[RP TownTalk] RP Farmers Market Weekly Highlights

[Jim Coleman]

Weather: High 54, mostly sunny & Very windy(according to Accuweather).

Today 's lineup includes the following vendors:
Groff's Content Farm
Blades Orchard
Barajas Produce
Cat's Paw Organic Farm
McCleaf's Orchard
ECO City Farms
King Mushrooms
AlaskaWild Seafoods
Twin Valley Distillers
Zeke's Coffee of DC
I Confect
Dimitri Olive Oil
Stone Hearth Bakery
Mystic Water Soap
El Piquin (Mexican food)
Roy & RT’s Kitchen & Garden (Continued support makes it work..)
Old Smokey's BBQ
Simple Pleasures Ice Cafe
A Little Pottery
While Waiting Jewelry


Music Acts: Andy Statler - 5 to 7PM, (weather permitting).
Kid fun: Sidewalk Chalk

Feature News:
Limited pastured turkeys are available directly from Groff’s Content Farm!

AlaskaWild Seafoods is back for this week.

Mystic Water Soap is back this week.

ECO City Farms 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.

Duchess Collection will have fused glass jewelry for sale.

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.

Coming Attractions:

Winter is coming and so is the Winter Market. As far as we know, we’re
outside until the 14th of December. We will be open in the old S & J
Restaurant for Thursdays, 3 to 7 PM from December 14th, 21st, 28th, January
4th, 11th, 18th, 25th, February 1st, 8th, 15th, 22nd, March 1st, 8th, 15th,
22nd, and 29th.

We’re closed for *Thursday, November 23rd, Happy Thanksgiving* and open on
November 30 through December 7th 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.

Festival of Lights & Holiday Market will be on Saturday, December 16th from
Noon to 8 PM.

Activities include: Eight hours of live musicians, all day unique craft
shopping, Santa visits from 2 to 5 PM, and Singing trolleys through the
neighborhood from 530PM to 8PM including the Riversdale House Museum.

We still need *volunteers for fundraising (advertising, music, and
trolleys), decorating, Santa visit operations, both singing on trolleys and
trolley navigation.* Contact Jim Coleman for further details.

Important Notices:
Food safety notice: Due to our county's health department regulations, dogs
are no longer welcome at the farmers market. We love dogs but had too many
incidents.

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.

-- 
Thanks,

Jim Coleman
Ph: 3015865973
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