<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tomorrow : <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://1" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="1" style="-webkit-text-decoration-color: rgba(49, 49, 49, 0.258824);">May 25, 2017 3 - 7PM</a></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">@: <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://2" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="address" x-apple-data-detectors-result="2" style="-webkit-text-decoration-color: rgba(49, 49, 49, 0.258824);">6204 Rhode Island Avenue, Riverdale Park, MD</a> (next to Riverdale</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">MARC station)
Get your great strawberries, </span><a href="http://www.seriouseats.com/2017/04/17-asparagus-recipes.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">asparagus</span></a><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">, fresh duck!, potatoes, spinach, kale, arugula, kohlrabi and other crops while they last. Garlic, onions, apples, fresh and hard cider, apple sauce, pastured meats, raw milk cheeses, fresh goat cheese, exotic mushrooms, free range hen eggs (limited supply), 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 <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://3" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="3" style="-webkit-text-decoration-color: rgba(49, 49, 49, 0.258824);">Thursday from 3 to 7PM</a> at the Riverdale Park Town Center, rain or shine. WEATHER: High 75 with some scattered showers..</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tomorrow's lineup includes the following vendors:</span></p><ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; margin-left: 11pt;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><a href="https://business.facebook.com/GroffsContentFarm/?business_id=519659454902835" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">Groff's Content Farm</font></span></a></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; margin-left: 11pt;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">ECO City Farms!</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; margin-left: 11pt;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><a href="https://business.facebook.com/Bladesorchard/?business_id=519659454902835" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">Blades Orchard</font></span></a></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; margin-left: 11pt;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Cat's Paw Organic Farm</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; margin-left: 11pt;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><a href="http://www.mccleafsorchard.com/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">McCleaf's Orchard</font></span></a></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; margin-left: 11pt;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><a href="https://business.facebook.com/kingsmushroomfarm/?business_id=519659454902835" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">King Mushrooms</font></span></a></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; margin-left: 11pt;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Jack Creek Plants</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; margin-left: 11pt;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><a href="https://business.facebook.com/barajasproducee/?business_id=519659454902835" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">Barajas Produce</font></span></a></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; margin-left: 11pt;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><a href="https://business.facebook.com/zekescoffeedc/?business_id=519659454902835" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">Zeke's Coffee of DC</font></span></a></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; margin-left: 11pt;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><a href="https://business.facebook.com/I-Confect-104798926229583/?business_id=519659454902835" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">I Confect</font></span></a></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; margin-left: 11pt;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Stone Hearth Bakery,</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; margin-left: 11pt;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">El Taco Loco</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; margin-left: 11pt;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><a href="https://business.facebook.com/royandrt/?business_id=519659454902835" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">Roy & Rt's Kitchen & Garden</font></span></a></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; margin-left: 11pt;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><a href="https://business.facebook.com/Alaskawildseafoods/?business_id=519659454902835" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">Alaskawild Seafoods</font></span></a></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; margin-left: 11pt;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Old Smokey's BBQ</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; margin-left: 11pt;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><a href="https://business.facebook.com/Mystic-Water-Soap-281710141273/?business_id=519659454902835" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">Mystic Water Soap</font></span></a></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; margin-left: 11pt;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">While Waiting Jewelry</span></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Music Acts: Mary Amato - <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://7" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="7" style="-webkit-text-decoration-color: rgba(49, 49, 49, 0.258824);">5 to 7PM</a>.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Kid fun: Sidewalk Chalk</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Feature News:</span><a href="https://business.facebook.com/ECOCityFarms/?fref=mentions" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">ECO City Farms</span></a><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> is back! </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 5pt;"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">After a short hiatus from our CSA program and the Riverdale Farmers Market, ECO City Farms is back and better than ever! With the help of our wonderful friends, volunteers, and interns, a massive overhaul of both our Edmonston and Bladensburg farms is now complete. 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 being back at our local market and seeing all of our friends and neighbors this Thursday!</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Groff''s Content Farm offers great quality sustainably raised beef, pork, chicken and lamb</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">and is featuring Meatball Marinara and Spaetzle on their prepared meal menu.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Jack Creek Plants is making their first appearance of the season..</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dimitri's Olive Oil is back this week.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Maryland Market Money is back with a maximum $5 per </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">week match on WIC</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Fruit and Vegetable Checks & SNAP purchases.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">We are offering a new option for local businesspeople that complement </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">our food options. One local business per week will be offered a slot </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">at the farmers market to offer services and goods that the market </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">doesn't offer for $28 per week. We suggest once a month attendance. If </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">you're interested, please contact us.
</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Coming Attractions :</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Oksana's Produce is on hiatus</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> for 2017. Red Chimney Farm may be coming back on a guest vendor basis. Many new vendors will premiere this season.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">We're outdoors <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://12" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="12" style="-webkit-text-decoration-color: rgba(49, 49, 49, 0.258824);">from this Thursday</a> through November with our neighbors, </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">friends, and vendors. As always, it will trickle along until the weather stays warm for a while and more things come up from the ground. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It's still an exciting time of year, even if it takes a while to get going.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Important Notices:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Food safety notice: Due to our county's health department regulations, </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">dogs are no longer welcome at the farmers market. We love dogs but had </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">too many incidents.
</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Important note about parking: only parallel parking is allowed on Maryland Ave </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">(the road that passes under East-West Highway) -- please do not park in </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">any other manner.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Got ideas for improvements? Talk to or email Jim Coleman and share</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">your thoughts! We can do it: change begins in Riverdale Park!</span></p></div></body></html>