It's Farmers' Market time again!
The 2013 Creemore Farmers’ Market Season is about to begin! It’s always exciting to re-connect with everyone and enjoy being back with our market family every Saturday.
This Saturday we will have a record 41 vendors at the market! We welcome back established vendors alongside new producers and craftspeople. Non-profit organisations are also working alongside us this year, raising money, taking subscriptions and even treating our taste buds; look out for Tin Roof Global’s smoothies alongside their rain barrels this week!
We have well-known and new producers. Lists of produce coming to market are on our website, updated weekly on our ‘In Season’ page. Some of the new producer items this week include young trees, organic lamb, yogurt and cheese, alpaca wool mitts, slippers and bags. These, of course, will be alongside traditional favourites like seedlings, tomato plants, sprouts, herbs, salad greens, wild leeks, green garlic, kale, rhubarb, asparagus, over-wintered parsnips, maple syrup, honey, organic pork and Highland beef, planters and perennials. It’s quite a list!
Our wonderful hot food vendors Lori and Pet will be back with Perogies and Jamaican food and will be joined full time this season by Ali’s Kitchen. Sherina came to market last year part time and garnered great reviews so we’re happy to have her East Indian cooking available every week.
Our food vendors, including myself, are back with breads, focaccia, cakes, baking, desserts, treats, cookies, savoury pies, salad dressings, pesto, preserves, pickles and marmalades. Many are made using fresh local produce.
One of our new food vendors is Under the Ginger Tree. Megan and Brandon are both great cooks and have travelled extensively. 
Ginger is a natural medicine and a great cooking ingredient and we’re looking forward to seeing what Brandon and Megan will bring with them.
We are so lucky to have our Artisans, bringing stained glass, wooden carvings, pottery, jewellery, soaps, candles, tea, George and Gracie’s wonderful dog and horse biscuits, sewing by Marlene and, new this year, handmade dolls’ clothing.
The Horticultural Society will be joining us throughout the season, selling plants and giving out wise gardening advice every week. We’re also looking forward to four book signings in conjunction with Jenn at the Curiosity House bookstore, with a possible two more – watch the website for details.
Our hugely successful “Sample the Market” event will take place again this year on Saturday, July 20. We think of it as our own “Customer Appreciation Day” and it’s a great way to try out new vendors. Of course, we’ll also be celebrating our 16th Birthday on Saturday, September 7 and will help with the Children’s Festival on Saturday, August 3.
The very best place to keep up to date with all things Farmers’ Market is on our website, www.creemorefarmersmarket.ca. We update it every week. You can find out what produce is coming to market as well as recipes, vendor profiles and contact information, special event news and don’t forget to have a look at our photo galleries. If anyone has images of our market, we’re always grateful to receive them. We are also on Facebook and have a twitter feed @CreemoreFM.
Our customers are the reason we turn out every week, rain or shine, so any feedback or suggestions for the future are warmly welcomed. See you at the market, Saturday mornings from 8:30 am to 12:30 pm in the Station on the Green parking lot.
