GOOD FOOD FOR THOUGHT

The following thoughts are from Be in Health Ministries who have over 30 years of experience teaching and ministering to people who are afflicted with every manner of disease. They’ve seen many astounding results of healing and restoration by addressing possible Spiritual Roots of Disease® and offer help with Biblical insights as to why we get sick and how to overcome disease in life.

Some of the ideas and language may seem quaint, but the principals of gratitude & thankfulness for health and well being are sound and backed by science.

Thankfulness and Your Health – Real Solutions for Your Health and Wholeness

The Bible tells us time and again to offer up sacrifices of thanksgiving; to be thankful and grateful. At face value, this may seem like one of those good ideas that God would want us to do for Him for His pleasure. Yet as we really look deeper into His ways, His commandments and precepts, we find that they are specifically designed for our benefit and well-being. There is actually a link between thankfulness and your health. It hasn’t been until recently that science has been able to observe the neurological, physical and emotional benefits of gratitude.

It turns out that thanksgiving and gratitude can actually be a useful key to assist a person in their walkout. Studies have shown that when people daily practiced gratitude they experienced improvements in many different areas of their lives.

5 Ways that thankfulness improves people’s lives and health:
1. Improvements in their mental health, including a noted reduction of depression, PTSD and fatigue symptoms.¹
2. Improvements in the subject’s sleep, overall health, and sense of wellbeing.
3. Improved self-confidence in their own abilities to accomplish and complete tasks.
4. Improved cardiac function and reduced levels of inflammatory biomarkers in patients experiencing heart failure.²
5. Improved relatability and empathy for others resulting in healthier relationships as they expressed gratitude towards others.

But there is a catch!
If we take this concept at face value and run with it, we may conclude that thankfulness could be a solution to these issues. But these studies showed that it is only a contributing factor to the improvements. These people had to also practice reducing the negative expressions of thought and communication like fear, jealousy, and resentment.³ This is where what we know and teach at Be in Health® bridges the gap between our faith and these scientific observations.
The Word tells us to renew our mind and to cast down imaginations and any thought that is contrary to God’s ways.

And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. Romans 12:2 KJV
Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ; And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled. 2 Corinthians 10:5-6 KJV

The challenge comes when certain patterns of thought are so familiar to us that we don’t know the difference. We don’t even recognize them as negative programming from the enemy’s kingdom. For example, a person who has struggled with anxiety for most of their lives may not even recognize the thought patterns that they are continually ruminating on that keep them in that state. As a result, they may have never experienced the restful state of their body and mind being at peace or homeostasis in the absence of those stress hormones. (Fear, Stress, and Physiology)
This is why it is so important to first be well acquainted with God and His ways through reading His Word and personal relationship with Him. It’s only by His Spirit that these old ways can be held up against the light of His truth, sifted out and exposed in our hearts.

Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief. For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do. Hebrews 4:11-13 KJV

As we repent (turn away) from these old, familiar ways, remove the works of the enemy in our lives, and practice casting down the programmed patterns of thought, gratitude is the next step to recovery. It is one of the final steps to freedom that is often overlooked yet absolutely essential in the completion of our victory and subsequent freedom.

Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. Philippians 4:6-7 KJV

These researchers discovered that people who daily participated in an activity of gratefulness for a period of twelve weeks actually experienced a rewiring of certain thought pathways and lasting benefits for months beyond that period of time. So when we practice thankfulness we are actually reprogramming our pathways of thought from the negativity of the enemy’s kingdom to the positive influence of God’s Kingdom. This is the key to real and lasting healing and freedom.

Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things. Philippians 4:8 KJV

As we dig deeper and develop our own understanding of the benefits and perfectness of God’s ways, may we truly grasp it in our hearts and recognize His incredible love for us. Even though mankind has fallen in sin, He made a way of escape through Jesus Christ and the gift of His Holy Spirit so that we could experience the wholeness of life and health that He has designed for us.

We thank you for your interest and support of our efforts to bring you the healthiest, the freshest and the most delicious locally-produced foods possible!

THANKSGIVING INSPIRATION

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We thank you for your interest and support of our efforts to bring you the healthiest, the freshest and the most delicious locally-produced foods possible!

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We’ve been announcing our Thanksgiving Schedule and Christmas Open House several weeks now and hopefully you have those changes and events noted on your calendar. Normally M@D shuts down the week of Thanksgiving, but this year we’re making it a short week and suspending online ordering following Thanksgiving so you can shop your FRESH, LOCAL, SUSTAINABLE and YEAR ROUND farm fresh foods directly from our vendors at Open House on Dec. 4!

