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7/23/23 closing


To ensure your order is placed, make sure you click the “Place My Order” button once you have completed your shopping. You will receive a confirmation email.

Did you forget to order something?
Check out the extras table when you pick up your order from 4:00 PM – 7:00 PM this Tuesday at the Downtown Russellville Train Depot. We might have what you need!

Shop RCM’s rainbow of local products before 10 PM tonight! Sweet to savory or fresh to frozen, we have your shopping list covered with great choices from our local vendors! Live plants like Creeping Jenny from Bluff Top or Aquatic Milkweed from Pine Ridge Gardens can brighten your garden while tomatoes from Pleasant View, Connor’s Garden and Sweets or Hoof Hollow Hobbies can shine on your dinner table! Meadowlark Valley has Mediterranean herb cheese, Halloumi and fresh ricotta this week. Weisenfels Family Farm still has sunflower microgreens and zucchini available! Kaitlyn’s Sweets and Treats has turtle and s’mores brownies as new additions plus her selection of decorated cakes! Forget the supermarket; get a fresh home-made cake for a special birthday! If you love chocolate chip cookies, we have them! We offer at least 6 different kinds of chocolate chip cookies (even Vegan!) from a variety of sellers! Get some lovely bell peppers from Lucky Star or several other kinds of sweet and hot peppers from Pine Ridge Gardens or Pleasant View! Cucumbers and squash are overflowing from our farmer’s gardens if you are in the mood to do some preserving for winter! If you don’t need cucumbers or squash from Connor’s Garden and Sweets, he has new Banana Nut or Lemon bread this week! C3 Beef can make your backyard BBQ extra tasty with their generous 1/3 pound hamburger patties or try some filet steaks from R&D for a special occasion! If you don’t need pork chops this week, remember to treat your pets with Meaty Treaty Dog Treats from Porch Swing Farms! Goody Gang has added several sweets to their freeze dried candy offerings; see if they have your favorite flavor! Don’t forget to follow us on Facebook and Instagram!

REMINDER- We can no longer accept credit or debit cards. We will still be able to process cash, checks and SNAP/EBT transactions.
We appreciate your patience with us during this transition.

Check back frequently as our farmers regularly update what they have available. Multiple orders are encouraged. :)

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7/21/23 opening


To ensure your order is placed, make sure you click the “Place My Order” button once you have completed your shopping. You will receive a confirmation email.

Don’t forget to check out the extras when you pick up your order from 4-7 PM on Tuesday at the Downtown Russellville Train Depot.

Find summer flavors at RCM! Great meats for your grill, jams and jellies that capture the flavors of fruit at its peak and fresh vegetables and herbs of the season provide a nutritious and flavorful selection for your meals! Make sure you check out some of the other categories (condiments and processed foods) for products like sauces and relishes or salts and seasonings to complement your recipes! Shop the egg category early for the best selection and peruse the enormous list of baked choices for your favorite bread, decadent dessert or interesting indulgence! Beat the heat and shop online for the coolest products around! Help us increase access to healthy foods in our community by spreading the word that we accept SNAP benefits!
Don’t forget to follow us on Facebook and Instagram!

REMINDER- We can no longer accept credit or debit cards. We will still be able to process cash, checks and SNAP/EBT transactions.

Check back frequently as our farmers regularly update what they have available. Multiple orders are encouraged. :)

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7/16/23 closing


To ensure your order is placed, make sure you click the “Place My Order” button once you have completed your shopping. You will receive a confirmation email.

Did you forget to order something?
Check out the extras table when you pick up your order from 4:00 PM – 7:00 PM this Tuesday at the Downtown Russellville Train Depot. We might have what you need!

