OPENING DAY WAS...WOW!

Strawberry rhubarb pie, anyone?  And so much else.  Lots of vendors, lots of customers, music, sunshine, just the way to start a season of local products and working together to make the community better and stronger.  See you next week!

These goodies were from the Warren Farm in Barrington.  They joined us last fall for the indoor markets, and are back for the summer.  They also had asparagus!

OPENING DAY COMING UP!

Mark May 27th on your calendars – that’s the date of the first Northwood Farmers Market of the 2010 season at the NFM site up on the corner of Routes 4, 9, and 202 in Northwood. We’ve added new vendors to the Market this year, building on last year’s enthusiastic consumer response to locally-produced food. One of the new vendors will be Eastman’s Community Supported Fishery, the first CSF in the state and modeled after Community Supported Agriculture. They’ll be joining the traditional cast of local farmers selling plants, flowers, vegetables, baked goods, maple syrup, honey, free-range poultry and beef, cheese and other dairy products, and so much more.

Think globally, buy locally, and become a real locavore by shopping at the Northwood Farmers Market every Thursday from 3 to 6:30 starting on May 27 and going until October, when we’ll move the Market indoors. See you at the NFM!

Patrons of the arts needed!

The Northwood Farmers Market loves to showcase local entertainers, musicians, storytellers and the like. While we certainly encourage “busking,” the practice of laying out an instrument case, hat or other way of collecting donations, we also would very much like to be able to pay a small stipend to those who bring so much pleasure to our customers and vendors. However, in order to keep the cost to our vendors as low as possible, we run on a very lean budget.

A good friend of the market, who wishes to remain anonymous, has offered to match any donations from other friends of the market up to $250. Any funds collected would pay small stipends to entertainers willing to spend a Thursday afternoon this summer making our market even more fun. If you can donate any amount for this project or if you have questions please contact Meg at 942-8313 or e-mail us at northwoodfarmersmarket@yahoo.com . You can also send a check made out to the Northwood Farmers Market to us at c/o 524 Jenness Pond Rd., Northwood NH 03261. Please note on the check that it is for the Music Match.

We also encourage any local entertainers to get in touch with us and schedule a day at the best little farmers market in our area.

Ideas?

We're planning the 2010 Northwood Market season and we're really looking forward to this year's market ...we hope you are too! This would be a great time to let us know if you have any suggestions for the market - we'll do our best to investigate every single suggestion and implement all those that we can. All ideas are welcome, from vendors who you'd like us to approach to join us, advertsiing suggestions, special events and/or entertainment, anything at all.

You can send suggestions to northwoodfarmersmarket@yahoo.com or send them by mail to the following address: 524 Jenness Pond Rd. Northwood, NH 03261

FYI - the market will be opening on Thursday May 27th ...look for details / ads in the Suncook Sun and (hopefully) the Strafford Newsletter - we'll send you a reminder too, as it gets closer :)

See you at the Market!

Two years in a row!

Northwood Farmers Market's honey seller, George Dean, won the taste test at the NH Beekeepers Association annual meeting last week for the second year in a row! Scott Coleman of Barrington, the husband of Julie, one of the market's founding members, won 4th. We definitely have some hard working bees, and beekeepers, in our area.

Can't wait for the first market!

New syrup available!

Mapleview Farms is one of our wonderful farms at the Northwood Farmers Market.

Dan, of Mapleview Farms, has a limited supply of this year's maple syrup available.

If you're interested - get in touch with Dan via comtedan@aol.com or by phone: 942-1297

After all the rain and wind, spring is coming! My daffodils are poking their leaves up! Sweet syrup, sweet flowers.

Hot pepper jelly wins!

A note from Dagne Goodwin of Amelia Mae's -

My pepper jellies were put in a taste test in NH Magazine and we got first place! My flavor: Golden Hot Pepper Jelly. This has golden bell peppers, hot thai peppers and garlic......yummy!

I can't wait for the market, hurry spring!