LOOKING BACK & LOOKING AHEAD: A GREAT TIME TO GIVE THANKS
As this Friday marks the official end of the Summer Market Season and November 1st will be the first day of the Winter Market Season, we decided to do some reflecting back on a successful Summer Market, and also share a sneak preview of the upcoming Winter Market.
We wish to start our reflection with a huge gratitude list. While Thanksgiving is a while off we are, nonetheless, taking this opportunity to reflect on how thankful we are for those who have supported and contributed to the success of the Summer Market Season. As we've said in past newsletters, essential ingredients of a successful farmers' market include both vendors and customers. We are grateful to our vary valued vendors for all the hard work they do to provide us with the highest quality products around. We want to never take them for granted. As you shop the Market this week, perhaps you will offer a heartfelt thanks to the vendors for their commitment to the Market.
We also offer a heartfelt thanks to each and every one of our customers. It makes showing up at Market every week worthwhile when we see your happy faces. It truly is a joy to be part of making our customers happy. We know how much you love your farmers' market because your votes in the I Love My Farmers' Market Campaign (sponsored by American Farmland Trust) resulted in LEWFM being named #1 in the state and #4 in the U.S.
Our gratitude list also includes the special guest vendors and others from the community who joined us this summer to provide both products and information about ways to compost, collect rain water, make your own back (or front) yard raised bed garden or work at an existing neighborhood garden, use the sun to cook your food, and recycle your electronics, to name a few. To round out the summer of fun, numerous musicians added lively music to the mix.
Another essential ingredient for a successful farmers' market is location, location, location. We offer continued thanks to the folks at Cheviot United Methodist Church for providing a year round space, both outside where the market gets great exposure to the traffic, and an indoor space on rainy or cold days. Also, they are just the nicest, most helpful and cooperative people anyone could ever hope to work with. We are so grateful to them.
Thank you one and all!
And now for a look ahead: As we look ahead to the Winter Market Season, we wanted to let you know that we have changes in the making that we hope will enhance the market experience. We plan to have market on an approximately every other week basis, along with a pre order pick of perishable items on the "off" week. We will have complete dates and details of the Winter Market in next week's newsletter. Also, we know how much you love to win market items, so we're wanting to have some type of "contest" and would like your help in coming up with one that will be fun, one that will provide a reward for regular market attendees. So, please put on your thinking cap and stop by the Market Management Booth to give us your fun ideas for our winter give away. We thank you in advance for your continued patronage.
As this Friday marks the official end of the Summer Market Season and November 1st will be the first day of the Winter Market Season, we decided to do some reflecting back on a successful Summer Market, and also share a sneak preview of the upcoming Winter Market.
We wish to start our reflection with a huge gratitude list. While Thanksgiving is a while off we are, nonetheless, taking this opportunity to reflect on how thankful we are for those who have supported and contributed to the success of the Summer Market Season. As we've said in past newsletters, essential ingredients of a successful farmers' market include both vendors and customers. We are grateful to our vary valued vendors for all the hard work they do to provide us with the highest quality products around. We want to never take them for granted. As you shop the Market this week, perhaps you will offer a heartfelt thanks to the vendors for their commitment to the Market.
We also offer a heartfelt thanks to each and every one of our customers. It makes showing up at Market every week worthwhile when we see your happy faces. It truly is a joy to be part of making our customers happy. We know how much you love your farmers' market because your votes in the I Love My Farmers' Market Campaign (sponsored by American Farmland Trust) resulted in LEWFM being named #1 in the state and #4 in the U.S.
Our gratitude list also includes the special guest vendors and others from the community who joined us this summer to provide both products and information about ways to compost, collect rain water, make your own back (or front) yard raised bed garden or work at an existing neighborhood garden, use the sun to cook your food, and recycle your electronics, to name a few. To round out the summer of fun, numerous musicians added lively music to the mix.
Another essential ingredient for a successful farmers' market is location, location, location. We offer continued thanks to the folks at Cheviot United Methodist Church for providing a year round space, both outside where the market gets great exposure to the traffic, and an indoor space on rainy or cold days. Also, they are just the nicest, most helpful and cooperative people anyone could ever hope to work with. We are so grateful to them.
Thank you one and all!
And now for a look ahead: As we look ahead to the Winter Market Season, we wanted to let you know that we have changes in the making that we hope will enhance the market experience. We plan to have market on an approximately every other week basis, along with a pre order pick of perishable items on the "off" week. We will have complete dates and details of the Winter Market in next week's newsletter. Also, we know how much you love to win market items, so we're wanting to have some type of "contest" and would like your help in coming up with one that will be fun, one that will provide a reward for regular market attendees. So, please put on your thinking cap and stop by the Market Management Booth to give us your fun ideas for our winter give away. We thank you in advance for your continued patronage.
NOTICES
- Although Jo the Jam Lady will not be at market for a while, you can purchase her jams from Ora Pottery booth until Jo returns on November 15.
REMINDERS
While some of you are long-time readers
of the newsletter, people who are new to the market are reading the
newsletter for the first time; therefore, the Reminders section is
included each week so new folks can see what's happening around the
market and around town.
Hanging flower baskets: Shady Grove Farm, our newest vendor who supplies the market with wonderful eggs, meats, and produce, asked us to include a special request in the newsletter. They are going to be conducting an experiment to grow winter green beans in their greenhouse. To do so, they need quite a few hanging flower baskets. If you have any hanging around in your basement or shed and would like to have them put to good use please bring them to market this week or over the next few weeks. Wouldn't it be great to have green beans in the winter, and to know you had a part in making this happen?
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For a full listing of our vendors, their products, the weeks they attend market, and their services including:
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Hanging flower baskets: Shady Grove Farm, our newest vendor who supplies the market with wonderful eggs, meats, and produce, asked us to include a special request in the newsletter. They are going to be conducting an experiment to grow winter green beans in their greenhouse. To do so, they need quite a few hanging flower baskets. If you have any hanging around in your basement or shed and would like to have them put to good use please bring them to market this week or over the next few weeks. Wouldn't it be great to have green beans in the winter, and to know you had a part in making this happen?
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For a full listing of our vendors, their products, the weeks they attend market, and their services including:
- Kids & Krafts (available starting at 4:45), where the kids can have loads of fun so you can leisurely shop the market
- Many food and non-food items
- and a list of vendors who accept credit cards
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WANTED: VOLUNTEERS. We're always looking for volunteers! If you're available to lend a hand at the Market any time between 1:30pm and 7:30pm on Fridays, or during the week for more behind the scenes activities, check out the link below to contact us!
VENDORS: We currently have an opening for a produce vendor. If you are interested or know someone who might be, you may email us through the link below.
Vendors/Volunteers Click Here!
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For a listing of seasonal produce, visit CORV's Website.
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We hope to see you real soon at Lettuce Eat Well Farmers' Market!
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