How do you capture the amazing taste of local fruits to be savored year-round? By making jams and jellies with fruits at their peak! We are sure to have your favorite flavor or a combination you haven’t thought of! Lucky Star, Pleasant View, Meadowlark Valley and Michael’s Garden have an incredible variety of locally-sourced jams and jellies for all your needs! Satisfy your sweet tooth with fudge or cupcakes from Kaitlyn’s Sweets and Treats or try Ocean Water from Goody Gang! Make a healthier choice with granola in several flavors from McAnulty Mercantile and find your daily bread from many of our talented bakers! Check out Pine Ridge Garden’s lovely pink milkweed as well as her beautiful fresh peppers! Mojitos anyone? Get fresh spearmint from Bluff Top to flavor some drinks to cool off with! Have you tried jumbo cookies from Connor’s Garden and Sweets? He also has plenty of squash, cucumbers and, new this week, fresh basil! Plan this week’s meals with fresh local produce and gorgeous local meats like this sirloin roast from R&D or these lovely thick pork chops from Porch Swing Farms! Can you believe we still have tomatoes available from Hoof Hollow Hobbies and Pleasant View? Feed your friends and family the best foods around and support our local growers and makers as well! We accept SNAP and are eager to help put healthy and quality food products into our community! Don’t forget to follow us on Facebook and Instagram!

REMINDER- We can no longer accept credit or debit cards. We will still be able to process cash, checks and SNAP/EBT transactions.
We appreciate your patience with us during this transition.

Check back frequently as our farmers regularly update what they have available. Multiple orders are encouraged. :)

Russellville Community Market

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7/14/23 opening


To ensure your order is placed, make sure you click the “Place My Order” button once you have completed your shopping. You will receive a confirmation email.

Don’t forget to check out the extras when you pick up your order from 4-7 PM on Tuesday at the Downtown Russellville Train Depot.

It’s the start of another amazing week at RCM! Shop for your favorite local foods from the comfort of your home and discover lots of new choices, too! Dark Chocolate Cherry granola from McAnulty Mercantile sounds delicious or treat your pets with her new minty flavor of dog treats! Satisfy your sweet tooth with some freeze dried candy from Goody Gang or fudge from Kaitlyn’s Sweets and Treats! Cool off with some ice cream from Meadowlark or enjoy their pepper cheese, fresh ricotta or Fromage Blanc Garlic and Herb Dip! Pine Ridge gardens has a lovely rose colored milkweed to help you attract butterflies and some top quality herb plants to provide fresh flavor to your meals! Hoof Hollow Hobbies offers handcrafted greeting cards at a more reasonable price than the big stores! Check out what they have and give something truly unique! Cucumbers and yellow squash are definitely plentiful right now! Choose your favorite growers and varieties or try something new! We have a great selection of peppers available, both sweet and spicy, and don’t forget about the tomatoes! Be sure to check out Houston Family Farm and Fiber’s handwoven table runners on the extras table when you pick up your order this Tuesday. The online pictures definitely don’t do them justice! RCM can help you feed your family the very best healthy local foods and we accept SNAP, as well!!
Don’t forget to follow us on Facebook and Instagram!

REMINDER- We can no longer accept credit or debit cards. We will still be able to process cash, checks and SNAP/EBT transactions.

Check back frequently as our farmers regularly update what they have available. Multiple orders are encouraged. :)

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7/9/23 closing


To ensure your order is placed, make sure you click the “Place My Order” button once you have completed your shopping. You will receive a confirmation email.

Did you forget to order something?
Check out the extras table when you pick up your order from 4:00 PM – 7:00 PM this Tuesday at the Downtown Russellville Train Depot. We might have what you need!

Everyone at RCM has been very busy lately working to bring you the best groceries in the River Valley! There is an amazing selection this week of meats, vegetables, baked goods and so much more! Use your SNAP benefits here to get fresh quality groceries for your family! McAnulty Mercantile is offering a dark chocolate cherry granola and Weisenfels Family Farm has Snickerdoodle Zucchini bread! Pleasant View Farms makes a delicious Artisan Bread that would complement your favorite meal! Connor’s Garden and Sweets offers jumbo cookies to share with your sweetie and Kaitlyn’s Sweets and Treats strawberry cupcakes look yummy! RCM has tomatoes this week! Snap up those cherry tomatoes or larger varieties from Pleasant View or Weisenfels Family Farm. Enjoy crisp cucumbers from Connor’s Garden and Sweets, Lucky Star and Pleasant View. Pine Ridge Gardens has sweet and spicy peppers available; try her great varieties! There’s still a few green beans and some other pepper varieties like jalapenos available from Pleasant View. Don’t forget that it is chicken week! Christal Fields has a great selection that includes boneless skinless breasts, tenders, drumsticks, wings, leg quarters, thighs, split breasts and whole chickens! Porch Swing Farms has some awesome-looking pork; look for ground pork, thick chops, Boston Butt pork roasts, whole hams and more! There are so many great choices this week! Let us help you find your favorite local flavors! Don’t forget to follow us on Facebook and Instagram!