GROWER & MARKET NOTES

Why No Eggs? If you’ve been keeping up with our weekly happenings you’re aware that Avalon Farms no longer has chickens. This was a hard decision on their part but one that allows them to concentrate on growing vegetables. And do we EVER love their vegetables!!!

The other issue is BIOLOGY. The rest of us who have chickens get to deal with things like molting and the change of seasons – natural occurrences that affect how chickens lay. Molting happens when the chickens body diverts it resources into replacing feathers instead of producing eggs. Daylight affects laying too and the shortening days tell the chicken’s body to slow down on egg production as well, natures way of giving the chickens a rest during the cold winter while storing resources as we approach winter soltice.

Either way, we tend and care for our girls (and a few roosters) as their bodies replenish themselves in preparation for starting again when they’re ready.

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Our Thanksgiving week order cycle will run from Saturday Nov. 20 to Monday, Nov. 22. Pickup will be Wednesday, Nov 24, the day before Thanksgiving. This schedule was set so that those who have ordered fresh turkeys from Grows in Rows can pick them up, fresh and unfrozen, within 24 hours of butchering. You just can’t get fresher than that!

Mark Your Calendars for Saturday, Dec. 4! The following vendors will be present:

Avalon Farms – Veggies & Farm Fixins	D’s Jellies – Hand Batched Jelly from Home Grown Fruit
Bella Eden Farms – Hand Crafted Soap and Bath/Body treats	323 Chaotic – Hand Crafted Modern Jewelry
Bella & Birch Designs – Unique Carved Artisan Goods	Casa Perdido – Fine Alabama Vinegars
Eagle Grove Services – Fresh Picked Satsumas	Grows in Rows – Farm Fixins and Baked Goods
Hortons Farm – Local Honey	JBW Farm Fresh – Local Grass Fed Beef
Humblebee Bakes – Macaroons	Lewis Farms – Vegetables
Martin Teas – Unique Teas for Special Occasions	Mount Moriah Farms – Goats Milk Soap, Soy Candles, Bath & Body
ScrappyChic by Vickie – Hand Crafted Items for the Home	Self Care Candle Company – Young Entrepreneur Guest Vendor!
Smores Dessert Company – Decadent Locally Crafted Sweets	Tranquil Pastures – Pastured Chicken and Grass Fed Beef
Little House of Treasures – coasters, clamshells, candles

The above items are from guest vendors, ShabbyChic by Vickie, Smores Dessert Company, 323 Chaotic and Bella & Birch Designs

BLAST FROM THE PAST

With this being the 5th week of October we thought we’d do something different.

Did you know that our website, marketatdothan.locallygrown.net contains a LOT of History?

Those of you who have been with us a while have probably noticed that in your customer file you can see purchases from wayyyyyyyy back. That’s your order history.

Our GROWER PAGE isn’t quite as lengthy as we try to keep that cleaned up showing mostly current and recent vendors. Some of the ones we started with in 2010 are no longer in business!

The best place to view history however is the WEBLOGS. At the bottom of the page in green letters (admittedly hard to see against the background) are pages containing EVERY NEWSLETTER for the last 11 years!

Thanks to JD and wonderful staff at Dothan Nurseries! What a blessing to be a small part of such a special place. The Market at Dothan has the most beautiful setting of any market! The staff is always willing to lend a helping hand with a smile on their face…we appreciate you!

Thanks to the best customers in the Wiregrass! Without your loyal support of local food the market would not be possible! We are so grateful to see you every Friday…you are our sunshine!
http://marketatdothan.locallygrown.net
www.Facebook.com/MarketAtDothan

Thanks to our awesome vendors! Their products are top quality each week…fresh, fresh, fresh! Plus, they all deliver friendly service with a smile :)

Have a great week! See you Friday…
Gratefully,
Susan & Amanda

That was the entire newsletter! And it was wonderful!

In case you’re wondering Susan and Amanda were/are our founders. They did something remarkable in transitioning a small tent market to an online market, no small task when many people still didn’t have laptops, let alone smart phones.

Fyi, the above newsletter was on page 45 of our weblog history, before the newsletter included recipes or photos! These photos were published later that year. They were borrowed from a sister market in Athens, GA.

We encourage you to poke around – There’s a lot of good info in there and who knows what kind of treasure you may find!

GROWER & MARKET NOTES

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GROWS IN ROWS TURKEY PICKUP DATE:

Our Thanksgiving week order cycle will run from Saturday Nov. 20 to Monday, Nov. 22. Pickup will be Wednesday, Nov 24, the day before Thanksgiving. This schedule was set so that those who have ordered fresh turkeys from Grows in Rows can pick them up, fresh and unfrozen, within 24 hours of butchering. You just can’t get fresher than that!

