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Berry Tasting at the Market

July 27, 2010

The Market gives us a chance to discover on our own that a berry isn’t just a berry, and a cherry isn’t just a cherry.  Each fruit has a number of cultivars, varieties with different tastes, characteristics and growing requirements.
Take apples for example. We recognize that a Honeycrisp apple looks and tastes a little different [...]

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Setting Up the Market – Photos

July 22, 2010

The Market has a comfortable rhythm. Every Wednesday, early in the afternoon, the vans, cars and trucks roll on in to City Hall, where Market volunteers direct them to their spaces.  The vendors set up their canopies and tables, arrange their produce, chat with one another, and prepare for us shoppers.  At 4, the Market bell [...]

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Vitamin K for Your Bones

July 21, 2010

Vitamin K, once a quiet vitamin we heard next to nothing about, is now “hot.” Studies have indicated it’s necessary for building bone. Just how it all works is still a bit of a mystery. Food sources high in Vitamin K include the usual suspects, the leafy greens, and a few other vegetables–all available at [...]

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Kids’ Events at the Market

July 21, 2010

Did you see the sensational mural behind the musicians at last week’s Market?
That’s the brain child of Grace Wan and Amy Yang, who plan and supervise Kids’ Events at the Market. Grace and Amy are the youngest members on the Market’s steering committee—they’re in high school!
For the mural, Grace and Amy worked with Marci Knutsen [...]

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Photos of Food and Fun at the Market

July 11, 2010

 

Shopping at the Market  

 Other Good Things to Eat  

 Friends at the Market

 Dining at the Market

Kids at the Market 

 Market Managers   

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What’s a REAL Farmers’ Market?

July 9, 2010

When Martha Tyler passed a local grocery store a couple of weeks ago, she noticed a large banner with the words, “Farmers Market Coming to Your Neighborhood Store — This Saturday and Sunday.”
As a Farmers’ Market manager, Martha was curious. Just who were these farmers coming to the local supermarket? So she went inside and [...]

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