REMINDER- We can no longer accept credit or debit cards. We will still be able to process cash, checks and SNAP/EBT transactions.
We appreciate your patience with us during this transition.

Check back frequently as our farmers regularly update what they have available. Multiple orders are encouraged. :)

Russellville Community Market

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7/7/23 opening


To ensure your order is placed, make sure you click the “Place My Order” button once you have completed your shopping. You will receive a confirmation email.

Don’t forget to check out the extras when you pick up your order from 4-7 PM on Tuesday at the Downtown Russellville Train Depot.

Shop RCM this week for the best our community has to offer! Be sure to check out all the new products, find your favorites and remember that this is the week that chicken from Christal Fields is available! We are also excited to welcome two new growers this week! Look for vegetables and zucchini bread from Weisenfels Family Farm and pork products from Porch Swing Farms! Pleasant View and Pine Ridge Gardens are back this week and filling our vegetable category with lots of their goodies! Look for endive and several varieties of peppers from Pine Ridge Gardens and green beans, cucumbers and tomatoes from Pleasant View! The vegetable category is bursting with a variety of great summer favorites this week! Shop early to make sure you get the ones you love! With so many tasty choices, it may be hard to decide! Get nutritious meats, vegetables and eggs and treat yourself with baked goods, freeze dried candy from Goody Gang, ice cream from Meadowlark Valley or even local jams and jellies! Let RCM be your first stop for weekly grocery shopping to get the freshest and best products created and grown in our community!
Don’t forget to follow us on Facebook and Instagram!

REMINDER- We can no longer accept credit or debit cards. We will still be able to process cash, checks and SNAP/EBT transactions.

Check back frequently as our farmers regularly update what they have available. Multiple orders are encouraged. :)

Russellville Community Market

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7/2/23 closing


To ensure your order is placed, make sure you click the “Place My Order” button once you have completed your shopping. You will receive a confirmation email.

Did you forget to order something?
Check out the extras table when you pick up your order from 4:00 PM – 7:00 PM this MONDAY at the Downtown Russellville Train Depot. We might have what you need!

RCM will be back at the Depot this week, but we are delivering a day early so you can have delicious local foods fresh for your Fourth of July celebrations! Order by 10 PM tonight and pick up MONDAY from 4-7 at the Depot! Check out our amazing beef producers for the best cuts you will ever put on your grill! Get some fresh vegetables from local gardens to make delicious side dishes and try some fresh baked goods, either sweet or savory! Season your food with McAnulty Mercantile’s spice blends or get your favorite fresh herbs to add great flavors to your menu! Did you meet Goody Gang last week at our open house? We want to welcome them to RCM and we are very excited to have their freeze-dried goods available in our candy category! Thanks to all our customers for being flexible the last couple of weeks and working with us as we go through special events and temporary schedule changes! Next week we will be completely back to our normal routine! We also appreciate everyone who helped make our “Midsummer Market” a success and we can’t wait to do it again at Christmas! Don’t forget to follow us on Facebook and Instagram!

REMINDER- We can no longer accept credit or debit cards. We will still be able to process cash, checks and SNAP/EBT transactions.
We appreciate your patience with us during this transition.

Check back frequently as our farmers regularly update what they have available. Multiple orders are encouraged. :)

Russellville Community Market

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6/30/23 opening


To ensure your order is placed, make sure you click the “Place My Order” button once you have completed your shopping. You will receive a confirmation email.

Don’t forget to check out the extras! Remember, this week order pickup will be 4-7 PM on MONDAY at the Downtown Russellville Train Depot.

Happy Fourth of July weekend! We hope you have lots of fun things planned with friends and family! RCM is open this week, but we will be doing order pick up from 4-7 PM on MONDAY so that our vendors and customers can be out celebrating! Let us help you plan a fantastic party or backyard barbeque with fresh local ingredients and foods! Enjoy seasonal veggies from Meadowlark Valley, Connor’s Garden and Sweets or Holland Family Honey Farm. Plan an epic backyard barbeque with choice cuts of beef from C3 Beef, Hoien, Bluff Top, R&D or Michael’s Garden. Get baked goods from Kaitlyn’s Sweets and Treats so you have more time for fun and season your fresh foods with spice blends from McAnulty Mercantile! There’s always something unique and tasty at RCM! Thank you to all the customers who shopped the open house last week, the vendors who came to share their goods and the Central Presbyterian Church for welcoming us and helping us have a great event! We had a blast and can’t wait for our next open house before Christmas!
Don’t forget to follow us on Facebook and Instagram!

