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Pennington Farmers Market Opening Day May 27
The Pennington Farmers Market will begin their Ninth Season on Saturday, May 27. Dedicated to providing local growers and producers a chance to sell directly to our neighbors, the market is also a place to gather as a community, learn about sustainable living and appreciate the arts. This year the Market will be hosting more than 10 farms that are as close as down the street, but never more than an hour away. In collaboration with the Hopewell Valley Arts Council, they will be featuring a local artist each week, beginning with Peter Pearson whose stained glass will be on display Opening Day. In the Community Tents this week you will find a Jamboree Girl Scout Troop and Princeton Healthcare. All that plus a chance to buy the freshest produce, grassfed beef, local honey, wine, sauerkraut, tangy Jamaican wraps, native plants, and Uncle Ed’s ice cream, while listening to the entertaining sounds of Mike & Laura Tusay.
The Pennington Farmer’s Market is open Saturdays 9am to 1pm on the lawn at Rosedale Mills (101 Route 31 North in Hopewell Township). To learn more, sign up for their weekly email message
at PenningtonFarmersMarket@gmail.com, visit penningtonfarmersmarket.org,
find them on Facebook,
or follow them on Twitter.
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Pennington Farmers Market to Open this Saturday, June 2nd
The Pennington Farmers Market opens its fourth season on Saturday, June 2, at Rosedale Mills (101 Route 31 North) in Pennington. The market is open in the mornings, from 9am to 1pm.
This year’s market includes organic vegetables and wildflowers from Pennington’s Chickadee Creek Farm, sweet corn and honey from Kerr’s Korn and Farm Stand, pasture-fed beef, lamb and free range chicken from Beechtree Farm, award-winning wine from Hopewell Valley Vineyards, sunflowers from Nine Acres Farm, hand-knit alpaca good from Woods Edge Farm, artisan breads from Village Bakery, and organic meals from Comfort Foods. All items are grown, raised, or made locally.
New at the 2012 Pennington Farmers Market will be Treelicious Orchards, the highly-regarded, low-impact farm run by 7th generation growers in western New Jersey, and Pennington’s celebrated Deli on a Bagel.
Treelicious produces both heritage varieties and new hybrids of apples, peaches, plums, pears, apricots, and cherries, as well as fresh-baked, fruit-filled, baked treats, while Deli on a Bagel will sell hot coffee, fresh sandwiches, and brunch creations.
In addition, Mr. Pickle, Sweet Belgians, waffles and a new mushroom vendors will participate occasionally.
Music in June will feature Mark Bodino, Tom Adelman, Jeff Greisemer, Across the Street and Billy.
The Pennington Farmers Market is an open-air market for local vendors to bring fresh produce and farm products directly into the heart of Hopewell Valley. It runs Saturday mornings, from June until Halloween.
News and Updates from Pennington Farmers Market
The Pennington Farmers Market is still open and will be open each Saturday through October. 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. In front of Rosedale Mills at 101 Rt. 31, Pennington, NJ.
The harvest is bountiful and delicious, our farmers and vendors are constantly raising the bar with the products they produce for our customers.
This Saturday at the market, marks the return of Woods Edge Farm. Woods Edge brings a variety of woolen items from their herd of alpaca. In addition to wool they provide honey, bees wax candles, soaps, and beautiful gifts.
Laura Desai of LD Designs will join the market again tomorrow, 9/3, with her jewelry. Laura was at the market a few weeks ago and was very pleased with the response to her creations. Please come and see her work, you won't be disappointed.
If you have not sampled the artisan breads from Village Bakery you are missing a treat, the breads are an art form; the texture and flavors are second to none. Village Bakery is among the vendors who have been a constant at the market this season. Our other outstanding vendors include: Chickadee Creek Farm-organic produce and flowers; Beechtree Farm-pasture raised beef, pork and lamb; Hopewell Valley Vineyards-local wines; Comfort Food-delicious prepared food; Kerr's Korn Stand-sweet corn, and a variety of produce and eggs; HerbNZest-spreads and condiments; Nine Acre Farm-sunflowers, farmer Sonya Sappington will dazzle you with her stunning sunflowers. They are a hot commodity so get to the market early!
Market Manager, Jenni Spencer, welcomes questions and comments about the market.
We are always eager to add the variety of our market with additional vendors. Contact us at fernagin@verizon.net and on Facebook at Pennington Farmers Market and visit our website
at www.penningtonfarmersmarket.com
NEW VENDORS, NEW RECYCLING
OPPORTUNITIES AT THE PENNINGTON FARMERS MARKET
There’s always something new at the Pennington Farmers Market. In July, two new vendors joined the Market – Nine Acre Farm and HerbNZest; and the Solutions Corner announced the expansion of their recycling activities to include foam egg cartons, pantyhose, and used golf balls. You can learn about these and other activities at the new Market website, which also launched in July: www.PenningtonFarmersMarket.com
Nine Acre Farm participated in the Farmers Market in its first year, but the adverse weather conditions of 2010 ruined the sunflower crop, so they missed last season. Now Sonya Sappington is back with her stunning sunflowers and selling out every weekend.
HerbNZest is a new company offering fruit and vegetable spreads made from simple natural ingredients enhanced by a pairing of herbs and spices. At the Market each week you can try free samples of their Chive Tomato Mustard Spread and the Basil Peach Raisin Spread. Founder, Deboleena Dutta, has enjoyed the Pennington Farmers Market experience and praised it for “the market's spirit created by a combination of vendors, events, music and customers!”
The Solutions Corner at the Farmers Market addresses a wide range of environmental problems and suggests simple ways that each of us can address these issues. Foremost among these problems is the shocking amount of material that is dumped in landfills, with one solution being the recycling of more materials to keep them from becoming trash. Pennington Farmers Market customers are adept at sorting materials at home to be placed at the curbside for pick up (paper, cardboard, glass, cans, and #1 and #2 plastics). But that still leaves a lot of material in the trash can. So, at the Farmers Market there is a collection of #5 plastics (yogurt containers, flower pots, and lots of other hard plastics) on the last Saturday of the month. These materials are sent to Preserve, a company that turns this material into kitchenware and other long-lasting products. The Market has also been collecting wine bottle corks to be made into cork tiles.
Now the recycling effort is being expanded. Joann Held, Solutions Corner manager, announced, “Beginning in August new materials are being added to the list of recyclables at the Pennington Farmers Market. In addition to the #5 plastics and wine bottle corks, we will be collecting pantyhose, foam egg cartons, and used golf balls. Bring them to the Market on the last Saturday of each month, and we will make sure they are recycled into new and useful products.”
For Vendor information, contact Jenni Spencer (Market Manager) at (609) 647-8240; for Recycling information contact Joann Held (Solutions Corner) at (609) 737-0867.
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The mission of the Pennington Farmers Market is to provide growers and producers within fifty miles of Pennington, New Jersey an opportunity to sell directly to the public; to promote the nutritional, environmental, and community health benefits of sustainable living; and to create a unique atmosphere in which to appreciate the agriculture, arts, culture, and character of Hopewell Valley.
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Pennington Quality Market is proud to welcome local farmers every Saturday morning 9-1pm, June through October
PQM is proud to welcome local farmers: Geordie Kerr (Kerr's Korn Stand), David Earling (Gravity Hill Farm), Dave Burlew (Naturally Grown Gardens), the Keslers (TreeLicious Orchards), and the Von Thuns (Von Thun Farms) to the Pennington Farmers Market. PQM will be selling berries, artisan breads, soups, coffee, and much more. Music! Stiltwalkers! Circus Fun!! Saturday mornings 9-1pm, June through October.
