[RP TownTalk] Riverdale Park Farmers Market Weekly Highlights

[Jim Coleman]

Riverdale Park Farmers Market Weekly Highlights

Today : August 27, 2015  3 - 7PM
@: 6204 Rhode Island Avenue, Riverdale Park, MD (next to Riverdale MARC
station)
Get your BlackBerries, corn (white), yellow wax beans, cantelopes,
watermelon, new dug potatoes, squash, cantalopes, and onions.  apples,
pastured meats, free range hen eggs, fresh small batch roasted coffees and
more while we enjoy mid Summer. Don't miss it!  Evening hours are fun at
the market!   We look forward to seeing you Thursdays from 3 to 7pm at the
Riverdale Park Town Center, rain or shine.

WEATHER: High 81 and clear this week.
Feature Farmers: We welcome back Cats Paw Organic Farm with their many
tomato varieties, lettuce varieties and delicious baked goods. We are also
congratulating Roy & RT's Kitchen & Garden into our regular lineup of
veggie farmers. They have many unusual ethnic veggies and items that no
other farmers will have.

Feature News:
Red Chimney Farm is back this week with their beautiful flowers!

Through the generous contributions from the Riverdale Park Town Council and
the facilitation of the Maryland State Farmers Market Association, the
Maryland Market Money program is up and running again. Our new match amount
for the Outdoor season is up to $7 for each $7 spent at the market.

You won't see at market this week: We expect Peachy Family Dairy and their
goat products next week. Mystic Water Soap? is out for tomorrow due to
medical issues. Sweet Tease Bakery will be back sometime this Fall (we
hope).

Groff's Content Farm
 does a super job of raising pastured meats. Pick out your favorite recipe
and try some this weekend. They also have some delightful raw milk cheeses
for your enjoyment.

Growers: Groff's Content Farm - Pastured meats & eggs, ECO City Farm,
Musachio Produce; Cats Paw Organic Farm; Roy & RT's Kitchen & Garden;
Blades Orchard's peach season is upon us.

Tasty Treats: Geppetto Catering BBQ, El Taco Loco, The Verandah (Indian
food),  Roy & RT's Kitchen & Garden, Simple Pleasures Ice Cafe, Stone
Hearth Bakery.

Speciality: Alaskawild Seafood's wild caught salmon & Elk Run Vineyard

Entertainers: Great music from Jacob Panic

Kid fun: Good old sidewalk chalk!
Important Notices:
Food safety notice: Due to a preponderance of evidence and our county's
health department regulations, dogs are no longer welcome at the farmers
market. We regret the loss but hope that our dog owning customers will
forgive us for this change.
Important note about parking: only parallel parking is allowed on Maryland
Ave (the road that passes under East-West Highway) -- please do not park in
any other manner.
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