REMINDER- We can no longer accept credit or debit cards. We will still be able to process cash, checks and SNAP/EBT transactions.

Check back frequently as our farmers regularly update what they have available. Multiple orders are encouraged. :)

Russellville Community Market

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6/25/23 closing


To ensure your order is placed, make sure you click the “Place My Order” button once you have completed your shopping. You will receive a confirmation email.

Did you forget to order something?
Check out the extras table when you pick up your order from 4:00 PM – 7:00 PM this Tuesday at the Downtown Russellville Train Depot. We might have what you need!

Celebrate summer this week at RCM! Enjoy live music, demonstrations, and visit with our amazing vendors! Our “Midsummer Market” open house will be from 4-7 PM during order pickup. Remember, downtown will be a busy place… and we will be at the Central Presbyterian Church. In addition to all the great groceries online, there’s no telling what surprises our growers may bring to the open house! We have delicious summer vegetables! There’s plenty of squash and zucchini, green beans, cucumbers, peppers, onions and more! Our talented bakers offer quite a selection of breads and sweet treats! Try sandwich bread from Pleasant View, Sourdough Olive bread from Skyline Acre and beautiful artisan sourdough from Otis and Cecelia. These are just a few of the choices! Let our young bakers Connor and Kaitlyn make you some lovely cupcakes or delicious cookies for your next road trip, picnic, or maybe an outing to the pool! It’s not too late to fill the gaps in your garden with live plants like rosemary, thyme and lemon verbena from Pine Ridge gardens or some extra pepper plants from Connor’s Garden and Sweets! Meadowlark Valley has ice cream to help you beat the heat along with fresh ricotta and garlic and herb dippable cheese, in addition to their selection of tasty condiments like blueberry barbeque sauce and hibiscus vinegar! McAnulty Mercantile has a great selection of unique seasonings; pair them with some beef from C3 Beef, Bluff Top, Hoien, R&D or Michael’s Garden! We have great pork sausage and chorizo from New Woodlands, too! Shop before 10 PM to get your fresh local groceries for the week and come see what our vendors have to offer at our open house Tuesday from 4-7! Help us spread the word that we accept SNAP benefits!
Don’t forget to follow us on Facebook and Instagram!

REMINDER- We can no longer accept credit or debit cards. We will still be able to process cash, checks and SNAP/EBT transactions.
We appreciate your patience with us during this transition.

Check back frequently as our farmers regularly update what they have available. Multiple orders are encouraged. :)

Russellville Community Market

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6/23/23 opening


To ensure your order is placed, make sure you click the “Place My Order” button once you have completed your shopping. You will receive a confirmation email.

Don’t forget to check out the extras and visit with our growers and makers when you pick up your order from
4:00 PM – 7:00 PM this Tuesday at the Downtown Russellville Train Depot.

It’s an exciting week at RCM! Shop all the amazing local products on the market before Sunday at 10 PM! Enjoy live music, great extras and meet your favorite vendors Tuesday from 4-7 when you come to pick up your order! Downtown Russellville will be very busy this Tuesday. The depot area will be blocked off to host an overnight stop of The Great Race and we will be holding our market and open house at the downtown Central Presbyterian Church. Enter the church parking lot from El Paso street to avoid the street closures. We are very happy to host the John Cotton Quartet from 4-5 PM! We hope it will be a fantastic day for extras with some of our growers and makers on hand to visit with customers about their products and maybe offer some samples! Where else can you be so closely connected to your food! Remember that we accept SNAP! We can’t wait to visit with everyone and enjoy some fantastic local foods!!
Don’t forget to follow us on Facebook and Instagram!

REMINDER- We can no longer accept credit or debit cards. We will still be able to process cash, checks and SNAP/EBT transactions.

Check back frequently as our farmers regularly update what they have available. Multiple orders are encouraged. :)

Russellville Community Market

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