VIP: NO MARKET THE FOLLOWING WEEK BUT YOU MAY STILL SHOP FROM OUR VENDORS AT . . . . .

Mark Your Calendars for Saturday, Dec. 4! So Excited – JD may need to give us more space as more vendors signed on this week!

THE GREAT AMERICAN BISCUIT

If you’re aware that your Market manager played hookey a couple of weeks ago, well yes, I played hookey. Glad to share the blessed occasion info if you wish, but for purposes here I want to dwell on one of our culinary discoveries.

Biscuits.

I’m not talking about buttered biscuits, biscuits and gravy, or even sausage or chicken biscuits. I’m talking about gourmet skyscraper biscuits with the works that could keep you going several days!

The background is that Mr. Horton loves breakfast. And when in a new city prefers unique restaurants to established chains regardless of how good they are. Seriously. Panera in Chattanooga is no different than Panera in Dothan. We got to experience Maple Street Biscuit Company, Bantam and Biddy, and Milk & Honey. Each of these places offered their own unique versions of Chicken and Waffles, but it was the biscuits that really stood out, rather I should say, stood UP.

While I’ll be the first to tell you that a traditional biscuit is not the best bread you can nourish yourself with, I can tell you there’s a LOT of creativity that can go into one of these things. We saw menu items where they were topped with applesauce, pepper jelly, shiitake gravy, honey mustard and hot sauce. Besides standard breakfast fare (meat, eggs & cheese) things like seafood, goat cheese, every relish imaginable, and assorted veggies including slaw, collards and spinach thrown in.

Thankfully those of us who shy away from traditional breads do have options. A REALLY good biscuit, shown in the lower right, can be made with einkorn wheat. The recipe link below tells how and you can put anything you jolly well please in it.

https://everydaydishes.com/simple-food-recipes/einkorn-biscuit-breakfast-sandwich/

Let us know if you take the plunge, with or without gluten, and if you do, share a photo on our Facebook Discussion Page. We’re all about supporting each other’s good eating habits and hey, if a healthy biscuit can make your life better we want to hear about it!

GROWER & MARKET NOTES

Disaster In The Parking Lot: Apologies for the delay sending this newsletter out. In normal conditions it’s easy enough to open Market and send out the newletter remotely from my cell phone. “Normal” is the key word and apparently our church parking lot where we held Trunk or Treat earlier, doesn’t quality as normal as it sits in a low spot. It was a struggle to connect to our website and get to the button that opens the Market. Ordering has been possible since 5 pm earlier today, but who knows if the newsletter gets lost in cyberspace?

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Avalon Farms:

We’re all good here. : )  Been able to spend a little more time on the porch enjoying the beautiful cool days.

The persimmons are in and tasting great. They will be available starting today.

There will be a few radish bunches too.

All 3 types of turnips are taking there sweet time growing, but soon we’ll have purple top turnips, red and white salad turnips. 

The squash and cukes are not enjoying the shorter days. They are almost done, but I think I’ll get a few more.

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What follows is a repeat from last week in case you missed it:

Our Thanksgiving week order cycle will run from Saturday Nov. 20 to Monday, Nov. 22. Pickup will be Wednesday, Nov 24, the day before Thanksgiving. This schedule was set so that those who have ordered fresh turkeys from Grows in Rows can pick them up, fresh and unfrozen, within 24 hours of butchering. You just can’t get fresher than that!

That being said, if you placed a deposit on one of Kathy’s turkeys, that’s the day to claim it!

Mark Your Calendars for Saturday, Dec. 4! A LOT of our vendors will be on hand!

WE ARE SO BLESSED!!

There are a lot of things that go on behind the scenes every week to keep Market at Dothan going. I want to tell you about one of them this week.

Writing Checks

We choose to pay our farmers on delivery Friday mornings rather than wait a few days till all the payments have cleared (like the original locallygrown.net market in Athens, GA still does!). Doing it this way does have it’s risks but by God’s grace nothing has ever happened that we weren’t able to navigate.

This week I smiled because it’s the first time we’ve ever wrote checks to FIVE meat farmers in one week. FIVE.

How blessed are we to have that much clean nutritious protein available to us??

I hope you’re taking advantage of all the choices.

GROWER & MARKET NOTES

This & That: It was good to get away but it’s good to be back! It was a treat seeing Market regulars and some new faces yesterday and we were especially pleased to hear that the Fall Festival at Dothan Nurseries went so well in our absence. A hearty Thank You to our own
Dianne Herring who saw to organization and to all the vendors who participated and helped each other out.

