Opening Day Is So Close We Can Almost Taste It!

Mark your calendars, folks. June 1 is OPENING DAY for the North City Farmers' Market 2013 season! Please note that we've changed the hours-- the market will now be open from 10am to 1pm. We'll have live music, fresh produce, and free kids' activities! Don't forget, we take EBT! Can't wait to see you in a few weeks!

Harvest Festival 2012

Well folks, it's the close of the 2012 season.  While we are sad to say goodbye until next year, we are really looking forward to this Saturday's closing day Harvest Festival celebration.  We have extended the hours for this weekend's market, so be sure to stop by anytime between 9am and 1pm to join in with the fun!  

Here's some of what we have lined up for the day: 

• Live music by Jamaica Ray- 9am-10am
• Music by Barefoot Jones- 10am-1pm
• Cooking demonstrations by Cooking Matters
• Children’s activities brought to us by BOTH The Magic House AND St. Louis Children’s Hospital
• Entertainment by Vinnie the Mime
• 11:30am- Halloween Costume Contest vote
• and more!

Check out the photo below from the 2009 Halloween costume contest at North City Farmers' Market!  So, so cute!

Finally, you can look forward to visiting many of the great local vendors you have come to know and love, including: 

• 13th Street Community Garden
• Old North Grocery Co-op
• Zee Bee Market
• Black Bear Bakery
• MK Fruits and Veggies
• New Roots Urban Farm
• Del Carmen: “Black Beans a la Cubana”
• Homegrown
• ReTrailer
• Karen’s Creations
• Linda’s Creative Designs
• El Chico Bakery
• Freddie Lee’s Ghetto Sauce
• Stuff N Things
• Benton Park Creations
• Mound City Soap Company
• La Mancha Coffeehouse

Can't wait to see you on Saturday!  Remember that we have extended the hours for this Saturday's market and will be open a whole extra hour, from 9am-1pm!  

September 29th at the Market

Hello, friends!  We have only three weeks left of the 2012 season, so we hope to see you soon!

This week at the market we will have a great variety of produce, crafts, artisan breads, and other great items to choose from.  Also, at 10am the "Spirits of New Northside Drill Team" will be performing.  Spirits of New Northside Drill Team is a project of New Northtside Baptist Church on Goodfellow Blvd. in north St. Louis.  We are really looking forward to welcoming this group of talented young performers to the market and we hope you are able to join us!

Check out this youtube video to get a taste of what tomorrow's performance will be like: Spirits of New Northside Drill Team   Fortunately, we will not have any UPS semis honking tomorrow!

See you tomorrow and thanks for supporting the North City Farmers' Market!

Ames School to strut stuff on Saturday!

Hiya folks!  Ring in the Fall season with a visit to the North City Farmers' Market this Saturday!

We hope you can join us this Saturday for a great day at the market!  Our usual vendors will be back, including but certainly not limited to: New Roots Urban Farm, Homegrown, Zee Bee Market, El Chico Bakery, Old North Grocery Co-op, 13th St. Community Garden, and much, much more! 

Additionally, we have two, count them, TWO exciting performances scheduled for ya!  Starting at 9:30am the Dave Shogren Duo will be performing live.  You might have caught these guys performing at this year's Old North House and Community Tour.  They put on quite a show!  Then, at 11am we will have a dance performance by the Ames Tops Hats, a student group from Ames School of Visual and Performing Arts.  

Ms. Prince and Dancers from Ames VPA

Hope to see you on Saturday!

Saturday, September 15th

Hello, North City Farmers' Market friends!

We are very excited about this weekend's market.  Here is some of what's in store.

• Jamaica Ray will be delighting market-goers with his steel drum music starting at 9:30am.  
• St. Louis University Nursing Faculty will be on-site doing health screenings all morning long
• Cooking Matters, a project of Operation Food Search will be doing cooking demos from 10:30am-Noon.  
• Many local vendors will be selling their locally produced; fair-trade; eco-friendly; locally grown; made with love products.

Hope you can make it out to the market this weekend!  

Feature in Feast Magazine's September Issue

We are so pleased to announce that Feast Magazine has featured the North City Farmers' Market in it's September issue.  Check out the article with photos below or for an easier to read, condensed online version follow the link here: Online Feast Magazine Article

Thanks so much to the nice folks at Feast Magazine for taking the time to visit the North City Farmers' Market and for helping to spread the word about the market and our fantastic vendors!  For more information about the North City Farmers' Market, keep your eyes on this blog, "like" us on Facebook, and follow us on Twitter!

Hope to see you this week and every weekend at the market from 9am-Noon, located at the 2700 block of North 14th St. (across from Crown Candy Kitchen).  As always, in case of rain we will be located in the Old North St. Louis Restoration Group gallery space at 2700 N. 14th St.  

Wack-A-Doo: Saturday, August 25th 2012

Join us this Saturday for a great day at the market!  Not only will many fantastic local vendors be present at the market but we will have a fantastic performance by local legends: Wack-A-Doo and Lindy Hop St. Louis.  If you have not seen these two groups perform before, you do not want to miss this!  In most recent Old North history, Lindy Hop St. Louis provided some very exciting entertainment at the Annual Homegrown Festival and House Tour.  Check out some of the photos from that performance below.

Hope to see you on Saturday for this week's fun market day!  Oh, and be sure to purchase your very own North City Farmers' Market t-shirt at the information booth this week!