[RP TownTalk] Riverdale Park Farmers Market Weekly Highlights

[Jim Coleman]

Riverdale Park's Farmers Market

*Tomorrow : May 14, 2015  3 - 7PM*

*@: 6204 Rhode Island Avenue, Riverdale Park, MD (next to Riverdale MARC
station)*

Get your spring mix, collards, mustard, baby kale, head lettuce, radishes,
pac choi, spicy mix, arugula, mini head lettuce, dandelion greens, and
microgreens, fruit preserves, apples, pastured meats, free range hen eggs,
fresh small batch roasted coffees, Viburnum, Lily of the Valley, mixed
bouquets, some tulips while we enjoy mid Spring. 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: 72 degrees and calm, awesome for this week.*

*Feature Farmer: We welcome back Blades Orchard and Boxer's Rest Organic to
the market.*


*Feature News: *

This week, we welcome back Boxer's Rest Certified Organic, a small farm out
of Church Hill, MD.


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 back next
week with their delicious goat products.

Feature Recipes: There must be something in this Cookout Party article from
Food and Wine magazine
<http://www.foodandwine.com/slideshows/cookout-party?adbid=598638896734285826&adbpl=tw&adbpr=30278532&short_code=2zlgo&xid=slideshow_20150514_45378686>
 that meets your fancy. Groff's Content Farm
<https://www.facebook.com/GroffsContentFarm>
 does a super job of raising pastured meats. Pick out your favorite recipe
and try some this weekend.


*Growers:* Groff's Content Farm - Pastured meats & eggs, ECO City Farm(spring
mix, collards, mustard, baby kale, head lettuce, radishes, pac choi, spicy
mix, arugula, mini head lettuce, dandelion greens, and microgreens),
Musachio Produce (spinach, blueberries, strawberries, spinach, asparagus,
rhubarb, flowers & garlic); Boxer's Rest Certified Organic
<https://www.facebook.com/boxersrest>
 will be back this week for the first time this year. Here's what they'll
have: baby red kale, arugula, spicy salad mix, overwintered curly and dino
kale, sorrel and celesta red radishes. Blades Orchard (apples, canned
peaches, preserves maybe a few early berries (can't promise that though
still a little early) and Apple butter, and Jack Creek Plants (A trio of
basils available this week:  sweet, cinnamon and dwarf! Lots of tomato
plants) Don't forget Red Chimney Farm's great flowers too!


*Tasty Treats:* Geppetto Catering BBQ, El Taco Loco, The Verandah (Indian
food), Roy & RT's Garden, Migue's Magnificent Mini Donuts, Stone Hearth
Bakery.

*Speciality: Alaskawild Seafood's wild caught salmon, Mystic Water Soap,
Romano Winery, Shahla Abdi Antique Trading Bead Jewelry, PGC Department of
the Environment.*


*Entertainers: Dana Sipos <https://www.facebook.com/dana.sipos.yahoo>*
* @ 3 PM; UpHillRiver @ 5 PM.*


*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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