voting for which economy is going to be more durable."</p> <p class="MsoPlainText">Sustainable Glasgow began with a group of five people who started talking about what they would do to improve Glasgows economy. They began meeting in each others homes, and decided their first goal was to foster a sustainable, local food economy, Ray said. Barren County was ranked one of the top agriculture-producing counties east of the Mississippi River, but local residents were not eating a lot of Barren County food.</p> <p class="MsoPlainText">Why are we producing so much food around here but not consuming it locally? Ray said was the big question.</p> <p class="MsoPlainText">In order to promote a local food economy, Sustainable Glasgow began the Bounty of the Barrens Market, a farmers market that stemmed from an earlier market at St. Andrews Episcopal Church. St. Andrews had begun their market after the tobacco buyout had hurt so many livelihoods in Glasgow.</p> <p class="MsoPlainText">It started out as kind of a justice issue and a community issue, said Suzanne Barrow, the vicar at St. Andrews.</p> <p class="MsoPlainText">The farmers market was something we realized people really wanted, said Barrow, now a Sustainable Glasgow board member. Sustainable Glasgow was able to build upon that market to create the Bounty of the Barrens, which was first held in the BB&T parking lot on West Main Street at the end of 2008.</p> <p class="MsoPlainText"><span style=""> </span>From a physical health standpoint, local physician and Sustainable Glasgow president William Travis said that food bought from farms is much healthier, without hormones and antibiotics pumped into the animals. Theres also the benefit of being able to trust the source of your food.</p> <p class="MsoPlainText">One of the great things about buying food at a farmers market is that you can talk to the person who grew it, look them straight in the eye, Travis said.</p> <p class="MsoPlainText">Barren County farmer Joe Trigg sells beef and produce at the market, and said Sustainable Glasgow has done a good job of trying to be an advocate for farmers, which is easier said than done.</p> <p class="MsoPlainText">To emphasize gardening, produce production goes against the normal thing, said Trigg, also a board member. But Sustainable Glasgow wants Barren County farmers to lean their focus away from cash crops like corn and soybeans and focus more on produce that can be eaten locally.</p> <p class="MsoPlainText">Dr. Jerry Ralston, superintendent of Barren County Schools and Sustainable Glasgow board member, has already seen the positive benefits of providing local produce for consumption. Ralston has pioneered efforts to promote healthy, local eating in the Barren County school system. Barren County students eat apples and salads from local farms, and some elementary schools are creating edible schoolyards, where the teachers and students grow their own gardens on school property. Ralston said that consumption has increased dramatically since the schools started providing healthy local food.</p> <p class="MsoPlainText">I think its a way we can better take care of ourselves,? </p> <p class="MsoPlainText">Ralston said.</p> <p class="MsoPlainText">But Sustainable Glasgow still sees building a local food economy and having a farmers market as just the beginning.</p> <p class="MsoPlainText">I see it as a broad effort to not only bring the availability if local foods to a local market, but as a way to address local concerns, Ralston said.</p> <p class="MsoPlainText">Members of Sustainable Glasgow, especially Ray, would like to see the groups efforts expand into the development of biking and walking paths throughout the city. Sustainable Glasgow has started a push called Bicycles of the Barrens, submitting a plan to local government for a network of paths.</p> <p class="MsoPlainText">Unfortunately, that proposal has met with nothing more than a yawn from local government,?Ray said.</p> <p class="MsoPlainText">We have a long road to hoe to get this community to think about anything but wider roads, more vehicles,?he said. Kentucky was found to be one of the top five least-active states in a study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, released in February and based off data from 2007-2009.</p> <p class="MsoPlainText">Its a quality of life thing,?Travis said.</p> <p class="MsoPlainText">The organization has also started talking to local banks about the possibility of starting a local Slow Money movement, where banks would help residents invest in local businesses, so their money would remain in the local economy helping local businesses.</p> <p class="MsoPlainText">Rhonda Trautman, now mayor of Glasgow and a Sustainable Glasgow board member, said that it was the economic development aspect of Sustainable Glasgow that caught her attention. There are many studies that show that if a person spends one dollar in a local business, it circulates within the local economy much more than it would if that dollar were spent in a nationwide chain.</p> <p class="MsoPlainText">Its a multiplier effect, its just better for everyone,? </p> <p class="MsoPlainText">Trautman said.</p> <p class="MsoPlainText">Dan Iacconi, Sustainable Glasgow board member and director of the Industrial Development Economic Authority (IDEA) board, said that Sustainable Glasgow improves the local economy not only by creating jobs in the farming sector, but by attracting businesses to settle in Glasgow.</p> <p class="MsoPlainText">Prospective clients really appreciate that we have a grassroots movement committed to benefitting our community, Iacconi said. He added that it is a pleasure to showcase Sustainable Glasgow to prospective clients.</p> <p class="MsoPlainText">That commitment to benefitting the community is what drives the members of Sustainable Glasgow.</p> <p class="MsoPlainText">Its more than just a market on Saturday, its a way of life, Barrow said.</p> <p class="MsoPlainText">Ray said that having a sustainable community wont happen without risks, but he wants Glasgow to be as appealing as a small European town. He doesnt want people to feel like they have to travel thousands of miles for a scenic bike ride.