<div dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.666666984558105px">May 1 - Tomorrow's afternoon weather will be breezy with a high between 71 and 76, we'll take it. Hold onto your hats and your tents, folks. Get outside and enjoy our full complement of market products as we build toward our full complement of farmers and other vendors. Get your asparagus, apples, greens, flowers, plants, pastured meats, free range hen eggs, artisan aged goat and raw milk cheeses while we enjoy the transition to Spring. Don't miss it! Many new and enticing products will be coming to the market this year! Come and enjoy the festive early Spring atmosphere! Evening hours are fun at the market! We look forward to seeing you Thursdays from 3pm to 7pm at the Riverdale Park Town Center, rain or shine. </p>
<p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.666666984558105px">New for this week:</p><p style="font-size:12.666666984558105px"><span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:18px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">This week, the RPFM Fruit & Pickle Stand will be offering a special treat for our Number One Sons pickle fans who like a milder pickle: Half Sours; in addition, we have a new stock of Krauts, lots of Kale Chi & Kim Chi, and a bounty of Kicky Kosher pickles. We're also offering fresh cider, Cameo & Fuji Apples, more Apple Sauce, and delicious Apple Schnitz for your enjoyment.</font></span><font color="#000000" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br>
</font></p><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.666666984558105px"><font color="#000000">Musachio Produce will be making their first appearance of the season with their customary first crops of potted flowers & asparagus.</font></p>
<p style><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"><span style="font-size:12.666666984558105px;line-height:18px">Jack Creek Plants has a number of different tomato plant varieties. Stop by and ask what's available this week.</span><br>
</font></p><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.666666984558105px">Mystic Water Soap will be absent this week due to preparations for the Faerie Festival @ Spoutwood Farm.</p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.666666984558105px">
Simple Pleasures Ice Cafe is out of town this week.<br></p><p dir="ltr" style><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.666666984558105px">Local legend Marianna Previti of the Smokin' Polecats will be our musician this week. Here's a clip for your enjoyment:</span></font></p>
<p dir="ltr" style><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.666666984558105px"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAGgEHSFGBQ">Marianna Previti with Dave Sherman and the Smokin' Polecats</a></span></font></p>
<div style="display:inline-block;width:16px;height:16px"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></div><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.666666984558105px">Going Strong:</p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.666666984558105px">
Please join me in welcoming for the first time ever, our new USDA Certified Organic vegetable farm from Chestertown, MD, Boxer's Rest. This week they'll have tatsoi, baby red kale, arugula, and spicy mix.</p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.666666984558105px">
Migue's Magnificent Mini Donuts is back after a one year sabbatical. Welcome back Migue!</p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.666666984558105px">Here's a message from Groff's Content Farm & a recipe: We have lots of eggs. Berkshire Pork is still on special but we are coming to the end of it. Chops, shoulder, spare ribs and loin roast are available. Off the special we also have: bacon, pastured lamb, free range chicken, and many cuts of grass fed beef. Here's your recipe: <a href="http://www.mrfood.com/Pork/Saucy-Pork-Chops-1164/">Saucy Pork Chops</a></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:18px">Help our local urban farm, ECO City Farms, and get some great produce tomorrow. Here's what's on the menu: Spicy mix, spinach, turnips, baby carrots, head lettuce, pac choi, and maybe chard.</span><br>
</p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.666666984558105px"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Red Chimney Farm will have the following for this week: Spirea, Pussy Willow, Fasciated Willow, and new for this succulent plants. Do come over and check out Suzanne's exciting new direction.</font></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.666666984558105px"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Bonaparte Breads will be back this week with their great artisan breads made with organic flour and superb Parisian style baked goods.</font></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.666666984558105px"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Geppetto Catering BBQ will be back with their delicious slow cooked sustainable meats.</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.666666984558105px">
<font face="arial, sans-serif">Shine Massage & Wellness will be back next week.</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.666666984558105px"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Zeke's Coffee of DC will have: </font><br>
<font face="arial, sans-serif">their normal coffees plus their new DC area only RIA Roast in pounds and by the cup. Ask them about the new roastery on Rhode Island Avenue.</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.666666984558105px">
<font face="arial, sans-serif">Eat Fresh Maryland and the market are continuing to offer incentives for folks using SNAP, WIC, Seniors, and Fruit & Vegetable Checks and will accept these forms of payment @ the market. We will also be accepting both debit and credit transactions for a $1 fee. </font><br>
<font face="arial, sans-serif">Stone Hearth Bakery will be back with their great line of European style artisan breads, pastries, and cookies</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.666666984558105px">
Going, going, gone!<br>* Cakes by Ruthann has decided to concentrate on larger farmers markets for her products. When you see her, wish her well. We'll miss you.<br></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.666666984558105px">
Coming Soon:</p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.666666984558105px">More new farm announcements coming after our board meeting this week about new farmers.</p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.666666984558105px">
Number One Sons is having trouble getting to the market this month but the market stand will have limited quantities of their products available.</p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.666666984558105px">
Important Notices:</p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.666666984558105px">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.</p>
<p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.666666984558105px">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.</p>
<p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.666666984558105px">Got ideas for improvements? Talk to or email Jim Coleman and share your thoughts! We can do it: change begins in Riverdale Park! <br>Bring Your Own Bag! <br>
We are also interested in making sure folks know about us on Yelp and Chowhound.<br>Shameless Promotion: Check us out on Twitter and Facebook!<br>Here's a sample of more top-quality, locally grown/made items available Thursday at the market: * Apples! * Asparagus * fresh cider, *kale, *Winter greens, etc. * Spinach, Spring Mix, * Cilantro, * Candy Onions, * Free Range Eggs, * Fresh Chicken, * Potted flowers, * Baked Goods, * Grass fed Beef, * Pastured Pork and Lamb * Fresh Sausages * Breads & Pastries * Small Batch Roasted Coffee </p>
<p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.666666984558105px">Our favorite nationally known local food site, <a href="http://localharvest.org/" target="_blank">localharvest.org</a></p><div style="display:inline-block;width:16px;height:16px">
</div> is always looking for more reviews of the market.<p></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.666666984558105px">Send us your recipe with local ingredients and we'll put the best recipes in next week's newsletter and give you a $10 Fruits & Veggies gift certificate from the market! </p>
<p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.666666984558105px">Facebook is soliciting for reviews of our market. Please tell them what you love about our market! If there's something you dislike about our market, please tell me first so I can address it personally, <a href="mailto:rpkfarmmkt@gmail.com" target="_blank">rpkfarmmkt@gmail.com</a>. As one customer recently told us, "Riverdale Park is the fun market!" Each week we offer live music by award winning local artists, kids' entertainment, and a wide selection of fresh produce and specialty items sold directly by Maryland farmers. Held at our town center, 4650 Queensbury Road, Riverdale Park, MD</p>
<p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.666666984558105px">Riverdale Park Farmers Market is supported in part by So Maryland So Good</p></div>