Market is On Rain or Shine

We plan on having the farmers market tomorrow, September 10th, rain or shine. If it rains, look for us in the gallery of the Old North Restoration Group at 2700 14th Street. All your favorite vendors will be there, and we'll have some fall veggies, including acorn, butternut, and yellow squash.

VEGETAPALOOZA this weekend, August 6th

Vegetapalooza is this weekend, and it's going to be a blast.

Please bring your best pie, your weirdest vegetable, and your largest vegetable to enter them into our three contests open to the public. 1st Place Prizes will be awarded!

Help decide the winner of the chef cook-off between the Old North Grocery Co-op and the Burning Kumquat Farm. Stick around to have a free food sample and vote for your favorite dish.

Wack-a-do will perform live music.

Other activities include:

• ice-cream making and tasting
  
• folk dance lessons
• a visit and talk from the Truck Farm
• live chickens from the 13th Street Garden

Check out our video about Vegetapalooza:

Watermelon and Cantaloupe at the North City Farmers Market!

Usually I try to blog before the market happens, but I have to tell you what you missed if you didn't make it out to the North City Farmers' Market today.

Lee Farms sold ready-to-eat cantaloupe, and Chef Ivy featured it in the salsa she made on site for everyone to sample. Delicious. W. M. Farms featured watermelons the size of a piglet, and the Old North Grocery Co-op brought local peaches.

Our produce vendors featured your summer favorites - tomatoes, okra, yellow squash, zucchini, cucumbers, and more.

Don't forget that next week, August 6th, is Vegetapalooza, when we celebrate local produce, good food, and community.

Save the Date - August 27th

NCFM is having a Camp-out Fundraiser on August 27. Bring your camping gear and spend the night with us under the stars in the 13th Street Garden in Old North.

The details are in the works, but expect live music, smores, and more.

July 16th at the North City Farmers' Market

Tonight, Chef Ivy and I went to Grace Hill's Whitaker Urban Evening Concert Series and passed out Angel Baked Cookies and fliers while listening to Charles Glenn and his Gospel Group. I especially enjoyed admiring the face-painted children walking the grounds.

We had fun telling people all about the Farmers' Market, and why they should visit us. Why visit?

• This Saturday, July 16, 13th Street Garden will have onions and garlic for sale, as well as green beans, carrots, cherry tomatoes, and other good stuff.
  
• Chef Ivy will show you how to make veggie quesadillas and chilled veggie soup. Free food samples!
• Live music by Melissa.

The North City Farmers' Market will be featured at this month's SLOUP, on Easter Sunday. Please come and support the Market!

SLOUP is a unique fundraiser for arts/charity initiatives. You pay $10 for an evening of soup & salad, and groups give a presentation about their particular charity. Then you get to vote on who receives all the funds from that evening's entrance fees!

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We hope to use the money generated from this fundraiser to pay for permits to hold the Farmers' Market on the street each week and to pay musicians.