[RP TownTalk] RP Farmers Market Weekly Highlights

[Jim Coleman]

Tomorrow : August 24, 2017  3 - 7PM

@: 6204 Rhode Island Avenue, Riverdale Park, MD (next to Riverdale

MARC station)

Get your great Fuji apples, blueberries, blackberries, black & red
raspberries, sweet & tart cherries, yellow, white & donut peaches, beets,
broccoli, green beans, bell peppers, potatoes, chinese & regular cabbage,
cauliflower, collards, fennel, spinach, dino, green & red boar kale; red &
yellow onions, swiss chard, arugula, okra, sugar snap peas, some
microgreens and other crops while they last.  Spring onions, apples, fresh
and hard cider, apple sauce, pastured meats, raw milk cheeses, fresh goat
cheese, exotic mushrooms, free range hen & duck eggs,  and more while we
enjoy the changing seasons. Don't miss it! Evening hours are fun at the
market! We look forward to seeing you every Thursday from 3 to 7 PM @
Riverdale Park’s Town Center (across from the Riverdale MARC train station).

WEATHER: High 80, mostly sunny & breezy (according to Accuweather).

Tomorrow's lineup includes the following vendors:

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   Groff's Content Farm
   <https://business.facebook.com/GroffsContentFarm/?business_id=519659454902835>
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   Blades Orchard
   <https://business.facebook.com/Bladesorchard/?business_id=519659454902835>
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   Cat's Paw Organic Farm
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   McCleaf's Orchard <http://www.mccleafsorchard.com/>
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   ECO City Farms
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   Jack Creek Plants
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   Barajas Produce
   <https://business.facebook.com/barajasproducee/?business_id=519659454902835>
   -

   King Mushrooms
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   Zeke's Coffee of DC
   <https://business.facebook.com/zekescoffeedc/?business_id=519659454902835>
   -

   I Confect
   <https://business.facebook.com/I-Confect-104798926229583/?business_id=519659454902835>
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   Dimitri Olive Oil
   -

   Stone Hearth Bakery
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   Mystic Water Soap (New Whipped Shea Butter & soap samples this week only)
   -

   Tag Team Kitchen (Homemade pizza crusts & pizza kits)
   -

   El Taco Loco
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   Roy & RT’s Kitchen & Garden (Continued support makes it work..)
   -

   Old Smokey's BBQ
   -

   Twin Valley Distillers
   -

   Simple Pleasures Ice Cafe
   -

   A Little Pottery
   -

   Prince George’s County WIC office



Music Acts: Miles Spicer - 5 to 7PM.

Kid fun: Sidewalk Chalk

Feature News:

Premiere Week - A message from Tag Team Kitchen:

We are Tag Team Kitchen: Baking Up Purpose

In the kitchen, I work along side my son, a young man with high-functioning
autism, baking handmade pizza crusts. He has a passion for cooking and we
both have a love of home made pizza.

It’s close to impossible to find work when you have a communication
disability. So, I developed a business plan and we started baking out of
our home. I adapt and modify baking techniques and recipes to suit his
strengths. Then he can work independently to prepare dough and assist in
baking. We make a great team!

With support and proven practices in place, he is able to provide a
delicious and wholesome product for our customers to create their own
pizzas at home, using the bounty of fresh ingredients they can find at the
farmers market. Our handmade pizza crusts and pizza kits are available at
two farmers markets in Montgomery county, and now at the Riverdale Park
Farmers Market on Thursdays from 3:00-7:00 pm.

Working gives us purpose, and everyone who wants to work deserves a chance!
That’s the idea behind Tag Team Kitchen.

Mystic Water Soap is offering a new flavor of their Whipped Shea Butter and
free soap samples while they last (extended one week!).

ECO City Farms <https://business.facebook.com/ECOCityFarms/?fref=mentions>
is back!

After a short hiatus from our CSA program and the Riverdale Farmers Market,
ECO City Farms is back and better than ever! In three short months the
staff at ECO have applied over eight hundred wheelbarrows of compost (more
than doubling the growing space at the Edmonston farm), built a new mobile
greenhouse for our Bladensburg farm, renovated our kitchen and processing
facility, and have nearly completed the construction of our on-site
classroom/community center. We look forward to seeing you and all of your
friends and neighbors at our local market this Thursday!

Groff''s Content Farm offers great quality sustainably raised beef, pork,
chicken and lamb

and is featuring their amazing Chicken Pot Pie on their prepared meal menu.

A Little Pottery is coming to market again.

Maryland Market Money is back with a maximum $5 per week match on

WIC Farmers Market Nutrition Program vouchers, WIC Fruit and Vegetable
Checks & SNAP purchases.

We are offering a new option for local businesspeople that complement our
food options.

One local business per week will be offered a slot at the farmers market to
offer services and goods that the market doesn't offer for $28 per week. We
suggest once a month attendance. If you're interested, please contact us.

Prince George’s County Health Department will distribute WIC Farmers Market
Nutrition Program vouchers this week.

Coming Attractions:

AlaskaWild Seafoods has sold out of fish. Will get some back from his dad
in a shipment on Saturday. Hopefully, this will all be straightened out
soon (next week?).

Many new vendors will premiere this season.

We're outdoors this Thursday through November with our neighbors, friends,
and vendors. The market is in full swing now, most weeks you’ll see new
crops. It's an exciting time of year.
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