On that note now would be a good time to announce some upcoming things:

1. First of all:

Our Thanksgiving week order cycle will run from Saturday Nov. 20 to Monday, Nov. 22. Pickup will be Wednesday, Nov 24, the day before Thanksgiving. This schedule was set so that those who have ordered fresh turkeys from Grows in Rows can pick them up, fresh and unfrozen, within 24 hours of butchering. You just can’t get fresher than that!

That being said, if you placed a deposit on one of Kathy’s turkeys, that’s the day to claim it!

2. (Drum Roll Please . . . .)

Mark Your Calendars for Saturday, Dec. 4! ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ New & Relisted Products (as of 5 pm Saturday) Pasture Raised Chicken From Grows in Rows Pastured Non GMO Chicken from Tranquil Pastures Beef from JBW Farms Various Pet Treats from Grows in Rows ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

Ordering Tip: Our vendors typically update their market inventory quantities every Saturday before 5 pm when the Market opens. Ordering right after opening helps you get those items with limited quantity. Once in a while however something will be listed during subsequent days. Some growers announce these additions on our Facebook Discussion Page. We encourage you to take a second look at the Market Page before closing on Tuesday at 5 pm just in case something’s been added that you would use.

Along the same topic, every once in a while a vendor will delete an item from your order after Market closes. Most of the time it’s weather related crop damage but other times it may be something that requires communication between grower and customer. We encourage this type of interaction and love it when issues can be worked out in advance of pickup.

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Thank you Debt Free Stress Free Life for these great Fall Picnic Ideas:
Apples and apple cider (more on that in the article link).
Hearty easy to package sandwiches.
Freshly baked bread with your favorite sharp cheddar cheese, grapes, local apples (see how important they are), pears, and applesauce
A thermos with warm things to eat and drink – think soup, cider, cinnamon sticks, and hot chocolate!
Cozy blankets
Floor pillows
A beautiful and sturdy American-made picnic basket.
An “unplugged” activity – bring an instrument, checkers, sketchbook, favorite book, football, etc.
Your favorite people.
The perfect spot.

SHORT & SWEET THIS WEEK

If you picked up an order on Friday you know that your regular Market Manager skipped town this week. This is being wrote on Wednesday and I’ll be opening the Market from beautiful Chattanooga, Tennessee when my phone alarm goes off to open Market on Saturday. This is a special trip for us as the Mr. is being honored for work related achievements.

We’ll be back in the saddle doing a normal newsletter next week and look forward to seeing everyone on Friday.

Bee Blessed,
Ros

We thank you for your interest and support of our efforts to bring you the healthiest, the freshest and the most delicious locally-produced foods possible!

JD INVITES YOU . . .

Come celebrate Fall coming to Dothan with us! Dothan Nurseries is hosting Market at Dothan vendors, hay rides and live music. Not to mention… have you seen the Pumpkin House!? At least stop by and grab a picture with family or friends in front of the most fall-festive background there is. We can’t wait to see you there!

GROWER & MARKET NOTES

WELCOME NEW VENDORS!

We are pleased to announce the addition of JBW Farms and TranQuil Pastures Farm to our Market family. Please check them out on our Grower Page.

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Speaking of Growers – if you check the Market Page and the Grower Page you’re sure to notice that not all our growers have products listed. This is because some only offer seasonal items or have suspended sales because of inventory, vacation or any number of reasons. In the case of
Restoration Gardens they are in the process of moving. We will miss them! Their fairy tale eggplant was the BEST! Eagle Grove Services will start listing in a few weeks as their satsumas ripen.

Whatever the case we encourage our customers and vendors to get to know each other and interact! Next Saturday’s Fall Festival is a great opportunity to do that as several of our vendors will be on site next to the Butterfly House. They are hoping you’ll stop to visit.

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IT’S PUMPKIN SEASON

And they are EVERYWHERE! Every store I went into this week had some form of fall pumpkins near the door tempting shoppers to welcome the cooler temps into their surroundings. I must admit to giving in to the temptation. If you’re fighting it too, Dothan Nurseries has a fabulous selection in the pavilion on the north side of the property with all sizes shapes and colors.

While I love a real pumpkin, unless you cook and can them (as some of us market folk have been known to do) they don’t last. Many people opt for pumpkins that can be used year after year. My daughter in law is one such person:

Lastly, MY PUMPKINS: They fade in the sun if you use them outdoors but they are super fun to make from recycled materials and once you know how, you can make a bunch in a short time. That being said – if you have an unused something you’d enjoy turning into a pumpkin, let’s do it! Send us an email at marketatdothan@gmail.com with a photo of your item and we’ll tell you how much stuffing to bring and will have the remaining supplies at the Market Shed next Friday. It’s a quick and fun project.