It's Sunday March 14, 2010
News From The Village Updated Almost Daily
So far, here’s the list of what the vendors have in store for you this week:
What’s For Sale
Sandie will be there with NC apples-Empires and Arkansas Blacks, mustard greens and sweet potatoes. She will also be selling plants: Mixed Lettuces, Red Choi , Broccoli. Toscano Kale. And she will have jellies and baked goods, too.
Bob will be there with eggs freshly laid by his Blackwell Point hens.
Ana and Steve will have Red Starr Happy Chicken eggs from their Merritt hens.Broad Street yard pecans that’ve already been shelled.
Willis, from ‘R GARDEN will be there with cool weather vegetable plants and ‘R Kitchen canned foods.
Bill’s W3 woodworks will be selling cutting boards, baskets and bird houses.
Pat will have tickets for sale to The Amorous Ambassador which will be playing at the Old Theater later this month.
Jayne returns with biodegradeable trash bags.
Check back as this list is updated throughout the week when farmers, growers, bakers and artisans let us know if they’ll be at the market and what they’ll be selling.
Looking Ahead A Few Weeks and Months
Some of our growers are tending to the gardens, even in winter, so that they’ll have produce and other goods for you in a few weeks and month.
A sampling:
Blue Bottle Gardens is growing mustard greens, spinach mustard, Russian red kale, Lacinto (aka dinosaur) kale, onions, rapee, beets, Gilfeather turnips. And later in the spring, several varieties of Roadtrip Garlic.
Sandie’s Academy Street Gardens will soon have: Bibb and other lettuce, kale, bok choi and other Asian greens, kohlrabi and raab, leeks, spring onions, spring turnips, several varieties of beets, cabbage, arugula, radishes, Romanesco broccoli, sugar snap peas, snow peas.
Academy Street Gardens will also be selling early season plants for broccoli, cabbage, lettuces, herbs, bok choi, leeks, and other cool season vegetables. When it warms more, Sandie will have varieties of heirloom tomatoes, heat tolerant tomatoes, Tomatoe Spotted Wilt Virus(TSWV)-resistant tomatoes, herbs, eggplant, peppers, and Plants for the Coastal South-mostly perennials and some noteworthy annuals.
Drew Dingley soon will be offering fresh, local, grass-fed and grain-finished pork and beef. In spring he’ll also have goat meat, produce and plants.
And in early April 2010, Dorita Boyd of Raindrop Ridge Herbs returns for one day with an array of herb plants – many of them otherwise hard to find.
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Got A Recipe?
Want to share a recipe with the Oriental Farmers’ Market? We’re open to recipes for any thing that’s in season or sold at the market. Drop us a line here and we’ll post your recipe on the recipes page (To send the recipe, just click reply on this email.)To learn more about the Oriental Farmers’ Market, visit our website, OrientalFarmersMarket.com
Come On Down And Sell At The Market
We welcome you to sell at the market if you have something that is locally made or locally grown. Our website now has a section on the guidelines for selling at the market. As guidelines go, these are pretty simple, so come on down and join us as a vendor. You are welcome to join us, but please, contact us.We also welcome your ideas of food-plant-craft related demonstrations to happen at the Farmers’ Market. For more info, call Melinda at 675-0180.
Farmers' Market Hours
The Farmers' Market is on Hodges Street next to The Wits End building