</p> <p class="MsoPlainText">Why dont we just make it so we can live a vacation lifestyle here all the time??Ray said. Why not? Why cant we do that?</p> <p class="MsoPlainText"> </p> <br /></m:defjc></m:rmargin></m:lmargin></m:dispdef></m:smallfrac>Billy Rayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10388845919168009946noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1675753962224570087.post-63547084676953190412011-03-18T06:02:00.004-05:002011-03-18T06:07:28.212-05:00Local Businesses -- The Nucleus of Glasgow's Economy<span style="font-family: arial;">At Sustainable Glasgow we believe that our local economy, and thus, our happiness, can be made more durable by doing business with local people and locally owned businesses. That belief is at the core of our work and our mission. We think that ownership matters.<br /><br />Last year, when we wanted to upgrade the stage for Bounty of the Barrens Market, two locally owned businesses stepped up and gave us the money and material necessary to build a better stage. That is not even mentioning the fine local folks who run the Glasgow division of BB&T bank, who gave BOTBM a home in the first place! Now that we are moving the market to the square, we are, frankly, embarrassed that we will be leaving that stage and that those local businesses will not get the recognition they deserve. Those businesses, Square Deal Lumber Company and HVAC Services, and BB&T should continue to enjoy the attention of all members and fans of Sustainable Glasgow.<br /><br />HVAC Services is again showing their commitment to the community by offering to donate $1 (up to $10,000) to the local Boys & Girls Club for everyone who visits their Facebook page at <a href="http://www.facebook.com/hvacservices">www.facebook.com/HVACServices</a>. Once you go there, click on the “Like” button and you will automatically make a donation to this worthy organization! We urge all members and friends of Sustainable Glasgow to help out businesses like these who do so much to reinforce our local economy. This is how we Live Local!</span>Billy Rayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10388845919168009946noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1675753962224570087.post-10562741090689589872011-03-07T08:46:00.002-06:002011-03-07T08:49:30.391-06:002011 Bounty of the Barrens Market Vendors - APPLY NOW!<span style="font-family: arial;">Over the weekend we finally completed the vendor application package for 2011. There is a permanent link to the download site on the left side of the page, or you can <a href="http://www.glasgow-ky.com/sustainable/botbm2011vendorapppackage.doc">click here</a> to download the application for 2011. Please get this rolling very soon, especially since some vendors will want to start setting up in about a month! We need your application and payment, and any questions you have for us as soon as possible.<br /></span>Billy Rayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10388845919168009946noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1675753962224570087.post-67430807278999896432011-02-27T19:10:00.003-06:002011-02-27T19:20:38.505-06:002011 Bounty of the Barrens Market Plans Continue<span style="font-family: arial;">As another page is turned on the calendar, plans for Bounty of the Barrens Market 2011 continue to fall into place. As you know, the market will be on the lawn of the Barren County Courthouse at the center of the Glasgow square this year. We feel this is the perfect place to bring consumers and growers together for commerce in our community, but the perfect place is also dependent on a lot of puzzle pieces coming together before the market achieves our goals.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.buffalonews.com/business/local-business/article348334.ece">This link</a> takes you to an interesting story on the most critical element of a successful farmers market - a great variety of vendors! Right now we are hoping that more local farmers are contemplating the planting of crops that will include a wide variety of local foods that can be sold at Bounty of the Barrens Market. Very soon, this site will feature a new vendor application package on the left side of the page which will detail the latest market rules and specify what steps are necessary to become a vendor at the market.<br /><br />One of the other things Sustainable Glasgow has gotten a bit behind on as we have worked to plan this year's market is billing folks for annual Sustainable Glasgow membership. The family fee for being a part of our movement is $25. Please accept this as our formal request for you to mail us a check for $25 for your family's 2011 Sustainable Glasgow membership dues. We do need your help, both financially and physically. We are always in need of more volunteers to help us realize our goals.<br /><br />Stay tuned to this site for upcoming news about our movement!<br /></span>Billy Rayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10388845919168009946noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1675753962224570087.post-34066264632684036882011-02-11T15:57:00.004-06:002011-02-11T16:02:48.231-06:00A Little Taste of Spring at BOTBM Tomorrow!<h6 style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;" class="uiStreamMessage" ft="{"type":"msg"}"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span class="messageBody">Bounty of the Barrens Winter Market is this Saturday, February 12, from 8:00 a.m. to noon at the Barren County Cooperative Extension Office on West Main Street. The location is just past Dana Corporation, on the right as you head west on West Main Street.<br /><br />This is your February chance to purchase local food and crafts from local folks who<span class="text_exposed_show"> grew the food locally or made the item locally, and local matters! Want something truly unique and beneficial to the local economy for your valentine? Then come out to see us at the market on Saturday morning. All the cool people will be there.</span></span></span></h6>Billy Rayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10388845919168009946noreply@blogger.com0