Harvard Farmers Market » newsworthy! http://harvardfarmersmarket.org/wordpress Buy Local * Be Local Wed, 19 Oct 2011 03:27:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 en hourly 1 Happy Spring! http://harvardfarmersmarket.org/wordpress/2011/05/happy-spring/ http://harvardfarmersmarket.org/wordpress/2011/05/happy-spring/#comments Sat, 14 May 2011 11:10:08 +0000 rochelle http://harvardfarmersmarket.org/wordpress/?p=1020 IMG_4537

Seeing these little babies ready for the garden is a welcome sight! What a long, cold winter it was … and the earth has finally warmed enough to start planting.

The Harvard Farmers’ Market will open for its fifth season in just a couple of months – on Saturday, August 13. Applications have been rolling in and Market Managers are busy planning for the season. Shoppers will find many familiar faces, as well as some fabulous new ones.

Two new vendors who will be joining us are Samira’s Homemade and Lawton’s Family Farm. Samira’s will bring hummus, tabouli, babaganoush, grape leaves and olives, and Lawton’s will be selling cheese. Yum!!
If you’d like to become a vendor, please go to the ‘vendor’ link and you’ll find our application and contract. Jen or Lisa can assist new vendors who’d like
to come on board; please email us at Jen or Lisa.

If you are a backyard farmer and would just like to participate occasionally (with that huge bumper crop of tomatoes, for example) just drop us a note and we’ll tell you how you can join us.

As always, we welcome volunteers with open arms … please contact our Volunteer Goddess Amy Sklar if you can lend a hand.

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Hey sweet friends,

We wanted to let you know (though some of you know already) that on  Monday, April 4th, (tomorrow!!) Chef Paul and Mike Mintz have offered to give us a class on mead-making and hard apple cider making.

GROOVY!

Julie Sennott has, again, generously offered her fabulous kitchen, our usual gathering place for the Canning Club. (Thanks Julie!!)

Here are the Details:

Monday, April 4th,  7-9 @ Julie Sennotts house (53 Bolton Road)

Bring nothing but yourselves — but if you plan to attend you MUST  RSVP.  We are limited on space so only the first 25 can come this time (we promise to offer it again if needed)  and there are only a few spots left.

To RSVP, email Jen Sundeen at jennysundeen@gmail.com

UPDATE :  THE MEAD MAKING CLASS IS FULL!!!  IN FACT OVER-SOLD!!! WOW, YOU GUYS ARE AWESOME!!!  FOR THOSE THAT DIDN’T GET IN ON THIS ONE, TRUST WE WILL DO IT AGAIN……THIS IS ONLY  THE BEGINNING……

]]> http://harvardfarmersmarket.org/wordpress/2011/04/mead-making-101-monday-april-4-2011/feed/ 0 The Floating Farmers’ Market http://harvardfarmersmarket.org/wordpress/2010/05/743/ http://harvardfarmersmarket.org/wordpress/2010/05/743/#comments Thu, 06 May 2010 02:07:29 +0000 jensundeen http://harvardfarmersmarket.org/wordpress/?p=743 My 7th grade daughter had to give a report on Thailand this week in Social Studies class, and part of her report included a special kind of farmers’ market found in Thailand….a floating market!  Vendors arrive in boats filled to the brim with produce, flowers, spices and more.  From their boats they trade, barter and sell to other traders.  I thought the idea was great, and I immediately thought of Harvard’s pristine Bare Hill Pond.  Hmmm…..  I wonder if  the summer pond crowd would dig the idea of canoes filled with blueberries and tomatoes…

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Damnoen Saduak is a famous floating market in Ratchaburi, Thailand.

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